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 Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:52 pm
Ike grabbed the violin by the neck, along with the bass, and ran over to listen with Reid, "Ooooooh."
Rabid looked down to Chao, and then back at the lightning bug boy, screwing up her face. It wasn't really fair to just have one of the boys gain an instrument, let alone two...
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:03 pm
Chao tilted her head, considering it, then nodded, "alright hun, but we'll have to wait until we're back in Gaia to find one though, unless this place takes foreign currency..." she looked around for a sign that might say.
"Ee! Thankyu Mu!" Reid grinned and glowed warmly, sittind down and looking over the instruments Ike had picked out once Ike had come over to listen to the music.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:09 pm
"Naw, Chao," Rabid smiled, "I'll take care of it. I mean, lookit that." She pointed to a large black-and-silver grand piano sitting in the corner, a huge "For Sale" sign taped to its side.
Ike looked up to Miss Chao, knowing his mother's plan full well, "C'mon, Miss Chao. Reid wants." He then turned and gave his friend a wide grin.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:17 pm
Reid sighted the piano and gaped wings flapping a little, it was beautiful!
Chao gaped at Rabid, looking from the sign to her friend, "no! No way, you're not buying a piano for us!" Madness all of it!
Reid's face fell, "but Mu..." he murmed, looking very much as if he'd just been kicked.
Chao looked away, oh hael he's learned the look. "No."
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:25 pm
"Fine," Rabid huffed, "Fine! Don't come crying to me when your son decides that he hates you. Just let me order my son's things." Oh, but the motives she had...
Ike scampered quickly over to a pad by the front counter, quite like the one from the electronics store. This one had a writing place, though, and he decided that it would be best for Mummy to do it.
Rabid quickly skittered after her son, trying to get things done before Chao figured her out. Damnable pen! Where was it?!
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:46 pm
Chao watched them go but was quickly distracted by Reid coming over and tugging at her pant leg. The teen sighed and picked him up, "m'sorry honey, but really, I promise when we get back to Gaia we'll find you a piano, okay?"
Reid's bottom lip quivered, the look was still there.
Chao ruffled his hair, "I promise it's not the only one in the worlds, we'll find you one and a good teacher."
Reid sighed, deciding that his Mu wasn't going to give in, "'ki."
Chao sighed again and hugged him, rubbing their cheeks before heading over towards Rabid and Ike.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:55 pm
Rabid quickly scribbled the address of the HQ and "Chao" and "Anonymous" in the recipient and sender's spots, respectively.
"Don't worry, Reid," Rabid said smartly as she put the pen away, "I'm sure you'll get what you want a lot sooner than you've planned."
Hah. I win.
"What do you say to a bit of...lunch...dinner...linner...before we head home?"
Ike smiled happily and wrapped his free arm around Reid's shoulder, winking in that kind of "hah-we-win-and-you'll-get-it-contrary-to-your-mu's-beliefs" kinda way, albeit a bit less descriptive.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:05 pm
Reid blinked at his friend and then smiled, catching the message but he was careful to hide his suddenly brighter expression with a cough and a tug at his friend's hand, not wanting his Mu to catch onto what was obviously a secret. Glancing back at Ms. Morbid he mouthed 'thankyu' at her.
Chao smiled, glad Ike seemed to be cheering Reid up, oblivious as to what had just happened and nodded to Rabid, "yeah, that sounds great. Is this another thing I'm banned from helping pay for?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:08 pm
"Most definitely," Rabid smiled down at Reid, but masked it as a joking smirk, "C'mon." It took no more than 2 minutes to find the food court, which was horribly empty. School would be ending soon...and then the rush would begin.
"Take a seat, m'lovelies," Rabid gestured around at the huge room, full of empty tables.
"Where Reid wanna sit?" Ike questioned, surveying the room. They had to pick the optimal spot, of course...
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:22 pm
"Ah, Rabid you wound me to the quick... I think," she frowned, wondering if she'd accidently mixed metaphors.
Once at the food court the teen looked around curiously, though she was glad for the emptiness, crowds were great when you wanted to hide but awful when you were trying to keep track of two toddlers.
Reid 'hrm'ed and fluttered onto one of the nearby tables, surveying the court critically, "there?" he asked, pointing to a spot not quite near the center of the room but a near one of the wider paths that led out of the mass of tables.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:31 pm
"Okee," Ike agreed and skittered over, motioning to their mothers, "C'mon, Mis Chao 'nd Mummy! We've gotta table!" He slid onto the bench and peered down at the table. Again, there was a touch pad and a pen, this time with a whole list of foods. In the centre of the table was a large slit, apparently for some kind of platform to raise from.
Rabid slung her arm around Chao's shoulders again, confused immensly by the girl's odd saying. It certainly didn't sound right, but she hadn't the slightest idea what saying it was meant to be. She grinned as she sat at the table.
"Now you get to play with our magical technology of doom, you do."
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:45 pm
Reid peered at the touch pad curiously, having not seen the others, before settling down next to Ike.
"Of doom eh?" Chao repeated with slight smile, sitting next to Rabid and looking at the touch pad's list of food, "wow..."
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:50 pm
"Look," Rabid scrolled down for a few moments, before reaching the option 'blood', "I'd really rather not know where they get it from." She knocked off some blood and a peanut butter sandwich, not to mention a salad for Poe. The gourmet stuff had never really been to her liking.
"What can Ike do?"
"Err...pick your drink, okay?"
"Kay," Ike picked up his pen and pointed it at 'chocolate milk'. He brought the pen down, ever so slowly, and poked the screen. It responded with a mechanical beep.
"Oooooh."
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:07 pm
"Hrm..." Chao murmured as she carefully watched Rabid and Ike select their food, once they were done she took the pen and scrolled about, out of sheer curiousity peeking at the gourmet things, until she spied an option that said 'turducken' and quickly headed back to the more normal things.
Reid fluttered up onto the table and trotted over to sit on his Mu's shoulder to watch.
Chao double clicked lightly on the peanut and jelly option then tilted her head as she caugh sight of a section under the drinks, "Crefcra milk?" she repeated aloud, the word rolling of her lips with ease and a slight accent that was normally absent from her speech.
Reid tilted his head, "cre'craaa?" he repeated.
Chao laughed slightly and shook her head, "yeah," she clicked on it lightly, for old times sake if nothing else, then offered the pen to Reid, "it probably won't be to your liking hun, choose something, 'kay?"
Reid nodded and hopped down, clicking lightly on the selection marked 'apple cider'.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:13 pm
Rabid nodded and shoved her pen back into its holder, "Only had it once. Aquired taste, I must say. Lemmee guess, sum'm from back home?" Never before had she heard the name pronounce correctly by anything but a machine, nor did she have any idea what it was.
"Selections made. Please keep hands and faces away from the centre of the table at all times. Delivery in 3...2..."
Ike watched in sheer amusement as the slit in the middle of the table opened up and a large tray lifted out of it. A slew of tiny mechanical arms passed the food out according to the pad it had been ordered from, and everything quickly disappeared.
Rabid passed Malachi his sandwich and gaped at the small wine-bottle-looking container that sat before her. That was so not Human blood...not if it was so blue as that...
"AWK!" Poe reminded Rabid of his presence, and was quite delighted when he recieved his salad. He grabbed a piece of lettuce between his 2 claws and raised it to his mouth. He didn't care what people said. Vegetables rocked...
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