Inherently Innocent

Someone Will Remember Us

"God damn it," Liliac groaned and turned.

She tried to fade off into sleep again, but she couldn't help it. She had forgotten to close the blinds, and the sun had leaked in through the window and straight at her face. There was no helping it, she had to sit up.

She stared blankly at the two other beds in front of her. Those lucky bastards would be sunbathing long after her.

No need to be jealous, Lee reminded herself, just remember to close the blinds next time.

She whipped the blankets off her, feeling the cold wind against her naked legs' hairs. She hurried to lift up the nearest set of pants and made a swift movement to take off her sleeping shirt and slide into a waking shirt and sweater in under two seconds. Speed was unexpectedly quiet. Or the boys were simply heavy sleepers. Thyme's snores supported the second hypothesis.

Liliac reached for her glasses on her nightstand. She kept patting the table next to her until she recognized her earring. She searched for the hole in her earlobe by poking her skin with the metal edge of it until it managed to get through. The silver moon hung next to her neck. Whenever it danced parallel with the sun, a little spark reflected on the wall. Lee followed the playful glow and smiled.
The day had officially started.

"Good morning," her mother kissed the back of her head. With a wider smile, Lee kept spreading the jam on her toast.

"How did you sleep?"
"Same as last night," Byeol poured water from the kettle into her favourite cup and took a seat by the table as well. "Andria won't like what I'll have to tell them today."

"Do you really have to go today? I thought you could take some days off already."
"The community needs us, what can I say? The outskirt houses aren't gonna build themselves. And don't get me started on how slow the plumbing deal is going. Onix insists the river ishine won't like," Byeol started gesticulating, but her daughter cut her off.

"Shh, shh. It's too early for that."
"Yeah well," Byeol took a hurried sip from her cup and grinned, "It'll be late for me soon. Are the boys not awake yet?"
"The sun chose to only wake me up. I forgot to close the blinds again."
"Just make sure not to forget you have to pick up Peony from school today," Byeol left her cup, still half full, quietly on the table and stood.
Liliac groaned a bit more and brushed back her hair.
"I forgot," she extended the word into a complaint, "We were having Xochitl over today."
A door loudly opened.

"And I have to study!" Thyme stumbled into the kitchen, holding his sun-shaped earring between two fingers and failing to find his earlobe hole.

"Morning Thyme," the Lees said in unison.

Liliac smirked and turned her head. "I can go pick her up by myself, nobody said anything about bothering your high academic..." Liliac raised a hand and sarcastically gestured with her wrist. Her efforts failed when she couldn't think of a word to end the sentence.

"Duties?" Thyme sleepily patted Liliac's head while he walked over to the counter.
"Yeah that works. Anyways, can Golshan stay? I wouldn't want Xo to come knock on a lonely door."

Right on cue, the rose-haired nymph walked out of their room, scratching the little buds that were growing in his chin. He was trying to grow them out, wondering how a rose beard would look, but everyone also knew it was an uncomfortable process because he would not shut up about it. He scratched his chin, his star-shaped earring, his chin once more, and placed his hands on his hips. His socks were mismatched.

"You guys are talking about me?"

Liliac's mother exhaled.
"Bye, I'm off to the inner circle," Byeol, seeing as she had too many young adults to deal with for a single morning, took her cup to the sink, put on a coat, a scarf, and a woollen hat, and left.