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Post by zoo on Apr 9, 2009 21:09:01 GMT -5
She gave a little laugh and blushed a little. Suddenly she found it very hard to look him directly in the eye. It was awkward for her.
"Well, I, um. Yeah, I guess. Well, I mean tonight is my first night. I'm just opening."
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Post by trex on Apr 9, 2009 21:22:20 GMT -5
"Well, I, um. Yeah, I guess. Well, I mean tonight is my first night. I'm just opening."
Rex shook his head, whistling softly, that look of awe and admiration showing on his face.
"Wow, I can't imagine doing something like that. I can't sing a lick, heck, I spend half my time with horses. You real nervous? I'm sure you'll do great, you surely bought my attention from the start, Zoo."
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Post by zoo on Apr 9, 2009 21:32:03 GMT -5
She smiled and laughed nervously a little. And then it came. She felt the heat. She blushed a bright red. Why oh why did she have to get that trait from her mother? And it had to be a boy this decent and rather good looking? She scratched her head for a moment.
"Well, I hadn't been..."
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Post by trex on Apr 9, 2009 21:40:41 GMT -5
"Well, I hadn't been..."
He raised an eyebrow and grinned that grin, not really noticing Zoo's blushing. He had never been very observatory much and he was too busy looking around the theater and glancing every which way and sending grins at Zoo every once in awhile, that big old dopey grin.
He had gone to many operas and theaters when he was younger, his Mother had loved music endlessly and he had always been expected to accompany. He remembered sitting in the balcony's, the private "balconies" reserved for the rich. His mother would continuously scold him to sit still. He remembered wondering why they couldn't just sit with everybody else...he had never really understood class. He was drifting into his thoughts and had been staring at the flower in Zoo's hair, until he snapped out of it and rubbed the back of his neck offhandedly, yawning lazily.
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Post by zoo on Apr 10, 2009 15:29:10 GMT -5
She feared she boring him. She smiled at him, catching his own smile quite suddenly.
"So, do you live with family?"
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Post by trex on Apr 10, 2009 16:07:06 GMT -5
"So, do you live with family?"
Rex took his eyes off tracing the lines in the palm of his hand and shook his head.
"Nope, But I consider ol' Mr. Carson almost like an uncle or something like that. I live above the livery at the racetrack in Queens where I work, above the storage barn for rigs and other stuff. He's my boss. He can be strict, and says I have some kind of phobia for paying attention, so he gives me a nice smack upside the head when I need it, and that certainly gets my attention."
Rex laughed, running a hand through his dark brown hair and then shoving his hands back in his pockets, smiling shyly at Zoo. He already felt drawn to her. He liked her. and it had only been a little over five minutes.
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Post by zoo on Apr 11, 2009 16:37:54 GMT -5
She laughed and turned around to face the stage, noticing there was a new set of girls on th stage.
"You live with the horses? Don't you ever get tired of them?"
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Post by trex on Apr 11, 2009 17:28:41 GMT -5
"You live with the horses? Don't you ever get tired of them?"
Rex laughed and shook his head, "I live at the racetrack yes, but no, its not like I'm sleeping in the stalls with the horses. I live above them in my own little living quarters. It ain't that bad. I love horses. At least they ain't like people, they don't judge you. If you gain their trust, they can be pretty good to ya," Rex grinned fondly.
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Post by zoo on Apr 11, 2009 21:58:53 GMT -5
She smiled. Her eyes were simply glued to him, but she hadn't noticed yet, and hopefully he wouldn't. "Ahh, so you're an animal person then. All animals or just horses?"
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Post by trex on Apr 11, 2009 22:26:20 GMT -5
"Ahh, so you're an animal person then. All animals or just horses?"
"I like any animal, but horses are my favorite I guess. And so you're a musical person then. All music?" He laughed, converting her words, a big grin on his face. He tucked his fingers through the belt loop in his trousers and leaned over to look down over the edge of the balcony, peering down at all the rows of seats.
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Post by zoo on Apr 12, 2009 13:56:07 GMT -5
She hung her head and grinned, slightly embarrassed. She didn't like digging herself into the ground to be shown up. She sighed.
"No, not quite all. I lean more toward old ballads I always heard from mum that she brought over here from the homeland. I was fiddling out in Brooklyn for pennies for a while, after I finished with paper sellin'. Sometimes I'd get into McGintys - sometimes. Didn't sing there though."
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Post by trex on Apr 12, 2009 19:24:25 GMT -5
"No, not quite all. I lean more toward old ballads I always heard from mum that she brought over here from the homeland. I was fiddling out in Brooklyn for pennies for a while, after I finished with paper sellin'. Sometimes I'd get into McGintys - sometimes. Didn't sing there though."
Rex nodded. "I don't know much about music. To me, music is music and that's that. I don't care what music it is as long as it sound pretty. I'm sure your voice and songs are pretty. My mother had a pretty voice, but she never sang to me. I wish she would have aimed some of those sweet songs at me, but she never did." Rex said with a small sad smile, he didn't like to be sad, but he was feeling a little sad at the moment, he shook his head and managed a big grin again.
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Post by zoo on Apr 13, 2009 19:04:15 GMT -5
She took the flower out of her hair and started playing with it, tugging on the petals and such.
"Rex, if you don't mind me asking, why are you so far away from your folks? Not that I think its bad, its not. I'm not near mine either, I guess I was just, curious."
She shook her head quickly.
"I'm sorry, its rude for me to ask things like that. I'm tryin' to be more of a lady, and that means curbin' my curiosity."
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Post by trex on Apr 14, 2009 17:30:19 GMT -5
"Rex, if you don't mind me asking, why are you so far away from your folks? Not that I think its bad, its not. I'm not near mine either, I guess I was just, curious. I'm sorry, its rude for me to ask things like that. I'm tryin' to be more of a lady, and that means curbin' my curiosity."
Rex shook his head, smiling gently. "Naw, its okay. I don't mind. I ain't that secretive, and I don't bite neither." He gave her one of those grins and started fiddling with a button on his collared shirt.
"I left home a year ago or so, lived in Wisconsin. My father owned a big company, and my family expected me to take over it. I just didn't want to worry, I didn't want to grow up so fast, or take on a family business, I guess I didn't want my life planned out. I never fit in anyways...so I left, found a job here in the stables in Queens, ain't seen or heard from them since."
Rex finished and gave her a shy smile. "Your folks still livin?" He asked softly, her own curiosity mirrored on his face.
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Post by zoo on Apr 14, 2009 19:01:25 GMT -5
Zoo tried to give a smile. She started to pull off petals from the outside of the flower gently.
"They are. I think. My mum and dad an brother, Connor, well, we all lived in Boston. Mum and dad bein' from Ireland and such. I just came down a few months ago, tryin' to go to school, but that didn't work out. There was a fire up in Boston a few weeks ago. I've been sendin' letters and waitin' for them."
She stopped playing with the flowers and gave a grin back to Rex.
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