\u201cGo away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ameiko stopped under the trees that stood between Cliff Street and the bluffs for which it was named. Kali was sitting in the tall grass a short distance from the drop-off, staring out over the water. Gulls rode the currents along the ridge, rising overhead to hover briefly before dropping down and vanishing over the edge.<\/span><\/p>\n A long silence passed before Kali spoke.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re here to yell at me, too, don\u2019t bother. I don\u2019t care. So just leave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ameiko stepped over to her and sat down without saying anything. Kali turned away, putting her back to Ameiko as she sat.<\/span><\/p>\n Ameiko said softly, \u201cI\u2019m not here to yell at you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The onshore breeze picked up, lifting the gulls high above. Kali watched a half dozen of them hang in the air, wings outstretched. An even longer silence passed before Kali spoke, her voice breaking slightly.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI hate them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re jerks. Just ignore them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI <\/span>can\u2019t<\/span><\/i>. They won\u2019t leave me alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGetting angry will just make it worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Kali knew she was right. She <\/span>knew<\/span><\/i> it. But that didn\u2019t mean it was easy to let it go. It all started when she was eight: names, some jokes behind her back, hushed giggles and laughs. Two years on, it had turned to this.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAna isn\u2019t one of them. Neither am I,\u201d Ameiko added.<\/span><\/p>\n Kali knew she needed to apologize to Ana, but she didn\u2019t want to. To make matters worse, her parents had found out about it because <\/span>everyone<\/span><\/i> in Sandpoint hears about <\/span>everything<\/span><\/i>, eventually. She had never seen her father get that angry before and it actually scared her. It also made her want to apologize even less.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTaking it out on your friends isn\u2019t going to help.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Kali also knew that Ameiko was right about <\/span>that<\/span><\/i>, too. Ameiko was <\/span>always<\/span><\/i> right. But Kali didn\u2019t want \u201cright\u201d, and she most certainly didn\u2019t want to be reminded of it. What she <\/span>wanted<\/span><\/i> was to be mad.<\/span><\/p>\n So she stood up abruptly and stormed away.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early Fall, 4700 \u201cGo away.\u201d Ameiko stopped under the trees that stood between Cliff Street and the bluffs for which it was named. Kali was sitting in the tall grass a short distance from the drop-off, staring out over the water. Gulls rode the currents along the ridge, rising overhead to hover briefly before dropping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vignettes","tag-kali"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dungeonetics.com\/gamediary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}