hurricane girl, don’t drown in your own storm

There’s a half empty bag of chips on the kitchen table and a mostly full bottle of rum next to it. Kiara grabs both on her way towards the back door.

“How’d it go?” Pope asks, sitting up on the couch. He’s wearing his equivalent of pajamas – basketball shorts and a t-shirt with a nerdy joke on it.“What do you think?” Kiara asks, shaking the bottle in her hands before she pushes the screen door open and disappears out of the living room.  or, Kiara gets kicked out of the Kook Academy a week after the Phantom goes down. She's not dealing with any of it all that well.