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Evari stayed in the window for quite some time, about an hour or two, before she finally sighed from boredom and slid out of the window and backward onto the floor to stare up at the ceiling again with her feet propped up against the window. She turned her head to the side to stare in the direction of her bed, spotting the book Xai had given her half sticking out from under her mattress. Oh...her journal thing. Xai had told her she had to write stuff in it. Well, okay. She'd write about her weird dream! Rolling onto her stomach, Evari pushed herself onto her hands and knees and crawled over to grab the book and pull it out from under the mattress, climbing on her bed and lying on her stomach as she opened to the second page and grabbed a pen off her nightstand.

She stopped writing the entry and just stared at it, tossing the pen aside. This stuff was stupid, why was she even doing it? Nevertheless Evari closed the book and hid it under her mattress, falling off the bed completely intentionally and crawling to the door. She'd find something interesting to do!

"And just for three easy payments of nineteen ninety--"

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"I love you! You love me! We're a great bi--"

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"¡¿Por qué, Maria?! ¡¿Por qué?! ¡¿Por qué dormiría usted con mi malo hermano de gemelo?!"

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"Now, you just let that sim--"

"So BORED!" Evari whined, tapping her finger on her nightstand again and changing the channel on the screen in her wall. Why was there nothing on?! She couldn't bother Tyyne, Tyyne was out somewhere with Xai...so she couldn't bother Xai earlier! And she couldn't find Nutter! He was probably asleep in the cereal again, but the cereal was too high for her to reach. Sigh. She snapped her fingers and watched a few sparks fly, sighing again and sitting up on her bed. There were all kinds of clothes scattered around her floor, and so she started to change into them. That was when she heard it. The music. The best music ever. She looked up at the TV screen to see flashing lights in a nightclub, watching as a large logo popped up on the screen that read:

Rave...day? Whoa! A whole day just for music she liked?! That was amazing! Evari's eyes widened and she ran over to the wall, nearly tripping and reminding herself she'd been in the middle of putting on a pair of neon purple tights. Oops! Hopping around to get them on, she leaned on the wall with one hand for support, using the other to slide her finger across the bottom of the screen. It made the music louder and she grinned, hopping away and putting on the rest of her outfit. It was when she was finished that she turned around again to get a good look at the people on the large screen. There were so many pretty girls! And they all looked...so much different than her. She stared at them, grabbing a chair from a little table set up in her room and standing on it to get a better look up close at the way the girls were all dressed. Some of them weren't wearing a lot of clothes, huh? And their hair...it was so crazy! But in a good way! Oooh that girl had on pretty makeup. And that girl's nails glowed different colors! Evari looked down at her hands. Her nails were plain. Boring. Hell no! That wouldn't work anymore! Nothing about her could be boring. The music still blaring at its highest volume, Evari jumped off the chair and wandered over to her mirror, staring at herself. She looked almost nothing like those girls. Her hair was plain, and she didn't have a chest like any of them. Or even the figure. She looked like such a...such a kid! Evari frowned at that and turned every which way, putting her hands on her waist and holding her shirt tight against her. She didn't have any curves to her like those other girls did. Even Victoria had had a little bit of a figure to her, huh?

