 You four, yup you know who you are ;) Dragon Geisha/Toni-Toni Chopper/Master of Chocobos Alpha Goddess/ Darth Devious /Davvy's twinneh
So at least Henric landed okay. She was mad at him but she didn't want him to die or anything. Henric griped at Adi and then started asking her to forgive him. Why couldn't he have just not been a jerk to her in the first place? He left her to doubt him and yelling at Adi wasn't making her mood any better. Adi had remained loyal. Case and point, Adi was the one sitting with her and being comforting and friend-like.
........and THEN.....the shouting started. Ilia had NEVER seen Adi angry like that. She had seen him annoyed, she had been there, she had seen his fights with Benny and she had seen him argue with Henric......but this....this was ANGRY. Her sobbing had ceased though you could still clearly tell that the girl had been crying. She found her feet and slowly rose to them, as Adi kept yelling. Then her best friends fist....connected with her other best friends face. "NO!" she half sobbed , half shouted.
She heard the blow land, saw the blood spurting and Henric yelping. She was mad at him, he had hurt her badly, but she still didn't want him hurt. She was pretty sure that his nose was broken and it felt like she'd been hit in the gut.
Before she had time to run over to Henric though..... the Groundskeeper, one of her house, was standing among them....yelling at her boys! 50 points each from them!?!?!?!?!? She let her expression go blank as she thought what to do next. She was a ball of emotion and this just made it worse, her very soul felt like it was churning.
Explain themselves? Time was ticking....Her boys were fighting over her, she was emotionally disheveled and now they were in deep dragon dung as the Groundskeeper waited. She was cursing everything mentally and felt like she was going to have a melt down. What now!? Come on brain work!
Henric was trying to take the blame with his now nasally damaged lisp....Adi was encouraging that it was Henric's fault.....then admitting his own......She hadn't heard a peep out of Benny.........this had a muggle 'soapy operatic shows' or whatever those were called type feeling now and.....then an idea hit her like Adi's fist to Henric's nose. Hopefully her snake side would ring true today....
She kept her face clear and walked up to the groundskeeper somewhat excitedly. "Sir, its not what you think!" Well, she wasn't sure what he really thought....but it was wrong! Her boys losing points and getting into trouble over her was wrong! "You see.....we were acting." And all of you boys better act and play along with this! She looked over at Henric's nose again and corrected herself. "Over-acting." She smiled sheepishly.
"You see, my mother is having me get into modeling and theater with her and I was trying to practice and surprise her. The boys were helping me and we all got a little carried away! I'm so sorry for the scene Mr. McLeod, Sir. Its really all my fault and I didn't mean for it to get so loud and disturb you! Please don't be angry with us." She smiled up at him apologetically.....pleadingly.....her big blue eyes practically begging him not to yell at them.
At least she wasn't totally lying.....Her mom did do those things and she DID want Ilia to do so with her and follow in her footsteps.......and she did feel like this was all her fault now....Boys....don't mess this up....just agree with her....please..... |