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[Raine Ashera]

Raine was in an uncharacteristically unhappy mood. Usually the bouncy young woman could make herself be happy no matter what. She was skilled and putting a smile on her face and bouncing around like nobody’s business to the music in her ears or the melody in her head. She had no problems finding the happiness in just about anything and totally emmersing herself in it without looking back or getting turned down or upset. She was able to make herself happy, it was a skill she treasured.

She had learned to do it after the issue with her mother and sister. She shook her head. Issue? Had she really just thought of what had happened as an issue? Had she really pushed them that far out of her thoughts? She couldn’t believe she had done that. She shook her head and kept walking. It hadn’t been an issue, it had been a tragedy. A true tragedy that had left a mark on Raine that would never go away.

And it wasn’t a mark like most people probably thought of a mark. It hadn’t turned her sad and sullen, it hadn’t made her retreat inside herself. Not in the way that most people probably thought she should have retreated anyway. In an effort to honor her sister that would never get a chance to live, she had decided instead to become more like her sister. Selene had been the loud and wild one, not Raine, and so that was what Raine had become. She refused to let herself get all down in the dumps, she was living for her sister and her mother now.

Their lives had been ripped from them so soon. It wasn’t right. So Raine had found a way to make it be right in the best way that she could possibly think of. She had done her best to make it right by living for them.

As such, Raine rarely, if ever, frowned. She tried to see the light side in everything. That was why it was so odd that she was feeling so out of sorts today, she was letting her sadness catch up with her. She never let the sadness catch up with her. That was why she had a tattoo on her back that read that she should laugh now and cry later, it was perfect for her. But of course it was, it was done by Easton, and he had an affinity for these things.

She sighed, thinking about Easton. Maybe that was why she was so out of sorts right now. She missed him terribly. She hadn’t seen him in so long, it was enough to make the bubbly girl frown and sigh. She wondered where he was, what he was up to. She missed him, she wasn’t sure what to do with herself without him. Not like she was one of those girls that fawned over her man and was a horrible wreck without said boyfriend, she rarely ever had a boyfriend after all, so there wasn’t much for her to fawn over and miss, she wasn’t used to having one.

Perhaps it was because her best friend and roommate was such a mess. Seph was always curled up in her bed with a carton full of ice cream and every time Raine turned around she was crying, it worried Raine something terrible. Seph was supposed to be the strong one, she was the solid one that never seemed to falter, and here she was sobbing and a mess. Raine was never sure what to do with her. Sometimes the two of them ended up in bed, with Raine curled around Seph so that way the other woman could get some sleep. It upset Raine to no end to see Seph like that, either way.

And Raine had thought that Seth was so good for Seph, he was making her open up and trust people again, he was making her laugh. It all seemed so perfect! And then he had to go and ruin it. She would possibly think about setting that right later, because she still thought he was perfect for her, she just had to fix up his stupid screw up. She figured that she would talk to him and make him go and fix this, but she had been so busy with Seph lately, she hadn’t been paying much attention to anyone else.

She had left her room a little while ago to head to dance, but she hadn’t actually made it to her dance class, which was also odd for Raine who practically lived for her dance classes. Instead she had picked up a red rose for herself, not sure who she was even going to give it to but the man selling them had seemed so nice that she hadn’t been able to resist, and it wasn’t like she didn’t have cash to burn, thanks to her Daddy. She still had to tell Seph about her daddy, didn’t she? Heck she still had to tell her about her sister and mother.

But Daddy was important. Daddy was the one who was currently dying and wanted Raine home soon. Raine frowned about that. She didn’t want to go home, but he said if she didn’t he would take back all of her mother’s things and disown her. Raine shrugged her mother’s leather jacket around herself closer and frowned, her storm colored eyes close to tears. She didn’t want to lose this, she didn’t!

So that was how Raine, somehow, ended up sitting alone on a swing in the middle of a park, staring down at a rose that she held in between her hands, slowly twirling it back and forth with tears brimming in her eyes. There were too many things wrong today, how was she supposed to be herself? She worried about everyone who seemed so upset, she worried about what she was going to do with herself…it was too much.

”Happy Birthday to me” she whispered softly towards the rose, and then sighed.

