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Post by jewelkent on Jun 4, 2011 17:08:11 GMT -5
Jewel practically felt like she was in heaven. For the last few days, she had met 2 good-looking guys in her life. Specs was good and all, but she honestly had no idea where she stood with him. She had showed him around the Bronx, they kissed and held hands....but then she never saw him again. She wondered what would happen now if she did.
Then yesterday, the most amazing thing happened to her...she had finally met Sweetheart's big brother Evan by some big coincidence while she was walking past the boys house, they go to talking, and before Jewel knew it...she was Evan's girlfriend.
The whole idea made her smile to herself. *How did my life change in so little of a time?* she thought to herself.
She then sat down next to someone, Jewel looked over and saw a very good-looking and muscular man. Her eyes went wide as she turned to the man and smiled.
"Hello there." she said to him with a smile.
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Post by Ki Harper on Jun 4, 2011 19:16:39 GMT -5
Ki was just about to head down to join the rest of the dock workers, when he heard the voice of a girl saying hello and looked down to see a red haired girl standing beside him, watching him with a smile. "Hello miss," Ki said with a quick nod and a smile, always willing to say hello to someone new, even if he was in the middle of a shift. He glanced down the dock to where he could see the others gathering and then back at the girl before motioning with his hand towards the crates. "You should be careful walking around down here with all the cargo and men unloading it, a tiny thing like you might go unnoticed."
She was tiny indeed, though to be fair, most people were tiny compared to Ki but he also understood the dangers of his job. It was real easy to get caught up in carrying around crates and moving around cargo and not see a young girl walking along the docks just trying to enjoy the day. "Stay along the right side if you can," Ki offered, pointing away from where the next shipment of smaller, lighter crates was waiting to be unloaded. "We won't be working over there and won't disrupt you."
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Post by jewelkent on Jun 4, 2011 19:28:12 GMT -5
Jewel sighed heavily. She looked up at the man, and was shocked. He was much taller than her. When she heard him say hello to her, she smiled back at him.
"Hello there, sir." She said back to him.
"You should be careful walking around down here with all the cargo and men unloading it, a tiny thing like you might go unnoticed."
Jewel looked worried, and suddenly remembered where she was. The docks were a dangerous place, and she could get really hurt.
"Oh boy, you're right, huh? Well lately, I've been very observant...so I won't get hurt...I promise." she said.
When she was asked to stay to the side so she won't be disrupted, she nodded and looked up at the man.
"Oh sure, I promise I won't get in the way." She said with a smile. "I'm Jewel, by the way," she said.
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Post by Ki Harper on Jun 4, 2011 20:29:23 GMT -5
"Just be careful," He warned again with a kindly smile, not wanting to scare her but wanting her to have a healthy sense of awareness which at least seemed to be a realization for her now. "Hard for us to see around the crates when we're carrying them around." He shrugged a little as a form of apology, even though there wasn't really a need for it - it simply was the nature of the job and as long as she stayed to the side and out of the way as she said she would, there wouldn't be a problem.
"Pleasure Miss Jewel," He glanced down where the other men were gathering and knew he should be heading that way soon, but the proper manners his mother and aunt had drilled into him from youth took precedence. "I'm Ki," He offered up with another smile, carefully keeping an eye on the other workers and the pile of crates - mostly it seemed everyone was still on break at the moment.
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Post by jewelkent on Jun 4, 2011 20:42:17 GMT -5
Jewel smiled at the nice man who just introduced himself to her. She was shocked to meet someone this tall. She nodded to him and shook his hand.
"It's nice to meet ya, Ki." She said.
Then she remembered something that she was told a few months ago at Tibby's in Manhattan. Jewel's mouth dropped open. "Ki?...You're cousin is Devan, right?" she asked.
