#all through the day there's just one way you must behave: maelona / open

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“It’s kinda weird. When I woke up I felt like…”

She bites her lip and shrugs. “Well, I always feel like someone, something, is watching over me. But this time it felt like there was… something else, someone else. Besides the usual, I mean. Is that weird? I probably sound crazy.”

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Open Starter: Step Into the Sun

Maelona takes a deep breath and sets her shoulders, holding her head up before heading out of the office and going to settle into the dorm. She has a lot to do and a lot to catch up on.

First off, though... she stops another student shyly. “Excuse me. You wouldn’t happen to know where a boy named Wynn might be, would you?”

They’d parted on bad terms before he’d come here. She wanted to talk to him.

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“Honestly, I think I had a better social life when I was like 8 years old than I do now.”

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Open Starter: Beading

Maelona hums softly to herself as she adds the hook to the second earring in the pair, holding them both up in the light and seeing how they look. They’re kind of simple, just a teardrop shape with some sparkly, tiny beads at the bottom, but she likes them all the same.

She looks up from them when she sees someone approaching. “Oh, sorry, here, let me--” She quickly moves to put her stuff together a bit and make more space at the table.

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Open Starter: Not Again

Maelona smiles as she rushes to meet her parents, hugging them both tightly. “I’m so glad you could make it. I hope it was a smooth trip.”

Kristoff envelopes her in a hug while her mother smiles. “It was absolutely fine. Where’s your brother?”

“What?” Maelona turns back and sighs. “Oh, uh oh. He was with me.”

They all three share a knowing look and Anna sighs. “Let’s go find him.”

As they start back in the direction Maelona came from, Kristoff begins stopping people. “Excuse me, have you seen a boy with red hair, about her height--” he points to Maelona, “--probably in a black hoodie, go running off?”

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“Uh, excuse me? I’m gonna be worried, and I’m gonna care, who do you think I am?”

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“I can be a bit of an overthinker... so if you don’t give me an answer, I’ll come up with one.”

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Double Open Starter: We’ll Never Fall if We Walk Hand in Hand (Wynn / Maelona)

Wynn frowns, double checking that his phone had linked to the speaker. Nodding to himself, he hits play on his song, getting an eight count before he starts tapping along, sticking to the beat for the verse.

And of course he’s singing along, it’s Carrie fucking Underwood.

“I should’ve known by the way you passed me by, There was somethin’ in your eyes, and it wasn’t right– I should’ve walked, but I never had a chance, Everything got out of hand and I let it slide… Now I only have myself to blame, For fallin’ for your stupid games I wish my life could be the way it was before I saw your face!”

And then he lets himself go a little more off with the chorus, playing with his own sound based on the song, having fun riffing off to accent the chorus–

“You stole my happy, you made me cry– Took the lonely and took me for a ride, And I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it! You had my heart, now, I want it back– I’m startin’ to see everything you lack! Boy, you blew it, you put me through it– I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!”

He continues riffing without singing through the “na, na, na na na-na” bit with a smile on his face, glancing up when the door to the band room opens though he never misses a beat.

Maelona looks at him, cocking her head. He cocks his head back as he continues to play, then jerks his head over, inviting her closer. She approaches slowly and he continues singing along.

“Now your photos don’t have a picture frame, And I never say your name–”

And Maelona joins him, “–and I never will!”

Wynn manages a weak smile at her as they’re both singing now.

“And all your things, well, I threw ‘em in the trash And I’m not even sad! Now you only have yourself to blame, For playin’ all those stupid games, You’re always gonna be the same– Oh, no, you’ll never change!”

And as he picks back up on his riffing from before, Maelona spins and tosses her hair with the chorus.

“You stole my happy, you made me cry– Took the lonely and took me for a ride, And I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it! You had my heart, now, I want it back– I’m startin’ to see everything you lack! Boy, you blew it, you put me through it–”

Maelona leans over the drums in his face, wrinkling her nose at him, and he does it back.

“I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!”

And while Maelona continues singing, Wynn shuts up to focus more on his riff, smiling and watching his sister sort of sway with the beat.

“You want my future, you can’t have it–” they both sing, shaking their heads in perfect sync. “I’m still trying to erase you from my past– I need you gone so fast! You stole my happy, you made me cry– Took the lonely and took me for a ride, And I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!” Wynn’s riff picks back up. “You had my heart, now I want it back– I’m startin’ to see everything you lack! Boy, you blew it, you put me through it– I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!–”

And while Maelona continues again on the “na na” part, Wynn picks up the outro.

“You stole my happy, you made me cry– Took the lonely and took me for a ride– Boy, you blew it, you put me through it–”

And Maelona joins him on the last line.

“I wanna uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-undo it!”

As the song ends, Wynn slowly reaches up and pauses his music, smiling a bit, clearing his throat. Maelona slowly turns back to him, the smile, the laugh still on her face… but it starts to slip, not out of sadness, but out of concern, as she looks at him. “I, uh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean–”

“No, no,” he holds up a hand, biting his lip hesitantly and clearing his throat. “Hi, Maelona.”

“…hi, Wynn,” she answers, biting her lip as well.

The twins both look over when the door opens again and Wynn clears his throat, looking down blankly at his phone, and Maelona turns to properly face the new arrival. “Hi!”

(Song: “Undo It”, Carrie Underwood)

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“It’s kinda weird. When I woke up I felt like...”

She bites her lip and shrugs. “Well, I always feel like someone, something, is watching over me. But this time it felt like there was... something else, someone else. Besides the usual, I mean. Is that weird? I probably sound crazy.”

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Open Starter: A Shoulder To Cry On

Maelona leans in close to the bathroom mirror, touching up her makeup, seeing someone blur past behind her but thinking nothing of it until she hears the other start crying.

“Everything okay?”

The other grows silent abruptly. Maelona pauses, capping her lipstick. “You don’t have to hide your tears from me, believe me.”