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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 19:41:22 GMT -5
Toff giggled. your welcome. "So. have you ever met a blind person before?" Toff pet her kitten. "you know...ive always wanted to meet another blind person. but never have"
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 19:58:42 GMT -5
"No, you're the first." He watched her pet the tiny cat. "Someone in my fam-- foster family was supposed to be blind, but I'm not sure if it was so. I never met him, and never bothered trying to." Ryo had never had much of a temper, and it showed with the venom in his words for his foster family.
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 20:30:19 GMT -5
Toff sensed hostility in his words when he mentioned Foster family. Toffs eyes sofened "you grew up in a foster home too?" toff moved her head down as a single tear ran down her cheek. "i was dumped at a womans house when i was a newborn. My birth mother got knocked up and then had me in some ally. She was addicted to Meth, and because of that she fucked my life. SHES the reson im blind. But...shes the reson im alive." Toff moved her head in Ryos direction. "The womans name was Natalia. and she was an imagrant from Russia,and every night she would tell me storries from her home land and how diffrent things were." Toff smiled "ill never forget HER or her storries as long as i live. she took me in when i had nowhere else to go. i would have died without her...." Toffs smile then fadded to a frown."but then...Natalia got sick with meningitis and couldnt pay for a doctor." Toffs eyes filled with tears "And...and i remember me siging to her every night...telling her everything was going to be Ok. And then...one night...she was suffering so bad. And i told her to close her eyes and remember a time when she was happy." Toff smiled again "And she grinned and looked at me and said..." "Toff, the happiest time in my life was when i found YOU" "And then a few seconds later...she died. Ever since then i knew i could do it. i knew i could make it on my own. i can feel her spirit still with me." Toff looked up and smiled.
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 20:36:59 GMT -5
"She was special to you... all that you had..." He sighed. Ryo's eyes fixed on were the tear had slid down her face, glimmering in the light. His usually hostile and foolish heart tore, letting a fraction of sympathy he had locked away drift for her, her story fading into his memory. "You do well for yourself to be blind," he remarked. "Where have you been staying, though?"
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 20:40:06 GMT -5
Toff Grinned. "More like where havent I. You know the best thing about being a homeless blind person is that you never know where your going. and i love it" Toff smirked. "Sometimes i sleep here on this bench. sometimes i sleep in the big dumpster on the corner of main and 3rd. sometimes i sleep in the nice soft patch of weeds over behinde the bank. And those are just a FEW places"
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 20:49:39 GMT -5
Ryo's light auburn eyes went wide. "A dumpster? A patch of weeds? That, my dear lady, is not acceptable. Whether I know you or not, you shall not sleep in such places." He jammed one hand into the pocket of his livid jeans and placed the other at his waist, not happy with what she was saying.
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 20:55:26 GMT -5
Toff perked up "oh? then tell me this Ryo. where am i to stay?" Toff looked at the ground "i have noone or no place. i have no money"
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 20:58:43 GMT -5
"I can loan you money," he told her. "And near anywhere is better than where you've been sleeping. How long have you been living like this?" Sympathetic, eh, Ryo? tsked his mind, knowing him to be colder than that.
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 21:02:42 GMT -5
Toff Grinned "Since i was thriteen" toffs grin soon faded. "No thankyou. id rather not take your money." toff could not feel to know he was right. she had begun to get severe backaches and bad sicknesses from her poor living conditions. but she couldnt bare to take a strangers money.
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 21:05:32 GMT -5
"I'm not going to allow you to continue living like that." His voice was firm, but he tried to keep it quiet, not wanting people nearby to hear him. "Living like that is going to the the pure death of you." Ryo shuddered at the thought. It wasn't exactly the prettiest image: Toff, dead in a dumpster or somewhere. The mere suggestion churned his stomach.
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 21:11:48 GMT -5
Toff had a questioned look on her face. "What are you sugesting?" Toff got up and went to sit on the edge of the fountain. Toff cupped her hands and got some wine and began to sip it. "Ry...do you like wine? i do. it kind of reminds me of my life. Its bitter but sweet. its blan but tastefull....." Toff just silently sat there thinking about what she needed to do with her life.
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 21:16:32 GMT -5
"It depends on my mood," he replied, following and shoving his other hand into his pocket. It felt irritating for her to have changed the subject but he wasn't mad at her. Why couldn't he get mad at her? That just aggravated him more. "And I am suggesting you let me give you the money to stay somewhere were you won't get yourself into worse condition than you're in."
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 21:20:52 GMT -5
Toff shook her head. "I dont like taking people money. Last time i took a strangers money the next day i woke up with 5 men whispering around me saying "Cudo needs da money back" "So for that whole month i was 'Cudos' Personal slave" Toff giggled "but thats in the past and this is the present and the answer is no i simply CANT take your money." Toff grinned "and your so used to people openly accepting your offers your confuesed as why im not taking it either" Toff could not help but to laugh.
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Post by Envy on Jun 22, 2007 21:25:03 GMT -5
"Anyone in their right mind doesn't ask me for money or expect me to give them any," Ryo responded, only to realize a minute later that he just said something brilliantly stupid. And answering the question of why he was offering money to her then was not what he wanted. "And whoever that Cudos person was, they were ignorant," he added, thinking that maybe she wouldn't ask about his first words.
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Post by Cherry~ on Jun 22, 2007 21:29:35 GMT -5
Toff laughed. "Smooooth." she snickerd. Toff the started coughing rapidly and couldnt seem too stop. When he finaly cought her breathe again she sat on the park bench breathing heavily. "y'know....that wine is so bad for my heath...i need to stop drinking it" she giggled as she tried to make the situation that just happened humorous.
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