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Glancing back at Kota for a moment, she sighed softly. “This is like that scene in Jurassic Park where they’re looking for the raptors.”
“Raptors, says the girl who hasn’t bothered getting a manicure in the last year.” Callie rounded the corner from the living room sharply, not looking either of them in the face. Her eyes were pink-ish, her cheeks splotchy, but other than that she showed no outward signs of being anything other than just angry.
“Move,” she greeted Adri, stepping past her as she skittered back out of her way. Making her way to the foyer, she kicked two different pairs of shoes together and tried to decide. Wedges, sneakers. Wedges, sneakers, Wedges -
“And I need the car. Keys?” She held a hand out, glancing up at Adri for a moment who simply narrowed her eyes while Callie decided on wedges and stepped into them.
“You can’t take my c - ” but it was too late, as her eyes had already darted up to the rack of keys hanging under the kitschy Homegoods sign that had been up for years. Home is where the wine is!
Callie got to them first, even in the wedges, and the added height just made her tower over her older sister more than she already did naturally. Holding them juvenilely just out of Adri’s reach, she quirked an eyebrow and shook her head.
“I’ll be back before dinner. And my cheer meet is tonight so if you had plans you don’t anymore. Everyone is going. Bye, mom!” she called, and with that, she was gone.
Adri cleared her throat, a hot blush covering her cheeks and neck as she turned around to face her boyfriend. “That wasn’t so bad.” she tried to downplay both the situation as a whole and the embarrassment at the fact that her sister, four years her junior, could still terrorize her.
It was entirely his fault that he even thought the encounter with the youngest Rixen would go in any sensible direction, but he’d always been a wishful thinker in that way. “Callie–” he’d start, then stop as he’d be cut off by another fleeting thought from either of them. “Hey, can we–” once again, cut off.
Before he knew it, the front door slammed shut and he was simply standing there, his mouth slightly agape at the brevity of the conversation – if it could even be called that.
“That wasn’t so bad.”
His eyes narrowed at her. “How was that – you just let her – how was that not bad?” It never shocked him every time Callie almost literally walked right over Adri, but considering the situation he was a bit taken back . Kota let out a quiet groan, shaking his head as he pinched the bride of his nose gently. “That was ridiculous.”












