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SMALL SLOW FOOTSTEPS MADE ITS WAY TO THE FRONT GATE.
The carrier being a eleven year old luci eloise swan. Who's eyes teared up and little hands tightly held onto her backpack straps as she watched all her other classmates interact with their parents.
The child's nose had turned red and she took hurried small breaths while she kept her head down. where's mom?
A low whistle cuts off her thoughts. And the brunnete looks up to see her then fourteen year old sister isabella. The pale short haired teen still sporting her soccer practice gear and holding a small sports bag over her shoulder.
"Hey, c'mon." Isa obviously saw her younger sisters tears but hadn't made a comment on it instead just securing a protective arm around her sisters shoulder and walking away with her.
Lucia looks up at isa in admiration through her tears. Sniffling and blinking rapidly. "Where's mom?"
Isa scoffs with an eye roll, looking back down at the swan with a raised eyebrow. "You really expected Reneé to come?" Isa chuckles lowly, ruffling Luci's hair.
"We don't need her." Isa finishes, clicking her tongue and leading her sister into a small confectionery shop.
Lucia smiles, and while her cheeks where tear streaked, Isa was just relieved she wasn't crying anymore. While the older teen had seen Reneé for who she was long before, Lucia wasn't old enough yet. And Isa hated the disappointed look Lucia would have when reneé yet again left them high and dry. Isa found Reneé unreliable and flighty. She saw reneé as more of a flakey acquaintance than anything else. But Luci, Lucia still saw their mother as this all knowing maternal figure that could never do wrong.
Isa would beg to differ. Their mother had practically forced isa to grow up and raise her younger sister while she herself was still a child. Her mother's impulsive tendencies had caused the to two girls to go hungry on multiple occasions. (Isa got a small illegal side job so it would never happen again). Most times Isabella truly felt like the mother rather than the child.
But she never took it out on Luci, instead channeling all of her built up rage and aggression with soccer. And after finding out she was quite good at it, joined the girls team.
Isa guides lucia by her hand to the counter, the younger girl behind her going shy. "You need to speak up for the man to hear you." Isa laughs side stepping quickly so lucia could see the menu. The panicked child yelps and tucks herself into her sisters shadow once more. And the man laughs along with isa while lucia lists off what she wanted into isa's shirt.
The front man had given the sisters what they wanted on the house, (despite isa's protests, waving her off saying they amused him greatly.) And the two girls now sat in a small pastel colored booth. Isa nursing a purple jumbo donut while lucia sat across from her with four cake pops sitting uneaten on the table.
"Eat up kid." Isa smiles bitterly, knowing reneé's downfalls as a mother still weighed heavy on Lucia's mind.
"Look, that's just how she is- we can't change her." Isa begins, looking directly at lucia who slowly raises her head. "We can't?" Luci's small, vulnerable voice tears the older girls heart in two, and a small shudder escapes her. "We can't." Isabella affirms with a nod. Extending her arm over the table to wipe away at her sisters small tear, cradling her cheek for a few seconds more.
"But we still have each other okay?" Luci nods giving the teen a small half hearted smile, before brightening up and reaching a tanned arm over the table.
Bella raises an eyebrow at the extended hand looking down at the seated girl who only returns her curious gaze with a smirk.
"Let's promise."
Isa brings her pale arm out and cups the girls smaller hand with her own.
"A promise to never be like mo- Reneé, to always depend on each other." Lucia gives a real smile, with her head cocked to the side and her pearly whites on full display.
The two shake on it and giggle, dropping their arms to their respective sides.
"Now, eat you cake pops- it's your birthday isn't it?" Isabella smiles picking her donut back up and continues to eat it. Smiling wider when she watches as luci does the same.
