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 Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:58 pm
Bedtime giggles, covering his mouth with his small hands. "I will help in a minute," he says. "I am going to take a moment to set up the food and drinks on the tables."
Bellatrix is frowning even deeper as he leaves. "Yes, it was silly, Casala," she says, biting back the anger. How DARE he presume to think he knows how she feels? Even if there is a little truth to it now, he had no right to tell anyone that! "I do NOT love you, Signis!" she shoots after him, hoping to drive a tiny punch into his gut.
Sitting in as dignified a manner as she can, she waves a hand at Casala's last comment, wondering just what it was that Signis seems to have left outside. "It's no trouble. Lenore keeps bringing it over, and I don't get injured near enough to use it all, anyway."
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:20 pm
Friend tries to say, "Okay!" but it comes out more like, "Mookay!", her voice muffled from her face being pressed into multiple fluffy rumps of the toys she's stumbling about with. She tries to head back towards the table, but luckily veers to the side and bumps into yet another pile of stuffed animals.
Casala is stumped... again. She decides that since Signis has left the room, it's safe to ask Bellatrix about what's twisted her mind up in knots. "Bellatrix? I understand how you must feel, what with someone presuming that they know how your innermost self thinks, but... " She looks down, setting her tea cup down on its saucer so she can weave her fingers together. If she is to ask Bellatrix what she intends, she will tell her friend the truth of how she ended up in her temple, alone. It not only explains her feelings towards what she's about to ask, but she considers it a fair exchange. "I.. I searched for my family, ever since I was born. Eirnae's spirit is my first memory. She was gone before I knew it. That's why my sash is so important to me. She left it for me, to find her by. My family means a lot to me."
'Please don't pity me,' she pleads in her head. That's the last thing she wants from Bellatrix. She wants to be strong, strong enough so she can protect her mother from ever dying again. She won't lose her family again! She forces herself to look up, glad for the self control to keep her emotions from her face. "If Signis loves you, doesn't that make him family? Like Lenore and Eirnae? Are his kisses a different kind of hug?"
She smiles slightly, then shakes her head, looking down again. "I apologize for asking so many questions, I don't mean to pry. I just don't understand."
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Eirnae Slytherin-Natenhar
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:24 pm
Signis wanted to give the girls time to chat, so he took his time getting his stuff.... He brought he bag into the cave again and smiled at the two ladies. "I'll be back in a minute, I need to check something out real quick..." He said with a nod and passed right by them, not stopping.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:37 pm
Bedtime hurries and puts the food out quickly. "Here, Friend, let me help you with my friends," he says, hurrying over her and holding out his arms.
Bellatrix narrows her eyes afer Signis, before reaching over and putting a hand on Casala. She keeps the pity from her eyes, and instead gives her a warm smile.
But, at the questions, her eyes harden a little. "His kisses are distractions, and they are in no way like a hug. But, I am sure they are the same sort of kisses that Lenore and Eirnae share. And, no, that does not make him family. It only makes him want to be my silly boyfriend, and I don't have time for one of those." She huffs out a breath, and shakes her head.
"It's fine, it is best to ask questions when you do not understand something," she says, her voice a little softer.
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Eirnae Slytherin-Natenhar
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:52 pm
"Mmokay," is what answers him, as little Friend stumbles towards his voice. With no sense of brakes, she's headed straight for him, very likely temporarily blind due to the animals blocking her view.
She gives in to the urge to lay her other hand over Bellatrix's, smiling at the display of caring from her usually standoffish friend. Somehow, that just makes it all the more meaningful. "Thank you," she says softly, giving Bellatrix's hand a light squeeze.
"Well... I'm still unsure about these terms, as I've never encountered them before," she admits. "So, a boyfriend is of a romantic connection, like a fiance', a husband, or a lifemate?" Considering those implications she blanches, turning an interestingly pale shade of grey in her horror. It's too soon! "He wants to be your fiance'?" She knows that a fiance' is someone that you are promised to, and will marry one day. Surely that's not what Signis had meant, right? "That means that a kiss is of a romantic nature, too, then? What does it involve?" Like many teenagers, she's finding herself wondering what it's like to 'kiss' someone, except in her mind she and the other faceless person are just standing there, staring at one another. She doesn't know what happens next in the scene.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:56 pm
Signis went about, placing objects of his own about the house in random locations, not quite intent on telling Bellatrix he'd left them there... He was going to give the girls some time to talk, and also give him some time to work on hiding his stuff for the move in...
