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 Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:01 pm
Russ watched Carmen as she spoke, puzzled. She...considered her hume a father? She wasn't just a plain worker like he was? "What's it like? Having that kind of relationship with one of them?" He ruffled his hair, trying to hide his embarrassment at asking a question like that. It wasn't going to change the type he had with his hume. And after this hume let him go, Russ didn't think he'd have that type of relationship with another hume.
And he wasn't the only one to want to leave, and then back out at the end. It made him feel a little...better. Knowing that he and Carmen seemed to come from different backgrounds, and yet still be the same. He waggled his eyebrows at Carmen. "Not yet hm~? Got your eye on a certain great looking guy?" Geeze how creepy it was having just met Carmen yet finding so much in common already. What were the odds? "Then I'll just have to make sure I run into you everyday then. Just so we can change that," he said with a grin.
Russ tapped at his chin. "No pulling tricks while there? No...probably would be a bad idea with it being a business. Hm...Would be so much easier if you were able to sneak a guy into the store. Everything is better when there's two."
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Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:09 pm
Upon his question about what it was like, she felt ashamed. She never really paid enough attention at the lives of others to notice that not everyone had it as good as she did. That she wasn't treated as a slave. She almost thought ot let go of his hand and rub his arm. however, that might be too personal. She didn't know him very well. What if he took that as too forward a gesture and think her a slut-sune?
She still answered though, "Well, for the most part it's nice. It used to be nicer, but then a few years ago, he met a nice lady. Well, she seemed plenty nice enough back then. Then, over the last two years, they had them some hume babies. Now, he's always enthralled with his nice little group. He tries to make time to talk to me and stuff. Still, it's not the same. I can totally see it in the way he smiles at them; the way he talks to them. It's totally different than the way he talks to me." She was ashamed again because she realized this must make her sound completely ungrateful. At least her hume treated her well enough.
His eye brow waggle drew her out of her stupor of conscience. It made her giggle and laugh, so she tried to cover her mouth with her free hand. "You're funny. and... not ... really? Or.. not so far? I guess I get too wrapped up in myself to specifically notice others. Probably I wouldn't have noticed you personally if you hadn't stopped to help me." She blushed a little feeling like she was making herself a villian with every time she opened her mouth.
His offer to help change that caught her attention. She gave him strong direct eye contact with a devious grin. "Why... my dear Mr. Russ.... It sounds like you are offering something... but you are just not being very clear... I think you better be crystal clear. I might not know how to respond to that."
She just grinned and released his hand as they approached the shop. "Maybe I will sneak a guy into the store. Like, if he came around the back door? I could go back there to put my bookbag up on a hook, and I could maybe let him in?" Company in the shop? Unsupervised time with a boy? It was too good to pass up. The implied possibility of trouble made it irresistible.
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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 5:50 am
Russ was glad when he got Carmen to laugh. The talk about her hume seemed to be affecting them both. Carmen in a way that she didn't seem as bubbly. He...Russ would just rather not continue that line of conversation, not wanting to find out where it might lead. So he let it drop, tucking away the information that there was more than one hume in Carmen's family.
With that thought in mind, Russ laughed with Carmen. "I'm glad to hear that. It would be horrible to think I was funny and be the only one who thought so." He'd try to get her to laugh more though. It was cute in a way, funny in another, how she tried to hold back the laughter. As if a hand would be able to do that. "Maybe the right guy just hasn't appeared yet. I'm told that if you find the right one, you might notice them right away."
Russ's returning smile was slow and mysterious. "Ah...but that's the fun in it. Trying to figure out what the meaning is and what to possibly respond. There are just so many different....avenues....that it could possibly go." Like the one he meant, where he'd stop by to talk to Carmen every day.
Russ put his hands behind his back as he surveyed the store. "Well, that would be one way to do it. Probably less people would be able to see." His mouth twitched as his eyes took a mischievous tint to them. "Or you could be more daring and have him come in through the front door under the guise of being a customer."
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Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 3:19 pm
His comment about being a shame if he were the only one who found himself funny; that was rather funny to her. It didn't give her quite a boisterous laugh out loud sort of laugh, but it was a wide open grin that was just short of having a laugh none the less. Having so many laughs in one day. She couldn't recall the last time she'd had so many in a short period of time. This made her wonder if she were too serious.
She smiled freely again as her eyes roamed to make contact with his with no real purpose other than a curious probing of sorts. "Maybe you're right. Mmm... I think I've heard some humes say that as well. My father often says that of his wife. She was the daughter of an owner of a small fleet of merchant ships. She was sent to his shop to request a message be sent all the way up north as far as Kemp. Not that I know exactly how far that is away; but I've seen it on a map. Looks pretty far to me."
