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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:42 pm
Lily pulled on her glasses and sighed softly "No he's not here in the room at the moment." She said, standing up and looking around to make sure. "And if she's with Kemuri you don't need to worry. she'll be fiiiinnneeee." She said over the phone. "I'll even go search with you. Meet me at the park in 10 minutes, okay?" She said scratching her overly messy hair from just waking up and beginning her journey towards clean clothes with the phone still up to her ear.
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:49 pm
Kotatsu didn't say that it was Kemuri that she was worried about, but bit her lip and said "O... Okay." She couldn't help it. She wanted Guinevere's best friend to be her own age, not... A man accused of kidnapping whose past was sketchy at best. Sure, she thought he was a nice man. But still... She felt irresponsible as it was for letting Guinevere spend so much time with him.
Now she had lost Guinevere and Kemuri wasn't around.
It wasn't hard for the girl's naturally paranoid imagination to run away with her.
She biked to the park and didn't stop furiously pedaling till she got there.
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:01 pm
Lily's mom told her to stop for breakfast but she said no and just grabbed a piece of toast from a plate and said her thanks. She told her mom she was going to the park with her friend, which was true. She was told to be back before lunch. That would've given her at least a couple of hours to look for Guin and Kemuri. With a clean T-shirt, long pants, socks and her running shoes on, she began to jog towards the park. It was a 5 minute run, but she had gotten dressed in under 5 minutes so she didn't have to sprint there.
She eventually got there, not yet out of breath. She looked around to see if she spotted Kotatsu. She wasn't hard to miss, but Lily overlooked obvious things easily.
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:07 pm
Kotatsu ran towards Lily. "Thank heavens." she gasped. The older woman seemed to be in a real tizzy. "I don't know where Guinevere could have gone... I didn't hear her leaving this morning at all." She looked around the park. "She likes to be alone a lot now... Maybe somewhere isolated."
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:17 pm
"Calm down Kotatsu, it's alright. She'll be fine wherever she went." She said. Lily thought for a moment. The only place she knew that had cobwebs and was deserted was the old amusement park, but that place was shut down years ago. "Let's try that old office building next to the amusement park. No one goes there except to pay their bills." She offered. It was lonely enough and even from the third floor, they could see well to the block down the street. "There's no one from the fourth floor up and the third floor only has the washrooms open, it's a weird place to hide away with civilization." She added. "it's not far from here, about a 10 minute walk?" she said guessing.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:11 am
Kotatsu nodded. "Okay..." she said and guided her bike as she walked. --------- When they got there, she didn't wait for Lily. She ran into the building, peering into every room. "Guinevere?! Guinevere!" she called as loudly and quickly as she could. But the Herald taht had grown so familiar to her was nowhere in sight. Finally, she had run out of places to look. She sagged as she stood on the roof of the building. Guinevere hadn't been there either. What if she was lying injured somewhere?
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:25 am
Lily had to chase after Kotatsu even though she wasn't the one holding a bike. She caught her breath as they reached the roof. They could see the old abandoned amusement park with it's now-broken-mirror maze and teacup set. Teacups... She looked down, peering over the edge. "Hey Kotatsu! Come look at the amusement park! It looks like a Lego set from here. With little lego people?" She questioned as she squinted downwards.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:28 am
Kotatsu squinted, feeling for her bike handles and realizing she had dropped it outside. She hoped no one would steal it, but that was a small, niggling sort of thing in comparison with the large burst of hope she felt as she saw the tiny figures. "You're right!" she exclaimed. "There's someone down there!" She could barely make them out, but it was definitely a person. "Do you think it could be Guinevere?!" she asked. Without waiting for an answer, in her usual panicked rush, she ran back down the stairs and through the building, grabbing her bike and pedalling as fast as she could.
Kotatsu could be quite rude when worried.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:32 am
"HEY! WAIT!" She yelled after the woman. She ran back through the door and shuffled her feet down the stairs, falling down a few floors and seriously hurting her tailbone, but she had to go see, even if she had a week in bed ahead of her. She was too late, when she arrived to the outside, Kotatsu was but a speck down the street. She had to sprint. oh how she hated sprinting. She sighed and took off quickly behind the worried guardian.
