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 Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:46 pm
The sun was beating merrily, and Asher thanked whatever god was out there for that. For the last two weeks, a summer program that he had signed Irelia up for had been postponed due to rain, and Irelia was practically having a fit. She had thrown tantrums that were more like little cold wars than the explosive battles she had as a baby, but now she was a lot more dangerous.
Before Asher had signed her up, Asher had woken up to find that Irelia had taken bleach out of the laundry room and had bleached her hair the same shade of his. Irelia was practically a genuis, thankfully, and managed not to burn herself, but Asher couldn't believe that she would do such a thing. When asked, she replied that she wanted to look like Asher, her father, because she certainly did not resemble anything about him save for her extraordinary height (Irelia was about a head taller than anyone else in class.. mostly due to the fact that she was perpetually standing on tiptoes)
First thing Asher had done was sign Irelia up for a special weekend summer camp, for children with "issues". Well, the first thing that Asher actually did was take Irelia to the hair dresser, but her hair would not take the dye, being as freshly bleached as it was. It would be more than a month before Irelia could have her hair dyed back and the hairdresser worried that she might have done irreparable damage to her hair, growing as she was. So Irelia's hair was a blinding white, so white it blinded Asher's eyes.
Irelia was so excited about the prospect of going away for the weekend that she had acted like an angel for week before the first cancellation, and then threw a bloody fit when it had been cancelled, and cut all of the sleeves off Asher's shirts while he was sleeping. After the next cancellation, Irelia had added a cup of salt to everything in the fridge, including the milk and all of the whipped cream.
Asher had locked up his room, and the fridge, but worried that another cancellation would set Irelia over the edge. Finally, the two of them made it to the front entrance of the day camp, and Irelia saw for the first time the sign hanging over the main building.
"Welcome "Special Friends?"" Irelia stared incredulously at the poster. Asher HAD to be kidding. This was some sort of stupid joke.
"Oh look, one of the councellers is coming towards us." The counceller knelt down to Irelia's level and ruffled her hair.
Irelia snorted and fixed her hair, glaring at him with her piercing stare.
"So, Mr. Torstenn, we make sure that these kids don't cause themself bodily harm. Also, we make sure that they are aware of the choices they are making are not in their best interest."
Asher nodded. Irelia's face was slowly turning purple, a nice contrast with her white hair.
"You're an idiot." Irelia kicked Asher's shins, which had been bruise free since she had grown up and Irelia tore away from them.
The counceller looked at her in surprise, and turned to Asher, chuckling.
"Well, she's sure getting off to a glorious start, isn't she?"
The counceller circled Irelia's name on the list.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:55 pm
Any weekend camp would of been fine for most of Harper's guardians, truth be told. They all had a trip they wanted to go on, a trip that would involve a lot of booze, drugs, road trips, scantily clad parties and disturbing innuendo. So obviously they needed to get rid of Harper.
Sunny was put in charge of the boring job of finding which babysitter/boarding house/camp to stuff Harper in, and when he discovered this 'Special' camp it was like a lightbulb from heaven had been turned on ultra-glare. Surely it would help counteract all the horrible behaviors the bird-head had learned thusly, correct?
Sunny's car was far less flashy than the one Solo and Eliot shared. It was a run down 'bug,' once gold and now quite brown. Harper hated it. The convertible was much more fun. He pulled himself out, grabbing his makeshift 'bag' that was made out of double stacked grocery bags to fill up with his clothes and his contraband water gun. He glared around, expecting 'nature' and other such atrocities in full abundance.
"I hate you." Harper told Sunny.
Sunny took a deep breath and patted Harper's shoulders, "I know Harper, I know, but I love you." He said, quite seriously. Spotting the other child and parent and counceller, Sunny (having to drag Harper by the collar) brought Harper closer as well, waiting behind them patiently for his turn.
Harper was glaring at the white haired girl. His hair was much better. "Poser." He muttered under his breath.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:08 pm
Irelia turned at the sound of the boys voice and hissed, a trait she had taken from Taki, which was quite unconcerting when it came from a sheep girl.
"Oh. Its you," Irelia looked at Harper's hair, and snickered, "Yeah, like yours is soooo much better than mine. And you're wearing makeup."
Irelia thought for a second. What would be a fitting title for one such as he?
"You're a stupid Pansy." Irelia shrieked, punched his shoulder, grabbed her bag and was running up the hill like there was no tommorow in less than two seconds.
The counceller shook his head, and put an "X" by Irelia's name.
"You're doing a great job fitting in, very nice, Irelia," Asher said under his breath, while the counceller laughed.
"Shouldn't you be stopping her from causing any more mayhem?" Asher said pointedly. The counceller stopped laughing.
Asher turned to the newcomers.
"I see you have met my Charming daughter," Asher dryly pointed out.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:15 pm
"IRELIA?" Harper had belted, shortly after being punched. He pouted and made a face, clutching his shoulder and growling after her as the grip on his collar tightened.
"Indeed." Sunny said slowly, watching the conceller as well. "Unfortunately my nephew isn't much-"
"I am NOT staying if SHE's here." Harper said, crossing his arms.
"Oh but Harper, you are. We are leaving for the weekend and can't take yo-"
"I DONT CARE WHAT DITZY WOMEN AND DRUGS AND BOOZE I SEE IT'S WOULDNT BE AS 'DEESTRUCTYVE' THAN IT!"
Sunny, quite disheveled, forgot himself and let Harper go just long enough for him to go chasing after Irelia. Harper was cackling like some deranged maniac.
