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 Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:38 pm
"Yyyyooooouuuu know." Calder turned over, hooves slowly moving back and forth as he laid on his stomach and looked down at her with a knowing smile. "With you and Christof. The way you two are around each other. I'm not blind. I even saw that kiss you two had at the nurse's tent. Veerrrryyy cute." He smiled in approval. "Maybe we can double date."
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:26 pm
Amrita seemed to freeze in place, hand suspended uselessly in the air. Her eyes were wide, and she was stunned; she stayed like this for a minute or two where the only thing that changed was the colour of her face, which seemed to get darker with every passing moment. Then all of a sudden she unfroze, her hand dropping uselessly against the bed. There was no flailing, no loud denials...just a surprised looking ghoul whose face colour was betraying her.
"W-well we are friends, Calder. That...that was just a thank jack you're alive gesture! I was wounded and so was he and...that's what friends do, r-right?" Lizzy had already told her that she was dead wrong about this, but she still wanted to cling to the potential for Lizzy just being really crazy about it. Mostly because the alternative was too overwhelming and confusing for her to handle."That's what Remi did..." She added in a much lower tone.
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:13 pm
"I don't know who Remi is.." The name did sound familiar, but it felt like a distant name he couldn't put his finger on. "....but if whoever he's kissing isn't his ma or pa, they ain't friends." He watched her fluster and started to - wait, did she really not think they were together? Oh dear. Amrita was just as dense as Christof was, though that might explain why they were kissing. Denial, how often he had to swim through you to drag his friends out of your waters? Alas!
"I'm friends with Chrsitof, and I never planted a kiss on him like you two did. Barth is friends with him, and I doubt he planted a kiss on him. We both were very worried about each other, and I was for many people that I saw, and the only kissing I gave was to Barth. Here. Let's go look at this." Calder shuffled to sit up, getting himself arranged properly to address this issue.
"So, let's say you are friends. Do you kiss all your other friends a lot? Was there anyone else you missed and were worried for in that tent that you kissed?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:55 pm
...Yup, Calder was clearly as crazy as Lizzy. Amrita flittered off happily into her denial; less to deal with if you pretending nothing happened!
"Remi's my friend...and he kissed me." The Vetala pouted as if that helped her case after Calder did a little bit of a rant, one that was suspiciously similar to one Lizzy had already given her. Nnnngh it was getting harder and harder to deny it! But she did give it some serious thought; lets see, after she made it out, she made sure her team mates were okay, and then she waited for Malcolm to fix her arm...and then Christof...then what? Her brow furrowed. "Then I went home." She said out loud, somewhat unaware that she had.
"Well, no, but! But I only just discovered such a thing existed!" Which was either due to an oppressive hermit group, or just her being unobservant and preoccupied. "Besides..." Well, she didn't know how to answer that...out loud.
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:06 pm
Calder watched as she continued, but felt that talking might not be the best. Talking was nice. He could do it all day, but sometimes pointing something else wouldn't work.
Tail flickering, he set his chin in his hand and thought, eying the ghoul as she went through her own thought process but missed the mark. "So you kiss your friends...." Then his path of logic to help her along wasn't working. It was more about the TYPE of kiss anyway, and Amrita didn't seem the type to kiss Christof the way she kissed other people. Maybe she was? He wasn't that familiar with her, but he just felt there had been more there. Even Christof, during their time here, had been....well, more or less hovering by her side.
Talking is talking. Come now, Calder. Let's play.
A smile curled on his features, and he eyed Amrita in a way vastly different than how he had been watching her before. "I see. I guess you kiss your friends a lot." He set his hands upon the bed, and then moved closer to the edge towards her. "I suppose it is a friendly way to show you care." He continued to move, and then leaned in, scooping up her chin into his slender fingers.
His eyes were gripping, and if he had pushed his fear into it, he could have used his kinds ability to grip those to him. To pull them. "...I'd like to think we're becoming good friends." His voice, usually slightly higher in tone, dropped down into something smooth an deeper. "...so how about it?"
He didn't wait for an answer before he pressed a kiss upon her lips.
