Thursday 10:01 AM
Nova rummaged in her rucksack, desperate to find her key. But it was nowhere to be found. And as longer as she stood there in front of the door, her ankle started to hurt more and more.
So she rang the bell about three times to be sure, Jean would hear her if he was still asleep or just too lazy to get up. And shortly after, footsteps were to be heard. Luckily.
Jean slowly opened the door and, yes, he looked quite surprised to see his sister this early.
"Err.... I'm sure that it's just 10 in the morning or did I oversleep?"
"Can you just let me in? I wanna sit down...", she said with an undertone that sounded quite painfully.
Jean nodded and opened the door widely, not even hesitating a bit. Nova hobbled slowly inside and went over directly to the couch in the living room.
"Why d'you look all dirty?", Jean coughed as he sat down next to his sister only to gain a disgusted look from her.
"Hold distance mate. I don't wanna get sick too!"
Nova's brother rolled his eyes but gestured with his hands to continue.
"Some idiot girl wasn't that gentle to me today. By the way, could you get me by any chance a thermal pack out of the kitchen?"
Without even responding he stood up, went out of the room and seconds later, Jean came back with a blue pack in one hand and a cup of tea for himself in his other.
Nova noticed the deep blue bags under his eyes and that he obviously wore warm clothes to not get cold.
Jean passed the thermal pack to Nova. "Here. Now gimme some more information?! Who was it? What did she do? Do I need to punch her in the face?" He held both his fists up and indicated a fighting position.
"We both know that you wouldn't be able to do such a thing...", she said and that made her actually smile a bit.
"Hey...that's just mean...", Jean sulked.
"So, her name's Freya Fernsby", Nova started. "Well... I never heard of her before, and I'm sure you neither, so I assume that she's a year above us, 'cause she looks slightly older. And it happened, when the lunch break just ended. I was about to go out, when that freak just tripped me up, so that I twisted my ankle and after that, Freya dropped her plate....on me.
Her reason for being so rude was just, that she's jealous because of me having my second relationship in a row now, with the most popular guy at school and absolutely furious, 'cause that bitch actually thinks I would blow all that up because of some interactions with Thomas, AND THOSE DON'T EVEN EXIST."
Jean looked speechless, after Nova finished telling him the summed-up version of the story that happened at school.
At this point Nova teared up, what was odd because she never cries about such things. Never. Now, Jean didn't think about that Nova could get sick too, when he would hug her, but his sister didn't complain when he came nearer, so he embraced her not thinking about it anymore. And so they sat there for about five minutes, Nova silently crying and Jean patting the bag of his sister, trying to cheer her up.
"Okay...what about you get changed into some cosy clothes and I'll set up the TV. So we can watch a drama? I'll make some more tea too", Jean said getting up from the couch already, on his way to the kitchen again.
Nova nodded and limped then up the stairs. She took off hoodie and trousers, stuffed them in the laundry basket that stood around in her room, and put on a grey sweater and some sweatpants out of the closet. Then she went off to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. Her hair was ruffled, and she looked extremely tired, maybe she has now cried so much.
When she came downstairs, Jean had already prepared the comfortable day on the sofa with blankets, a lot of pillows, biscuits and two cups of tea. He sipped on his cup and asked his sister: "Okay, what d'you wanna watch?"
"Hmmm... let me think. Thomas told me to watch 'Sweet Home' and I wanna watch something bloody", Nova suggested.
Jean's eyes widen. "H-horror?"
"Oh c'mon, I'll hold you tight if it gets too scary, you little penguin." She smiled at him.
"I thought you don't want to get sick?" Jean looked at her curious although he couldn't resist smiling a bit as well.
"Well yea... but you hugged me already, so it doesn't matter. And my little bro needs his big sis", Nova teased Jean.
"OI! WE'RE STILL TWINS!"
Nova shrugged and sat down on the couch next to him. "Now what? D'you wanna watch it or not?"
Jean sighed, but grabbed the remote, started Netflix and picked 'Sweet Home'. "I'm gonna regret that so much..."
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