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 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:11 pm
Emmet turned in the direction of the voice, sliding after it and lunging at the place that Romeo had just been, of course missing him and splashing his torso underwater. After he resurfaced, he coughed a bit and shook his hair; but then lost track of his friend. Instead of trying to smell Romeo's location (cheating was bad!), he called out again. "Marco!". Then as if on cue, the human Marco spoke, successfully scaring Emmet into opening his eyes to focus on him. "Okay Mr. Barlow!" He exclaimed, though he did sound disappointed.
Of course, like any child, he closed his eyes again and spun around in a circle to get himself disoriented before again calling out Marco. The game would continue until Riley told them to get out!
"Works for me, I'm not sure if he'll eat or not. I know he hasn't eaten anything we've eaten since last time. Maybe he'll be a social eater?" Riley mused, watching the boys continue the game like nothing had been interrupted. When he was asked to dry of the boys...well, he paused for a moment. Marco really seemed to trust in some parental instinct that wasn't really there. "Uh...sure. I'll try my best." He promised the man, glancing down at his watch to see how long the boys had.
"Okay boys, time to come out." He said when the time was up, standing up and picking up the nearest towel for the first boy to make it to him.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:27 pm
Romeo turned to look at Riley when he said their time was up, "Aww...okay." He said starting to swim towards the step ladder of the pool to get out. He waited for Emmet at the side of the pool, just in case he needed help getting out.
"Need help getting out Emmet?" Romeo asked offering a hand to his friend. He imagined it would have to be tough getting out of the pool without legs.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:09 pm
Emmet swam to the side of the pool as well, looking from the ladder to his friend and back again. "I think I can do it!" He said, trying to sound confident but failing. He grabbed the step ladder and climbed up it with his arms first, though he couldn't seem to lift himself out onto the wooden deck; he could cling to it with his arms though, his tail had nothing to push off of and he was too young to have the upper body strength to be able to drag himself out. Defeated but thankful for having a friend, he grabbed Romeo's hand and managed to get out with the Cowlet's help. "Thanks, Romeo!" He said once he was out of the pool, panting a bit and rubbing at his own eyes.
Riley watched Romeo help Emmet out of the pool, and was of course right there with a towel to drape around Romeo's shoulders. "Don't forget to take off your water wings...and dry your butt...and tail?" He guessed; he hated sitting down when his swim trunks were wet, and he was sure Romeo wouldn't like it either. He lightly toweled Romeo's hair (being careful of his horns and ears), and patted down the rest of his body before handing him the towel to finish off whatever else he wanted. Then he turned to Emmet, toweling off his hair and the majority of his scales before letting the leucistic have his own towel. "Ready for dinner? I think its ready." He said after waiting a few minutes to make sure the boys dried themselves off but before he guided them back towards the kitchen.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:23 pm
"Thanks Mister Grey." Romeo said as the man helped him to dry off. Once given the towel he continued to dry what ever damp spots were left off, "My dad cooks really good!" Romeo said to Emmet hoping he'd like the food as much as he did.
Once inside the table was already all set with the food and Clay and Dei were already at their spots eating their food. Clay was shoveling it in, he was interrupted right in the middle of his movie and wanted to get back to watching it.
"Can I sit next to Emmet daddy?" Romeo asked looking at his father who was pouring drinks for everyone.
"Of course Romeo." Marco responded with a chuckle as he brought the drinks over to the table and setting them down at everyone's places, "Please, sit down." Marco said gesturing to the open seats as he and Romeo sat down, "I hope you like it, oh, and Emmet, your daddy told me about your eating habits. You don't have to eat if you don't want, but I made you some just in case." He added with a smile.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:02 pm
"You can just call me Riley, Romeo." The military man said as if he were embarassed. The thought was nice, and he did tell Emmet to call adults 'Mister' or 'Missus'...but it felt awkward to be called by his last name. Probably because he hardly had to use it. Before he was blackmailed into taking care of Emmet, the only people who knew his last name and not any other undercover alias was his bosses and Crescentia.
Emmet was quick to crawl onto his seat and pull himself into it, looking around the table at Romeo's siblings before Marco spoke to him. The little leucistic stared at the man as he listened to him, then looked down at the plate of food in front of him. "Thank you, Mister Barlow." He mummbled, looking up from his plate to watch everyone else eat. Even Riley was eating and looking like he enjoyed it! Hesitantly, Emmet leaned down a bit and flicked his tongue out at the plate in front of him. It definitely smelled good! And he was a picky eater, too.
