tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515541292774231802024-03-19T15:03:56.164-04:00Dolli LuvChampagne Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359896535740884640noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851554129277423180.post-67836927638562921662016-09-17T21:12:00.000-04:002016-09-17T21:12:54.562-04:00Make Up or Break Up- Part II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Takeo: (switching to Japanese) Let’s get this straight: I never said you were a failure at life. I know I shouldn’t have said what I said but I was upset. I was upset because you didn’t seem to respect my interest and goals. This band means a lot to me and I really want it to work out. Ok, so we may not get famous, or the whole thing could fall apart in a few months or weeks or whenever, but at least I can say I tried. At least I can say I tired something that I really wanted to do, even if it didn’t work. At least I can say that for one month or one year I was able to live my dream. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vic: Sure. Hey, is this a new plant?</span></div>
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I can’t believe you! So, you never believed in me at all, did you?! Why
does everyone do this to me!?! Why do people keep humoring me, and
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Zach:</b> Really? Then why don’t you have any tattoos?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> What makes you think I don’t?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Zach:</b> ‘Cause I don’t see any.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Zach:</b> So how do I become one of those people?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Zach:</b> I guess you don’t take a lot of surveys then? Alright, interrogation over. I’d like to get your number, though. And if you notice, that was a statement, not a question.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Ha ha. Alright, you get points for that one. My number is…</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b5dde613-6697-63d4-01fe-26f203ca9baa" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Oh wow, I bet it’s another one of Ell’s Polly dolls being delivered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett</b>: Hey Sexy!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Scarlett! What are you doing here? Why didn’t you tell me you were coming to visit?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Duh, I thought if I showed up all early and unannounced I’d catch you in some sexy undies or something. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Well, you haven’t changed at all!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Um, Dude, it will take more than 4 months away to change me.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> How long have you been in town?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Well, let’s see: I got off the plane yesterday at 6pm, then I went straight to the nearest bar to get completely wasted, because, you know, those stewardesses seem to frown upon excessive drinking during flights, and then at some point I ended up at Ian’s, and then I came here. Exact times are a little fuzzy for me right now, so...yeah.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Wait, so you’ve been drinking all night? Why? How long are you staying?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Neve, the questions! I’m staying for good I guess. Things didn’t work out in LA, which is what lead to my quest for inebriation. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Oh, it must have been pretty bad with your family, then. Do you want to talk about it?</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> No.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Wow, your rats are still alive! I was so not expecting that!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> They’re not rats, they’re hamsters. And of course they are still alive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Ouch, this one bit me! Can I squeeze it until it’s eyes pop out. Wait, this is the girl one right? She’s probably just PMSing. I feel you girl, so I’ll forgive you this one time.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> So do you have a place to stay? And what about a job?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> I’m crashing with Auden this week. Of course, I got my old job back. Like where else are they going to find another perfect tattoo artist. [Scarlet phone goes off as she gets a text message.] Oh wow, Zach actually text me.<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Zach who?<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Oh, I don’t know. Some guy I met in a bar last night. Dude’s a total creeper, but he’s hot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> Scar, did you really give your number out to a total stranger you met in a bar? Not the craziest thing you’ve done, but also not the smartest.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Look, I had a few drinks, so my inhibitions were lowered. Nah, I would have given him my number anyway.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> Hey what are all these toys doing in here? Does your roommate have kids?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> No, that’s her Polly dolls collection. