Natalo
One hit wonder
Hey there :)
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Post by Natalo on Oct 13, 2010 19:07:44 GMT -5
The sun was especially sweltering that afternoon by the famous Palm Woods pool. Lydia stood in line at Katie's sno-cone stand, dollar in hand.
"HelloLydiawhatcanIgetforyoutoday?" the brown haired girl said at lightning speed.
"Uh-" Lydia laughed at Katie's all-business persona, "Pineapple and cherry, please." As quickly as she could talk, Katie scooped up a sno-cone in one swift motion.
"Onedollarplease,thankyouverymuch."
"Thanks, Katie. Loosen up a bit, will you?" she replied. As she stepped away, a big foot crushed her toes. She spun around to see her assailant.
"Oh, sorry!" a tall guy apologized. He looked genuinely concerned. "You okay?"
"I'm fine, thanks. It's okay," Lydia said, forgiving him offhandedly. Something looked familiar about this toe crusher...
"Are you new here?" she asked.
"Uh, yeah. Just moved here with my family-I'm sure you've seen them around."
"Oh, you're Juniper and Violet's brother! Dominic, is it?"
He smiled. "Sure am. Juniper is pretty wacky, isn't she?"
"Yeah," she said with a laugh, remembering the tiny girl's explosive cannonballs, "but it's people like her that make the Palm Woods fun."
"How long have you been here?" Dominic inquired.
"About a year and a half now. I live here alone, but the kids that stay here almost become family, so it's not very lonely," Lydia explained. She didn't admit it to a stranger, but she did feel very solitary sometimes, having a whole apartment to herself... "What business are you trying to make it in?" she asked him.
"uhm, I'm an aspiring artist," he responded, "You?"
"I have a contract with Rocque Records; I'm a singer."
"Wow, that's awesome."
"HEY!" Katie yelled, breaking into their introductions, "Do you want a snowcone or NOT?"
"Oh," a look of realization on his face, "Sorry. I'll get blue raspberry."
Katie took his money and, in a flash, handed him a blue mound of slush.
"The flirting that goes on around here..." she muttered with a roll of her eyes.
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Post by Lotan on Oct 14, 2010 15:23:55 GMT -5
(( He wants to be an artist, I've been changing some things! Haha, toe crusher...)) "Well, it's kind of hard to say I'm an artist already, it's not exactly easy to get into a business like that" Dominic explained to Lydia. "Well it should be if you're any good! Are you?" Lydia asked curiously. Dom looked at her and then walked backwards out of the elevator without saying another word. Now Lydia was confused, and a tad disappointed That was rude... She sulked back to her room, and when she arrived, she was suddenly glad that she had had her head down. She bent down to pick up the piece of paper that had been placed at the foot of her door. On it was one intricately drawn rose and something written in beautiful calligraphy "I'll let you decide" Lydia could almost see the smirk on his face as she read it, and couldn't help but smile back. ((I know they just met, but I thought the opportunity was way too cute to pass up  )) |
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Natalo
One hit wonder
Hey there :)
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Post by Natalo on Oct 14, 2010 16:10:10 GMT -5
((OH MY GOSH, that was so cute!!! You come up with great ideas, Gracey )) |
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Post by Lotan on Oct 17, 2010 12:20:50 GMT -5
((I try )) ((OH MY WORD. I had this SUPER long post going but I couldn't finish it because my dad was yelling at me so I copied it but I forgot to paste it and now it's ALL GONE, and I wish I didn't have to fricken write the whole thing again but I REALLY don't feel like doing it again right now, so tomorrow, new LONG post garunteed, I HATE it when dads AND computers are stupid at the SAME time!!! AUGH!)) |
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Post by Dames on Oct 17, 2010 14:29:14 GMT -5
((I'm so sorry! I hate when that happens!))
She sighed deeply as the vibrant plastic bags dropped around her feet, sinking into the new beige carpet that layered the floor. Anisa took her first Los Angeles shopping trip after her first big pay day. The California shopping was magnificent.
