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 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:59 am
Well, this was getting a little too personal. "Is it such a crime to be uncomfortable around the opposite sex? I can't help that I don't trust your kind." Obviously this stemmed from some deep-seeded childhood memories. Might've had something to do with the lack of a father figure in her life.
And then he dropped one hell of a bomb. At first the last part flew right over her head like a 747. "Oh. Yeah. Just tightly strung. Sure. I'm-" Her mouth stopped her right there before she said another word, the implications striking her like an epiphany.
Riyo's tail stood straight out, hands covering her cheeks to hide the immense blushing they were about to do. Oh Jack. Too many thoughts. Too many terrible thoughts. "T-t-t-thats... W-why would you say something like that?!"
Forget the ******** salmon. "I don't need s... sss...." Oh for the love of Sally she couldn't even say it now.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:32 pm
"Not a crime," Akubi said simply with a shrug. He was idly preparing her plate of food now even though she didn't answer his question. "It might hinder your attempts to rebuild your life, won't it? I am not saying you have to hug every boil you come across but at least be able to jab them in the chest with a threatening finger...Or whatever it is you do."
Then her reaction to her needing sex to unwind sort of made him stare at her with that sort of blank expression he usually had when someone freaked out over a soiled skirt or a torn heel within his presence. "Because it is what I hear from those around me. Is it not true? I mean there has to be something to it if so many people just drop what they do and go at it like crazed minipets around some aromatic mushrooms."
Akubi's candid behavior was always a blessing and a curse...
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:13 pm
"If people were to start jumping off cliffs would that make it sound more appealing to you?!" Riyo spoke a little louder than she'd actually meant to, her voice a little high-pitched. "I don't know if it's true or not! I've never done it and don't plan to!"
One didn't even have to squint to see how uncomfortable she was right now. It looked like she wanted to crawl in a hole and die. "Seriously why all the sex talk? I thought it didn't interest you..." Her hands clung to either end of her robe tightly as if it would somehow cover her more than it already was.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:20 pm
"Maybe. Jumping off cliffs does seem like an interesting spectacle. At least to watch. I am not sure about the act itself." Akubi replied seeming as calm as ever while he set the plate down at the table and gestured toward it. The display of her discomfort was simply met with a stare and a raised eyebrow.
What did she expect him to do? Pounce on her?
He just shook his head, "You sound so paranoid," came the flat uninterested tone in reply. "I am making small talk and you are just," he waved his hands around, "making it sound like I'm about to corner you and devour you or something."
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:28 pm
Riyo uh... Riyo wasn't sure how to take his reply, really.
"So... Wait... Are you saying you'd like to... Watch people having sex too?" It was uncomfortable in a completely different way. "Cause I mean... I think that's what they call pornography..."
Boy this was awkward.
As he gestured towards the plate, the feline looked at it, then back up at him before slowly advancing. "Small talk? Generally individuals don't just start talking about something so private to pass the time. You seem to be the only one unconcerned with how personal or impersonal a subject is." Cautiously, she had a seat, poking at the fish with her fork as if it might jump at her too.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:37 pm
Akubi raised an eyebrow, "What does sex have to do with cliff jumping?"
It seemed the boil took things a bit too literally or he latched onto different things that were being talked about. On one hand he had left the idea of sex in favor of something more interesting (for him to watch).
All the wounding. All the trauma.
Mmm.
Akubi shrugged, "I am not exactly a crafter of appropriate conversation."
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:48 pm
"I... Er... Nevermind." Riyo used her free hand to rub her forehead, finally taking a bite of the salmon. Oh, salmon. How she'd forgotten your flavorful taste and flaky texture. It was like she died and went to fish heaven.
"Okay, well. Here. I'll start an appropriate conversation." If he was truly that dense. "Uh. How was your day?" Though it wasn't like Riyo was a master herself. Truth be told she despised small talk but if this kept his attention from prodding at her insecurities than it was a better alternative.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 4:18 pm
Akubi settled in a nearby chair and folded his arms over his chest. He seemed content to let the cliff jumping conversation die in a dignified manner.
