Gael Cardenas (![]() ![]() @ 2024-05-24 12:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | Δ complete, Δ threads, → gael cardenas, → serafina cardenas, ∞ 2000: 05 |
RP: Selkie Siblings
Who: Serafina & Gael Cardenas.
What: Talking about boys. Potentially being called an idiot.
When: Friday 24th May, afternoon.
Where: Cardenas garden.
Warnings: None yet.
Completion Status: Complete.
For the third or fourth time since breakfast, Gael's fingers strayed towards his phone, only for him to redirect towards the folder of recipes he'd collected during the summer before college. Usually, after a big party like last night, he'd have been relishing the peace and quiet of a day to himself. Even puttering vaguely around the archive would've been a pleasant enough way to refuel. He tried to tell himself it was the lack of alcohol, or that despite the crowds he'd mostly stuck to one-on-one conversations, but he wasn't really very convincing. Whatever (whoever) the reason, energy bubbled under the surface, needing somewhere to go. Neither the phone nor the folder of recipes really seemed like the right outlet, if only because both made Gael feel more like a 16-year-old than the supposedly more mature 24 years he'd actually attained. Remembering what he'd talked about with Astrid, Gael decided to take full advantage of being home and squeeze in a swim before he had to return to the lighthouse.
Rather than head upstairs for his sealskin, he just grabbed the pair of swimming trunks he kept in his work bag and changed in the downstairs bathroom. The weather was pleasant, sun just enough to warm Gael's chest as he stepped outside, deliberately leaving his phone on the kitchen counter. Maybe if he didn't take it back to work with him, he'd be more able to focus on literally anything else. He was about to head down to the lake when he heard what was definitely a human murmur coming from behind the big bush that absorbed most of the garden's sunlight. "Mama?" He peeped around the border and found not Maria Cardenas, but Sefie, either asleep or very close to it stretched out on a sunlounger.
He'd have left her to it, except that his call must've roused her, because she turned her face towards him and blinked her eyes open. "Sorry," he offered, grinning. "I didn't know it was you or I'd have let you sleep." As promised, Sefie had definitely been a little worse for wear when Gael had driven her home last night, she probably needed the rest.