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 Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:02 pm
"I know how that is," she sighed, having to manually scrub out a stain from the shirt she was holding, "Osha just discovered he could finger paint recently."
When the washer was full, Bani happily added soap and let it run, before turning to the dryer. There were clothes already in there that needed folding.
Such was the life of a mother.
She was looking forward to the day when Osha could cook dinner for her, at least.
Osha was suprised, new to the idea of scaring his mom. But mom was never scared of anything! She could conquer the world!
"Momma can be scare?" he questioned, but didn't doubt Gavin for a moment. Pff, he had faith in his friend- monsters were indeed scary!
Osha picked up a handful of legos (as he never color coordinated) and put them together, successfully creating a fiendish mass.
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"How monster look?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:11 pm
"Hah! Yes, finger paint," Remi chuckled. "One of the few things I've managed to keep hidden from Gavin. I don't think he'd like painting as much as throwing it around, though."
She stopped talking for a moment to attack a particularly stubborn spot on a plate. Once victory had been achieved, Remi continued to wash and soap down everything.
"Have you had a chance to meet any of the other guardians at all?"
"My Mommy be scared lotsa times," Gavin giggled, remembering when he snuck outside with Ina. Mommy had been running around in circles in the gardens until she'd collapsed. "Not too hard."
When Osha finished the masterpiece, Gavin brought a finger to his chin with an expression of consideration. It needed something else.
"Here!" Gavin picked up a few more colorful blocks. With toddler craftsmanship, he added something that could be called 'antennae' if you looked at it the right way. Nevertheless, it looked a little more like a giant lego insect head now.
"Yes?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:21 am
"Nah, I've been a hermit so far. I only know that there were three original guardians, but now I bet there are more..." she trailed off lightly, finishing folding underwear and socks, "What about yourself? Have you met anyone else?"
If Remi had, she'd like to know her opinion of them before she decided to go out and meet them. Unlike good people (as she now classified Remi into) your average stranger, she found, could be completely stupid and utterly harmful if you weren't careful around them.
In a tiny gasp of toddler awe, Osha gently put his hands on what Gavin had done, checking it out with a sort of artist scrutinization. Man, did he know what kind of talent he had?
"Ooooo..." he nodded in approval, "You good. It work, need..."
He thought for a moment, before slapping on some makeshift 'claws' at the bottom. Osha had a sort of devious look on his face. He had never intentionally done something bad before, so this was his first- scare mommy! The anticipation was fun already.
He looked to Gavin in question. Should they be off with their mad creation?
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:47 pm
"I think I'm one of the originals," Remi started stacking dishes, laughing slightly at the thought of grouping the guardians. The 'Originals' and the 'Newbies.' That'd definitely be a strange version of West Side Story. "But I've met quite a few."
She paused for a moment, trying to think of everyone's names. "There's Eve and Carver, who're somewhere in this building. Stephan, Tristan, Marc, and Hadrian are in the building by the labs. I'd advise you to brace yourself if you ever run into Marc. Tristan's pretty nice though, he's even got a puppy."
Gavin puffed out his chest with smug pride at the praise. The pride turned into awe when Osha added the 'claws.' Gavin never really did anything intentionally bad either. Well, it was more like he didn't know that what he was doing was wrong. As far as he knew, everything was categorized under 'fun.' And fun was always a good thing.
"Color face?" Gavin suggested. Considering the colorful awesomeness on Osha's walls, the kid obviously had coloring materials around. They could put a scary face on it, though he wondered if crayons would draw on legos. Maybe Osha had something a bit more practical.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:06 pm
"Oh," she said in puzzlement, taking a few moments from finishing up with the laundry to think, "Wow, there are quite a few people in the compounds now. I should get out more... but I'll take your advice about Marc."
Bani didn't really know who Marc even was, but it was just as well. At least, she hoped..
Osha gasped a little at the mention of 'coloring face'. Didn't Gavin know that was bad? You weren't supposed to color on the walls or your toys (and that was the main reason that his room was technicolor paint splatters- to cover it up) and especially not on anything you were going to eat off of. Though he didn't see why a blue crayon shouldn't taste like blueberries, or something.
"Uhm..." he started, and then it dawned on him. He had a SHARPIE. He had already tried on the legos with crayons and other markers ahead of time... to no avail. But from what he'd seen his mom do, sharpies couldn't be washed off, ever. So, in some weird form of logic, he supposed that coloring on his legos with a sharpie would be perfectly acceptable. And it would work.
Besides, it's not like she'd care about it... she was going to be SCARED!
"Speshil," Osha grinned, and then crawled a little ways away to the edge of the rug. He lifted it up, and lo and behold... pulled out the magic marker.
"Here," he rolled it Gavin's direction.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:17 pm
"I just take a lot of walks, so I end up running into people," Remi laughed. "I've surprised myself with how social I've been recently."
She'd seen so many people's apartments, eaten other people's food, and even drove someone else's car. Of course, this was all offered to her, and she was just being neighborly by accepting. Suuuure. Still, she was planning on repaying people. Soon. Sometime.
Gavin clapped when Osha pulled out the magic marker. It had to be called 'magic' for a reason, which was probably why Mommy had kept them away from him. She didn't want him to play with the awesome magic. But Osha had the magic and was rolling it out to him.
"Osha great!" he cheered, picking up the marker and joined in the doodling. Markers weren't nearly as permanent as sharpies, but as far as Gavin knew, the blotchy lines of washable ink was just part of the magic.
"Mommies be so scared!" he said deviously as he continued to scrawl.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:52 pm
"Oh, so is that it?" Bani grinned, thinking about it, "I guess I should take more walks too. I usually just take Osha out for treats, since I can't be around him all the time."
She finished folding the laundry, and stuffed the last of what was in the wash into the dryer.
Osha enjoyed the praise, of course. With a smile as wide as the Rio Grande, he scooted over to Gavin and eagerly tried peeking over the other boy's shoulder.
"I see?!"" he said excitedly, wanting to know what his friend was doing. Oh maaaan. They were the best geniuses EVER.
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:29 pm
"You're bound to run into someone if you round the compound a few times," Remi suggested, stacking up the last of the dishes. "Well I think I've conquered whatever was in your sink. Need anything else?"
She liked cleaning things. It was almost a nervous habit. Not like an OCD thing, unless she was extremely nervous, but cleaning things was almost therapeutic for her. Especially when done with other people like this. It was fun.
"See!" Gavin pointed to his attempt at an eye. Thanks to the washability of magic markers, it looked like a bunch of droplets in a circle, but they were red droplets in a circle. That had to count for something.
"What Osha draw?" he threw his hands in the air excitedly, wondering what his awesome colorful friend had done.
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