Shadowsblade is back!
Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with demons within and
without.
In this part! she goes shopping, but not all is well and bloody Boston
is the place!
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Saturday February 17 5:20 am
Whateley Academy - Poe cottage
I walk out of Doyle, to greet the sun coming up and a great day to come!
I now feel totally relaxed now. I got that need.....to wreck something
out of my system!
With a thought I port to Poe's door, walk in and then scoot down the
hallway to my door. Once in my room. I strip as fast as I can, get my
robe on and I am off to the showers.
As I stroll into the showers, I see Rip is there just finishing up with
her morning routine.
"Heya Rip!" I sing out to her. "Up early on a Saturday?"
"Yeppers! Got stuff to do in Berlin!" she says while brushing out her
hair.
I start to get ready to hop in the shower, then remember. That bandage
is still on my back. I walk over to the mirrors, so I can see it better
and get it off. As I am trying at it, and it on a spot I can't seem to
get too! Rip notices my little issue.
"Hey you got hurt?" she asks, with more than a little concern in her
voice for me.
"Ya," I near sass, "I got popped last night in the sim's. A bullet found
a seam in my armor and bang. But you know, little things like this
happen?"
"Ya got shot! in a sim? That's nuts. They should not have used real ammo
on a first timer! You might have got killed!" she yelps at me. Now she
is even more alarmed for me.
"It happens, I asked for it to be rough....so they gave it to me? But
can you take this off me? As, I am sure it's healed up by now?"
"Sure? If you think I should?"
"Please?"
She then comes over to me and carefully takes up one edge of the
bandage. As she does, I wince a little...as it's still raw. She sees
that 'wince' of mine and stops.
"Hey this is hurting ya?"
"I am fine....just still healing up a little. Please get it all off? As
I have to shower up after that sim run."
She finally, takes it all off and looks at the wound on my back for some
time. she presses her fingers all over it and checks the wound out for
me.
"It looks all sealed up....but it's still a little....hummm? off in
color? As you really don't show...redness?" she questions me.
"Ya I am a weird color," I laugh. "But it should be just a shade lighter
and more purple while it heals. Then it fades?"
"Yep, that's what I see now. But man you got blasted! This is a large
wound?"
"It was small, the Doc had to open it to get the bullet out. As it was
stuck in my ribs."
"Ohhch!" she cringes at me.
"But thanks Rip! I needed that," I say as I hop into the shower.
Once I am done with that quick shower, I get all dried off and start to
brush out my hair. Then after I am decently cleaned up. I head back to
my room, pull on a set of yoga pants and a T-shirt. I hopped real quick
downstairs to Sara's door and knock.
I feel her open the door, as its wards change and she peers out at me.
"Well you're back!" she purrs.
She then quickly opens the door and drags me in as...I yelp in
surprise!... 'Boy she can move fast, when she wants to,' I note mentally.
After I get in the room, one of her tentacles slams the door closed. As
she wraps me in a deep hug. I sigh out as she does, then note with a
sideways glance. That Rosalyn is still on the bed and She is 'out' to
the world. But there is a definite look, of pure contentment on her
face.
"Well? did you have fun?" Sara asks in a lustful tone.
I near yell out like an ecstatic kid, that just got back from
Disneyland. As I bounce up and down in glee "YES!..I was lucky...I got
time actually in a sim of my own in that building! I had a run of over
an hour and just ripped that place apart! I loved every second of it! I
have to go back as much as I can!"
She says to me, smiling herself, "I can tell...I mean look at the smile
on your face! You look like you just won the lottery!"
"So when are we going?.....to Boston that is?" I ask.
Sara starts to wag a finger in my face playfully. "Donna's going to be
here early at Seven. So that, we are at Boston on time....FOR ALL THOSE
LOVELY STORES TO OPEN...they won't know what hit them!" she cackles in
glee! "AND I mean Seven sharp! She should probably be actually here at
Six Thirty, she's that kind of a person."
"Great!...."
"I looked at the weather for us, so it's getting a little warmer. Even
though, I know you don't care. But we don't want to be driving there in
a blizzard."
"Well that's good, at least we will get a good drive in. So what's the
general plan?" I ask.
"Well?" she says as she lets go of me, to sit back on the bed. "We will
probably hit Boston at the speed Donna drives!...by Ten AM...Then buy
everything in sight is the general plan!" she giggles out.
"So what should I bring?"
"Ahhh..get out of that workout stuff..and get in your jeans and a t-
shirt. Then we will buy WAY more stuff from there?"
I wink at her. "I love that 'WE'...You really mean me! AND lets not buy
all sexy stuff? I know that's what you're after!"
She growls at me and pulls me on the bed. "You're right!" she says, then
starts giving me yet another deep hug, followed by a long kiss.
I lean back up and ask her, "So do you want to do anything right now?"
She near pushed me off the bed and sasses back at me. "Donna's going to
be here in an hour. So go get ready."
"Hey I already took a shower, I am halfway done!" I sass, back to her.
"Well...then why don't you go make sure Gwen's up and ready?"
"Yep I got it!" I give her a kiss on the cheek and I am off out the
door.
Up the stairs my legs bound, almost in one leap. Then scoot down the
hallway to Gwen's room. As I get there, I see her door is open just a
crack. I knock softly and peer in. To see her roomie, is just getting
ready for a shower. Once in, I find in the corner, Gwen is still on her
bed FAST asleep and she is all curled up in a ball.
I nod to her roomie and shush her. "Awww how cute!" I whisper. "I have to
fix this!"
I may have been here for only a few days, but have already heard rumors
that Gwen is a real trickster!....'Well!' I think 'I should put that
idea out of her mind..her tricking me...now!' mumuahhaha!
I creep over to her bed as quietly as I can. Then slowly slip my arms
under her whole mattress, really, really, gently and lift the whole
mattress off the bed. Her roommate is getting on with I am doing. 'I am
going to have a little fun.' She starts to stifle a snicker, as I step
back from the bed. I got it just level just enough, so she does not
notice. I port outside really quick, to an area that should be quite
busy even on this Saturday morning! IN FRONT of crystal hall!
And since she's done a couple of ports with me already, she did not feel
that. I watch her, as she kinda squirms around for a second or so
outside in the cold air. There is a light dusting, barley any snow
coming down. I stand there for a while and wait to see how long before,
she figures out she's outside. I was thinking to lay her mattress on the
ground? But it would get wet and I don't want that to happen.
Gwen, she starts curling up more and more into a small ball to keep
warm. Then she reaches to her feet to grab at a nonexistent comforter,
that was laying at her feet. I smile as other kids pass me, to walk into
crystal and get breakfast. All of them are trying REAL hard not to laugh
and keep the joke going. She starts to notice 'ITS COLD OUT'...she rolls
over to grab that cover, that was at her bedside.
I smile at her face, as she tries "Good morning!" YELL OUT!
"EKKKK!" she screams out.... "WHAT! are we doing here?" she barks at me,
while her head spins about. She now notices, we are in the middle of the
Quad by Crystal hall. She looks down, to see that I am holding her up on
her bed. A couple people are passing by snickering at her.
She looks at me more than cross. "What are we doing outside?" Then she
bops me on the head.
"Oooch! Well I was here to get you up sleepy. We got to get you UP! and
get some food. Heck I might just go get some food, without you now?"