"Almost makes Hawk bearable." She mumbled to herself, throwing her body down onto her playful purple sheets. Anisa buried her pale face into the fancy feather pillows the record company bought her. She was grateful for all the wonderful things they had gotten her for the Palm Woods apartment, but it was almost as if they were bribing her.
"If I were you, I'd take that bribe." Harley had told her the last conversation they'd had via Skype. Hawk Records also got her a Mac Book. She was starting to feel spoiled.
It came to Anisa's attention that the usually chatter coming from the pool had sunken into complete silence. Her head sprung from the pillow and turned to look outside.
Around the unlit fire-pit, the four boys she'd seen a zillion times were singing and snapping their fingers. The tallest one quickly got into the song and jumped on top of the wooden cushioned seat.
"We're halfway thereeee!" He sang out as the boys harmonized beautifully along side him. They were good.
Most famous people just use crappy computer voices... Her heart dropped as she thought this. Oh Nisa, what are you doing?
She listened close as the boys continued the chorus. It was simple, but all encouraging and sweet. By the time it came around again, she found herself singing along with the tan brunette out her window. And loudly.
"Nini," a tiny male voice called from outside her door. Anisa jumped and quickly stopped singing as her younger brother, Luke, pushed the black wood door open. "Who are you singing with?" His blue eyes sparkled in the California sunlight.
She always envied her other siblings blue eyes, her mother gave her green eyes but she wanted the dazzling blues of her father so badly.
"Just some boys outside..." She said casually, trying so hard not to care.
"Oh. You sound nice with them. I heard them before, they sing a lot. I like them." He smiled as she returned her own. He shut the door slowly leaving the singer with her thoughts.
Maybe someday I'll do a song with them...
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Post by Lotan on Oct 19, 2010 16:06:56 GMT -5
"Now class, get out your books, we're going to start on math." The teacher told them before picking up a piece of chalk and her own book.
"I hope we're doing fractions again!" Carlos whispered eagerly while pulling a fork out of his pocket and smiling. Kendall rolled his eyes and took the utensil from him; Carlos pouted.
"Let's see, number one, Logan?" Ms.Collins called on the only raised hand in the class. He stood up and read the problem off the board, and without missing a beat gave the correct answer.
"And that would mean X= 3942" He finished with an accomplished grin. Juniper's jaw dropped, she spun around in her seat and hissed "Holy cow, how on earth did you do that in your head?! That's insane!"
"Eh." He shrugged with a smile.
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Juniper jumped Logan after class, clutching her math book to her chest with a desperate look on her face.
"WillyouPLEEEEEASEtutormeinmath?!" She let out in a single breath. Logan's mouth was already open to ask her a question as she said this, he closed it and pondered That sure makes it easier he thought to himself with a smile.
"No problem." His smile widened "I'd love to." He was so grateful that Juniper had asked him to tutor her! He was going to come up with some lame excuses for needing help from her in school just so he could talk to her more. Let's face it though, no one would believe that he actually needed a tutor.
"Awesome! Sounds like a plan! Tomorrow, in the lobby." Juniper nodded, and then skipped off in the other direction.
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-Tomorrow in the Lobby-
Juniper sat with her legs stretched out and crossed over Logan's lap with the eraser end of her pencil pushing into her temple, she was concentrating. Logan had only agreed to let her keep her legs there if she agreed to stop kicking him every time she got a problem wrong. She looked up from the problem she was working on and grimaced.
"I hate math!" She growled.
"Wait, what do you have?" Logan asked her. He waited for the answer patiently.
"umm.... 400?" Juniper frowned, then quickly buried her face in her book. She meekly peeked her face out from the musty pages, she had already gotten ten answers wrong and was extremely doubtful. Logan scooted over to her and checked her work, he looked down at her and shook his head.
"Hey, it's fine!" Logan stuttered, trying to sound reassuring "By the time we're done, you'll be even better than I am!" Logan told her in a proud voice, if he was confident in anything, it had to be math. She buried her head in her hands, completely disbelieving.
"Yeah, like that's going to happen." Juniper said, starting to sound like Violet.