After one final look around the table, Emmet picked up his plate and opened his mouth. There was a little crack as he unhinged his jaw to make it wide enough for the contents of his plate to just slide into his mouth, swallowing it all as it slid into his mouth. Of course, this also showed his baby fangs, having a pair on his upper set of teeth as well as his lower, though the rest of his teeth were a normal humans. When he was done, he set his plate down, twisting his bottom jaw from side to side until it cracked lightly back into place.
Riley groaned very quietly to himself; he didn't expect Emmet to actually eat today. It was almost embarassing.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:09 pm
"Oh my." Marco said as he watched the boy swallow the meal. He looked a little surprised until he rationalized it in his mind. The boy was part snake after all, "Well it looks like you were hungry Emmet." He said with a laugh, "If you'd like some more just ask."
Romeo looked over at Emmet his eyes were wide, when he heard the crack he thought Emmet had hurt himself. But when he went to eat what was on his plate, and watch how he did it he could only stare slack jawed.
Deidre watched the boy her face twisted in disgust. That was so disgusting! She thought not opening her mouth to voice her opinion since her dad was right there.
"WOAH!" Clay said astonished watching the kid swallow the food. He had absolutely no interest in him until now, "Do it again!!" Clay said anxiously trying to hand over the rest of what was on his plate to Emmet.
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:44 pm
Emmet stared at each person, feeling the blush grow stronger on his face the more he realized their reactions. He sheepishly glanced from Marco to Romeo to Deidre to Clay to Riley, then down at his empty plate. "Uhm..n-no thank you. I'm not..not hungry." He said quietly to both Marco and Clay, twiddling his thumbs under the table. "S-sorry." His tongue flickered out from between his lips, his blush still blatantly red on his white skin. The little leucistic then bowed his head a little bit, mummbling something about feeling sick.
Riley had another bite of his food, then suddenly piped up. "Emmet always eats like that...he said its most comfortable for him." He seemed unsure of trying to stick up for the boy; once he had really tried to eat with a fork and a knife, but it didn't work and the kid looked more awkward than what he did when he ate everything in one gulp.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:21 am
"Oh it's fine! No need to apologize." Marco said leaning over and rubbing the boys shoulder. He gave a quick glance to his three children as if to tell them to stop staring and that they were being rude.
Deidre stopped looking at Emmet when he dad gave her a hard glance. She continued to eat her food with her fork, like she liked.
"Aww...I wanna see him do it again." Clay whined putting his plate down and crossing his arms.
"Don't be sorry Emmet!" Romeo piped up noticing how upset the little boy was getting and trying to make him feel better, "See!" He said taking his plate and trying to mimic what Emmet did only managing to get tomato sauce, cheese and noodles all over himself, "Oops...I'm not as good as it as you." Romeo said as the food dripped down his body and onto the floor.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:10 pm
Emmet jumped a bit when Marco touched him, but otherwise didn't move much...he was still much too embarassed. At least he knew now not to eat in front of other people! Life lesson learned. He didn't much care for Clay's disappointment, but when Romeo pipped up he lifted his gaze to his friend, watching him try to eat his food like he had. At first, the leucistic could only blink...and then a little giggle left his lips.
"I'm only good at it 'cause I can do this!" With that he opened his mouth wide, his jaw cracking again to open it farther than a normal human's should. Now he was looking at Romeo only, and he promptly forgot anyone else existed. He cracked his jaw back into place shortly after, then rubbed at his own eyes, slouching back on his chair. "Thanks Romeo, I'm sorry you got messy." He mummbled to his friend, a very thin smile on his lips.
Riley tried to nonchalantly facepalm himself, but in the end he ended up pinching the bridge of his own nose wih his thumb and index finger. Good thing the kid had a friend. "I'll help you clean up before I go." He nodded towards Marco, then glancing at the messy Romeo. At least he was only wearing swim trunks!
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:30 pm
"No need Riley, I'll get it," Marco said with a chuckle looking at the two boys. They seemed to be making fast friends. The man was glad, he wanted to see Romeo make some friends and it seemed like he was doing just that.
"That's so cool!" Romeo said as Emmet stretched out his jaw. Romeo quickly piled the rest of his food in his mouth wanting to be done and go play with his friend. Soon he was finished and hopped down off of his chair, food still all over him, "C'mon, lets go play!" He said to Emmet anxiously.
"Oh no you don't, not yet," Marco said with a laugh getting up from his seat, "We need to clean you up," He said taking Romeo by the hand.