Gwen yelps. "I'll be up in 10 minutes! All I need to do, is to dress and
other small stuff. NOW! Put me back in my room will you!" in a very
sassy voice at me.
I smile evilly at her. "That sounded like an order...you know? I could
be real, real bad person. AND just drop you and this mattress. Right
here on the pavement. Then let you figure out, how to get all this stuff
back to your room?"
She near hisses at me, "You wouldn't?"
I glare at her in the eyes. "You daring me? OR are you thinking of
daring me?"
"NO!.no..no..no I wouldn't dare you. Please take me back to my room?"
she begs me.
"Okay!" I say as I port back to her room. Then I go to put her down
gently and at the last second. I TOSS her mattress and HER on to the bed
frame.
She lands with a THUMP!, jumps up and screams at me, "YOU!" and tosses
one of her glamour filled Pixies at me.
It hits me and I know it's supposed to be like a LSD trip. But I shake
it off with little effect. I glare at her, as I shake my head. "Really? a
glamour....of yours?" laugh at her. "If Sara can't bust through my
freaking shields....you think you can?"
I turn around to see her roommate twiziling around the room, saying
something about orange ponies and other strange things. Obviously the
glamour filled Pixie, bounced off me and filled the room up!
I start out the door, laughing. "You might want to help her out...
you... you smacked her pretty good with that one...she is going to be
dizzy for ten or fifteen minutes I'm sure!" Gwen, she throws a pillow at
me in reply!
I dodge it. "A pillow? come on you can think of a better weapon than
that?!" I play with her.
So she snatches up a slipper and tosses it at me. I catch it easy and
toss it back at her. I watch it bonk her on the head, as I slam her
door.
I walk back over to my room. Within a few minutes of getting back in my
room. I have all my stuff on...'what I own so far!'....just one of my
shirts and a pair of blue jeans. As I leave my room once again, to get
Gwen on track. I see Rosalyn trudging up the stairs.... TIRED!
"Rough night?" I ask her playfully.
She looks at me, with a smile on her face "Yes and I loved every second
of it."
And before she gives me a kiss, she looks at the indicator in the wall.
Just to make sure it's a green light. Then she gives me a little peck.
"Well I am going to go get breakfast."
"If I can get ready fast enough? You want me to catch up?
"Don't you want to shower, after all that....ahhh fun last night?"
She ponders it. "Yea?"
"You go get a shower, I'll stand by the door and then I'll show you
little trick that Gwen showed me."
"Okay!" she yelps and she runs upstairs to get her stuff. "Well come up
here stupid! I am not going to shower on your floor!" then she is off
again.
I jumped up the stairs, toward her room. As I get there I see her shoot
down the hallway to the bathroom. As she goes, her robe is flapping
around and giving quite the show! I go and stand there in the doorway
waiting for her to come out, like I said.
As I watch her go into a shower I tell her "Don't worry about drying
yourself, just walk out of the shower and tell me when you're ready?"
While I am standing there, Angel comes out of her shower. The look of
her with those wet wings! I stifle a giggle, but she hears it and tosses
me the 'dagger stare of DEATH!' Then I watch her go over to an array of
dryers on the wall and it starts blowing on her. I can see she hates it,
but you do, what you have to do? So to make up, I toss a 'dry spell' on
her and she finds...she is done.
"What? who or what did that?" she asks.
"I did...sorry?" I giggled. "You just looked like my parakeet, after a
bath is all?"
She walks over to me and gives me a hug. "Thanks? Can you teach me
that?"
"Are you a mage?"
She shakes her head to me.
"Well I guess....that would be a no? I can't teach that to a null."
As I stand there, with a more than naked Angel hugging me. Rosalyn comes
out of her shower and glares at me. I see how this looks....ohh shit!
But I Whack her with a 'dry spell' and she is all done.
The glare of anger, leaves her face and changes to one of surprise. "Hey
I am all dry and my hair too? Ohhh this tooo! cool! I have to figure out
how to do this!"
I look at her as Angel lets go of me. Then shake my head. "Sorry it's
not your cards to learn magic. It would take you probably a decade to
get any magic. But if you studied real hard? You might be able to get it
down five years. But most humans that they are not inclined that way,
they never get it."
She grabs her towel and leans to Angel. "She is mine....but I can share
her, if you want?" All she gets back, is blush from Angel.
Rosalyn then scoots down the hallway, shoots into her room and starts
tossing on clothes like mad. I stand in her door and say, "Tick
tock.. tick tock..tick..tock!" while I fake looking at a watch.
I see, that she skips some steps to get ready faster and walks out into
the hallway. Once she is all set. We go downstairs to find, Gwen is just
groggily walking out of her room. She stifles a yawn at me, to walk out
on the front porch.
As Gwen starts walking out into the cold air and starts shivering. Gwen
stares at me. "Well? where is the spell?" And keeps on shivering.
"I was waiting for you to wake up, a little bit more? I was hopping that
the cold air smacking you in the face, would do that?"
Rosalyn Snickers a little bit and I whack them both with a warmth spell.
Then I take hold of both of their shoulders and port over to Crystal
Hall. We all walk into Crystal and get in line...a short line luckily.
As it's Saturday...So? there's not too many people trudging in this
early in the morning.
I am drooling over the whole lineup for breakfast. I start thinking
'this is the first time I have sat down at breakfast in a while?' I
think about it more 'I actually missed breakfast for two or three days
in a row now! Gaea I have been too busy!'
As I look over all the food I say out, "Gaea! I would love to be able,
to eat bacon again...I miss that taste!"
"What? Why Ro...I don't get it. I have seen elves eating meat once and a
awhile. They don't like it..but they can eat it?"
Gwen waves a piece of melon at Roz, that she is nibbling on. "Nope!
Rohanna can't eat meat at all."
"Why?" she asks again, as Gwen nibbles more.
"Ahhh the last time she tried...she blew chunks. AND that was with one
bite!"
"Roz I am the same species of Sidhe as Gwen...but, I am built different.
Way different...Remember?....The best..Drow magic can make!" I boast.
Breakfast is going pretty good. As we all sit in our regular spot, chat
and eat.
I see Sara skittering downstairs and she grabs up what she is going to
eat. Then she drags the whole mess upstairs to our table and sits down.
Rosalyn shakes her head. "I'm not gonna watch this....it's, it's just
one thing that I don't do."
I leer at Rosalyn and smile with a cheesy, toothy grin in her direction.
"Weak stomach do we?"
She blurts out, "Kinda?"
"You want to date me? AND you have a weak stomach?" I ask playfully.
"WELL! I don't expect you to be dragging dead stuff home!"
I say, "Well?"
She shakes her head at me. "Don't even think about doing anything weird.
Then bringing it back to my room or yours!"
Gwen's is just snickering at both of us, as Sara turns an old dog and a
couple of cats into dust. Then she goes down to put the cages away.
I look at what she just did... to think to myself 'I just hope, she
doesn't go bad. I hope that my instincts, my first instincts. They...
said to slay her the second, I saw her. BUT! my brain, said don't?'
After some more chatting and eating. Sara gets up and says, "We had
better wait at Poe, incase Donna is early?"
We all agree...that sounds fine and get up to leave. I port, the pack of
us back to Poe's porch. As we walk in Sara tells me, "I am going to
wait, in the sunroom for Donna to come?"