Evari's hands let go of her shirt to hold her hair. It was in pigtails today with little puffs of hair behind them. She looked back at the television again. A couple girls had their hair like this, but it didn't look quite like theirs. They had shiny bits too. Hm...she wanted shinies in her hair. Her skin glowed but her hair didn't. Evari started to look around her room, picking up clothes and toys and pushing things out of the way or tossing them somewhere else. She found three hairclips, a shiny barrette, a couple shiny hairties...hm...would these do? Evari took the ones she had holding her hair up out and put them down on her dresser, staring at herself in the mirror as she tried putting her hair up in a new way. No...wait those were pigtails. Mmf. She tried doing something else...more pigtails. GRAH! Could she do nothing else?! Evari looked at the screen again, seeing that a lot of girls did have pigtails...but they looked so much cooler than hers. She turned around again and looked down at her clothes, taking them off to put on something else. Something more formfitting, something brighter, something cooler. At least the clothes were the easy part. Hm...but she didn't have any makeup, and Xai never wore makeup, and Tyyne definitely didn't have any makeup. Her eyes naturally had thick eyelashes and darkened lines around them. But Evari's didn't! Hm...she didn't have makeup but she did have paint? That was pretty much the same thing, right? She got down on her knees and reached under her table, pulling out a huge bucket of paint and lugging it onto the table with a strained grunt. Man! That thing was heavy! Let's see...she wanted purple, pink...oooh she liked this orange! Hm...that'd do. Evari pulled over her chair and sat down on it at her mirror, leaning in close and opening the first color. Pink. Hm...maybe it'd look good over her orange eye, and the orange paint with her red? Seemed like a good idea to her! Pushing her hair out of her face as best as she could, Evari closed her orange eye and stuck her finger in the paint, slathering it on her eyelid and all around her eye. It dripped a little down her face buuuut she could fix that later! She opened that eye and did her best to resist the urge to wipe it off despite what her instincts were telling her to do. Stupid instincts, what do you know? Nothing! She opened the orange paint and closed her red eye now, doing the same with that side. Hmmm that paint dripped too. Oh well, she'd fix it. Now for her lips! The purple was all that was left. So Evari pouted her lips like she'd seen women on TV do and opened the purple paint, putting a layer of it on her lips and rubbing them together. Augh! This stuff was gross! Why would women do this?! But...but if it looked cool then maybe it was okay.

"EVARI!" Came Xai's shocked voice from the door, seeing what her daughter had just done through the mirror and staring at her with huge eyes. Evari gasped and whirled around in her seat, holding the edge of it between her legs and blinking a few times.

"What?" Why was Xai mad? It wasn't like she'd done anything wrong. It was just makeup, and if Xai tried to tell her she was too young for makeup then...then she could just shove it! Xai walked into the room with an irritated noise, reaching out to hold Evari's face and tilt it from side to side, brushing hair out of the way to get a better look at her face. Wh...what did she do?! Evari pouted for a second, grumbling as her head was turned against her will. What was the big deal? Evari was growing up! She could do this if she wanted to she saw girls with makeup on television and stuff all the time! Even Roxy had makeup! And she was clearly younger than Evari! Hmph!

Xai wiped at the paint with one finger, rubbing it between her index finger and her thumb. Yes, this was paint. The containers were even right there. "What did...what did you do?" She asked, horrified. Evari blinked.

"S'makeup. Duh." She pointed at the television and Xai's gaze moved that in direction, sighing heavily and turning her head back to look at her paint-covered daughter. Ugh, she wanted to do makeup? Well why did she use paint?!

"This isn't makeup, this is paint." Xai let go of Evari's face and reached down for her painted hands. "Paint doesn't go on your face. If you want makeup that badly I will get some for you, and teach you how to put it on." Evari blinked.

"You know how to put on makeup?" Then why didn't she ever wear it?!

"Of course I do. Come on." Evari hopped off the chair and hurried after Xai, staring up wide-eyed at the Urstontaean. The two went into the bathroom first to wash the paint off Evari's face and then into her room. Once they were there she sat Evari down on her bed and pressed her hand against a part of her wall, unlocking the drawers for her dressers and opening up one of them. Inside was an assortment of different kinds of makeup that...actually appealed to Evari's tastes.

The glowing girl gasped and watched as her guardian took out a few different things and set them down on the bed beside her, grabbing a mirror. "Hold this." Evari grinned and nodded, holding the mirror. "Now, I'm just going to teach you basic things. You can come up with your own style and techniques later, okay?" Evari nodded again and went still as Xai held her chin, opening the first thing which held in it an assortment of different colored squares and a little stick with a tiny sponge on the end. Xai rubbed the sponge in a bright red shimmering square and motioned for Evari to close one of her eyes, spreading the color over the girl's eyelid. Evari squealed and wiggled a little, trying her best not to move her head. This was so cool! And it looked so much better than her paint had! The other eye was given the same treatment, and Xai even added a few interesting flourishes that made it more interesting for Evari's style. Eeeeeee!

