Odango
Apprentice mage
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Post by Odango on May 24, 2007 11:00:21 GMT -5
((OOC: Bree asked me to play here, so please leave it to us unless you have suggestions to make about our posts, in which case, jump on in! Thanks!))
((IC)):
Carolyn is not happy. She's had the urge all week to go shopping for baby clothes, but she and her boyfriend never seem to have the same times off. She couldn't deal with sitting alone in her apartment today, so she's decided to head to the mall, which turned out to be, perhaps, one of the worst ideas she's ever had. Ever. The place is full of Abercrombie preps and Hot Topic poseurs--not a real punk in sight, which normally wouldn't be a problem, but today she's getting more than her fair share of snide comments and dirty looks. She's six months pregnant and very young, only nineteen, and both definitely show.
"I should have just waited until Tuesday afternoon when we both have time off," she mumbles to herself as she walks by each store, glancing in the windows and then walking straight by when she decides she either can't afford it or doesn't like the style.
Eventually, she finds herself in the food court, where she decides to buy some spring rolls from a Chinese food stand. After she gets her food, she glances around the seating area. Not a single empty table.
Great.
She aimlessly walks around the area until she spots a two-seat table with only one person. Once more, she looks around the area--still no empty tables--then walks up to the person and says, "Hey, I'm sorry to bug you, but is it okay if I sit with you for just a few minutes? I just need to eat and then I'll get out of your way."
She doesn't exactly look nonthreatening--she's wearing raggedy black jeans with various band patches safety pinned to the legs--Mindless Self Indulgence, Crass, Damned, and Nausea, to name just a few--and a black and red Anti-Flag t-shirt, as well as a spiked bracelet on each wrist and a matching collar around her neck. The only real color in her outfit is the neon green of her thrift store converse shoes. Her black roots are showing in her pink and green dyed hair--she usually never lets them grow out, but her doctor said she needs to stay away from the chemicals out of the risk of hurting her baby. Still, her round face, the slight pinkish tinge in her dark brown skin, and big, dark chocolate eyes make her seem a little younger, more innocent, a stark contrast to the way she's dressed.
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Post by Bree on May 24, 2007 15:52:08 GMT -5
Anabell looked up startled. Her spoon half way to her mouth, she blinked a couple of times. Her left hand put down the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O' Brien, that was leaning against her Baskin' Robbins Jamoca smoothie.
Her hair was tied back in a lose ponytail that was located at the base of her neck. Some lose braids proved to be stubborn and hung around her face. Her leg was prompted against her chest to show her ratty, old jeans with some sparkles on her ivory skin. Her C-D player was between her leg and her chest to make sure that it wouldn't be stolen. It was currently playing her friends rendition of the Kingdom Hearts theme song on piano.Her tee-shirt was showed a bomb with the saying "drop knowledge, not bombs!" above it. Her flip-flop hung loosely from her other foot.
Anabell saw a young lady, late teens, early twenties waiting for an answer.She looked pregnant?
She put up on finger to signal that she needed a minute and she pulled the headphone of her ear.
"I am sorry ms. Can you repeat that? I had my head phones on and I couldn't hear."
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Odango
Apprentice mage
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Post by Odango on May 24, 2007 16:05:28 GMT -5
Carolyn smiles a little and shrugs the apology away.
"I'm sorry about interrupting you. I was just asking if I could sit here ...just for a few minutes to eat and then I'll leave you alone. There isn't an empty table anywhere."
Her eyes catch the other girl's shirt for the first time. "Also, your shirt is really awesome," she adds with a small, friendly grin.
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Post by Bree on May 25, 2007 11:47:36 GMT -5
"Oh! Of course." Anabell jumped up and grabbed her duffel bag from the seat across from her and put it right next to her chair.
Anabell just noticed what food the lady bought.
"Oh, hun. Please tell me you are going to eat more than that. I would feel rude if I went and bought more food and you only had spring rolls."
Anabell didn't want her to feel, you know, poor or anything, when she actually had money to buy somebody else something for a change. Those checks that Mr. Reed, her adoptive father, gave to her really paid of when it came warming up other people's hearts.
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Post by Shira on May 25, 2007 22:48:44 GMT -5
((Random postage: YaY! for Carolyn and Raven. And baby. ^_^
Sorry. I shall leave now.))
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Odango
Apprentice mage
Just like an adhesive I stick to my thesis!
