My Past Is Complicated

I gave a smirk and crossed my legs, brushing some orange hair out of my eyes. Aria and Lightning Dust wore surprised expressions.

“So let me get this straight,” Aria finally spoke. “You want us to do a diss track like we are NWA?” Octavia tilted her head to the side in confusion.

“Who?” She asked and Aria rolled her eyes.

“Jesus Christ. Kids these days,” she grumbled. I snorted a laugh and sighed. “It’s not important right now.”

“Uhm okay,” Octavia still looked confused and quickly shook her head. “So are you in? Vinyl plans to upload this one again to YouTube. Lyra wanted to insult the Rainbooms directly in musical form. I will leave the address to Lyra’s house with Adagio,” she handed me a piece of paper. “If you show up we will know you’re interested. Arrivederci!”

She walked away with her lunch tray and Sunset’s on top and we all looked at each. Sonata gave a faint muffled sound and I rolled my eyes in faint frustration.

“Sonata please swallow your food before trying to speak. You’re gonna die one day if you don’t,” I rolled my eyes. Sonata nodded and I patiently waited.

“I say we do it! We can be like one of those old school groups and pull up with a glock on those bitches!” Sonata stood up on the table and crossed her arms after throwing up a sign. “Brap! Driveby motherfucker!” Aria hastily yanked her down and looked around her.

“Are you stupid?” She hissed. “Don’t throw up random gang signs! Are you trying to get shot?”

“And we are not pulling up with a glock to anyone’s house Sonata,” I grumbled. Sonata brushed us and rolled her eyes.

“Stfu mf. You might not but Lightning will,” Sonata said.

“Would you quit talking in acronyms please? This isn’t a freaking text message. Just say the word,” Aria rolled her eyes. Sonata opened her mouth.

“Don’t,” I cut off Sonata and she closed her mouth. “You’re the youngest. You shouldn’t be cussing anyway.” The bell rang and my other two sisters stood up to go to their class, arguing the whole. I glanced at Lightning who was laughing and I rolled my eyes.

“Those two are gonna be the death of me one day.”

I stared at a large white house and glanced at my other companions. They wore the same surprised faces that I’m sure I wore. I gave a shrug and entered the code Octavia had given us into the gate and pushed it opened after a few seconds.

“Lyra lives here?” Aria asked incredulously. “Damn.” Lightning let out a whistle as we walked along the path.

“You know I’m not gay or bi, but I can pretend if it means I get to visit this place often,” Lightning commented as the front door opened. Lyra stood there with her arms crossed and an unreadable expression.

“Come in,” she said simply and stepped away from the door. I rolled my eyes as Sonata bounced through the door.

“Take your boots off at the door Sonata,” I chided. “Don’t trek mud through her house please.” She let out a grumble and yanked them off before tossing them in a pile near the door.

“Thank you,” Lyra said simply as she led us down the stairs into the basement. “We have instruments if you play. Or you guys can just do vocals like you did before.” She pushed the basement door open and everyone stared at us as we quickly sat down. Sonata bounded up to Vinyl and the two started talking about God knows what.

“Hello again,” Bon Bon nodded to us. “It’s uh nice to see you again.” She looked away uncomfortably.

“Indeed it is,” I agreed. “So what do you all have planned again?” Lyra handed us a all sheets of paper and I raised an eyebrow.

“Who wrote these?” I asked with a raised eyebrow. Bon Bon and Lyra sheepishly raised their hands. “Wow. I can see Lyra writing these but not Bon Bon. Some of the language in here is very vulgar.”

“What does that mean?” Lyra demanded as she leaned back in her chair. “I’m not all that vulgar!”

“I’m not even gonna bother to say some of these out loud right now. When do we get started, I have to make dinner for my sisters after this.”

“Now but first I have something to say.”

“Lyra now is not the time,” Bon Bon said warningly. I held up a hand and she stopped talking as everyone stared.

“Let her talk,” I said simply and leaned forward. “We are adults and can handle some criticism. Say what you have to say.” Lyra nodded and clenched her fist.

“I don’t trust you. Either of your sisters too. You tried to brain wash us into being probably slaves because of some adoration power trip you three were on,” Lyra grumbled. “But Sunset trusts and likes you so that has to count for something. I may not like you three all that much right now, but that doesn’t mean that can’t change in the future. We don’t have many people on our side right now as is.”

“Are you done?” I asked and she gave a nod, sitting back down in her chair next to Bon Bon. “Okay. For starters, it’s what we knew. After all, we had to survive too. We weren’t able to eat physical food and survive off it for long like you guys can until recently. That’s like trying to take a lion and leave it in a cage with a zebra and tell it to not kill the zebra.”

“You can’t get rid of instinct,” Aria chimed in. “We’ve been alive for a thousand years. We’ve instigated some of the bloodiest revolutions in history. The revolutionary war, the French executing Louis the Sixteenth. Don’t even get me started on Gettysburg. This is all we knew. You can’t throw three sirens into a new world and not resort to their most basic way of survival.” Lyra and Vinyl made eye contact before nodding.

“You have a point,” Lyra admitted. “It makes sense.”

“Now if that’s out of the way, let’s get to work.”