La Lune // Bastille (ON HOLD)

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Kelsey

"Kelsey! Are you ready to go?" I watched through the reflection in my mirror as my best friend, and one of my roommates, Alexia sprinted into my room. She flared her tawny brown wings to catch herself as she slid to a stop in my doorway, realizing I had moved a chair out from where it usually sat and was blocking her from entering my room. She collided with the back of it and curled over the back rest of the chair, knocking the wind from her lungs as she straightened herself out.

I pulled my straightener down the piece of hair that I was currently styling and turned to look at her reflection. She leaned nonchalantly against the door frame and flipped her long, light brown hair over her shoulder and raised an eyebrow at me. Lexi was trying desperately to play off her mistake of running into the chair. "Does it look like I'm ready to you?" I snorted and rolled my eyes at her through the mirror and went back to straightening my long, dark red hair.

"What?" Lexi groaned dramatically, slumping her shoulders and pushing herself forward. She leaned against the door frame and rolled her eyes skyward. "You've been 'getting ready' for like an hour now!" Lexi rolled her eyes and air quoted her words. She used every chance she could to taunt me.

I twirled around faster than humanly possible and bared my teeth to snarl loudly. "Hey, you took three hours to go on the one date you've ever been on since you started living with us." I narrowed my eyes and pointed the straightener accusingly at her.

Lexi jumped back as she heard me growl. "Godsdamn it, Kelsey!" Lexi's voice cracked in anger as she frowned at me. "Don't ever do that to me! You're going to give me a heart attack!" She clutched at her shirt, over where her heart would be. Her breaths came in ragged gasps as she tried to control herself. She could really be over dramatic sometimes.

I just laughed at her. "You're not my mother! Just because you're my guardian doesn't mean that you're in control of what I can and can't do!" I rolled my eyes and turned back to the mirror, glancing up to watch Lexi through the mirror.

"I'm agreeing with Lexi, Kels!" I heard Mom's voice call from just down the hall in the kitchen.

"Gee, thanks, Mom," I muttered under my breath and rolled my eyes as Lexi tried to cough to cover up her laugh. "Okay, Lexi, get out. I need to finish getting ready. You should go check on Rose and Celeste." I waved the straightener at her through the mirror to get her to leave.

"Okay! Just get done! I'm ready to go!" Lexi tried to put on a straight face, but ended up laughing and ruining whatever mask she was trying to put on.

"I am too! It'll be good to try to be normal for once!" I shook my head, my ears involuntarily flattening against my head. She knew how much the concept of normalcy made me extremely uncomfortable. But, I pushed my uneasiness out of my head and tried to finish straightening the last bit of my hair as Lexi walked out of my room.

Five minutes later, I had finished straightening my hair and thrown it up into a loose ponytail. I'd sat down on the edge of my bed to pull on my Converse as my last thing to do before I went to find the others.

"What's taking you s- Oh, you're done!" a woman with a mass of thick, curly, black hair sitting on top of her head stopped in the doorway as she saw me putting on my shoes. "Lexi was talking like you had barely began to get ready."

"Typical," I rolled my eyes and stood up, dusting my hands off on my shorts. Hopefully they were going to be fine for me today. It was one of the weekends of the summer before fall set in the cold began to invade my senses. I'd packed a set of leggings in a bag to change into in case it ended up getting too cold for shorts.