Kiri's Pov:

"Rotxo wait!" I shouted, almost feeling like I didn't have the gut to say it, his back was turned to me but he had stopped.

But he didn't turn around, he tugged giiwedin along and left me and tuk standing there.

What would I have even said if he stayed?

"Tuk! Kiri!" I heard lo'ak's voice shouting. "Lo'ak over here!" I shouted, following the sound of his voice till I met up with him.

"Oh good! You found her!" Lo'ak smiled with relief.

"Lo'ak, you fucking bitch!" Neteyam hissed, obliviously out of breath as her crouched down a bit.

I chuckled at my brothers. "Come on we should play down by the beach" I suggest, mostly looking at tuk who nodded eagerly.

"Fine" neteyam frowned. "Just no more doing parkour shit"

Both me a lo'ak laughed at neteyam.

(Sundown)

There was a knock on our den walls before I looked up and saw tsireya in the opening of our den.

"Hey" I greeted and she nodeed with a smile. "Are you looking for lo'ak Because he's in his room" I said, nodding over in lo'ak's direction.

"Uh no" tsireya laughed awkwardly. "Actually I want to talk to you"

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"So what did you want to talk about?" I asked, kicking the sand.

"Well this is probably gonna me a hard conversation" tsireya shrugged and I looked at her confused.

"But I want to know what's up with you and rotxo" tsireya said and I instantly frowned, looking down at the ground.

"Nothing is going on between us"

"Well there's something" tsireya said. "Rotxo wouldn't-"

She trailed off not finishing her sentence.

"He wouldn't what?" I hissed and tsireya shrugged. "Nothing" she muttered.

"Hey uh..." I hesitated to ask this question. "What happened to rotxo's face?" I asked and tsireya looked at me confused before it seemed to click together.

"Oh! The bruises" tsireya frowned. "He said he fell on the rocks but I don't believe that" tsireya said shaking her head.

"Yeah that's not very believable" I agreed.

"There is another guess I have though" tsireya sighed and I looked at her, hoping she would share her guess.

"He gets picked on a lot, because he's shy" tsireya explained. "And there's this group of boy that won't leave him alone, callin him a pussy and a girl" tsireya ranted and with each word I felt my frown deepen.

"But would they actually hurt him like that?" I asked and tsireya nodded with no hesitation.

"They've done it before" she said and I felt remorse for rotxo. "But last time he told aonung and aonung beat the shit out of those boys"

I smiled imagining aonung beating up a group of kids while rotxo cheers him on.

"Why didn't he tell aonung then?" I asked and tsireya made a face.

"Their having issues right now" tsireya explained and I frowned. "what do you mean?"

"Well you know yours and rotxo's little argument" tsireya sighed.

"Rotxo brought up how he made fun of you" tsireya explained. Right. How could I forget.

"Oh but I didn't mean for our fights to effect his relationships with other people" I said worriedly.

"Do you think I could talk to him?" I asked turning to tsireya.

"You have a mouth don't you?" She joked.

"But yeah, you probably can he just might have a hard time choosing to listen.

He better listen.

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