Jae Dimitri
June 15, 2007 11:46 AM
The beaky statue! by Jae Dimitri
Jae hadn’t been around that much after Midterm. He hadn’t been feeling well, with an almost always upset stomach. Plus, he felt like Professor K. had been mean to him on purpose. Sure, it wasn’t her that had run the unicorn lesson where the boys hadn’t been able to touch the unicorns, but at least at his old school, the real teachers had left lesson plans. He had asked Professor K. in particular if they could do horses, and she had said wait, but then they’d done unicorns.But he was a boy, and so he couldn’t touch the unicorns.
Plus, he hadn’t seen Mika or Gwyn or Caedence around very much. So between his ex-favourite professor and his friends not being around, Jaeven Dimitri was a considerably less happy, hyperactive boy than he had been at the beginning of the year.
He missed Nina. Todd and Jenny were now both too big to be carried around in his bag. And Comec wasn’t nearly so much fun as it used to be, even though Professor K. was back.
Alone in the Labyrinth Gardens, he climbed the statue that he and Caedence had found during DADA, that he had fallen off of. Careful not to fall off again, Jae let his feet hang off of one shoulder, tapping an eclectic rhythm against the statue’s head. His blonde dreadlocks swayed with the motion of his head to the beat, and his green eyes were focused somewhere vaguely in the distance.
Things certainly had changed since the beginning of the year.
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The beaky statue!
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Talitha Cumni
June 20, 2007 10:37 PM
Grand Entrance by Talitha Cumni
Talitha loved Elly’s swing. She went to it every time she wanted to be alone, to think or daydream. She would sit in the swing and fly higher and higher, enjoying the wind blowing through her hair and the warm sun on her face. Today, Talitha had a lot to think about.First and best, the only child now had a new big sister. Elly was the best and even though they didn’t really hang together, she knew Elly would be there for her if she ever needed her. Second, she was turning twelve and all the signs were in place so she would definitely “walk” this summer. Talitha couldn’t wait for her party.
There were other thoughts too, ones that were not so good. Lutece seemed to want to be friends with her. That in itself wasn’t a bad thing, it would be nice to enjoy time in her room with her roommates, but Lutece was so… Lutece.
Most troubling of all, Talitha was worried about Hyana. She seemed happier lately, more relaxed, but there was still something very wrong about how she acted whenever she mentioned her mom. It was like she was scared or something.. She acted even worse about Bryon. Talitha shuddered, remembering those cold eyes in the locket. If she were home, she would talk to her mother without hesitation. Talitha really felt like she needed to speak to a grownup about her worries but it kinda felt like tattling when she considered going to a teacher. Well, she would have to think about it more.
Talitha allowed the swing to slow on its own until the arch height allowed her to jump off. Her stomach and the angle of the sun told her that she was late for supper. Talitha too off down the garden path at a fast jog. It was fun to un in the garden with the high hedge wall and the twists and turns. She’d just rounded a corner when two things happened at the same time.
Out of the corner of her eye she spotted Jae, sitting on the shoulders of a statue, drumming on its head. She raised her hand to wave a greeting, when her flip flop toe piece tore away from the sole. Talitha went down hard on her hands and knees. The palms of her hands and knees were skinned. The worst injury was to her right knee. Sitting on the ground in front of the statue, she inspected the damage.
