kaleidoscope eyes.

[ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: i’m gettin bad again [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: and i’m... scared [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: for myself and for rini

[ text → ✉ → dinah ❤️]: you ever think bout us reaching out to peter ---- dad? [ text → ✉ → dinah ❤️]: i’m not --- maybe i feel bad about never really giving him a chance [ text → ✉ → dinah ❤️]: i dunno. whaddyou think?

[ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: thank you so much <3 [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i really appreciate it [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: um. yes please. if that’s alright

[ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: i’m excited for you to meet her!!! c: [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: i think delivery would be better? [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: rini does better when there’s less people around, she gets overwhelmed sometimes! [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: i’ll see you soon! c:

[ text → ✉ → char 🖤]: i -- [ text → ✉ → char 🖤]: i won’t fight you. [ text → ✉ → char 🖤]: but i do disagree, char [ text → ✉ → char 🖤]: i love you. so much. [ text → ✉ → char 🖤]: and -- i’m sorry  [ text → ✉ → char 🖤]: i’m trying to be better.

[ text >> ✉ >> lucy 💙 ]: sorta? [ text >> ✉ >> lucy 💙 ]: i don’t know much about it [ text >> ✉ >> lucy 💙 ]: but it sounds fun! [ text >> ✉ >> lucy 💙 ]: i always wanna meet more mutants! [ text >> ✉ >> lucy 💙 ]: and if you’re in it, how can i say no?

[ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: auntie anna marie? [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i’ve been having a hard time again :c [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i really -- [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: my cravings have been getting worse and worse [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i can’t stop thinking about it [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: can i come over? :c

❝   that’s okay  ,  aeron  !  i’m not gonna force you to smile  !   ❞  she does grin broadly of her own volition  ,  however  .  big and wide as scarlet rocks her toddler in her arms  .  as karina reaches outwards  ,  toward the mutant fairy  ,  babbling about nothing  .  until    --   ❝  ae-won  --  ❞  rini coos out  ,  and the pryde’s entire disposition softens  .  ❝  that’s right  ,  sweetie  .  aeron  .  you’re so smart  ,  baby girl  .  ❞  her attention focuses back on her friend  ,  and she tilts her head  ,  inquisitively  .   concerned  .   ❝    ----    is everything okay  ?  did something happen  ?  ❞

❝   oh  !   ❞  she gasps out at the compliment  ,  a soft blush twinging her cheek as scarlet’s delicate fingers graze gently over the chipmunk’s fur  .  it’s asleep now  ,  finally  ,  having recovered from its injuries by the grace of scarlet and pascal alike  ,  and with her focus now averted from the miniature crisis they’d had at hand  ,  she’s realizing she’s turned completely bashful in response to the male’s words  .  ❝  i  --  gosh  ,  this is so sweet  .  thank you  .  ❞  she’s biting her lip  ,  downcast eyes lingering on the pavement by her sandals  .  compliments have never been something she’d learnt to take  .  not even from her two life partners  .  not even from emma  ,  really  .  ❝  i’m so glad i met you  ,  too  !  i promise  .  ❞ and she does beam then  ,  big and bright  ,  brunette curls bouncing as she nods her head with vigour  .  ❝  what do you say we put this lil’ guy somewhere safe and then head over to our favourite cupcake factory  ?  grab a treat and catch up  ?  ❞

❝   you’re my home  ,  too  ,  auntie emma  .  ❞  and it’s true  ,  isn’t it  ?  scarlet pryde was raised in the immaculate  ,  white-walled corporation of ceo emma frost  .  her childhood was riddled with stone-faced men in suits and ties with sickly  ,  dark auras around whom the necrokinetic never felt quite so comfortable  .  but at the centre of it all was  ,  and still is  ,  her aunt  .  the only maternal figure she’d had when space was no longer a viable option for family vacations and scarlet was abandoned on earth  ,  waving the rest of her siblings farewell  .  she’d lived on takeout and fancy restaurants and sleeping on the lap of a woman who never batted an eye when she’d painted all over the walls or threw a rattle at some business executive’s head  .  she’s her home  .  everything she knew and loved before it was taken from her  .  everything she’d tried to return back to during those wretched five years when they’d stolen her innocence and pried her away from all that scarlet grew to love  .  she wraps her arms around the blonde  ,  rests her cheek against her chest  .  sighs  .  ❝  you’ve always been my home  .  and then they took me away and   --  i didn’t know what to do  .  how to take care of myself  .  everything was so messy   --  i’m sorry  .  ❞

[ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i know buuut i wanted to! c: [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: you’re the sweetest!!! [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i’m trying <3 promise promise! [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: thank you so much, auntie! <3 [ text → ✉ → auntie anna marie 💚]: i’ll see you soon! <3

[ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: yay! i’m so glad to hear it! c: [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: i’ll bring rini, too! [ text → ✉ → auntie emma 💝 ]: hmm... how about that italian place you always order takeout from? they have such good vegan options!