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Post by Barnaby Gumball on Sept 24, 2011 22:42:10 GMT -4
"I'm not really doing much; you're figuring it out on your own." He wasn't saying it to flatter her: it was true, she was a fast learner.
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Post by Shion Sonozaki on Sept 24, 2011 22:47:36 GMT -4
She laughed a little, closing her eyes. "Still, thanks. I love to learn new things. This is fun..." her voice trailed away as she said that. Her mind drifted for a brief moment. I wonder what it would be like to dance like this with Satoshi-kun... Her heart sank a little, and she flinched at the thought, but only a little. She didn't want to break down in front of her friends, so she shooed the thought away.
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Post by Barnaby Gumball on Sept 24, 2011 22:53:07 GMT -4
"You're welcome," he replied, though he still didn't think she had anything to thank him for. They stepped around the dance floor in silence for a few moments. And then her face changed, and she flinched away from him. "Is something wrong?"
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Post by Shion Sonozaki on Sept 24, 2011 22:56:47 GMT -4
"Hm?" She glanced back up at his face, "Oh, no, I'm sorry. I just had a thought." She smiled sheepishly.
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Post by Barnaby Gumball on Sept 24, 2011 23:02:25 GMT -4
"A bad thought?" He was a little worried, despite the fact that she seemed fine now.
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Post by Shion Sonozaki on Sept 24, 2011 23:04:14 GMT -4
"Well, not really..." She blushed, looking away from him. "It was a nice but painful thought, I guess..." She didn't want to ruin the dance with her sad-talk, but she also didn't want to leave him worried about her. She was fine, really, she just had painful memories appear at random.
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Post by Anri Sonohara on Sept 25, 2011 1:51:31 GMT -4
Looking at Marshall, Anri said, "How do you really feel about Gumball?" So much for being unintrusive.
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Post by Marshall Lee Graven on Sept 25, 2011 2:46:11 GMT -4
Marshall laughed. What a funny question. Was she really looking for an answer? An honest answer? From him? Well, apparently so, as she was waiting for his answer. He weighed his options. He could actually let the Ravenclaw know, or feed her complete lies.... Now, which would be the better result? Which one wouldn't come back and bite him in the ass? Thinking about it, he was probably screwed over either way. Hm.... Finally, aha! Totally a way to get around this. Some unresponsive answer that just restated the question. It sounded like he was answering, but he really wasn't... This was effective, at least against teachers... Sometimes... A little bit... As long as they didn't notice! Whiiiiiiiiiiiich wasn't a lot. So maybe it didn't work, so what? It meant that he could avoid the question.
"Mmn...Oh, you know," He gave a lopsided grin. Well... That kind failed. Hard.
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Post by Anri Sonohara on Sept 25, 2011 2:57:22 GMT -4
"I don't." Anri replied. "But perhaps you yourself are unsure of the answer?"
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Post by Marshall Lee Graven on Sept 25, 2011 3:16:54 GMT -4
"Oh, I'm sure I know the answer. Though wouldn't that be funny if I didn't?" Yeah. He was just trying to lead her in circles, preferably away from that topic. Not a really high chance of that happening, but that wasn't the point. There was still hope! That tiny...tiny...sliver... of hope. Yeah, okay, so maybe it wasn't there at all, but not the point! He could probably avoid all questioning if he just answered the question, but leading her on was just so much more fun!
"You know, I'm like... totally in love with him. We're definitely an item, we hook up after classes under the bleachers in the Quidditch stadium~" He snickered. Hopefully, she wouldn't take that seriously. Wait... But... She might... Crap. Nope. Nevermind. It was something Barnaby had to deal with; it wasn't like he cared, it wasn't like his reputation could get any worse. So why the heck not?
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Post by Anri Sonohara on Sept 25, 2011 3:27:48 GMT -4
"If you really love him that much, then maybe he needs an honest, loud declaration for it to get through his head that you don't want your relationship to be a secret." If they were hooking up under the bleachers, then their relationship was actually mutual? "He must have denied liking you earlier because he was hurt by your casual behavior. If you said it more seriously, things might be better." Looking at Shion and Gumball, she added, "I think you should apologize before declaring your love though. He seemed very unhappy to me."
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Post by Marshall Lee Graven on Sept 25, 2011 3:38:54 GMT -4
... She thought he was serious. Unbelievable. Funny, but... completely unbelievable.
"You know, I was just pulling your leg, I was just joking." He smiled, finally lifting his head off of his knees. "Barnaby doesn't like me, like... at all, and I'm totally chill with that," He grinned, still laughing inwardly at the thought of them being a couple. Completely ridiculous. "We're not even friends! Well... Maybe something close to that and that's just about it. That's that and there's nothing more; I don't need to proclaim my love to this guy I only kind of know."
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Post by Anri Sonohara on Sept 25, 2011 3:51:37 GMT -4
He was doing it again, the denial thing. It had been like this from the start, an affirmative, and then a negative, and then an affirmative again and now a negative. Anri no longer knew which was the truth and which was the lie. Fixing him with a look of scrutiny, she bit her lip and said, "Look me in the eye and either repeat that or say something else, I'll trust whichever you say."
The statement sounded uncharacteristically confident to her, and she wondered if she had been too demanding of someone she had just met. Still, she wanted to make sense of this situation. Marshall's last statement had not denied his own feelings, simply dismissed any reason to profess them. Marshall did seem convinced that Gumball disliked him though...
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Post by Yellow Bosque-Verde on Sept 25, 2011 11:08:08 GMT -4
Yellow glanced at Jim and smiled, quickly popping the jelly bean in her mouth and chewing. Almost instantly she spit it out, shock written all over her face. "It's VOMIT flavor!"
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Post by Jim Hawkins on Sept 25, 2011 12:43:16 GMT -4
Jim stood there with his mouth agape, he wasn’t sure weather to be mortified or to start laughing hysterically. He realized that it must have tasted awful anyways and bolted for a drink for her to wash the taste down. “Here! this might help!” He handed her a glass of water that was on the table trying desperately hard to keep a straight face, and actually succeeding rather well. “I’m sorry about that!"
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