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 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:49 pm
 With the appearance of a pregnant, pissed off sister at the lake things had gotten... Uncomfortable, to say the very least. His father had spoken to his mother and, together, they had taken their little family into the woods to give his sister space to come to terms with her knew family.
The only thing that he had learned from that was that families, in general, were complicated things best left for those far older than him. Old like his father was old... And Spirits help him if he ever made it to that age because, for most of his foalhood, his mother seemed quite convinced that he wasn't even going to make it to adulthood.
He had, of course. It had probably been a mix of sheer stubborness mingled with a desire to just prove her wrong... To prove that he was something other than a danger to himself and others. He knew that his mother loved him and that his father, for all that he laughed, was proud of him. He had their approval... But he didn't have his brother's.
They had fought off and on from the moment after they woke up following their great escape from the baskets. He was reckless and Dodger was calm, calculating... A real drag. There was nothing interesting about him and when he tried to make things interesting that just seemed to piss him off. Sedi wasn't so bad... He was often the one to break up their fights, so was their father. If their mother knew about it she never said anything other than 'boys will be boys', reminding their father that they were his boys.
His boys... Yeah, well, he'd like to see Dodger pull any funny stuff now. He was alot bigger and he wasn't going to take anything from him.
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:07 pm
It also meant that he was given more freedom now that he was bigger and stronger. He could go places without one of his brothers and see things without having to worry about his mother wondering where he was every moment.
No, she'd still wonder, but at least now she'd wonder in silence and let him have his chance to explore. Without his brother. It was heaven to be able to explore without being told that he had to go with Wylie. It meant quiet and calm and days without something happening.
It was like he'd been given a whole new perspective on things. Life without being completely chained to the lakeside and his family.
Actually that was a slightly creepy idea ... best not to jump into things so fast.
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:20 pm
He had found himself a nice, quiet spot down by the river. The water was cool and the breeze shifting through the trees was beautiful. There was fresh, green grass and tiny, sweet flowers. It was a silent paradise and it was all his...
He was enjoying the silence. It gave him time to think back on everything that had happened since he'd stumbled out of a basket what seemed like ages ago. All in all, it really hadn't been all that eventful. Things had happened and, in the great scheme of things, they had seemed so very trivial.
He liked to believe that he'd had a typical childhood. He had nothing to compair it to but he'd assumed that, from the way he and Dodger got along, younger brothers were supposed to fight... And the older brothers were, for some reason, supposed to pit themselves in the middle to keep them seperated against all odds. While sisters...
Well, sisters were crazy. He had that one down pat without any doubt about it. Sisters and mares in general... Unless mares went by Mama and he only had one of those. He was intrigued now more than he had been before... Something about wondering whether or not they really were all crazy. Sedi seemed to think so, at least.
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:28 pm
He spent his day trotting around the planes enjoying the heat from the sun and the complete lack of anyone else in his general area. He figured he liked the solitude because he'd spent so much of his foalhood with his brother by his side being loud or Sedi trying to stop them from being loud.
It was well into the late afternoon before he headed back toward the river. He'd gone far enough away from the lake that the easiest way back would be to follow the running water. The sound was nice too which he'd learned from his Mama. She loved being near the water.
At least she wasn't crazy like his sister or like his big sister. Wylie could deal with them, he'd stayed closer to home anyway, while he could have his freedom to explore and learn things.
Leaning down he took a drink of the cool water and glared at his make as it fell into the water. He was starting to wonder how his Mama did it when hers was so much longer than his. This stuff was annoying.
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:38 pm
When a familiar scent caused his nostrils to flare he opened his eyes, shifting away from the green leaves of the bushes as he made his way back onto all fours. He snorted softly when his fiery gaze landed on his brother. Great... Just who he had wanted to go an entire day without seeing.
It wasn't that he didn't care about his brother. No, he'd learned at a young age that family was something you had to care about... But there was a big difference betwen 'carring' and 'liking'. Nothing said you had to like your family.
He liked his father. He was the sort of stallion that he wanted to be if he ever made it to that age. He'd taught them right and wrong... And he'd talked Mama into letting them wander off a bit from time to time, saying they'd never learn if they didn't.
He liked his mother. She was the sort of mare that made him glad he had a mother like her. She was soft and kind... But when she yelled? Woahboy, watchout. He didn't like making her mad and he really didn't like it when she frowned. Everyone was happier when Mama was smiling.