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Post by Odango on May 26, 2007 22:18:52 GMT -5
Carolyn chuckles a little at Anabell and sits down, but her smile fades just a little--but she catches herself and brings it back before it becomes too noticeable--when the other girl offers to buy her food. It's sweet, but Carolyn absolutely hates charity. It makes her feel incredibly embarrassed because she relied on help from her friends so often in school, because of some of the things her parents would do.
Even though she really could use something else to eat, she says, "Thanks, that's nice, but it's okay. I'm going home soon and I'm going to eat there ...I was just getting something small to keep me going until then."
Then, because she realized she hasn't introduced herself yet, and also in an attempt to move the conversation on, she hold her hand out and says, "I'm Carolyn."
((Shira--hee, you're adorable. And that's babies, plural. Twins!))
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Post by Bree on May 29, 2007 11:41:14 GMT -5
{* I haven't introduced my character yet?! How do you know her name?}
Anabell grabs her hand and flips it over looking at it. She looked very confused then she realizes that she is meant to shake it!
Anabell puts her hand into Carolyn's hand and shakes it firmly as she said "Anabell. That is my name and I highly doubt you can forget it, trust me."
She sits back down and waits for Carolyn to do the same.
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Odango
Apprentice mage
Just like an adhesive I stick to my thesis!
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Post by Odango on May 29, 2007 11:59:46 GMT -5
((Well, I know her name because you've been using it to tell the story. Carolyn, however, doesn't, which is why she hasn't said it yet. ^_^ ))
Carolyn raises her eyebrow in confusion at the way Annabell reacts to her offer of a handshake, but she doesn't say anything about it. The other girl is letting her sit there, after all, and she doesn't want to have to move before she's ready.
"Well, thanks for letting me sit with you, Anabell," Carolyn says, settling herself back in the chair and trying to get comfortable so she can eat. After a few moments, she stops squirming--not because she's comfortable, but because she realizes there's no chance she's going to be. She mumbles something about 'stupid hard chairs' before sighing softly and focusing on her food, instead.
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Post by Bree on May 30, 2007 16:56:49 GMT -5
"Ah.. You are welcome. It isn't like anybody else is sitting there and I highly doubt you are going to bite me." Anabell said.
Anabell suddenly looked up.
"You aren't going to bite me, right? Because I kinda don't do that sorta thing."
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Odango
Apprentice mage
Just like an adhesive I stick to my thesis!
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Post by Odango on May 30, 2007 19:23:59 GMT -5
Carolyn looks up from her food, a confused and almost offended look on her face at Annabell's question.
Krishna Vishnu Shiva, what's this girl's problem?
It's only at that moment that she notices the stark contrast in the way she and Anabell are dressed, and her mind immediately jumps on the difference. Great, Carolyn thinks. She thinks I'm a freak because of my clothes. And normally she'd pounce on it and get defensive, but she's tired right now, her feet and back hurt, she's hungry, and it's not worth an argument if that really is the case, and especially not worth it if Anabell is joking and Carolyn just doesn't get it.
"The only person I bite is my boyfriend, and only when he asks me to," she says, a small--what she hopes is joking and reassuring--smile on her face. "Don't worry, you're safe."
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Post by Bree on May 31, 2007 12:29:36 GMT -5
"Oh! okey dokey. Just making sure. "
Anabell looks around the food court and then says "You never know what people will do this day and age, huh?"
Then Anabell took a long drink from her Jamoca smoothie.
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Odango
Apprentice mage
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Post by Odango on May 31, 2007 22:42:45 GMT -5
Carolyn is puzzled. Carolyn is very puzzled. She's no longer offended, because now it seems like Anabell might ask anyone who sat down next to her the same question.
Along with puzzlement, she's also a little intrigued, just because the other girl is so ...completely unlike anyone she knows. Maybe she's a little bit like Cass or maybe Bunny when he hasn't slept for a few days, if she tries hard enough to find similiarities, but it's still a really big stretch for both.
"Why, do people often bite you when you first meet?" she can't help but ask. She's not quite sure whether she's joking or serious, but it comes out a little more jokingly than not.
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Post by Bree on Jun 1, 2007 9:59:34 GMT -5
Anabell looked dead serious as she said "Well, you never know. I mean, people are kind of weird these day and age, as I said, and I am not.. completely prone to it you know?" Anabell started to drum her fingers on the table. "I mean, look at me. You see a rambunctious teenager, that apparently has had to much caffeine. What you don't see is that I am actually a college student even though I am only 16 and I am double majoring in Forensics/ Anatomy and going to school to be an EMT. Anabell looked down her lap as she said " You also can't tell that I really need to get a full nights sleep. Being full time student and having three jobs will do that to you. Anabell looked up and smiled. "Do you expect people to bite you?"
