MEGAN !!
maybe it’s their difference in age that has nick completely baffled by her behaviour. maybe he’s just getting ‘old’ now at the ripe age of thirty-seven and he can no longer understand his own youngest sister in the same way he hasn’t been able to with his oldest two for years. the distance between him and jen and sarah hasn’t hurt how easy it is to fall back into old habits, or how readily they answer each other’s calls, but he can’t say it’s easy to relate to their big city lives and public transport woes. megan had always stuck close in their homely little town, even when she’s had the potential to fly much further than anyone else, and nick’s always been selfishly grateful for it — for having her stay by his side through everything he’s struggled with in private since he was a teenager and she was barely old enough to know how comforting her company was to him. maybe that’s the problem. maybe he holds her a little too close.
“because I said so.” though he hates to say it. it makes him sound like their parents, somehow, despite their laidback attitudes for the majority of his life. “you’re not going and that’s final. it’s dangerous and you’ll all be off the clock. I can accept danger in your job, that’s just something I have to live with, but not this.” it’s just a music festival, one that nick knows she’ll love, but he can’t get that image out of his head — panic, chaos, a loud bang that certainly didn’t sound like it came from the stage speakers. he didn’t see her in his vision and that’s enough for him to hold a little hope that he can persuade her not to go, but with how stubborn every one of his sisters has turned out to be over the years, he can feel that light in his heart dwindling by the second. and the worst part is that he knows he doesn’t have the right to make this decision. she’s a grown woman, but no matter how old she’ll grow to be, he’ll always be her big brother. “maybe a smaller festival closer to home, or next year when I know your work friends a little better and can trust them to look out for you, but not now.”