Who: Claire and Open What: Claire is missing her brother When: Noon Where: Streets Rating: low
She woke up not expecting to feel the way she was currently feeling. As she walked the streets of Madison with all the 4th of July decorations, she realized she really missed her brother. She missed her parents too. Her parents had died when she was a kid, but she remembered their parties like on the Fourth of July and how they’d enjoy a barbecue in the backyard. After their death, Chris had tried to continue doing that sort of thing for her so she wouldn’t feel like she was ‘without’ as much as she would otherwise. It had never been the same, but she had come to enjoy the time with just her and her brother. It had been like that for a while until he joined STARS and she went off to college, only for everything to come crashing down just as quickly around Claire as their parents deaths had been.
Claire let out a sigh and tightened her ponytail at the back of her head. She needed to get out of this funk. She didn’t like being sad - she had told herself she’d never be as weak as she’d been when her parents died - and yet here she was looking at the store displays like they were a portal into the past of bad memories.