"Pick a color." Xai murmured as she picked up a small tube, not opening it just yet. Evari hummed thoughtfully, rubbing at her chin.

"Green!" Green? Um...o...kay. Xai would just comply with the request; she was the one who asked, after all. Xai turned the bottom of the tube a few times and a green stick came out, showing Evari what to do with her own lips and then applying the color there. When she was done she capped the tube and put everything away, sitting beside Evari. The glowing girl was speechless, but a good speechless, making a sound of awe after a few moments. Suddenly she tossed the mirror aside on the bed beside her and threw her arms around Xai in a big, tight hug, pushing the woman over and making her laugh as she returned the hug. Wow! That was the second time Evari had ever hugged her! "Thank you, Xai! I look awesome!" Xai...? Heh...so...she was still just Xai, huh? Tyyne called her Momma, but now that she thought about it Evari had never called her anything of the sort. She was always...just Xai.

A somewhat sad smile crept onto Xai's face, petting Evari's hair and sighing. "You're welcome, Evari..." One of her own daughters, her first daughter, never called her mom...that...that was kind of sad. She'd never thought anything of it until Tyyne came along. Evari didn't seem to notice the sudden sadness her guardian was feeling, sitting up and beaming with pride.

"I'm gonna go show Tyyne!" She was gonna be sooooooo jealous because her Xai did things with her without Tyyne~! Ha! Evari scrambled off the bed and out of the room, leaving Xai laying on the bed and staring up at the ceiling with a frown. Faris called Luis Momma, right? Why didn't Evari do that for her? Even after all this time...sigh. She blinked, wiping a finger against her cheek and staring at a drop of wetness that now rest against it. Huh? What was that?

Evari closed the book and put it away again under her mattress, climbing off the bed and hurrying to the mirror to really look at herself. She grinned with pride, turning her head this way and that. Man, Xai did a really good job! Weird how Xai herself didn't wear makeup, maybe she just didn't feel like it. Oh well! She'd just figure something out on her own, maybe keep borrowing her makeup or something.

Evari had stayed with Tyyne until she calmed down completely, petting the blonde's hair and finally getting up to throw away their juice boxes. Tyyne stayed in her room pouting at the hyacinth, and while Evari did visit her every now and then to affectionately antagonize her she remained in her own room most of the day. The next morning she got up and got dressed, picking up a small purse she had asked Xai for the day before so she could carry some money in it for an errand she wanted to run. When asked what it was she refused to tell her, merely pouting and saying it was a secret. She even put on makeup, grinning at how much easier it was getting to do lately. Pretty soon she could do really cool stuff! She couldn't wait until she had that kind of talent. Evari messed with her hair a bit, fluffing it until her hair fell over one side of her face and putting her hair in pigtails. Oooh! This was cute! She'd have to style it like this more often! She walked out of her room and out of the house, not bothering to say where she was going or that she was even going out. Xai knew she wanted to run her errand, what did it matter when she left? Besides, she knew where she wanted to go. The flower shop she had gotten Tyyne's hyacinth from. She walked into the flower shop, immediately spotting the older woman from before. Apparently the woman recognized her as well! It was hard to forget a little girl with blue hair and glowing red skin...but she seemed a bit more mature since last time she had seen her! "Well hello! Nice to see you again. Looking to get more flowers?" Evari nodded, looking around at the pretty flowers. "Did your friend like the ones you gave before?" Friend? Oh.

"I gave 'em t'my sister." That was all. Sisters were different from friends. The woman chuckled, busily arranging a bouquet already for a different customer.

