Rendezvous with Coffee || Frost Mermaid
adella-the-romantic:
A sister that didn’t know that their sister existed. What a novel idea. Even though Adella adored her sisters some days, there were times when she’d rather them forget that she existed (except for Arista, ‘course. Ris was her best friend since pre-birth, her partner in crime. Couldn’t have her forgetting Adella). Maybe she’d get some privacy that way for once in her life. Maybe then Attina would stop trying to protect her, and she wouldn’t have to listen to Ris and Aquata bicker about which top was whose day in and day out.
What was it like to grow up alone? Well, not really alone, right? Just without siblings. An only child. Adella remembered as a kid she marveled at Belle, who had no one but her mum and her dad and their little cottage. It was so quiet there. Tranquil. The way Adella so wished her home someday would be, quiet and still and cozy. Of course filled with love and laughter and life, but at the end of the day just… still.
Adella saw how Peri’s hands were twisting together nervously, and she put her own out to hold them softly. “It’s alright, that’s fine! Don’t fret over it. Do you… plan on telling her? Is that why you came back?”
Periwinkle didn’t know how she managed to get lucky to land with such a good friend as she did with Adella. What she had done was mean and she knew it had worried her friend dearly, and yet here the brunette was trying to reassure her by gently placing a hand over her nervous wringing fingers. The action felt warm and made Peri smile just as warmly in return, squeezing her friend’s hand a little before letting out a sigh the flickered random strand of her bangs in the air.
“I—I..... it’s sort of complicated.... I mean I do, I want to tell her because it was the reason I came back.... I just I don’t even know if I should anymore, and I well I think I dug myself in a hole with all of this....”
A big one in where the frost fairy had lived in Swynlake for almost what.... two years now? And still hadn’t told Tink a thing. Her eyes darted back to the table, her teeth gnawing at the inside of her cheek as she tried to think of the best way to explain everything to Adella. It was a bit of a tricky story, if you asked Peri.
“I have been here for about... two years? Or a little over that and I-I haven’t told her anything, but have become a very close friend to her.... How is that... how is that even going to look?! I’m a liar! I have been holding out this secret for forever, but I haven’t.... I don’t know how to tell her, Adella. I just...” She sighed again, the weight of the guilt because of this secret sitting heavily on her chest.
“I’m a product of an affair, that’s what I am a dirty affair that should’ve never happened. My sister’s dad cheated on his wife with my mother and here I am, so how do you tell your sister that the man you admire and love, mind you, cheated on your mom with another woman and had a kid with her? Oh, with a cherry topper too because he left the woman as soon as he find out she was pregnant.” Periwinkle could feel tears stinging behind her pupils as the threatened to fill the rim of her eyes although the blonde held them back.
“I....I don’t want to break up a family...”
