Chapter 14: Emotional, Stories Of Convincing Voice Acting
Natallia woke up in a bad mood once again. She'd been feeling like that a lot lately.
Ugh.
At least she knew what she was doing today. Get up, sing a song, watch everyone else with Bones, and hopefully go back to sleep.
Well, actually Natallia usually stayed up once she got up, not tending to take naps, so she'd probably just screw around on the internet until she had to force herself to go back to sleep early again so she was rested for the stupid talent show, but whatever.
Crap. What to sing today. There were always a few she could easily default to, so she wasn't entirely unprepared, but she wasn't quite ready to whip those out yet.
Hmm, maybe Glass Animals? Okay, no. Well, that was eliminated quickly. As much as she liked the, like, three songs of theirs she'd listened to so far, she didn't think she could perform them yet, as she didn't know the lyrics by heart. And she didn't have the time to check that they were family friendly.
UGH.
Maybe Twenty One Pilots? No, the songs of theirs that she liked were too angsty, and only like one counted as a love song. She had to maintain expectation.
Has Natallia gotten sick of internally groaning yet? Yes, yes she has, but she was going to do it again now.
UGH.
Natallia decided that she'd woken up early enough to just browse some music on YouTube and make an impulsive, split second decision.
Because she'd been singing cheesy love songs lately, and she didn't want to break that trend quite yet, she looked through some of those. As she let a few of her favorites play, she felt herself relax, happy to just take the time to relax and listen to music before she got to work.
She looked through her options carefully. Wolves, Paris, Sad Song, I Do Adore, Your Reality, Only Us, Michael In The Bathroom, okay no that doesn't count as a love song, like at all, stay focused damn it, and suddenly she found it. The perfect song.
Well, perfect enough. Perfect enough that she was going to perform it at least.
It wasn't cheesy at all and it was pretty sad honestly, but she didn't care anymore. She absolutely adored this one, and she desperately wanted to perform it now that she'd gotten the idea. Screw expectations!
Oh no, a custom dress for this will be kinda hard.
Oh well.
Natallia grinned. She was actually excited about this. Maybe she should take time to relax before worrying about the competition more often.
…
Bones grinned and began to cheer loudly as Natallia walked out onto the stage. He noticed her look to him and smile a bit, to which he replied with a thumbs up and a wide grin. He then looked to her dress, excited to see her next custom crafted design.
This was the first one of her dresses to have a hood, which was up, hiding the flower she usually wore in her hair. The dress otherwise seemed pretty normal, long enough to reach her lower shins, and white at the top and slowly fading into grey as it got closer to the bottom.
It was also noticeable even from a distance that Natallia was wearing makeup for this. She was wearing foundation to make her skin even paler than usual, and black eyeliner and eyeshadow, making her look pretty gothish. If it wasn't for the light color of her hoodie dress thing, she'd look pretty stereotypically emo right now.
Oh, and Natallia was also wearing black boots that reached to just below the knees. Fun.
Point was, it was definitely one of the more unique outfits. Usually she wore more colorful things for the talent show.
(It was also notably the most comfortable for Natallia to wear in public so far. It was such a comfortable outfit, in fact, she'd probably wear it around the house as pajamas after this, minus the makeup of course.)
"Hello everybody!" She called out, receiving cheers in response.
Geez, everyone at this talent show was so nice… it really warmed the girl's heart. But heartwarming was not the feeling of the song she'd sing, so she tried to keep that internalized.
"Great to see you all too!" Natallia chirped. She hadn't been this excited before a show in a while, it was honestly really nice.
"Let's just get right into the song! Yay!" Natallia cheered, impatient and excited. She smiled as the opening instrumentals began to play, strange and high pitched, using possibly a flute, a violin and a guitar. She let herself calm down, trying to get prepared for the melancholy tone of the song.
Finally, after a long while of strange and high pitched instrumentals, it paused, and regular instrumentals began to play, with only a guitar it sounded like for now. Natallia suppressed a grin; that meant it was time to start singing.
"I've been ghosting, I've been ghosting along." Natallia began to sing, soft and gentle. The note on the word "along" was a bit higher than the rest.
"Ghost in your house, ghost in your arms."
"When you're tossing, when you turn in your sleep, It's because I'm ghosting your dreams."
The girl had to work hard to suppress her quiet joy as the chorus began, instead trying to sound quietly determined with a twinge of sadness.
"And this is why I have decided, To pull these old white sheets from my head."