"Well, if you need anything just let me know." Evari nodded again, already walking around and looking at the different things to pick from. Who was she getting flowers for though? She'd brought enough for a lot. Tyyne, of course. She'd promised. But...who else? Oh, she owed Faris a present! The gargoyle had said it wasn't necessary but that didn't matter to Evari, she wanted to get her best friend a present and show her how much she meant to Evari. Because...because Faris was her best friend. A-and nothing could change that, right? She pressed her lips together and stared intently at a big pink flower in front of her face, rubbing them together and furrowing her brow. She'd been thinking about that day...with Victoria. Should she maybe get flowers for Victoria? No! No...no, definitely not...that...that would be weird. You couldn't just...not when they weren't even...but Faris...no. Faris was different. She'd never once felt uncomfortable or strange around her best friend, everything with her was just natural. But with Victoria she got nervous and giddy and...and she just couldn't stop staring at her. But she got giddy with Faris too! And she was always happy when Faris was around! But Victoria had made her...er...happy the other day too. Gah! She'd...she'd just focus on Tyyne's flowers first! Pick those out and then she could worry about her own problems; Tyyne was sad because the first present she'd ever gotten from Evari was dying, she didn't like seeing that girl sad, it actually tore at her heart for some reason. Tyyne deserved pretty flowers, different colors, different kinds. Maybe she would even get her seeds to grow these with herself? She could see some shelves with packets of seeds with pictures on them; they must be to grow the flowers here.

"Um...can you help me?" Evari asked the woman who owned the shop, who nodded and took just a second to finish what she was doing, walking over and bending down a bit to be more level with the young girl.

"Yes? What would you like?"

"I wanna get flowers for my sister...'cause hers is dyin'...lotsa pretty ones." But there were a lot of pretty ones. She didn't know where to start! But that wasn't all, she wanted to get flowers for someone else too. Someone who was also very important to her. "And seeds, too. She'll probably like growin' 'em...but um...I also wanna get flowers for my bestest friend...can I do that?" She looked up at the woman with a slightly worried expression, hoping it was okay to do that. She could get even Faris flowers, right? There was no rule that said you could only get flowers for family and for people you were dating? The woman didn't look surprised by her question or even chuckle, she merely smiled warmly and nodded, standing up straight again.

"Of course you can. I'm sure they'll love their gifts. Alright...let's do your friend first, I have a feeling I already know what you'll like. Right this way." The woman gently led Evari to the other end of the store where she kept clusters of large pink flowers with lots of petals. They looked kinda funny! Like...giant puff balls! Haha! But it was really pretty. And Faris was pretty! Evari grinned and pointed at the flowers.

"What're those? I think she'd like 'em." Ah, so her friend was a girl. Perfect, she'd had a feeling about that. Good thing she led her here.

"It's called a pink zinnia. Would you like to get another flower for her as well? We have some gorgeous new chrysanthemums that just bloomed. They're very interesting this year! Look.." The woman put her hands on Evari's shoulders and turned her toward bunches of red flowers almost similar to the zinnia, but the petals were a different shape and pattern and these flowers were reddish with...gold! Whoa! They really were pretty! Evari grinned and pointed at those flowers as well, looking up at the woman with a new boost of confidence. Okay, screw it if you weren't supposed to get your best friend in the whole world flowers! These were really pretty and Faris deserved them for being awesome! She'd definitely still look into getting her a more substantial gift though, since flowers didn't seem to quite match up to the standards of a handheld game system. Faris must've worked so hard to get money to buy two of those for herself and for Evari, she wanted to make the same effort. Flowers would be a good start though.

"I want some'a those and some'a the zinnia things. In a big, pretty bouquet! Oh, can I put a note with 'em?" Evari asked, reaching into her bag. She'd also brought with her a small pad of those little memo notes that came with her journal Xai had given her. She'd just write a small message for Faris on one and then have them delivered to the Blue Moose! The woman chuckled and nodded, glad to see the girl was a bit more animated now. Good, now she'd be more excited to pick flowers for her sister. She wouldn't pry, but the girl had seemed a little off when she arrived, like something was bothering her. It was nice to see her a little more confident; she hardly looked the kind of girl that was easily bothered and unsure. She grabbed a pen out of the pocket of the small apron around her waist and handed it to Evari who gladly took it and walked away to the find a place to write on, climbing onto a stool near the counter where the purchases were made and writing a little something to let Faris know they were just for her and no one else could have them. She hummed thoughtfully when she finished writing. It looked so plain...it needed more! So she drew a heart, and then a smiling sun. There! Perfect!

"Mmkay! M'done~!" She called out to the woman who was walking over with her arms full of the flowers Evari had picked out.

