@lunareaped
The pros of being born and having lived near the Sunlight Academies your whole life include being able to see your family anytime. The cons of being born and having lived near the Sunlight Academies your whole life include being able to see your family anytime.
For example, if you’re out shopping for a super secret present, or maybe an embarrassing book, or even some cute hobby supplies you’re trying to keep hidden from a prying younger brother — the specifics of what don’t matter here, just that it’s something you definitely don’t want that younger brother to know about — and said prying younger brother just happens to be walk right past you in the shopping plaza…
Well, you can forgive a girl for freezing up momentarily, before grabbing the nearest unlucky stranger to hide behind them.
Meyha doesn’t think, a primal panic instilled in all siblings threatening to overwhelm her. She doesn’t look to see who she’s grabbed, not until she’s behind them and pulling them into a nearby store to get even further out of Paulie’s sight.
Once she’s stopped, gathered her breath, back against wall of the store she’d chosen, she finally notices that she’s grabbed someone and dragged them along with her. Girl freezes up slightly, looks them over — a strange looking boy, who she vaguely remembers seeing around School before — with a stricken expression, mouth opening and then closing like a fish until she finally settles on a very emotive “...Fuck.”
She runs a palm through her hair, wrinkled nose as the boy reacts himself. Fuck, indeed.