Q & A With The Characters
"Holly, did you have fun hiding Finli from Leon? After all, we all know you were with him longer than you told your younger brother you were."
"It was… interesting. I was only hiding him because Leon would've had a fit despite himself already having a girlfriend, being the overprotective younger brother he is. But luckily I had my friends helping me, Cynthia the most, being both his girlfriend and my best friend at the same time."
"Cynthia, what's your favorite sleeping position? We see a lot of different positions, ranging from lying on your side to taking up as much space as possible."
"Why do I get the embarrassing question?! I don't know! It's random!"
"…"
"Sprawled out, I guess… more times than not I'm taking up as much space as possible as Holly can tell you when she's forced to share the lower bunk with me if she wasn't curled up in a ball all the time I wouldn't be taking up that much space."
"Jay, are you blind? Not literally you smart alec, we're talking in a people perspective."
"Yes, I am blind, all I can see is black. Thanks for noticing. No, I am not blind in a people perspective as you put it."
"Sure… what about the whole situation with Bree?"
"Have you met her? She could hide any negative emotion she was feeling at any particular moment, she has enough hyper energy to power a city and still have some left to power a large town."
"Either you are blinder than a bat or you are denser than a brick."
"I will repeat myself once. I. Am. Blind. There's nothing for me to see, wave your hand in my face and I won't see it. I'll slap you if you do so but I won't be able to see anything more than pitch black. Leon is the definition of dense. Not me."
"Oh really? Then how come he got a girlfriend before you, and figured out his feelings when he was thirteen while you have no idea about Bree's feelings for at least five years while you were busy with the whole Hadara drama."
"One, he's not a medic. Two, I was busy with my relationship with Hadara to be focusing on my friend being anything more than my friend. Three, Breanna was very subtle and careful not to show anything till after I had gotten over Hadara."
"Your brother is less dense Jay, admit it."
"At least I'm not stupid enough to have to stop college to deal with becoming a father early."
"Touche."
"Bree, what do you think about Hadara? It's a bit strange seeing no hostility between you two throughout those five years."
"Hadara's an amazing person! She's really nice, kind, and really pretty! There wasn't ever a reason to be angry at her while she was with Jay, she made him happy and that's what I cared about! Plus he ended up loosening up a little more while they were together, being a little less grumpy and more sarcastic! He's still as grumpy as a wet housecat at times but it's gotten a lot better over the years!"
"What about when she broke it off to be with Jackson?
"Yeah… that ticked me off just a little… but I was too busy making sure Jay would be okay to worry about being mad at her! If anything, the whole messy breakup helped out all three of us! Jay was upset about being blind and mistaken for someone else, Hadara was guilty and didn't want to keep pulling him along, and I was there for support for both of them! I think Jay learned that he didn't want to be with someone that calm, and I'm probably one of the most energetic people he's met! The whole thing gave him a big nudge in my direction, after all, soon after he figured out what I have been hinting at for a year and a half!"
"What about right now?"
"About Hadara? I think she's an amazing person and Jackson is the perfect person for her! We're pretty good friends now that she's not with Jay and the whole awkwardness has disappeared!"
"Leon, what were you thinking?! Hannah, seriously?! We thought you were finally done offending Cynthia!"
"I knew you were going to ask me this question! I just knew it! To answer the question I have no idea why I did it. I really don't. But it sure screwed everything up for months afterward, after the both of us managed to smooth it over a few weeks later Cyn was furious. Like a raging tigress. Yeah… I pissed her off pretty badly… "
"What do you mean "like a raging tigress?""
"She gave me both a mouthful of the cold shoulder and hair trigger short temper at the same time, dealing with her annoyed is bad enough, ticking her off? You better run for your life. I got hit upside the head so many times my ears were ringing for a week after she got over it all. "
"Upside the head… isn't that a British thing?"
"Yeah, it's typical in brits, it means using the back of your hand to essentially smack the other person on the back of the head above the ears, and when the person dealing the swatting is mad at you, plays basketball and is on a swim team, it's pretty painful. Cyn's British by birth and she grew up in London until she turned three I think, but her parents still used British customs up till she was disowned, that's why when she's upset a British accent overpowers the American in her voice. Personally, I find it adorable when she's embarrassed and tells me to shut up in her British accent, or calls me a prat. Which is essentially an idiot."
"Cynthia, your British are you…?"
"Yes, a brit raised American. So I still use some of the different words, sometimes have difficulty with all the slang, and I still have the accent, it's useful when you're giving a presentation in college or trying to sound like you know what you're doing.
"If you had to choose one word from your English background that would be the only one you could say besides normal American language, what would it be?"
"That's an interesting one… I'd go with prat, just so I can hit Leon and say it."
Hit him upside the head?
"Probably. Although I am told it's funny when I'm embarrassed, my face is red, and I try to say shut up in normal American but instead say it with my native accent."
"I can see why that could be funny."
"Then my face goes redder. Because saying shut up with a polite kind of trill in your voice doesn't help when you've trying to tell people to stop laughing at you."
"Nope, it definitely would not."
"Haliah, I, the author have just remembered a small detail with you and your sisters. Let's get Paige and Cynthia to answer this one as well why don't we. So… Haliah and Paige, you two used to persuade your younger sister to allow you two to put it up so you could see if people would like it right?"
Cynthia buried her face in her hands,"Worse year of my life. It sucked being a human guinea pig while they wondered if Brendan and Leon would like it."
Haliah glared at her indignantly, "It wasn't that bad!"
"You weren't the test subject!" Cynthia snapped back, obviously, the subject was a bit sensitive for the two of them.
Paige sighed, deciding to answer the question while her sisters argued. "Yeah, the idea was to see if Leon, the sports captain of pretty much everything; would like it and what kind of reaction we could find out, Brendon hadn't gotten decked in the face quite yet and we were looking for a reaction from him as well."
How come you stopped? Quite abruptly I might say
"No comment!" Cynthia exclaimed, shaking her head violently, "We are not answering that!" Her face was going pink, her accent already leaking into her voice.
"Because the one day we didn't do anything with it and let her do what she wanted, a simple ponytail," Haliah grinned mischievously, "Leon tripped over something and sent them both to the floor-"
"Haliah!"
"-and kissed her." Haliah finished and her younger sister buried her red face in her hands. "Apparently he liked it better when she didn't do anything crazy or complicated and was her usual self, so we let her be, choosing to be our usual selves instead."
"I hate you," Cynthia mumbled her voice normal American now.
"Love you too Cindy." Haliah beamed at her.
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Caylee and any other side character – youngcrazyteenageauthor
Cynthia – athleticsapphiresinger
Leon – athleticgoldenboy
Bree – cheerfulcuriosity
Jay – perfectgrumpytone
Holly – emeraldintelligencequeen
Fini – gingerandwhiteteenager
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