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Elayeth leaned over and bared his teeth at the hand held mirror... "Greepeseed." He said without ceasing his tooth inspection. He wedged a fingernail inbetween his two front teeth and sucked in air apreciatively when the grape seed popped out from between said teeth.

"That's what I get for stealing grapes while I'm still in the store. Not that it's a bad thing." He reassured himself in the mirror, "everyone eats a grape or two in the store before buying them. It's just how it's done." Of course they usually eat more than one or two, and they usually planned on purchasing the rest. "He shrugged at himself. "OH! By the way. You're still looking good. Good good good good." He placed the mirror back down on the shelf with a grin and started off down the isle. He couldn't really remember what it was he had been sent to the store for, but it couldn't have been anything important... his family still didn't know that he had gone fourther, and they didn't usually ask the four legged family members to bring back breakable items. He had only come to get out of the house and away from Alexander.

After wandering down the canned goods isle, and then the booze isle, he decided that he needed more grapes before trying to figure out why he was even here in the first place. Little did he know, that he wouldn't get much further than the produce isle...

As he turned the corner he saw a jivviness. Sleek Black hair, dark satiny ears, pretty face.... perky figure. He made an hourglass motion with his hands and closed one eye as if he were sighting down a gun barrel and then moved in for the 'kill'.

"You're a jivvin." He spoke as he strode up to her, staying enough distance away from her so as to not scare her. "I'm a jivvin. Elayeth... have we met? I'm not sure that we have.... " He smiled a little as if unsure as to whether or not he should say what he was about to say... "I think I'd remember you..."

"No." He said it matter of factly and just smiled at her non-threateningly. "I've just... honestly... never seen a jivvin like you before. You're so dark and exotic, beautifully proportioned, well dressed... you're also missing," he tapped his horn, "this, which I've always thought marred the beauty of the face... And... " He grinned slyly... "You look to me as if you could kick my a** and mop the floor with my ears if you wanted..." He laughed...

"And you can't understand how much all of that intrigues me." He held his hands out to either side, almost helplessly. "You're like no other jivvin woman I've ever seen... and you're goregeous."

He bowed slightly, never taking his eyes off her, and refrained from daring her to mop the floor with him. His need to be touched in any way by this encahnting woman was going to have to be played out slowly, so he didn't come across as a sleezebag... which he was really.

He looked over the tomatoes that she had looked over, as if her interest in them made them all the more interesting to him. He had watched her war with some kind of emotion, but wasn't sure what... you didn't become a good womanizer without being able to tell what a girl was thinking... but this girl was closed off.

"Forgive me, but... are you alright? You seem troubled?" He thought about offering to carry her groceries for her, but figured that didn't play well with her being able to kick his a**, so he discarded that idea quickly. "I'm not trying to pry, I hardly know you... but something seems to be bothering you... Boyfriend troubles? I could take you to dinner and solve that issue... family problems? I could be a good listener? A shoulder to cry on, a body to hug... or beat up, whatever floats your exotic boat." His brain spun out of control at that point... thinking of all the exotic places a boat could go, and what two people might be able to do in a boat.... but all he let play across his face was an honest smile. Fueled by the sheer pleasure of being around a woman.

"You."

There was no mockery in his voice, no smile, no games... he was just being honest. "Of course I want you to want me too, but that may be too much to ask at this point." He sighed and leaned back into a produce bin, his arms crossed for a moment before he started using them in geustures to emphasize his point.

"I've already told you that I think you're goregeous. You seemed to believe me, because you thanked me for it. Then you went all quiet and crossed your arms, and glared at me, which only makes you all the more pretty by the way, and this is where we find ourselves now." He shrugged. "It's a short but strange courtship we have so far...." Then he leaned in almost confidentially, hald expecting her to clock him on the nose...

"See... a moment ago I wondered if I should offer to hold your basket for you, but I didn't. Not because I didn't want to be charitable, but rather because I didn't want you to think that I thought you couldn't carry it by yourself." He nodded and smiled. "See? Complicated."

"Long answer short." He stood, tall and clean, and offered her his hand. "I just want to get to know you. Be around you. I don't want to hurt you or take anything from you, I just want to be near you.... and I'll hold that basket if you want a store 'puppy' at your command."

He laughed. "Honestly? It never works... but like I said, jivvin girls aren't like you." He was standing in front of her, not entirely facing her, but still looking at her. She had his full attention. "And if it's too private, then don't talk about it. It's not like you know me all that well... but why not take comfort from someone who has nothing but comfort to give? Use me, leave me, love me, beat me... " He shook his head side to side dramatically at each phrasing. "It's all the same to me, because it means that you'll be near." He grinned again. "Course, if you're giving me a choice, then I prefer to be loved... it's so much more fun for everyone involved."

He stared at her for a second and then crossed his arms. "Five." then he uncrossed his arms and shrugged. "But only three of them are jivvin women and they don't like me very much.... I'm too Opylyn for them apparently."

"Oh, I'm sure you could explain as well as I could." He winked at her. "Too self contained, secretive, quiet, sneaky... that kind of thing. I'm sure it makes me a better secret keeper though, and certainly a better lover." He held his hands out to either side again , palms up, and shrugged.

"I think you'll find that I, like you, am not like other jivvins... not that many anyway. There's a fair few Olplyn like me, but I tend to embody the rank traits.... except the part about us not being nice." He smiled theatrically. "I'm very nice."

"Well, one could consider me a womanizer, though I still remain friends with all my past girlfriends, I've never dated anyone for less than two months, and they all still consider me a friend, even though they've moved on to bigger and better things. It's very difficult to prove to you right here and now that I'm not a womanizer, because you don't know me and you don't know if I'm lying... which I'm not. I do have the fact that I'm not promising you the world, working on my side." He nodded. "If I were just trying to get into your pants, then I'd be telling you whatever I think you wanted to hear just to use you and go about my merry way.... I'm not. I'm genuinely interested in you. In what you have to say, and what you have to give."

"As for me being a jerk" He shrugged. "Enh. Some people think I am, because, yes, I am a little full of myself, and yes, I do come across as snobby." He leaned back against the produce bin again to give her her space. "You'll just have to hang out with me more to find out if that's true... though to be honest, the last person to call me a Jerk was someone running from the cops." He let his vision fade off slightly as if he were remembering the moment... and then snapped back to her with a smile.

"Anyway... let me cap it all by saying, that dinner is all I want. I want to go to dinner with you and buy you something from the candy store, give you whatever comforts you want and then send you home to your family with a lighter heart." He crossed his arms. "Really, you've got nothing to lose, and you can bring someone along with you if you like."

He laughed at that, as he fell in obediently behind her to accompany her shopping. "That wouldn't be the best option for a date, but I'd do it if I had to." He walked along calmly behind her for a moment before adding, almost as an afterthought, "Besides, we've already establshed the fact that you can 'handle' me. You said so yourself when you said my ears would make a good hanle... "

"So what kind of food do you eat anyway? Where am I taking you?"