"Fine with me. Let me, just go get that laptop and you all can run me
through more of it while we wait?" I ask the group. I get nods all
around in reply.
Over to my room I go and retrieve my laptop, then back out to the
sunroom and I plop down there on the carpet. Gwen and Rosalyn start
showing me more stuff on how it worked. They walk me through a word
processor and all the other little accessories on it for the next half
an hour or so. I hear the main door to Poe opens up, so I look up. My
eyes watch as the green light turns to red and Sara jumps up to run down
the hallway to the door. As that 'red light' told us a Non-Poe person
was on the floor. I watch as she runs over to Donna who is just coming
in the door, wraps her up in a hug and a kiss.
As Sara is giving that little kiss, Mrs. Horton is eyeballing her and
Sara gives her a wink. Then the light goes back to a normal green,
Because obviously Donna knows that there is something going on in the
cottage. Sara drags Donna from the door to the sunroom and sits her down
on the couch, both of them get real close for a few and reacquaint each
other a little.
After they are done finally, Donna says to us, "Well it's barley Six-
thirty. But I'm here, I said I would be here before Seven! So lets get
this going?" Then she stands up with a bounce.
I take that as a cue. That we are off and get up. So that I can put that
laptop away. As I drop the laptop in it's carry bag, Donna comes up
behind me and wraps me in a hug.
After she is done, she spins me around and then holds me out by the
shoulders to look me over. "So you look fine? How's the first week here
been so far?" she asks me.
"I am putting up with it all so far...I am liking it so far too? A
little problem here and there. But so far so good! I think....I think, I
can stay with this?" I say, with a little shade of doubt in my voice.
"I hope so?" she tells me. "You really need to stay here. You need to
get acclimated and this is the place for that. As you just running out
into the world? You're going to have problems I think?"
Gwen then teases me, "She can't even work a remote control for the TV
yet!"
I sneer at her, "Yes I can!"
"NO! you can't. Not for the plasma?" she giggles at me.
"Plasma?" I question her. "I have not seen the plasma yet! WHAT ever the
hell that is?"
She giggles at me, then she points at the wall next to us.
"The picture frame?"
Sara starts laughing at me to then say, "That's not a picture frame...
stupid. That's a TV!"
I go to touch it and ask, "What do you mean by plasma? As that's a form
of light?"
"It's called that because, that is what is in the picture tube of the TV
or it's panel," Sara informs me.
I ponder it to bark out, "Another thing to look up on the net! damn it!"
then I turn to Donna. "We are stopping by an electronic store today!"
Donna giggles at me. "So that's, going to the LAST vestige of your
maleness leaving...before it dies. Is going to an electronics store?"
I shout back, "Damn right!....Unless we find a fantastically fun
motorcycle shop?"
She glares at me, only like a mother can do. "A motorcycle in a
snowstorm? Are you crazy?"
"YA? and?" I sass back.
"You would ge...."
"Get hurt?...you where going to say... I don't feel weather effects. I
am an exemplar four and a regen five? If I hit a wall at One hundred
miles and hour. I could, shake all my broken bones back together and be
healed up by the end of the day? Plus, I love to ride bikes...I always
have!"
"Your money?" she says as she shakes her head. Then she looks around at
all of us. "Well you all packed and ready to go?"
Gwen steps up. "Well I got everything I need. As long as Rohanna has got
a credit card that's all I need!"
I glare at her. "SO! I guess that means TODAY is on me?"
"Well of course? You're buying all your stuff. Then you're going to be
buying lunch!" she says to me and starts walking toward the door.
"CRAP!.. lunch for two sidhe and a human! That will be couple hundred
bucks EASY!"
Donna snickers at me. "Yeah and we are not going to go to a cheap
restaurant! If you feed me....you do it right!" then she follows Gwen.
Sara shakes her head and starts walking out the door after them both.
I joke at Sara's back as she is walking out, "We can always stop by a
pet shop or a kennel for you!"
She turns around to me. "I might make you do that!"
"Ahhh come on?" I hiss out.
She just laughs at me and keeps on walking out. I bring up the rear, as
I close all the doors to Poe behind us all. I hit them all with a warmth
spell. Just as Donna is putting on her coat. I stifle a giggle, as we
all watch to see how long it takes her to notice it's not cold out....
suddenly! Finally Sara explains it to her as they hug on the walk
to Donna's car at Schuster.
Once we get to Schuster's small lot. I see Donna's car. All I can do is
say, "WOW! I have not seen many cars yet?" I say as I walk around it.
"They don't park too many on campus."
Sara asks her, "Looks like you got a new car, since last time?"
"Yep, picked up two weeks ago...745 I series BMW brand-new."
"Nice... a Beamer! NICE! When I was around these cars looked like
shit!.... Can I drive!?" I ask more than hoping.
"Hell no! It's brand-new and you're fifteen years old...you don't have a
drivers license."
Sara says in my defense, "Yes she does!"
Donna mulls over that for a second.
"Yeah that's right. I know what you're thinking? I was a thirty year old
guy and I obviously knew how to drive a car. THEN.....I know damn well,
I can drive this thing better than you do. Even though I have not
touched one, in forever."
As we are near arguing, Gwen opens up the door and then slides in the
backseat really quick.
I'm am still looking at Donna for my answer. "No you're not driving!" is
what I finally get.
"Shoot!" I yell....Then I go and jump in the backseat with Gwen.
Gwen gawks at me as I do. Then Sara asks me, as she opens the passenger
door. "Why don't you sit in the front seat, you're so tall?"
"Nope..just slide your seat forward a little, so you can sit next to
Donna at least."
She tilts her head at me and smiles. "Thanks!"
"No problem...You two don't see each other so much.... now. So see each
other damn it!" I giggle at them.
Once we are all set, Donna starts us off toward Boston. Sara and her are
talking up front as Gwen and me sit in the back and we are going over
the laptop even more on the way. I have to learn this silly thing. As
week after next, I have to use it for each class for my work!
As we get nearer to town Donna looks into the mirror and asks me a few
questions while driving. "So Ro...tell me more about this first week?"
"Well...for some reason Mrs. Horton gave me a single room? I don't get
why? But she said 'I will need it?'... Then I got some other more
private stuff done..." Saying that earns a look over the shoulder from
Sara. "Also I got all the MID's done...thank Gaea, no more lab rat for a
little. Ohh I kind of made up with Aunghadhail...for now." I ponder a
little. "I got in a cool run in, the Sims last night! I got nicked a
little during it...but I am fine, it's near healed."
Sara near spins around fully in the seat, to look at me....this spin is
far from normal....as a person with a spine can't do that!. "WHAT! you
got hurt?" she asks me.
"Ya a bullet got past a seam in my armor...it's nothing?"
"Nothing?...getting hurt during a sim run with a bullet, is not
nothing!" I can hear her anger in her voice.
"Hey I am fine? Please..don't worry about it?...." Sara relents and
turns back around. "But any way...I am so far liking the place...I still
have to find everything out about it?"
Sara starts laughing it up. "You forgot that little trouble you got into
and had to do time cleaning up Puppets room?"
"Ya...But cleaning up in her room was fun...I like her. I could have
done without that small fight in the basement thou...woof! that smell!"
Donna looks over to Sara. "Fight? What fight?" Then she looks at me, via
the mirror. "Are you in trouble for that?"
"No..." I say flatly.
