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Talen laughed at Gabriel's remark at Abel being a stiff. Somehow, that seemed terribly ironic. Mei of course took the time to make a smart remark about it which seemed to quiet the tall angel.

"A surprise cleaning party?" Leah said and seemed to frown. However she laughed at Abel's almost excited look. She covered her mouth in attempts to stifle it. Mei of course, didn't stifle hers. Leah looked almost sorry for laughing and smiled apologetically, but yet she was still laughing at the idea of all of them dressed up as french maids and cleaning up the streets.

((that's a weird visual Leah :/...))

When Mei made mention of Abel's age Talen frowned. "How DO you keep track?" He honestly wondered. "How old ARE you?" He wondered perhaps about all of them and not just Abel in particular.

This brought a funny look to Leah's face.

Alice raised her eyebrows and smiled. "They're just being funny?" She offered.

Leah seemed to regard this idea doubtfully, but perhaps believed it for her own sake. There were too many strange things going on just from this morning to perhaps digest what these people really were, and she had a feeling ever since she'd met Abel that there was something off about him. Not off in a bad way, in fact a very good way, but maybe just at the moment she wasn't ready to deal with it.

((THERE!))

((GO ALEX GO!... I am soooo tiiiiirrreeed.))

Talen flashed Gabriel a grin at Mei's remark. "Yeah... that looks about right." He said.

Leah continued to look confused and then put her own hands to her face. "I'm not... saggy." She frowned and looked at Talen who just shook his head. She looked at Alice who was laughing. Leah laughed herself. "We're all geezers."

"I'm older than all of you." Alice informed them, winking in Abel's direction. "So, I don't wanna hear another word about it."

When Mei sat in Talen's lap, Alice rolled her eyes, but the man himself seemed quite pleased about it. "Finally I get some attention." He said about it, arms around her waist. He grinned as she grabbed his face and instructed him of what he was to do in her absence. "It won't be much the same without you, but I'll sure as hell try." And then enjoyed his kiss.

He, of course, was sad to see her go, but he waved just the same. Leah, on the other hand looked a little put out.

"B'aw... Princess Leah." She put her chin in her hands. "I'm never going to get away from that, am I?" She smiled despite herself.

Alice pat her on the back. "It's all good. Leah's a BABE. Hottest princess ever." She frowned. "I wonder where David DID go!"

"BYE, MEI!" The little boy said from somewhere in the house and appeared at the top of the stairs. "I'LL MISS YOU!"

Alice smiled. "So, what ARE you going to do for Abel's birthday, Talen?"

Talen sat up and glanced at the angel.

"We should take him OUT!" Leah said.

"All of us at once, or just you?" Talen said laughing.

Leah flushed. "I meant all of us, but I mean... I didn't..." She shook her head. "What?"

Talen looked over to his blonde friend. "We're going to have to really think on this... Abel having a good time could be a serious challenge... perhaps the most difficult thing we have ever faced. EVER."

Leah nodded very seriously.

((hahahahha.))

((YESSSS-SSSSS... YES. You need to stop editing yo' stuff all the time. I MISS IMPORTANTE THINGS. IMPORTANTE... THINGS.

But awwww yeah I wanna make a baddie. Those are my favorites.))

Alice gave Gabriel a long look and then batted her eyelashes. "Well, aren't you just a charmer?" She asked of him smiling and moved around to clean up the kitchen. "I wasn't even twenty when you first met me. Twenty something, for sure, but not twenty." She laughed.

Talen laughed at his sister. "Eh. Age is relative." He said, mimicking Gabriel and then looked back at Abel who was red in the face as Leah had been not moments before. He snorted with laughter. "You guys... I swear." He shook his head. "Happiness?"

"We're already happy." Leah informed him and then looked to Gabriel and nodded encouragingly, but when Abel finished she looked disappointed.

Talen gave his friend a look and watched as Gabriel received his note. He was not so easily put off course and at once was back on Abel's back to squeeze information out of him. His reasoning was, if it wasn't him, it would be Mei that would do it, so he was saving her the time. "David's fine. Upstairs probably curing cancer. Nothing any of us can give you? That's a little harsh."

Leah had been looking at her hands in her lap glanced up to look at Abel carefully.

"I mean... what is it? How can you be so SURE? Maybe we CAN. Seriously... we're all pretty amazing."

Alice laughed. "Come on now, Abel. You did so much for us back then. Give us a chance to return the favor. Don't make me beg now."

((LALALALA. THERE.))

((GOOOO POOOOSTSSSS GOOO... I hate work. I hate him so hard.))