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:19 pm
"Wh-what?! N-no that wasn't what I--" Uwaaaaah she didn't kiss her friends! She tried to kiss Lizzy but she set the record straight pretty damned fast; but that had been like, two days after she knew that kissing existed! It looked like she had more to say, but it seemed lost on her lips as Calder seemed to change. It was surprising that she caught it entirely, but it was there; something was different about the Kelpie, or at least something she hadn't noticed before.
"But---wait, that's...!" Her arguments were pitiful as he continued to talk, her corpse-hazed eyes wide and staring at him, captivated even without the push of fear. She tried to lean back and move away but she was up against the headboard already, and his fingers had already claimed her chin. Oh jack, this was not good! "H---" He cut her off effectively with that kiss, every muscle in her body stiffening in an outright panic.
After what seemed like an eternity (though only a second or two had clicked on by), a stiff and awkward hand raised to press the back against his shoulder; what she thought was a shove was only a gentle touch in her stunned surprise, but she didn't make any moves to return it. She imagined herself squirming to get away, but it was all in her head; the only thing that didn't stay internal was the low and brief whine of distress in her throat.
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:15 pm
It was quiet in the room aside from gentle breathing, and Calder waited, eyes partly open, as he watched her before glancing over at his shoulder where her backwards hand pressed. For all he knew, she was trying to hold on as they kissed, but he only stood there, pressing in only as much to make it an actually kiss. If he was testing, he wasn't going to peck, and he knew that with Christof's sewn mouth, no tongue would have been in the equation. No need to really make her afraid. In order to show what a friendship kiss was or meant, he had to give her the simple kiss that Christof or any of her friends might have.
It was tempting however, to bite her lip for play. Something about scaring such a small, unsure ghoul was enticing, but he released his grip on her chin and broke the kiss. His face was still close as he smiled at her. She whined in a way that reminded him of the Igor whenever he didn't know what to do or how to sort himself.
"So, just like Christof's kiss, right - since Christof and I are both your friends? Not any difference at all?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:19 pm
POOF!
And there went any semblance of thought, ever. She couldn't think of what to say, she suddenly didn't have the capacity to panic let alone demand to know his motives. The only thing that seemed available to her at first was that low whine of distress and the sliding further down on the bed until only the back of her head and her shoulders were still against the ornate headboard. Apparently, anything to duck away from how close he was still, trying her best to avoid the added pressure of his proximity while she sorted out just what had happened.
"N-n-n-n-nO!" She stammered out after what seemed like forever to her, her hands crossing in front of her to more comfortably grip the sides of her own face. "N-n-n-n-OT like...like..." Tick, tick, tick----- "M-my stomach doesn't hurt when you do it." She said in a hushed whisper as though it was some big secret; The word was emphasized on purpose; on principle she shouldn't have any feelings, and yet there it was, her stomach feeling pained every time. "It didn't hurt with Remi, either." She admitted in the same hushed tone, though her face was still turning several shades of colour as whatever sludged, congealed blood she had went rushing to it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:36 pm
Calder flopped beside her, and shared in simply looking up at the ceiling. The last thing he wanted to do was for her to sink further and then run away. This was her room after all, and point made, he didn't have to press on her any further. Now it was to drive the point home and keep her from trying to backtrack and rationalize things back to her previous denial. THIS was a grand moment and should be embraced.
"Tummy hurts? Does it twist and tumble? Do little bats flutter in it? And does your chest feel a bit heavy, your heart just a bit faster, and all your limbs just don't know what to do so you fumble with your hands and hair and whatever else?" He spoke sweetly, thinking of the times he fawned for someone - aka, a certain demon he wasn't allowed to visit in this manor. :C
"Unlike your friends, do you wonder at any point what Christof might be doing, right now, and if he might just be thinking about you too? Do you hope to meet him in the hallway or just passing by the campus JUST to be able to see him, and when that happened, that he might ask for you company in wherever he is going?" Calder took a pillow and pressed it to his chest. "And late at night, do you just want him to wrap you in his arms and snuggle so close that you can feel him near you, and sink deeper into his embrace?" He sighed.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:52 pm
Amrita was thankful that Calder was no longer an inch from her face, and it showed in the way she practically deflated, her hands folding together and fitting innocently under her chin. There was no choice open to her other than to listen to what her friend was saying, and as he spoke it seemed a hundred different expressions flit across her face. The twisting, the bats, the heavy chest (she at least had the grace to know the difference between emotion heavy and breast heavy); a few things she did even without Christof, namely the fumbling and hair playing.