Drawing a hissing breath, she looked at the blood that welled up from the deep scrape. It stung like fire. Talitha blew on it to ease the burning, but that only made it hurt worse. She bit her lower lip hard and scrunched her eyes to stop the tears that wanted to flow. She didn’t want to look like a baby in front of Jae. Swiftly, she grabbed the offending ruined flip flop and threw it into the nearby bushes. Stupid thing. The blood began to trickle down her shin. She sure was going to make a dramatic entrance when she got back to the school. Barefoot, dirty and bleeding all over the place. Talitha muttered a word that her parents forbade her to use and quickly looked up at Jae to see if he overheard.\n
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Grand Entrance
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Jae
June 30, 2007 8:49 PM
Ja, I'd say so by Jae
Jae heard an odd sound, like something falling, as he looked down. And then, sure enough, it was someone falling. Someone he knew, he thought. But either way, it wasn’t very nice to just sit on top of a huge statue when people were over there being hurt. So with a seemingly careless jump into the open space that surrounded the large, beaked statue, Jaeven landed on the ground on the back side of the statue. He didn’t hurt anything when he landed, as this was a much more practiced and regular fall than that during DADA.After he had landed, though, Jae quickly walked around to the other side just in time to see Talitha get mad at her flip-flop and throw it into the bushes. He approached Talitha from the side, about to give her a very big (and very careful) hug to make her feel better. At that point, though, Jae thought he heard the girl say something that he never thought he would hear a girl say. Unless it was someone really mean, like Lutece, who was in his grade and didn’t like anyone. Or an older boy trying to show off.
The first year gave Talitha a wide, green-eyed stare, fair eyebrows raising as his eyes seemed to grow larger. But after a moment, Jae decided that he had misheard. Talitha was too nice to say anything like that just because she scraped her knee. So he gave her a very big hug anyway, very careful of where she had been scraped.
“Do you want to go the medic?” he asked. “I know where it is now! Caedence and Professor O’Leary took me when I hurt myself in Dayda. Or—“ and now he scrabbled around in his pocket until he came up with something. “I have a band-aid. I don’t think it’s big enough, though.” the blonde boy frowned, looking between the band-aid and Talitha’s scrapes.
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Ja, I'd say so
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Talitha
July 05, 2007 2:23 PM
Just call me Grace by Talitha
Talitha had to grin at her “hero”. Jae’s hugs were almost worth getting hurt. Maybe, if he could settle down long enough to study, he would be a healer when he grew up. He already had the touch and the heart. The band aide he offered was way to small for her knee. Talitha looked at her hands. They were just scraped raw, no blood. Gingerly, she brushed them off.“I’m okay, Jae, really I am.” Talitha reassured him. Her grin widened when she heard him say DADA as a word instead of letters. Little things like that made Jae, well, Jae. But there was no way she was going to Medic Wolfe. She never met him, but rumor had it that he was grouchy and Talitha was in no mood for some lecture about running in unsafe shoes. She just wished she had something to stop her knee from bleeding down her leg so she could get to her room without freaking anybody out.
“I don’t need the medic. I only have to go to my House so I can get cleaned up.” She pulled off the other flip flop. It would be easier to walk with both feet bare rather than one shoe off and one shoe on. Biting her lip, she thought a moment. Jae would feel bad if he didn‘t feel as though he were helping somehow. “I’d like it if you’d walk with me up to the school though.”
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Just call me Grace
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Jae
July 12, 2007 9:07 PM
But I thought your name was Talitha! by Jae
Talitha said she was all right, but she didn't look it. Plus, he knew how much it stunk to fall down and scrape your knees. He'd spent all last summer in band-aids from falling off his bike because he was trying to go too fast. Aunt Cheri and Aunt Marla had thought it was a wonder that he didn't end up in the hospital again, the way he'd been going. But there had been no stiches needed any of the time's he'd fallen, and there was nothing left of the multiple scrapes nearly a year later, so Jae figured it was fine. But even though they didn't scar, scrapes still hurt. And probably they hurt twice as much as usual when you broke your shoe getting them, because your toes probably got stubbed while you were breaking your shoe."Okay!" he chirped when she said that he could help her up to the school. Digging around in his pockets, the perky Pecari came up with a few crumpled--though disused--tissues. From when he'd had a cold, Jae thought. Maybe. Or he might've just shoved them in his pocket this morning. Either way, his friend might be able to use them to to help stop the bleeding. Or make a bandage herself. He offered them to her with his left hand, his right twirling a dreadlock around one finger.
