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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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 Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 4:17 pm
Rhine couldn't help himself but to laugh when she mentioned the little girl showing up in the closet... It reminded him of a time when he ended up in a friends cabinet that had a mirror.
"Yes, I'm serious," he said as he tried his best to catch his breath. "They both need their own room... You don't expect the boy to have pink walls and flowers... And her to have blue walls and race cars... or a combination... do you?" He grinned. "Especially later on... I think he might be terrified of just how girly girls can be later on and vise versa."
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:53 pm
"Well....I'm sure I could find something that would work, but if you insist. I just don't want to make things more difficult for you. You're already moving partly due to me..." Keeta frowned feeling like she was putting a lot on her fiancee.
Just then Keeta heard a sleepy sounding grunt from behind her. Camille was wandering from down the short hallway rubbing her eyes, her plant-like hair disheveled. Noticing the other people with Keeta at the table, she stopped where she was, not certain she wanted to come further. Keeta reached out to the girl encouragingly.
"Camille, come here, it's ok. I want you to meet some special people. And I also want them to meet you."
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 1:42 am
Rhine reached out and touched Keeta's face gently as he smiled. "Really it was time for an upgrade. When it was just me, my sister, and well..." He didn't say his wife because he didn't like to dwell on that. "It wasn't so terribly cramped. But when it came to her and her girl friend, me and you and our family... Well, let's face facts," he said with a chuckle, "it just wasn't going to work with us living all on one floor. So between that and the cafe needing more space... It was more than time for an upgrade."
Rhine's attention moved from Keeta to the little girl. His smile became warmer as if he was almost glowing. He carefully moved from the chair and knelt down in front of her. "Hello there pretty lady. My name's Rhine."
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 9:59 am
Between being half-asleep, and her overwhelming shyness, Camille took a step back to hide behind Keeta and watch this new man from a safe distance. It wasn't that Rhine was scary or moved too quickly, he was simply unfamiliar and thus she wasn't ready to be close him yet. Besides, he was really the only person she had met besides Keeta and Joel.
She silently looked past him and noticed a second new person. This person was smaller, so perhaps not as threateningand hadn't tried to put attention on her yet. Camille watched and waited seeing what might happen.
"She's very shy it seems," Keeta said as a bit an apology, putting a gentle hand on the toddler's head.
"She took to Joel and me rather easily, but maybe that's because she instincitvely knew I was her mommy, as kind of an imprinting...." She frowned not really happy with her explanation. It didn't seem right to put it in such "animalistic" terms, but she didn't know how else to explain it.
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 5:11 pm
Natalia's curiosity was peeked when there was talk of another person in the room- and she heard this person as well... however, silent she was. She sat impatiently in her chair waiting for someone to show her this new person.
"Doesn't bother me a bit," Rhine said as he took a seat on the floor- dinner abandoned for the moment. "It takes time," he said patiently even if his sister was showing impatience. He wasn't about to introduce her yet to the newest member when she wasn't even ready yet to come from behind Keeta.
Natalia sighed and rolled her eyes out of reaction. She muttered something that sound something like 'figures' before shoveling in a mouthful of chicken.
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:26 pm
Camille didn't move, although the man didn't seem as unapproachable when he was more-or-less her level by sitting on the floor.
"You don't need to sit on the floor Rhine," Keeta said, her tone halfway between scolding and amusement.
"I'm sure she'll come out when she's ready..." She paused for a moment, pursing her lips thoughtfully.
"She seems to have taken on characteristics of the painting in her appearance. I wonder if it's my fault that's she's shy like this. You know, for leaving her in the closet alone for so long, when she was a painting. If I had known there was a girl inside of course I wouldn't have left the painting seculded in the dark...." The pursed lips turned into a frown the more she considered the matter.
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:25 am
"Keeta... Love... When not at the cafe I live on the floor," Rhine said with that ever lasting chuckle of his. "Mater of fact I know what it's like to be at a toddlers height for a good period of time. I spent most of my rearing years laying around and looking up at the world."
"Better in the closet than in a box..." Rhine said as he looked away from the little girl and towards Keeta. "Speaking of boxes... You do plan on moving in soon don't you?"
