𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 ------ 𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕣..

8.

Im sitting with Kiri while I look at shells and pearls I collected from swimming and Kiri is just looking at the sand...do I find it weird.. kinda? But maybe she's just in her own world. I heard laughs coming from behind us and see aonung and his little friend group, I roll my eyes and stand up " go away aonung" I say with a sigh. He comes closer anyways and points to Kiri "she's just looking at the sand" he says laughing. I was about to say something when Kiri comes up " huh? what'd you say?" She says clueless and I shake my head and sigh one again " are you some kind of freak" aonung says and his friend repeating him " he asked if you are a freak" with a strong accent.And I push aonung " watch your mouth penis face!" I shout then hiss at him , he snarls at me when he regains his balence "no" Kiri finally responds sighing and rolling her eyes. We try to walk away but they follow us " are you sure I mean your not even real Navi" I turn and hiss at him, he doesn't seem affected as he continues " look at those hands. I mean look at them" he grabs kiris hands. I grab kiris hand out of his hand and push her behind me. I hiss at everyone

when lo'ak comes out of no where "HEY" everyone turns to lo'ak " back off fish lips!" He shouts as he comes forward to aonung " aww look another four fingerd freak" he says taunting lo'ak as one of the skxawng touches his tail, he turns quickly and pushes him " don't touch me bro" he says mad and everyone else takes a turn grabbing his tail saying things like ' baby tail' 'baby brother' and laughing at him while Kiri shouts " leave us alone!"

While I try to push everyone away from my younger brother not noticing my other brother coming in fast and pushing aonung, everyone going silent " you heard what she said, leave them alone" he says intimidating while putting a finger on his chest. Aonung stays quiet while we all look at him " back off now." Neteyam finishes and aonung puts his hands up in surrender " smart choice." " and from now on I need you to respect my sisters" he says looking at everyone as they stay silent so we go " come on" he says as he pushes lo'aks head forward and grabs my shoulder and Kiri following after sticking her tongue out at them. As we were all walking away lo'ak stopped and turned back around, me, Kiri and neteyam look back at him " lo'ak" I say stern and he turns back " I got this" he says putting his hand out to stop us from going to him.

Lo'ak goes up to aonung " I know my hand is funny" he makes weird movements with his hand " look I'm a freak, alien..but it can do something really cool" he says as Aonung looks at his hand with a smirk interested and lo'ak continues " first I ball it up real tight like this" he nods and I smirk knowing what he's gonna do, he punches aonung 3 times until aonung is on the floor shocked at the boys actions " it's called a punch bitch! Don't ever touch my sister again." He shouts as everyone crouches to attack lo'ak, aonung jumps on lo'ak and lo'ak turns him over going for another punch when the rest of the group grabs his tail and smacks lo'aks face with their huge tail. I grimace at lo'ak losing horribly when neteyam scratches his head and runs to help " uh- neteyam!" I shout. As they all start fighting, lo'ak pulling a guys ear while aonung and and another pull his tail and neteyam on top of some dude alone. Kiri screams " so stupid" looking at all of them and I laugh but I know I have to do something so after I throw my head in my hands and groan I walk up to aonung as he's pulling my little brothers tail and I grab his shoulder and he looks at me with a confused face and I smile and punch him in his face, he falls to the floor and the other guy pulling lo'aks tail hisses and comes to me and I hiss back jumping on him as he falls to the floor I punch him over and over as aonung comes back up and tries to pull my tail I kick him in the face with my foot when I do this we all hear a load shout "HEY" we all stop at the loud voice recognized as tonowari all of us having a grimace on our face.

Tonowari took us to our father and when he found out he was really pissed. He took us back to the marui pod as we walked in neteyam was touching his bleeding lip and lo'ak was holding his arm and I was fine I didn't have a scratch on me except for my knuckles I'm kinda proud my dad on the other hand wasn't... "What was the one thing i asked! The one thing" he said angry but not yelling so no one outside could hear and pointing 1 finger up " stay out of trouble" lo'ak says quietly as we have our heads down " stay outa trouble, right." " it was my fault" neteyam tries to take the blame again " yeah I don't think so. You gotta stop taking the heat for this knucklehead" my father says looking at lo'ak then he looks at me " and you sylwania what the hell where you doing! your supposed to stop them from these things your the oldest act like it!" He tells me with his hands out and squinted eyebrows " I was helping!... I pulled aonung and his friend off of lo'ak!" I say in a defensive tone
" AND PUNCHED THEM" he says exasperated , I look at him with a slightly open mouth and slightly raised eyebrows 'uhhh' in a high pitched tone is all I could get out when lo'ak joins in " look dad aonung was making fun Kiri, he called her a freak" my dad looks at lo'ak and sighs knowing he was just tryna help his sister " go apologize to aonung" he says with a look to lo'ak