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 Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:03 pm
 Is was curled up under her covers, shivering slightly. She should have not stayed out in the rain with Xel the day before. She hadn't been feeling well before they had left to go get the plant supplies, and now she had a full on cold. She wished Giani was with her. She wanted to be held. Her emotions had taken a wicked beating the last two days, but she had learned a lot about the way she felt about Giani. Wiping a tear from her cheek, she tried to make herself sleep, but it wouldn't come. She heard her cell phone begin to ring, but she didn't feel like moving across the room to get it. It was probably her mother anyways. She didn't have the energy to deal with her today. Curling up in a tighter ball, she again made an attempt at sleeping.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:45 pm
 Giani had been trying to get hold of Is all morning. He hadn't seen her for a few days and she was not answering her phone. He was begining to worry a little.
Placing his cellphone back into his pocket he wandered into the small campus store and went to look at the magazines. Looking over them he realised the girl stood next to him was Israel's rather viberant roommate.
"Hi."
The girl turned to him and gave him a rather hostile look, after a moment, a hint of recognition crossed her face and she smiled.
"Hi." She said with a bright smile. "Giani right?"
Giani nodded and returned her smile. He looked back at the magazines for a moment and then back to the girl ... Saki? was that her name.
"Eh, may I ask. Is Isreal all right. I cannot phone her."
"Uh, not really. She has a cold." The girl said picking up a couple of random magazines and turning back to him. "But I'm sure she'd like to see you."
A look of concern crossed Giani's face as she said Is had a cold. Well, that explained a lot. He had been beginning to worry that she had given up on him after his little episode the other day.
"You can take these over for me." She said going to pay for the magazines and turning back to him. "The main door's open, and I'm sure she'll come out of hiding for you." Saki handed him the magazines and returned her purse to her bag.
Giani smiled and took the magazines his eyes lingering a little on a rather purple bruise that circled the girl's wrist.
Following his eyes Saki withdrew her hands and shook her sleeve down.
"I have to get to class." She said, still smiling. "Take good care of her for me."
And with that she was gone.
Giani crossed the campus back to the dorms and went straight up to her room. Knocking first anyway he opened the main door, up to Is's bedroom door and knocked.
"Dolce, It's me." He called, hoping she wasn't asleep. "I come to make you feel well again."
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:58 pm
Israel had just been about to fall asleep when there was a knock on her door. Sitting up a little, she turned to look at the door and smiled a bit when she heard Giani's voice.
"Come on in Giani," she called out to him, combing her fingers through her hair and sitting up to turn on her lamp. She was happy and nervous at the same time. Putting a hand over her still tender navel, she leaned back against the wall and resituated the covers over her legs.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:06 pm
Giani entered the room with a big smile on his face. His eyebrows dipped in concern a little as he saw how bad she looked. Saki hadn't been kidding when she said she was ill.
"Ah, dolce. You look so sick." He said perching on the edge of the bed and placing the magazines down on his lap. Taking her hand he turned it over and kissed her palm.
"I saw Saki in the store." He said putting his hand against her head. "She asked me to give you these..." He looked down at the fashion/gossip magazines and smirked. "Trashy magazines to read. but, how are you feeling? or is that a bad question?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:18 pm
Israel's smile brightened as he kissed her palm. "I'm not all that sick," she sniffed and leaned into his cool palm on her forehead. She looked down at the magazines on his lap and reached out to take them from him.
"They are not trashy. They are good reading," she smirked and set them off to the side after flipping through the different titles. Saki was so sweet. Her smile faded a bit. Saki had been... different the last couple of days. Turning her glassy eyes back up at Giani and gave him a bigger smile.
"I'm feeling... alright. I'll live," she grinned and moved to lay her head down on his shoulder, wincing a bit at the bruised feeling on her stomach. "How have you been? Have you been able to paint any?" she asked.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:32 pm
Giani slipped his arm around Israel's shoulder and smiled town at the bright glossy covers.
"I have. Your picture now looks very beautiful." He said looking across at her wall. He had spent most of the morning working on it and trying to catch up after the hitch the week before. "Maybe I will finish soon."
He turned back to her and placed a kiss on her head.
"How have you been dolce, apart from your cold. Hve you added any more victims to your collection?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:42 pm
Israel laughed a bit, ending in a bit of a coughing fit. "Well... at least one of us will be beautiful... the me in the picture I mean. I'm not looking so hot right now I'm sure," she grinned, looking up at him. She pushed some hair out of her face and laid her head back down on his shoulder.
