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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:46 pm
Roman didn't turn around at first. Instead, he simply backed up until he was level with the stallion's neck. The horse eyed him, but didn't move. Taking heart from this, Roman tossed the lead rope around Phoenix's neck. When the horse started, Roman planted his feet and held on to the loop of rope until he relaxed again.
Getting the halter on wasn't too difficult after that - maybe Phoenix just had to accept a human as his leader first, Roman thought. He would be sure to ask Shannon. Carefully closing the paddock door behind him once they were out, Roman led Phoenix to the barn, just to get to know him.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:27 pm
Kahlilia was mounting Benvolio again when she saw Roman and a large black stallion. She remembered seeing Roman from the fields, and muttered a friendly hello to him. It was nice, getting to ride horses, she thought as she stroked Benvolio's mane. In a matter of seconds, Benvolio had trotted out of the barn without Kahlilia making any sort of signal to him. She laughed at his enthusiasm and rode him back towards the fields. She was curious about this area, and she wanted to see it. Surely, Benvolio knew some of this land.
Xavier had fallen asleep, but he woke up quickly when his stomach started to grumble loudly. He groaned as he forced himself off of the cot. His suitcase was by his feet, and nothing, not so much as a toothbrush, had been unpacked. He sighed, feeling lazy. No way he was going to do something like that right now. He walked out of the cot with a guy tank-top, jeans, and sandals on. His black hair was still tossled around his head, but not like he cared. As the man himself would say , "I'm sexy either way."
Crap, where was the food?
Xavier groaned again when he realized he'd not toured the place at all as to figure out where the mess hall was. Oh well, he'd probably just walk around until he found it. Couldn't be that hard, right?
As he walked, he saw a door slightly ajar. Unaware that it was the girl's cabin, and not caring, he walked in. There, he saw a gorgeous blonde girl and whistled at her. (the wolf-whistle sort of thing, if you've ever heard that.) It was only after he had whistled that he saw her tears. His face colored for a split second. Damnit, he thought. He opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong, but not even a syllable came out.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:41 pm
Emily heard footsteps and someone wolf whistling at her. quickly she wiped her tears away. She hated to be seen when she was crying and that would make her appear weak. Emily leaned against the bed post and turned her teary eyes to Xavier.
" Need something?" her broken voice asked and she smiled despite the sadness in her eyes.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:58 pm
Roman nodded back to the girl in a friendly fashion. He wasn't sure who she was, but it couldn't matter too much just yet. He'd introduce himself around later. Calmly, but quickly - he wanted to get to the barn before Phoenix decided he had had enough of being a good boy - he continued on his way to the barn with Phoenix in tow.
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Esmeralda shrugged at Keith's lack of response, figuring he hadn't heard her. Instead, she wandered down towards her cabin. Maybe someone else was around. She all but bumped into the guy in the doorway.
"Oh. Is this...?" she began, then looked around. No, she was pretty sure this was the girl's cabin. Why was the guy standing in the doorway to her room?
A little dizzy, she checked the colour on the room door. Not her room. Emily's. Whoops.
Beginning to turn away, she heard, "Need something?" And her heart twisted a little at the sadness in the girl's voice.
Poking her head around the door and ignoring the guy who was still kind of standing in the doorway, she asked softly, "Emily? What's wrong?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:22 pm
Xavier could have said something horrible when Emily replied to him, but still no words came out of his mouth.When Esmeralda came into the room, he shifted in an uncomfortable way, and considered leaving, but his legs would not let him. Instead, he walked closer, but still a distance away from Emily. When he finally spoke, all he said was, "Did something happen?" his voice was very deep, so it was hard to track emotion in it, but the tiniest flicker of concern showed. Like a scared deer, he walked a tiny bit closer until he was sitting on the cot next to Emily. "Do you want to talk about it?"
God yes, this was unusual behavior for Xavier, but he wanted to behave around these two pretty ladies - especially because one was crying. He usually didn't mind being rude and cruel, but when his sense caught up with him, he didn't want to be a total threat. At this time, he was remembering his fourteen-year-old sister, who unlike him was adopted because of fertilization problems. He had always been extremely protective of her the second she learned to walk, even though he had been a mere five years old. Now nineteen, he was still protective of her. When she was twelve, a classmate of hers had asked her out, possibly as a joke, and never showed up when the night arrived. Like a dutiful brother, Xavier had tracked down the guy - who turned out to be three years older than Blaire - and beat him up.
So far, no more guys had asked his sister on a date.
Was that good or bad?
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:47 pm
Emily shook her head and began taking deep breaths. She just wanted to calm herself down before talking. The last thing Emily wanted to do was have another breakdown and waste all of her energy crying. Her hands fiddled with the hem of her shirt as she looked at Xavier then at Esmeralda. Her mind was trying to figure out how to word the story into a few simple sentences. BUt nothing came up adn she didn't want to confess what was happening back home.
" I'll be fine...something happened at home" Emily replied in a soft voice.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:05 pm
"Oh," Esmeralda said softly, all of her usual drama deserting her. She sat down next to Emily and put a light hand on the blonde's arm. It was pretty clear that whatever it was, Emily didn't want to talk about it, so Esmeralda didn't ask for details.
Except one.
"Is it very bad, then?" she asked quietly. Her gaze was comforting, but she didn't want to offer any more sympathy than Emily would accept. She knew first-hand how awkward that could be.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:10 pm
((Guys. . . not cabins. Each person got a room, remember?))
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:20 pm
((OOC: I thought there was a cabin for girls, and another for guys, and within each cabin there were several rooms. That was the assumption I was working on. >.> Whoops.))
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:23 pm
((Nope, just a long hallway within the house. haha. Sorry, could have made that clearer.))
Nanina came out of bed with a groan and soon found herself on the floor. I'm up, I'm up. She muttered to herself, blinking rapidly.
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Keith moved out of the kitchen when he realized that he'd spaced out and someone had spoken.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:27 pm
((OOC: Well...could we make it cabins instead so that we don't all have to edit? *is lazy*))
Roman stroked Phoenix's neck lightly as he curried the horse. The mud on him was really amazing - Roman was starting to wonder if the horse really was black under all the mud. It was entirely possible that he wasn't. "How long's it been since someone took the time for you, pal?" he muttered, working at a particularly stubborn patch of dirt.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:43 pm
((Yeah, I suppose we could do that. =] ))
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:23 pm
Xavier watched the two other girls quietly, observing them like a stranger would. He shifted again, but not enough as to make the girls scared. He reveled in his memories of his sister as he watched them. He decided not to talk, but to stay in the room nevertheless. He was beginning to be aware of the fact that he was in a girl's cabin, and he was a guy, but he didn't care at the moment. Ever heard the quote "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"?
Heh.
Xavier's hands were on his lap, but he constantly brought them up to his tossled hair.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:32 pm
Hearing voices, Nanina turned a bit and padded down the hall to peer into a room. She noted Esmeralda and Emily, then her gaze narrowed on Xavior's back. She wondered why he was there, then Nanina bit her lip and watched the girls seeing that something was wrong.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:47 pm
Emily simply calmed down a bit and stood up then turned to leave hacing noticed that it was getting crowded for her own good. Her hand squeezed Nanina's shoulder in reassurnace.
" taking a walk" She said as she walked out the door.
the minute Emily walked away, she began walking in a total random direction. Not caring where she went or what she was doing. Emily though was thankful that she never wore makeup in her entire life. Otherwise she would have looked like a complete wreck at the moment.
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