The amusement park was already it sight after about a minute of sprinting.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:36 am
Kotatsu's bike skidded to a halt and she dropped it carelessly, ruinning through the amusement park. It wasn't long before she saw a pale arm sticking out of a teacup. Guinevere. Her stomach gave a lurch as she slowed down, approaching it hesitantly. Inside was Guinevere, sound asleep on... Kemuri? Kotatsu wasn't sure she liked that. In fact, she was positive she DIDN'T like it. Anger bubbled inside of her. After all that worry... Didn't Guinevere no beter than to sleep in teacups with people accused of kidnapping? Maybe he lured her there! What had Kemuri done?! Her face flushed red. She took a deep breath, and in a manner most unlike herself she yelled "WAKE... UUUUUUUUP!"
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:52 am
Lily arrived at the scene of the crime(?) moments after Kotatsu had yelled a loud wake up call. "whoa. totally not unexpected." She said as she stared at the duo before the guardian. --------------------------------- Kemuri blinked a few times at the unfamiliar female voice who woke him up. It wasn't Lily or anyone from Lily's family. His eyes were blurry but he soon made out a figure. "who... who are you?" He asked sleepily. It was bright and he moved the arm that wasn't slept on to cover the sun and made out it was someone familiar. It was Guin's guardian. "heey. you're.... Kotatsu, right?" He asked, unaware of the danger from being with her Herald
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:00 am
Kotatsu was only further angered by Kemuri's flippant tone. She pointed o finger right at Kemuri's face while Guinevere stirred sleepily. "Young man..." she said icily, though Kemuri was probably at least as old as she was, "WHAT, pray tell, was Guinevere doing sleeping on you?!" She was truly upset, something that didn't happen often. "I want a full explanation, Mister. Because frankly, I can't think of one that makes you sound even REMOTELY innocent!" Her voice was raised and she was scowling.
Guinevere's eyes opened to a woman yelling. She was lying on something warm and clung to it, not wanting to be stirred just yet. But as the loud noises continued, she opened her blue eyes and blinked in the bright light, realizing it was Kemuri she clung to. She looked up at him curiously. Had he let her fall asleep on him? Had SHE let her fall asleep on him? How peculiar. It hadn't been a BAD thing though... she thought, thinking about what a warm pillow he made.
Apparently it was a bad thing to the yelling woman. Guinevere's mood slid from one of good natured sleepiness to grumpy annoyedness. Blue eyes flashing with ice, she turned around to face the accuser and silently despise them. Seeing it was Kotatsu, she realized she could despise her out loud and said "I was sleeping."
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:08 am
Lily tried to calm down Kotatsu. "There, there Kotatsu. There must be something logi-" But she was stopped by an angered Guin. She shut her mouth and stepped back, scared of the dispute between guardian and herald.
Kemuri was a little shaken, once again accused of things he wasn't responsible for. And there was no point losing his cool or even lying to her. "We met here by chance. We fell asleep really late into the night. We did nothing of /that/ sort." He told her honestly, sitting more upright inside the teacup without brushing Guin off violently (while still being clung to)
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:23 am
Guinevere blushed and let go of Kemuri quickly. "Do you really think Kemuri would take me to an abandoned theme park and... and..." She turned a furious crimson and refrained from sontinuing the sentence. "Everything he said was true! I came out here to be alone and happened to run into him! You ALWAYS throw a hissy fit whenever I want to be on my own, well I have news for you. I am NOT a little girl! I'm nearly a teenager and I am more responsible than you think I am."
Kotatsu looked angry still but sounded less certain. "Still... You should have told me!" She felt like she was losing and the thought upset her. She flailed mentally for something, a winning point, just... "You would have told Aaron!"
It was the wrong thing to say. Silence enveloped both of them, Guinevere looking hurt and weaker than Kotatsu had seen her in a long time, and Kotatsu frightened and ashamed. Guinevere turned around. "I'll go back home on my own." she spat. Kotatsu nodded weakly. "Fine..." she said, turning the other way. She paused. "Kemuri..." she said, turning back, "I'm sorry about what I said."
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:32 am
Lily ran after Kotatsu. "Please, be more rational about this." She pleaded before shooting an angry glare that screamed, 'you'd better fix this' to Kemuri. She turned back around following Kotatsu, half hoping she wouldn't forget her bike at least and head somewhere where she wouldn't be alone in insanity.
Kemuri got the message and fluttered himself out of the teacup and chased down Guin trying to talk her into stop getting angry at Kotatsu. "Come on, Guin. She was only looking out for you." He reassured, hoping not to get on Guin's bad side as well.
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