Leah and Talen exchanged a look after Abel seemed to close the subject. The young woman seemed doubtful and Talen thinned his lips. Leah usually didn't spend too much of her time with Talen, but she easily read his expression. He had his mouth tilted up at one corner in a smile, he was wiggling his eyebrows. She laughed and nodded.

"We'll get you a hallmark card." Talen declared.

"With glitter." Leah added on.

Talen gave a mock look of surprise and excitement. "YES!" He cried, and leapt from his chair. "It will be GLORIOUS! This girl is smart."

Leah giggled, however she stopped at Abel's look in their direction. She stood up quickly. "Yes!" She said almost too fast.

Talen gave her a look and laughed and cast his eyes back at Gabriel. "You might hafta go upstairs to see David. Kids got something cookin'."

Alice laughed. "Yep. David is up to something." And she cast her eyes towards the ceiling.

"You kids sure you want the THIRD WHEEL to come along?" Talen wanted to know of Leah and Abel. Leah was already making her way towards the door. She stopped and looked confused at this remark.

"But he... He invited you too."

Talen looked back over his shoulder at Gabriel and seemed to consider his options. "Gabe.... or the oblivious duo." He held up his hands and balanced them like a scale. "...Let's go Wonder Twins." And Talen led the way out the door.

((hahahaha, what? I dunno. Talen wrote that. NOT ME.))

((Awww man. I wanna see that one too! But FO' SHO'. You need to go see Avatar as well. I'm not that even into Sci-fi... but it was so BEAUTIFULLY DONE. Long... but SO BEAUTIFUL.

Hahaha, if we lived closed I'D MAKE YOU GO WITH ME D:<.))

"Me?" Talen asked of Abel's remark of his sarcasm. "Being sarcastic?" He grinned at his friend and shook him gently by one of his shoulders. "Never to you." And then he stood back and listened. It actually kind of surprised him what Abel said then, made him stand back a little. His expression was somewhat baffled, but deeply glad.

When Leah had joined them again she smiled. "That's sweet." She said quietly when Abel apologized.

Talen blinked, and then laughed. "Yeah..." He grinned and stowed his own hands in his pockets. "I like it when you talk about yourself." And then he laughed a little at Abel's sudden awkward silence. "Maybe you should hold Leah's instead." He said under his breath.

Leah was smiling and walking slightly ahead of them and thinking about what Abel had said. She loved the idea. He was right. She wanted to be home and with those she cared about and those thoughts kept her warm.

"Ah ha! Our choice." Talen rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "What do you think, Leah?"

"THE LIGHTS!" She said excitedly and she bound back at them on the sidewalk. "Oh! You'll love it! I LOVE the lights! They are so beautiful and it's not just a CHRISTMAS thing!" She said looking pointedly at Talen. "It's an everyone thing! It's just..." And she just breathed and looked dreamy eyed. "It's wonderful!"

Talen grinned at Leah. "Alright, alright! The lights it is... it's a little too bright now, but this time of year it's always quick to get dark."

Leah did a little leap and some sort of excited dance. "You'll love it, Abel! I've been meaning to go, but Saul doesn't care enough to go and FINALLY!" She jogged off again.

((hahahaha, she's soooo exciiiiited.))

David of course laughed, quietly as he could, as Gabriel made a show of looking around. He buried his face in his elbows and sniggered. However, when Gabriel finally found him he squealed in delight and scrabbled at the floor as he pulled out. He could only laugh as Gabriel spoke to him and then dropped him on the bed. He bounced slightly and then sat up, hugging his middle.

"I was a secret spy YESTERDAY." David was sure to inform the tall angel. "I'm just David today." And then he put his fingers to his lips. "But you have to keep a secret."

He slid from his bed and went to a place on the floor where there was construction paper and art supplies. He waved Gabriel over. "I'm making a presents for Abe." He nodded very seriously. "I'm not a very good drawer... but I'm TRYING." He showed him his work in progress, a child's representation of a human figure and a scribble of yellow for hair. There were two dots of blue for eyes and a strange black hole for a mouth. There was a sloppy set of wings and a halo and below the figure was David's version of his favorite dinosuar.

"I looked it up in the book to get it right... but drawing is hard." He frowned. "Do you think he'll like it?"

((DRAAAAWINGSSS... Hahaha, oh David... you're silly... IT NEEDS GLITTER D:<))

((I want snow too :C... I mean it HAS been snowing and then RIGHT AFTER it just RAINS AND WASHES IT AWAY.

It's incredibly depressing.))

