08-11-2003, 02:55 PM
Thank you, urban and Tiamat. *gives both of them boxes of pocky* Your words are most appreciated. May you live long lives and have maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany pleasant sexual encounters. ^_^
Scene 5, Take 1!
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Kari peered along the barrel of the water gun she held, her tongue clamped tightly in the side of her mouth and one eye closed. She was trying desperately to get her gun lined up with the little target at the bottom of the water meter before the operator could start the race. Out of one corner of her eye she could see the other kids fumbling with their guns, trying to figure out what exactly they were supposed to do with them.
She chuckled inwardly, her thumbs poised threateningly over the gun's twin buttons. She was ready to kick some ass.
In the other corner of her eye, Kari saw Tai. He was handing money over to the operator, who looked rather bemused. She didn't know it, but her brother was less than pleased with this predicament.
While half her brain was focused on keeping her gun aligned with the target, the other half dedicated itself to watching her brother, who was now standing just to the left of her, his hands in his pockets, all his weight resting on one leg. She didn't see the slightly annoyed expression on his face or the irritated tapping of his fingers against the insides of his pockets.
All she saw was her big brother, standing there and watching her. Something in her chest inflated, and she snapped both of her eyes forward. She would beat this silly little game in the name of Tai, and no one could stop her!
A head poked out from the other side of the game booth, and Kari's concentration slipped as her head automatically turned to look at the face that went with the head.
She blinked.
It was a boy, about Kari's age, with oddly pointed brown hair and equally brown eyes. He, too, was blinking, and for the same reason: both felt that, somehow, they were meeting in the wrong place and the wrong time, that they were in some way going against an unknown and unspoken rule that governed the universe.
Kari began to smile at him, then stopped. Her eyes rested on the thing in his hands.
It was a water gun of the same likeness as the one she held.
The boy was the enemy.
She narrowed her eyes at him.
He narrowed his eyes right back, and took one hand off his gun to point a single finger in her direction.
"I'm gonna beat you!" he said.
A fire, which had been slowly burning at a few twigs in the middle of a forest clearing in Kari's soul, exploded into an all-out blazing inferno. She shook her fist defiantly at the boy, a look of angry confidence on her face, and focused once again on the target.
Oh, that little boy was going *down*.
***
O_O This scene came outta nowhere.
Ah, well, that is the way things go! Huzzah!
agz
Scene 5, Take 1!
***
Kari peered along the barrel of the water gun she held, her tongue clamped tightly in the side of her mouth and one eye closed. She was trying desperately to get her gun lined up with the little target at the bottom of the water meter before the operator could start the race. Out of one corner of her eye she could see the other kids fumbling with their guns, trying to figure out what exactly they were supposed to do with them.
She chuckled inwardly, her thumbs poised threateningly over the gun's twin buttons. She was ready to kick some ass.
In the other corner of her eye, Kari saw Tai. He was handing money over to the operator, who looked rather bemused. She didn't know it, but her brother was less than pleased with this predicament.
While half her brain was focused on keeping her gun aligned with the target, the other half dedicated itself to watching her brother, who was now standing just to the left of her, his hands in his pockets, all his weight resting on one leg. She didn't see the slightly annoyed expression on his face or the irritated tapping of his fingers against the insides of his pockets.
All she saw was her big brother, standing there and watching her. Something in her chest inflated, and she snapped both of her eyes forward. She would beat this silly little game in the name of Tai, and no one could stop her!
A head poked out from the other side of the game booth, and Kari's concentration slipped as her head automatically turned to look at the face that went with the head.
She blinked.
It was a boy, about Kari's age, with oddly pointed brown hair and equally brown eyes. He, too, was blinking, and for the same reason: both felt that, somehow, they were meeting in the wrong place and the wrong time, that they were in some way going against an unknown and unspoken rule that governed the universe.
Kari began to smile at him, then stopped. Her eyes rested on the thing in his hands.
It was a water gun of the same likeness as the one she held.
The boy was the enemy.
She narrowed her eyes at him.
He narrowed his eyes right back, and took one hand off his gun to point a single finger in her direction.
"I'm gonna beat you!" he said.
A fire, which had been slowly burning at a few twigs in the middle of a forest clearing in Kari's soul, exploded into an all-out blazing inferno. She shook her fist defiantly at the boy, a look of angry confidence on her face, and focused once again on the target.
Oh, that little boy was going *down*.
***
O_O This scene came outta nowhere.
Ah, well, that is the way things go! Huzzah!
agz