Sara breaks in. "Don't ask...it's nothing," she warns.
We sit in silence for a little more after that statement....then Donna
suddenly looks at me in the mirror. "Ahh Rohanna? How are you?....going
to fit in today?"
"Ohhh I had better put that on!" And I start reaching out into my
'storage' in the ether. To pull out my illusion charm.
"What's that?" Donna asks.
"I made an illusion charm, so I look like a 'normal' human teen. With
this on...I can 'blend' in today, as we go shopping."
Sara sasses at me, "Yep she will blend...like a prom queen! Yeech!"
"Hey...I have to do something?" I start to tear up a bit.
Gwen sees that and give me a hug for it. Sara hears my voice change in
tone, to one of near sad and turns around to me. "Hey I am sorry...I
forget sometimes. I look normal enough to pass...and others..." she sits
back down. "But soon enough...things will change."
I nod to her... "Soon.... to us, a few hundred years...is soon?"
Gwen helps me, get the necklace all clasped and looking good. Donna sees
the change in her mirror. "Hey...now, that's neat...and you look cute!
Heck you might have to swat the boys off on this trip!"
"Ohhh I will SWAT them alright," Sara warns.
"But Donna? How's Bill....my fav nurse...guy?" I question her.
"Bill's fine...doing good. He worries about you?"
"Well please tell him, I am fine." ...'Even when I am not 'fine' That
darn book and the Geas on me keeps me from saying other!'...'GODS I hate
that book!' my mind thinks.
"Genuinely he's really concerned about you. He wants to make sure you're
getting good care. Because he knows you're having problems."
"I am dealing with it. They have me seeing the doctor on campus. He's
okay.... once in a while, he presses issues and I asked him to stop. But
he just keeps carrying on..."
Sara interrupts me. "Doctor Bellows is good at what he does. You just
have to listen to him."
"Sara once in a while, he presses a little bit too hard. I asked him to
stop on a subject four times. I almost had to leave the room."
I had a talk with him last night and he will not be doing that anymore
with you."
"What?"
"Remember? I went to his office yesterday? He called me into his office.
We talked about your little compulsions, Being ordered about, us asking
too many questions of you. So he will take a softer touch with you, from
now out. As it's obvious that it's hitting you hard and you bulk up your
shields even more."
I sit there pondering, what she just said. I near mumble to myself. "Yah
xsa'us voiry Usstan daewl Usstan gumash tesso mina."
(God damned book, I wish I could tell them)
Sara asks, "What?"
"Don't worry about it," I say flatly.
I'm looking out the window. Thinking about what this doctor's been after
in my head. I say softly, "vel'bol shlu'ta nindel suingmc rivvil tlu
p'luin" (what can that silly human be after?)
Donna gets my thought back into here and the car. "Bill was thinking
about coming down this week. But he thought to give you more time, to
get more acclimated to the school. Before he starts interrupting your
day."
I hop up a little to look at her via the mirror. "Please tell him to
come down anytime! It does not matter...he does not have to worry about
interrupting my day. I like to see him come by once in a while. I feel
better, when I see him!"
"It's just... He genuinely thinks that, he reminds you of that stupid
building?" Donna adds.
"Please tell him...he does not. He can show up anytime he wants to. If
he is worried about driving too far, tell me. If he wants to see me I
will port up there and we can port somewhere else. Then have dinner or
something? What ever he wants to do?"
Sara sasses at me, "You sweet on Bill?"
"NO!....he just understands....me."
"Hummm? how? If I can ask?"
"uk zhahus natha t'larryo sarol. saph Usstan tlun nin, jhal uk aslu
alur," I mumble out. (he was a broken weapon. like I am now, but he got
better)
Sara just nods her head and remembers my words. As she will ask Aung,
what I just said. As it's best not to press me...she can feel, I am
annoyed at best.
Donna peeps up a little bit, more cheerfully. "I will tell him that for
sure." Then she gets a little gruff in her voice. "I hate to tell you
this? But Dr. Otto's getting a little bit 'antsy'. He is going to want
more tests soon. But on a happier note, Allot of the research
facilities. Have been going through your documents, all your paperwork
and on your lab results so far. The money ahs just been ROLLING into
your account. ARC has been charging everybody an arm and a leg, just to
look at your stuff. Then since Whateley did the medical exams in your
MID tests to get you in the school. They have even more for comparison,
with that done.....BUT I am telling you right now. Expect Otto will be
banging on your cage, in a couple weeks or less. For you to get you to
back up there."
I grumble some more and start cursing in Drow. "Nind ssinssrin uns'aa
ulu tlu natha vith'ez lab jor 'sohna SHU!"
(They want me to be a fucking lab rat again SHIT!)
Gwen starts giggling on.... "Well there she goes again? Saying stuff in
a language, none of us understand."
Sara chimes in. "Ohhh not for long...I am starting to figure out how to
understand it" She taps the side of her head. "Remember I have a link to
Nikki up here. I can ask her questions. Then she asks Aunghadhail. I'm
getting translations once in a while on that. So you grumbling and
cursing in Drow. Isn't a private conversation, as it used to be."
I dwell on that 'maybe I should tell Aung about not translating for
anybody anymore?'
Then I lean to Sara's ear. "Sara I think, I should tell Aunghadhail not
to translate for you anymore. So that if you genuinely want to know,
what I'm saying? Maybe you should just learn it?"
She starts to ask me, "So you're chall..."
"Yeah I'm challenging you, to figure out how to talk in the same
language I am. I know you're never really going to get it down pat. But
at least give it a shot, you learn quick."
"Is there even a book, on how to speak Drow?"
"NO...not really? I have got some books for you to read through. But
you're going to have to translate them from Sidhe. I know that sounds
hard, you're going to have to learn how to speak Sidhe first and then
pick up on the Drow as a sideline?"
When Gwen starts giggling at Sara's new predicament, I lean over to her
and elbow her in the ribs hard. "Hey maybe! You should help her...AS!
you can't string more than two lines of Sidhe together yourself! AND YOU
ARE ONE!"
"Shoot....you're right. CRAP more homework!" Hummf! she sounds out.
I leer at Gwen. "Speaking of homework? How about you show me that Plasma
TV and other stuff?....Before we go shopping at an electronics store?"
"Cool beans! Good idea!"
Gwen near yanks my laptop from it's bag and fires it up. After a few
minutes, she is showing me more information on new age electronics. She
goes over with me DVD's, MP3 players, CD's, Video tape, flat screens,
and finally more computers. Then she runs me through the basics on how
they work.
The stuff she is showing me is making my...old male self DROOL. Gaea.. I
need to get into a store fast and BURN that credit card up! I am making
a running mental list on what to buy!
"Hey Gwen? Pull up some info on new cars? I want to see what's out
there?"
As Gwen is working on the web to find some cool stuff to look at, Sara
spins around and looks over her shoulder at me. "So looking for a car
already?" she asks.
"Naww...not too much? A motorcycle maybe?" I mused.
Gwen finally pulls up a page on Harley's. I see that and say to her.
"No..no..no cruiser bikes...If it does not go fast. I don't want it."
I watch as she looks for me. "How about this?" she asks. While showing
me a page for Kawasaki.
"They do make a good bike. But I liked that Ducati, you found a few days
ago? Let's see that one again?"