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Scarlett:</b> WTF, is she like 10?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Neve:</b> No, she collects them. Sometimes she plays with them, and redresses them, and poses them and then takes pictures to post on some site where a bunch of other people do it too. She’s a member of the Polly Collectors Fan Club, too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Zoe:</b> Wow, you’d think after that lecture my aunt’s boyfriend gave me about how caffeine leads to free-radicals I would stop drinking coffee!</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d445597-69f3-74db-30de-34e58d09ad9c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Zoe:</b> Yeah, I guess so. But I found out that auntie is planning on moving to California after she gets married! She didn’t even tell me! I had to find out from Ellen! And she’s the only family I have in this county! <i>*sniff, sniff*</i> She’s leaving me all alone!!! <i>*Zoe breaks out in a full cry*</i> It’s all still too upsetting. I’ll be right back!</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d445597-69f4-c85e-4ca4-c25662da55f5" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zoe leaves to go to the restroom. Right after Zoe leaves, their food is brought out. The waitress winks at Takeo, but he is too distracted to notice. </span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d445597-69f5-bde9-a5c3-42ae0405bd08" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Takeo:</b> Great, now I can’t tell her with her in this state! She’ll need to calm down first. </span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d445597-69f6-c3d5-c3b7-a98f64411a38" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d445597-69f5-bde9-a5c3-42ae0405bd08" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Takeo takes out his phone and makes a call, but gets no answer. He then calls a different number.</span>Takeo:</b> Hello? Is Konstantin there? No, I need to talk to him. What do you mean he’s away? Where? Argh, seriously!?! Listen, I need more time. I can’t let you know anything today. Because, it’s just not a good time. I know, I know, but just give me another month. What!? But what’s another month? Alright, alright two weeks then. Look I have to go.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ellen, Victor, and Zoe arrive at Ellen's apartment later that day.</i><br /><b>Ellen:</b> So, here we are.<br /><b>Zoe: </b>Oh wow, your apartment looks very homey! Mine barely has any furniture in it, and I’ve been living there for 6 months!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Why don’t you have furniture?<br /><b>Zoe:</b> I’m a writer for Style Lux magazine, so I travel to fashion events a lot. I’m hardly ever home, and when I am in town, I’m usually staying with my aunt.<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Oh cool! Do you get to meet a lot of celebrities?<br /><b>Zoe:</b> Umm, well, no. I mean not yet! I’m only a junior writer, so most of the stuff I cover isn’t all that great, but I did get a chance to go to New York Fashion week! And I met Francesca Vilaro, the president of Style Lux, and when she found out I was a writer for her magazine, she let me hang out with her during the fashion awards!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Seriously!? You met Francesca Vilaro!!! Is she as gorgeous in person as she is on TV? I heard she’s been gaining a ton of weight though.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> OMG, she is gorgeous! And she knows everyone ever!! When I saw her she was thin, but my boss says she has gained weight since then. She’s so high up, most of the staff never see her in person. She seemed very nice, though.<br /><b>Ellen:</b> I heard she nice to most people, but the people who work under her know better than miss a deadline. Did you meet Eva Ramirez too?<br /><b>Zoe:</b> No, I don’t think she was there. But then again I heard there has been bad blood between her and Francesca since she left Style Lux to join Chic Chic magazine.<br /><b>Ellen:</b> “'Cause baby now we got bad blood, you know it used to be mad love”</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Victor:</b> Really? Why I am still here? I’m starved. Do you guys have any food?<br /><b>Ellen:</b> That’s what you get for not eating earlier. We haven’t been grocery shopping, so I doubt if there is anything besides Neve’s instant ramen. <br /><b>Victor:</b> I’ll take a look. Being in the kitchen making ramen is still a thousand times better than being in here for karaoke night.<i><br />Vick heads off to make a make instant ramen, a staple of all 20-somethings</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Zoe:</b> So I guess Vick’s not too excited about his brother getting married, huh?<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Well, they have always been very close. And Vick feels that besides his brother and me, no one else understands him. So he’s pretty hurt that his brother was dating and didn’t even tell him.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> I bet! It was a shock for me too. Auntie is the only family I have in this country. I used to visit her during the summer, and sometimes she would take me on her expeditions and lectures! It was super fun to see whales and stuff up close!