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 Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:38 pm
Magdelen gripped her father's hand quite tightly as they left the movie theater. "That was a dumb movie," said the white-haired child decisively.
"What?" Luka couldn't hear her very well at all, since her voice was muffled by the high, wide collar of her sky-blue sweater. He absentmindedly draped a scarf around her shoulders.
Irritated with him, she repeated, "That was a dumb movie. That Bella girl was a moron." Or maybe she was just prejudiced against people with the name Isabella. That silly pink thing pretending to be a girl hadn't been quickly forgotten at all.
He sighed. "Don't say 'moron'," he chided, and when they reached the lobby, he sat her down on one of the benches near some arcade machines. "Sit there and listen to your iPod, all right? I'll be back in just a moment." And he breezed off somewhere, leaving Magdelen to wonder if he remembered that he'd made her leave her mp3 player in the car. For a minute, she sat quietly as ordered; really she was kinda tired, and she tilted her head one way and then the other to shake out the cobwebs.
Then she looked over to the other end of the bench. A girl with strange orange and black hair sat there, undeniably just as alone as Magdelen! And as much as the sickly girl knew she shouldn't- after all, it wasn't like she had forever to hang around with any friends she made- she was too tired to get up and go play some of the arcade games, and...
Whatever. "Hello," she said, loud enough to be heard if someone was really listening.
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:10 am
The girl in question was kicking her feet merrily, for all the world enjoying the sight of her slender legs disappearing beneath the bench, only to emerge again, her sandal slapping against the bottom of her foot with the effort. She was humming to herself, probably the theme song to the movie she'd just seen, and almost missed the greeting that interrupted her merry tune.
Jahzara turned her candy tangerine eyes to the girl, blinking at her a few times. That was a pale child, and those eyes! She looked so cool! "Hello!" she chirruped back happily, not really pausing to think the girl might have been speaking to someone else. But who else was there? Besides, the cheetah girl had to admit she was pretty cool looking herself. Why not talk to her?
The spotted girl tilted her head to the side, looking over the other with intruige. She kinda looked like a vampire, or more like herself - that is to say, someone who didn't exactly pass as a normal, run-of-the-mill child. After having met Leviathan and Carlisle, she was always open to the possibility of meeting others like her, especially since no two were the same. Unless they were like, twins or something, but that was beside the point.
"What'd ya see?" she inquired pleasantly, offering a wide and toothy grin. It seemed like the most logical thing to ask, since they were both sitting on a bench in a movie theatre. Well, maybe she hadn't seen the movie yet! Oh who cared! She'd said Hi and that was good enough to start some good ol' conversation!
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Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:05 pm
"Your face," said Magdelen in a curiously inoffensive tone. Apparently she had misunderstood the question, taking 'what'd ya see' for 'what do you see'. Speaking slow, still in that weird tone of voice that should have been offensive and patronizing, but since she was talking so quietly and slowly really wasn't, she said, "You have orange on your eyes." And the other girl did! She even had freckles in her hair. It was really, really odd, like she had any room to talk. Her hair was bright, ivory white and her eyes were all white but for her pupils and then she had all those bandages (thankfully invisible, but lending a faint, distinctive smell of medicine and rot to the area around her, which is why she had slid a bit away when the orange-haired girl had turned her way). As things went, hair-freckles were much better than black bruises on your arms, Magdelen thought.
But then the question asked, and the meaning of it, fully processed and she flushed, the color a bright carmine red against her sallow cheeks. On a healthier, more colorful girl, it would have been pretty, even attractive, but for Magdelen, it wasn't. It looked like a child who had been playing too much in the mother's makeup box, and was not exactly flattering. Magdelen closed her eyes for a second.
"Twilight," she said finally, having had to work at remembering the name. All she remembered was a ridiculous 'fairy sparkles' sound effect and the really awesome sound as Bella's leg snapped under the crazy sparklepire's foot- She caught herself. "That stupid vampire movie, right? My dad and I went to see Twilight. It was kind of funny, but more sad than ha-ha-ha." She paused, wondering how to carry on the conversation. Her dad wasn't even in view, so she had time. A lot of time. "Well, uh. What did you see?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:06 pm
Your Face? Was that a movie? "Huh, haven't heard of that one," the Cheetah-spotted girl replied, apparently missing the misunderstanding and upping it with a misunderstanding of her own. Jahzara blinked those orange eyes at the other girl before giving a wide, toothy grin. "Not in my eyes, they are orange," she corrected with a certain amount of pride in her voice. Her pupils weren't yet as slitted as they could be, but she liked the oblong shape of them, and how the color of the iris seemed to set it off. She was a vaguely vain creature, but her father assured her she had the right.
"Uh," the child said intelligently, blinking widely at the other, "are you okay?" That...that was a lot of red that wasn't there before. Jahzara had no idea where it had come from, only that the pale was suddenly red and the red was...really freaking red, it was kinda scary.
Another few blinks to register that the other was carrying on about another movie. She'd seen two movies? Lucky girl! Her dad said she couldn't sit still long enough for one, so they rarely went out to the movies as it was. "Vampires? I dunno anything about vampires." There was a movie about them? Well of course there were! There were a lot of movies about vampires, so why bother seeing another? No, she needed to see something different. Something unique that doesn't come out every other month.
That's right. "Paul Blart, Mall Cop," Jahzara quipped happily. "It was funny in a ha-ha-ha way more than sad. Although parts of it were sad, but it was good. I want a mall scooter." Her giggle was hidden behind a dainty hand, although it did little to muffle the mirthful sound. "Then I could chase my dad around!"
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:16 pm
Nice color, thought Magdelen of the other girl's orange eyes, understanding the misunderstanding and not quite relating it to her original lack of attention. The amount of teeth present in Cheetah-girl's smile made her a little nervous, too, but she leaned forward anyway. "Yeah, just fine," she said, wondering if the scent of medicine was that noticeable. She wore multiple layers just for that reason, of course. No one really liked the smell of antiseptic.
"Apparently they sparkle," she said, this time of vampires, "Which they do not. I know this because I read it in a book." Apparently Twilight had been a book, too. But Magdelen would never sink to that level! She read books like Dracula! It helped that her dad had personally forbidden 'teen fluff reading' like Twilight... "They catch fire. Bram Stoker said so, and he wrote Dracula, who was the first vampire."
A mall scooter? She didn't know what that was, but she imagined it must be like one of those Amigo things fat old people rode around on in malls. That picture in her head didn't work out quite right. Wouldn't someone run faster on their feet than on an Amigo? She decided to ask: "Do those go fast? I think you'd maybe run faster."
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