"I'll leave them folded neat and tidy, So that you'll know I'm out of hiding…." Natallia added a bit more sadness to her voice as a small instrumental break began.
"Yeah…" Drums started to play as Natallia began to sing once more, chorus officially ended.
"I've been ghosting, I've been ghosting along!" She sang, the note on "along" being more high pitched than before.
"Ghost in the world, ghost with no home."
"I remember, I remember the days, When I'd make you oh-so afraid." She sang, struggling a bit to hit the high note for the word "the" while the rest of the lyrics remained soft and gentle, though with a bit more force behind them than before. The chorus started up once more.
"And this is why I have decided, To leave your house and home unhaunted."
"You don't need poltergeists for sidekicks." Natallia sang out, trying to sound grumpy and hurt for this line, spitting the word "sidekicks" out venomously. She was unsure if she was capturing the emotion of the song right, but she was trying.
"You don't need treats, And you don't need tricks!" She sang, voice becoming more high pitched for the next few lines, starting at tricks and continuing on from there.
"You don't need treats, you don't need tricks, you don't need no Halloween. You don't need treats, you don't need tricks, And you don't need…" Natallia shifted her pitch again, returning to normal once more for the remaining lines. "...me."
There was an instrumental break. Natallia let the calming music wash over her as as she waited for to sing again.
"Meeee…" Natallia held the note, voice still soft. The instrumentals began to shift, becoming more desperate and erratic as the violin kicked in, but cutting as the lyrics began once more.
"Heeey, would it be so bad if I staaaaayed?" She sang out, struggling a bit with this segment of the song due to having to hold many of the notes.
"I'm just a ghost out of his graaaaave... And I can't make love in my graaaaave..."
"I won't put white into your haaaair… I won't make noises in your staaaairs."
"I will be kind and I'll be sweeeeeet…" Natallia inhaled sharply, putting as much pain and hopelessness in her voice for the next line as she could. She sang out, voice soft and miserable.
"If you stop staring straight through meeeeeee..." She sang, holding the note on the last word for a long while as the instrumentals shifted back to normal. She began to sing again after with no pause, still sounding depressed.
"And this is why I have decided, To pull these old white sheets from my head."
"I'll leave them folded neat and tidy, So that you'll know I'm out of hiding."
"And this is why I have decided, To leave your house and home unhaunted."
"You don't need poltergeists for sidekicks. You don't need treats, And you don't need tricks!"
"You don't need treats, You don't need tricks, You don't need no Halloween!"
"You don't need treats, You don't need tricks, You don't need treats, You don't need no Hallows Eve!"
"You don't need treats, You don't need tricks, And you don't need…"
"...me…" Natallia finished the song, voice more quiet and small than ever before. Natallia didn't even know she could sound so sad. She looked out into the audience, silent. She grinned sheepishly to the crowd.
Everyone then took that as their cue to start to applauding and cheering wildly. Natallia let out a startled laugh, not thinking that she'd be able to invoke such a strong reaction. She felt giddy, despite all the sadness she'd poured into her singing.
Once the cheers had died down a bit, Natallia spoke. "T-thank you, guys! I'm glad you all think I did good!" She giggled. There were a few whoops from the crowd at this, which Natallia suspected may have come from Purrl and Robin.
"Well anyway, glad you all enjoyed, thanks for-" Natallia glanced at Bones, freezing. "-Wait, is he crying…?" She muttered, microphone still picking it up and broadcasting it clearly.
Natallia realized her mistake quickly, looking out into the audience with alarm and hoping no one saw the direction she was looking in. She really didn't want to embarass her friend.
"UM, NEVERMIND. BYE, LOVE YOU GUYS, UH, NO ONE LOOK TO THE RIGHT, ENJOY THE REST OF THE SHOW!" She squeaked, mentally facepalming as she rushed backstage. Oh boy. Hopefully no one knew it was Bones she was talking about. Poor guy. Natallia was about to change back into her everyday outfit, when she decided fuck it, she was just going to keep wearing this. It was comfortable.
The currently ghost-themed girl did take the time to wash of her angsty ghost-inspired-but-mostly-just-emo makeup though. She walked out to watch the rest of the show with her friend with a light heart, waving to the audience members that recognized her happily.
She quickly received her phone (used to record her performance as always) from her brother, and walked over to Bones, growing a bit less happy and a bit more nervous as she approached him.
The dog noticed her and looked over to the girl, grinning weakly. Natallia shot a nervous smile back at him as she took a seat next to him.