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> That’s right! Vick said your aunt was an oceanographer.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> Uh, well she’s actually a marine biologist. She even sponsored my visa and let me live with her before I got the job at Style Lux. I don't know what I would do without her!</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ellen:</b> Wow! I guess it will be tough when she moves to California then.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> Move to California!?!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Oh, um maybe I shouldn’t have said anything. Well, Guy told Vick that once they’re married, they’re moving to California. I think they are planning on having the wedding there too.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> California! California! That’s on the other side of the country!!!! How could aunty abandon me like that!! Why didn’t she tell me!!!!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Ellen leads Zoe to the bathroom, and then lets her cry it out. Finally, Zoe is composed enough to talk.</i><br /><b>Zoe:</b> Oh Ellen, I’m so embarrassed. I just cried all over the place! And not just a few tears either! But messy, crocodile tears, with snot and-<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Wuh, TMI. It’s alright, Zoe. I can’t say I understand since I voluntarily left my family in Georgia, but I can imagine how hard this must be since most of your family is in another country.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> But why didn’t aunty tell me.<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Well, things are moving so fast with Guy and your aunt that maybe she forgot or didn’t want to bombard you with too much news at once. I’m sure she has a good reason.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> I guess so.<br />The contemplative silence is suddenly broken by Victor’s yelling.<br /><b>Victor:</b> IT’S NOT PINK, IT’S FUSCHIA!!!!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> I’d better see what’s going on. You can come out when you're ready.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> Thanks Ellen!</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Victor:</b> Why do people keep calling this shirt pink? Don’t you know your colors?<br /><b>Neve:</b> Alright, alright! Calm down! I was only saying that it was a nice pink shirt. Real men wear pink, so it’s like I’m saying you’re manly! He he!</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ellen:</b> What’s all this yelling about?<br /><b>Neve:</b> Girl, your boyfriend just flew off the handle!<br /><b>Victor:</b> She said my shirt was pink!<br /><b>Neve:</b> I was just trying to give you a compliment!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Neve, it’s been a rough day for all of us.<br /><b>Neve:</b> Oh yeah! How did meeting that chick go.<br /><b>Victor:</b> Hmph<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Um, well...okay. Her niece is in the bathroom.<br /><b>Neve:</b> Here? In our bathroom?<br /><b>Victor:</b> No, someone else's. Ell just thought it would be relevant to let you know.<br /><b>Neve:</b> Considering how things went for you today, I’ma'let that slide. How long is she going to be in there? I have to pee real bad.<br /><b>Victor:</b> Way too much information.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>At that moment Zoe comes out of the bathroom.</i><br /><b>Ellen:</b> Zoe, this is my roommate Neve. Neve, this is Zoe.<br /><b>Neve:</b> Nice to meet you, but I have to pee. Be right back!<br /><b>Zoe:</b> Uh..Nice to meet you too!</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Victor:</b> That ramen did absolutely nothing! I’m still starving!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> I told you you should have eaten! Why don’t you order something?<br /><b>Victor:</b> Yeah, I’ll order a pizza, then.<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Great! Thanks for offering. So I think we’ll need two large pizzas and a 2 Liter Coke or something.<br /><b>Victor:</b> Wait, did I just get suckered into buying pizza for everyone?<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Yes, but if it makes you feel any better, you did suggest getting pizza on your own.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ellen:</b> Zoe, is your dress from Sakura Dreams?<br /><b>Zoe:</b> OMG! Yes it is! Do you shop there too!<br /><b>Ellen:</b> I love their hime clothes, but I’m too self conscious to actually buy any.<br /><i>The girls chat about clothes while Victor orders the pizza, and then plays Candy Crush to block out all the girly chatter.</i></span></td></tr>
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<br />Champagne Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359896535740884640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851554129277423180.post-6851474215146932012016-01-16T15:35:00.000-05:002016-01-20T11:23:26.756-05:006 Degrees S01E01: First Impressions<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Zoe-chan, didn’t you wear that same outfit last week?</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Zoe:</b>
Yes, but it’s my favorite outfit and I wanted to make a good first
impression, so I’m wearing it again! Okasan did you make these scones?
