Chapter 6 The Girl
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A screech erupted from my lips, and I flung around, finding a girl my age leaning with her hip against the doorway.
"I'm Ember, Kayn's sister."
"Who—"
"The idiot that brought the pie." She threw a thumb back over her shoulder. "Look, whatever he said to you, you should ignore him. He's a total jackass."
"Kayn." So he had a name.
"Yup. My parents aren't very conventional when it comes to names."
I could relate to unconventional parents.
I nodded, not sure what to say to her. She was pretty and, without a doubt, had her brother's amazing genes. She had the same rich, raven hair and stunning aquamarine eyes.
"I'm sorry about my brother."
I shook my head. "It's okay. It's not your fault how your brother behaves."
"If I knew my mom asked him to bring the pie over, I'd have stepped in and brought it over myself, but I was out with my grandad looking for his missing fishing pole." She rolled her eyes. "He misplaces his things all the time and then blames everyone else for it."
I smiled. "Did you find it?"
"Unfortunately, no. That's why I took off and decided to come to say hello. But then I saw asshat walking out, and I knew it wasn't a good thing."
"Is he always like this?"
"Unfortunately," she groaned. "He got it from our grandad. They're both jerks to anything that breathes."
I inclined my head, remembering the old man on the porch, and shuddered.
"So, do you have a name?"
"Carly," I answered.
"Welcome to Scotland, Carly," she grinned. "Do you have any plans for tomorrow?"
"I'll need to unpack and...To be honest, I have yet to explore my options to keep myself entertained while we live here."
"If you want, I can come over and help you tomorrow?" she offered. "We can go for a hike or something afterward, and I can show you all the good spots around here."
"That sounds great." I didn't have anything else planned, and Ember seemed like she could become a potential friend.
"That sounds g—"
"Ember, what the hell are you doing over here?" Kayn barked from outside the door, startling us both.
"Jackass, you scared us," Ember grimaced, turning to face her brother. "I'm making a friend. What does it look like I'm doing?"
"You know you're not supposed to…" Kayn fell silent when he noticed me studying him. He turned his back to me, blocking the view of his sister, and spoke to her in a low voice.
"I'm not a baby, Kayn. I know what I'm doing," Ember hissed in response.
He muttered a reply that sounded a lot like a warning before turning back to face me.
"We're going," he bit out before he steered his sister out the door.
"Tomorrow?" she mouthed, and I nodded with a smile in return.
I didn't know what Kayn's problem was, but I'm not going to let him get in the way of Ember and me being friends.
I turned to reach for my fork and once again helped myself to the delicious pie, careful to take smaller bites this time around.
