Dear, Bunny

『🐰6』

K A T H L E E N

Malia picked me up at the airport upon my first arrival in Chinnith, New York, the booming city surrounded by rich farmland with skyscrapers building up in the downtown core.

Malia's my baby sister. Brown hair with an identical color of golden brown, expressive eyes—bright with humor.

I awoke from a nap and stared over at the digital clock to my left. It's glowing numbers marking 9:30a.m. It was technically Friday morning—the day after the big get-together my parents hosted for me, welcoming me home. The celebration was a riot of colour, everyone a little more hyped up than they should be.

I love them all, I do, but all I wanted was to lie naked with Bunny beneath a warm duvet and listen to the beating of her heart slowly sending me to sleep.

I roll over, noticing the empty space on the bed. I exhale a deep breath before making my way downstairs and into the kitchen.

Everywhere I looked there were stacks of food— a traditional english breakfast buffet, and I didn't know where to start first.

Together as a family, we sat down. Brent, my baby brother led us into a prayer and afterwards Malia and I stayed behind to help clean.

As I place the last dish into the pantry I felt a hand clasped around mine—directing me into a chair.

I look up to meet her stare. "Malia?"

"Liam is having a party tomorrow and I was thinking that we should go." Her customary grin exploded into a radiant smile.

"But..."

"But what?"

"That smile always means you're hiding something. So what's the catch?"

She covers her ears, "Jade will be there."

"Jade!? My Jade!!?" I snap in agitation.

"Kat it's been nearly three years now. You moved on. You're happy. She's no longer a threat to you,"she places her hand onto mines. "Besides, mom is not going to let her youngest daughter go to some party without her big sister there to look after her. Please-e-e." She was practically on her knees. There was no way out of this.

"What time should I be ready?" I look down to be met by her luminescence brown eyes. She gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet, "Uh, How about seven' fifteen!?"

"Sounds good." She then threw her arms around my shoulders nearly strangling me to death as she cried out of how I'm the best sister EVER.

After our conversation, I went upstairs to see a hat planted neatly atop of my messy bedsheets. Noticing Brent's room door cracked open I walk inside still holding on to the nice gift.

"You made this? For me?" Without taking his eyes off the flat screen, he continues with the cheese puffs.

"It's just a bastard hat to put on your bastard silly head, now shut the fuck up, this is Habanera." I turned the gift over in my hands; the knit was perfection, cables and twists, all in my favourite pink and blues.

Three seconds later my lips came in contact with his right cheek. "I love it." I saw his mouth twitched, and I was pretty sure he was fighting a smile.

Now Alone in my room I forced myself to focus my thoughts on the upcoming party. Liam was hosting it at '0 Gravity,' it's a highly popular place for older kids to throw parties and hang out. Liam's dad owns it.