~+ Story below +~ Sooooo... My sister kinda caught me doing quads yesterday afternoon and caught me completely off guard. Also, this entire talk with her would have been MUCH MUCH harder to explain if I had a mask on XD. Usually, when I do quadrobics I close all the curtains of windows and doors and lie to my family (I really need to come out to them one day :< ) I'm letting our pet rabbit out for a run around the yard, because our dog will bark its head off if it sees the rabbit out of its cage. But this time, my little sister, whom is 9, walked in on me trotting across the yard, and I bet she thought something was seriousely wrong with me. I do not know HOW LONG she was standing at the door there, but I realized she was there when she said "What are you doing?" and I spun around to see her there and almost had a heart attack XD. Thankfully, her being a 9 year old made it easier to lie to her, but I was considering for a brief moment to tell her I was an Otherpaw. I was panicing at that moment so all I could come up with for a decent enough lie was "Oh, I wAs JuSt sEeinG wHaT tHe dOg wOulD dO iF I wAlKeD aRouNd oN alL fOuRs LiKe Her" and I am still APPAULED with how that seemed a legitimate reason for my weird bear-walk thing that she saw in her eyes. But it backfired when she asked "But where is the dog then?" and I had no clue what to say, because the dog was inside, so I just walked inside to get a drink of water and pretended I didn't here her. I went back outside to take my shoes off, but with my younger sister still following me around, asking more questions like "Why wasn't the rabbit out?" and "Isn't the dog asleep on the lounge?" to which I did not answer and pretended I still had a mouthful of water. But here's where she said something that I definitely did not expect from her at that moment. She said "Where you doing a trot? It was really cute, by the way." I don't know HOW she knew I was doing a trot because A, I am so bad at trotting and B, she didn't know what quadrobics was. Atleast I THOUGHT she didn't. (More on that later :> ) So then I came up with another lie and was just like "Oh, thanks, but it wAs aCtuAlLy JuSt a BeAr wAlk I LEaRnT aT sChOol whEn i WaS a KiD." Inside my head, I was banging my mind against my skull because that was probably one of the lousiest lies I've ever said. I then called our dog outside and jumped down on all fours again, to perform my "trot" but to really sell it that I was not doing quadrobics, I did a clumsy, horrible bear-walk where a just basically hopped around with my back in the air and my arms stiff. Our dog then came out and started jumping on me, and my sister was laughing at this point. Then SHE got on the ground and started running around, doing an actual quadrobics canter alongside our dog, but she was doing it GOOD. Her form was pretty much perfect and was infinitely better than mine, to which then I realized that my sister had done quadrobics many times before. At school. Before I became an Otherpaw, my sister would often come home from school with dirty socks and hands and we'd ask why they were so dirty, and she'd say 'I was playing an animal game with my friends". Well, she played this "animal game" at home as well, and I found her playing it in our lounge room. But this animal game involved things called "shifts" and I knew exactly what this "game" was. I soon figured out that she had some friends at school who told her they were therians and told her they were actually wolves and foxes inside a human body. Okay, I obviously respect therianthropy, of course, but I'm not sure if these 9-year-olds were what you'd call "fake" therians. I don't really know what defines that, but her friends were telling her about how they'd been experiencing their hands change into wolf paws and arms and how they actually have a real wolf or fox tail under their clothes, which seems like a bizarre thing to say, honestly. Anyway, that explained why she didn't really ask more questions to me, and she didn't even tell our mum and dad about it. After that I went inside and SPRINTED to my room to try to work out everything that had happened, leaving my sister outside. So I don't know if I'll be doing quads for another month or two, or atleast when there's no one home.
