All For Not

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The door closing signaled my gaze to Fester, watching him for a moment as we took a sharp left, in the opposite direction of where the sheriff had left the cafe. The side of my face hit something suddenly and my body stopped moving forward at the sudden blockade. I looked up, turning my head with a frowning face, centimeters away from another's, their hands grabbing onto my arms to stop me from toppling any further.

Never had I walked into someone like this, "hey..."

"Hello siren," I looked to the side, flustered with embarrassment, "uncle!" I turned back to the teen, taking a step back where his arms slowly dropped from mine, "forgive me, I should have been paying attention," Kent only smiled waving me off, "it's fine, actually I was hoping I'd run into you, so we could talk maybe... So this is your uncle?"

The man in question courtesies, "well hello to you too," my brows furrow as I watch, "indeed, Fester this is Kent, Davina's brother...Kent, my uncle Fester..." I finish softly.

"It's nice to meet you, my sister says you're fireproof?" His eyes look to me before back at the older man who only grins widely, "why, yes I am! How polite of her to notice," Kent smiles at the conversation, seemingly uncaring of my uncle's peculiar behavior. The siren was successful in catching my eye, my own curiously watching his reaction before he looked down at me and I became flushed in surprise, "you, wanted to speak with me?"

"I wanted to see if maybe you'd come to the library tonight around ten or so? Watch the stars or something?" Swallowing with clenched fists, I'm brought out from my head at the nudging stab in my back, courtesy of Fester who's giggling wildly behind me.

The door closes behind us and he's being interrupted by my sister before I can even begin to think of what the conversation could hold, "no, she's busy with more urgent commitments."

Whipping around to glare at Wednesday, I pause, just as Kent starts to say something my voice interrupts him as fast as I could manage, "she has no say in what I do, you can expect me..." I trailed off all but shyly as my uncle stared down at me, Kent doing the same, his nervous energy seeming to mingle into my own and causing me to become awkwardly uncomfortable with so many people present.

"And sparks fly," my eye twitches and I whip around when the electricity rings through my body, "uncle!"

"Ohh, touchy," he giggles and my hands pop up in bursts of flames, Kent reaching out to pull me back against him out of reflex before profusely apologizing as my face burned.