Deciding to check on his sister first, Jon knocked on Zoe's door, noticing that it was already open a crack.
It seemed that his sister hadn't even noticed him as he knocked and stepped in. She was sitting on the floor next to her bed, thoroughly engrossed in a new comic book. Her room had changed drastically, and was now littered with action figures, trading cards, video games, and comic books. Posters of metal bands were replaced with anime characters. Skulls replaced with toy spaceships, and her previously dark and brooding self-portrait photos had been replaced with brighter ones, showing her in a junior soccer uniform.
Zoe herself had changed greatly as well. Gone were her thickly layered dark makeup and piercings. Instead her natural light brown hair color was plainly visible, although it looked like she had barely bothered to comb her hair that morning, let alone style it. Her nails were no longer covered in black polish but short and stubby, looking as if they'd been chewed on repeatedly (a nasty habit Mikey had donated to her). Her usual dark tattered dress had been replaced by a blue t-shirt with an anime character on it and a pair of dirty jeans.
Finally finishing her comic, Zoe looked up at Jon. "Hey big bro, what's up?"
