Ten minutes and half a bagel later, Mars was sitting in the passenger seat of her dad's car, Jacklyn making eight-year-old comments about anything and everything in the seat behind her.
"That cloud looks like you, Mars!" Jacklyn pointed to the only cloud in the sky. It didn't have any particular shape, it just looked... cloud-like. "It's just as ugly as your nose, see?"
Mars whipped her head around and glared at her sister. Jacklyn knew that Mars was insecure about her nose, and, unfortunately, took advantage of it ever chance she got.
"It's a cloud, Jackie, it doesn't look like anything at all. If anything, it looks like a lump of s-"
"Mars," Marissa's dad, Bennet, probably knew where this discussion was heading and decided to end it. "Be nice, your sister's only eight."
"A bit rude for an eight-year-old, isn't she?" Mars mumbled the question under her breath so that her father wouldn't hear.
She crossed her arms and glared out the window, something she had become quite practiced at since her parents divorced. Lydia and Bennet had seemed so in love when she was younger; Mars never understood why they separated.
"No..." her dad had a warning tone to his voice, "If you give any attitude I'm telling your mother."
Mars rolled her eyes and plastered on a fake smile - her mother was a force that you did not want to reckon with. She knew she was being petty about such a little thing, but she didn't have the energy to rise above her seven-year-old persona.
"Yes, dad." Mars heaved a sigh and looked back out the window to watch an endless amount of highway pass by.
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To Chase the Sky (GirlxGirl)
Teen Fiction"Why do you enjoy being miserable so much?" "Because if I'm too busy wallowing in self-pity, I don't have to focus on how much others are hurting." ~ In which a naïve girl makes the mistake of falling in love.
