"WHAT!?" Kiri screamed , excitement in her voice "SHHHHHH keep it down kiri!!" Lo'ak whisper-yelled at her , looking around to make sure no one has heard her "sorry, sorry! But he seriously asked you that?" She whispered, Lo'ak nodded "last night , but you can't tell anyone else for now." " huh , why?" Kiri questioned "we don't wanna tell anyone yet , only you and Tsireya know." Lo'ak explained " ohhh.. alright got it." She smiled at her brother. "What are you two talking about?" Neteyam asked , Lo'ak and Kiri jumped in their skin at the sound of Neteyams voice " nothing." Kiri calmly said , Lo'ak avoided eye contact from Neteyam " I am gonna go hangout with Rotxo and Ao'nung, see you guys later." Lo'ak quickly left, Neteyam eyes his brother suspiciously as he left.
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Lo'ak hurried out of the marui , he felt bad for leaving Kiri behind with Neteyam but he couldn't, if Neteyam questioned him he would definitely crack.
He wasn't lying when he said he was gonna go see Rotxo and Ao'nung tho , he just didn't know where they were exactly, he first checked Ao'nungs marui.
As Lo'ak arrived to Ao'nungs marui, he peaked his head into the marui "Tsireya that hurts!" Ao'nung hissed out "sorry Ao'nung! I'm trying to be careful but you're hair is a nightmare to unbraid.." Lo'aks ears perked up , he had never seen Ao'nungs hair unbraided before.
They clearly hadn't noticed Lo'ak was there yet since they hadn't acknowledged him yet "so..." Tsireya started, her eyes not moving from the strand of hair in between her fingers "how are you and Lo'ak." She lowered her voice as she asked this questioned , making sure no one heard them. "We're ok.." Ao'nung took a moment before continuing "I asked him about the courting thing." Tsireya's attention turned her brothers words, a smile appeared on his face as she excitedly started asking him questions "finally! You've been at this for weeks now." Tsireya let out a small laugh as her brothers cheek turned dark blue from embarrassment , he turned his head to the left as to avoid his sisters telling eyes but then ended up spotting Lo'ak who was still standing in the maruis entrance "Lo'ak what are you doing here." Ao'nung looked at him , his eyes tracing Lo'ak up and down as his gaze soften "just came to hangout with you , that's all." Lo'ak sat down in-front of Ao'nung , he looked between Tsireya , who had gone back to unbraiding Ao'nungs hair, and Ao'nung.
"You're letting your hair down?" Lo'ak questioned "no.. it's just to re-braid it." Lo'ak slowly ran this fingers through the strands of hair that had already been unbraided, it felt soft.
The 3 of them just chatted until Tsireya was done fully unbraiding Ao'nungs hair , she let her fingers rest as she laidback onto the floor. Lo'ak was starstruck at the beauty in-front of him , Ao'nungs hair now reached a little bit last his shoulders, his hair was curly and messy , tho in a good way, he honestly looked amazing. "Don't look at me like that, I'm braiding it back up it's not gonna stay looking weird forever." "Actually could you leave it down? I love this look on you." Lo'ak smiled , Ao'nung was surprised at Lo'aks request , but seeing as he seemed to genuinely like it , he obliged.
