Love is a Lion: A Beast of Pain and Passion

His Shine

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Thursday, February 2nd

Femme-fatale-esque pop music plays in the Pain siblings' bathroom while Jayden puts her long brown hair up with a claw clip. She begins bobbing her head totally out of rhythm to the song in a silly manner until the music dims and changes to a Snapchat ping.

"Hm? Who could that be?" she questions while glancing down. The familiar weight of her phone makes its way to her hand and Jayden reads the name of the messenger, "Conion". Disappointed, she sucked her teeth loudly and set the phone down to read later when she felt up to it.

Hearing her, P.P. entered the bathroom to find out the cause of her stress.. or to possibly agitate her further. Nearly hitting his sister, he opened the door and peered in at Jayden's reflection.

Mentally laughing at her comfortable but messy look, he asks, "What's got you all annoyed?"

"Bruh, oh my god," she exasperatedly begins as P.P. quirks a brow, "You remember what I told you about Onion the other day?"

"Mm, yeah, him brushing you off and shit?"

"Yeah, totally just ignored me being not girlboss, whatever," she turns the sink on and gathers water in her hands to splash on her face with. After she turns the running water off, she continues, "Well, obviously, that was goofy, so I texted him about it. Told him he needed to do better and grow a penis, and I was clearly angry."

Jayden begins pumping face cleanser out onto her fingers, "So he's probably just-" she motions frustratedly with her hands, "-just trying to argue back. Probably gonna say something stupid about growing a pair or whatever his stupid gamer ass thinks."

P.P. frowns and grabs a hair tie from the door knob. He hooks it onto is thumb and pointer finger while speaking, "Ugh, what an asshole. I could just...", he trails off before shooting the hair tie at a bottle of lotion on the bathroom cabinet. The bottle wobbles in its place and the hair tie falls soundlessly on the toilet all while Jayden eyes P.P., unimpressed.

Under her judgmental eyes, he raises his eyebrows in exasperation, "But seriously! You don't deserve a guy who isn't gonna treat you like the queen you are. There's gotta be better guys out there, Jay!"

Jayden hums mindfully in response as she finishes applying white cleanser to her face. In the following silence, P.P. remembers the events of the prior day and gets a mischievous glint in his eye, "You know, maybe Warsinski wasn't wrong about Henderson! He's a sweet guy, and he means we-."

As he speaks, his sister picks the fallen hair tie up from the toilet seat and shoots it at him. P.P. laughs and wraps the hair tie around the door knob, then looks back at Jayden.

"I'm being serious! You've gotta find someone else, so why not him?"

Jayden finishes washing the cleanser off of her face and takes a moment to consider her brother's words.

Ugh, sure, he's a nice guy, but it's not like we've talked that much anyways! Besides, I'm not even sure he'd like me back...

...he'd never settle for a trainwreck like me!

"Ok, I'll think about it, P.P.."

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