Talen grinned at his friend. It did him well to see Abel in this way and Abel would probably never know how much. He tilted his head at his question of snow. He started to speak his doubts about it, shaking his head, but then he stopped as he saw flakes in front of his face. Turning to Abel he looked astonished.

"YOU'RE MAGIC!" He cried.

Leah was running back towards them at a break neck speed. Her shoes buckled beneath her and she might have almost fallen, but she was too excited to have the time for that. She pin-wheeled her arms to steady herself and in her gloved hands she showed them the snowflakes bright on the fabric on her fingers. She gestured close to their faces. "LOOK!" She said, too excited to say more than that. She seemed flustered with her own amazement. "LOOK!" Was all she could say again. Her face was flushed with pleasure and cold. She tilted her head up and grinned.

Talen blinked at her. "I see it." He said, laughing.

Leah looked at Abel. "IT'S PERFECT!" She whirled from them and skipped a few steps, arms up. "This is a perfect moment!" She decided of it. She turned back to them and stepping between them she linked arms with them. "We have to do something incredibly amazing RIGHT NOW."

"Like what?" Talen said, obviously amused.

Leah stared at him like he was ridiculous. "We have to WISH ON IT."

((hahahahahaha, SHE'S SO EXCITEDDDD.ddd. d.... Wish on WHAAAAT now? This girl is crazeh.))

David seemed a little shy at Gabriel's comment. He flushed in his dark face and looked away, rubbing at his face. "Okay." Was all he could really say. "I really tried." He said again to make himself feel more comfortable. "It's probably the BEST thing I've drawn in my WHOLE LIFE." And he meant this with every fiber of his tiny body. He nodded seriously. "I've been drawing for like... my WHOLE LIFE. So. That's a long time."

At Gabriel's request David nodded. "YEAH." He pulled out a good piece of construction paper and shoved some markers at him, but pulled back the green one. "You gotta be careful with this one. It's almost DEAD and I don't gots another." He frowned. "Same with the black. Okay?" He did his very business like nod again and then sat. "I'm gonna watch. You SIT."

((hahahaha, b'aaaaaw. I WANT ONE.... when I'm older.))

((Hahaha, baaw... perfect moments are so excellent. Look at ME posting twice in a day.... and holy frick my internet was being a turd there for a minute.))

"YES!" Leah said of Abel, turning back to look at him. She seemed baffled at his American remark. "I guess anyone can do it... we don't have a monopoly on it or anything."

Talen shook his head. "I've never heard of it either. I'm in the same boat as you, Abel."

Leah seemed to be very ashamed of both of them. "It's the FIRST SNOW! What else would you do with a first snow?" She looked up at it again, her face still flushed. "It's like... it's magic." And she seemed embarrassed. "I'm sorry." She said for not particular reason. Maybe she was only apologizing for being anything like herself.

"Alright." Talen said and took a deep breath. "I'll go first." He grinned crookedly and closed his eyes briefly.

Leah looked up at him and smirked. "Someone's thinking of Mei." She put in.

Talen opened one eye to look at both of them. "It's MY wish." He said.

"Don't TAINT the first snow with your DIRTY wish!"

"I just wish she'll stick around with me." He said and looked up. "I'd like that."

Leah watched Talen quietly and then nodded. "It's a good wish."

Talen only smiled, oddly quiet.

"I wish." Leah said and seemed to think hard. She breathed very gently, eyes lightly closed. A few snowflakes landed on her eyelashes, but she didn't seem to notice only focused on what her wish could be. After a moment she turned to Abel. "I wish that you find what you're looking for." She said.

Talen grinned down at Leah.

"That's what I want." And she nodded up at the sky. "That's my birthday present to you." And she smiled for him. Then she unhooked her arm briefly from Talen's to point at Abel. "Now it's YOUR turn!"

((hahaha, well how NICE.))

David watched him carefully as he drew. He stuck out his tongue out in what was perhaps deep concentration. He leaned heavily over the angel's shoulder and tilted his head thoughtfully. Every once in awhile he'd smile, or he'd laugh.

"That me?" He'd say. "What about Mei? She'd be NEXT TO ME."

Once he was done David smiled proudly of the picture. "It's pretty good." He said. "I mean, don't quit your day job but it's almost good as a Michael Angel." He nodded very seriously. "And uh... your ground is wrong." He took the picture and made some more intense scribbles for the grass. He lifted it again and gave it to Gabriel.

"See? Now it's PERFECT."

((Hahaha, I think he means Michaelangelo... but that's okay!))