Before he jumped from physical symptoms to mental ones she found herself nodding, albeit weakly. Yes, she agreed with him, her body seemed to do all of those things! Those hundreds of emotions continued to interchange on her face, from confusion to acceptance to agreement to denial; it was all there, and everything in between.
Calder had her pegged, and that...was scary. A brief glance to her side told her that Calder was curled nearly like she was, and she slowly began to register that this probably happened to several people, not just herself. That thought was comforting, very comforting. "...Yes." She said slowly, weakly; but there was something akin to pain that seemed to be taking over.
"But..." Calder had her pegged, Calder was igniting understanding, but along with that came something she didn't want to face, and something she had an inkling towards. "I don't..." She couldn't seem to bring herself to finish it, or perhaps she thought she had. Either way she trailed off, staring through lidded eyes and unhappily knitted brows.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:07 pm
His ears turned to listen, and he then turned to his side to look over at her. "You don't......what? You don't want to like him?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:24 pm
She didn't have an answer for him, at least not right away. Like him. Yeah, that sounded like what Lizzy had been trying to tell her; a different sort of like than just a friend, the sort of like she hadn't known existed until recently...the sort of like she didn't want to deal with.
"I...I guess...?" Not wanting to like him would be akin to not feeling this at all, right? But even that didn't make her feel happy; the thought of not having this feelings left her with a sort of hollow feeling that she didn't want, either. She sounded unconvincing at best, uncertain obviously, and then let out a small, frustrated noise. "It was easier before!" The ghoul rolled over on the mattress that she found incredibly uncomfortable. Part of her wanted to completely avoid the topic or the barrage of questions and the other part wanted to curl into a ball; this was the only way to make both parts happy. She looked over her shoulder suddenly, and while she couldn't see Calder very well, it still made her feel better to try. "Does...does liking someone always hurt this much?!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:31 pm
Calder sighed. "It does. It can cause you some of the worst pains, BUT..." He reached out, squeezing her shoulder as he tried to peer more into her line of sight. "....it rewards you with the best feeling in all of Halloween. With all the pain and work, it offers you a world like no other. To be loved. It's the greatest feeling around if you just accept it. Fear isn't the only thing that makes the world go round. LOVE, Amrita. That's the thing. Stories, songs, poetry stacks upon stacks upon stacks are all written to it. You can deny and push it aside all you want, but YOUR heart..." To which he prodded her. "....had already decided, and once it's decided to fall in love, there is nothing else you can do about it. It's just going to hurt more and more. The best thing you can do it just accept what you feel. Now..."
He sat up, and smiled. "Amrita, do you like Christof more than just friends?" He had to hear it from her.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:46 pm
There it was, her (current) worst fears confirmed. There had only been a vew moments where she had experienced something akin to the 'best feeling in all of halloween', but if she looked back there was more pain than good feelings. When he prodded her, she stared down at her chest - rather, through to her still heart - and frowned as if it had betrayed her terribly, which it had. Her old heart didn't betray her, but that was probably because her old heart had rotten out of her borrowed chest, and the rest of her had been too clueless to process it.
She listened to his question while still laying on her side, and then took a moment to mull it over. Did she? Of course she did, and Calder knew it...so why bother asking? That was silly, he already had his answer, why ask for more? Suddenly she rolled over again, once more on her back with her hands folded under her chin.
"Yes..." The way she trailed off, it was obvious she wasn't finished; it was likely more denial. "But...I don't think he does." Like her, in the more than just friends sort of way.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:53 pm
Calder smiled, and leaned back, getting very comfortable on Amrita's bed. "That is something you have to find out, but seeing as he kissed you too, well, that is a good place to start." He smiled, and then yawned. "This is all part of discovering. You can always just ask him, or wait and see. That is up to you." He nuzzled the pillow under him.
"That can't be answered tonight anyways. Might as well sleep." He reached out, bringing Amrita into a hug. He felt bad for poking and prodding her this much to the point of being distressed, but it was a good thing, and he only hoped she would later see it that way. For now, he settled on just hugging her. "You did good. Congrats on being in love." He released her, and then continued to linger there.
"Do you....mind if I stay here?" It had been one of the reasons he came. "I don't sleep well in foreign places by myself."
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