There was a sad laugh when Maddie explained the situation with her sister and her mom. Maddie's mom was still alive, but not having her here was probably just as bad as having her gone without the chance to return. She laughed a little more. "Mom threats," she snorted a chuckle. "My mom's threat was always 'dessert for everyone but you,'" she smirked. "And you know how it is, taking chocolate from me." Cruel and unusual punishment was what it was. "My mom and your mom would've gotten along great." At least from the stories Maddie had told. "After my dad died and Everett took over the dad duties, my mom forced herself to spend less time with her friends, for work, but I think she'd get along awesome with your mom all the same."
"Don't pop it, it'd explode like a giant pimple, and then you'd be covered in pimple juice!" she joked, grinning a little bit more. No better way to win an argument like this than to gross Maddie out, after all. "Brains and pimple juice." She made a face.
Warm rains. "I would've hated living in Memphis too, I think," she mused. "Too hot. You know how I am with the hot weather." Caitie turned into a lazy wimp, whining about the heat and humidity and always threatening to go pantsless. Which was probably an awkward thing to say now, especially with everything Maddie knew.
Thinking for a second, Caitie settled on an explanation. "So, we'd probably have still gotten along, but the end of the world changed us just enough so that we'd get along even better," she half-smiled. It was the first time she'd ever really put a positive spin on anything involving the end of the world, but it was the truth. She smiled a little more when Maddie complimented her singing vaguely. "If I had, I probably wouldn't be alive today, though. Since bigger cities got taken down first." And that was back to the reality of it.
"I've never really done normalish colors. I think my hair's been red for as long as I can remember." Since the first time her mother had let her dye it, when she was nine. "But you'll look good no matter what you do." And that was true.