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Odango
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Post by Odango on Jun 2, 2007 1:58:21 GMT -5
Carolyn raises an eyebrow at everything Anabell says--none of it is anything she was expecting, but that makes her even more interesting.
"No wonder you'd need the caffiene, with all of that on your plate," she says. "It's really cool that you're studying to be an EMT and know what you want so young. I've been pretty much wandering around aimlessly since I started college, just taking general credit classes and trying to figure out what in hell I'm good enough at to make a decent living out of. Pretty much the only thing I've got going for me in that respect is being a supervisor at the record store I work at. They're training me for management, but I don't want to be stuck there for the rest of my life, especially with twins on the way. My boyfriend works and our two roommates are pitching in, and I absolutely love them for it, but ...there's got to be something better out there, you know?"
She takes a bite of one of her spring rolls and chews thoughtfully for a moment. After she swallows, she smiles and says, "Being bitten kind of comes with the territory, when you have the kinds of friends I do. Though I guess I'm more likely to get licked than to get bitten. Wouldn't expect it from someone I don't know, though, and honestly, if anyone I didn't know tried, I'd probably beat the hell out of them." She pauses for a few moments, thinking, before she speaks again. "I'll be honest. When we first started talking, I got the impression that yes, you were probably a high school student who was a little too hyped up on caffiene. I was wrong, obviously. Let's turn it around--what did you think of me when I asked if I could sit down with you?"
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Post by Bree on Jun 5, 2007 9:15:33 GMT -5
Anabell looked down at Carolyn's stomach as she said "Twins? You are expecting twins! Oh my gawd! When are you due? When did you find out?"
Anabell looked up at the mall's ceiling for a second and then took another drink from her Jamoca smoothie. She put her foot down and then said "Oh. Right. You asked me a question. Umm.. I thought you looked lost, honesty. I saw you wandering the mall for a while and I couldn't really understand what you were looking for, besides baby clothes, and you look young, so I really don't know."
Anabell started to play with one of her braids as she said "You did look like you wanted to stake out some of those amipolitcal dogmites that kept on giving you dirty looks though and I don't blame you."
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Odango
Apprentice mage
Just like an adhesive I stick to my thesis!
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Post by Odango on Jun 5, 2007 21:13:16 GMT -5
Carolyn's eyes widen a little at Anabell's reaction, but after the surprise wears off a few seconds later, she laughs. It makes her feel a little better to know she doesn't look as big as she feels sometimes.
"I found out the second week of September," she says. "But I'd been pregnant for a few weeks before that. I didn't know I would have twins until a week after that, though. I'm due April 25th, which is actually my boyfriend's birthday, so that'll be interesting," she laughs.
She rolls her eyes a little about the people who were glaring at her earlier. "Yeah. I get looks like that a lot, unfortunately. It's because of the way I dress, coupled with the fact that I'm pregnant. Apparently, that means I'm a whore and deserve to get treated like trash."
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Post by Bree on Jun 7, 2007 15:19:44 GMT -5
Anabell looked at Carolyn in disbelief.
"Hon, you saying that you are a whore is saying that I am the Virgin Mary. It just ain't true. And they treating you like that proves how un-mature they can be."
Anabell looked at her smoothie and then swore.
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Odango
Apprentice mage
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Post by Odango on Jun 7, 2007 19:24:01 GMT -5
Carolyn smiles a little sadly.
"Thanks, Anabell," she says. "I know that, my boyfriend and my friends know that ...I just wish everyone else realized the same." Especially her parents, though she doesn't say so aloud.
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Post by Bree on Jun 7, 2007 21:59:08 GMT -5
Anabell grabbed her hand from across the table and said " When they-meaning all those boneheads that haven't got a clue- realizing what they are missing, they will come back begging to be on your good graces again and to have a apart of the twins lives."
Anabell let go of her hand and leaned back on her chair as she said "And then it will be your choice whether or not to let them be apart of their-the twins- lives. "
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Odango
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Just like an adhesive I stick to my thesis!
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Post by Odango on Jun 7, 2007 22:50:54 GMT -5
"And I am going to say 'No way in hell, you had your chance,'" Carolyn smiles.
"Thank you," she says next. "That was really sweet. I've really needed to hear something like that all day."
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