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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:14 pm
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Hayden was out with his boys once more, except this time instead of only the twins, there was now a third. He newest addition to the family, and my what a family it was. Three little boys, and their father, a humorous treat for all to see as they passed by, as well as an interesting one.
The family had decided that instead of staying indoors all day today they would go grocery shopping for the week. The weather had been nothing but humid and hot all week, and since Hayden noticed developing storm clouds on the horizon, he decided it was best to get the shopping out of the way while there was still some sunshine left above head.
As he picked through some vegetables, his three sons, Canté, Benjamin and Allegro all wandered off. They were still within Hayden's range of sight so he did not call for them to come back.
Taking advantage of this Benjamin scooted his way quickly to sweeter fair as he found the nut, fruit and candy vendors. Canté had followed him if only because he was not very pleased with being the one almost left behind with their father, and Allegro had also followed suit to make sure one one got into trouble, or worse.
"Don't touch things," Allegro said as Benjamin was about to stick is hand in the open berry bin, "We didn't pay for them so we're not allowed to eat them."
Benjamin made a face at Allegro and pulled his hand away, content with inspecting the contents with his eyes and not his hands. The boys were a lot calmer today than other days, mostly because it was so damn hot out they didn't really feel like causing a ruckus.
Allegro on the other hand was absolutely loving it. It was warm and nice and bright and the boy practically fed off the light, actually smiling more than he normally does at the bright sunny day. As he looked around the marketplace he noticed the barefoot little girl bending over every now and again to pull things up off the ground.
She was odd and it made Allegro smile a little, even if his inner mother-yearnings were telling him she was gonna get sick or something from the dirt all on the ground and the spores from the moss and weed. Looking over to Canté and Benjamin he nudged them both and pointed over to the girl. His brother's seemed rather disinterested.
"Why do you wanna go over there, Al?" Benjamin scoffed, holding his nose as he looked at Petunia, "She's a girl. Girls have cooties. And they smell like perfume."
"Cooties don't exist!" Canté said, grabbing his brother's hand from his face, "And if anyone has cooties, it's you."
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:54 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:01 pm
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Cante, Benjamin and Allegro were all startled as Peat had made her way over to them, looking as if she was angered and upset. She must have heard Benjamin say that she had cooties and was coming over to yell at them. Cante looked over to Benjamin with his brows furrowed and pointed a finger at him, "Look what you did! She heard you say she had cooties! And now she's gonna beat you up!"
Benjamin stuck his tongue out at Cante and went to shove him, "She is not gonna beat me up she's just a girl! Maybe she heard you."
As Cante and Benjamin began to bicker amongst themselves, Allegro watched as the green eyed girl approached them all angry-like. He felt like he knew her from somewhere, but knew that couldn't be. The only girl he knew was the little girl down the street, and her hair was black, and she was only like three years old, and this girl obviously looked their age. He scoured his brain for a moment to figure out who she is, only to be startled as some guy with bunny ears came swooping up behind her and picking her up off the ground.
"Uhm..." Allegro began, starring up at the were-bunny.
As Cante and Benjamin heard Slan's voice they almost instantly knew who it was and ceased their bickering. Benjamin got really excited to see the were-bunny once again and looked around for the monkey that had accompanied him previously but did not see him anywhere, causing a pout to appear on his face.
"Hello Mr.Slan!" Cante beamed, "What are you doing here and who is she?"
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:27 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:14 am
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Allegro looked at Petunia curiously, orange eyes meeting green ones. From here Allegro could smell the little blonde girl. She smelled musty, wet, and had various plants growing on her; it was an interesting look and made it obvious she was not like his brother's Cante and Benjamin.
Oddly enough he did feel some sort of connection to her. He was unable to articulate exactly what this connection was, but he knew it was there. Some feeling like they had met once before, which he knew was impossible as this was the first time he had seen her.
He extended a hand to the blonde little girl before him and gave her a smile, "My name's Allegro."
As Allegro made his introductions to her, Cante and Benjamin were too busy discussing with their favorite carnival folk about their new brother and how he came to be. Cante had decided to tell Slan all about how they found the bottle, and brought the bottle home and put it in the cupboard, when Benjamin decided his story needed to end because it was getting boring.