"You should get Crocs," Jae informed Talitha. "They're like flip-flops, but they're also like clogs. They were invented right by where I live, too! Whole Foods sells them for only twenty dollars. I have some orange ones. And the best part is, they don't break. Nina has some too, only they're light blue. Are you positive you don't need the medic? A lot of people say he's real grumpy, but he's not as bad as my old principal."
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But I thought your name was Talitha!
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Talitha
July 14, 2007 11:47 AM
*shrugs* whatever by Talitha
Talitha bit her cheeks hard to keep from laughing. Jae always meant well. He was right about the flip flops and Talitha knew Crocs were. But because it came from Jae, this strange mental image of him wearing a pair of shoes that looked like neon colored alligators flitted though her imagination.She accepted the crumpled tissues dubiously. Who knew how old they were or where they’d been. But like the advice about the Crocs, Talitha wasn’t about to hurt the sweetest kid in the school. She scrubbed her at shin and calf, where the blood had run and the area around the scrape itself. She avoided using the rapidly shredding tissues on the actual scrape itself which had practically stopped bleeding anyway.
“Thanks,” Talitha said but shook her head at the suggestion she go to the medic anyway. “He wouldn’t do much more than I can do myself. You know, clean the area and cover it. You don’t really need a healing potion for that.”
She held both her hands out so Jae grab hold and give her a pull to her feet. “So what were you doing, drumming on the statue’s poor head anyway, trying to get it to wake up?”
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*shrugs* whatever
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Jae
July 24, 2007 10:36 PM
Are you a grumpy fishie? by Jae
Jae took Talitha's hands and pulled her up. "Nuh-uh," he shook his head vigorously, blonde dreadlocks whipping back and forth. His green eyes looked at her very seriously. "It does wake up, though. Caedence made it. The beak snapped open and closed and there was candy inside." That was when he had met the medic. The Coloradan had fallen off the statue and hurt his shoulder because he had lost his balance. With a little bit of practise, though, it was easy not to fall off. Jaeven spent a good deal of his life climbing up on things, anyway, and had only been to the emergency room twice. And neither one of those times had been a falling accident.His aunts tended to marvel at his luck.
"Aunt Cheri always puts NeoSporin on me when I fall and scrape myself," he said. "Do you have NeoSporin? It stings a little bit, but it's not too too bad." he skipped along beside his friend. Jae hummed a little bit. "Aunt Marla always says that she's being silly and to stop it, but I'm pretty sure she's just teasing." Jae tilted his head to the side and stopped dead to watch a gnome scurry out of sight. He liked gnomes. Caedence had wanted to throw them and be mean to them, but he thought they were cute. Kind of like the bald kitties that they sold at pet shops. Of course, his family was very disapproving of pet shops. Aunt Cheri had explained that they got their animals from mills, and they had watched an Animal Planet special about mills. There had been a protest against one of the pet stores in Denver a few months later, but his aunts hadn't let him go.
It had been rather like the time he had been watching TV when he was little and had found out that the dodo bird was extinct. He had run, crying, to Aunt Cheri and informed her that they had to save the dodo bird. A few years later, the story was kind of funny...but Jaeven still wanted to save the dodo bird.
Maybe he could, once he was a grown-up wizard.
And then he could be a Comec teacher.
And then everything would be good, and everyone would say how madcoolawesome it was to save a dodo bird, and then the unicorns would let him pet them because he had saved the dodo bird, after all, and so he was trustworthy.
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Are you a grumpy fishie?
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Talitha
July 29, 2007 11:35 AM
Just having trouble coming up with clever titles by Talitha
Talitha shrugged. She had never heard of Neosporin. She assumed it was some sort of muggle medicine. Her mother almost never used muggle medicines. She either used healing spells or herbal remedies when she treated her patients. She did glance around to see if she could spot some aloe vera growing in the gardens around them. The succulent would be just the thing she needed to sooth her sore knee.Jae used the names, “Aunt Cheri” and “Aunt Marla”, when ever he spoke of his home life, never mentioning a mom and dad. While Talitha was curious about it, it was really Jae’s business. Prying into someone’s personal life was frowned upon in her culture and she learned long ago not to ask intrusive questions unless there was a great need.
