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Post by Holly on Sept 10, 2016 17:36:57 GMT -5
Here!!!
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 10, 2016 17:38:55 GMT -5
Hello Holly! How are you?)
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Post by Holly on Sept 10, 2016 18:01:16 GMT -5
(Hello! I'm pretty good, thanks! How're you, Spark?)
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 10, 2016 18:05:46 GMT -5
I'm doing good as well.)
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 10, 2016 19:35:37 GMT -5
(hey guys!)
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Post by Holly on Sept 10, 2016 19:39:21 GMT -5
(Hey, Sky! What's up? ) (...Oh! I didn't reply to your last post, did I?)
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 10, 2016 19:41:44 GMT -5
(Nope ^^ But that's okay! I'm just procrastinating. Whats up with you?)
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Post by Holly on Sept 10, 2016 19:48:38 GMT -5
(I'm watching The Big Bang Theory while my family and their friends watch the local football game. Ha ha.)
Crystal smiled softly and nodded. It was lovely outside, almost a shame they couldn't have their tea out in the breeze and sunshine.
"It is pretty. We'll have to go out and enjoy it later. Is Angeles always this sunny?" Hazel asked. She almost wrinkled her nose at the mere fact that she was talking about the weather, but it was the topic the queen had started, and she couldn't find a way to change the subject yet. Besides, even if she could, she wasn't sure what to change the subject to. The queen was intimidating in her own way...perhaps even more so than Alex.
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 10, 2016 19:54:02 GMT -5
Sorry for the poof. Heya Sky)
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 10, 2016 20:09:15 GMT -5
(Actually same but with Friends, Holly x3 Go utes!)
"It is." The Queen smiled. "A perk to living here, that's for sure." She glanced around, and took a sip of her tea, looking at the three girls. "Tell me about yourselves." She invited, crossing her legs.
Quinn glanced around. "Well, I'm from a farm, and the only girl in a family of boys." She said with a smile. "I love cosmetics, mostly doing it on other people and my brothers often become victim to this."
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Post by snow on Sept 10, 2016 20:29:56 GMT -5
Hey guys! I'm on woohoo! Life is so busy lol. I'm doing apush notes rn so I can RP Alex if someone wants to though I'll probably only check every 15 minutes)
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Post by Holly on Sept 10, 2016 20:30:47 GMT -5
Hazel chuckled. "A few things suddenly make more sense," she told Quinn with a happy grin. "Will you do my makeup sometime?" she asked, tilting her head to the side and fluttering her eyelashes. "Make me pretty?" She shook her head and sat up straight again, suddenly very conscious of her posture. "Well, I'm the older of two girls, your Majesty, and I think I'm funny even when that's not entirely the case..." she said. "This is my apology in advance, I suppose." Oh dear, she really was making an idiot of herself. "I'm a painter. Which means it's going to be a challenge to keep all the pretty clothes clean of paint and oils," she joked lightly. She finally stopped talking and nudged Crystal with her elbow, desperate to be out of the spotlight.
Unfortunately for her, Crystal was almost always desperate to stay out of the spotlight, so she may have chosen the wrong person to pass the torch too. However, Crystal judged by the blush rising on Hazel's cheeks that she was embarrassed, so she took a breath and opened her mouth. "I have brothers too," she said. "And no sisters. And...I like to play the piano. And..." She made a listless motion with her hand, trying to think of something else to say. "And I'm very pleased to meet you, Your Majesty. My parents told me a lot about your Selection before I got here...well, my mother did."
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 11, 2016 11:24:39 GMT -5
(Hey Astrid! Evyerone seems like they got on different times x3)
Quinn giggled at Hazel's joke, then quickly silenced herself, but a smile couldn't help but creep over her face. She turned to Katherine, eager to hear what the Queen had to say.
Katherine laughed at Quinn's mention of doing makeup on her brothers. "Well, if you ever want to practice, there's always Alex and Andrew." She teased, before turning to Hazel. with a smile. "A painter? Well! You'll need to show me some of your paintings, then, alright?" The queen's hands smoothed out her dress; a regal cream with bronze, almost gold, trimmings. "I love art; Never very good at it, but I can always appreciate a good work." She then looked to Crystal, realizing this girl was probably the shiest, so she smiled kindly as she talked. "Piano, huh? You should play for us some time, we have beautiful instruments here." The Queen chuckled as Crystal mentioned her Selection. "My, that was a long time ago... And quite an adventure, mind you."
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 11, 2016 12:29:16 GMT -5
(Oh that's scary. Sorry you guys lost though!)
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 11, 2016 12:30:18 GMT -5
Good morning~ Or afternoon XD)
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 11, 2016 12:46:23 GMT -5
(Good morning/afternoon!)
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 11, 2016 12:48:45 GMT -5
lol How're you guys on this fine day?? Take the chance to sleep in?)
