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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:30 pm
Silas, bursting into tears, stood and ran to his father collapsing against is chest. Jesse rolled his eyes and wrapped an arm around the toddler, sipping the beer. Sy lived around constantly-spewing "******** and "s**t"s and "damn"s. There had to be another reason. The man shook his head and looked to Nati.
"Thanks, Howie's booze ain't so goo--ohgod."
Never before had he seen such an innocent 'corruptable'. Heck? Seriously. Adorable.
Both he and his child began to laugh. They had the same smile.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:39 pm
Looking relieved that his tactic had worked, Fiore skipped over to Jesse and Silas. Skipped.
Nati groaned, shook her head and took a deep swig of her beer.
"Boy's gonna get the fairydust beaten outta him one of these days," she muttered, regretfully.
"I found you a sta'fizz," Fio said, holding the creature out to Nati expectantly. "I founds it."
Nati looked at the starfish, unimpressed, then back at Fio. The boy looked so radiantly happy with the gift he was giving his mommy.
"...aah, you little twerp," she sighed, taking the starfish and giving Fio a peck on the cheek. "Go play. Don't get eaten by seagulls."
Fio glowed, then tugged at Sy's hand insistently, trying to drag him back to the water.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:42 pm
Still giggling, Sy stood and followed Fio back to the ocean. All better!
"And you asked me what team I play for?" Jesse snorted.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:46 pm
"Only because I had to be sure," Nati said dryly. "I know full well what Fio's gonna be when he gets old enough. Hell, I was dumb enough to name him 'Flower'. I sealed the boy's fate."
Watching him play in the surf, splashing Leonora and piling little presents of seashells and gull feathers in Sy's hands, Nati took another swig of beer.
"I was not meant to have children. How the hell'd I get stuck with two of the little creatures."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:51 pm
Jesse shrugged, taking a long swig of beer.
"Neither was I," he said easily, "but lookit us now."
Sy giggled, accepting the presents happily.
"Remind me to get those feather from him later. ********' gulls. Diseased bastards."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:58 pm
Nati finished off her beer and toyed with the bottle, running her finger along the inside rim and sucking the droplets off. Yeah, look at her now. Saddled with two kids and pining after a complete b*****d. Ugh.
"Hmn? Oh, yeah. Beach-pigeons," she said belatedly. "Just shoot 'em with a pellet gun. Fifty points if you get 'em through the eye, y'know."
She laughed at herself, chucking the bottle into the sand by the cooler and getting a fresh beer.
" 'Course Leo hates it when I kill things, dunno why. S'all meat, and she never bitches when we have burgers'n s**t like that."
"Leooooo~"
"What?"
"Lookit!"
A dead jellyfish had washed up on the sand. It looked like a sad, greenish-blue blob, and it was almost begging to be poked with a stick.
"Th' o-zan sneezed. It's o-zan booger."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:03 pm
Silas giggled.
"No! Is...dellyfith."
Jesse sighed.
"Some people're just more compassionate when they SEE things die." His head rolled to Nati then and he gave her that wide-eyed, knowing look.
"Boyfriend problems?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:35 pm
Fiore looked utterly confused.
"O-zen sneeze out peenah butter'n jelelly?"
He looked around expectantly for a peanut butter fish.
Leo just sighed, and poked at the dead thing with the cheap plastic shovel that had come with the cheap plastic bucket currently being swept out to sea.
"Bet it's poisonous..."
Nati grunted and took a long swig of beer.
"That pathetically obvious, huh?" she drawled, looking disgusted with herself. "I hate the b*****d."
She sighed before she could stop herself, and took another drink.
"On occasion. I hate him on occasion."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:38 pm
"I gueth sos," Sy nodded. Hey, it made sense to him! He then turned to Leo, "Dey is. Is sqwishy, but 'ting bad." It sounded like he had found out the hard way...
"Yeah," Jesse said, giving a weak half-smile, "Wish I could say I knew the feeling." Oh, Danica, he had always loved you.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:28 pm
Leo grinned like a devil and waded after the bucket, returning and shoveling the dead creature into it.
"Grand. I gotta boy at school keeps pullin' my ears," she said, scooping tentacles into the bucket. "This'll fix 'im."
Fiore, who had no concept of revenge or week-long school suspension for attack with dangerous dead animals, continued looking for peanut butter fish. Darn it, he was getting hungry, and the ocean had better sneeze him out a breadfish soon as well.
"Yeah. I need someone to be bitter with me," Nati said dully. "God, I pity me."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:31 pm
Sy blinked.
"No, not fix. Hu'ht."
Back on the towel, Jesse sighed.
"Oh, I know bitter. I know bitter well. Just not at significant others."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:38 pm
Leo's ears set flat against her skull and she sighed. Boys. They never understood.
"That's the point, ain't it?" she said. "Splat, right in th' face! It'll get 'im good."
Nati emptied half her beer bottle, wiping her lips with the back of her hand.
"Significant other," she said, drawing out the words. "He uses me as a quick ******** and I let him, the b*****d. But I always think he's gonna stay, y'know?"
She sighed, tousling her hair harshly and pulling at it in sudden aggravation.
"Take my advice, never fight'n ********. It doesn't lead to anything aside from pure utter melodrama."
She downed the rest of her beer and threw herself back on her towel, staring resentfully at the sky.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:44 pm
Silas raised a hand to his mouth, giving a scandalized gasp. Oh no! Causing pain on purpose!
Jesse nodded.
"One day, you'll find a real good man. Can't introduce you t'any...but some day..." Oh, and how he would have loved dating this girl, had her boyfriend not been in the picture...before Evie of course.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:49 pm
Leo gave a cackle of laughter like a hyena, raising bucket and shovel to the sky in malicious victory. And then dropped the bucket on her head.
The jellyfish came out.
"CRAPINNAHATONAPITAINJULY."
Fiore watched his sister throw herself into the ocean yelping like a scalded puppy and sighed.
"I lo' my Leo," he said with the air of a tolerant parent. "But sometime she too silly."
Nati snorted, and with a grin leaned over and gave Jesse a kiss on the cheek.
"You're sweet. I think I'll keep you," she said. "Now be a dear and scrape the jellyfish off my sister's head."
"NATIIII I DID SOMETHING STUPIIIIIID-"
"Well ain't that just the news of the day."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:51 pm
Jesse snorted.
"Not my kid." And he sipped his beer.
"O'no!" Sy yelped, looking horrified, "Lee-yo!"
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