Aryana Melines' Room

[Amyla Edana]

Yana grew again. Her hormones have hit, and she is beginning to show more of an attitude. We're going to switch her to the new school with the other kids, and she is displaying a mixture of excitement and nervousness. I think she wants to be normal. She sounds much more normal than she did. She has only the hint of a lisp to tell a person that would hint. I'm torn between being proud of her and wanting to keep her little forever.

We've been fighting a bit too. All right, we've been fighting a lot. She is just becoming so difficult. We had a screaming match after I forbid her from seeing Greg, which ended in both of us stomping away. I've been too tired to scream much, but we still manage to fight quite a bit. She and Aiodhan aren't getting along well either. He heard of Greg's temper tantrum (for lack of a better word for it), and he was not pleased at all. He had a fit about it, and now Yana is convinced that we don't want her to be happy, which couldn't be further from the truth. We just want her to be safe. And happy. Preferably safe before happy.

I suppose I should be grateful that she still dresses conservatively, for she does so. She is also at least semi-interested in her little siblings. When we have momentary truces, she'll still cuddle up next to me on the couch and put her ear on her belly to feel her baby siblings moving around. I do hope she stays interested. I have a feeling Aiodhan and I will need the help.

~Amyla

 

[Amyla Edana]

Mum says that I'm her worst nightmare now. I know she's joking, but it still feels weird. I'm almost a teenager now, and Mum says that's why I get cranky. Well, that's not always why I get cranky, but it's why I get all irritated and stuff. Mum sat me down a few days ago, and she gave me The Talk. She even made up a sheet of notes for herself ahead of time and made the title 'The Talk'. It was really kind of gross but kind of cool all at once. Boy parts, girl parts, babies... I guess I have to know it all, but I wish I didn't have to. I knew there were different parts and stuff, but I didn't know how they worked. I'm glad Mum talked to me about it before we talked about it in school though. We're starting Sex Ed next week, and I'd rather learn it from Mum first. Mum says stuff better. I don't know why; she just does. (I just learned how to use a semicolon, so now I'm using it more. It's such a cool shape.)

Mum and I have been fighting a lot. Dad and I were fighting a lot, but we sort of worked it out. He taught me a lot of new words to use to insult people, but I can't write them here in case Mum reads. She would get really mad. She hasn't been feeling well. She keeps getting the fake contractions, and she'll have to lie down. Dad gets really nervous when it happens, and i do too. She starts breathing really heavily, and she gets sort of pale. When we're not fighting, I'll go stay with her. It's fun watching her belly move. I can't wait until the babies are born. They'll be so cute.

I was going to write about my school, but I ran out of time. I'll write about it later.

Yana

 

[Amyla Edana]

Egyptian skirts are called kilts, I think. We have to do an educational skit (that's what my teacher called it) later this year about different cultures. Basically it means that we dress up and talk about the Egyptians and the Romans, the Chinese, the Indians, the Sumerians, and all of their gods and myths. It sounds like it could be fun. The paper part will be fun.

Hiroko and I are working a lot on commands. She tells me when the doorbell or the phone rings. I don't see why I have to teach her about the phone. I can't talk on one anyway. She is lots of fun though. We play together a lot. Eowyn plays with us too. She grew up too, so she and I are going shopping together soon. I don't like shopping much, but Eowyn is really easy to get along with, so it'll be fun. I have to get a dress for our school dance. She just wants a dress since she doesn't really have any.

I saw Greg and Rich again. Greg and I kissed a little more. It was fun. I see why people like sex. It makes my toes feel weird and my whole body feel strange, but it's good strange. He fed from me too. I keep covering up the marks on my neck so Mum and Dad won't see them. It wasn't so bad. It hurt a little, but Erin's bites hurt worse. Rich caught us kissing, though. It was kind of embarrassing. He won't tell. He promised.

~Yana

 

[Amyla Edana]

May finally had the twins, Lex and Donnie. Both girls, of course. I suppose I should be scared, but they're just so adorable. I think they've both got me wrapped around their little fingers. Great. They're already as bad as the rest of the females in this family. Maybe Yana taught them. They adore her too, and she seems to like them. She has been excellent, with helping to comfort and burp them and change diapers. As soon as they're weaned onto formula, I'm sure she'll be in on that too.

