5-26-08 Written & Copyrighted by... Short ending~
starlucid:
Yeah found this again loving the new characters!
AxelVal:
“Hey, Linn.” Another boy I knew from town was waiting just outside the studio for us when we finally left for home. We’d fallen into the habit of walking home together somewhere along the line.
“Krist!” Linn basically abandoned me a few feet behind her and ran up to the other boy. Then, this is where it pounced and bit me…they kissed. Right there in the middle of the lawn!
I wasn’t steamed or anything, but my insides did do a bit of a flip-flop. When Linn stopped hugging him she turned to introduce us. “Tobe, this is Kristoffer, my boyfriend. Krist, this is Tobias, my work partner.”
He stuck his hand out and I shook it like I was supposed. “I’ve heard some things about you,” the pale boy told me.
“Hopefully some made up,” I replied, smirking though my heart wasn’t in it. My heart was off sobbing somewhere holding a picture of Linn to itself.
We stood there in the lawn chatting for a while, but eventually ‘Krist’ and Linn took off, presumably to the new restaurant downtown. So I was on my own to walk home. Town’s normally pretty nice, but there are some ruffians once night falls. It’s not even people from town though is the strange thing. Groups and gangs come into town from downtown and the college campus a few miles away, just to bug the country folk out here.
It was getting dark out…I was walking past the store, right across the street from where I live more or less when I was grabbed from behind. I was pulled behind the store and thrown into a wall in the back, in a corner where no one living nearby could see.
My head hit the wall pretty hard. All I know is waking up, the moon was up by then, and I distantly remember a dark red/brown spot on the wall over where I was laying.
My head throbbed so much that if any other body part was hurt I didn’t notice. I walked home in a daze, thankfully maybe half a block down the road and across an empty street. I did not want any more surprises that night.
I locked the door behind me and went straight to bed. No one else was up, so no one could question my late return.
Until the next morning that is. Mom was on my case all day, trying to pry it out of me. I finally told her at dinner. The third meal of the day was quite quiet after that. There were two details: I was thrown into a brick wall, and I woke up and was alone with dried blood on the wall and my head (which I had forgotten to wash out until that morning by the way, great…).
“Baby, I’m sorry,” is all she could say after that. Grandpa said nothing however, just sighed and shook his head. I’m sure his thoughts were along the lines of ‘This never happened when I was his age,’ or something, you catch my drift?
Anyway, work was the next day, though nothing was scheduled. So Linn and I sat around and played cards to ease the boredom.
The conversation somehow turned to Kristoffer, though I forget who brought him up. Turned out she and Krist had been seeing each other since maybe seventh or eighth grade and had no plans of splitting up. Whoopee. Fantastic for you two. Let me go get my little ‘congratulations’ flag and hat.
Yeah, I was happy for them. Honestly though, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to stand a person for that long.
Sure, I put up with family, but you’d think after a while of that you’d find something big to argue about and say ‘Sayonara’.
Enough of me being angsty then. There was another month that passed before we were allowed to be on the runway again. This wasn’t a talent search or anything. This was an actual fashion show.
Our hair and make-up were done very dramatically and we were ceremoniously half-pushed onto the catwalk to strut ourselves and the clothes they put us in.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the get dressed-up, get made-up part, and the strutting wasn’t too bad in itself, it was how we were treated. During the before process our hair was yanked so hard I thought I’d go bald, sometimes the eyeliner got into our eyes. All in all, they were a bit careless with us.
I’m sure the higher-ups didn’t get treated like this. But then again they could sue…
Anyway, those lights must have done something to me finally. I got really queasy and almost fell over a few times. Coming back off the runway after I did a few poses I immediately sat down in one of the comfy chairs back there. Linn came up and tried to figure out what was wrong, but since I didn’t even know it was pretty hard to guess.
After sitting there for a few minutes I could finally stand to walk again and went to go get the power and stuff off my face so I could change into something more comfortable.
I walked home once I had changed, the fresh air helping calm my stomach. ‘It had to have been nerves,’ I kept telling myself.
Once inside Mom immediately walked up to me. She held something out in her hand and forced it into mine. Without a word she walked away from me, I think she may have been crying a bit.
Looking down I saw the little box she had handed me. Surprising that just the letters ‘E’, ‘P’ and ‘T’ can cause someone’s face to go to flames. I did as I was silently told and after sat on the opposite end of the couch as mom, waiting.
You probably already know about the ‘things in the water’ here in Corrin, but something you may not know is that anyone born of parentage from here is born with the ‘ability’. Your grandparents may have been born and raised here, and your parents and yourself born twelve-hundred miles away. You’ll still have the ‘ability’
Anyway, not that the explanation has anything to do with me or the situation at that point, but still. Waiting on the couch was the worst part of it. And it wasn’t even the waiting that made it that way. What was the most horrible was the way mom kept casting glances over at me and how every once in a while she’d close her eyes real tight.
