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 Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:39 pm
"I should have known that would come up eventually...." Adrian said with a sad sigh as he stopped dealing with dinner for the moment and sat down at the table.
Riley quietly watched the scene unfold, watching his mom walk off before hopping down from his chair and walking over to his dad. "I still love you, dad." he said giving Adrian a hug hoping to make him feel better. "Even if you weren't real, I'd still love you."
Adrian brightened up a little. "Thanks, Riley. I love you too." he said ruffling his son's hair before giving him a kiss on the forehead.
((Shower time. Bbl.))
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:58 pm
((kk. Lol Even if you weren't real, I'd still love you.))
"Why did you say that? You know Adrian has always loved you, and he was so happy the first time you called him daddy. What's the sudden upheaval all about?" Amaya asked as she walked into Cali's room, finding her curled up on the bed.
"Because I've had to read your stupid book at school! And now people keep asking me if I can tell that you didn't really want me! I get all these looks from people!" She screamed as she threw a pillow at Amaya. "Do you know how embarrassing it is to have everyone in school know that you're a rape child!?"
"Do you know how hard it was for me to admit I was raped Cali? Or for that matter do you want to touch on the fact that your mom is crazy and killed her own parents when she was twelve since we're taking jabs at me now?" Amaya asked as she caught the pillow. "Everyone in the world knows exactly what happened to me at this point, yes, I was raped, but did you get to the part where I talked about the first time I held you? Or the fact that I'm not still a drug addict or dead is that Adrian made me stop FOR YOU."
"Did you even love my dad? Because you sure as hell don't talk about him!" Cali yelled. "You never want to talk about him! You just act like he doesn't exist!"
"I did until he betrayed my trust. But you know what Cali? I stayed with him and watched him die. He slowly drowned in his own blood and I sat there and watched him. It took hours, and I was heartbroken. I killed a lot of people the next night because I was so upset I wasn't even capable of thinking past my rage. I don't talk about him because I don't want to think about that place. I'd still love to take enough drugs to make me feel numb every time I think about him or my parents so I don't feel so ******** guilty. But don't punish Adrian just because you can't deal with my past and how it affects you, because Adrian has been the best father you could have ever had and you know it." Amaya growled before she left the room, cracking the door as she slammed it shut behind her. Just what she needed...teenage drama. "She's not hungry." Amaya muttered, returning to the table as she quietly took her seat, shadows already producing her medications again.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:27 pm
Riley and Adrian both flinched from all the yelling until Riley was hiding behind his dad's chair. Adrian didn't say anything though and just sighed as he got up to serve dinner.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:29 pm
Once Amaya downed her meds, she calmed down again. She'd deal with Cali later. She could hear the girl crying from her room, but she just ignored her for the moment, sitting back as she ate her dinner in silence.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:37 pm
".....Hey, mom?" Riley asked, unable to take the silence any longer as they ate while he swung his dangling legs under the table. "What's wrong with Cali? She never made a big deal out of that kinda stuff before..." It was also a perfectly innocent question. Adrian was his dad and always had been, so he couldn't understand where Calista was coming from.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:47 pm
Amaya sighed, putting her fork down as she looked down at her lap. They'd told Riley that Cali had a different dad than Adrian, but that was all they'd ever really told him. "Well Riley, you know Cali had a different dad, right? We used to be best friends before your dad showed up in the ring, and pretty soon after Cali was born, her dad got killed. It took him a while to die though, and I stayed with him the entire time, so I don't like to talk about him because it makes me upset and angry to think about how bad things were down there. And Cali is upset that I never talk about him and she feels sad right now because she thinks if I can't even talk about her dad, I must not love her. Which is untrue, but that's just how she feels right now. She's sad she never knew her real dad and she's mad at me for not talking about him more." She told Riley with a soft voice.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:57 pm
"So why's she gotta take it out on dad? If she doesn't even remember her dad, then why's she making such a big deal out of it?" Riley asked.
"Just...leave it alone Riley..." Adrian said with a slight sigh. "As someone that wasn't around to know Cali's dad, I find it best to just try to stay out of the way. It's not good to stick your nose into things that don't concern you." he said softly, trying to get him to drop the topic before Amaya started feeling hurt too.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:05 pm
"She's upset...She's hurt and she wants us to feel bad too." Amaya murmured as she got up to clear her plate and put away everything. "It's my fault. Don't worry about it." She told him softly, kissing his head as she walked by him.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:33 pm
"Then sis is mean. You don't take stuff like that out on people who aren't involved." Riley muttered as he hopped off his chair and heading back to his room, trying to avoid helping to clean up as usual.
((You accidentally quoted the new guy's profiles within my own profile block on the front page. XD And I apologize if I explained that horribly. sweatdrop ))
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:57 am
((Oops! Yeah, I got it. Thanks. xp ))
Amaya sighed and shook her head, but had a shadow grab Riley by the back of his shirt. "Your dad cooked. He's not cleaning up. And I don't feel well." Amaya muttered as the shadow wrapped around him and pulled him back towards the kitchen. Once Riley was in the kitchen, she handed him the sponge, retreating to her room where she just curled in a ball on the bed.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:07 am
Folding his arms and grumbling, Riley let the shadow pull him back into the kitchen and grudgingly started to clean up.
Even if he did cook, Adrian liked to help clean up. He was a helper after all. But he wasn't quite up for it tonight anyway. After helping Riley a bit by bringing his plates in, he went to go comfort Amaya, something that was hard when you just got emotionally punched in the gut. Finding her curled up, he crawled onto the bed, pulled her into his arms, and wrapped his wings around her, all without saying a single word.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:45 am
Amaya held onto Adrian tightly. She knew what Cali had said hurt, and she couldn't blame him. It even hurt her to here Cali say it, but now she was hurt that even after all these years, Damien was still being brought up, reminding Amaya of the guilt she couldn't escape.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:44 am
It was hard to comfort someone when yourself felt like crap, but Adrian had to try. "It's not your fault. She hadn't brought him up 'til now, we both assumed she had let it go..."
Meanwhile, upon finishing the clean up, Riley had gone back to his room to try to figure out a way to get everyone to calm the heck down and try to cheer up. This usually involved drawing, as everyone always seemed to smile when they saw his latest work. As a ten year old, he wasn't an artist, but he was still better than most kids his age. "...So this could either make everything better....or just kill everyone's moods even more than they already have..." he muttered to himself as he sat on his bed with his arms folded in thought while staring at a blank page.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:21 am
"You don't need to make me feel better...". Amaya murmured as she held onto Adrian. "I know what she said hurt you...and I don't blame you.". She said softly. It was her book that was upsetting Cali, her book that stirred up everything for the girl. But now it seemed that Cali was going to punish Adrian for her issues, and that broke Amaya's heart.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:41 pm
"Yeah, trying not to think about that right now...." Adrian muttered as he continued to hold her. "And you're the bigger emotional mess right now, so comforting you comes first. Well...the bigger emotional mess that actually wants to see me right now...."A short time later, Riley peeked out from his room to make sure the coast was clear before he scurried out to the kitchen and stole the carton of ice cream from the freezer. Setting it on the floor in front of Calista's room with a spoon and one of his hand-drawn little cartoons, he knocked a few times before scurrying back to his room.((POOR DRAWING SKILLS GO!! I figure if Riley's going to be drawing a lot, I might as well draw them out than attempt to describe them. XD And now you know why this took so long to post. :3 ))
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