round two
prompt: swimming
character(s): lily (&) lucy
thunderstorms
(lily luna (&) lucy; gen)
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James says only babies go crawling to their mummies and daddies during thunderstorms and he's ten (double digits), so he knows what he's talking about. But it's summer and mummy and daddy are far away at home while they are at Nana and Grandpa's house and it's storming. Loudly. Lily tries for as long as possible to stay in bed, ducked under the itchy covers to muffle the noise. It doesn't work terribly well so she gets out of bed and leaves the room, jumping when the storm lets out a loud crack and runs the rest of the way down the hall to the door on the right.
"Lucy…Lucy…" Lily whispers loudly in the darkened room, still weighing the possibility of creeping back down the hallway and braving out the storm. "Are you 'wake?"
"Lily?" The bed moves and Lucy's blurry form can be seen. "What's wron-". A flash of lightening hits, causing Lily to start and her thirteen year old cousin to let out a small sigh of resignation. "Get up here. Don't wake Mol or Rosie," she adds and Lily suddenly sees the other bumps in her bed and doesn't feel like such a baby anymore. She joins the bed swimming with cousins, wedging herself in the small space between Rose and Lucy, jostling Rose who lets out a surprised grunt but keeps on sleeping.
Another crack of lightning brightens the room, but Lily just weasels further into the tiny gap between her cousins. Rose's breath inches from her face and she can hear Molly snoring on her other side while Lucy re-arranges the covers over them all. She spoons into Lucy, their legs tangling together and falls asleep within minutes.