Words: 1039
Muse: No idea where it came from, but suddenly Raine was up and demanding!
Comments: Same as Muse
Outfit: Please?

[Marluxia]

As always, Marluxia was in a pretty good mood. That was not anything out of the ordinary though. He was almost always in a good mood. What was there to frown about? Besides why frown when he could just smile? In his opinion, his smile was way better than his frown. He had done way too much frowning as of late and it was his new decision to just not do it anymore. No matter what was in his way.

He left the House of Night, that evening to a greeting of brisk air, but it was completely welcome to him. He felt all stuffed up inside there and he just really wanted out. He had slept with basically everyone there was to sleep with there and he didn't feel like revisiting any of them. So here he was leaving, and getting ready to roam the city. It wasn't like anyone was going to stop him, no one ever did, he frequently left the grounds to go play piano because he didn't feel like he could do it here. There was a stifling cloud of melancholy hanging over the House Of Night and Marluxia wanted no part of it. Even if he was basically around it.

He was pretty sure that whatever was going on with Cris and her friends was part of it. Almost each and every one of them were upset in some kind of way and it was pretty hard to escape it. Not that he didn't wanna be there for Cris because he did, he always wanted to be there for her. It was just...She was so off, but not at the same time. He had been more worried before, when she had been not speaking and just crying and not moving and being so unlike Cris. Now, she just was out all the time and he never really saw her. She was out with dudes, not that he was opposed to her picking up his kind of life style again, it was more that he wasn't sure that was what she wanted. Her eyes, that should have been playful and still icy just seemed kind of dead on the inside...hollow.

He shook his head as he continued his lone walk out into the night. There was no time to worry about what was going on with Cris right now, he would figure it out later. He needed to work on himself, keeping himself in his happy mood and not going crazy with trying to figure out all the problems of the world, figuring out all the problems weren't really his style.

He ran his hand through his long dark hair, and kept walking down the street. The street lamps were lit dimly and casting small shadows down the street as if lighting the walk way for him to go down. He wasn't exactly sure where he was going, he was just walking. He thought of going to the performing center so that he could play some piano, but he knew that if he did he would never actually be able to leave there that night and he did not want to get stranded out there in the day time.

He sighed and just continued walking. No he wouldn't sigh, he would not lose his happy mood. He refused to lose his happy mood. He straightened his white button down shirt that was partially open at the top as usual and listened to the heels of his dress shoes click down the sidewalk. He was bored now, even more bored than he had been when he had just been sitting in his room contemplating what to do.

He sighed again, hating himself for it because it was the last thing that he wanted to do. He made a split decision as he was about to turn a corner, he began to just walk straight and see where the road was going to take him. He wasn't sure where it would go, but he didn't care either, he was too bored to worry about where he was going as long as he got there and he had a good time when he did.


He looked up his blue eyes shining in the darkness of the night, and noticed a park, he had to smile a little. It had been too long since he had been around a park like this. It was so simple, something so simple that it was actually bringing a big smile back to his face making his white teeth shine in the night along with his eyes. He walked through over to the park and opened the gate to go in before closing it quickly behind him. He surveyed it and found something that he had not expected to find out here.

A woman, not only just a woman, a woman that he knew and had slept with many a time now. He grinned a little bit, Raine. What the hell was she doing here? Had she felt the cloud pressing down on her as well? Was she ready to just maybe let go and have some fun? He grinned with the possibilities. Well, last he had checked she had been pretty attached to a boyfriend, but she was alone here so she couldn't be that attached to him now could she?

She was looking down at a rose and sitting on a swing which he thought was interesting. She almost looked completely sad. He strolled over and plopped down on the swing next to her, swinging it just a little bit.

"Long time no see Stranger, What is a lovely creature such as yourself doing here all by your lonesome?he said with a big grin. If she was said, then hopefully he could remedy that. Maybe they could take the sadness out of each other. Either way he was glad to have company, walking around in the night had been boring and something told him that if he had walked anymore alone, the cloud of melancholy would have followed him.

Words: 1026
Muse: gooooood
Note: He's shiny and distracting lol

[Raine Ashera]

Raine was having a bad day. That would be an understatement of course, that she was having a bad day, but she tended to understate the less happy emotions. She was usually very good at hiding when she was upset, and she usually covered it up with a grin and a laugh. That was her motto, wasn’t it? It was tattooed on her back after all. She would laugh now, and cry later where no one could see. She didn’t want ot bring other people down, so she would hide her sadness. People came to her to be cheered up.

