"Tuktirey," Neteyam lowly muttered in a threatening voice, but that did nothing as she flew off on her ilu, and I dragged my hands down my face in fear. Kiri came closer to me, placing a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"I'm so dead Neteyam."
"That makes two of us."
FAO's POV
I was grounded. I seriously couldn't believe my parents, but I remembered it could be worse. After little Tuktirey told her father about Neteyam and I, he wasted no time in telling my parents. I couldn't be mad at Tuk though, she didn't know any better.
For well over an hour my parents, mostly my dad yelled at me as I sat silently on the floor, telling me how my actions brought shame upon our family, and questioning why I couldn't be more like my brother or sister. They watched silently from the door. I didn't say anything, and didn't even bother to argue because they had a good point. My siblings would never go out kissing forest Na'vi knowing damn well my parents were going to choose their partner.
"Dumbass." A voice said softly from behind me, and I sniffled, dropping my head in between my knees, annoyed that my brother decided to come and annoy me. Terrible timing. "Leave me alone, Aonung." I muttered, my voice thick with tears.
Though I often got in trouble, nothing has ever compared to today, and some of the words said to me struck hard. A hand softly began to trace soothing circles on my back, and I sighed from crying myself to exhaustion.
"They don't mean what they said, they're only mad Fao." I mocked his words in a high pitch voice, so used to that phrase before I pushed his hand off of me. I glared at him with wet and bloodshot eyes. "Go hang out with Rotxo or something. Just leave me alone." I growled and Aonung just rolled his eyes, getting comfortable and leaning up against the shacks walls.
He sighed at the mention of his friend. "He's not happy at all you know." He mumbled, and I made a gagging sound. I didn't care how he felt about Neteyam kissing me, especially when I told him time and time again that I wasn't interested in him.
"I don't care."
Aonung stood up in frustration, walking to the door to leave our shack before he turned to me. "You need to learn that your actions don't just affect you." I frowned at his words, and before I could say anything else, he was out the door.
NETEYAM's POV
"I knew you liked her bro." Lo'ak laughed as I explained to him my little... situation. We were both walking out of our shack and to the ocean where we had another lesson with Fao, Aonung and Tsireya.
After my father found out about what I did, and how I actively broke his rules, I wanted to die. Genuinely.
I had never been yelled at so much, and made to feel like such a disappointment, as my mum just shook her head at me in the corner of the room. However, I felt my heart drop and lungs constrict when my father mentioned telling Tonowari about what happened.
I had dropped to my knees and literally begged him not to say a word, but he didn't budge a bit. I just hoped Fao was okay and didn't resent me for my fathers actions.
As we neared the water, I saw Tuk and Kiri already there, with 3 Metkayina's standing with their ilu's. "Where's Fao?" I asked, staring at Rotxo, Aonung and Tsireya. They looked around awkwardly, and I felt my patience slowly disappear with every second of silence.
"Where is she?" I asked, this time harsher, catching a guilty looking Tuk hiding behind my sister in my peripheral.
"She's grounded." Tsireya whispered, and I groaned in annoyance, mostly because she was left all alone and I knew I couldn't go and see her-- that would only make everything a whole lot worse.
"Because of you she's in a shit ton of trouble, and spent the whole night crying her eyes out." Hissed Rotxo, as he bumped chests with me. I hissed back, not really wanting a repeat of the other fight, but also not wanting the shorter fish boy to think he can walk all over me.
I shoved him-- hard away from me, and Aonung caught him. "The blame isn't completely is. Kissing is a two person job." I blocked out the rest of the noise as I thought about Fao sitting alone in her dark shack, huddled and trying to keep her sobs quiet. I felt my throat tighten at the thought, and grabbed the bead behind my left ear that was matching with her.
I so badly wanted to go and see her, however I knew she could use some time to herself, and the result of me showing up in her shack would be disastrous.
"Can we just get or lesson over with?" Lo'ak groaned, and in seconds we were all in the water.
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FAO's POV
I snuck out of my shack at the sound of a loud noise. My eyes were bloodshot and red, as was my nose as I crept to the crowd surrounded the flying thing-- a helicopter. I didn't understand why it was here, and fear struck me like a chord when I thought it was the humans. However, I realised I was wrong when a forest Na'vi jumped out and greeted the Toruk Makto, before running to their shack holding gear.
"What's going on?" I whispered to myself, as I silently followed the pair. I gasped and hid behind a tree as I saw both my sister and mother walking to the shack, holding medicines in their hand. As I was going to walk further to their shack, I felt a large hand encase itself around my shoulder, making me freeze.
"Are you not grounded?" A deep voice asked, and I turned around giving my dad a sheepish smile. "I-I heard loud noises, and thought we were under attack?" I explained and he shook his head, pushing me back to our home.
"Dad, what's going on?" It was silent for a moment before he sighed and stopped walking. He crouched to my level and rubbed his forehead, and I suddenly grew even more worried if possible. "It's Kiri. She's had a seizure."
My eyes widened and I tried to frantically push past my dad to see if she was okay-- to see if Kiri was alive, but he grabbed ahold of me and started directing me back home again. I kicked the floor and tried to stop us, but I was no use against his strength. "You're still grounded."
"She's my friend! I must know she's okay!" I yelled, and my dad just pushed me into the dark shack, making me snarl at him.
"She's okay. Your mother has it under control." Was all he said before slamming the door behind me, leaving me in complete silence and darkness.
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A/N
I currently have my nails done, so typing is so difficult so if I'm more prone to mistakes I blame them. I was too lazy to write Kiri's seizure scene, so I consider myself quite the genius for changing the POV to Fao's. Cue the applause 😎
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