"Heyyyy..." She started, cupping the back of her neck. "Uhh, did anyone realize I was talking about you…?"
"Yeah," Bones sniffled, chuckling a bit. "I think so. Not sure though, I probably I wasn't the only one who cried, after all."
"Eh, I doubt that."
"You- I- what?!" Bones sputtered. "Why? Of course people cried at that, it was heartbreaking!"
"Was it?"
"Yes!" He cried, astonished. "It was so freaking sad! How did you even do that?!" He paused for a moment, before adding, "Like, are you okay, do you need to talk about something?"
Natallia laughed heartily, grinning. "Nah, I'm fine, don't worry about it. Damn, I guess those high school drama classes really paid off."
"Wait, you took a drama class in high school?"
Natallia blinked. "Well, yeah, obviously! Have I really never mentioned that before?"
"No?"
"Huh. Well yeah, I took drama in high school. I mean, if I had never performed before, I'd probably never have the courage to get up on stage in the first place!"
"Hmm. Guess I never thought about that."
There was a brief silence between the two.
"But yeah no that might've been one of the saddest songs I've ever heard." Bones muttered, almost tearing up again remembering it. Hearing Natallia singing such heartwrenching lyrics, sounding like she was in such pain… it pretty much broke his heart.
"I honestly didn't know I could even sound so sad, I surprised myself to be honest." Natallia admitted. "But was it really that emotional?"
"Yes, holy shit!"
Natallia was still skeptical, knowing how emotional Bones could be at times, but hummed in understanding anyway.
It probably really wasn't that great.
"Why are you still in your dress?" Bones asked, snapping Natallia out of her thoughts.
"It's super fucking comfy. I didn't feel like changing." Natallia explained, grinning.
The two friends continued to chat happily, watching the talent show in peace. Eventually it ended, Natallia trotting over to her other friends to say hi(gh). They all also seemed to really like her performance, which was making her doubt her earlier skepticism.
…
"Was I really that good? I mean, I always sang happy songs before, maybe I caught them off guard…" Natallia muttered to herself. Her thoughts were interrupted once more as she stopped outside the back of her house, grinning. She walked up to her orange tree, one she planted before she'd set up an actual designated area for her trees, and shook the trunk a bit, catching an orange in her hand.
It was harvest day today. She was in a productive mood after all the praise she'd received today, so she was going to sell some fruit and finally pay off her fucking debt to Nook.
She tried to keep her mind off of her debt and focused on harvesting her oranges. She moved on to the next tree before she made her way to the actual orchard-y place.
She'd planted two trees by her house before setting up an actual area for fruit, but she never had the heart to chop the originals down. So there they stayed.
She grinned as she saw her other trees. The area was small, and set up between 3 cliffsides. She lived on the lower level of town, and the orange area was in a nook between the upper part of town and the taller cliffs bordering Lavryn as a whole.
Lavryn was a great place to live, Natallia thought to herself as she continued to harvest her trees. She only had oranges, not seeing the need to have peaches and pears like the other human in town.
Besides, why would she need those fruits when she could just steal them from him?
It wasn't a big deal, he almost never harvested his trees. She only took his fruit when she wanted a snack, anyway! It was fine, not morally questionable in the slightest, shut up.
That was irrelevant though. What mattered was focusing. She put some of the oranges into the backpack she had, having grabbed it from her house before coming outside again. She didn't feel like making multiple trips. After all the trees were harvested and the oranges were in the bag, Natallia slung it over her shoulders, hiking over to Nook's store.
She hummed a little tune, before walking into the store, growing a bit unhappy. She never liked Tom Nook that much. After all, he did kinda trap her in a seemingly endless debt, so could you really blame her? He wasn't awful, but he wasn't great either.
But she knew that he couldn't keep expanding her house forever. Soon enough he'd run out of ideas. Then she'd finally be free. And she was taking one step closer to getting there today, damn it!
Tom Nook greeted her, cheery as always. Natallia cut right to the point, telling him she'd be selling some shit today. He asked what she was selling, to which she responded by wordlessly dumping all of her oranges out of her bag and onto a table. Tom looked over her shoulder, counting the oranges. He bought them, giving her the bells in return.
Natallia walked outside, sun setting and a chill coming over the air. She counted her bells. She was just only needed about a thousand more bells and she'd be set…
Natallia knew what she had to do. She already had medicine stored up at home, saved either for when someone was sick or for situations exactly like this. She was fucking ready.
She walked up to a tree, shaking it forcefully. A single 100 Bell coin fell out. Good, good. Good start so far.
