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Post by Scarlett Booth on Feb 1, 2008 16:18:08 GMT -5
((She wouldn't tell anybody. But she doesn't have to see it if you don't want her to.))
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 16:21:52 GMT -5
((I'd prefer if she didn't see it. Just to be safe and super-sekrit.))
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:02:21 GMT -5
*Liam wandered out there after his piano and violin lessons--despite the fact that it was summer and his mother had dismissed his normal tutors, she insisted he continue his music education. He looked around but the ladder was gone.*
*He looked up.*
"Sorcha?" *He called.* "Are you up there?"
((Sorry Kate. But no.))
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 18:04:27 GMT -5
*The only reply was a light sob, then silence. Then a voice thick with tears mumbled:*
"Go away!"
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:05:31 GMT -5
*He frowned, concerned. Her voice didn't sound good.*
"Are you okay?"
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 18:08:47 GMT -5
"NO!" *she bellowed, collapsing back into sobs.*
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:14:06 GMT -5
*He wasn't going to go away, of course. He remembered the other way in, the way that involved climbing the actual tree. He nearly fell but was eventually able to tumble in through a window. He looked at her for a moment, not sure what he was supposed to do now that he was actually in. He just didn't like to see her cry.*
"What's wrong?" *He eventually asked, quietly.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 18:15:59 GMT -5
*Sorcha kept her face hidden in her arms folded on her drawn-up knees.*
"M-my--my...p-PARENTS!" *she sobbed.*
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:17:45 GMT -5
*He was sitting facing her, cross-legged. He laid one hand on her forearm.*
"What about them?"
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 18:26:21 GMT -5
"M-me Da...he doesnae...doesnae...l-love me Mam...or m-me..." *she barely managed to say it before she choked on her tears once more, her little shoulders shaking with her sobs.*
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:29:07 GMT -5
*That made him confused. He was her dad. Of course he loved her and her mum. Dads just did that.*
*He scooted closer to her and wrapped one arm tentatively around her shoulders.* "I'm sure that's not true, Sorcha."
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 18:31:11 GMT -5
"I KNOW it's true!" *she cried, turning her wet face into his shoulder, leaning against him. He was warm, and she felt so cold inside.* "He loved a girl. He told her--he SAID he regretted everything! That he had to marry my Mam because of me! It's all because of me!"
*She closed her eyes and sniffled.*
"I wish I'd never been born and so do they!"
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:34:47 GMT -5
*He wasn't quite sure how to react to that. His parents were still madly in love, even after eleven years of marriage, and he'd never heard anything that would sugest he wasn't the most wanted, appreciated child ever. Because the Rebecca shit had gone down when he was a baby. He unconsciously stoked her head with his other hand.*
"We'll I'm glad you were born." *He assured her.*
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Post by Sorcha on Feb 1, 2008 18:37:29 GMT -5
*Her sobbing slowly ceased, and she shivered as she tried to stop crying hysterically, relaxing as Liam held his arm around her.*
"Oh, Liam...I just don't know anything for certain, anymore," *she said wearily, her large gray-green eyes dark with sad confusion.*
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Post by Liam on Feb 1, 2008 18:42:12 GMT -5
*He gently held her.*
"I'm sure they want you and love you, Sorcha." *He said, with the conviction he did pretty much everything with. It probably came of his upbringing as the heir of Manderley and, of course, his parents' son.*
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