He liked his siblings... Well, he liked Sedi, who he'd been told he was alot like... And he even liked Atsila when she wasn't being crazy. Tanwen too. They all had their 'not bad' moments... But then there was Dodger.
He snorted softly, eyes narrowing. "What're you doin' here?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:46 pm
His ears swiveled before his head did. That wasn't a voice he wanted to hear and he hope beyond hope that he was going crazy and hearing things. Wylie wouldn't be standing there and he could just laugh it off.
Except Wylie was standing there. Wonderful.
"Could ask you the same." He tried visably not to sigh at his peace being ruined. Just one day, that's all he wanted, and it looked like he'd never get it. At least not until they got older and maybe Wylie came to his senses. Like that would ever happen.
"I was just enjoying a day free of any of your hairbrained schemes and the peace and quiet. Not like you'd know what peace and quite was."
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:01 pm
As if he could read his brother's thoughts his eyes narrowed. He didn't need to read them to know that Dodger was thinking something bad about him. He always was and nine out of ten times he wasn't just thinking it, he was saying it as well.
"I was here first." They had grown physically, yes, but when it came to things like this they were still nothing but children. He didn't understand why Dodger seemed to hate him as much as he did... He just knew he could return those feelings if they were going to be directed at him like that.
"Matter o' fact, I do know what peace an' quiet is. I was enjoying it m'self before you showed up." He'd been enjoying more than peace and quiet... He had enjoyed simply knowing that he wouldn't have to hear his brother's condescending tones. He could be himself and not worry about what someone else was going to think about it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:46 pm
"I'm amazed." He tossed his mane and headed toward his brother so he could walk past him. He wanted to enjoy his peace more and he couldn't do that with Wylie around. His brother wouldn't be able to ignore him even if he tried to do the same.
It was always the same. It was trying to learn something or just watch things and his brother had to go about making as much racket as he could or getting into whatever he could. He doubted that would ever change.
Least of all now that they were grown. They would be able, should they choose, to get into far more trouble than they could before. Their Mama and Dah wouldn't be watching them so closely. It was like an invitation to whatever was out there and he knew Wylie would be right into it all
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:57 pm
"Shouldn't be." He snorted softly, following his brother's movement with his gaze. "Peace an' quiet means I don't need t'listen t'your condescendin' voice."
He could easily ignore Dodger when he wasn't talking. When he was? Well, that there was another story. Dodger always seemed to have a way of trying to make him feel like an idiot... As if he were somehow far beneath him just because they were as different as Night and Day. His brother didn't accept him as he was and he doubted that the other male ever would.
Trouble was something of the past. It was something that an unknowing foal got into and he had learned from the times that he had gotten into it. He had also learned from his talks with Sedi that not all 'good ideas' were actually good. He had learned alot even if Dodger didn't think he'd learned anything.
"Y'know... Y're an a**."
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:05 pm
"Takes one to know one correct?" He turned his head again and grinned at his brother. "Or perhaps yet i should say i learned from the best?" Though he had tried most of his life to not be his brother. He wasn't going to let the other stallion get away with calling him things. Too bad he couldn't just tell his parents that Wylie had said a bad word.
"Ya only think i'm an a** cause i'm tellin the truth anyway." The Truth hurt so anyone would get mad at it. Though he wasn't all that mad about being called an a**. He knew he was one. His mama had called him a smart a** when she didn't think he could hear a few times.
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:23 pm
"I don't think y're an a**. I know y're one... An' it ain't 'cause you're tellin' any sort o' truth. If anythin' it's because you don't know nothin' about me, Dodge'. Y'just go 'bout sayin' things 'cause they're somethin' you think." He snorted as he stomped at the ground, glaring at his brother. It wasn't the truth that hurt. It was the fact that they were brothers and Dodger, for all purposes, had always seemed to wish that they weren't ad that had always upset him.
"Why don't you go find somewhere else t'stand? If you don't, I will."
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:14 pm
"Ya ain't never given me nothing else ta think." He snorted as he turned back around. He could just go the long way back home and hopefully his brother would stay gone for a while.
Stupid Wylie was always too hot headed. He couldn't think though things and maybe figure out that he was just like that for his brother's own good. If someone didn't tell Wylie he was being stupid he'd just go get himself hurt. He didn't want his brother to get hurt.
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:13 am
"You ain't never tried t'look for anythin' but the bad." He snorted softly, shaking his head as he turned away from his brother. So that's the way it was going to be... He'd let Dodger take the long way home and he? He just wouldn't go home. There had to be better things out there than this.
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