Her grades in school are keeping up, at least as far as I know. Having Hiroko around makes us a little more relaxed about letting her go different places. Hiroko is a lot better trained now, and she can recognize the phone, the doorbell, the oven timer, and knocks on any door. Yana loves her, and they go quite a few places together. We had a conference at Yana's school the other day, and according to her teachers, she is doing well. I'm dreading the day she starts to get interested in boys, though. I don't want to get out my shotgun.

Scratch that. I could use some target practice.

Apparently, she and Greg are still on the outs, since she's hanging around with Rich now. I don't like it, but better Rich than Greg. At least I know Rich won't touch her, not like that.

Oh, did I mention her new attitude? Yes, it's something she grew into. I was hoping for one sweet child, and instead, we got ourselves a mini-May. The facial expressions, the arm-crossing, foot-stomping, smart-a** comments.... yep, Yana is turning into a miniature version of her mother, with wings, a tail, and a nasty kick. That isn't even mentioning all of the questions she's been asking about sex and pregnancy. Does a thirteen-year-old really need to know all of this?! I told her a few things, just to keep her from experimenting, but we had the "talk" already, and that didn't seem to stop the questions. I don't get it! Oh, and then May talked me into letting Yana be there for the twins' birth. Pretty effective form of birth control, watching a woman labor. Yana was convinced, at least for now. Hey, chalk one up for the good guys. Maybe I won't need the shotgun after all!

Damn.

~Aiodhan

 

[Amyla Edana]

Mum had her kids, and they're really cute. I love Lex and Donnie. I hold and take care of them a lot, and I like it. They aren't as bitey as Caleb is, but their claws scratch a lot. Nieva made booties for their feet, but Donnie has clawed hands too. Those hurt. Donnie got hungry and kept nuzzling at my chest and trying to nurse. I had to give her back to Mum. It was really freaky. I got to be there when they were born. Dad asked me if I wanted to have kids after that, and I said no. It looked too painful.

I wrote a really nice essay for my English class. It had to be an informative essay, so I wrote about what it's like to be deaf. I got an A. One of the boys said it was because the teacher felt sorry for me; I think he was just jealous because he failed. I've read his papers. They stink. Doesn't he know what run-on sentences are?

I've been working on my paper on the Egyptians. Kayce and I might go to a museum. It's a history museum, so they'll have Egyptian stuff. Kayce wants to see the Celtic stuff. She has been trying to learn the ruins, I think. No, they're called 'runes'. They're a kind of writing. The Egyptians used hieroglyphics. I hope I spelled that right. I tried learning the hieroglyphics, but there were too many of them.

I'm going to go play with Hiroko. I want to teach her a couple of new tricks.

~Yana

 

[Amyla Edana]

[Reserved for Museum RP with Nereida and Varian]  

[Amyla Edana]

I've been thinking a lot about what's best for Yana. She has grown tremendously lately, and she has been helping out with the kids quite a bit. She is really starting to even out, as far as maturity. Don't get me wrong; she's got a temper that puts even mine to shame. Aiodhan thinks it's hilarious. I think it's dangerous.

Oh, and she got herself bitten by a vampire. I think her draconic blood kept her from changing, but I pitched a fit about it. Damnit, she's too young to be acting foolish like that! The bitemarks are healing fine, but it still makes me nervous that she let a vampire feed from her. She won't tell me who it was, but I know it's Greg. That idiot. I'm going to personally stake him if he ever comes around here with the intent to lay a hand on her. I think she trusts him to a degree, but I don't. I didn't ground her, mostly because Aiodhan pointed out that there'd be no point to it. She did learn her lesson, though, and I don't think she'll let him try it again soon. But if he does.... let's just say that I'll get to the shotgun before Aiod does.

Her schoolwork is continuing to improve. She won't be taking after me. That's for sure. Her focus is more on history and English, and she is good at both. That, she must get from her father, because English was never my strong suit. She is physically graceful, but she isn't very strong. It amuses me to watch her and Kayce playfight in the backyard. Kayce is stronger and faster, but Yana is slightly more graceful and agile. Yana always loses, but she puts up a good fight. I need to get her out more, to meet more kids her age.

I also need to get her a companion of some sort. She needs some intelligent company. Aiodhan suggested letting her seek out a familiar of some sort. I want to get her a dragon to bond to. That'll keep her occupied and happy for quite awhile. The bond I have with Alinta and the other wyrms is most comforting to me. She could benefit from the same influence.

But really, it'll be for her to decide...

