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Jul 16, 2015 14:30:13 GMT -5
Post by nathaniel labelle on Jul 16, 2015 14:30:13 GMT -5
nathan sat with his legs sprawled over the edge of a dumpster. it was cool and dusty, a fine seat, tucked in between two eroding buildings of sandstone and grime like an abandoned jewelry box, broken and devoid of pretties. his eyes were caught by the orange evening light at the other end of the alley. “i’m thinking about joining the military,” said nathan. he sniffed, silently daring them to say something about it. he knew at least one of them would. natalie labelle riley martel
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Jul 16, 2015 15:09:58 GMT -5
Post by natalie labelle on Jul 16, 2015 15:09:58 GMT -5
they were just hanging out again. her brother, riley, and she. it was a load of nothingness, unproductiveness, but neither she nor her brother had anything to be productive in. twilight sets near the backdrop of their get together, and as per usual natalie is with her brother, clinging onto him like some lost child. which she may well be if nathan wasn't here.
just to be safe.
she's startled by the sudden outburst, the statement so matter of fact, so bold, so unexpected. "wh-what do you mean?" her voice wavers a bit. she's not sad about it, more the fact that he hadn't told her before. "why? i don't want you to leave."
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Jul 17, 2015 10:17:26 GMT -5
Post by riley martel on Jul 17, 2015 10:17:26 GMT -5
away from his two friends he sits, with back to the cracking, crumbling bricks. their secluded nook between two buildings in states of decay, gathered around a forgotten dumpster, a fortress. the princess clings to her favorite knight, eyes eternally fixed his way. never to gain her affection, he's disengaged.
figures traced in the filth and dust are made and erased with a stroke of a stick. occupied by the mindless act, and with a snap of the stick he's pulled back to reality. join military nathaniel says, a laughable proclamation.
"that's the stupidest thing you've ever said." dull-eyed citrine lift to the pair. natalie's knight in shining armor, so bold, so daring. again he's captured her attention. he's basking in the glow of her adoration. riley, too skinny and crippled, never had a chance. "i rather be in the resistence."
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Jul 17, 2015 21:10:22 GMT -5
Post by nathaniel labelle on Jul 17, 2015 21:10:22 GMT -5
it was only a wisp of a whisker of a tremor, but it reached inside him all the same and twisted. he shivered, and it was all he could do not to pull her to him. nathan thought he could hear his heart beat its fists against the cage of his ribs. natalie was never meant to sound so small. of course i’m not leaving, was what he wanted to say, why would i leave when you’re right here?“i only said i was thinking about it,” he said, in tones that were half exasperated, half soothing. he looked over the top of natalie’s head. “and that’s fine, dude. i’m sure you can just walk into resistance headquarters and hand in a resume.” the line of nathan’s mouth wriggled angrily. in truth, he’d rather join the resistance, too. it was going to be the next thing he suggested, but riley beat him to it and if nathan admitted to it now it would sound as if he wanted to join the resistance because he was in it. natalie labelle riley martel
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Jul 17, 2015 21:34:49 GMT -5
Post by natalie labelle on Jul 17, 2015 21:34:49 GMT -5
it's not like she can't sense the tension. she just pretends it isn't there.
"riley, you can't... if nathan's gonna leave me, you have to stay!" she's begging with her eyes. she'd prefer if they both stayed with her, protect her, be with her. "what am i going to do if neither of you are there for me anymore?"
she'd beside herself, despite nathan's comforts, but it doesn't make her feel much better. why is it that they had to leave her? just thinking about it. natalie feels selfish for wanting them to herself, but she feels safe with them, and she doesn't want that safety to go away. why can't they just stay like this (though, in hindsight, she'd rather them be friendly and happy like even before, why were they so hostile to each other right now)?
"please?"
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Jul 19, 2015 19:24:32 GMT -5
Post by riley martel on Jul 19, 2015 19:24:32 GMT -5
a fraction his eyes narrow their fixed gaze on nathan. easily those careless words could be a well-aimed stab, a twisting dagger. but natalie pays them no heed, so he sweeps indignation and anger under the carpet. she wouldn’t like them to fight. still his fingers dig into his jeans, grip plastic.
“i’m not going anywhere.” the fact he can’t he leaves out. “we made a promised, didn’t we? you know i’d never break a promise to you.”
inseparable the three have been since they were very young, and so it’d stay if he had any say. he knows better than to take seriously the bluster the way that natalie did. nathan humors no thought of leaving, just a ploy.