He looked down at her notebook again and sighed dramatically.
"When you divide or multiply by a negative you have to flip the sign!" Logan told her. For the third time.
"Augh!" Juniper threw her hands up in frustration.
((I made more progress with the characters, I decided that Logan ends up really liking Juniper but, since she's always been really childish she still hasn't taken much notice of boys yet and she can't tell. And since he's really shy around girls, and has trouble expressing his feelings, I thought it would be really cute to have him have to try really really hard to get her attention. I used really 6 times in that sentence...))
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Natalo
One hit wonder
Hey there :)
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Post by Natalo on Oct 19, 2010 20:13:22 GMT -5
(( *applause* that was a lovely approach to the logan/juniper situation. I love your ideas  )) |
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Post by Kennall on Oct 21, 2010 16:46:15 GMT -5
"Hey Juniper!!" Violet enthusiastically called to her sister.
"Yeah, what up?"
"I've noticed you spending a lot of time with that one guy...." Vi commented casually.
"Oh! we're just studying!" Juniper explained.
"I don't really care what it is. I need you to put in a good word to Kendall for me, I like his eye brows... You need to be my wingsister, ok?"
((Yeah, yeah. I know it's really really short. I haven't posted in a while... I felt I should contribute))
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Post by Lotan on Oct 21, 2010 18:53:16 GMT -5
((and you should, hey you've already post 3 times more than you did on the last one! Your 3 posts are beatiful )) |
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Post by Kennall on Oct 21, 2010 19:05:22 GMT -5
((why thank you...they take me a while (: ))
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Post by Dames on Oct 27, 2010 11:03:01 GMT -5
((No one's going to post? Um... I'll do something later, I've got an idear...  )) ((K, I'll just post now.)) "With water displacement we are able to..." Ms. Collins droned on in class that Friday morning. Sometimes science could be fun in her class, but it was Friday and all anyone wanted to do was go up to their appartments and sleep. Anisa sat with her hands above her eyes, stretching the skin above them upward in a desperate attempt to keep them open during the dull lesson. Logan was slouching in the seat next to her, surprisingly asleep. He was usually so into the lesson they learned at the Palm Woods school, but he was exausted from all the harmonies and recordings Gustavo kept them up with the night before. Something pricked the back of Anisa's neck as she squeaked in surprise. Someone had thrown a crinkled note at her. Anisa whirled around in her plastic blue chair to find the culpret. Across the room sat Juniper and Violet, chuckiling to themselves. Juniper waved and pointed to the note. Anisa unwravled the note, trying hard not to make it crinkle too much. Sleepover tonight?
Yes/No Anisa grinned and nodded to the two sisters. "3J" Juniper mouthed to her. Nisa gave a thumbs up. Finally, someone to talk to! |
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Post by Lotan on Oct 27, 2010 19:53:19 GMT -5
"So, are we gonna go with the boyish approach and prank people, or are we gonna girl it up in here?" Juniper asked the two other girls. Violet and Anisa looked at each other and shrugged. Juniper grimaced, she hated making decisions, mostly because she was horrible at it.
"So we've got four teenage boys in with a devopis little sister a room over oooooorrrr i've got sparkly nail polish." Juniper trilled, she was excited by both pranking teenage boys, and having sparkly toes. This time when Violet and Anisa looked at each other, there was a mischevious glint in their eyes. Anisa whipped out her notebook from her bag, anxiously awaiting for their plan to unfold and let the details spring willingly from the tip of her pencil.
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"It's simple, but I like it." Katie told the three girls with a smirk. She looked into her apartment to make sure no one was watching and left with them.
Juniper and Anisa hid near the door waiting for their cue from Katie and Violet. They didn't have to be patient about it, the two soon heard the gut wrenching scream from much farther down the hall which sent all four boys hurridly scattering from their apartment. Anisa and Juniper quietly high fived, and then set up the contraption.
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"That sure was weird..." Kendall said, puzzled.
"No one can make sound like that, without being in some kind of trouble" Logan said, still thumping his ears.