She then stopped telling the tale because she questioned herself why she bothered to remember all of this. It wasn't like her or this other lady had grown close at all. The woman regarded Carmen as little more than a pet who might serve better as just a worker or slave if the husband would have allowed it.
Her eyes cut back up to his again at his play at how he should say a thing or suggestions on the creativity with which she might respond. She began to look at him playfully suspicious again. What a playful guy. She didn't have nearly enough people in her life, let alone someone who liked to laugh and tell jokes. "Yes... I'm sure you're right." She said that with a wink and a light trailing touch of the tips of her paw up the back of his arm.
"Or... something else could be fun... if a boy were to come in through the upper window of the upstairs office. He suddenly were creeping down the stairs in the back and appeared out of nowhere like a ghost who suddenly realized they hadn't finished all they meant to while alive." Her shoulders moved forward in a daring posture. "Well, at least that would be entertaining as well. None of them sound entirely a bad idea either." She wondered if any of that would get her into serious trouble.
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Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 10:34 am
Carmen's story about how her humes met only proved Russ's point. And planted the seed of an idea in his head. Like, the reason why he didn't leave his hume might be because of something similar. Maybe it just wasn't the right time. Which led him to the wishful thinking that hopefully the right time would be soon.
He was drawn out of his inner musings at the feathery touch on his arm. His eyes followed her paw's path, his lips curving into a soft smile. "That's the beauty of vague sentences don't you think? People could take it anyway they want, and it could either be right or wrong. Or even both depending on who thinks what." He inwardly winced as the words played back. Okay. Now he was just sounding stupid.
"A ghost needing to finish something? Like a horror story?" Russ tried to imagine how something like that would go. In a romantic sense of course. He just wasn't imagining it though. "You could always try each when you find the right guy of course."
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Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 3:21 pm
Her eyes had started to keep watch over his gestures and movements. She found his manner to be rather refreshing and quite entertaining. She was quickly of an opinion maybe she'd start flirting with othe boys more often. This was more fun than she gave it credit for. This was by far better than being placated by her hume. Her pupils began widen as she was relaxing and enjoying this little game.
"I'll have to remember that. I guess my mind isn't always thinking about all the ways a thing could be said. This, however, opens up my mind to a lot of new possibilities."
She completely heard it when he said she could try each when she found the right guy of course. A minute ago, it sounded like he was suggesting a daring action. Now, he was suggesting something fun and experimentally fun but off in some distant day. That might be good and all for that day, but for now, she was in the moment. Though she was close to being at work, she felt it a shame that this was over too soon.
Her eyes twinkled as she smirked and echo'd a statement to him. "OR! I could just be more daring and have someone come in through the front door under the guise of being a customer." Her smirk humbled into more of a secret smile. "But... where would I find someone to do that with on such short notice?" She looked around like as if she didn't have the faintest clue where someone was. Though really in the back of her mind, she wondered if his suggestion was about himself or not. If he blew it off, he blew it off. If he was all in for this, that'd definitely be interesting at least.
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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 2:22 pm
"Which could lead to more possibilities, which could lead to more and more. Eventually you'll come up with possibilities for anything I would think." Russ rubbed at his chin. "Well, almost anything. Other factors could come into play you never thought about."
He burst out laughing, wrapping his arms around his middle and bending over slightly as Carmen repeated one of his suggestions about how to sneak a guy in. He wiped away a tear as he straightened. "I take it that's your favorite?" He held his paws out, as if noticing they were empty for the first time, then turned around in a circle as if looking for something. He tsked and threw his paws up in mock dismay "Well drat. I must have left the package in the cart."
He let one paw drop, while scratched his cheek with the other. "I suppose...rather than go back, I could go inside so you could tell me all about why my master should choose your business instead of another."
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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:25 pm
Carmen was about to take his hand to pull him into the shop, but then right as she was about to take his; she didn't. She brushed her paw away and moved in front of him. " Follow me, Sir." She decided to play it safe for the time being. Her hume might have taken issue with her being inappropriate with a potential or existing customer. After all, he was due to head home soon. She smiled at him and gave him a wink from the side of her face that the shop couldn't see. As she walked through the door, she welcomed him to their humble shop. " If you'd like to follow me to the information desk in the back; I can show you our rates." She smiled for her father. She watched her father's eyes examine the kry that followed her. She watched him look back at her, so she gave him a reassuring smile. When her hume offered to stay a little longer to help her with this new possible customer, Carmen assured him she was fully capable of making a sale on her own. That she knew all of his rules. How could she ever prove herself if he was always taking over her initiatives? Her hume then excused himself while he went to the office to pack up his things to head home. She turned back to look at her customer. " See, lemme show you this here." A loaded grin played on the edges of her mouth. Her eyes were full of the thrill.
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