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 Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:57 am
Theoretically being kidnapped by a pirate was supposed to be romantic in these days. It was all due to the big push on movies and cheesy romance novels. But to be honest, one would feel sorry for a girl grabbed by Austin Island. He pulled the poor butterfly girl off to a corner in the gym and proceeded to start patting his pockets again.
It was becoming quite obvious that the boy never paid attention to where he stuck his things. He stopped, pulling a sheet of paper out of one pocket and looking at it blankly. There was nothing on the paper. "So that's where I put it..."
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:05 am
"Ah.." Maddy shifted a bit, notably more uncomfortable once she was alone with Austin again. It didn't help that he had apparently gone insane, when she had been expecting to receive her final gift and not stand around staring at blank papers.
She had to say though, he'd really stepped it up on the gifts - they were all very cute, pretty or ornamental, which certainly wasn't what she had expected when she'd learned that he was her Secret Santa.
Following this trend, she was pretty sure that the paper wasn't her gift, even if only because Polly would have surely forced him to find something more suitable.
"Put what?" It seemed the only thing to ask at this point.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:14 am
He looked at her, then held the page up to the ceiling, revealing a long line of numbers that were invisible unless held up to light. "This--" His mind rushed, wondering if she had any clue what those lines of numbers meant. For some reason he hoped she didn't.
Just in case, though, he folded the paper again and slipped it back into a pocket. "Ah, just the paper that was in your bottle before I filled it with sand and junk," he told her, starting his patting habit again.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:22 am
"Wow!" So that was why he carried a not-really-blank paper around - not that she knew what exactly the numbers meant, but Maddy was smart enough to draw the lines between the dots and figure out that it was obviously a map of some sort. Pirates + papers in old bottles = maps - everyone knew that.
"It was very pretty junk, though." She couldn't help but defend the earlier gift, quite fascinated by the seashells in it. "Thanks, by the way."
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:28 am
He shrugged, a faint trail of red crossing his cheeks at that compliment. Pirates weren't supposed to do pretty! He just... he just liked seashells, cuz they reminded him of home!
But he didn't say that. Instead he jerked, remembering where he had put her gift as it pinched him. "Ouch," he muttered, untying the pouch that held the hermit crab and trying to extract his finger from its hold. "'ere we go," he said, offering her the pouch with his hand still in it.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:38 am
Maddy took it, a bit wary by his earlier 'ouch' and the odd way the pouch got presented. Was that.. needles? No, they were too big and not sharp enough and the pouch was far too heavy for it to be needles (unless he'd given her like ten thousand of the things). So she held the pouch in the palm of her hand, completely untying the string holding it together since Austin's hand was still trapped.  In the pouch was a small hermit crab, obviously quite disgruntled at being moved around. "Oh. My. God!" The butterfly girl squealed, not caring if she was being too girly. "That's so cute! So cute!" She carefully pried the crab's claws away from Austin, cooing like a madwoman the whole time. It was love at first sight.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:45 am
He blinked. "You actually like it?" he finally asked, a bit stunned. He was pretty sure (even as dense as he was when it came to females) that he wouldn't be able to explain how to cook the thing to her. She might get mad at him. "It's meaner than 'eck."
And his throbbing finger gave testament to that fact. He lifted the finger to his lips, blowing on it and wincing.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:04 am
"Aww, he's just a little misunderstood. Aren't you, my little baby?" She'd deteriorated into baby-talk, but Maddy was too far gone in admiring the crab's adorable little feelers and pin-p***k eyes to notice.
"Thank you!" She looked up from her gift long enough to smile brilliantly at Austin - she might even had attempted a hug if she wasn't afraid of squishing the little thing. "Does he have a name?"
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:07 am
Dinner, he wanted to say, but he got the feeling she wouldn't see the humor in that, either. His mind rushed, but since Austin was never good at naming things to begin with, it didn't get very far.
"'ow about... Pirate?" he asked finally. "You can name him Pirate." It was a good steady name, if you asked him, and it suited the little b*****d's personality just right.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:30 am
Well, it wasn't the most original of names but it had a nice sound and since she had gotten him from a pirate to begin with..
"Right, Pirate it is." She nodded, pleased enough with how it sounded out loud. It wasn't exactly like Maddy was particularly creative either, as evidenced by her turtle, Turtle.
"Thanks a bunch Austin, I really, really love him. It's the best gift ever." She was holding the crab to her chest, pseudo-hugging it while the little beast was decimating all the red lace it could find. Not that she noticed or anything.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:45 am
"Well, good," he said. "Now I can shove it in Polly's face that I didn't screw up entirely for this thing." And there it was, his greatest motivator for the Secret Santa thing. He looked around for aforementioned cousin, noticing that she was now raiding the food table. His stomach rumbled. Somehow Jake had found out they'd be eating food at school and not bothered to pack him a lunch.
"So... see ya!" he said, turning to head for his cousin, and more importantly, the food.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:51 am
Maddy made her way back to Kaimi and Nefl, still cooing maniacally at the newly dubbed Pirate. She couldn't wait to show him off to her friends - this was the best Christmas ever!
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