✞ || FIFTEEN || [video] - Backdated to an hour post-sunset

[unetrustworthy]

[The sound of sporadic fireworks can be heard in the background as Midii's face appears, hands tightly covering her ears.  The poor girl's eyes are red, voice quivering when she speaks.  She appears to be huddled beneath an outdoor table, knees pulled up to her chest.]

I thought your American Independence Day was not until tomorrow, yet people have been setting these fireworks off since--

[Another explosion in the sky, loud enough to cause her to visibly jump, letting out a small yelp.  She looks close to tears.]

Is there some place I can go where I will not hear them?

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[halfwitch]

Midii? Where are you? [Friend is almost crying. What do?]

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[unetrustworthy]

At the coffee shop.

Batman is coming to get me.

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[halfwitch]

Are, um, are you going to be okay? Do you need help?

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[unetrustworthy]

I need the explosions to stop.

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[halfwitch]

I don't think I can do that. But this Bat-guy's going to help you with it, right?

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[unetrustworthy]

Yes. He will take me home to Max. Or wherever I will not have to hear them.

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[halfwitch]

[she nods]

I'm sorry. That this is bothering you. Americans celebrate too loud.

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[unetrustworthy]

The volume does not bother me. It is what the fireworks sound like.

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[halfwitch]

[Quietly] Do you want to talk about it?

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[unetrustworthy]

No. I do not want to talk, I do not want to hear. I just want to forget, except I cannot. I can never forget again, thanks to the City.

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[halfwitch]

Okay. I'm sorry. It'll be over after tomorrow. The fireworks.

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[unetrustworthy]

...you do not have to be sorry, Gretel. It is not your fault.

I apologize for snapping.

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[halfwitch]

I know. But I don't know what else to say.

It's okay. I do it when I'm bothered.

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[unetrustworthy]

I wish I did.

I promise I will come see you tomorrow. When the fireworks are over.

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[halfwitch]

Okay. I'll pick up something from the Pie Hole.

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[unetrustworthy]

We can eat it in the pillow fort.

[She actually smiles a little when she says this, still amused at Max's suggestion]

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[halfwitch]

That sounds like fun. I haven't made a fort in ages.

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[unetrustworthy]

I have never made one before. It is supposed to block out at least some of the sounds.

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[halfwitch]

You've never made a fort? Geez. I'll have to find more pillows so we can make an extra big one for you.

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[unetrustworthy]

What would I have made it with? There were hardly enough pillows to sleep on.

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[halfwitch]

I- sorry. That's not what I meant.

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[unetrustworthy]

I know.

And you are right. We will have to make it extra large. I will even get Max to let us use the couch cushions if we need.

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[halfwitch]

Couch cushions are great for forts.

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[unetrustworthy]

Yeah? What else?

[All this plotting and thinking is offering a decent distraction from the fireworks overhead. She only jumps a little at the next one, and it was exceptionally loud anyway]

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[halfwitch]

Games. We can play games or make prank calls or I got a bunch a books when it was my birthday.