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 Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:42 am
"Aw, would've served him right," murmured Tallulah, looking up. She tried to decide if she minded that his arm was around her shoulder. Nope, she decided, she didn't. Actually, she kind of liked it. She stayed leaning up against him as the movie moved away from dog torture to building a snow fort and a snowball fight.
She tried getting into it, but the tone had already been set for snarking.
"When do the monsters show up?" she whispered.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:09 am
"I thought they already did?" He joked, turning his head to give her an amused wink in the light from the screen. "See. Short one, right there. Was just chasing a dog around."
This was why he was always a little reluctant with 'converted' kids books. It was never quite the same as the original. You couldn't be, not when you felt obligated to pad it out for a couple hours.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:23 am
"Ooh, right," nodded Tallulah. "I almost mistook him for a child in that snowsuit."
She winced closer to Jaimie as the snow fort was kicked in. "Harsh," she whispered, and couldn't help but fully agree with the ensuing drenching of Bitchy Older Sister's room, but felt that, were this not a movie, this child would either be on medication for ADD or talking to a shrink. Maybe both.
"Do kids really understand this stuff?" she asked.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:03 am
"Probably not in the same way Adults would idealize them as doing." He shrugged faintly, trying not to disrupt her any. "If I remember right, it's only adults who's worldview would put more into this than "Wreck my snow-fort and I'll get you back."
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:28 am
"Having never had older siblings to take revenge on," said Tallulah, "I don't really know how that whole rivalry thing goes. Got any insight?"
She went quiet for a while after that, content to watch a sadistic fourth grade teacher discuss the death of the sun, interrupting only to point out, "How do they let these people teach?" Some people just shouldn't work with kids.
She went quiet again, following the story. Mom has a boyfriend, kid doesn't like boyfriend, kid runs away, kid takes a boat across the ocean to an island...
"Here there be monsters," she whispered.
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:52 pm
"My older sibling is only older by a couple minutes." He pointed out, flashing another grin. "I'm not sure I'm the best authority as a result." For a long time there hadn't really been... rivalry exactly. They'd been a unique and nightmareish unit, taking full advantage of their obnoxious and unlikely similarity, and the gender ambiguity of youth.
Come to think of it, their relationship had really changed when they started to become much easier to tell apart.
...A shrink would just love to get their pill prescribing mitts on that. It was true though. It was only since Puberty that her dares and, and only in the last year or so he'd actually started to notice. ((Pathetic really)) that her challenges had gotten more prickly and dangerous.
Here there be monsters indeed.
He crammed that line of thought back into it's Pandoras box and focused on the screen. "Finally. They've released him into his native habitat."
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:55 am
"It would seem he's quite at home," she agreed. With her head on his shoulder, she could feel Jaimie's rhythmic breathing. It was oddly comforting compared to the simulated carnage (as bloodless as it was) taking place on screen.
"I wonder if the monsters are actually a metaphor for personality disorder," she remarked quietly, and wondered what sort of monsters would accept a nine year old boy as their king with no proper evidence to back him up.
She also wondered if this movie would be better or worse without someone here to snark it with.
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:39 am
"Ok see now you're letting Hollywood get into your head." Jaimie chided, giving her a gentle squeeze with the arm around her shoulders. "The book had nothing to do with that, it was just kids being kids..." Impulsiveness won the day, not a surprise with Jaimie, and he leaned over to give her a light kiss on the cheek.
At least it was dark so if she decided to slug him, he could recover his dignity to some degree. "Leave the psychoanalytical BS to people who've forgotten how to be human."
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:12 am
Tallulah did not slug him. In fact, she didn't do anything for a moment - she was trying to decide what a boy meant when he kissed you on the cheek. After a moment of tense silence that a fist might have flown out of at any moment, she said, "At least kiss me properly if you're going to kiss me, Jaimie."
If you wanted something done right, you had to do it yourself. She reached over, tilted his head towards her, and kissed him full on the mouth. That was how you were supposed to do it.
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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:58 pm
Well, this was infinitely better than getting slugged, wearing popcorn, or cold water, or any combination of the above.
Infinitely better.
"Well..." He mused, if only vaguely. "Hate to be too assumptive you know." Though apparently it wasn't... and it was definitely way more interesting than the movie... or any discussion about multiple personalities. ((Which he felt was a little too close a subject to Senshidom anyway...))
So he leaned a little closer to show her that Leontyne men, if nothing else, did damn well know how to kiss properly.
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