…
Natallia screeched, running from a swarm of angry bees.
She'd accepted this fate as soon as she'd started shaking trees. But this didn't stop the fear. She glanced around, blue eyes darting back and forth fearfully. Suddenly, she realized where she'd ended up.
She wasn't really paying much attention to her surroundings before now, as she was merely going from tree to tree before.
But now she knew where she was. And she knew she was incredibly, incredibly lucky.
The girl let out a happy cry, dashing into the house and hearing a few soft thumps behind her as the door was shut. Bones looked over from the movie he was watching, pausing his TV.
Luckily, Natallia was good enough friends with Bones so that it was socially acceptable for her to do this. Friendship is amazing.
"Sorry, I was running from some bees." Natallia apologized, grinning sheepishly.
"Bees? Wait- were you shaking trees for bells again?! You're allergic to bees, you can't do that!" He cried out. Natallia felt a sense of nostalgia wash over her, remembering the day he'd discovered that little fact about her. It felt like so long ago, although it was only a few months.
It had happened right before Carmen moved away. Just before the night where Bones had comforted her, relaxing with her during a cold winter's night with a cooler of her favorite soda and watching the sea. That was one of her favorite memories with him.
God, she had so many good memories with him. She couldn't help but feel her heart swell with happiness and affection for her amazing best friend. And crush. Of course.
"Natallia?"
"Sorry, just reminiscing in my memories of the day you discovered my allergies and my own crippling insecurity over said allergies." She sighed, remembering her poor face.
Bones blinked. "What?"
"I'm joking, it's fine!" Natallia grinned in response. She felt a bittersweet feeling wash over her. She'd really known him for a long time, hadn't she? Years, in fact. She almost wanted to cry, for some reason, but that wasn't really appropriate right now. She was still there in front of Bones after all.
"Anyway, I think those bees are gone, guess I'm off to make more bad decisions! Bye!" She chirped in a sing-songy tone, ignoring the lump in her throat. She tossed an orange that she'd saved especially for the dog to him, and left quickly before he had a chance to respond.
The girl continued to the next few trees, lost in her own memories. They weren't bad memories necessarily, and she honestly didn't know why she had started crying, but she was doing it now nonetheless.
So there she was, crying over nothing, shaking trees and risking her face for bells, wearing a ghost hoodie-dress-thing all the while. Today was a good day.
Natallia counted up the bells she'd gotten so far, and grinned. She had enough for the expansion. She starting walking to the city hall, on the other side of town.
What started as a walk began to morph into a jog, and then to a run. And then she was running. Running to the city hall to get to the machine used to pay her debt, still crying a bit, ghost themed hooded dress flowing in the wind behind her. She felt alive.
She stopped outside the hall, resisting the urge to merely burst right in through the doors. She wiped the tears from her eyes. She still didn't know why she was crying, but she'd let it happen; it was bad to suppress your feelings after all.
But now was not the time to cry over nostalgia. Now was the time to pay the debt like the badass she was! Yeah! Mortgage!
Natallia walked into the city hall slowly, knowing her face was all blotchy from crying. Whenever she cried, it was always obvious, her face going entirely red and splotchy. She didn't hate much about how she looked, but oh boy, did she hate that.
She fidgeted with the hood of her outfit, hoping that everyone would just think she was flushed from the cold. It was night now, after all.
Avoiding eye contact, Natallia made her way to the machine, excitement spiking again. She withdrew the money she needed from the machine, having a large amount already stored up for debt-paying purposes. She then selected the option to pay her mortgage, and did just that.
(Listen, don't ask me how this machine works, okay? I don't know either, it's Animal Crossing Logic!)
A familiar, rewarding message flashed across the screen of the machine.
"Your remaining debt is 0 bells. Thank you for stopping by."
Natallia felt the excitement bubble up inside her once more. She tossed her hands up in the air triumphantly.
"Yes! No more debt for me! Take that Tom, you fucking loanshark bitch!" She cheered, earning a giggle from the secretary. Natallia was too excited to be self conscious over her actions, letting out a little cheer as the secretary applauded her.
She walked out of the building, gleeful expression on her face. She practically skipped over to her next destination. She smiled all the while; until she got there. She sighed, happiness dying down a little. Well, might as well get this over with so she wouldn't get ambushed by it later.
She walked into the store once more, giving a sour look to Tom Nook.
Rhymes are cool.
"Ah, Natallia, congratulations! Looks like you got your debt paid off, hmm?"