"...Hm. Pretty normal even if it has taken a strange turn. After all I hadn't planned on discovering a hole into your room," he said idly, now he sounded bored.
"Yours?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:31 pm
Frankly, Riyo didn't care how bored he sounded as long as she was comfortable. "Yeah. That makes two of us..." Jack she hoped he didn't plan on exploiting that. She didn't have the resources to fix it right now and it was already going to hinder her sleep. Just knowing it was there... Ugh.
"Well. I'm more of a glass half empty kind of person, so it seems like every day is only mildly tolerable." She took large bites of the fish inbetween sentences. "But I guess I've had worse days." Much... Much... Much worse.
"Hell, in that respect it's hard for me to have a bad day anymore." What a dreamy thought that was.
But dreamy didn't really keep up a conversation, she supposed. The fork scraped against the plate as she contemplated what to say next. Ugh. Small talk. "Uh.. How's your aunt?" It felt weird to ask questions she really didn't care about.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:20 pm
Akubi stared at her and only gave her that unnerving grin of his. He shrugged his shoulders, "If I looked at life like that then I suppose you may as well take me out back and shoot me. I am not sure I could live like that without believing something better is around the corner."
His life sometimes was nothing but a series of bad luck. Select individuals had made it so he didn't just give up and helped him build just enough confidence to keep going in the face of obstacles.
The boil paused and for once he narrowed his eyes at her a little. Small talk or not...
"It isn't like you care." He said bluntly. Akubi felt vindicated just by the simple fact because of how she treated him sometimes. "I'm letting you treat me like an idiot, but pretending to care about those in my life? I'm not letting you do that."
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:40 pm
Well. This was escalating rather quickly.
Riyo stopped chewing her food slowly, setting down her fork with precision so that it was directly vertical. Okay. So this was how it was gonna be then?
"Yeah? Well when you respawn every time you die then one doesn't have much of a choice but to march through the treachery of living a meaningless and often frigid existence." She spoke, over enunciating very purposefully.
But she supposed being civil for moments at a time was just too much for the cat ghoul to keep up with. This was her destiny. To piss off everybody whether she meant to or not. Really, she was just trying her best to be civil, the way normal 'civilians' defined such a remedial task.
"No. You're right. I don't care." Riyo pushed her plate forward and stood up. "But I figured I'd attempt to partake in this mindless drivel for the sake of normalcy, if only for once." The ghoul marched over to scoop up her neatly folded sheets. "But you know what? ******** this, and ******** you. Not like it's hard to treat an idiot as such."
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:24 pm
Akubi just stared at her quietly and just let her get up. Good. Let her be upset. Let her be pissed off. He was glad of it. He refused to let her bully him about emotionally or even physically if he had a choice.
He often did. Like right now.
The cat boil couldn't find it in himself to be sad or angry for her. He felt absolutely nothing, except the tiniest bit of a pang of something. Perhaps it was guilt? Akubi covered it out as he hissed, "I'd rather be a happy 'idiot' than a shattered 'genius' that mopes and plays the violin just because someone comments on their appearance."
"Don't let the door catch your tail on the way out," he uttered dismissively.
Maybe he could feel hurt. Maybe he was hurt. It was hard to tell because he was still grinning.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:31 pm
Oh. Oh that was a low blow. As Riyo swung the door open, she shot one last piercing glare back at the boil. "At least I care about how I look." Was her last desperate attempt to make him feel worse than she did as she slammed the door behind her loudly. It was something she hadn't even meant, really. Just an effort to get one last word in.
And then Riyo spent the rest of the night awake, seething in her bed, unable to relieve her mind of the fact that her sheets smelled like that damn cat.
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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:35 pm
"GUESS THE JOKE'S ON YOU BECAUSE I KNOW I LOOK AWESOME," he shouted back at her in retort.
No one ever claimed he was mature.
It wouldn't be until several hours later until she heard shuffling at her front door. Whenever Riyo bothers to check she'll find a large bag of food stuffs. Enough food stuffs to last her a good two or three days.
No note or anything attached to it. It seemed even Akubi was too proud for certain apologies verbal or note written.
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