"I have. My friend Ra. He owed me big time," she laughed softly. "I ended up taking him to the beach and we built a sand mosque together. You should see the pictures. They're over there in that photo album, if you want to see," she smiled, gesturing over to a brightly decorated book on her desk. Sure she had skirted around his first question, but she wasn't feeling up to discussing all the drama that had happened the last two days.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:52 pm
"A sand mosque?" Giani laughed easing her up and standing. "This I have to see."
Smiling he walked over to her desk and flipped the book open smiling at the pairs work of art.
"Very cute." He said turning back to face her and leaning against the desk.
Looking back at her he caught sight of the mark on her neck. Sitting back on the bed he gave it a closer look.
"Wow, I don't remember giving you that." He smirked looking up at her and moving next to her again. "Must have got carried away." He laughed sliding his arms back round her shoulders and pulling her close.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:06 pm
Israel leaned forward slowly and leaned on her arms as he looked at the pictures. She laughed again. She was so glad that he had come by. She looked up at him as he sat back down on the bed, then gave him a confused look when he tilted her head to the side to see her neck. Her heart skipped a beat when she realized what he was looking at. She reached up and put her hand over the hickey that Sora had left on her neck, swallowing hard. If she told him the truth he would be mad at her. But if she didn't... and he found out the truth... Tears welled up in her eyes at that thought. Ugh... she just wasn't well enough to deal with all this emotional stuff.
"Uh... Giani... I have something I need to tell you," she said softly, looking down and tugging on the hem of her shirt nervously.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:11 pm
Giani noticed her discomfort and removed his arm from her shoulder. The movement of her hand to the love bite did not go unnoticed as he started to get a sinking feeling. He wasn't sure what, or why but he knew what was about to come would not be pleasant.
Moving he sat so he could look at her.
"What is it dolce? What happened?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:23 pm
Israel reached up and rubbed a hand over face when he pulled away. She started to tuck her legs up to her chest, but grimaced at the action.
"Um... the day before yesterday... I finished the tattoo that Sora asked me to design, so I took it up to him. He wanted to get it done that day, so I went with him... and... he offered to get me a tattoo too. So I took him up on his offer," she shrugged. She dropped her eyes down and started to absently pick at her covers nervously. "Um... while I was getting mine... he was holding my hand and... to distract me... he kissed me. I... didn't stop him and... I guess we both got kinda caught up in the moment. I didn't even realize that he had been kissing my neck," she said softly, blushing hotly and putting her hand back over the mark on her neck. She could already feel the tears on standby. She didn't think that she could possibly have anymore left after the last two days.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:31 pm
Giani's heart dropped into the pit of his stomach at her words. There were too many forms of hurt twisting around his head. She had gone to get her tattoo without him, after they had talked he had hoped to go with her. Not just that, she had gone with her ex boyfriend. They had kissed, not just once and passionately enough to 'get caught up' and aquire a love bite. Just to twist the knife.
Taking a deep breath Giani looked up at her and swallowed, momentarily unmoved by her tears.
"Can I use your bathroom?" He asked rather randomly standing and going there anyway. Shutting the bathroom door behind him he sat and ran his fingers through his hair. He had to think before he spoke out of anger.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:42 pm
Israel tried to remain calm when he looked at her. The wounded look in his eyes was the most painful thing she had witnessed in the last two days. Swallowing hard, she didn't have time to answer him as he got up and went to the bathroom anyways. When she heard the door click shut, she let out the breath she had been holding. She started to tremble as she bit back the tears that wanted to fall. She deserved anything he decided to give her, she told herself. She had caused so much pain already. It was time that it blew back in her face, she sighed shakily, grabbing a stuffed animal that was on her bed and hugging it tightly.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:05 pm
Giani sat in silence and stared at his hands. He had known everything was too good to be true. Happiness never sat that well with him and he was terrible at relationships. This had to have been his shortest, yet the only one that he hadn't caused the ending of.
Having thought he sighed to himself and stood, leaving the bathroom. Back in the room he crossed back to Israel's desk and pulled the chair out. Taking a seat he looked at her once more.
It took all of his strength not to go over and hug her, yet he managed it.
"So you are geting together again?" He asked, his voice level as he ran his fingers through his hair again. "I don't want to know anything else ... just that one thing."
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:18 pm
Israel's heart stopped when she heard the bathroom door open. She watched Giani cross her room and sit down in her desk chair. She blinked at his question and thought about what she had told him, then slowly began to shake her head no.
"No Giani... We're not. It's over between Sora and I," she said softly. "It was a stupid moment of weakness... that made me realize that I don't love him anymore." Not entirely true, but she wasn't in the mood to get in an argument over the complexities of love again.
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