Natallia sighed and nodded, not bothering to grace that with a response.
"My, you must have a lot of stuff by now, and not enough places to put it! Say, I know how to fix this predicament!"
Natallia gave the man a cold, blank stare. "We could add on a basement to your house!"
Natallia blinked, surprised. "Wait, what? We're not going to expand my second floor first? That's stupid, I wanted a bigger kitchen!"
"Yes yes, but a basement will help you in the long run, hmm?"
"Well yeah, but I could just get one after you finish with my kitch- You know what. Nevermind. You're just going to give me a basement anyway, may as well not argue." Natallia sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Excellent, so I can have the basement finished by tomorrow, that does sound good, hmm?" Tom asked with a smile.
"No. I don't want the expansion yet." Natallia deadpanned, already knowing what his response would be, having gone through this song and dance before.
"Hah, you're such a jokester Natallia! Anyway, what color do you want the roof to be? Blue, green, yellow, or red?"
"None of those."
"Okay, aqua, lime, pink, or purple?"
"None of those either."
"Hmm, black, white, brown, or gray?"
"Still none of those."
"Hmm, I'm afraid that's all the colors we have..."
"I know, I'm not choosing because I don't want the damn expansion."
Tom Nook blinked in surprise, before laughing heartily. Natallia looked at him, a cold look in her icy ocean eyes, seemingly dead inside.
"Hah, you're so funny Natallia!" But really what color do you want the roof to be?"
"I guess pink is fine." Natallia muttered. Her roof was already pink, and see didn't want to change that yet, so pink it would stay.
"Alright! I'll have everything done by tomorrow, yes!"
"Okay. I'll spend the night at Bonesy's place then. Seeya." Natallia said monotonously, giving a sarcastic two-fingered salute as she walked out of Tom's store and back to her best friend's house by the sea.
Hey! Remember how this story takes place in City Folk? Yeah, I remember that too. Anyway, it's time for the next one shot request! If anyone has any other requests, feel free to leave them, but if I don't get any, I'll do my own thing. Also, I did a lot more description of the instrumentals and tones in the song this time, hopefully I did a good job on that. ALSO also, someone said a while ago to maybe add more characters. BAM, more characters. Tom counts. Yay. Anyway, the request was:
Maybe Bones invited Natalia and the neighborhood to a beach party?
Okay, so I hope that you don't mind, but I am NOT writing the whole town of Lavryn onto the beach. We're just doing the main squad, sorry, I don't know all of the villagers well enough to write them. So that's Bones, Natallia, Purrl, Robin, and also Carmen because you can't control me. Enjoy!
Oneshot: Depths, Stories Of Ocean Blues
Natallia grinned, stopping the car. This was it.
"Woah!" Bones cried out, pressing his face to the window in amazement. Although Lavryn had a sliver of beach, this was a much bigger area, and much more impressive. Natallia grinned proudly as her friends made excited remarks over the beach.
The group was no longer in Lavryn, rather they were closer to Natallia's hometown. It was about a two-hour long drive from Lavryn to here, but it was going to be worth it to show everyone the place she grew up in.
Well, it wasn't exactly the place she grew up in; it was a bit past there. But she knew this town, Shalanndor, just as well. Her family came here a lot before she moved to Lavryn.
Thing was, no one else knew that. For all her friends knew, she was just as much of a tourist here as the rest of them. She didn't know why exactly she hadn't told them see lived near here once yet, but she wasn't about to now. Because why not. She'd just pretend she just knew everything about this town until someone asked about it.
Let's rewind a bit. A few weeks ago, Bones invited all of his friends to go on a road trip with him to Shalanndor. Natallia, of course, agreed, not wanting to miss an opportunity to spend time with Bones and possibly see her family.
Surprisingly, though, everyone else agreed too, also being free.
So here they were. Shalanndor. With no one but Natallia knowing how to navigate here.
Oh, this was going to be fun.
Natallia, who was the one driving, turned off the car and got out, everyone else following. They'd parked near the beach, so it wasn't much of a walk to get there. Natallia waited patiently for everyone to get their things and lead the way, everyone following once more.
"Oh man, this is gonna be awesome! I love the beach!" Bones yipped.
"No shit, you live right next to it?" Natallia responded, grinning.
"Well yeah, but it's been awhile since I've been to a beach as big as this one! It's going to be amazing!"
Natallia stopped on top of the sandy hill, overlooking the beach and the ocean. It always was really pretty here.
