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Post by Hotaru King on Apr 1, 2012 19:52:59 GMT -5
Hotaru thought for a moment, what all could she do with her family today? "Umm... Maybe we could go out and do something?" she suggested.
Hana shook her head. "I wanna stay inside today." she said. She didn't want Mommy going outside the manor just yet, they could run into someone she knew. Then they would try talking to her and she might start remembering stuff and Hana was NOT letting that happen.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Apr 1, 2012 20:40:15 GMT -5
Archer smiled and patted Hana's head. "Yea, I'm kinda up to a nice day at the house. There's not much family stuff to do in town anyways. So we could stay inside and watch some movies, hang out in the game room, or we could go outside and swim. I can put up the volleyball net or something like we talked about yesterday." he said to Hotaru with a gentle smile. He really couldn't let Hotaru out of the house area especially since memories were already starting to plague her. She was a ticking time bomb and one little memory could set her off against herself. "What sounds good dear?"
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Post by Patrick "Puff" Ramshire on Apr 1, 2012 20:57:59 GMT -5
Puff smiled on, waiting for his mother's decision. He wasn't a fan of water, and in fact he couldn't swim at all thanks to the aversion, but if he and Hana were in the shallow end while mommy and daddy were in the deeper end, then it could work... He didn't want to make mommy sad, after all.
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Post by Hotaru King on Apr 1, 2012 21:12:53 GMT -5
Hotaru pondered for a moment. Well she didn't wanna stay inside all day, looks like the pool was the best she could get. "Swimming sounds nice right now." she said, finally coming to a decision.
Hana smiled again. "Yay, swimming!!" she exclaimed. The only bad part was that there was no real way of hiding her scars in that situation. Oh well, Mommy had scars(though not nearly at many) too, so maybe she won't think much of it after all. She hopped off her stool. "I'll go get ready~!" she said before skipping off to her room.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Apr 1, 2012 21:32:21 GMT -5
Archer put the dishes into the dishwasher as Hotaru decided. "Puff go ahead and head up and put your suit on. Grab some sunblock while you're at it. Don't want you and your sister burning." he said to the pale man with a smile.
He threw a wink to Hotaru and smiled. "Go on darlin', go put that pretty little swimsuit on again." he teased throwing in a southern accent and another wink. He was waiting for the blush that was highly likely to follow.
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Post by Patrick "Puff" Ramshire on Apr 1, 2012 21:42:45 GMT -5
Puff nodded and darted off to get ready to swim... although he wasn't even sure if he had a swimsuit... Well, he supposed Daddy had probably thought of that option, after all he and Hana hadn't had to bring much of their own stuff to the manor. Everything seemed to just be there when they needed it.
Which meant, like it or not, Puff was going swimming. He had to suppress a whimper at that notion once he was safely in his room.
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Post by Hotaru King on Apr 1, 2012 21:56:54 GMT -5
Hotaru felt her cheeks warming up again(she should REALLY train them or something, she didn't like it!) "O-okay..." she said sheepishly as she made her way back to her room to change. It was the same black one from yesterday, and it was even still a little wet from her being in the pool the day before. She took a look at herself in the mirror for a moment, slightly confused. What was with all the scars on her stomach? She noticed them yesterday but hadn't paid much attention to them until now. The redhead shrugged them off for the time being, grabbing a towel and going off on her way out of her room.
Hana was the first to finish getting ready, wearing a cute little green one piece with a tiny black bow she thought looked adorable. She sat on the couch in the living room as she waited on the others to come downstairs so they could all walk out together. She just hoped Mommy didn't get too scared by her or anything...
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Post by Patrick "Puff" Ramshire on Apr 1, 2012 22:24:27 GMT -5
Puff was the second one of the family out of his room and ready. He had a pair of white swim trunks on with a blue stripe going vertically down the left and right sides. The hitman also brought with him two bottles of sunblock and passed one to Hana. "Daddy's orders." He explained quickly, obviously uncomfortable with the thought of going into the pool.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Apr 2, 2012 17:51:34 GMT -5
As soon as everyone went upstairs to change Archer went out back to the pool and set up the volleyball net. He'd left his suit upstairs but had an extra in the pool house so he went and changed in there. His suit was black with red stripe on each side of the leg. He grabbed a few extra towels from the downstairs linen closet and set up a nice table with some drinks on ice underneath the canopy.
