Helanie:
"Keep an eye on her. Make sure she doesn't take off her pendant around your mate," an old woman advised a newly married couple who had just shifted into the house two doors down from ours. I held my sister's hand and her bag in the other, rolling my eyes at them.
"You think my sister will hit on her husband?" My sister freed her hand, turned, and glared at the old woman.
"Watch your manners, little one. If you turn out like her, you'll end up like her," the woman groaned. The other woman quickly pushed her husband behind her back, as if I would steal him right then and there. I grabbed the chocolate out of my pocket, unwrapped it, and took a bite.
I saw the way the two women were shocked, as if they had never seen someone eat before.
"Why would you talk about my husband like that?" the newly married bride, Maya, yelled at Vani.