Gwen finally finds it for me. "Humm?" I start to run down what is made
out of. "Carbon fiber, Lots of aluminum, Titanium. I know that metal...
man that stuff was expensive back then!"
As I read it again...this time, I ask more questions. "What is carbon
fiber?" I ask her.
"Ohhh it's just...super tough fiberglass in a way. They make it like
woven cloth and then mold it?....right Sara?" Gwen states to me.
"Yep that's it...basically?"
"Cool! So the only real large things on this bike, made of Iron or
steel. Will be the brakes? Good, that will make it easier for me to
ride."
"Ro you can get brakes made of carbon ceramic?"
"What?....Gwen help me look that up?" After she finds a page on it. I
read into them.... "Haaa brakes made out of dinner plates? Who would
have thought!"
"But Rohanna? Why do you care about the iron in it? As it's not true
cold iron?" Sara asks me.
"Well...it's just easier for me to ride on, with less iron.. weight
wise? But I plan on using a spell to store it in the ether, like my
swords are done now? AND less iron makes that WAY easier!"
Gwen finds a factory specifications and options page for me. I start
going over the list and checking off what I want. "Well it looks like
35,000$ would cover a fully outfitted bike for me?"
"WHAT!? Thirty-Five 'K' for a motorcycle! are you insane Rohanna!" Donna
howls out.
"YEAH!....It goes Two Hundred and Nine miles an hour and does Zero to
Sixty in less than Two seconds!....Hell ya! Speed costs money?"
Donna shakes her head at me. "I don't know?"
"I can ride it...plus this bike will last me for years....As I will only
ride it on some weekends and at a track once an great while? Heck it
might last decades at that rate?"
Sara glances at Donna. "She raced bikes before....SHE says!.. Note! That
we can't confirm her history.." She looks her shoulder and GLARES at
me...to say slowly. "Because...she...won't...tell...us....it!"
I look away from Sara's gaze as she is grilling me.
"Hey don't look away, while I am talking to ya."
I grumble a little. "You know I don't want to talk about that...my
past."
"Well one day you're going to have to cave-in? I am only going to ask
you twice this time......Like I said, one of these days you're going to
have to cave-in?"
I sit there and dwell over her request again. "Guys... I really
appreciate... you all caring about me." I stop for a few seconds...
thinking. "It's just...I forgot what it's like....to have others care
about me....either one of my old selves..." I start to tear up...But
hold it in.
Sara can feel it from me. "Hey...It's alright Rohanna...Just one day? I
hope you will open up that trust even more and talk... Maybe that might
help?"
I jokingly say, "How about when we are not...on this planet anymore? A
dinner date on Mars?"
Gwen jumps in. "Well they are planning a large colony for Mars in less
than a Hundred years? So maybe you can arrange that in Two Hundred
years? Its not too far off. So it can happen?"
Donna is once again shaking her head at us all. "You guys planning on
meeting each other up on another planet in Two hundred years. It's like
you're saying... it's next month or something? Sometimes I don't
understand your idea of time between you guys?"
"Donna...it is what it....just is?" I say flatly.
Sara, leans over her seat and gets right into my face..to sharply say,
"Rohanna I know what you're going to say...just shut-up now, before you
upset people."
"Okay Sara," I say as I lean back in the seat.
Gwen leans real close to me and whispers to me. "What are you talking
about? Why is she suddenly upset?"
I put my hand up toward the front of the car and wrap a 'silence spell'
around it. So that Donna and Sara can't hear us anymore.
"She's afraid I'll upset Donna, because Donna is starting to really
realize that Sara's gonna live over a hundred thousand years and a
hundred years. Is just a tick of a clock to her. Donna is just a flash
in the pan, at best. Among other things that Donna's got to realize" I
start thinking...I can't say what I know on Donna. "Lets just say that
there are a lot of things involved between the two of them. Then Donna
sees that....persons like Sara, you and me that she in hanging around
with..she is not going to be here to affect our lives that much?" I look
into Gwen's eyes. "You don't think of it..that way yet either...do you?
You might have to start...I hate to have to tell a kid, as young as you
that...But you know, I can't lie...you asked?"
Gwen leans back to her side of the seat and thinks on what I just said.
Then pulls up some more things to show me.
Sara, while we where talking. She called to Nikki, via the sisterly link
they made and asks her what I said. ~"Nikki? What is this that Rohanna
said? can you get Aung on it for me?"~
A few second pass and Nikki comes back. ~"Sorry I was working on this
new Elf issue"~ She giggles in her mind. ~"But what she said was 'he was
a broken weapon. like I am now, but he got better' was the most
important one...But Sara? The first one? and second one about
'Bellows'... Aung does not want to translate those for you...she says
it's too personal. The last one is just her cussing! as usual?"~
Sara thinks on the translation... ~"Nikki, can I talk to Aung...
please?"~
~"Sure..if she wants to?"~
~"Yes child? How can I help you?"~ Sara hears Aunghadhail's mental voice
in her.
~"Please..tell me more. So I can help Rohanna?"~
~"Sara...I know you're trying? But she asked for something's to be
kept..secret. Then I know, on others....I should never talk of them...as
they are dangerous to her and others near her. The first one deals with
that. The other is...."~
~"What!?"~
~".....She is not sure of Doctor Bellows and what he is after. You have
to remember, that the only people she trusts. Are us Sidhe...that's how
she was...how can I say this.....made? Is the best term?"~
~"Aung! Darn it! You have to let me know something. I can't help her, if
I am in the dark all the time? That first thing she said? How can that
be dangerous?"~
~"It...is. Just....think that what, she is talking about. Is like
knowing her true name...just worse!"~ Aunghadhail says out mentally and
Sara feels that she is hiding something also.
~"Worse than a knowing a beings true name! How can it be worse?"~
~"It...is. Like I said."~
~"Aung....we have to talk in the Grove...SOON! As this has to come out.
Back then...you really messed her up and she needs help now...before
anything bad happens."~
~"Yes child...we can talk. As soon as we get back. Or maybe? Sooner? If
Rohanna wants to let me?"~
~"I might ask. But? As soon as we can? Deal!?"~
~"Yes..."~ And the connection fades from her mind.
As Gwen shows me some stereos to maybe buy, as we start hitting the edge
of Boston proper. I like what I am seeing and how they work.
"You know? With the way you're drooling? If we go to a electronic store
and shop for clothes. I don't think this car is big enough to carry all
of it! I think, we might have to get most of it shipped back to
Whateley!" Gwen jests me.
"I don't know? I can carry an awful lot in my storage?" I boast.
Donna hears us talking and starts to lay out the day for us. "Well we
will certainly try to fill this car today! I know this one little
street...slash..open air mall, that's an upper scale one. It has a
Victoria's Secrets in it and it has got one store there. That I know
it's going to have clothes for someone, your height, body size and type.
It also has one of the best shoes stores in this end of the state! Then
add it has a Great! jewelry store!"
I near roll my eyes... "Sara, jewelry? Honestly I have that. And with
me? Come on...when or where would I wear such things?" I sass.
Sara turns to look at me. "You have Jewelry? You never said that?" she
questions me excitedly.
"I got some tucked away in my cabinet."
"Well then, why have you not shown me any of it?"
"OR ME!" Gwen near shrieks at me.
"To me it's just a monetary item, one that I should get rid of...soon.
For something I might be able to use?"
