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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:32 pm
"Oooh. You wound me," Rabid laughed, and then added, "I was going to say handsome, but screw that. I say girly." She stuck her tongue out at him.
"Tickling. It's, like...I dunno. Your nerves go all crazy, and once they realize it's not pain, you laugh."
Hellis suddenly leaped off of Björn (who was insanely relieved), and tackled Ethan, sitting in his lap. He smiled his usual silent hello.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:38 pm
Julian sighed in defeat, throwing up his hands.
"I concede. I'm girly. I'm an abomination, don't look at me!" he said in a pained voice, turning away. Crow giggled.
"Yeah, you BETTER run. There's three girls in here. You're practically a dead man walking."
"Says the one who's gonna wake up in the apple-pie bed sometime in the near future. You're too tiny. You'll be stuck forever."
"You wouldn't dare!"
Julian laughed maniacally, and doubly so as Ethan let out a startled yelp and tumbled over, glasses flying off and book soaring by Lenore's head.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:40 pm
"...WHAT?!" Rabid yelped, laughing near-hysterically all of a sudden.
Hellis said nothing, simply falling over with Ethan and maintaining eye contact.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:44 pm
"Ohmygawwwwd, Rabid, he's so mean don't let him trap me in my bed agaaaain," Crow yowled, hanging on for dear life. "That's how he got back at me for that time I put crayfish in his cereal."
"And good enough for you!"
"HEY. Crayfish warranted at the very least a bucket of orange paint to the face. Trapping your sister in her bed with some stupid overturned sheets borders cruelty!"
"I thought it was funny."
"Lincoln taped it!"
"And now we have something to share at the Christmas party."
Groping for his glasses, Ethan put them on upside down and squinted at Hellis, only then realizing he had to turn them around. He grinned and laughed, shifting so a knife sheath was no longer poking into his lung.
"You do that often, don't you," he said, amused.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:00 pm
"Oh, jeez," Rabid laughed.
"You think that's bad? This one here put a turtle in my pants."
"We were six!"
"You were evil."
"Rawr."
Hellis smiled to Ethan and shook his head lightly, giving the boy a quick hug.
"I think you were too serene for his taste."
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:04 pm
Crow snorted.
"Hell, I should be taking notes."
Julian shied away, looking mortified.
"I should be investing in protective undergarments," he said wryly.
With another noise of surprise at the hug, Ethan smiled and tried to adjust his glasses, thankful one of the lenses was only loose and didn't pop out.
Len watched in amusement, still recovering from the tickling.
"Heya, Hellis," she called. "You an' Ethan are the same age, arentcha? You gonna go to school or somethin' when we get home?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:15 pm
Liam immediately started laughing at Len's remark. Hellis and Björn looked to each other, wide-eyed.
"He's...ah...already finished school." It was a lie. The poor kid was a dropout. But had he not left early, he would have already been done.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:17 pm
Not understanding what Liam found so funny, Len pushed her mouth to one side and tilted her head.
"Oh...okay. I just figured. Ethan's like...eighteen, right?"
"Nineteen."
"Right, right...lucky Hellis, got out early..."
"You don't even go, Len."
"It's the principle of the thing. He's just smarter than you, he got out earlier. Right, Hellis?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:19 pm
"He's...not eighteen. Or even nineteen."
Hellis swallowed hard and sat up, fiddling nervously with the dogtags around his neck which, upon further investigation, would reveal themselves to be Björn's.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:22 pm
"No? You're twenty? You don't look it at all."
Crow mumbled something to herself about twenty being not so different from nineteen, but otherwise didn't interject.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:23 pm
"Ah...no! No. Quite a bit...younger...actually."
Liam was still cackling insanely, clutching his sore gut.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:25 pm
Younger? Huh. Len nibbled her lip thoughtfully, casting Liam a look and wondering what on earth he found so funny.
"So...oh! Seventeen! Or, or...ummm...sixteen?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:28 pm
"No...uh...you'd...never guess," Björn said, laughing nervously and scratching the back of his neck, "and you'd judge me if I told you."
Hellis smiled and snorted lightly.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:31 pm
"But I'm good at guessing stuff," Len said, sounding a little affronted that she of all people couldn't guess something. "An' what would I judge for? I like you."
And scared to death of you, but that's another story, she added silently. "C'mon, how old is he?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:26 am
Hellis blinked in abject horror.
"Heh," Björn voiced nervously, "Trust me. You would."
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