🫧Genesis🫧
Ella hangs up and my screen goes black, but I keep staring at it absently before screaming and crumpling into my hands.
CUTIE? CUTIE?!!!! UGH, SO MUCH FOR NOT MAKING HER UNCOMFORTABLE!!! That sounds almost, like, flirty! Or worse, patronizing! You're only what? FOUR, FIVE YEARS older than her? And she's super self-conscious as it is! Dumbass!!!
"Ev...erything okay in here, Genesis?"
Aster peeks into my room to catch me smushing my face into pillows and ruining them with makeup.
"Huh?" I lift my head slowly and Aster rears back. Oh. I must look like a zombie right now with my ruined mascara. "Yeah... everything's... fine."
"O-okay. You tell me if you need anything."
"Yep." I give them a shaky smile and they back politely away. When they're gone I sink my head back into the pillow.
"Why was Mx. Marmoris screaming?" I hear Anemone asks Aster in the hall.
"They were just on the phone with someone, I think..." says Aster hushedly, shushing her, and I hear the two exiting the house to return to their post.
I smile into my pillow. These dummies. They do know I can hear everything they say about me, right?
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FantasyA modern Cinderella story... under the sea. Down in the depths of the Pacific, 19-year-old aspiring artist Ella Bentik could care less about clothes, makeup and parties like her older sisters; all that matters is achieving her dream and getting out...
