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whilst maddie helped robin deal with the impatient pre-teens begging for more free samples, dustin and steve listened to the recording of the russian message in the backroom.
"so what do you think?" dustin asked steve, pausing the recording.
"it sounds familiar." steve replied, taking a bite out of a banana.
"what?"
"the music." he murmured whilst chewing, "the music right there at the end."
"why are you listening to the music, steve? listen to the russian, we're translating russian!"
"i'm trying to listen to the russian, but there's music—" steve began before maddie and robin rushed into the backroom with expressions full of stress.
"all right, babysitting time is over, you need to get in there!" robin shouted, walking over to the whiteboard pinned onto the wall which was previously containing her 'you rule, you suck' table for steve's stupidity. "hey, my board! that was important data, shit birds."
"i guarantee you, what we're doing is way more important than your data." dustin told robin as steve threw his banana skin onto the table, receiving a look of disgust from maddie.
"yeah, and how do you know these russians are up up to no good anyways?" robin asked, causing dustin and steve's expressions to falter.
dustin instantly looked over to maddie, with accusation clear in his voice, "you told her about the russians?"
"why would i say anything about russians?" she responded, folding her arms across her steve. "maybe its because you," she paused, pointing between dustin and steve, "are both extremely loud."
robin nodded as she began, "you think that you have evil russians plotting against our country, on tape, and you're trying to translate but haven't figured out a single word, because you didn't realise that russians use an entirely different alphabet than we do? sound about right?"
maddie held back a laugh as dustin and steve shared a look of disbelief, clearly shocked at how accurate robin was to guessing their situation. temporary silence fell over the room, until suddenly, robin lunged forwards in an attempt to grab the tape.
steve instantly picked it up, holding it behind him. "whoa! what do you think you're doing?"
"i wanna hear it."
"why?" dustin and steve replied in unison.
"cause maybe i can help. i'm fluent in four languages, you know."
"russian?" maddie asked, walking over to stand beside steve.
"ou-yay are-yay umb-day."
"holy shit!" dustin laughed, as his eyes widened, turning to look at a smiling maddie and steve.
