Entry #28 - Little gills
Twenty-eight writing prompt [Rivalry] for FFXIV 30 Day Writing Challenge
Only six years old and she has already been in her first fight. Davina sits on the edge of her bed with small arms crossed over her chest. Stormy seas of azure glare outside at the warm sunny day. It’s summer and so beautiful outside but she is confined to her room. For the first time in a while the Garleans have stopped hanging around the Wolfthorne homestead, and it allows the family to finally breathe a sigh of relief. So without the pressure on her father and mother things seem decent. Karoline is singing again and her father laughs more.
Sensitive ears listen to the door hinges squeal when the door is nudged open. Karoline stands in the threshold to study the furious six year old in silence. “What did Danica do this time?” The mother of three questions curiously. Danica and Davina never have been close. There is always this incredible unspoken tension between the two. Maybe it is because Danica is the eldest daughter and Davina is the youngest. So there is that whole alpha omega relationship. Their little squabbles and bickering never escalated to the point of physical violence. Now two of her three daughters are hurt. Davina with a busted lip and bruised jaw. Danica surprisingly isn’t unscathed. Her youngest child managed to break her eldest daughter’s nose.
“She’s being a Goobbue butt.” Davina mutters dryly. “I went outside to swim with Mal and...” Hoping off of her bed she runs over to the window and yanks it upward only to scream outside,” BUT THAT GOOBBUE BUTT HAD TO RUIN IT!” From her window she glares at her eldest sister whom sits in the backyard with a bloody rag held up to her nose. Danica begins to yell up but the window is slid shut quickly. Karoline stands at Davina’s side.
Lightly her hand smacks the back of her youngest child’s head. “Takes a butt to know a butt, little gills.” Karoline heavily sighs. “So she ruined you spending time with Malena and that provoked you?”
Rubbing the back of her head where her mother’s hand connected Davina grumbles,” Danica frozen the ground under my feet while I was running over to the swimming hole. I fell and it hurt. She sat there and laughed until I ran over....” She pauses and the slightest of grins touches her small mouth,” then she wasn’t laughing anymore.”
Pinching the bridge of her nose Karoline murmurs several incoherent words. “Alright young lady what you’re going to do is wash up your face then you’re going to take an ice bag to your sister. Apologize to her....” “BUT MAMA!” “Don’t give me that sass! You will say you’re sorry! Now off with you. I don’t want to see your little butt out there playing until you apologized to Danica. Understood?”
Sulking over to the door Davina grumbles,” yes mama.”