Sunny looked quite disturbed. "I suppose they know each other. Perhaps we should sign a waver of liability now, should one of our children mame the other?" What's more, he seemed quite serious.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:27 pm
Asher shook his head.
"No need. I will blame everything entirely on Irelia. With her brains, she knows exactly what she needs to do to annoy people. And then she chooses to do it." Asher sighed, and turned to the counseller.
"So, hopefully, the two kids aren't going to be near each other for more of the weekend..." Asher trailed off as the counseller grinned toothily.
"Oh no. We've assigned everyone partners and unfortunately for them, they've been assigned together," He laughed and started to run after the two kids.
Asher shook his head, and massaged his temples.
"I recommend bringing a box when we come pick them up. Because that will be all that is left."
Irelia was screaming, her dyed hair bouncing in the breeze, taunting the irate Harper.
"You can't catch me! And your hair looks like someone peed on it!" Irelia cackled.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:33 pm
Sunny blinked a few times, feeling somewhat defensive of his nephew for reasons beyond his understanding. "Well, you might be surprised. Harper's not the toughest but he's pretty crafty himself."
He glanced at the counselor and took a deep breath, "If I come back and my nephew is more messed up than when I brought him I'm having my sister sue you. Good bye." He turned and started back to his car, leaving Harper's bag of clothes on the ground where Harper had grabbed them.
Harper was chasing her angrily, intent on hitting her back before realizing that was something entirely stupid when he ought to be clinging to his uncle's car. Then her next comment came and he was back to trying to chase her.
"..A.. A- AT LEAST I DON'T HAVE TO DYE IT TO BE COOL, YOU UGLY.. UGLY..... STUPID.... COME HERE!"
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:38 pm
Irelia whirled around, confident in her ability to stay ahead of him.
"Hey, at least I can dye mine back. Yours is permanently peed on-" Irelia stumbled over a log and fell in the fortunately cool fire pit, throwing up dense black charcoal dust over everything.
"Owwwwwwwww." Irelia said, and covered her face. She wasn't sure if falling in a firepit was going to stop Harper when he was hellbent on striking her back.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:47 pm
He came to a sudden halt when she fell and stared again, resisting the urge to simply turn around and leave again. Seriously, she seemed to be doing this stuff everytime he was around her!
Choosing the less chivalrous route, Harper took it for all it was worth and pounced mercilessly on the girl. Luckily for both of them he was a relative lightweight to be sure. Now that he at least thought he had the upper hand, however, he grinned at her and grabbed a pile of charcoal in his hand, "Now what were you saying about my hair?" He asked, grinning.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:53 pm
Irelia grunted in surprise when the boy jumped on her. He wasn't as heavy as Taki but when someone jumps on you, its not exactly fun at the best of times.
Irelia narrowed her eyes at Harper. He would soon learn that Irelia was stubborner than hell, and she was NOT about to back down on anything she said, no matter how ridiculous.
"Your hair. It blows."
Irelia had picked up some interesting language from poking around in other people's minds.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:57 pm
"Is that why your tryin' to look like me?!" He asked, frowning defensively. His hair was certainly a source of pride for him! Besides, she obviously was trying to mimic him if she died her hair white and it had nothing to do with her father at all.
He moved to sit on her, messing with the charcoal a bit more before trying to dust it over her hair, "And now it looks like someone skinned a zebra and strapped it to your stupid head!" Oh, yeah, that one was good. Still, best he could do for now and was better than nothing.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:12 pm
Irelia had no idea what her hair looked like but she bet it looked better than the ugly stained rag that sat on top of Harper's head.
"FINE! HAVE IT YOUR WAY!" Irelia grabbed her own handful of dirt and proceeded to flip the two of them over, so she was on top.
Irelia was always on top.
"Have a taste of your own medicine, retard!" Irelia rubbed her hands through his hair and coughed as some of the dust started choking her.
And she tried to punch him again for good measure since it seemed that Harper was quite full of himself and thought she wanted to be like him.
AS IF.
A sound could be heard over their fight. It was a loud bell tolling.
"Hey, Harper, what's that?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:32 pm
(( lawl just noticed I put 'died' instead of 'dyed.))
Harper looked quite confused, and then yelled 'no!' lamely when his hair was scarred and destroyed. Well, he thought, it might look cool after all, black/gray/whatever wasn't so bad a color as periwinkle or some other such nonsense.
Then he was punched and he looked at her horrifically, "WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!?" He yelled, moving to shove her away. The bell came, and as if nothing had happened she expected him to answer, and...
Oh, whatever.
"I don't know." He said, sitting up. "Maybe they are calling the wolves in for their feeding. We aren't making it out of this place alive, you know."
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:37 pm
Irelia cackled menacingly.
"Yummy yummy. I'm sure wolves loooovveeee little birdies... nevermind."
Irelia just remembered she was half sheep and the burn wasnt much of a burn anymore.
"Ewwwww... we're so gross."
Suddenly, a hand came out of nowhere and grabbed on to Irelia's ear.
"Ow!" Irelia yelled, and tried to bat the hand away, and squirmed mightily.
"Harper, HELP."
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:49 pm
Harper snorted, "And what failed halloween costume did you get those horns fr-"
Iee! Either his imagination got the best of him or he was, in fact, quite delusional but something about wolves, monsters, aliens and evil overlords clocked in instantly. Without thinking about it more than a few seconds he lurched forward to grab her hooves, "LET GO!" He demanded.
He would later think of a macho excuse to say this was, in the end, an attempt at furthering his own chances of survival with another meat shield on hand.
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