Katie and Violet had now joined the other two behind their small potted plant, and couldn't help but giggle. James was the first to open the door...
"AUGH! Sexy dog cannot be good for my hair!" he cried in agony. Carlos erupted in laughter and followed him through the door, and was greeted by a nice whip cream pie. Kendall and Logan, also laughing, had the exact same fate.
"Perfect timing!" Katie exclaimed, maybe a bit too loudly. All four boys looked at the plastic plant curiously, four girls hiding behind one plant wasn't very inconspicous. Anisa's eyes grew wide and she was the first person to shout out "GO!" Juniper, Violet, and Anisa peeled into their apartment and slammed the door. Katie stood awkwardly for only a moment, and then bolted for the elevator, with three pie, and one dog food covered boys trailing behind her.
"Ya know, as much I loved that, I feel bad for covering up their faces..." Juniper said reluctantly.
"Because those faces, especially when covered in pie, were definitely not ugly." Anisa finished for her with a wide grin.
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Carlos, Kendall, and Logan all plopped back down on the couch, and nibbled at the pie on their faces; James was still trying to clean dog food out of his hair.
"Ya know, even though they covered us in pie and sexy dog, I feel kinda bad about being mad at those girls..." Kendall said reluctantly.
"Because those girls, especially when their guilty, are definitely not ugly" James finished for him with a wide grin.
((I didn't know if a Anisa wanted to talk about anything in particular, so I just did this. Feel free to continue on with the sleep over!))
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Post by Dames on Nov 4, 2010 18:35:27 GMT -5
"So Juniper," Anisa directed her attention to the brunette lounging on the red leather couch. "I've seen you around with Logan lately..."
"OOH!" Violet squealed with delight. Juniper's cheeks felt heated.
"We're just tutoring one another!" She tried to explain to the others.
"Riiiight." Anisa interrupted, she rolled her emerald eyes.
"Sooooo guys, school ends soon!" Violet grinned as she began to sing the song 'Summer Lovin' from the musical Grease.
Juniper knocked her sister hard over the head with the pillow she'd been cuddling.
"Hey, Violet! KENDALL!" Juniper exclaimed into her sisters face.
Violet threw her hands over her face. "I DON'T LOVE HIM! OK I DO, BUT NOT THAT MUCH!" She cried in her defense.
"You guys do know, they can probably hear us..." Anisa said as her giggle fit calmed.
"Well, now they know our secrets... So c'mon Anisa. Give us somethin' juicy!" Juniper pried hopping from the couch to the space on the floor beside her slender, pale friend.
"Fiiiiine," Anisa sang. She took in a breath. "Youknowthatguyfromthatgroupwiththehairandthetanningobsession?"
The two girls nodded eagerly.
"He's an excellent singer."
The sisters glanced at one another with blank faces.
"So, you like him..?" Violet grasped for an understanding.
"No, but his voice is so gorgeous. And, he's got great hair." Anisa admitted with a smirk and a shrug.
Suddenly, a slightly muffled exclamation of "YEAH!" was heard clearly from the other side of the wall.
The girls' eyes grew wide with fear as the glanced frantically about the room.
"They're SOOOOO dead!" Juniper screamed, grabbing the squirt gun that had been lying on the floor since the day the family moved in. She gestured to the other two that lay on the floor. "Take em."
"LEZ ROLL!" Violet cried, kicking the apartment door open dramatically.
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Post by Lotan on Nov 5, 2010 15:41:21 GMT -5
"We probably shouldn't have the sleep overs here anymore..." Violet said with a chuckle, after plopping down on the couch soaking wet, turns out they weren't the only ones with squirt guns.
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"Maybe I shouldn't say anything when they have sleep overs... My great hair is totally messed up!" James said with a smirk.
((ha, I loved that post, I could totally see Taylor doing that... and i'm glad that the dance is finally coming up!))
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Post by Kennall on Nov 18, 2010 16:45:05 GMT -5
'Wow' Violet thought 'I usually don't care about these things, but I'm really nervous about the dance...'
((quality, not quantity))
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