They look great!</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Zoe-chan, you know better than ask a question like that. I ordered them from the new cafe downtown.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Zoe:</b> But now that you’re getting married, don’t you think you should learn how to cook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Oh no, we are not going there. If I haven’t become
domesticated after all these years, marriage is certainly not going to
change me. Now help me bring all this in the living room. Guy should be
here any minute.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Just as they finish setting up the refreshments, the doorbell rings. Kira goes to open it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Guy honey, it’s good to see you.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Guy:</b> I know, it feels like forever since the last time I saw you!</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Guy, this is my niece Zoe. Zoe, this is Guy.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After they exchange greetings Zoe and Guy sit and talk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Zoe:</b> Auntie said you are a personal trainer! You must exercise a lot! Do you want some coffee!?</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Guy</b>
(A little dazed from Zoe’s rapid fire speech): Uh...Yes, yes, and
absolutely no!! Do you have any idea what caffeine does to your
body…(goes into speech of the ill-effects of caffeine)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> (Hmm...I should have warned Guy about Zoe...And I hope he doesn’t bore her to death.)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The doorbell rings again. Kira goes to answer it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Well hello! You must be Guy’s brother Vick! You two look so much alike.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Victor:</b> Victor. And this is my girlfriend Ellen.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Ellen:</b> He means “Hello”. Nice to meet you. We’ve heard so much about you! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Victor:</b> Humf, yeah like you’re marrying my brother and...Oh yeah that’s actually all I know about you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ellen shoots Vick that “why did you have to go there” look.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Well, we’re all here to get to know each other. Why don’t you both have a seat?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Victor, would you like a scone?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Kira:</b> Well, there’s plenty if you change your mind. By the way, I love your sweater. That’s such a nice shade of pink.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Victor: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's not pink, it's fuchsia!!</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ellen</b> (sensing Victor is getting agitated quickly changes the subject): So how did you and Guy meet anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Zoe:</b> Yeah auntie, you never told me the whole story! I wanna know!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Guy:</b> Alright, alright. Of course I would have to tell the
embarrassing part. So I was in Australia with one of my bros. He was
trying to teach me how to surf. Well, a big wave came in and at first I
was doing pretty good, but then I totally wiped out. As soon as a hit
the water, I blacked out.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Zoe:</b> OMG! OMG! That sounds so scary and dangerous!</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Victor:</b> (What, she text talks too!?!)</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Guy:</b> It would have been if I hadn’t already been close to the shore, so I washed up on the beach.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kira:</b> I was in Australia
studying the clown-fish in the Great Barrier Reef, but I was taking a
break on the beach when I saw a surfer wipe out. I’ve seen enough
surfers to know that this guy already had no idea what he was doing. So
when he washed up on the beach I went to see if he was alright. And now a
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Victor:</b> Wait, you two dated for an entire year and didn’t bother telling your family until you were engaged!!!<br /><b>Kira:</b> Well, we didn’t actually start dating until 6 months ago, but we kept in touch after we met.<b><br />Victor:</b> Still don’t you think it would be nice to give people some kind a heads up!! Like <br />“Hey, I met this really great women and gee I think she may be the one” instead of “Hey Vick I’m engaged come meet my fiance this weekend”!!<br />Awkward silence ensues.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Zoe:</b> Oh well we met at a party! OMG he was the hottest guy I’ve ever seen! Well, IRL anyway. I mean, there are tons of hot celebrities but I guess they don’t really count since you never see them hanging out. Unless you live in California. Anyway, at first I didn’t think he liked me because he just kept staring out me from across the room! All I could think was “Eww maybe I have something on my face and this hot guy is staring at me and getting grossed out!” But then he came over and started talking to me, and then he asked me out, and OMG I could have exploded!!!<br /><b>Victor:</b> (I feel like exploding. Or maybe this girl will explode and the world will be a slightly less annoying place.)<br /><b>Ellen and Kira:</b> Awww!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Zoe:</b> So how did you and Victor meet?<br /><b>Ellen:</b> We met in our senior year of college. I knew Vick liked me all along, but it took this jerk an entire semester to actually ask me out.