The statue was another matter entirely. To her chagrin, she’d skipped that particular class and didn’t know how it went. It would have been fun to see such an outgoing person like Jae team up with Caedence. “So, did you get the candy out of the beak before your accident?” she asked.
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Just having trouble coming up with clever titles
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Jae
August 03, 2007 9:14 PM
Ahh! The title-eating monster! by Jae
"Yeah!" Jae nodded enthusiastically. "It was really cool candy too; not like stuff I usually have at home. Well," he amended, "I don't usually have stuff with sugar at home. Only sometimes, like when I go to the pool. Aunt Cheri and Aunt Marla are very natural, and they say sugar is bad for people. 'Specially me. So we don't buy it hardly ever."The dreadlocked boy was feeling a lot better than he had been in awhile. His stomach did still feel a little bit queasy, but not so much anymore. It was probably just that he was a little bit lonely at school, and he missed his family, Jae decided. Going to a boarding school was a lot different than going to regular school. It was really cool in some ways, like where he got to sleep in a dorm room and stuff, but not so cool in others. Like when he felt sick he had to go see the medic instead of one of his aunts, or how he couldn't watch TV or see animals a lot like he was used to. Plus, Nina was curious about how boarding school went. He couldn't wait to tell her everything as soon as he got home! He hadn't seen her on Christmas break because she had gone to visit her family somewhere. But she would be around for a lot of the summer, he was sure.
"What are you going to do on the summer, Talitha?" he asked. "I'm gonna go to the pool and hang out with my best friend from home, and ride horses, and maybe work at the Humane Society again with Aunt Cheri. And we maybe-maybe-maybe might go see friends in Massachusetts! So I might get to ride on an airplane for the first time ever!" Jaeven was rather excited about that.
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Ahh! The title-eating monster!
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Talitha
August 05, 2007 9:34 PM
AHHHH!!!!!!! Title Monsters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Talitha
"Yeah! It was really cool candy too; not like stuff I usually have at home. Well, I don't usually have stuff with sugar at home. Only sometimes, like when I go to the pool. Aunt Cheri and Aunt Marla are very natural, and they say sugar is bad for people. 'Specially me. So we don't buy it hardly ever."Talitha had to laugh. Jae on sugar could be a very bad thing. Without the stuff he could wear most people out on a good day, on a sugar rush, he just might be dangerous. Who cared? On sugar, off sugar, Jae just made a person feel good to be around.
"What are you going to do on the summer, Talitha? I'm gonna go to the pool and hang out with my best friend from home, and ride horses, and maybe work at the Humane Society again with Aunt Cheri. And we maybe-maybe-maybe might go see friends in Massachusetts! So I might get to ride on an airplane for the first time ever!"
Talitha wondered who one person could say so much without seeming to take a single breath. Focusing on Jae for the moment, she chose to postpone talking to a boy about her very private, yet very public rite of adulthood.
“Really?” She exclaimed. “I’ve never been on a muggle plane before. It would be so awesome to fly that high!” Granted she never flown by broom before on her own either, but she wasn’t about to admit that was one fear she just couldn’t conquer.
“Who is your best friend? Does he go to school here?” Talitha wondered who would be privileged enough to be Jae’s best friend. It seemed that whoever he was around at the moment was his best friend the way he treated everybody.
“Do you have a horse? Daddy won’t let me have one of my own yet, cause I don’t know if I can commit to it for a lifetime. They live 30-40 years and Daddy says it would be fair to the horse if I can’t be sure I can care for it its whole life. I ride one of the community horses when I’m home, though. it’s a Arabian gelding. Sorrel. His name is Rusty. I love him. What’s your horse’s name?”
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AHHHH!!!!!!! Title Monsters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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