"Well next time you're with me. You're going to have to show me some of
this stuff?" Sara insists.
"ME TOO!" chirps Gwen.
Donna finally perks up. "I want to see it, when we get back!"
"Fine?" I say flatly.
"You got any earrings? Gwen asks.
"No.. not really. But you will like what few I have...they are made for
us Sidhe."
"How is that?" Donna asks first.
"They cover the top of the ears to the points. They do this in a way
that makes them almost impossible for a human to wear...but Sara can
wear them?"
"That sucks...that means, they cover the fun bit's!" she says in a
seductive voice.
"Fun bit's?....what?"
Gwen starts giggling. "Ohhh Sara has not told you yet!"
"Shussh kid!" Sara demands.
"Ohhh no!" I state. "This is going to come out!" I say in a mischievous
tone.
I kick Gwen a little. "Well tell her? As you're closer to whisper it
all, in her ear and show her!"
I watch as she leans forward. "Ohh ya and show her this too....Now relax
a little Gwen?"
I watch as she does. Then I touch on her back, just below her neck. She
just lets out a moan and melts!. "Ohhh my GOD! that felt so good! WOW!"
she moans out breathlessly.
"Well show her?"
"Ohhh I will!" she beams.
After a little whispering between them and Gwen showing her. Donna looks
at Sara in near lust. "Ohhh that is just too cool! So this will work on
her too?"
"Tried it last night. It does not work as good on her, as one of us
Sidhe...but good enough!"
I watch as Donna keeps looking at Sara. I just know they are talking via
her 'mark' in some mental way.
"But Donna? When we get back to Whateley. I will let you go through my
stuff and you can pick....something out you like. One of my smaller
items, in my little collection... As payment for today and for what you
have done so far?"
Donna eyes me, via the mirror. "Hey I never expected payment from
you...on anything?
"Well you're gonna get it!" I insist to her. "I can't think of what to
give ya..? I have some stuff in gold, some in silver and a little in
Mithril?"......I think for a few seconds on what, I have and my mind
almost goes too deep in remembering where. I got some of my
things....the horrors of it all, is starting to come to me. BUT I manage
to shove them all down.
Sara near moans out, "MMMM Mithril!...yummy!" and her voice pulls me
back from the bad memories, I was just in.
"Hey this is jewelry! NOT snacks!" I bark at her.
"What? eat jewelry?"
Gwen leans toward Donna's seat back to say, "That's right...you just
heard it! Your Sara eats metal for snacks AND it's a very expensive
metal TOO! I might add" she then laughs.
Donna gets off the main highway and meanders around in downtown Boston.
Till she finds the Mall, she is looking for. As we drive into the
parking lot, I check that my illusion is working with Gwen and I get a
thumbs up from her.
Donna pulls up to a Valet service and starts to get out. Gwen and me hop
out of the back. I slip on my light coat for show and Gwen has a hoodie
to wear. Sara has on a Goth cloak, that makes her look fine and then I
watch Donna start to pull out a heavy coat form her trunk. I toss a
'weather' spell on her and this time she notices me do it.
"What was that?"
"Ahh did you not wonder why, it was so nice and warm as we left
Whateley?"
"Humm I did notice..something? Then Sara told me something about it and
I was not really paying attention at the time?" she blushes.
"That was me and this spell. With it on you, you're not going to feel
the cold and the snow will not make you wet?"
"Hey I like that!"
"So grab that lighter jacket...As you don't need that parka?" I inform
her.
Donna gets her ticket, from the valet guy and walks us to a mall
entrance. "Okay I took a liberty Rohanna. I used your credit card to
reserve us, a private buyer in few of theses stores and this will cut
down on the searching for clothes that 'fit' AND are natural fabrics. I
told them your size before today and your needs. So they should have a
selection ready...to show us, all laid out?"
Then Donna takes the lead again and shows us the fastest way through
this mall. To the outside street area and the stores she has planned for
us to see. On this end of the shopping center is a rather large mall,
that Donna is near running us through. After a few minutes of walking to
the far end. Donna shows us a door, leading out into a open dead end
street and it's lined with lots of high-end stores all along it. What I
notice ,as we all start out the door. Is a small feeling and it's
getting worse as I exit the mall. It just does not 'feel' right?
Something magic based, is pushing against my ability to teleport. AND I
don't like that!
I stop and get everyone's attention. "Sara? This does not feel right?" I
pull Gwen to me. "Do you feel anything weird magically?" I ask her.
"No...I feel nothing? Why?" Gwen says to me.
"Sara...the whole area here feels.....Ahh the only word I can use is,
'funky'..Something is pushing on the edge of my teleport. Like it's
slowing me down? Like normally, I port between one spot and the next in
a split second. Now? It feels like...I have to push it and it would take
five to ten seconds for it to work?"
Sara ponders what I said. "Well this is...Boston? Maybe some old mage,
left a 'ward' or a spell hanging around here. Its all together possible.
The city is near Four Hundred years old?"
"Okay, I can see that..might be it?"
"Besides there are all kinds of mages in Boston...even that stupid old
Necromancer is here, I had a run-in with last year?"
"Who?"
"Ohh I will tell you later. It was a long time ago. Maybe one of his old
spells is lingering about."
"Okay...if you feel it's nothing? I just..really! don't like not having
my teleport really slowed down or near turned off like it is? It just
bugs me. Its like locking a fire-door..it's an escape, incase crap hit's
the fan?"
Sara insists to me. "Everything's fine, we're in the middle of a public
street. What's going to happen here?"
"Okay?" I say...not too sure? That little voice that saves my butt, is
screaming LOUD!
Donna takes the lead once again and leads us all to the door of a high-
end clothing store. She opens the door and waves us all in. She has my
sizes written down on cards and hands us each one for our use. I then
notice, this Lady is on a mission...Gods she knows how to shop! She is a
pro! Then she goes over to a sales person, asks about our reserved
clothes and is shown several large racks of clothes.
I watch her go over to a rack of tops, that have a plaque on them that
says 'organic?' Then she starts pulling items out and comparing them to
me for size. I also see Gwen and Sara doing the same. I am just standing
there in a bit of shock. They are just going at it...Its like watching,
wolves tearing into prey!
They start to pile stuff up, as I watch it all. Donna walks up to me
with a few items in her hands and starts comparing lengths on me.
She hangs, a nice shirt in front of me. "Ahhh that looks good!...." and
flops it on the rack, then pulls out a pair of blue jeans and puts them
up to my waist. "Hummm that's good!..." then another. "this one is too
short!"
Then Sara and Gwen start doing the same, as I stand there. I am starting
to feel like a clothing dummy! Between the three of them, as they all
zip around me and grab stuff.
Donna grabs a whole pile stuff and shove it all in my arms. "Well going
into the changing room and figure out what fit's and not?"
"Okay?" is all I say. As I'm kind of bewildered and dazed by how fast
they are.
I go into a rather nice changing room...a rather LARGE changing room! I
look about it. 'Man I have been missing this? I have never been in one
this big or one with such a cool seat and so many places to hang
things.'
I then realize as, I put on that first pair of Jeans...why the booth is
so nice! OVER a hundred bucks! for jeans! That's nuts! But I get into
them, as I really have no choice. My height and size, it's going to be
hard to find clothes. Then add my allergy to anything not natural, makes
me doomed to shop only in the expensive section of the world at large.
