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 Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:58 pm
Though she heard KX sigh, she didn't let her grip loosen one bit. She was not going willingly, and he'd have to pry her off of him to throw her into that ball pit. While Adalia had no problem acting childish, getting picked up and thrown involuntarily into anything was not her idea of childish fun. As she felt him suddenly push off the ground, she let out a small squeal as she realized what he was doing. Adalia hadn't expected that he'd leap into the ball pit WITH her, and the fact that he had, shocked her.
Her face a fierce red when he finally let her go, she rolled into the balls before picking one up and throwing it at him even though they were right next to one another. Watching as it ricocheted off of him, she half glowered, half pouted at him as he told her in that self satisfied voice, 'Told you'. Glancing around at all the people who had, by this time, caught on to the antics of the duo, she gave a dramatic sigh, before putting on her best childish whining voice, "You're so mean to me! How could you possibly throw someone smaller than you into a ball pit like that? What if you'd hurt me? Or gotten yourself hurt by jumping in with me attached to your neck like that?"
Giving him one final pout, she wished they weren't in a ball pit so she could more appropriately flounce out of the area, "Seriously, its like you're a big, overgrown kid who has to be everyone's big brother. Are you always this childish?" In her mini rant at him, it had suddenly occurred to her that he had quickly taken over as the 'big brother' in this outing, never once acting like anything but what she'd expect of a silly brother. That made her wonder if he did that to other people, becoming what they wanted or needed during outings or meetings with them.
Just who was this KX?
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:08 pm
He didn't even flinch as the ball struck him against the shoulder, his eye instead watching it as it bounced upwards and flew to land in a nearby pile.
"If not a big brother, or someone like it, then what do you want me to be for you?"
KX's voice was soft, unusual for someone like him, and his face seemed to be wearing a gentle smile that only mirrored his tone. He seemed to have aged rather quickly to match pace with his words, his face and body frame suddenly looking more like it belonged to someone of twenty-seven years. That of course didn't mean he looked old, it simply meant he looked wise, and KX continued to smile at Adalia as she stayed pouting.
"For someone who seems to be complaining and putting up a front, you're obviously not having that bad of a time. If you were you would have been long gone, knowing your way or not, and would probably be cursing me all the while."
His tone was still soft, and KX slowly rose to his feet in the bit (no means an easy task), his rise something like out of a textbook.
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:15 pm
The fact that KX didn't seem even the slightest bothered by her glowering, pouting, whining, or even how she'd thrown a ball at him left Adalia more than a little perturbed. She wanted to pry that invisible mask off the man's face and shove it down his throat. Her pout only continued to grow as he began to talk, and her mind started to fly over possible jobs the older man might have that made him think and act that way. She was starting to narrow it down to things that had to do with psychology, engineering, or science in some way. Too many possibilities for her to be pleased, too many to pick away at until she solved part of the riddle that this man presented.
Normal people didn't simply pick out what someone wanted the most, and become that thing for them. The fact that he'd so quickly picked up, or at least seemed to have picked up, that she really wanted her older brother to act like a big brother bothered her. That she'd actually been enjoying herself in his company pretending as he was, bothered her even more. Especially because she knew that aside from one time, she hadn't had this much fun with her own brother.
It left her heart aching, and so it was with a quiet, calmer attitude that she finally managed to look at KX without the pout. With a small sigh, she said, "Why do you have to be anyone other than KX?" As her eyes narrowed just a little she dared to ask out loud, "Is there even just you, or the cloaks you put on for each person you meet?"
When he continued talking, she shrugged, "I'm not putting up much of a front at all - I act childish all the time, why should I behave any differently just because you're someone new? Yeah, I'm complaining. I got thrown into a ball pit, by some guy I just met. If our positions were reversed, wouldn't that make you want to whine just a little?" With another, small sigh she added, quite pointedly not looking at the man, "I didn't say that I was having a bad time with you. I just don't like being picked up and tossed around. Getting manhandled isn't my idea of fun."
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:56 pm
"I'm always acting as myself because I can't be anyone other than myself. How you see me, however, is basically you forcing your wishes and wants onto my personality. I've always been told that I have a kind of manner that makes me seem to fit any and every type of person out there, so I suppose I put on my 'cloaks' only in the heads of others."
KX smiled down at Adalia and extended his hand, his long fingers resting almost above the crown of her head. If he'd lowered the tip of his middle finger a bit down, perhaps even just the slightest twitch, he'd touch her.
"As for who you are, I think it's nice anyway. Being childish just shows that you're not ready to grow up and face some facts of reality...but it could also mean that you're not so far into adulthood that you turned your back on your past and strove to become someone entirely new to yourself."
He chuckled for a moment before winking (or perhaps just blinking, who could tell) at the girl and waiting for her hand to reach into his own or for her to stubbornly stand on her own.
"Though of course everything I'm saying to you is only something some one's told me about a million times before. I wish I'd had anything of my own to say."
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:11 pm
Glowering up at the man as he began what she concluded could only be counted as a miniature speech, she wondered at how she'd assumed he was possibly a psychologist not ten minutes prior. Again thinking about throwing another ball at him, though the first one hadn't done her much good anyway, she merely sat there, half pouting at him as he spoke. Nearly literally biting her tongue as the man finished and reached down as if to help her up with a smile on his face, she frowned for a moment before a mischievous smile tugged at her lips once more.
In her eyes, she had one of two ways she could handle the situation, continue to act adult, or pull the childish act once more. When KX picked up again, she concluded that she'd just keep on acting childish. It was easier, anyway, to just pretend like she was a child than it was to act as an adult. There were fewer expectations on her that way, at least.
Grinning as she accepted the man's hand, she shrugged, "Or maybe I just don't feel like dealing with the expectations people would have of me if I did act more my age." As she sat there with her hand in his, she stuck her tongue out as if to make that last statement sound like the whim of a kid, and not the blatant truth. She chose to disregard his last statement, showing she'd heard him only by rolling her eyes.
All right, so maybe he's just a little weird.
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