Bones stopped beside her and gasped, staring at the sand and the sea in awe. The rest of the group wasn't far behind, everyone marvelling at the beach. Natallia chuckled.
"Hey, is Carmen here yet?" Natallia asked. She lived somewhere else, so obviously she wasn't in the same group as the current Lavryn residents yet.
"No, but she'll be here soon." Robin replied. Natallia nodded, and strolled down to the shoreline casually, humming a tune. The girl stopped right by the sea. The waves rolled in and out, none able to touch her feet but getting close.
Bones wasn't far behind, taking off his shirt so that he was in only his swim shorts and running to the sea, yipping excitedly. Robin and Purrl set up their stuff before doing anything else, before Robin came and crouched beside the sea as well, letting the waves touch her fingertips. Purrl laid on a towel in the sand, deciding to check out the ocean later.
Natallia watched Bones, already knee deep in water and letting the waves wash over his legs. She grinned a bit, giggling excitedly. This was going to be the best part.
She took off her dress, leaving her in the one piece swimsuit underneath. She tossed it to Purrl. "Watch my shit!"
The cat responded with a lazy thumbs up. She tossed Natallia her swimming goggles, which Natallia failed to catch. She quickly crouched down and picked them up, putting them on hastily.
"Thanks!" The girl grinned.
Natallia walked over next to Bones slowly, standing beside him on unsteady legs. She wasn't used to casually standing in the ocean like he was, but it was definitely nice.
But that wouldn't last. It was time to initiate the plan.
Natallia grinned as she swam out further into the water. She laughed excitedly, though not because of the healthy and active fun of swimming. She was laughing from anticipation.
This was going to be officially the absolute worst thing she'd ever do.
She laughed and splashed for a moment, before yelping and diving under the water, sneakily swimming back towards the shore. She heard concerned voices from above.
She was going to pretend to be drowning.
Natallia tried to hold her breath and not giggle at herself. She was an awful person for doing this, and especially to the person she was doing it to.
Everyone else was in on this. This prank was for Bones specifically.
The concerned voices got louder as Natallia dug her feet into the sand, trying not to shift and give herself away as the waves threatened to sway her. She put her hands out as far from herself as she could, and waved them wildly, hoping the water above her would splash.
She heard the more feminine voices from the group panicking, although she knew it was fake. They were good actors. Natallia continued to listen, starting to run out of breath but not giving up just yet. Suddenly, she heard a much higher-pitched and feminine tone, panicking wildly.
Someone dived into the water near her, looking around the best they could with saltwater in their eyes. They spotted Natallia and tried to drag her up to the surface. Natallia, confused and starting to run out of breath, decided that it was time to end the prank and complied, allowing the figure to drag her up to the beach.
Natallia gasped for air, coughing, half doing it for the prank and half legitimately out of breath. She never was that great at holding her breath. She looked behind her to the figure, knowing that it couldn't be Purrl or Robin because they knew about the prank. She expected to see Bones, but was sorely mistaken.
Carmen.
"Uh. Hello." Natallia greeted, tensing up. Oops. She didn't know how to deal with this. She'd assumed Carmen wouldn't be here yet. Uh.
"I haven't been here for more than a minute and someone is already dying!" Carmen sobbed out, disbelieving and terrified.
"No, no, I wasn't dying, it was a prank, I'm fine, I'm so sorry that was directed at Bones…" Natallia assured her, hugging the sobbing girl. She'd done a very bad thing today, the blue-eyed girl decided.
"What?!" Natallia turned to Bones, who was offended and shocked. But mostly also terrified and concerned. Also crying. Fuck.
"I didn't think this through, oh god, I'm sorry…" Natallia muttered, torn between holding back laughter or just feeling really awful. Sadistically, she was leaning towards the former, which kinda made her concerned for her own mental health.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect this, I thought this would be funny!" Natallia cried out, giggling a bit and honestly hating herself for it.
"You suck!" Bones sobbed, joining the hug. Purrl and Robin watched awkwardly in the distance as the three friends hugged, two crying whilst the other tried not to laugh.
"Huh…" Robin muttered, unsure how to react. It was kinda heartwarming and all, but she felt kinda awkward just watching in the sidelines. Purrl chuckled a bit. "Let's ditch them and get ice cream!"
"Okay!"
(Purrl and Robin totally got lost, for the record, leaving Natallia to valiantly navigate the town to find them.)
And that's it! Hopefully it lived up to expectation. I don't know how whoever requested this is going to feel about this, but this is it! Enjoy!