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:16 am
"Stop!" Bedtime says, knowing that his own relfexes are quite sluggish, and he holds his tiny arms in front of him,hoping to cushion the impending collision, though the animals might do that on their own. . . .
"Gaurdians, no!" Bellatrix scoffs at the idea. "Noooooo. A Boyfriend is just someone you have feelings for. You haven't quite moved on to the fiance' bit yet, and you are far from husband. You are just with one anoher, sort of testing out if you are meant to be with one another. . . . For the long haul."
However, when she asks about the kiss, the wicked smile returns to her lips. "Sometimes. They are not always romantic in nature. Why, would you like to learn how?" she asks.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:26 am
Friend tries to stop as ordered, but her feet just keep going. Wu oh... "Camp!" she warns, trying to say 'Can't!', as she keeps going, the plushies boinging softly into Bedtime just enough to halt her questing feet. Ah, much better. "Sowwy," she apologies behind her wall of fur.
"Oooh... Well, that makes much more sense," Casala says with a nod, sounding relieved. Mrs. Joesphine had told her once to never let a man propose to her before they were fully devoted to one another. Maybe she had meant this boyfriend thing?
She nods again, her eyes twinkling with her curiousity as she smiles, "Yes, I'd like to know. How does it work?" She leans forward a bit, eager to listen to Bellatrix's answer. What was this mysterious action that both lovers, and others, can do that affords it such a title as 'a kiss'?
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Eirnae Slytherin-Natenhar
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:31 am
Bedtime remains still, holding his hands up. "It's alright. You can give me some of those, so you don't fall," he offers, starting by reaching up, a little unsteadily, to take one off of the top of the pile.
Bellatrix chuckles at the relieved tone in her voice, and shakes her head a little.
"Alright, the best way to explain it, is to do it," Bellatrix says, in a conspiritorial whisper as she leands forward over the table. Glancing back at the entry way, making sure Signis is not anywhere in sight, she leans forward further, and presses her lips to Casala.
It's just a light kiss, and it is over soon. She sits down across from her friend again, and takes a sip from her cold tea. "There is more involved to it, once you get further along with kissing the same person. But, it starts out like that," she says, in a matter-of-fact voice. As though she never even did it.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:43 am
Her eyes peer at him over the space he's cleared for her at the top of the stack, though she has to lower her arms and stand on tippy-toe to do it. "Hullo!" she calls with a grin, "Nice to see you again. Thanks. Your friends are cushy, but they don't like me to see stuff, I think. Maybe they want the snacks for themselves?" she suggests helpfully. It was a plushie conspiracy! They wanted to secure the treats for their own tummies!
She would still be sitting there, staring straight forward in her surprise, if Veron hadn't come out of nowhere and landed on top of her head. His insistant buzzing distracts her from her initial reaction, as she looks up to only see her bangs as they sweep over her forehead and the light blue gem on it. "I'm fine, Veron. Bellatrix was just showing me how to kiss."
More buzzing. Veron sounds a bit agitated. In response, Casala shakes her head to get him to fly off of it. "I didn't leave without you. You were too busy flying away from Mirim to hear me calling for you. Besides, like I said, Friend and I are fine."
She looks to Bellatrix and crosses her eyes, then looks up to see that Veron is no longer present. "It's gotten so tempermental these days. Sorry about that... Now, about the kiss. You said that was how they start?" She lifts up a hand to touch her bottom lip. She doesn't feel any different. Is she supposed to? It had been nice. Brief, but nice. It even left a funny tingle at the base of her spine. How odd... When she thinks of the tingle, she notices that it's still there. "Is it normal to feel strange afterward? Like.. tingly strange? I don't really know how best to put it."
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Eirnae Slytherin-Natenhar
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:57 am
Bedtime looks a little worried now. What if Friend is right? Oh noes!
Looking down at the stuffed bear in his hands, he asks, "Are you trying to take all of the snacks, Fluffy Bear?" He seems to listen for a moment, before saying, "Are you sure?" Another pause, and Bedtime is taking a few more off of the top of the pile in Friend's arms.