He walked back into the house to wait for everyone else and was met by Hana and Puff who were putting on sunblock. He smiled and patted Hana's head fondly. "Hey there princess," he greeted cheerfully. "You look adorable by the way." he commented. He noted Puff's unease with everything and realized why it was. "Puff you and Hana can stay in the shallow end if you need to." he stated as he squeezed some of the sunblock on his hand and started putting it on.
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Post by Hotaru King on Apr 2, 2012 22:48:25 GMT -5
Hotaru made her way down stairs, seeing the three of them put sunblock on. She smiled, good, they wouldn't burn outside now. Her eyes grew wide at all the scars and stitches her daughter was covered in. "Hana, sweetie, wh-what happened...?" she asked, in a bit of shock at the moment.
Hana finished putting on her sunblock, not all that suprised at Mommy's question. "I was in an accident when I was little, a really really bad one, I told you this." she shrugged a little, hoping she wouldn't ask too many more questions(Hana wasn't very good at improv after all). "It's nuthin' Mommy, honest~" Well she wasn't lying about that part, the scars didn't bother her at all, in fact she adored them.
The redhead blinked in disbelief, slowly making her way over to them. How could she treat those like it was nothing? That was just... inhuman.
'Because she's NOT human!' Great, the voice from the other night was back. 'None of them are!! Run while their guard's down!!'
There was a tiny twitch in Hotaru's eye that went unnoticed by her as she tried pushing the voice to the back of her mind. How could it say something like that about her family?! It had to be crazy. "So, sunblock?" she asked hesitantly to change her train of thought.
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Post by Patrick "Puff" Ramshire on Apr 3, 2012 19:57:38 GMT -5
Puff tossed over a tube of the white gunk to his mommy with a smile. "Yup!" He affirmed, good cheer restored now that he had been granted the shallow end of the pool. Honestly, he'd rather not go into any water at all (showering was regrettably unavoidable, but could be done quickly) but if it made mommy happy he'd try his hardest to not freak out over it.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Apr 3, 2012 20:28:20 GMT -5
Archer noticed the slight twitch in Hotaru's eye as Hana 'explained' her scars. Yet another sign that the original Hotaru was fighting the new one. Thankfully new Hotaru seemed to be on the up and up of that fight. He smiled to the group and clapped his hands together. "Alright! Who's ready for some water volleyball?" he asked cheefully.
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Post by Hotaru King on Apr 3, 2012 20:48:04 GMT -5
Hotaru smiled, finishing putting on her sunblock and looking back at Archer. "I'm ready," she said happily. She turned to see Hana jumping up and down excitedly.
"Mee!!" the youngest one exclaimed. She took Puff's hand and tried pulling him along. "C'mon Brother, it'll be fun, promise~!" she insisted as she tried(and failed) to drag him with her. They'd be on the shallow end of the pool, so there was nothing to be scared about, he'd be okay.
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Post by Patrick "Puff" Ramshire on Apr 3, 2012 20:54:15 GMT -5
Puff forced his feet to move with his little sister and approach the pool... ah, that most hated enemy, water. It took more willpower to force himself to actually get INTO the pool, but soon enough he and his sister were in the water. Puff had never been so terrified and uncomfortable in his life, save getting sprayed with the hose as a child. That... that had never been fun... He had been careful to obey his brothers' rules to avoid that situation. "C-c'mon in mommy!" he called out once he was in the water.
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Post by Archer Speirs on Apr 3, 2012 21:08:40 GMT -5
Archer smiled and took Hotaru's hand as he walked out the door to the pool. He let go of her by the edge of the pool and jogged back to the pool house to grab the ball. He returned and hit the ball from across the yard to Hana. Then without further warning he ran and dove into the pool only coming up after hitting the bottom. He laughed and shook his hair out as he waded around. "Come on dear, jump in! The water is fine!" he called to Hotaru with a smile.
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