~Amyla

 

[Amyla Edana]

I had to go to the doctor again today. My ears have been feeling kind of funny, more than they usually do. The doctor looked in my ears and said that my eardrums looked funny. I had to have an MRI, and Mum said that I should be glad I can't hear it. I could feel the clicks and the whooshes as the machine moved around my head. Mum said it's basically a really big magnet that takes a bunch of pictures of your head. I didn't like it much. It took over half an hour, and I got stiff just lying there with my head in that cage.

The doctor gave me some pills to take and said they would make my eardrums hurt a little less. They don't really hurt. They just feel like they're there, and there is this weird sort of buzzing feeling, sort of like when I touch a table that's vibrating. The doctor said that it looked like there might be something behind my eardrums which is causing the problem. It's probably an infection; I've had those a lot before. Mum looked worried. I feel really bad now.

The doctor is supposed to call us back tomorrow. He used a really long cotton thing and took a sample from both my ears. I don't know how that's supposed to help, but Mum just told me to sit and let him do it. At least I got out of school for the day.

~Yana

 

[Amyla Edana]

If I was a doctor, I could record all of the medical stuff, but since I can't spell half of this crap, I'll just paste all of the medical records in later. Yana is in recovery after surgery now, and May and I are waiting outside, and it's been the longest few hours of my life. The twins are with us, and Nieva is watching the other kids at home. We got an emergency call from the doctor this morning. Yana was still feeling a bit under the weather, but we had no idea that it was this serious. We rushed her in, and after another consultation (or was it an evaluation? It's all the same. They look at her, they freak out, they tell us our only option is surgery), they rushed her to emergency surgery to remove the tumors from her ears.

Yep, did I mention she has tumors? Two of them, one in each ear. I can't remember the name, but they're some kind of skin tumor, like a cyst that fills with fluid and grows behind the eardrum. They usually are only in one ear and develop later in life, but rarely, some kids are born with them. As they grow, they prevent the middle ear bones from moving, and the kids lose their hearing. Since Yana was too young to describe what was happening and what she was feeling, we didn't know the signs to look for. Since her eardrums always looked normal, the doctors never thought that tumors could be a problem. Now that the cysts are getting bigger, they're growing further toward her inner ear and out against her eardrum as well, which is what made her ears hurt.

Unfortunately, if they didn't remove the cysts, her eardrums would burst, and infection could set in in her middle and inner ears, which is very bad. So, now we're sitting out here waiting to see her. The doctors said that they got the tumors out and that she did very well. Her eardrums will take a few weeks to heal up, so she has to stay in recovery and undergo basic therapy to see if some of her hearing will return. The doctors cautioned us that the damage might be permanent but that there was a chance she might regain some hearing. If she gains some hearing, she could use hearing aids to regain more, which is most definitely a plus. At this point, I'd just settle for having her be okay.

Crap. I smudged the ink.

The doc just came out and said that she is alright. She is in 'sonic isolation" for another hour or so with some funky-looking earplugs on to keep her eardrums from vibrating too much and not healing properly. We got to look at her through the room window, and she recognized us and waved at us. We'll get to see her again later today when she's more awake. I'm just glad she's in one piece still.

~Aiodhan

 

[Amyla Edana]

Dad already wrote about all the hospital stuff, but I guess I can say that I'm really, really bored. I've done all of my homework, and I've read all of my books. There is just nothing to do but use the laptop the hospital gave me and surf the Internet. It's really boring! Mum brought me a new stuffed animal yesterday. It's a snow leopard, and it's really cute.

I can't have any visitors in the room yet. I still have giant plugs on my ears too, and they look really stupid. I have to do stretching exercises every day until I can leave the room to go exercise in the physical therapy room downstairs. Mum and Dad visited today, and Nieva came later. We signed through the window in the door. It wasn't so bad. At least the nurses weren't interrupting that much.

I talk to Rich online whenever he's on. He says he might come visit and bring Lea or Vio. That would be really cool, to see them. Mum says she is going to bring Lex and Donnie when I can get visitors in the room, but that won't be for a few more days. At least I have something to look forward to. I don't get to do the hearing tests for another few days at least. It's all waiting!

But getting to hear again would be worth waiting and putting up with all of this. I feel really badly that Mum and Dad have to do all of this for me, but Mum said not to worry. It would be worth it in the end, and I'd have been in big trouble if the tumors had gotten bigger. I could've completely destroyed my ears or gotten a serious infection. That would've been bad.

~Yana