It was around 12:20 in the afternoon and it was basically house cleaning day, Adagio was in the kitchen and was cleaning the stove, the fridge, the microwave and the sink and was supposed to watch Sonata at the same time while Aria was upstairs making both hers and Sonata's beds as well as putting away Sonata and hers clean clothes in their dressers. Sonata was currently playing with three of her little toy horses at the end of the small island in the kitchen while Adagio cleaned the fridge, looking over every few minutes to check on Sonata because she was watching her for Aria. Adagio had already pulled all the contents from inside the fridge out so all she had to now was wipe down the fridge, sanitize it and then put everything back in the fridge before she could move on to cleaning the stove. Sonata looked up and watched Adagio wipe down the inside of the fridge door and the bottom of the inside of the fridge, moving closer to she could see better, after watching Adagio for a few minutes, Sonata crawled over beside her and looked for an extra wash cloth because she wanted to help her oldest sister clean.
"Dagi." Sonata said after she was unable to find an extra wash cloth.
"What?" Adagio asked flatly without looking over at Sonata, not really in the mood to talk to her because she was busy.
"Can I help you clean?" Sonata asked, continuing to watch her oldest sister clean the inside of the fridge.
"No." Adagio answered immediately.
"Why not?" Sonata asked again, looking at Adagio intently when her oldest sister finally looked over at her.
"Because the last time you helped me clean, you made a huge mess with the water and the soap because you didn't wring the water out of the cloth before you started to wipe down the outside of the stove." Adagio explained, getting her cloth wet again and wringing it out before continuing to clean the fridge.
"Please let me help you, I promise I won't make a mess this time." Sonata begged, sticking out her bottom lip when Adagio looked over at her again.
"Sonata, the answer is no. Also, that lip thing only works on Aria, not me." Adagio replied, going back to cleaning the inside of the fridge but standing up so she could do the top of it.
"What can I do then?" Sonata asked, a little upset that Adagio wouldn't let her help.
"You can go back over there and quietly play with your toy horses like you were before, that was excellent when you were doing that." Adagio explained, grabbing her dry cloth from the counter and began wiping down the fridge to dry it.
"Ari would let me help." Sonata said as she went back over to where her toy horses were.
"Yeah well I'm not Aria, am I." Adagio flatly replied, spraying and wiping down the fridge with the sanitizer now.
"No you aren't, you're also no fun." Sonata whined, pulling her legs up to her chest and resting her head on her knees, which she either did when she was upset or frustrated, at the moment, she was frustrated.
"Watch it Sonata, I don't put up with that like Aria does." Adagio warned, watching Sonata's actions.
Sonata didn't say anything, she just grew more irritated and frustrated on the inside and normally when she got frustrated, she either got mad or threw something or started to cry because she was frustrated, her anxiety had been a little worse that day but not as bad as it'd been the day before. Aria'd still been watching her closely all morning in case her anxiety flared up again, and had warned Adagio not to start anything with Sonata because it would possibly cause her anxiety to flare up and would cause Sonata to get frustrated or irritated. She closed her eyes and buried her face into her knees for a minute as she became more stressed out due to the little argument her and Adagio'd just had, when she opened her eyes again, she felt like she wanted to throw, hit or kick something, which is usually just what happened as she got more stressed out. She reached over and grabbed a little bouncy ball she'd been playing with earlier and threw it at the wall that was beside the fridge, she buried her face back into her knees as the ball hit the wall with a loud thud and got Adagio's attention.
"What's your prob-" Adagio paused when she looked over and saw how Sonata was sitting, "Um, Sonata." she said to Sonata confusingly, unaware that her sister did what she was doing when she was stressed out.
Sonata didn't answer, she just continued to leave her face buried in her legs as Adagio stared at her confusingly, knowing that the position Sonata was in was what she did when she cried and wanted Aria, but, was unaware that she also did it when she was stressed out and frustrated. Adagio stopped putting things away in the fridge and walked over to her youngest sister, gently moving the toy horses out of the way and kneeling down in front of her when she got to Sonata.
"Sonata, what's your problem?" Adagio asked after kneeling down in front of Sonata, reaching over and trying to get her to look up at her.
"Nothing." Sonata flatly said, shoving Adagio's hand away with hers.
"Do you want something?" Adagio asked again, continuing to try and get Sonata to look at her.
"No!" Sonata exclaimed flatly, shoving Adagio's hand away from her again.
"Adagio why is she stressed out?" Aria asked from the doorway that led from the kitchen to the hallway, she'd finished doing what she'd been doing upstairs and had come down to get Sonata, seeing that her sister was stressed out immediately when she'd walked through the doorway.
"I don't know, all I did was tell her no when she asked me if she could help me clean and then I told her I don't put up with any of her whining or complaining when she started to do it." Adagio answered, looking up at Aria as Sonata slid away from her and then stomped her left foot on the kitchen floor because she was frustrated and stressed out.
"Were you arguing with her about that" Aria asked as she walked over to where her two sisters were and kneeled down next to Adagio.
"Kind of." Adagio answered, looking over at Aria cautiously as she did, knowing Aria was stronger than her and had super quick reflexes.
"Well then that's why she's stressed out, I told you the other day not to argue with her, she can't cope with it." Aria explained flatly, looking over at Adagio with her "I told you this already" look.
"Whatever, can you deal with her now that you're here, I need to finish cleaning." Adagio said to Aria, standing up and walking back over to the fridge.
"Sonata can you look at me please?" Aria softly asked Sonata, sliding closer to her and gently reaching out and grabbing her younger sister's left arm with her right hand.
"Leave me alone." Sonata flatly replied, hitting Aria's hand off of her left arm because she still thought it was Adagio. Aria pulled her hand away from Sonata when Sonata hit her.
"Sonata, no hitting. It's not nice." Aria softly said, sliding closer to Sonata so she was next to her and then gently reaching over and resting her left hand on Sonata's right arm.
"Ari." Sonata said as she looked up, finally realising it wasn't Adagio bugging her when she didn't get yelled at for hitting Aria.
"Come with me." Aria replied, smiling at Sonata and then slowly standing up again, allowing Sonata time to realise she was doing it.
"Up." Sonata exclaimed, gesturing she wanted to be carried.
"I know, I know." Aria softly said, gently leaning down and picking up her younger sister, she'd already known Sonata would want to be carried. She began to rub her younger sister's back to get her calmed down after Sonata had wrapped her legs and arms around Aria's waist and shoulders and had rested her head on Aria's left shoulder.
"Ok that's not fair, I tried to get her to look at me by doing the same thing you did and she wouldn't look at me, how do you do that so well?" Adagio asked flatly, rolling her eyes at how easily Aria'd gotten Sonata to look at her and to the point where Aria'd picked her up.
"Adagio, I've told you this many times before, if she gets upset, just come and get me because she doesn't want you, she wants me when she's upset." Aria answered as she continued rubbing Sonata's back.
"But what's going to happen if you leave her with me one day while you go to town and she gets upset, I can't come and get you then, I'll have to calm her down." Adagio exclaimed, trying to state a point but it wasn't really working.
"We all know that won't happen, you'd sooner call me and have me come home than calm her down." Aria said before turning and leaving the kitchen to go and calm Sonata down and Adagio went back to cleaning the kitchen.