Interrupting Cante, Benjamin screamed out, "AND THAN THE BOTTLE GOT REALLY BRIGHT ONE DAY AND WE HEARD A SMASH AND THERE WAS ALLEGRO. And now he is our brother."
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:28 pm
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Petunia stared at the hand for a few moments before she finally took it, her sour expression melting immediately once her hand wrapped around Allegro's. "Hi! I'm Petunia!" Her face split in two from a big smile, exposing a rather deep gap between her front teeth. Her fingers gripped the boy's hand with more force than necessary, but she didn't know any better. "But everyone calls me, Peat! You know, like compost. A big mound of organic mulch that like decomposes and then you, you know, use it for fertilizer. That's what I'm named after..." Her dark face beamed with obvious pride. What could be better than being named after something so useful!
"Ohhh really, well what a co-inc! Peat here came from a bottle too! I woke up a few weeks ago and she was just... sittin' there, chirping at frogs from the window...." Slan's eyes grew distant as he trailed off, reliving the bizarre night that seemed more like a nightmare in his mind. "Hey, where's yer dad?"
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:10 pm
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Allegro shook her hand, a warm smile spreading across his face as she spoke to him. He liked her, she felt...safe. Yes, safe. There was nothing menacing about her that he could feel, and he wasn't feeling nervous or shy by her either.
"That's really interesting," Allegro said, which sounded so silly coming from a child, but it as to him. He wondered if she named herself, like he had done, or if her dad had named her for her. It couldn't hurt to ask, and as he was about to when he than realized how entirely strong the hand shake he was receiving from Petunia happened to be.
Allegro couldn't help but grimace under the strength of the girl's hand, but tried his best to seem polite when he said, "Peat, you're hurting me."
As Benjamin took the time away from Slan to laugh at the fact his brother's hand was literally being crushed in a hand shake with a girl, Cante had decided to take his place as spokesperson for the family and went to answer Slan's question, "Dad is buying food up that way!"
Cante pointed him out up the hill, which was much farther from Hayden than Hayden had originally wanted the boys to be. Engrossed in his shopping, Hayden hadn't notice the boys wander so far from him, and therefore had yet to notice the random-happen-stance taking place down the market trail.
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 8:13 am
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"Huh?" Her big green eyes looked down at their clasped hands. "Oh, ha! Sorry..." Petunia released her grip on the poor boy, suddenly fascinated by the muddy fingerprints she left on Allegro's hand. "I'm really strong for a girl, that's what Slan always says! I'm really good at catching frogs too, ya know. They are really fast, Slan can't catch them!" Her dark, dirty face split into a wide grin as she barked with laughter.
Her guardian simply ignored her usually loud ruckus she made whenever Peat opened her mouth. "Don't break your new friend, Peat..."
"I'm not!! Jeez..."
Hayden was easy to find once Benjamin, or maybe Cante, pointed in his general direction. "Hey! Hey, Hayden! HAYDEN!!" The arm flapping technique didn't seem to work either at getting his attention. "He needs to put you kids on a leash, you wander too far..."
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:36 am
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Allegro wasn't exactly pleased with the fact he now had mud covering his hand, but couldn't help but smile regardless. Peat's laughter was absolutely infectious, consequently he quickly found himself laughing right along-side her.
He couldn't deny that Peat was indeed strong for a girl. He hadn't met many girls up to this point, but she was the same age as himself as well as his brothers and he could tell from her hand-shake she was definitely stronger than them. They could probably take her combined, but individually she'd beat them down quickly.
"Frogs huh? I don't think I've seen a frog yet that wasn't drawn in a book," Allegro admitted.
"You don't put kids on leashes! You put puppies on leashes!" Cante said, laughing at Slan's words. The notion of putting children on leashes was absolutely ridiculous. What would putting children on leashes do? They weren't puppy dogs, it wouldn't keep them from peeing on people, because kids don't pee like puppies do, kids pee in the potty.
"Besides," Benjamin chided, plunking himself in between Cante and Slan with a mighty shove, "If we want to get Daddy's attention we blow our stranger-danger whistles."
Yes, Hayden had given them 'stranger danger' whistles. Loud, ear piercing annoyances that sometimes Benjamin liked to blow simply to see his father come running like a panicked rabbit.
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 2:45 am
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