My Pretty Sister

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Chapter 7

The next time Selena awoke was a day later. She looked over to find Sonia fast asleep. She checked the peacock clock on the wall. 12:30 am. No wonder her sister was asleep. She sat herself up carefully and leaned against the pillows. She rubbed her head lightly from the pain that shot through her. She took a deep breath, checking to ensure it was steady. Despite the pain, she raised her arms up and stretched. Her back popped about three times before she had to stop because it hurt. She crossed her legs, leaning back again. She heard a slight grumble from beside her. Sonia was waking from her slumber. Sonia yawned loudly before her eyes fully registered that Selena was awake and sitting up in the bed.

"Selena, what are you doing up?" Sonia asked.

"Just came back into consciousness and couldn't sleep," Selena said.

"I can understand why. You were out for another day," her sister replied, giggling slightly.

"Yeah, I could kind of tell by the clock," she said giggling as well.

The two sisters giggled for a bit before Selena was sent into a coughing fit from pain. She took her hand away from her mouth and looked at it. She paled and gasped at what she saw.

"What? What is it?" Sonia pressed.

In reply, Selena showed Sonia her hand. It was covered in bright red blood, as red as her lips. Sonia screamed loudly. All of first squad had awakened and came bursting into Sonia's room at the scream. Sonia was pale and Selena was shaking like a skeleton in the wind.

"Mystique Sonia? What's wrong?" Mr. Nohands asked.

Sonia weakly pointed to Selena's bloody hand. Selena put her hand out to show them what her sister meant. They all drew back when they saw the blood.

"How did this happen?" Lin Chung asked, panicked.

"We don't know!" Sonia screamed.

"Alright, I can fix this," Selena said.

Selena got out of Sonia's bed and began walking over to the bucket full of berries. She rummaged through them to find a specific berry.

"Uh-oh," she said.

"What's uh-oh?" Sonia asked.

"I'm out of a specific berry that I need to stop this."

"WHAT?"

"I'll have to head into the pine forest in order to get more."

She double checked to ensure that she definitely didn't have the berry. She went into another coughing fit and fell sideways, facing the others, on the ground. Her coughing was so bad, the blood she started to cough up was beginning to pool. Lin Chung carefully picked her up bridal style and placed her back onto the bed. Her spell ceased and she was now trying to get air into her lungs. Sonia got a determined look on her face.

"What is this berry that you need?" Sonia asked her when she got the air back into her lungs.

She pulled out of what seemed like thin air. She turned the pages to a picture of a plump, purple berry.

"This is it. If you go into the pine forest nearby you can't miss the bush they grow on," she explained.

Sonia took the book from Selena's hands and turned to Mighty Ray and Lin Chung.

"Lin Chung, would you mind watching Selena while I'm gone?" she asked.

"Of course not," he replied.

"Thanks. And Ray would you mind coming with me to get the berry?" she asked Ray.

The blush crept its way back onto Ray's face, so his face matched his cloths.

"I… I guess…not," Ray stuttered.

"Great! Let's go! We'll be back in about two hours!" Sonia yelled happily.

Sonia grabbed Ray's hand and dragged him out of her room to the first squad briefing room.

"Be careful!" Selena croaked before she left.

She sighed once again. She coughed again, sending more blood into her hand. Her spell ceased once more. She wiped the blood that was coated around her mouth. Lin Chung looked at her with sympathy. She was just so sick from that one gash she got while fighting. He turned to the rest of his squad that hadn't left with Sonia.

"You guys can go back to bed if you want. I'll stay here and watch Selena like I promised," he told them.

The rabbit and Mr. Nohands nodded before leaving for their rooms. Lin Chung sat on the stool Sonia sat on moments before. Selena was looking over at the canvases leaning up against the wall. He also looked to where her gaze was. He saw the two canvases leaning neatly up against the wall. He was guessing that they were drying. He went over and pulled one away from the wall. It was the picture of the sleeping cat. He was shocked by her ability to paint. It could almost compare to her fighting skills and win. Of course, her fighting surpassed everything but her beauty. He walked back over and sat on the stool again.

