Celeste: feathers white roses and sunflowers Book 1

Chapter 9

                  

She did not mean to make their nose bleeds, but she could not help herself, racism is a hot topic to her and wishes she can end all racism. "Wait, can she? No. There are too many."  Growing up with her mum who is now her grandmother, it was difficult not seeing children looking like her. And having an Asian decent as your mother but you have an almond skin tone and slanted eyes, and let us not forget of her having Heterochromia; having two different eye colors. Once getting in college, she learned about self-love and accepting how she looks but it still took years of 'What are you?' and 'What country are you from?' and sometimes she would correct them and answer or sometimes she just ignored them. She remembers how it felt throughout those years and she will give out as many nose bleeds to anyone that makes her daughters feel like that.

After leaving Skylah's school they headed to pick up Luna out of her school and take their children to the arcade for games, pizza and ice cream. They told Skylah in the car that next time wait for them to hit her first then knock them out, but they are not upset at her. And that was Skylah's main worry and concern, if she had disappointed her parents or made them mad, so this news made her happy to hear. Inside it smelled of popcorn, pepperoni and coins while flashing neon lights strobes the room. Celeste and Leo collected the arcade coins and passed them out to their older children

"I want to win that!"

Luna said pointing at a plush sequin mermaid doll.

"Yea I want one too!"

Skylah said agreeing. Realta noticing everyone's excitement she started clapping her hands together and cheering. The older girls flocked out to the first game with the brightest, colorful lights, Leo and Celeste each held one of Realta's hand and followed the toddler to where she wanted to go first. There was not a lot of people there, maybe five other people, so Celeste and Leo were more relaxed. They try not to go to large public outings too often; people are just crazy.

"So, should we change her school?"

Leo asked Celeste as he put tokens in the game Realta chose.

"I think we're good. Now that brat knows not mess with our baby."

Celeste said to her husband.

"That's the Irish in her!"

Leo laughs, and Celeste rolls her eyes and joins in the laugh.

"I'm going to put the order in for the pizza and grab everyone some ice cream"

Said Leo as he kisses his wife. When Leo goes to the counter, Celeste looks for her older girls who were playing a basketball shooting game in front of her. Looking at the sticker glued to the test your strength kind of a game, where you try to hit the red button as hard as you can, and it stated it only gives you five tickets if you do not hit the jackpot. The toddler was having a blast constantly hitting the red button.

"This is going to take forever."

Celeste thought to herself.

"Want more tickets, baby?"

She said to Realta then placing her hand on the machine and concentrated. Placing tokens in the game, Celeste watched as the toddler hits the red button vigorously and lights start flashing with a siren going off.

"What did I do?"

Celeste asked herself thinking she broke the machine. This grabbed the older girls' attention and they came to investigate the commotion that involved their baby sister. Tickets started to flow out of the machine like a continuous waterfall, Realta not knowing exactly was going on was cheering cause of the flashing lights and loud music.