April-December

You gotta.

sure

Happy disability pride month!!

"Really?"

"You were sighing and staring out the window like an Jane Austin character!"

"I don't even know what that means-"

"NO SIGHING!" Zoey demanded, "No sulking! No bad vibes! We are on vacay time!"

"I'm only sighing because someone is taking her sweet ass time getting ready!"

"I will not apologize for taking whatever time it takes to nail my look for the day," Mira stated as she walked into view, actively putting in her earrings.

"We're going down to browse the food stalls; not a red carpet."

"I refuse to look anything but exactly how I want to. Now what's all the yelling about?"

"Rumi was sighing."

"Snitch!"

"Where's Stripes?"

"She already threw him at me," Rumi sighed again, holding up the tiger.

"Oh good. Bring him with us, your outfits already match."

Rumi looked down and realized that she had, unintentionally, matched fits with the doll; both of them wearing jeans and a yellow shirt.

"Awww, they do!" Zoey gushed. "Wait! Lemme get Shelley!"

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Yes she loves learning and collecting information and everyone thinks she just thinks bugs are cute. The joke? She doesnt. Shes actually a little scared of them. But as a young child a mantis and her almost killed each other and she realized they are just as scared as her. Worse, probably, because she can kill them and what could they do back? Sting her maybe?

No, rumi loves bugs because she feels extremely connected to them. People like the pretty ones but even those get harmed if they fly too close. She looks at the utter disgust pointed towards them and can only think ‘that will be me someday’ and so it goes. She has threatened random staff for trying to smash spiders. She begs Mira to collect anything that makes it into the penthouse and put it on her plants outside. She cried once so pathetically zoey joined in because there was a dead dragonfly trapped in the shower in some random hotel.

Rumi smiles and fake laughs and plays along with all the jokes about her bug obsession when she cant even be the one to catch spiders that come inside. The girls get her a pet millipede, mostly because they think she needs something to pay attention to that isnt her email inbox. It takes her Months to actually pick it up the first time and suddenly shes realizing that maybe her phobia was more self imposed than anything else.

Rumi vs self accusation but she only hits that point because some random twitter user says her pet millipede (whos named Haru) should be killed and she gets banned from the internet for three weeks because she tweets back his ip address. Rumi being forced to realize that shes so emotionally attached to bugs as a whole because she viewed herself as that trapped dragonfly that died terrified in a random shower. Rumi trying to explain this to the girls who only tease her a little bit and otherwise cuddle her despite mira asking if she needs to get cupped (which becomes the default way to ask if shes anxious)