â Family isnât who youâre born with, itâs who youâd die for. â
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       âDYING FOR SOMEONE WOULD BE EASY.â What a bold statement to make, perhaps, but Cat felt certain with her words. Death was not a terrifying concept, and she did not see it as a grand act of love in some respect. People in the ring had DIED for each other... but none of it was out of compassion or sense of familial obligation. Usually just mistakes or Copperâs wrath unleashed. It sounded heroic and compassionate, but really it just left those still alive as... l o n e l y. The brunette struggled to find the love in that.
    Though, who said family had to involve love? It could, perhaps, hinge on trust alone, with only tolerating to keep things together. The misery of such a concept was not lost on her, and she realized that she was once more relating the idea of such a relation to the gang. It was not a family, it had never been one... it was simply the closest she had had.
        Forehead creased as street rat stared to the ground with intensity. Trying to understand, to grasp, to comprehend her own whirlwind of thoughts. They didnât e n t i r e l y make sense, but most of the decisions she had made in life so far were stupid... what was adding yet another dash of ignorance to her circumstance?
    âI guess I would die for people regardless of loyalty simply because mânot afraid. I donât think that would make âem family to me, though. I get whaâ you mean, but maybe sâjust not to me. Maybe mâweird... I think family is someone Iâd be willing to actually split a doughnut with.â Was she joking? Perhaps. Perhaps not. There twisted some truth to her tone, but the honesty wasnât the whole scope of her feelings.  âI think... FAMILY is the people I wanna be with. Anâ who would wanna be with me. Who would take care of me in those little ways family members are sâpposed to do for each other... Yâknow? Like buy them little gifts and tell them tâbe safe when they go somewhere...â
   A pause, the silence suffocating to the point she could barely speak the last words.
          âOr maybe thaâs just what I wish I had.â