𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙖 [ Kiara Carrera ]

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(Photo of house layout.)
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(I do not speak spanish, I used google translate which we all know is never reliable. Please correct me on anything that is majorly wrong like word order and stuff. Thanks!)

As soon as Carmen heard about the storm, she hurriedly left the Pogue's to get home to prepare the house. Carmen lived right by the sea in a tiny, one-story home with two bedrooms, a mini kitchen conjoined to a makeshift living room and a barely functioning bathroom. It wasn't great but she knew other people lived worst.

It wasn't fun nor fair being sixteen and having to share one room with your twin brother on the top single bunk and you and your little sister on the double bottom bunk. Technically, this was illegal since brothers and sisters can't share a room after the age of 10, but what they don't know won't hurt them.

Anyway, there wasn't much they could do when there weren't any other rooms and their mum locked the door to her bedroom whenever she was about to leave, her excuse being that it held 'too much valuable stuff' in there. Yeah right.

Shittiest excuse when they barely have a penny to their name.

Just as the wind started picking up and the rain started to spit, she was finally done with preparing the house. All she needed to do now was keep Lexi calm and wait for it to blow over.

Easier said than done.

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Carmen woke up to a deep ache in her bones as she pushed Lexi's foot off of her back and got up to get ready, wondering how John B was doing with DCS.
Carmen wondered how he lasted this long without getting put into foster care but I guess you could say the same for herself too.

Just as she finished tying her hair back with a claw clip, she heard Malachi groan as he pulled himself up and squinted at her from the top bunk. "Vas a salir?" He mumbled as he properly sat up, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"No sé, podría ir a reunirme con Kiara o algo así ya que John B está ocupado. (I don't know, I might go meet up with Kiara or something since John B is busy)." Just as she said that she was cut off by the sound of JJ calling her name loudly outside, with no respect for her neighbours.

Malachi raised his eyebrows at her as Carmen furrowed her own and went out to the front door, opening it just as JJ reached her. "There you are, come on, we're going fishing!" He cheered as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and guided her towards the boat wear John B was standing at the steering wheel.

"Uh, can you give me like, I don't know, five minutes to actually get ready?" She chimed as she turned and ducked under his arm, walking back into her house.

Quickly saying goodbye to Malachi who still hadn't gotten out of bed and making sure he wasn't going to feed Lexi chocolate for breakfast again, she popped a piece of gum in her mouth and grabbed her phone off charge before leaving to go fishing.

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Carmen was laying down at the back of the HMS Pogue with her elbows holding her up, content with listening to John B and JJ ramble on about different things that came to their heads. John B had explained that DCS wasn't able to come because of the storm and now Carmen was realising that this boy just had some insane amount of luck.