She shook her head, thinking of the tattoo that was on her back. Her boyfriend had given that to her when they had first met. Her boyfriend who she now never saw because he had disappeared. She was worried about him, honestly, but at the same time she was feeling a little bit…upset. Raine was bad at being a girlfriend because she was such a flighty thing, but she loved him so she had pulled it all together and decided to commit. But now she was wondering about the sanity of that.

She didn’t see him for a little while and this was how bad she got about wanting to flirt and play with other boys? She was such a spaz, she didn’t deserve him. But where was he anyway? She sighed a bit. No one that she spoke to seemed to know. It was enough to make her feel…very alone. She was trying not to! But it was hard not to when she didn’t even have her best friend to talk to about all of this. She knew she could, honestly, and Seph would listen to her about it and try. But she didn’t want to put more weight on her friend’s shoulders. Seph didn’t deserve that on top of her own problems. Raine could figure herself out.

She had gone to go and get to dance class, but somehow that had never happened. Which was odd for Raine who never missed dance no matter how hard things got. She had promised herself that she would keep dancing, for the sake of her sister and her mother whose lives were cut far too short. She would keep living for them, she had promised herself that she would. But…she just plain couldn’t do it, not today. Today her heart just plain wasn’t in it, odd as that was for her.

Instead, she found herself at a park, which she hadn’t been expecting. She had a rose in her hands, one that she had bought for herself, and now she was sitting on a swing. Not actually swinging, just sort of rocking back and forth. She felt so weird to be feeling sorry for herself, because she never did that. Never. If she could help it, she was always laughing. Feeling sorry for herself just didn’t really fit her, how she saw herself. She just…wasn’t feeling like herself she guessed.

Which really was sad, seeing as it was her birthday. Her birthday of all things and she was feeling this upset. No one deserved this on their birthday, did they? She didn’t think she did. She shook her head and looked down at the rose, twirling it in between her fingers. Her father wasn’t going to talk to her until she made her decision, so she knew better than to expect a call from him today. And Seph was worrying and upset so Raine wasn’t going to bother her. And she wasn’t sure where her boyfriend was. So she really didn’t want to dwell on the fact that it was her birthday when she felt alone.

She shook her head and focused on the rose, twirling around her fingers as she looked down at the red petals, debating plucking them off, but that would make the poor rose lose it’s beauty and she wasn’t going to go and do that to the flower. Just because she was upset didn’t mean that the flower should look upset too. She was going to be better than that I she could help it. She wanted herself to feel better too. She really, really did.

She missed feeling happy and perky. She liked being her laughing self but she just plain couldn’t find it in herself, not tonight. She was trying hard to, but it was hard when she was all alone out here, all by herself. She had never been by herself before.

She looked up when someone approached and felt her lips pull up into a smile. It was an automatic reaction even if she wasn’t feeling it, but she knew that her storm colored eyes were probably not smiling along with her. Marluxia. She enjoyed his company, or she had in the past at least. She had had a lot of fun with him, the sort of sexual fun that is. Not that she had had that from him in a good long while. Like she mentioned before, she was dating someone and she was trying to stay faithful to him. Trying being the key word being that she was still a little bit flighty, she couldn’t help but be so though. It just happened.

He sat down next to her and she watched him swing a little bit for a moment, not sure if she should say anything, and if she did, what should she say? Instead she just watched for a moment.

He asked what she was doing alone, but as always he called her lovely and that made her smile a little bit. It wasn’t much, but it made her feel a little bit less sad to not be on her own anymore. Especially being with someone whose company she actually enjoyed. She tried to bite back the sigh because Raine didn’t sigh. Never in her life did she sigh. But it passed her lips all the same and she looked down at the rose entangled in her fingers. ”That was exactly what I was wondering” she said, softly. No bubbly babble, no laughing, no constant talk to answer a question that could be answered in a word. Just a soft, short response.

She really wasn’t herself today. What a bad birthday.

Words: 1081
Muse: Pretty good
Comments: Lol and she's easily distracted by shining things