#thesofiavaldez

Scott had been busy, so she'd gone alone, he'd pick her up after the show when she texted, and when she stepped out of the concert hall she reached for her pocket- only to find it wasn't there. She patted her pockets, dug through her purse and then groaned as she turned to walk back inside, only to find the main door was already closed. Great- just great. She walked around the back, muttering to herself as she did- Of Course she had dropped her phone somewhere inside. Her tall heels clicked against the sidewalk as she walked around the back of the building, and when she saw a bunch of the stage crew loading stuff out, she sighed in relief. At least she'd be able to get in with them.

She hurried over and was about to slip in the door when it slammed closed and she groaned again, ready to just say a spell and blast the door off the hinges- but she wouldn't. She had to live here now, and while suuure, she and Scott could easily buy them a new door- it wouldn't look great. So she knocked on the door hardly, hoping someone inside would hear her and have mercy for her situation.

Annabelle knew the full moon was lurking around every corner - their time to be free and enjoy her night as just herself. So she distracts herself with the food crawl. "I don't know the last time I ate this many wings," They stayed away from the fries ( sorry, crisps ) covered in gravy, but the burger sliders kept them coming back for seconds and thirds. "Hey --" She turns to the closest person to her. Whether they were just passing by or taking part, Annabelle didn't know. "Can you be honest with me? Do I have barbeque sauce on my face?" She asks. "There's like...no mirrors here. How am I supposed to tell?"

♚ sofia sat cross legged beside the small tree in her sisters room of the home they shared with micah. it felt a little barren and sofia could sense her sister's disappointment in this. it was short notice, for starters, for them to get together a whole christmas, but especially so as micah did not celebrate and the home was, for all intents and purposes his. sofia still hated seeing the disappointment on her sister's face that one of the few traditions they'd held onto from their youth had been lost this year. it was rare sofia agreed that simply because something had been done for years prior meant it must be repeated but she knew how much normalcy meant to her and holding onto what kindness their father had brought into their lives growing up.

♚ "next year you'll have your own place and we can decorate it all, big tree, lots of decorations, so much food, so many presents," sofia insisted as she pushed one of the few beneath it towards her sister. she'd save for it, but, unfortunately, most of what had been saved, as well as their emergency fund, had been used to move to the uk. sofia had used what money from work she had been able to accumulate to decorate her sister's space, not wanting to intrude on micah's yule. "maybe living so far away we could even try getting a hold of dad."

♚ sofia saw her sister smile at the notion of calling their father, reaching for the gift that had been pushed in her direction as she sat on the floor opposite sofia, the warm hue of their skin illuminated by the flashing white light on the tree. false nails pulling it apart sofia watched her sister reveal the pile of pretty notebooks in varying designs, a smile crossing the girls face, the presents obviously for her hoping to start school up again soon, actually get a degree like her sister had always hoped for her. sofia wanted nothing more than for her sister to get all the things their mother hadn't ever considered her for.

𝖘𝖔𝖋𝖎𝖆 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖊𝖟 ♚ 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡. 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫.