First little lie ♰ Keep me breathing as the water rises up again

[beingdifferent]

[The first image the camera captures is a pair of large brown eyes, blinking sleepily before widening. They dart back and forth as their owner pulls the communicator back, showing a small pale face framed by dark curls, mouth curled into a frown. Zoom back a little more and the starry expanse from the deck is visible in the background.

The girl in the foreground bites at her bottom lip, licks it, looks around again before frowning at the communicator. She pulls it up closer, staring at the screen, and speaks one word with a distinct note of fear in her voice.]

...Mommy?

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[fire_punk]

No one's moms are here. [He's young, unkempt, but definitely attractive if you can get past his lack of hygiene. He sounds both pleased and almost sad.]

What's your name? [Unsaid is what is a kid like you doing here?]

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[beingdifferent]

Yours isn't either? [Oh, he is cute. Reminds her of a few of the older boys at the orphanage in Estonia. That sympathetic undertone to his voice does not go unnoticed either.]

Esther. What's yours?

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[fire_punk]

Nah. She died years ago. And my stepmom's the reason I'm here, so... [So he doesn't want her anywhere near him. Unless he's about to kill her.]

I'm Kevin.

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[beingdifferent]

Oh, I'm sorry. [She tilts her head; he seems so honest, surely she can trust him.] Mine too.

I'm Esther. Hello, Kevin.

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[fire_punk]

Oh. That's... [He doesn't know what to say to that.] That sucks.

Hi, Esther. I, umm... Do you want to do something?

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[beingdifferent]

Yes. It does suck. [She's so solemn and her voice is so refined that the word sounds very out of place.]

That depends on what there is to do.

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[fire_punk]

Well... The art room's fun.

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[beingdifferent]

Do you like to paint, too?

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[fire_punk]

I don't really know how but the paper mache's fun.

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[beingdifferent]

Could we make a sculpture?

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[fire_punk]

Sure! I haven't done much more than make volcanoes, though. But I can make one really blow up. [Yes, he's bragging. Just a little.

Wait, sculptures aren't usually supposed to blow up, are they?] But, umm, we can try something that's not supposed to blow up, if you want.

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[beingdifferent]

How do you make a volcano blow up? [She's usually more of a traditional-art type of person but there is no way she can resist an exploding volcano. Who could?]

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[fire_punk]

Meet me in the art room and I'll show you. [A chance to show off a bit? Like he'll turn that down!]