"Those are beautiful paintings Selena," he said.

"Thank you," she replied smiling.

He returned to sitting on the stool. She noticed her hair was falling out of her braid. She carefully pulled the black ribbon until it was untied. She pulled the black hair ties out, carefully pulling her braid apart as she went. Lin Chung gulped when her hair began to fall down her back, curling lightly at the ends. He was finally able to see that her hair fell to her lower back. She pulled on it lightly to give it some fluff. Lin Chung now saw her golden highlights fully. There were actually many more of the highlights that she had been hiding with her braid. She hummed a bit while finishing fluffing it up. She was just about to put it back into its braid when she felt a third hand messing with her hair. She looked over to see that Lin Chung had a few strands of her hair between the fingers of one of his hands. The pink in her cheeks increased to a point she thought the blood in them was going to explode. He didn't notice her blush though. He was too transfixed on her hair, twirling her regular colored hair in one hand while lightly stroking the hidden gold highlights with one finger of his other. She just watched him mess with it while figuring out if she liked his touch on her hair or if she felt weird by it. She decided to go with liking his touch on her hair and closed her eyes. She smiled when he ran his finger over another golden highlight. He noticed her smile automatically.

"You have a pretty smile Selena," he whispered.

She chuckled a bit before answering, "I wish."

"You do," he said and added, "but not as pretty as your eyes."

She opened her eyes wide at this.

"But I don't have pretty eyes or a pretty smile Lin Chung," she argued.

"You're right," he agreed but added, "You actually have both."

She shook her head at his ranting about her being pretty. She didn't believe she was pretty. In fact, she thought she was quite unattractive. She looked away from him in thought about what he said. She stayed that way until she felt Lin Chung run his fingers over cheek. She froze at his rough yet quite soft touch. She bit her lip to keep herself from pulling away and severely hurting him. He eventually stopped and let her put her hair back into its braid causing the golden highlights to vanish. He sighed in disappointment. She retied the black ribbon into a bow when she put the bottom hair tie in. She straightened it afterwards. Lin Chung stared at the floor for the next fifteen minutes. Selena noticed after about twelve of those minutes where his gaze resided.

"Lin Chung, what's wrong?" she asked him, quite worried.

"Huh? Oh, nothing," he quickly replied.

"Nothing isn't really an answer as to why you've been staring at the floor for the last, oh, fifteen minutes," she said calmly.

A simple 'um' was all that came in reply to her statement.

"Just tell me," she whispered quietly.

"You denied it when I told you that you are beautiful. Why?" He asked with pain in his eyes.

She looked down and sighed as well. She coughed more blood into her hand before continuing.

"Well, I was always told when I was in THUGS that I wasn't pretty. In fact, most men thought I was hideous."

"WHAT?"

She cringed a little at his sudden anger. She quickly shook it off and continued once again.

"Yes. I accepted it but it hurt me a lot to hear this constantly."

"I'm sure," Lin Chung agreed angrily.

"I just lose it when people tell me that. But I get even more uncomfortable when somebody does tell me I'm pretty."

"But I didn't use the word pretty. I used the word beautiful."

"I know there's a difference but…"

She trailed off as Sonia and Ray came back into the room.

"Hey! We're back!" Sonia cried happily.

Selena and Lin Chung greeted them with smiles but said nothing to them. An awkward silence followed.

"Did… did we miss something?" Ray finally asked.

"No, it's… fine," Selena reassured.

She took the purple colored berries from Sonia's hand and quickly swallowed them. She waited about fifteen more minutes before saying, "Well, I think I'll go back to sleep."

"Okay. Just stay in my bed," Sonia told her.

Lin Chung stood up and walked to the door with Mighty Ray. He turned back towards the girls.

"Goodnight you two," he said.

"G' night Lin Chung!" Sonia happily chirped back.

"Sleep well Lin Chung," Selena said tiredly.

He left the room. Selena turned over and waited until she would hear the soft breathing her sister made when sleeping. When she heard just that, she fell asleep herself.


Good Chapter to me. Little romance but mostly worry and understanding. I like how it turned out.

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