flora
Flora tilts her head as he explains the pamphlet, lips twitching in disbelief that he managed to slip plural pronouns into instructional literature and still their fathers sailed blithely past it. She stretches her legs out fully now, ankles crossing, sinking deeper into the wicker as though the weight of the secret settles comfortably across her shoulders. "At first," she begins slowly, gaze drifting toward the glitter of the pool, "I was just going to go out and buy a second of everything. Another crib. Another mobile. Double the blankets. Then just...spring it on them once they realized it was twins."
Her mouth curves faintly at the imagined chaos of it; Remi’s hands in his curls, Ronin staring at two wailing infants like the world's biggest prank from Vi. "But," she adds, the word softening as it leaves her, and she exhales through her nose. "That probably would be leaving it too late." She tips her head back against the chair, hat brushing the wicker, sunlight warming the slope of her throat as she considers the logistics instead of the comedy, before having to concede with a huff that Mateo was right. Her gaze slides sideways to him, smile reappearing, sly but fond. "We probably should say something."
She studies him a moment, eyes bright with mischief beneath tinted lenses. "Actually, you should do the honours since you're the only one who actually figured it out."
Her mouth curves faintly at the imagined chaos of it; Remi’s hands in his curls, Ronin staring at two wailing infants like the world's biggest prank from Vi. "But," she adds, the word softening as it leaves her, and she exhales through her nose. "That probably would be leaving it too late." She tips her head back against the chair, hat brushing the wicker, sunlight warming the slope of her throat as she considers the logistics instead of the comedy, before having to concede with a huff that Mateo was right. Her gaze slides sideways to him, smile reappearing, sly but fond. "We probably should say something."
She studies him a moment, eyes bright with mischief beneath tinted lenses. "Actually, you should do the honours since you're the only one who actually figured it out."
The rumors are terrible and cruel
But honey, most of them are true
But honey, most of them are true