"Awww....but Daaaaad," Romeo protested as he was lead off to the bathroom.
"Be back in a few moments," Marco said looking back at his guests. He couldn't help but laugh a little bit when he looked down at his messy little son.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:44 pm
Emmet was about to agree to playing, but then Marco stepped in and Romeo was carted away for an impromptu bath. He nibbled a bit on his lower jaw, looking shyly from Claydon to Deidre then back to Riley, silently pleading with his guardian to do something.
Riley cleared his throat, catching Emmet's desperate stare. "So uh...how are you two?" He started uncertainly, his fingers drumming on his kneecaps under the table. "How far along are you in Air Bud, Claydon?" His gaze fell on the sulking red head before shifting towards the little girl. "And your tea party? No complications between guests, I hope?" He was pulling at straws now, feeling more afraid of two little cows at a dinner table than he was about going up against a troupe of fully armed, adult men.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:55 pm
Clay was still disappointed that Emmet wouldn't do that trick again. However he was done with his dinner and Riley reminded him about his movie, "It's almost the end!" He said recalling where he had left off before quickly hopping out of his seat and running downstairs to finish his movie.
Deidre's face lit up when it seemed some one was taking interest in her tea party, "Well Mrs. Snuggle Poof ChaCha and Madame' Clarice bigton the second were arguing about where the tea sets china was made in. I of course know but they didn't believe me because it isn't on the bottom of the cups. So they kept debating over whether they were from France or from Switzerland but of course I knew that They are fine Belgian china." She said talking on about her make believe party. It seemed the girl had quite the imagination.
It wasn't too terribly long before Romeo and Marco came back, Romeo was dressed in his clothes again and still a little damp because he gave Marco a little struggle with drying him off. He would have run right back into the kitchen soaking wet and nude if he had his way.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:17 pm
"Uhh...bye?" Riley said as Claydon ran off, then looked at the little girl when she started talking. And kept talking. Holy crap, how did you get this girl to shut up!? "Uh, thats not good. Did they stop before you came to dinner?" He knew he shouldn't have said anything, because starting conversations wouldn't stop the little gyser that was the girl's voice. Luckily Marco and Romeo came back, and he could turn his attention and have an excuse to do so. "Ah, welcome back."
Emmet quickly slid from his chair when Romeo came back, slitering quickly over to his now clean, though still damp friend. The Leucistic's hair was still wet, but the rest of him was nice and dry. He was quick to slither to his friend. "Whattcha wanna do now?" He asked his friend, having forgotten about the dinner fiasco.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:34 pm
Marco heard Deidre spouting off about her party to Riley. He laughed a little to himself as he walked back in, "Looks like you're all done Dei, here, take some cookies to your tea party." Marco said giving Dei a few cookies from the cabinet.
"Okay daddy." Dei said instantly taking the cookies and skipping back off to her room. With sweets she could settle the dispute which right now was of the utmost importance.
"Here you go boys, you can have some cookies as well," He said handing Romeo and Emmet two cookies each.
"Thanks Dad!" Romeo said before turning back to Emmet, "Let's go play Batman in my room!" Romeo said excitedly his tail swishing behind him as he grabbed Emmet's free hand to lead him off.
Marco laughed airily again to himself as the boys took off before going to grab a dish rag to clean up Romeo's chair and the floor around it.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:43 pm
Riley shot Marco a thankful stare when he got Deidre to quiet down and bounce off. She was cute with her blonde little pigtails bouncing, but holy crap could that girl talk. Once the kids were gone he stood up, with every intention to help clean as much as he could. It felt like the right thing to do. "I'm sorry about the mess, I didn't think Emmet would eat anything." Poor kid though. "And are you sure you don't need help at all?"
Emmet took his cookies shyly, thanking Marco quietly before turning back to Romeo. "Okay!" He agreed eagerly, slithering after his friend with his hand gripping Romeo's. When they reached the little cowlet's room, Emmet made a beeline for his bag, pulling out his heat pad and spreading it out on the floor. He was good at using it now of course, and he quickly turned it on and curled on top of it. "Sorry...m'kinda cold." The little leucistic admitted shyly, rubbing his arms a bit. "Riley said I need the pad when I get cold because I can't regulate my body temperature very well." He paused for a moment, scratching at his cold and wet hair. "I don't know what that means but I know I need the heating pad!" He had a sweater, but he didn't really like wearing clothes, so more often than not he used the heating pad. Afterwords, he turned and looked around at all the toys, his long tail curling and coiling tightly underneath himself. "Who should I be?!"
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