of heartbreakers, dreamers, and schemers
a collection of drabbles for the 200 Flavourful Prompts challenge at the NextGen Fanatics
Drabble 13: Lucy & Molly
It's a five-star hotel, or at least that's what they tell Molly, who doesn't believe it.
Lucy, on the other hand, gazes around like it's the most gorgeous thing she's ever seen. The younger girl takes it in with bright blue innocent eyes, and it's almost as if they're seeing the world from different points of view.
Molly views it through her frozen Alaska heart. Lucy views it from a child's point of view.
They're sisters, yet they're as different as can be. And now, as their father and mother are away for the day, they want the two girls to stay in the hotel, together.
At first, Molly isn't amused. She's always felt inferior to her sister, despite the fact that Lucy's two years younger. But the girl has basically everyone wrapped around her finger. All it takes is one flutter of her insanely long eyelashes or one skinny finger pushing a wispy brown hair behind her ear and everyone falls just like buildings, one by one, beginning their own destruction.
But the thing about Lucy is that she's sweet, almost as sweet as the candies that are always in her mouth. She's genuinely nice to almost everyone she meets, unlike Molly, and she's got a heart for other people. It's almost enough to make Molly truly jealous.
So as they glance around the luxurious lobby of the hotel, Molly feels everyone's glances turn to pretty little Lucy and her green-eyed monster decides to show itself again.
Lucy's glance catches hers, asking what's wrong, but Molly just gives a quick shake of her head to indicate that she doesn't want to talk about it.
But once they get to the nearly empty pool, Lucy asks quietly, "What's wrong, Molly?"
"It's stupid," Molly begins (because really, it is). But after a minute or two, things begin to spill out like marbles on a glass table. "I'm just sort of jealous of you, y'know? You're sweet and pretty and perfect. Basically, you're everything I'm not."
"And you're talkative and funny and everyone adores you," Lucy informs her, speaking a bit louder now. "I'm the one who should be jealous of you."
It hits her then- Lucy's jealous of her, which means that maybe she isn't as perfect as Molly believes her to be. And maybe, just maybe, there's something within Molly that people can be jealous of. It's sort of weird, that they're jealous of each other, but mostly, it's just them.
Someone's head surfaces from under the water, and they yell, "Would you just hug it out already?"
Laughing, Molly wraps her arms around her sister.
(Because even if they're strange and jealous, she still loves her little sister.)