kings of suburbia

Where others would have, without little to no doubt in his mind, found Sumayl's nickname for Summer “season boy” insulting, the golden Ostrega was content to know that Summer didn't seem too, if the crooked smile that had formed upon the younger, darker boy's lips was anything to go by. As it was, Sumayl didn't mean anything rude by it – simply it was an easier way for him to remember since he, admittedly he had other, more preoccupying things on his mind then remembering the name of his pack-mates. Not that it wasn't important, just in his list of priorities it didn't always rate as high as it should have; and it wasn't that Sumayl really cared if someone was offended by his words or not. He had always been like this, well always being a less specific term for after the trauma and hard crash of reality from the fire that had torn his life upside down and inside out, and he was used to the “usual” reactions. “That largely depends I think,” Sumayl snickered for his memory had a tendency of being selective at times. “For the most part, yes.”


Who was he to turn down a compliment when it was so freely given to him? As it was, Sumayl soaked it up and let it linger upon his already too big ego for a moment. It was only after Summer had posed his question that Sumayl's golden gaze left the other, studying the gentle roll of landscape before them. “Trying to figure out how to break some news,” For Sumayl trying to think of a way to tactfully approach Jace regarding Vienna and his' new mateship was much harder than actually having asked Vienna in the first place. He should have been more apprehensive about asking her, in retrospect. It might be easier since Vienna had requested to be present but even so Sumayl wasn't overly hopeful that it would go over all that well. “Especially because I pretty much know it's not going to settle well.” And Sumayl was too confrontational for his own good.

“What about you? Getting into trouble?” Sumayl returned with a slight tease to his voice, eager to, for possibly the very first time in his life, get the conversation off of himself.