Narrator and point of view
“Streamlining” by Muli Amaye is a third-person narration. The narrator - who is outside the plot - presents the events using the point of view of the main character, Jocie: “Jocie hated it when her brother started going on like this. As if he actually knew things that mattered, when the truth was that he’d half-listened to a conversation...” (ll. 4-5)
As a result, the narration is conveyed using a limited-conscience perspective (limited knowledge). We only know what Jocie knows and experiences while the other characters’ thoughts and feelings remain unknown:
‘Yeah, but why are you coming? Do you want money from her?’ (…)
He had his bottom lip pushed out, just like when he was a kid and he’d been caught out and thought he was going to get into...