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March is Women's History Month, and so for March I'm doing vignettes about or questions regarding any of my female characters, one/day from the 10th-31st.

The prompt post is here; please add more prompts ;-)

This one comes from [personal profile] clare_dragonfly, who asked for Shahin as a tween.

Shahin is one of the three main characters in Addergoole, which also has a landing page here. (Stay tuned for the entirely-new rewrite of Book One of Addergoole, coming soon!)


"Who are you?"

The new boy, Shahin decided, was rude.

"Shahin Laskaris." She raised her chin and stared at the stranger. "And who are you?

"Steve Talbot." He grinned like he was proud of himself for being Steve Talbot. Shahin raised her eyebrows, unimpressed.

"Pleased to meet you, I'm sure." She was still working on the delivery of that line. Teachers chuckled at it, but her fellow classmates -

"What, you had to think about it?"

- were less cultured, she supposed. "Time will tell."

"Yeah, while I'm getting a pretty firm opinion of you already. Why are you so stuck-up?"

Stuck-up? "I am not!" Whoops. She glared at the new boy, only to find him grinning back at her.

"There you go. Look, it's fine to be fancy and formal but you have to unwind once in a while too, you know? Come skateboarding with me."

"Come... what?" She took a step backwards and watched him. She didn't think he was joking. But nobody had ever offered anything like that. "Not now."

"No, I don't think skipping my first day of school is a good idea. But what about after school?"

"Your parental figure won't mind?"

"Nah, what about yours?"

"Mine won't notice." She looked down at her outfit, mostly to point it out to him. She'd spent a lot of time picking it out - little heels, the tallest her aunt would let her buy, and a cute ruffled plaid skirt. She looked like something out of an anime, which was the idea. She didn't, though, look like she could go skateboarding.

"I can lend you sneakers, I've got small feet." He didn't seem to ever stop smiling. Shahin found it fascinating. "Say yes?"

"If I must." And she found she was smiling, too.

Date: 2014-04-22 04:10 am (UTC)
clare_dragonfly: woman with green feathery wings, text: stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories (Default)
From: [personal profile] clare_dragonfly
Ahhhh Sheen as a tween is so cute :D Steve seems like he might be a jerk, but he and Shahin might be good for each other, too... at least he didn't immediately mock her name!

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