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emma_rlz 
Xy fought the urge to roll her eyes as Mina's dramatic ideas about home. It was like that a lot - perhaps that was why she was always flicking around during the holidays? Who cared, anyway? Not Xy any more.
'Yes,' she answered fondly, thinking to her baby brother. It was good to get some males back into the family - there were a grand total of four to about sixteen girls now. 'Some of my cousins already staked a claim on him - Kali especially.' The five year old was hilarious.
She raised an eyebrow much like Mina's at her questioning. 'I'm not allowed to stare?' she asked coolly, crossing her arms across her chest and frowning. 'Wow. That's something I'll need to put in the rule book: Do not stare at Mina.' She nodded, making a show of reaching into her pocket to withdraw a notebook and self-inking quill, and pretending to scribble something down.
'So you know we overheard. That'd be me, Briar, Em and Le. Or, at least, that's those of us who understood what was being said.' She shuddered. 'But I'm just grateful the younger ones didn't understand any of it. If they had you'd be in serious trouble.' She swung her legs back to the floor abruptly.
She turned to the door, sliding it open. 'I need to take a walk,' she lied, sparing no glance back at the older girl. 'I'll ... I'll find you later.' She turned down the corridor, desperate to avoid her again. She didn't want another conversation just yet.
That could have been handled better. Mina scowled in the direction her cousin had just left, closing her eyes and leaning her head back against the seat. Stupid relatives; sometimes she wished they would all just go away and disappear. It would be easier - no eavesdropping resulting in confrontations that weren't quite, like this one was.
She mumbled a word so quietly she herself didn't hear it, so what hope did Xylina have, wherever she'd headed do?
'Guess I have to find her at school,' she muttered, feeling despair at the mere thought. Perfect. Just perfect.