Donna finally slips in the dressing room with me and says to me. As I
get that first pair on. "That's a nice one..it's a keeper!"
All I can say is. "What?" in my mass confusion....'how can she judge
that quickly...I barely got them on!'
Then Sara comes bouncing in the room, with another pile. AND it's even
bigger! Then Gwen's got four or five things with her when she comes in.
Now I know why the room is so big!
They all near chorus to me. "WELL start going through stuff!"
I am like being ordered about! by them...all three of them at the same
time! I'm more than confused by it all. Its happening too
fast!.....this! Last nights love fest!....as a chick!....the
clothes...the school....everything! I am looking, at all three of them
teaming up on me!
I put my hand up and sit down on the seat there. All I have on me, is my
top and panties. "WAIT a minute! Slow down, not so fast!" I warned.
Sara starts giggling at me. "What did you expect? This is shopping...we
are killing prey out here?"
I'm shaking my head to her. Then I lean down and put my face in my hands
Then it hit's me like a ton of bricks!
"Hey..slow down. I was only a guy a week ago TODAY! Last I knew, I was
riding a bike in the hills...then BANG I am here! Then I am a chick and
A DROW!" I run my fingers up into my long hair, as it flops down over my
face. "GOD I had sex last night as a girl!...this is happening too
fast!" I sob out.
Gwen sits next to me, to hug me with one arm gently. "Hey I can
understand this a little. My change took some time. But, you will cope
and make it through this. That is why, we are all in Poe?"
Sara sits on my other side and starts rubbing my back to sooth me. "I
know exactly how you feel...My change took a day. Just like yours..But
in my case I kind of welcomed it, as I was so sick in life. But like
Gwen said...We are here."
"I am...so not used to this kind of attention. As a guy, I never really
needed it or got it. Then the Drow in me, is near running around in my
head...Gods that part of me, is so confused right now. She never had any
of this. She never had nice things, it was just not allowed. What she
had, she stole and hid. Then it had to be small or useful in someway, or
why take it?"
"Hey we are all friends here. Take a minute and process this?" Sara asks
me.
I look up at her and then the rest of them. "That is the problem. The
Guy in me wants that a little...But knows in a small way, all that leads
to is...You all leaving at sometime? Then the Drow? She darn well knows,
not to make friends or connections. As it's too painful!"
Gwen asks me. "Why would she, not want friends?"
Sara says softly to Gwen, as I lean down again and lay my face in my
hands. "They all died. That's why...You have to think of that part of
Rohanna, as the worst horror film you ever saw. As a One on a scale of
Ten, But in her case it was, a Twenty! on a good day."
"Ohh..." Gwen says out.
"Thanks for being here" I sniff out, then wrap Gwen in a hug. "I need
someone."
"You're not just saying that like, last night...again?" Gwen asks.
"No...this time it's me and not the...compulsions making me" I finally
let go of her, to say, "Well what's next on the pile...lets get this
over with and have fun?"
"This is the fun part!" Donna boasts. "I am spending your money!"
I start laughing hard, at that statement!. "Gaea I love ya Donna!"
"Hey..she is mine!" Sara jokingly growls at me, then changes her tone to
say playfully. "But, we can share?"
"Hey I am not up for 'dibs'!" Donna barks, then shoves a new set of
jeans at me.
"Okay..." I start to slide them on, while they all ready the next wave
of clothes for me.
I get them on. "That's a great fit!" Donna says.
I go through, what's got to be about... Fifty or Sixty things. The group
of them, only picks a third of that. That they all agree on that, both
looks and fit's good. Donna goes for more of a tight pair of jeans on
me. While Gwen leans toward a looser set. I finally take both, as each
has it's merit's.
Donna disappears for a bit and she comes in with a mini-dress. She says,
"Put this on?"
"This? Its a bit....short?" I more than question her.
"No it's not. Soon as the weather warms up, you'll love it!"
"Okay?" I say as I get into it.
Once it's on, Sara 'wolf whistles'. "Its perfect!"
Gwen's got her thumbs up!
I look at myself in the mirror and turnaround a little The dress is very
short and is hugging me perfectly. "God my ass looks great in this!....
Did I just say that?..... Wow, I guess it does....If I wasn't me? I
would be jumping me!" I toss that in the. "keep' pile. I guess that's
where it belongs, they're telling me. I am kind of agreeing, on that
one.
Donna the main hunter of the group, grabs a store clerk and has her take
my vast pile to the register. Then another lady comes in to clean-up and
restock our other pile for us.
She says to me while, I put on a top. "My my you're a tall, very fit one
for your age. Are you a gymnast or something?" then she thinks. "No a
gymnast wouldn't be it quite as big, tall and built up top like you are.
Your mom or dad is like a fitness model, bodybuilder or something. To
keep you in shape like that?"
"What?" I say flatly to her, as I get dressed to go.
"Maybe I know them? As we have lots of models pictured here?"
"No they...do other stuff." I don't lie...as they did?
She finally gets to our keep pile. "You ladies are keeping all this?"
All three of my tortures! say, "Yep!" in near unison!
She starts carrying that pile, to the register as the 'mob' of mine.
Just keeps looking...incase, they missed something? What...that could
be, I will never know!
Donna stands at the register while it gets all rung up and I join her. I
watch the bill climb and climb...UP! The final bill, is near Two
thousand and I huff out slowly. Then slide my credit card across the
table.
The clerk takes it and says to me. "Your parents must be loaded?"
I look at her and sigh. "The day has just begun. This is just, our first
stop!"
She kinda cringes. "Your mom or dad. Are either giving you a lot of
leeway or come Monday morning. They are going to tan your hide! BUT I
don't care...you only live once?"
I near fall down laughing at that one and Sara joins me. "If you only
knew!" I say out to her while, my sides hurt.
"What?" the lady asks.
Donna smiles at her..."That joke of only living once...they always find
that one funny. I don't know why? But those two, are very strange
sometimes?"
The clerk finishes ringing it up and taking my card. Donna leans over
the table. "Can you have this dropped off, at the package pickup. For
the for the valet parking lot?"
"Sure, can ma'am"
Donna grabs the receipt out of my hand. Then puts it in her purse. "This
receipt is an itemized list, to what we are supposed to get. They seal
up the bags and then we pick them up in the package area. I always do
this so, we don't have to carry bags all day!"
I Think about it. "Hey that's a nice service!"
Donna stares at me. "With what you just paid! Its not a service...it's
the way it should be!"
Donna leads, the pack of us all farther down the long line of stores. I
stop to gaze into the jewelry store window, she talked about and find
nothing even grabs my newly developing tastes 'nothing a Sidhe would
wear in this place...it does not 'sing' to me?' is all I can think.
We walk on and Donna stops at a coffee shop. "Hey I am going to grab
some coco for all of us, go grab a table outside and we can watch the
crowds walk by?"
Gwen runs off and grabs a large table right on the railing that borders
the street. Lucky for us in a way, there are three space heaters next to
the table. With them next to us all, we won't look so weird sitting in
the cold outside.
I plop down on the chair next to the railing and Gwen grabs the one next
to me. Sara grabs the set across form us for Donna and her. I once I am
seated, start watching the crow walk by us. The amount of people walking
by certainly has grown, since we got here so early. You might even say
it's getting crowded a little.