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Post by Ki Harper on Jun 5, 2011 9:54:11 GMT -5
Ki looked at Jewel in surprise when she mentioned Devan, not something that happened often - the city was so big the likelihood that someone would know them both when they'd been here such a little amount of time wasn't very high. But he couldn't help the smile that started at his cousin's name and he nodded, "Yeah, I have a cousin named Devan." He wasn't going to say for sure if it was the one that Jewel might be speaking about, Ki was protective by nature, particularly of Devan. And while he doubted any harm could come to Devan from Jewel, one could never be to careful. "Think it's the same girl you know?" He asked, glancing down the dock again and then back at Jewel.
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Post by jewelkent on Jun 5, 2011 17:37:44 GMT -5
Jewel sighed heavily as she thought about what to say to Ki about knowing Devan. It had been a few months since she and Devan had seen each other. Jewel then suddenly smiled.
"I thought you were Devan's cousin. Oh, she's such a sweet girl. The first time I met her, it was at Tibby's in Manhattan about a few months back, and she and I talked over some lunch. She told me all about the circus, and how she performed this aerial silk thing. She had some fascinating stories. Then your name was mentioned...and she said that you were supposed to come to Manhattan...now I was excited to hear that then." She said with a smile.
Jewel's face fell suddenly. "I haven't had much luck with men...up until a few days ago that is. I met him out here in the Bronx...he's so nice." she said, a smile creeping up on her face.
Jewel then looked up at Ki "Ya know, I told your cousin that if you were ever in town, we should all get together." she said.
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Post by Ki Harper on Jun 5, 2011 20:29:38 GMT -5
"Don't know how that's possible," Ki said, shoving a hand in his pocket as he looked down at Jewel and shook his head a little. "Dev might have mentioned me, easy enough to believe, been best friends since we were little, but she didn't know I was coming into town." Ki had surprised his cousin almost a month after she had arrived, a move that had been both to settle the family and his own case of wanderlust that had blossomed and grown once his cousin had left the circus. "But sounds like her all the same, dancing on the silks and such," Ki acknowledged with a smile, another glance down the dock and he knew he just a had a few more minutes. "Something to see for sure, no one quite as graceful up there as Dev."
He smiled politely when Jewel suddenly went on about her man troubles, unsure where the sudden change of subject had come from. She did seem a flighty sort of things, he'd have to ask Devan about Jewel later, find out how that first meeting had been. "Glad to hear things are looking up then," He said, because nothing else came to mind, he barely knew the girl and was hardly in any position to comment on her love life - good or bad. "I'll mention to Dev that I bumped into you," Ki said with another smile, there was a shout from the end of the dock and Ki knew he'd need to be moving that direction very soon.
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Post by jewelkent on Jun 5, 2011 21:50:27 GMT -5
Jewel nodded "Well, I know she mentioned ya to me a bit that day. She said that if you were to EVER show up here, that she'd like for the 3 of us to get together and do something....that's what I meant to say." she said with a chuckle.
"I'm sorry...my head has been on Cloud 9 for a few days." She laughed.
Jewel nodded when she heard Ki talking about Devan and the Aerial Silk thing. "Yeah, the way she described it...I can see imagine how beautiful it must look." she said.
Jewel nodded at Ki politely and smiled at him "Oh please let Devan know I saw you. I'm sure she'll be glad to hear that." she said.
She then heard the shout from the docks "Uh-oh....looks like you might be needed." she said, smiling at him.
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Post by Ki Harper on Jun 9, 2011 20:24:44 GMT -5
"Maybe we can do that," Ki acknowledged with a smile, regretfully looking back down the dock where one of his fellow dock workers was waving a hand at him. Looks like break time was over, whether Ki wanted it to be or not - turning back to Jewel he gave her a wider, more genuine smile. "Looks like you're right, I probably head back that way," He motioned towards the other end of the dock, drifting a step in that direction. "You be careful down here, alright?" Ki warned again, smiling a little to himself as he heard action starting up at the other end of the dock. "Stay out of the way and don't linger now. It was nice to meet you Miss Jewel, you have a good day now," And then with another smile, Ki turned and walked back down the dock, whistling a soft tune.
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