"I think under the bed is the first place any kid will go. That and to their parents," Rustam says with a slight smile as he picks up a small shell in the sand next to him and begins polishing it with a finger. "My sister and I would always make a big show of not being afraid," he says in a reminiscent tone. "We'd be under the bed once the first clap of thunder came, then we'd kinda look at each other and Adwen would say, 'Scaredy-cat, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's only thunder; what are you doing down here?' Then she'd start crawling out from under the bed. I, of course, couldn't let my big sister show me up, so I'd follow...then the next clap of thunder would come and we'd both instantly be back underneath the bed. Our parents always laughed at us whenever we did that, but whenever we got caught too far from the bed we could always run to whichever one of them was closest and they'd pull us onto their laps and do whatever they could to distract us from the storm." -- Ocean

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Date Posted: 21:08:21 04/22/04 Thu
Author: Rustam (OOC stuff inside)
Subject: "I think under the bed is the first place any kid will go. That and to their parents," Rustam says with a slight smile as he picks up a small shell in the sand next to him and begins polishing it with a finger. "My sister and I would always make a big show of not being afraid," he says in a reminiscent tone. "We'd be under the bed once the first clap of thunder came, then we'd kinda look at each other and Adwen would say, 'Scaredy-cat, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's only thunder; what are you doing down here?' Then she'd start crawling out from under the bed. I, of course, couldn't let my big sister show me up, so I'd follow...then the next clap of thunder would come and we'd both instantly be back underneath the bed. Our parents always laughed at us whenever we did that, but whenever we got caught too far from the bed we could always run to whichever one of them was closest and they'd pull us onto their laps and do whatever they could to distract us from the storm."
In reply to: Lily 's message, "Lily brushed a piece of wet hair out of her face and then tilted her head back just to feel the rain drops on her face. "Me too. I remember hiding under the bed when I was little. I never really felt safer there, but I still hid there." She had hid under that bed for another reason too. Her father had been abusive but she didn't feel like dumping that on Rustam. Taking her mind off that somewhat painful topic she opened her mouth to catch some of the rain. (Other stuff inside)" on 17:44:46 04/20/04 Tue

OOC: Well, it's /true/...he needs a girlfriend. So that's where we're taking this, then? Sounds good; it's going in that direction anyway.

And no, of course we won't be going /that/ far... x.x Dude, that's like a major taboo for Carnerik RPing...no way we're going there.

I love contrasting char backgrounds, may I just say? ...Hey, if you want to, later on we can take them to meet Rustam's parents (which are still around, I guess...I'm only just now thinking about his background, but...yeah, they're still around). We don't have to if you don't want to, but it could be really fun...interesting, if nothing else, particularly considering what you just revealed and which Rustam currently has no clue of...

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Lily listened to Rustam intently and then said "I don't know how as kids we hate the thunder and the rain and then when we're older I know a lot of people who love storms like this." Lily glanced around at the coast. It was raining as hard as ever perhaps harder and was starting to get a little bit cold. "Um, we should probably get out of the rain. I have some old clothes of my brother's around somewhere, (executive decision she has/had a brother) they'd probably fit you. Then we could have some hot cocoa or something." She looked at Rustam expectantly. -- Lily, 07:31:13 04/23/04 Fri
- OOC: Oh ya there's something inside that last message for you. (NT) -- Lily's player, 09:40:53 04/23/04 Fri

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