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 Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:45 pm
((I'm assuming for the sake of probability you have some way of getting them to come to their apartment first but if not I'll just have them go to the pool next post~))
Lazy weekend day in the middle of the afternoon. Ashley was taking one of her daily dozen thirty minute naps, leaving an ever energetic Harper with her brother and two mildly drunk bandmates. Of course she didn't have a clue Eliot had been back to the liberty center the other day, posting a flyer with all the contact details of the ghetto family as well as mention an open invitation to the complex's pool and game house.
They were all playing videogames. Soloman and Eliot were battling it off in a mariocart game.
"YOU JUST FLIPPED ME! YOU LITTLE-" Eliot began, throwing his controller at Soloman who quickly ducked and began giggling.
"Eliot! The kid!" Asunder had managed to cut off, pointing at Harper who wasen't more than two inches away from the tv screen and was watching intently.
"Flipped me! Flipped me!" Harper mocked. When the game wasn't moving anymore, he lightly tapped the screen, pushed out his bottom lip and turned back at his three babysitters with a glare. "Mooooooore." He said in a annoyed tone.
"No more. Get away from that tv. Ugh, kid's going to be fat by the time he's 12 and we are going to have to go on a talk show..." Asunder muttered while he walked over, scooped up the baby and made his way toward the front door.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:01 am
Asher looked at the post on the bulletin board at the Liberty Centre with some incredulity. Somehow, this post seemed to be grimier than any of the other posts, even though he knew for sure that it hadn't been there the week before.
It didn't really matter, because there was a pool somewhere involved in that post, along with the mention of a kid that Asher had only met for a moment at the costume shop.
Irelia was sitting on the ground by Asher's feet, howling madly. Her bright orange leash was tangled around her body and her usually clean skirt was caked in mud as was her hair.
"Irelia," Asher said quietly, still staring at the post. Hmm... its not that far from our apartment
Irelia pointedly annoyed him.
"Irelia, one of the kids is inviting us to a pool-" Irelia leapt up, but forgot that her leash was caught around her, and ended up on the floor, crying her eyes out.
Asher sighed and picked Irelia up. She let him do it, quietly sobbing in his arms.
***
Asher was at the apartment complex, an eerily complacent Irelia at his side. They had made a quick stop at home, and Asher had put Irelia in her bathing suit.
Which looked odd, since it bulged out at odd angles because the iron work on her chest was actually part of her. Her pink, fluffy bathing suit was sparkley and had little ruffles at the side.
Irelia had forgone her book, which made Asher happy because it was a drag having to take it everywhere that Irelia went.
Poking the buttons on the intercom, Asher waited for the family to answer. He waited for several beeps, tapping his foot slightly, impatient.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:13 am
Halfway reaching for the door, Asunder stopped when he heard something. He looked at the source of the sudden buzz as though it were the plague, quickly furrowing his eyebrows. Who would know to contact them here? Nobody. Not unless Eliot and Soloman had made more drinking buddies in the past few weeks, but those people generally weren't awake till sunset.
He clicked the button. "Uh, hello? Who's this?"
"HELLOOoooooooooo!" Harper yelled, kicking his feet. "I'm Harper!" Harper chirped, sounding like a parrot who had just learned a new trick. "I'm Harper. Harper. I'm Harper."
Of course, before any nice response could be given background chatter overtook Asunder's attention.
"If that's a blonde named Jimmy tell him I'm not gay for the millionth time and to go stalk someone else. Nerdy dweeb." Eliot cared to yell from the background.
Soloman poped the can to another beer and burped rather loudly, "That's not what you told me that one night, Eliot... what about the promises we made to each other, quivering under the moonlight?"
"WOULD YOU TWO SHUT UP?" Sunny snapped, before moaning and quickly apologizing to whoever was on the other end of the intercom.
"Shut up! Shut up!" Harper yelled.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:25 am
The divulge of noise careened over the street, and Irelia shrieked happily.
Asher heard something about some blonde and peered at his own hair. As far as he knew, it was white and he had never met anyone named Eliot.
Finally, he heard someone apologizing over the speaker.
"Hello? You posted something in the Liberty Centre about a pool? I have a daughter..." Asher was sidetracked by Irelia, who was fidgeting with her bathing suit. She wandered over to the bushes and announced loudly,
"I NEED TO POOPY."
Asher grabbed Irelia before she could do her business, and yelled over the noise.
"MY DAUGHTER NEEDS A WASHROOM. OPEN THE DOOR."
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:39 am
Asunder stared at the intercom button hestitantly. Was this some sort of trick? An assasin of some deranged sort Eliot had ticked off to the point of murderous revenge? A daughter? Was that a child or some imp and-
"Better do it Sunny, dude sounds desperate, and I know how that feels!" Soloman yelled.
Fidgeting slightly, Sunny pressed the door to open the apartment's security gates. "It's open. Bathroom's in the poolroom, should be close to where you are... I'll meet you there. If this guy's a freak, this is on you Soloman."
Sunny spent the next few moments asking what a liberty center was, and getting a brief awnser from Eliot that was something to the affect of,
"Dude, it's a complex for artificial children. Single mothers who aren't fat from giving birth, already have commitments to their kids, but are probably bored out of their minds..."
Disgusted, Sunny opened the apartment door and stepped out onto the balcony/stairway, looking down toward the grounds for the person he just allowed into the complex, and still holding Harper in his arm. Giving a sigh and deciding not to waste anymore time, he headed down the stairs and toward the pool complex while muttering something about needing to find his own place to live. Harper repeated most of whatever he said.
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