"Fluffy Bear says that you might have just grabbed too many of his friends. He's not trying to make you fall." He has a small group of them in his arms now, and he peeks over the tops of their ears and rumps. "Can you see better now?"
Bellatrix watches the exchange, briefly. Then, she blinks a little at what Casala has to say. "Yes, usually, they only start that way. Then, they sort of. . . . Deepen." She doesn't know how else to describe it. But, she grins at the description of the tingle. "That happens when you like the kiss, I suppose. Signis wasn't completely wrong in what he said earlier. Sometimes, when he kisses me, I can't think." She blinks at her own admission. She waves that off. "I would show you, again. But, I don't want Signis getting mad. . . ." She gets stupid when he is mad, too. . . .
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:09 am
Friend peeks over the lessening stack of huggable cushiness, eyeing Fluffy Bear warily. The head of the ring of Plotting Plushies would say something like that, wouldn't he? Well, she'd just have to play it cool. "Much better, thank you," she affirms as her vision vastly improves. Hah! They could fool Bedtime, but at least they couldn't get him to aid in their ee-eevil scheme.
Casala feels a laugh bubbling up from within her chest, and so she lets it happen. It feels good to laugh openly again, especially after that heated conversation between Bellatrix and Signis earlier. She waves her hands in front of her, shaking her head as she stifles the noise so she can talk. "No, no. Even though I liked the first one, I think us doing the next step isn't a thing meant for friends. Besides, Signis is my teacher now, and it wouldn't do for me to make him upset, either."
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Eirnae Slytherin-Natenhar
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:16 am
"You're welcome," Bedtime says, as he goes over to their make-shif table. He starts to sit some of the plushies around it, before taking his seat. "Finally! Is everyone as hungry as I am?" he asks, grinning at Friend.
Bellatrix actually laughs fully now, again accompanied with the sound of a hissing laugh, making it sound as though a snake is in the room. "Actually, Sssssssignis is quite. . . . exhillerating . . . when he issssss mad," she says through her laughter, hissing a little. "Though, no, I do recommend that we not anger him. Especially when he is teaching you. He swings pretty hard. . . ."
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:35 am
She doesn't think that she's moved so fast in her life before. She rockets over and starts rearranging the stuffed animals so they are just that much farther from the 'table'. She's going to catch them in the act, and they would have to reach to get their goodies, if she had anything to say about it. "Yes, starved!" she chirps before settling down on her own pillow, and eyeing the ring of blank eyed toys warily. Would they try to get the first bite? Agent Friend, on the stakeout! She knew watching the manor's magic box would prove useful. She's like a gummyshoed detector now! Well, okay, so her feet aren't yet gummy, but she can work on that.
She finds herself really liking Bellatrix's laughter right now. It sounds open and real, as if the other Pae is letting a part of her usual reserve go. She appreciates that, and grins despite the memory of the scar Signis had showed her earlier. If it happens, it happens. She'll work through it. "If what he showed me earlier was your doing, it seems he has to work hard to upkeep that reptuation when around you. You seem to give as good as you get." She lets her pride in Bellatrix for this trait she admires in her friend affect the tone of her voice, not apt to hide such a thing from Trixie.
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Eirnae Slytherin-Natenhar
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:44 am
Bedtime watches, a little confused, as she moves the plushies. Did she not want them to eat? Was Friend really so mean?
No, she hasn't shown she can be! Friend is nice! So, he settles down, and takes some fruit in his hand. He takes a nibble of the grape, and says. "Mmmmmmmm, yummy!" before popping the whole thing in his mouth. "Twy, Fluthy Pear!" he says with his mouth full. He takes a grape and holds it out to the bear.
Bellatrix seems to squirm under the naked pride in her friend's voice, but manages a smile, none-the-less. "I. . . . well, I usually end up on my back. He's much better than I am, now. Like I said, he has got some pretty good slices in, you just can't see them. . . ." Yep, she is too vain to show it. "That big old scar? Yeah, he just made a mistake, and I still feel horrible about it. You should have seen all of the blood. . . ." Usually, that would have got her blood boiling, but she remembers how it happened, and she shivers.
"Anyway, I am sure you will do great with the practices," she says, smiling her wicked way again.
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