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Jul 20, 2015 16:41:29 GMT -5
Post by nathaniel labelle on Jul 20, 2015 16:41:29 GMT -5
riley might have been right in thinking to see through nathan’s bluff. nathan was natalie’s man, through and through. but his fingers itched every time he saw salt on her cheeks, and it was less because of the want to rub small circles between her shoulders and more because if he didn’t find some world where natalie would never cry fast enough, he was going to try to rip apart the inner heart with his bare hands and teeth. “it was just a passing thought,” he said under his breath, curiously ashamed. his gut had curled nastily at riley, the boy who would never break a promise. he gently extracted his arm from natalie’s loving grip, and he glared at the setting sun at the end of the alley. the setting sun glared back. natalie labelle riley martel
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Jul 20, 2015 18:14:22 GMT -5
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Post by natalie labelle on Jul 20, 2015 18:14:22 GMT -5
she had them again, with her, no inkling of the manipulation and power she had over the boys. natalie is just happy that they get to stay with her - that she gets to stay with them. that's all she ever wanted, in her aimless life. just to live nicely in the company of friends. she smiles at riley - a promise.
she's glad of this - momentarily sorry for ever doubting them. of course they would always protect her, as they have for eleven years already. why would they stop now? though eventually she knows they would be too old to play this game, though she hopes it is no time soon because she is scared of the thought of any change. she pouts as nathan withdraws his arm, wondering why but letting it happen.
"both of you scared me! what if you really did, i don't know what i would do." she is fine with life as she knows it, she has no delusions of a better world. it would be nice, of course it would, but it would be better to just live the best they could, right?
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Jul 21, 2015 0:09:30 GMT -5
Post by riley martel on Jul 21, 2015 0:09:30 GMT -5
much he keeps from them, his precious friends, though rarely does he lie. his promises he makes and intends fully to keep, especially that one long ago when they were nine. a fight between him and nathan escalated, natalie in tears. words were exchanged in heated moment then taken back with fierce apology.
he remembers fondly the moments after, best friends forever. nothing would part then, or so they vowed. a pinky swear between the three, and laughter following. he'll never forget. they are all he has, all he needs.
"i can't speak for nathan." he begins. "but there is no place i would rather be than here with you both." slyly he smiles nathan's way, adding kindle to the fire. "so don't worry. even if nathan runs off to the military, you'll always have me. that's a promise."
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Jul 27, 2015 9:42:33 GMT -5
Post by nathaniel labelle on Jul 27, 2015 9:42:33 GMT -5
riley kept his promises and never lied; natalie was a fragile thing of summer and nathan suspected he could catch her lies the way light catches through a spun glass figurine. nathan told himself lies every day, lies he didn’t know were lies, a myriad beginning with i have to and ending with like a sister. “i’m going to be here forever,” he said. a flush crept up his neck at riley’s antics--son of a dick--and with the warm spread of sun on his cheeks, it was like cupid had flown down to him and painted carnations all over. he quickly added, “but that doesn’t change the fact that we live in a shithole compared to”--he waved a hand, unable to express with adjectives what he thought of the magicians, their protectors from the monsters that were going to eat them up, and he’d never grown a religious bone in his life but lord save his poor, dirt soul because the magicians think they’ll believe--“everything.” maybe he just wanted to go on the wall and see for himself so he could come back and point a finger in natalie’s face. riley’s, too, because sometimes he could be such a jackass. natalie labelle riley martel
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Jul 27, 2015 20:12:16 GMT -5
Post by natalie labelle on Jul 27, 2015 20:12:16 GMT -5
she's quick to realize how selfish she's being, but natalie doesn't do anything to change this. she doesn't ask for much, and her intentions are good. she just wants them by her side. at all times. that wasn't too much to ask, right? she'd love both of them with all her heart, take care of them the best she could, and simply be happy with them.
though she should have known by now, seventeen years and nathaniel had more than enough fuel for his rage at the inner bubble of the magicians. she did, too, though she never let it consume her, just rationally letting it sit there until it became irrelevant because there were more important things to do. "i know, i just get worried sometimes." she looks apologetically at riley and then stares at nathan as a mother would chiding her child.
she could say something cynical now - she'd learned that from her brother, being cynical, though she tried her best not to adopt his more extreme methods - but instead she chooses not to. "but what can we do about it, nathan? i'd rather you be safe than do something reckless." she means it, wholeheartedly, in the best of terms.
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