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You felt something hovering close behind your head… You felt lightheaded.
You saw silver stars… Your vision narrows. Your chest feels tight... Your head is spinning.
You feel surrounded. You felt your chest twisting. You felt a migraine coming on... The world revolves around you.
What was it you did again? You can’t fully remember how it went down. Another bad prank. You’re such a weirdo. The wiffle bat is all crumpled from it smacking your head, the hollow plastic hits you like a whip. The bat wasn’t the bad part, it mostly hurts because she kicked you, hard, it made you feel like your head was going to fly off your neck and now, everything is ringing. Blood drips down your nose, you feel hazy.
This is your punishment, you made Elly cry, you deserve this, you’re a bad friend.
Dess is breathing quickly, she is no longer hitting you.
“Shit… I..”
She runs away back home, you do too, after taking a second to breathe. Your mom patches you up and you play some videogames to end the day, you feel a little better.
The next day Kris was reading outside alone, enjoying the fresh summer sun and calm waves, trying to relax and take it easy after what had happened yesterday. In the corner of their eye, they can spot the familiar figure of December, walking towards them, hands in her pocket looking down. Nervous fear rushed through their body, they felt small the words on the page become impossible to follow as their heart pounds with anxious force. She sits then lays down on the table in front of them with a sad and droopy look.
“Hey Kris…”
She pauses, thinking what to say while waiting for an answer.
They froze
Dess is forced to break the silence
“HUUUHhhh… I’M sooorry, ok? I went way too hard on you… This is a new low for me.”
She quickly glances at Kris’s bandage on their nose and looks away shamefully.
“your mom forced you to say that.”
“Sigh*… Yeah.”
“ha ha, knew it.”
They ever so slightly smiled
“it’s ok, you don’t need to apologise.”
Kris got up from the bench and attempted to leave.
“WAIT! I... I’m actually sorry!”
She was still looking at the ground shamefully
“Look, I know I treated you like crap for a while and you probably hate me for that, but look I think that we can… you know… get to know each other. I mean, our parents are super close right? You don’t seem that bad."
Through her nonchalant coldness Kris could see a warm, but subtle and slightly desperate look in her eye.
“You like it when I play piano right?”
“i guess it’s pretty cool.”
“Yeah right! As if you don’t just spend Christmas watching me play haha!
Dess musters the courage to finaly make eye contact.
I’ll teach you. It’s my apology gift, if you want to call it that.”
“that seems hard, i don’t know if i can do that.”
“No! It’s not… Well it is hard but, I’m sure you can do it. I’ll help you!”
“i guess, i don’t really have much to do.”
“Yeah. It’ll be fun.”
“okay, yeah… sounds fun, i guess.”
After those words are uttered Dess gets up from her seat with a slight smirk
“Alright then!”
She leaves and starts heading home
Kris stays stationary and begins reading again.
Dess turned back,
“HEY YOU COMING TO MY HOUSE OR NOT?! I’M NOT GONNA DRAG YOU BY YOUR HAND!”
Kris sighed quietly to themself and started running to catch up to Dess who was not waiting for them to catch up.
They both got to the holiday home, Dess barged in confidently, Noelle was in the living room gaming.
“Hi Dess!”
“Yo.”
Kris came in, tired and out of breath from trying to catch up.
Noelle peaks at the door to see her friend.
“Oh hi Kris! Do you wanna play games?”
“Nah they’re spending time with the cooler sister today.”
“Hey!”
Noelle gave her a grumpy look
“Just joking around Elly! But seriously I’m their piano teacher now.”
“Was this because of the…”
Dess shrugs
“Who knows man?”
She very slightly nods her head while looking at Noelle dead in the eyes.
“Alright Elly don’t bother us alright. This is serious!”
She gives Kris a noogie, some fur on her hand gets stuck in the plastic headband, she feels a few hairs getting stuck in the plastic, she has to force her way out.
“OOW!”
“you ok?”
Kris said, no longer tired
“Yeah it’s just, those, my fur got a little stuck.”
She looked at Kris’s horned headband. They really liked that thing, huh? ever since they randomly got it one day she just never saw them without it. Do they sleep with it on something? Well she had more important things to think about right now.