Withered Evelynn

.•. Fish and disasters.•.

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The cold water hits her legs, as she stands in the cool water of the quarry.
Her overalls rolled up to her knees as she watched Carl and Shane 'catch' frogs.

"I'm not getting anything" Carl pouts looking into his bucket, Shane chuckles scratching his neck, "yeah, being all wily, little suckers, they know something's up, that's what's going on, just gotta do this the old fashion way" he pauses "all right little man, look, you are the... uh you are the key in all of this, okay? All I'm gonna do is, im gonna go after one of them , all right, scare the rest of them off , their all gonna scatter, im gonna
drive 'em your way, okay?".
Carl nods "okay". Evelynn just stands and watches, Shane offered for her to join them, but she declined due to not liking the slimy feeling of frogs, she also felt bad for scaring them. Imagine just swimming in your home, then two big giants coming in and splashing around trying to catch you, and possibly cook you.
"Evelynn come over! You don't have to touch the frogs just come on" Carl yells to the girl at edge of the lake.
Evelynn looks at Carl then to Shane, "cmon now girl" Shane yells to the young girl, putting his hands on his hips.
Signing Evelynn fixes the pants of her overalls, making sure they don't touch the water, before stepping over to Carl hoping not to step on a frog, or a sharp rock.
"Okay ima send'em your way now alrigh'" Shane says crouching down and putting his hands in the water, "hell yeah, gimmie your mean face" he says looking directly at Carl.
Carl proceeds to screw up his face showing his teeth.
Shane chuckles before looking to Evelynn, "cmon now girl gimmie yours, show me your mean face!" Shane says raising his voice, not in a scary alarming way, but in a way to encourage the young girl.
Evelynn feels her hands grow sweaty and her face flush, she shakes her head at the cop, looking at the ground.
"Nuh uh, ya ain't getting outta this, cmon gimmie your mean face!" He chuckles "we can be here all day", Evelynn rubs her palms on her overalls before looking at Shane and scrunching her nose, feeling it twitch.
"Ah good enough" the man says before swishing his hands in the water aggressively. The water begins to ripple towards the two small kids.
Carl quickly puts his bucket in the water while laughing at Shane.

Evelynn just stands there shifting her weight to one leg watching the two get along, something about it made her uncomfortable, could it have been all the noise? The way the water ripples are touching the rolled up pants of her overalls? The sun beating down of her? She didn't know. All she knew is that she wanted to go home.
She wanted to be back home in her room, her small little room, where she could climb onto her mattress on the floor and isolate herself from everything.

Carl takes the bucket out of the water tipping it towards himself to look in it, only for his smile to drop to a little frown. The boy tilted it to Evelynn so she could see inside out it. The only thing she could see was orange and brown rust of the bucket, blurred from the completion of the clear water.
"We got nothing" Carl mutters letting the bucket fall to one side of him, allowing it to float on top of the cool water.
Shane stands to his full height scratching his head before putting his hands on his hips, "stubborn little buggers, we can try again yeah?" He says looking at the two kids infront of him. Carl smiles nodding his head, but beside him Evelynn shook her head beginning to walk out of the water, ignoring how Carl called for her to come back and how Shane just repeated her name.