"Alright then. I'm going to put these together and add your note. Would you like them delivered or do you want to take them yourself?" That...was a good question! Evari had sort of shut herself in recently. Would it mean any less if she didn't bring them to Faris herself? She just...she just couldn't deal with people right now. It was a wonder she was even out getting Tyyne flowers now. Evari got nervous again and she chewed the inside of her cheek for a moment, looking at the flowers and then at the door. This was Faris; she should have no problem dealing with Faris. But...still, the idea of going out right now made her anxious. Not yet. She wasn't ready. Evari shook her head, rubbing her lips together and staring at the flowers that were being arranged. They really were very pretty. Her smile returned, pushing the little paper toward the flower lady but never taking her eyes off the present for her friend.

"Deliver 'em~!" Evari said with a comically authoritative tone. It wasn't her intention to order the woman, she was merely trying to force herself to be funny. She smiled, nodding to the excited glowing girl.

"Alright then, I'm just going to need an address to deliver it to." ...Crap! An address? Like, the numbers and stuff? And the name of the street? Evari didn't know!

"Um...but I don't know her address...I know the name of where she lives though! Just not, like, the numbers and stuff."

"Well, where does she live?" The woman asked gently. Apparently this happened before, it wouldn't be the first time someone had wanted to deliver flowers but then realized they don't actually know the address itself.

"The Blue Moose! Her momma owns it an' they live on top of it. D'you know where that is?" Evari looked hopeful, and her spirits soared when the woman nodded. Yes, she knew where that was. She'd gone there a few times herself! Evari cheered and spun around on the stool she was sitting on so her back was to the woman, hopping off the stool. Perfect! She'd picked out some really pretty flowers for Faris, and they were getting delivered with an awesome message from Evari. She did wish she could see the look on Faris' face when she got the flowers but the thought of going further from home than this flower shop gave her a strange clenching feeling in her heart. She felt awkward, and for some reason it felt like everyone was staring at her. Well, they were because she was glowing quite literally but she felt like they were staring at her for other reasons. Like what she'd done had been wrong, against the rules...she really needed to talk to someone soon. It was actually driving Evari a little crazy to just sit at home, but it was the lesser of two evils so to speak. She walked away from the counter to look around at the other flowers. She had flowers for Faris now; all that was left was flowers for Tyyne. The reason she had come out in the first place. There were a ton of really pretty flowers! It was going to be hard to choose. What were these? Lilacs...pink ones. They smelled really nice! And they looked kind of like the hyacinths. Jasmine? Ooh, like the princess in that movie! She'd get those too, all the colors that there were. There seemed to be three. And also decided she would get irises and...Gardenias? Well, she had no idea what those were but they looked pretty. Evari memorized the names and walked over to the shelves with seed packets, matching the names and the pictures and getting a few packets of each of those flowers. The woman gave her some instructions for each flower on a sheet of paper, gathering up the flowers that Evari had decided on for Tyyne. These she would be taking home with her. This was going to be difficult, she had picked a really big bouquet, and the lady had been nice enough to include a pretty vase. Erf. She paid for the flowers this time, using up all the money Xai had given her, and put the seed packs in her bag, picking up the vase and holding it very carefully.

"You'll make sure only Faris gets the flowers? She's a girl my size...big wings and a tail, and horns! And her hair's different colors..." The woman chuckled and nodded.

"I'll personally deliver them myself, and I won't let anyone who doesn't fit that description take them. I promise." Good, good. Evari was grinning ear to ear as she nodded. She gave her thanks and goodbyes as she walked out the store, holding the vase carefully in her arms the entire trip home. Tyyne was still sleeping when she came home, and so she put the vase on her cleared nightstand and put the list of flowers beside it. On the other side she put the seeds. There! She'd like this, right? Evari glanced at her sleeping sister, petting her hair for a moment. This was sure to make her happy again. She stepped away and left, locking herself up in her room again. Evari wiped off her makeup with a sigh, taking off most of her clothes and flopping down on her bed to just stare at the ceiling for awhile. She needed to talk to someone...but...how do you even bring this kind of thing up? UGH! This wasn't cool at all! DAMNIT!