Chapter 6
“Oof. Get off me!” I woke to fur in my face along with my sister’s smug grin peering through the small gap between covers and red tail fluff.
Oh, and did I mention Kira was in fox form? I could feel the year’s seventh tardy slip falling into my hands already.
“You need to shift and shower and eat and...did you finish your homework last night while I was fighting?”
The fox who was my sister leapt off my pillow a millisecond before my fingers would have closed around her snow-white belly. Soft feet landed on top of the tiny dorm-style refrigerator three feet away from my pull-out sofa-bed, and I decided to take that as a yes to the breakfast and a no to the shifting, showering, and homework. At least we’d get the bare necessities done today.
“Kira, I’m serious,” I grumbled, ev