As I sit and watch the crowd, Sara asks me. "Well? So you like this so
far?"
"What? being out or shopping my last maleness to death?" I jest her.
"Both!" she states while winking at me.
"Well I love finally getting out. Even the campus can grind on me a
little? I guess my mind is just set on seeing only Sidhe built
things....is all. Now this shopping? I am dealing with it so far...and I
needed this break between beatings!" I joke to her, with a small giggle.
Gwen spins to me and breaks in. "Hey there is a bake shop next door! I
am going to grab something!"
"Fine" I say as I fish out my card. "Take this and pay for
it....anything is good for me.....Sara? do you want something to nibble
for the taste?"
She shakes her head. "Nope, I can just try some of yours....if you
voracious elves don't eat it so fast!"
Gwen nods to us both, snatches my extended card and she is off. "I sure
hope you find something good!" I say to her small dust cloud, she leaves
behind via her speed.
"So...what's the plan for next week?" Sara asks me.
"Heck if I know? Get my classes set and get my books?" I question her.
"Well Bellows will get on that for you on Monday, is my guess and...."
Sara is interrupted by a boy jumping over the rail on her side, then one
follows him on mine.
Both of them, grab the seats right next to us. The one next to me says
in a 'sly' tone to us. "My buddy and me noticed, you two look a little
lonely sitting here so? We decided to put a stop to that!"
"Yep" the one next to Sara says, "We can't have that!"
My eyes scan over him very fast! No weapons...no skills....no threat?.
"Ahh....We are not exactly alone guys. Our friends are off getting
something to eat."
"Hey..that's fine! There are only two of us now...We can get a buddy for
your girlfriend. I saw walk off?"
"Humm I am not really looking for a boyfriend?"
Sara chirps in. "Hey! he is a cute one!" then she eyeballs the other
next to her. "But this one? hummm I don't know....I don't think you're
my type?"
"I might be?" that one says.
"Humm maybe?" Sara leads him on. "I like my play ROUGH!" and she grabs
his collar and pulls him close.
I look over the guy sitting next to me and just blurt out, "Ya Sara,
you're right this one is cute...but can he keep up?"
Sara's head near spins like a top and stares at me. "What! did you say?"
"I...I...I said that!...shit!" I look back at the guy and now. I am even
more confused.
"Well I think you're more than cute...you're a total BABE!"
That 'babe' line totally shuts me off. "Ya lost me...with that line. Now
shooo!"
"Awww I can stop that?"
"NO! now go please. Besides, I don't live anywhere near here."
Gwen just arrives with a huge bag of goodies. "Hey who are these two?"
she asks while sitting.
"These two? unless Sara wants them both...they where leaving."
The one next to me, near jumps at Gwen. "Well your friend turned me
down..You looking for a guy?"
"Ahh nope...got a steady one now" she says while handing me a muffin.
"You do Gwen?"
"Yep Collin, over in Twain Cottage. Been going with him for sometime. So
BYE!" she says to the boy.
He then gets up and Sara release her 'catch'....lucky for him! The one
that was next to me says, "Ohh so you're all 'prep' girls? But anyway,
here is my number in case you change your mind?" and he hands me a card.
Both of them walk away, I just seem to fade out and stare at them
leave..... just as Donna shows with a tray of drinks. I on the other
hand, lean down to the table and wrap my arms around my head. THEN start
banging my head on the table...hard. "Why did I say that!" I screech.
As I do, the Drow in my head gets on me. "You might have to consider a
male human for a mate...no matter how revolting it sounds....if we are
to have kids again?"
I mentally scream at her. "SHUT UP YOU!"
Donna asks. "What did she say?" as she sits down and hands out the coco.
Sara giggles out, "Rohanna here...called that boy 'cute'!"
I have my head down in my arms and mumble out, "Quite you!"
"Hey, you're the one. Who blurted that out! Don't blame me!..Besides? I
saw you checking out his cute butt, as he walked off!" she winks at me.
"I....I did?....?"
"Ayyy yep, I know LUST! When I see and feel it! Its my job!"
I lean far back, in my chair and cover my face. "Ohhh my God. I did...I
am so confused!"
"Hey get over it? You're fine. Just deal with that, as it comes?" Sara
says to me.
I lean back to the table and start in on that muffin. Gwen drops two
more in front of me. As I nibble on one, Sara starts on the other.
Donna says to me. "You have lots of time to figure your life out.....so
take it slow?"
"Thanks...." I drone out. As I sit and think...'what am I going to do?'
I finish up my last muffin...as that was easy! Since Sara, was not just
taking nibbles off them! Then we get up to continue the pain!
The next store on the row I see, Donna starting to walk into. 'Victoria
Secrets'....'So this is what they were talking about all this time' I
think to myself 'Its a high-end underwear store for girls!'.....I then
suddenly lock-up I am standing there in a DAZE looking at it. My feet
are 'glued' to the pavement.
"So this is when the last part of my old 'male' self is going to die?
This is the where?....the place? THE HOW!" I mumble out.
Donna walks in and starts immediately looking at the displays. Gwen
grabs onto my arm and starts tugging me into the store. I dig-in my feet
and stop moving. My head starts to shake back an forth. "No!" I squeak
out. As she yanks on me, even harder. My male side screams out in my
head NO! and the Drow is mostly saying to me...'why?' as she only sees
practical parts.
Sara walks up behind me then, gives me a firm shove. I stumble forward
and as I stumble forward. Sara laughingly says, "Masculinity! Manliness!
Die! Die! Die!" as she pushes me through that the doorway.
I turn around to stare at her, as she shoves me harder and my feet slide
over the smooth ground. I stutter out, "OH crap...oh crap." My mind
thinks out 'darn useless human made sneakers! My Sidhe boots would have
HELD!'
As I am finally dragged...pushed into the door. I watch Donna as she
walks up to one of the clerks. To ask her. "Where is your lead
saleslady, that runs your fittings?"
"Ohh let me grab her!" within a few monuments she brings back, an older
woman. "This is Ms. Jacobson she runs our fittings" then she moves off.
The new lady shakes Donna's offered hand. "So I am told you need a
fitting? Or buyers assistance?"
"Yes that is what I need...actually" she points at me, being near
dragged in. "That young lady needs it."
"Just so you understand, there is a Seventy five dollar fee, attached to
the service. For fittings of this type?"
"We're going for all the high-end stuff. So I don't think your fee is
gonna really matter that much now is it?" Then she waves the receipt
from the last store in her face. "We just spent....this at the last
store and probably will spend twice as much by the end of the day."
Ms. Jacobson's eyes light up! at the sight. "Obviously...you're a
commission store? Aren't you? Well, you are about to earn it today.
Because this poor girl here, is One hundred percent! allergic to
synthetics. So it's, cotton or silks or nothing. Even spandex is kind of
a problem with her." Donna says to her.
"Well then lets get her into a fitting room" Donna hands her, one of my
measurement cards. She looks it over. "I am sure these are correct. But
it's best to let me re-measure her anyway."
The lady leads our hunting party off to a private room, Donna follows
and Me? I am near dragged along. Once in the room and the door is
closed. Sara lets off a mechanical laugh at me. "Muhhahhaha! Now the fun
begins!"
The fitting lady asks me. "Take off all, but your bottoms?"
"Okay" I squeak out and start striping off my shoes as I sit, then work
my wa