a wrath of its own

Sid just couldn't quit smiling. It had been a laugh, bringing down Violet that way. Sure he loved her, but he hated it when she was always right. He had to take her down off that high horse from time to time. They were equals, now weren't they?

"Oh, Violet, cheer up, sure your mother is just going through the change. No need, to make her feel so inferior, you know, we don't see her as it is, anyway." They were on a tight schedule. If they wanted a job, they best get back to his little village, hadn't they?

Now he had her crying.

"I swear, you're all a fickle bunch! Your sister is a lesbian, thank you very much." Sid winked.

"What are you going on about?" Violet sucked up her little tangent of tears and looked over at him.

"See, I knew that could do it." He laughed.

Naturally, she swelled a frowned.

"Its possible. Not that I have any long range notion of finding out the truth. She is your sister, after all." He looked at her so innocently as if she'd have to believe him on this.

"Has she said anything?" Violet couldn't get off this new found subject about her sister.

"Dunno. I just said it, to shut you up, can you not have feelings about every situation under the sun." Sid tensed then. "Forget it."

"You know something." She looked at him as if he should fess up.

"I do not." He looked at her wide eyed, possibly a little maddening. "I want to go home. I want us to go home."

"But-" She bit her bottom lip.

"We don't belong here. Honestly, we don't." He snapped.

"She came on to you, didn't she?" Violet asked.

"Uh." He huffed.

"Didn't she!" Violet grabbed his collar, tugging ever so furiously, otherwise it would have been quite funny to Sid, but she was so serious.

"Possibly." He kind of winced.

She swelled a frown once more and stomped him in the foot.

"OW." He came back with. She meant business. She was going straight to Scarlet's room.

"What are you doing?" He squinted hard in pain. She was on her own wrath of some kind.