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 11, 2016 12:53:56 GMT -5
(Yes definitely! But now i'm stuck doing all the homework I left fro today x3 How about you?)
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 11, 2016 12:57:38 GMT -5
Haha I'm in the same boat. I spent my entire day yesterday doing other things, and I'm still leaving off the hw.)
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Post by Holly on Sept 11, 2016 13:14:40 GMT -5
Hazel'a cheeks reddened a shade with pride, and she sat up straighter. "It would be my honor, Your Majesty."
Crystal shook her head. "Oh, no. I mean! I'm sure ou do have lovely instruments, but I-- I could never perform for such an important audience..." She moved on to the wueen's "adventure," smiling hesitantly. An adventure, Your Majesty?"
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 11, 2016 14:16:06 GMT -5
"I'm sure you would be lovely, Lady Crystal." Katherine said with a smile before sitting back, thinking on her own Selection. "Yes, quite the adventure. I was a Three, you know, so my life wasn't too difficult but it was hardly the luxurious life of the Twos. There happened to be quite a few Twos drawn that year, six to be exact; That's half of the Selected!" She shook her head slightly. "It... might not have been such a random mistake." Katherine quickly moved on, realizing that she probably shouldn't be discussing that aspect of things with these girls. "However, they all clumped together, like this little cohort, and blocked the rest of us out. So, naturally, we had a prank war; It started off as petty, but by the end we were all laughing."
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Post by Holly on Sept 11, 2016 15:24:16 GMT -5
Hazel frowned slightly for a moment. It might not have been a random mistake? The Selected during the Queen's generation had all been purposefully chosen instead of randomly picked? Had the Selections always worked that way? That was so completely unfair! How and why had Hazel herself ended up here then? She clenched her teeth when the answer came to her. As a throw-away. As a pawn to appease the people until I can be discarded. She curled her fingers together tightly and pressed her lips together.
Crystal didn't notice Hazel's uncharacteristic and icy silence at first. "What kind of pranks?" she asked curiously.
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 11, 2016 20:20:14 GMT -5
(Me tooooo)
"Well," Katherine smiled. "We put, uh, plastic wrap over the toilet seat, so she couldn't see it in the morning and... well... you can guess what happened." The queen couldn't help but laugh at the memory.
Quinn smiled as she listened, noticing Hazel's silence right away and feeling a bit unsettled. She reached over and inconspicuously patted her hand, hoping that everything was alright.
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Post by Holly on Sept 12, 2016 10:27:28 GMT -5
Crystal's blue eyes widened in horror at the story. "That's terrible!" she squeaked. And messy, and embarrassing... That poor girl! But in the next moment, she was laughing despite herself. To think, her very own queen pulled pranks resulting in, ah, toilet troubles. How very classy.
Hazel did her best to smile at Quinn, then steeled resell to rejoin the conversation in her best impression of a perfectly civilized Three, the kind of person she was supposed to be now. There was nothing else she could do. I hate being backed into corners, she thought darkly, glaring at the curtain that just happened to be directly in her line of sight. She couldn't make a scene about the fact that her being there was rigged, that she was only here as a peace offering to be thrown out later once the country had been lulled into a false sense of security in their Prince's concern for people of low castes and when they were too focused on the staged romance of it all to notice anything else. She'd only be aiding their argument that Fours and Fives and the rest were somehow less if she were dramatic and ungrateful and ugly about it. All she could do was try to fit in, and then get kicked out to the tune of "You tried, but you just don't quite fit in here. A for effort, though." Stop. Smile. You're still here, no matter the reason. If you blow your chance to meet and give a good impression to the queen, Mom will kill you. That thought made her smile for real, and she finally relaxed again.
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Post by ѕкуѕнα∂σω952 on Sept 12, 2016 16:07:27 GMT -5
Kathrine laughed lightly. "I know, I know. Now, you girls don't get any ideas!" She shook her finger playfully with the hand that was free, as her tea was in the other. "Thank you for spending this time with me, Ladies. I do hope to see you all again; if you don't mind, I should probably speak to every girl if I get the chance." The Queen smiled.
Quinn immediately stood and curtsied, a grin beginning to spread across her face. That wasn't bad at all. "Thank you, Your Majesty. I hope we get the chance to speak again."
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Post by Holly on Sept 12, 2016 17:18:28 GMT -5
"Oh, we wouldn't dream of it," Hazel said in a tone that was not at all promising. She may very well be dreaming of it right now. What a prank. Just imagine the consequences. Oh, but then the queen would know who the culprit was, or at least have it narrowed down to three. Drat. So close. She and Crystal both stood and curtsied as well. Crystal grabbed Quinn's and Hazel's hands as they walked away. "That wasn't hard at all!" she whispered excitedly.
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Post by 🎃𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛🦇 on Sept 12, 2016 19:02:53 GMT -5
On for a little while. RIP Red! I would die tbh. It's like conditioning for volleyball early in the season, it's the worst.)
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