A/N: Still writing for the Flt Green Room…
The Inoue Girls…and Boy
3. Sky
Chizuru clicked her camera. The shutter opened and closed, but nothing else happened.
'Damn,' she cursed, under her breath so none of her siblings heard her. Not that it would have mattered if they had; Momoe would have laughed and she was the eldest. Mantarou was a boy, so it was unlikely he'd learn anything from her in that department – more the other way around – and Miyako…well, with two elder sisters and a brother, sometimes swearing was the only way to make oneself heard.
Their parents knew that, and so they didn't get scolded too badly. Particularly not when they'd all outgrown the diaper days. And so even she, the self-proclaimed "angel" of the family, was known to curse and grumble to herself when things didn't go her way.
Like when the battery for her camera died for the third time that week, right when she'd been about to capture a rainbow. And when the camera didn't magically fix itself from fright, she lowered it and shook the batteries out, letting them tumble under a chair.
'Batteries,' she mumbled to herself, digging in her drawer and hoping the rainbow didn't disappear. 'Where are they? Mantarou!'
She shouted the last part, and her brother appeared at the door. 'Batteries!' she cried. 'Your Walkman batteries! I need them before the rainbow disappears!'
He looked at her like she had lost her head, in such a dither over a silly little rainbow, but took the batteries out of the clip-on device at his belt and handed them over. She stuffed them into her camera and raised it to the sky – only to find a blanket of rain and now sun or rainbow in sight.
'Damn it.'
'My Walkman batteries?' Mantarou asked.
'No way. I'm staying until that rainbow gets its butt back here.'
Mantarou shrugged. 'Well, it's not like those are my only batteries,' he mumbled to himself, wandering off and leaving his sister to her…non-silent vigil. Since she was still grumbling under her breath and all.