Natalia at the moment crossed her arms- she looked as if she was containing a considerable amount of anger.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:39 am
"Errr..." Keeta said, not quite ready to answer his question. Truth be told, she rather privately hoped that they would wait to move in together after they were married. She wondered if the living together so soon had contributed to her and Kael's problems and she didn't want to mess it up with Rhine.
"I thought it wasn't ready yet? That things were still being built. Isn't that why you brought that with you?" she asked, glancing at the rolled up parchment her had brought in with him. Caught up in her discussion with Rhine, she didn't notice Natalia's growing frustration.
Camille noticed, however, and shrunk back further from the hostility emminating from the older girl.
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:46 am
"Well... It was done," Rhine said all his laughter coming to a halt. "But, now we'll need that extra wall." He glanced at the rolled up plans. "I always keep a spare of the blue prints for the just in case purposes of me needing to contract someone..."
Rhine couldn't help it. That was just the type person he was... The go get er. Once he knew what he wanted it was only a matter of time... He didn't really like to linger on things.
Natalia no longer able to control herself let out a whicker of frustration- in that moment she sounded almost like her father. But in the next moment she was very much like her mother as her hands found the material of what she wore and she began to straighten it out... As if also ironing out her anger as well.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:52 am
"Oh...I didn't realize things had been completed. How long do you think it will take them to put in the extra wall? And..." Keeta was about to add something to her statement when Natalia's whicker cut her off. She blinked and looked up at the girl startled.
"Natalia?" she asked, not certain what was bothering the girl.
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:59 am
"Once I contract them about a week- two at the most..." Rhine didn't have time to say much else as the rooms attention had fallen on Natalia.
Natalia could sense that everyone had become focused on her. She really had tried to control herself. "You really are self centered brother," she said with a equine like snort. "Really, really you are." She was past the point of trying to control herself... She looked Rhine dead on which was an indicator she had control of herself and her will power... And at that moment she could see EVERYTHING in clarity.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:07 am
"Natalia...wha-?" Keeta sputtered. She had never seen the girl act like this, and if Keeta knew anything about Natalia's mother, she knew Ceres would not have raised her to speak to her brother like that.
"Natalia, you shouldn't speak to your brother like that," Keeta said, scolding her somewhat. She was her godmother after all. She frowned at the girl and crossed her arms.
"And if something is bothering you, you need to tell us exactly what it is, instead of making us guess and then calling people names." Keeta hoped she wasn't stepping over some kind of boundry line by trying to parent Natalia, but she wouldn't stand for the girl speaking like that in her home.
Camille whimpered slightly at the increased tension in the room and crawled under Keeta's chair. With her shiness, she seemed to pick up on emotions of others more readily and the hostility in the room scared her.
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:17 am
"He knows good and well what he has done even if he did it intentionally," Natalia said with a huff as she looked away from Rhine. Just looking at him made her that much more angrier.
"Now, now Natalia I didn't go and spoil what you wanted..." he said trying to appease her. She wasn't a 'brat' often but she had her moments. At this point in time he really just needed to focus on getting her calmed down before she exhausted herself to the point of passing out.
Natalia rolled her eyes before settling her gaze on Camille who had come to hide under the chair. "One would think I was the island reincarnated." She snorted. This side of her was more of an influence her sisters had on her... There personalities having accidentally rubbed off on her.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:23 am
"Well I don't know what the problem is," Keeta said, her tone becoming angry in reaction.
"So please don't make the rest of us wonder what is going on!"
Camille whimpered again when her mother's voice got louder. Keeta realizing what was happening, calmed herself and got down, pulling Camille gently out from under the chair and into her arms. She clung to Keeta, peeking an eye over at Natalia.
"That's not funny Natalia," Keeta said evenly at the girl's last comment.
"She frightens easily and your tempertantrum isn't helping things." Her voice grew quiet and a little sad.
"I had rather hoped you two would become friends...."
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Kawaii_Hime_Ceres Captain
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:35 am
Natalia's head 'flickered in a very equine fashion... "I haven't even begun," she said shortly but before anything else could be said Rhine was up off the floor with his hand over her mouth.
"Hush," he growled commandingly low in his throat. "Before you hurt yourself... Don't let it control you." He moved his hand and ran his fingers through her hair.
It took everything in her to get a hold of herself. Sometimes one thing just lead to another and then another. "I'm sorry," she said as she looked away and closed her eyes.
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