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By the time I got her message I was sprinting up the hall in a pair of jeans and...nothing else. No need for much else, the halls were nice and airy. I made it to the room and walked in. "Heeeeeey," I flashed a smile toward Kimi, Tess, and old blue-hair and sat down on the bed. I turned to see that I had my butt perched on a luggage case with the little elf-like girl squatted beside the bed. "Whatsup new-girl?" I said, pushing the luggage bag out from beneath me. I layed down and closed my eyes, mocking Tess.

Kimi slipped a card out of her back pocket and a pen off the table and approached Demy. "Hey, Sign this." She tossed the items on to the boy's chest. She sat down on the bed beside him and tilted her face to look at his closed eyes. She put a cold hand on his belly and pressed down, but not hard enough to hurt. "Wake up, We've got business to discuss." She said softly. Even though she had known Demy for a long time she still didn’t accept his laziness, he would eventually buck up.

Gab stuffed the rest of the donut into his mouth and swallowed hard. “So’s your face…” Was his only comment and when went back to raiding the fridge. His mooching hands touched everything eventually coming to rest on a container of what looked like fried meat and mashed potatoes. He took it out and sat down, his back against the fridge door. He eat the messy cold food with his hands making a lot of noise. He was use to his lady friends giving him dinner, and he had been at Kimi’s for the last two days so he had not eaten anything.

Gab rolled his eyes and finished what was in the big container before licking his fingers off. "God forbid! You know I'm allergic to that stuff!" The boy shuttered and stood to put his container in the sink. "Sorry if I offended you Lady Tess." H bowed dramatically and went to plop down on Demmy where he lay on the bd. His boney butt crushed the man's lap and he wiggled around. "God! I hope that's a roll of quarters Dummy!" He yelled laughing. He tickled the boy’s bare torso playing the role of prankster.

"Dem... wake up..." She said sternly and slipped her hand behind his neck pulling him up. Her hand slipped down to wrap around his chest and she placed the pen in his hands. "I need you to sign the card for your mother's birthday gift." She instructed in a calm but authoritative manner. "I've got to mail it today so you've got to do this." Kimi's eyes drifted the Gab. He was sprawled out on the floor where he had been tossed.

"Hey! New girl!!!" Gab called scrambling up to run after the new girl. "You kay?" He could see she was limping. He looked back at Tess then the new girl. "You can stay, I don't want you to feel like We kicked you out." He caught up with the girl and put his arm around her shoulders in a friendly manner.

"A few photos from our last gig, some chocolates, and a soaps basket." She said shrugging, she got something like that for his mother every year. Kimi liked to bring her band mate’s families in as much as she could, thinking that if they were involved that the band would do better, and if they liked the other members of the band than they would be more inclined to help support the band financially if need be. Kimi placed the card on the bed side table next to her and crossed her legs. "She's not still dieting right?" The last Kimi had heard Dem's mother had stopped dieting a few mouths ago, but it could have changed.

"I don't think you should be stepping anywhere girly." Shin said then in one swift motion swept her off her feet and into his arms bridal style. He carried her back inside and plopped her down on the empty bed. "Let me look at your foot, it's bleeding..." He sat down next to her feet and grasped the ankle of the injured limb. "You got... Glass in it..." He said and slipped something out of his pocket. "I know how to fix this, but you might want to focus your attention on the ceiling for a few seconds..." He smirked and the thing he had just taken out of his pocket and was hiding from her made a snapping sound.

"When's the last time you called her?" Kimi asked. She would have to call the woman the next day. She always did after a gig, it was a day of phone calls and internet marketing. Because they didn't have a manager yet she took care of most of their finances, and the P.R. It was tough but she was a strong person. "Please don't tell me it's been more than a week and a half..." She groaned. If he forgot again than it would be her who talked to the woman most often and that would be more awkward then explaining what kind of relationship she shared with the woman's son... It had taken a half hour the that time to explain that they were not romantically evolved... A half hour!


"Count to three..." Gab put the tweezers to the shard and clamped down on it then slid it out in one quick movement, it came out clean and easy. Leaving the wound completely glass free. "One..." He put the small shard on the table along with the bloody tweezers. "Two. three..." He grinned and pulled the girl's foot up to lightly lay a kiss on her big toe. "All set princess..." He said and gave her a wink.

"Thank you," I said, nodding toward the boy with the blue hair before getting back up on my feet. I bounced off the bed and went down to my bag, reaching for my pale blue ipod. I wiped of the screen a little and stuck the ear-pieces in. I turned it up a little, but not much. Loud music wasn't my thing. How can you appreciate the sounds of the world when you've blasted your ears out for no reason besides to seem edgy? The song was a favorite of mine, "There She Goes Again", by Push Play, of course. I hummed along a little while I picked at the contents of my bag and folded them one by one into a pile. I tried not to look over at those who were still in the room, for fear that they were staring at me. Staring is such a mysterious thing. It can mean a number of things, and though the odds are with us to sensibly conjure up a reasonable explanation for one's stare, we never do. Come to think of it, that concept was the basis of human behavior...as well as t.v. conflict.

"Eh, three weeks? Maybe four. Last I heard from her she was looking into a plane ride from Brazil to somewhere in northeastern Asia...she should be busy." I got up and opened the mini-fridge to see if the human-hoover hadn't sucked up all the nourishment Tess had stored. Just a couple beers and a leftover burrito...or half of it anyway. "I'm goin' to the vending machine...wait...where did Tess go?" I glanced around the room. The new girl had her head down so low over her luggage case I thought she might fall and get lost in it. She had bright blue ear-buds in and was obviously trying to tune out the kerfuffle of oddities around her. I looked to Gabe who was licking something off his fingers, probably from whatever he'd just eaten. "Is she going to the stop and shop? I am so hungry." I asked Kimi.



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My secret wish of someone noticing my disappearance were waning as I approached the court yard. The cold ground beneath my what-I-now-realized-to-be bare feet made me shiver to the core. I walked through the maze of flowers and shrubs before reaching the tree that stood boldly in the northern section. I leaned back against it and slid down into a sitting position with my knees hugged tightly to my chest. Resting my head on top of them, I clenched my eyes closed. What was wrong with me? At the time all I wanted to do was call for Kimi; for her to make everything better like she used to do. A few droplets of water trickled over my reddened cheeks, staining my jeans slightly. I glanced upwards at the threatening clouds, which grew darker as time progressed.
Within the next few minutes they pulled the plug on the drain, letting the rain teem down. Rumbles of thunder soon followed the blue streaks of lightning that flowed across the clouds, reminding me of Gab's hair. I moved one hand upwards to rub my eyes, ending in smearing the heavily applied eyeliner and mascara across the bags under my eyes.