I think she kept telling herself it wouldn’t happen, but the thoughts wouldn’t go away. I know that’s what I was doing. When the timer went off and we could check the results I flew off the couch.
I think I started to cry a little when I saw the results.
babyblueheart:
Woah. That was a great update. Can't wait for the next one to figure out what happens to Tobe. :)
Elven_Song:
-le gaspeh- Tobias!! >< Noo!
AxelVal:
A single, little line.
Tears fell out of mom’s eyes like water from a crack in a dam. She hugged me and kissed my cheek and smiled and murmured happy nonsense to me.
I did the exact same thing. Turns out it was just nerves on the catwalk after all. I grasped my mom in a hug for a few seconds before asking, “Did Grandpa know you were going to do this to me?” She shook her head, too busy crying and kissing my cheeks more to answer with words.
Well, that saved me the awkwardness of a conversation about how he could’ve become a great-grandparent in a few months.
I thanked everyone and everything I could think of. I think I even thanked the school bus once or twice.
Time to move on. School had started a few months earlier I forgot to mention. So not only did I have work-work, but homework as well! I was sophomore by then, but still not used to the workload. I occasionally even brought papers to work so I could keep up.
After the pregnancy scare though Mom suggested maybe online schooling would be good, like Uncle Jahre did when he was my age. It was hard to believe he was only a couple months older than I was at the time when he had Rayen.
I took her up on the offer and was more than pleased with the results. Sure I missed my classmates but I got over it pretty quick.
It was much easier to balance school and work when I didn’t have a set schedule for the first.
‘Nine months left,’ I kept telling myself everyday. Then I could choose to study seriously or move up in the ranks and take a yearlong contract if I was deemed a worthy candidate. Otherwise it was just option one for me. Linn had only three months left, but she was already talking about getting back to school.
“They’re so rough with us,” she would complain almost on a daily basis. I couldn’t help agree with her. Our most recent photo-shoot had ended when the combination of light flashes and mascara in my eyes had become too much.
I was finally getting over my heartbreak at meeting Kris. And we even got along pretty well after we began to talk when he started dropping Linn off after school. I didn’t get to meet her parents until the next three months were over. Thankfully nothing exciting happened so I can skip straight to that.
Robt and Lotze Kiev. Yep, another couple only somewhere like Corrin County can have. I would explain Lotze’s colouration, but that’s a long story and he’s promised me he’s writing an autobiography about himself. That’ll be fun to read one of these days.
Lotze:
Robt:
Anyway, Linn invited me over to her house for a combination celebration party at Lotze finding out he’s preggers again and for the completion of her internship.
Nothing really happened. I mean, sure I found her family is stinkin’ rich and we played the latest games and stuff, but nothing else happened.
I really am not normal am I? Any other guy would have been screaming about those games for a month and I just say ‘No big deal’. Huh, better ask the doctor about that next check-up.
Moving on…
So it the typical meet the folks, have some pizza, play some games kind of party. Over before you knew it and then I walked home. I started taking precautions had taken to keeping keys in my hands between my fingers when I walked after dark, just in case.
Thankfully, nothing else had happened since that night, but I wasn’t letting up. I made it home without incident that night as well. After an hour of math I went to bed, only to wake up the next morning and go to work again.
Surprisingly I was asked to do another show. And not a month after that, another one! I wasn’t sure what was going on until I was offered a contract five months early.
I took it home and had Mom and Grandpa look over it. Grandpa called Dad and told him and Uncle Jahre what was going on and they immediately had doubts.
“No one hires someone that young under contract.” I could hear my father’s voice over the phone. “There’s something fishy about it. If you want though I could ask people around work if there’s another agency close by. Maybe we can tell them Tobe got an offer and see if they’d like to hire him instead.”
Mom took the phone off grandpa and, well let me explain first.
It took until I was at least one for my mom to bring me over to the house. At first I could spend one night. After I turned five was the first time I actually was allowed to spend more than that with my half-sister. Things were a bit scratchy between my parents until I turned fourteen. After that they actually started to get along with each other.
Anyway, Mom and Dad chatted for a bit about the possibilities and I half-listened. I trusted my parents to come up with something.
And come up with something they did. Just as Dad had offered, he asked around and some girl at his work knew a company who was looking for young blood and fresh faces to the business. They were small, working from one building just outside the college town.
I was stoked to go in for my interview. The people were amazing. Actually asked how my day was going and how I got interested in the biz. I was in utter shock.
After a few rounds of twenty-questions I was asked to change into an outfit of my own choosing and strut my stuff for them. Just in the office of course, no fancy runway today.
So I picked something simple and pulled my best moves for the man. He smiled and clapped with delight and handed me a contract. Mom got to read it, and when she smiled and nodded it was all the encouragement I needed. I signed my name, shook my new boss’s hand and couldn’t wipe the smile from my face.
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