Ivy was pretty sure she was going to get grounded. Like, 95% sure. Her parents might have mercy on her because she'd hurt herself.
And she'd, uh, really hurt herself. Her eyebrows were definitely gone and her hairline had risen a couple inches, and she was pretty sure her hands were burned; it hurt to touch them, anyway, and they were red and painful like a sunburn. She was a redhead, she was intimately familiar with sunburns, and this felt like that only worse.
But her parents weren't around and neither was Aaron-- they'd totally have stopped her from playing with a firework and as it turned out that would have been really smart-- so she went up to the first adult woman she saw, lifted her chin and said, "Excuse me, please. I think I hurt myself."
Re: Nurse Practitioner: Brenda (Young) Meyers
And she'd, uh, really hurt herself. Her eyebrows were definitely gone and her hairline had risen a couple inches, and she was pretty sure her hands were burned; it hurt to touch them, anyway, and they were red and painful like a sunburn. She was a redhead, she was intimately familiar with sunburns, and this felt like that only worse.
But her parents weren't around and neither was Aaron-- they'd totally have stopped her from playing with a firework and as it turned out that would have been really smart-- so she went up to the first adult woman she saw, lifted her chin and said, "Excuse me, please. I think I hurt myself."
((Ivy is about eight.))