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Victor:</b> If you knew I liked you, then why didn’t you make it easy on me and just ask me out.<br /><b>Ellen:</b> Because, the guy should always ask the girl out, never the other way around.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> OMG, I agree!<br /><b>Kira:</b> You girls are independent women of the 21st century and you’re still waiting on a man to make the first move!<b><br />Guy:</b> Well, this conversation isn’t getting awkward at all.<br /><b>Victor:</b> And this is why I refused to be in a room with more than one woman at a time.<br /><b>Kira:</b> Whatever. Guy, we still have a lot of planning to do for our big day. Why don’t you kids run along.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Zoe:</b> Oh but Auntie, I want to help plan your wedding! I’ve never planned a wedding before! I bet it’s a ton of fun!<br /><b>Kira:</b> Uh..well Zoe, wedding planning is actually quite boring and you wouldn’t like it at all. Why don’t you spend some time Ellen and Victor so you all can get to know each other better. You will be family soon, after all.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Victor:</b> Wait, what the h-!!<br /><b>Ellen</b> (cutting off the rest of Victor’s statement): I think that’s a great idea! We can go to my apartment and then I can drop off at your place.<br /><b>Zoe:</b> Oh ok then!Zoe, Ellen, and a fuming Victor leave Kira and Guy alone.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kira:</b> Well, that wasn’t too bad. At least no one was throttled or stabbed, although I Vick, I mean Victor might try something a few times.<br /><b>Guy:</b> Yeah, sorry about that. I should have warned you that Vick is a little emotional. He’s always been sensitive and a little socially awkward, so he never had many friends. I’ve always been there for him, so I think he feels that he’s losing me.<br /><b>Kira:</b> Well, it’s a good thing he has Ellen. She’s a very perceptive young women.<br /><b>Guy:</b> Yeah, I was surprised he managed to get a girlfriend, or that he even like girls for that matter.<br /><b>Kira:</b> Guy!<br /><b>Guy:</b> What!? He’s always been overly sensitive. I don’t want to say my brother’s a wimp but…<br /><b>Kira:</b> Really Guy! <br /><b>Guy:</b> Oh well, at least we are finally alone! Oh, but first I have the rest of those forms for us to sign. Hmmm… Maybe we should wait until after the wedding, or at least tell people what we’re planning?<br /><b>Kira:</b> Maybe, but I think at this point it will be too much for every to take in. We should go ahead with our plan and tell everyone once things are confirmed.<br /><b>Guy:</b> Well, alright then. </span></td></tr>
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<br />Champagne Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359896535740884640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-851554129277423180.post-57190522388669241582016-01-15T10:50:00.000-05:002016-01-15T10:50:41.316-05:00Back for More!Hey, hey! It's been like forever since I was here, well actually it's been only since last March, but it does feel like forever.<br />
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I was tempted to delete this blog for good last week, but something held me back, and now I know what that something was: my intuition! I've never been a very intuitive person, or had much in the way of foresight, but life is a great teacher, and I've been learning to not be so impulsive and give ideas time to settle and all. That being said, instead of deleting this blog, I am going to devote it to my doll photostories. I know a lot of other people who create photostories do the same, and it seems to work out well, so I thought I would give it it a shot.<br />
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I have two stories in the works. The first is <i>6 Degrees</i>. If you follow me on Flickr, you know that I already have two episodes up. The first couple of episodes are about Kira and her niece, but I've decided I want this series to focus mainly on a group of young people as they deal with finding their way in the world, and dealing with adult things, a struggle that I can completely relate to.<br />
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The second series is <i>American Royalty</i>. This series focuses on the lives of the rich and famous. The main characters will be socialite Diana and her corporate executive husband Liam. Some of my all time favorite dolls will be featured in this series, so I'm sure I will have a ton of fun with this series. Expect a lot of drama, chaos, and eccentric behavior!<br />
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Originally, I had planned to have only one series, but then I realized that there were actually two distinct story lines, so I decided to separate them. However, there will be some crossover between the two stories, both characters and plots.<br />
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I'll be reorganizing the blog and post tags/labels, so if anyone is still actually reading this blog and notices things have changed, this is why. I'll also be adding the first two episodes of <i>6 Degrees</i> here, and then deleting the pictures from Flickr.<br />
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Since this blog is going to be for my photostories, I've decided that my main blog, <a href="http://femmenoblesseoblige.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Femme Noblesse Oblige</a>, will be for all other lifestyle and doll related posts.<br />
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So this is the plan. We'll see how things go! I hope you all enjoy the photo stories!Champagne Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359896535740884640noreply@blogger.com1