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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:20 pm
He pulled the shoes on the doll before fluffing her hair again. "I'm Hyacinthus Floros," he said clumsily, tripping over his first name. "My first name is a flower and my second name is Greek for 'green' because my mommy is Greek. Who are you?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:04 pm
"Who are you?" was the same question as "What's your name?" right? Texas thought so, so he would reply, "I am Texas Pete!" He pointed to himself confidently and raised his head to make himself seem more heroic. It only worked at a certain angle. At another, he looked like the typical braggart little kid. The boy then relaxed his shoulders. "Y'all can call me whatever you want, though. Can I call you Hya?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:39 pm
"No, I like being called Cinthy." He didn't know too much about being cordial or polite in certain instances, preferring to just say what it was he wanted or needed. "I want to call you Tex. Okay?" While that could be misinterpreted as being demanding, he actually was a rather passive child who would take things the way that they were. Just because he said that he wanted something didn't necessarily mean that he would get it.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:43 pm
Cinthy? That was hardly heroic. Texas would rather call him Hya, but he wouldn't argue with the demanding child. Though he liked to be seen as tough, Texas Pete was rather laid-back and tended to stay out of argumentative situations. "Sure, Tex is a good nickname." He always had liked Tex, anyway. Tex sounded cool.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:05 pm
"Okay, Tex. Thanks." His parents had taught him to always thank someone whenever they give him what he wanted. "What kind of things do you like?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:39 pm
"I like sunny days." He glared out at the rainy outdoors as best as a little boy could. "But I like other things too. What do you like?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:49 pm
"Hmmm...I like pretty things. Like irises, and luna moths, and special birds, and bows in girl's hair, and...um...." He rubbed his chin as if he had a beard like he had seen some of the male guardians do. No men lived at his house, so his parents told him to watch some of the adult pae'il men for understanding how boy pae'ils behave since that was what he was curious about. There were times when he wanted to know that he was doing the right thing and acting the right way.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:29 pm
Cinthy got bonus cool points for liking a type of insect. Aysu just squirmed and exclaimed that they were gross whenever Texas stuck one in her face. He could overlook the fact that Hyacinthus enjoyed bows in other people's hair. Bows were annoying. "Anything else?" Surely, the um meant something or other.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:38 pm
"Um...swimming, running, playing hide-and-go-seek, um...climbing, I guess." He shrugged, finished with accessorizing the doll. Now she looked pretty enough. "Is there anyone I can give this to?" He had figured out pretty early on that, in general, boys would sneer if he offered them dolls that he had made pretty.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:43 pm
Did he know anyone? ...Nah. "Nope. Sorry, Cinthy." Well, Texas actually did know Aysu, but he did not want to give anything to her or have anyone give anything to her. She could yank pretty things out of her bag at will anyway. There was no point in someone else giving her stuff.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:22 pm
"Oh. Okay. I guess I can put it over here." He wandered over to the toy box and set the doll nice on top of it so it'd be in plain view of the next girl who walked in. "What do you want to do now?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:42 pm
Hopefully Aysu would not be the next girl to walk in. That would simply be irritating. "I'd like to do anything fun. This weather is boring." Hyacinthus seemed promising. Did he know anything that was of interest besides dressing up dolls? He had to...
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:06 pm
"Okay. Let's go find something." He took Texas Pete's hand because that was his manner so he could lead him out of the room. "We could find something fun."
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:09 pm
Texas Pete was fine with holding hands, surprisingly. He did not put up and sort of fit about it and followed along. "There has to be something interesting in this building." Right? The Pae'il Headquarters supposedly had everything, but he did not know if that was true or if it was just something Esmée made up to be annoying..
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:21 pm
"My mommy told me about a special room in the basement. It's supposed to be cool, but I don't know what there. I don't know if we're allowed to go there either." But she never told him that he couldn't go down there. That would've made it okay, right? If not, he wasn't sure what he'd do. It wasn't something that hurt them, right? So far as he could tell, no or else she would have told him so. His parents were good about warning him what was bad and what was good. Punching someone was bad, but punching a pillow was good. That sort of thing.
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