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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:30 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:05 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:24 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:02 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:09 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:35 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:37 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:55 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:30 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:05 pm
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Daniel sat back down once Jessi had taken her own.
"So I gathered from your note. I saw something was bothering her last night, and though I technically work for her, I felt like offering my services of...understanding. But the problem with that is the same that would be present with letting her know more about me. I don't really know her that well. I've seen her around, spoken once or twice, but last night was the first time I've said more than a few words to her."
Daniel leaned back in his chair, sinking back into about as far as it would let him. He looked contemplative, though about what he kept to himself. Finally, he leaned forward, folding his hands on the desk.
"Look. I'm more than willing to help out however I can. But I've just got this weird feeling about letting more people know what I can do. Not that I wouldn't want to, just that, maybe I should hold back. For now. But maybe if you could elaborate..."
Daniel spread his hands a little, leaving the statement open to see if Jessi would pick it up.
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:50 pm
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{{Gaia is quite slow for me tonight. sad }}
Jessi nodded to the first part of what Daniel said. "It's usually hard for a person to really get to know Amy because she's so guarded. You know how when we first started getting to know each other and you said I was really intuitive? Well, I started guessing some things about Amy before I even really knew her. I think that's what helped her to open up to me more, because I seemed to understand her or at least tried to. I think maybe that's why out of everyone, you picked me to start to get close to. I mean, that's just speculation on my part, but I feel like it's right."
She shrugged and sighed softly, her brow creasing with worry. "Amy's not a very trusting person. Her mom walked out on her and her dad when she was quite young, and that nearly destroyed her father. So, both of her parental units weren't really there for her when she's was growing up. Then, when she was around 12 or 14, she just left home and started traveling around the country on her own. I think she used a little bit of the money her mom had left her, and her mom sends her monthly checks. But mostly, she'd just work at a job here and there, wherever she was, and then would move onto the next place when she had enough money to leave. This is the longest she's stayed in one place since she left home years ago."
"Amy also struggled with her magic until a few months ago, when Thistle came along and she worked with this vampire named Black for awhile. He was kind of like her magical mentor. So, with all of this together, it's just really hard for Amy to trust someone. She can come off as a harsh person if you start to get to know her, but I know that's her defense mechanism. She's so sweet and nice once you really get to know her."
She sighed again and rubbed her hand over her face. Her sigh turned into a soft groan. "But when you break Amy's trust, look out. She almost expects people to ruin her trust, so when someone actually does disappoint her, she takes it really hard, harder than most other people would. The weird thing is, though, is that half of the time, she's more angry and upset with herself than she is the other person. It's like she blames herself for ever trusting someone in the first place, for not going with her gut and just not trusting anyone."
"And last night started an avalanche. Kits... look, I love Kits, but I sometimes thinks she..." She sighed and stopped herself.
"I'm trying not to play the blame game. "Basically, she forgot the party last night. I have no idea how she could have forgotten about her own business's party, but she did. She told Dame that she'd go to her play instead, and so she was late coming to the party. She was supposed to help us all set up. Amy gets so excited about AS and she doesn't understand sometimes why Kits doesn't always get as excited as she does. So her showing up late, and late because she was spending time with Dame instead, just really made Amy close herself off. I could tell she was already berating herself early in the night, just by the look in her eyes. She's felt for awhile that Kits likes to hang out with Dame more than her. I have no idea if that's true and I don't really think it matters except for the fact that sometimes, Kits cancels her stuff with Amy just to work around Dame. I think she knows Amy would be more likely to bend a little bit on that than Dame might be. She doesn't want to hurt Dame at all, but by doing that, she's hurt Amy. It's like she just can't say no to Dame. She can say it to Amy just fine, but not Dame. You'd think you'd be closer to the person you felt comfortable enough saying 'no' to, right? But I've come to find out with many people that that's not the case."
She shrugged and shook her head slightly. "Sorry. Off track there a little bit. So, Kits just forgetting about the party like that at first when she told Dame she'd go to the play and then coming in late was just the last straw for Amy. Then, if that wasn't enough, Karrie seemed to go to comforting Kits more than his own girlfriend. Kits and Karrie have been friends for so many years, and they even dated for quite awhile. I don't think that really bothered Amy since she was good friends with Kits. I was always afraid, though, that something like this might come up eventually. I mean, Karrie did check on Amy, but when Kits came, he stayed next to her for the majority of the time. Then, when she came out here to the information desk, Karrie stayed with Kits instead of coming out to check on her. Someone else did, though."
She smiled softly as she looked at Daniel. "Thank you so much for checking on her, Daniel. Even though she might not have shown it, I'm sure she really appreciated that, or will when she calms down and realizes what you did."
She sighed softly again and looked up at the ceiling. "You think the crap would have ended there, but no. Kits left when we were all putting stuff away. You could tell she was bone tired. So Karrie came over and asked Amy if she was ready to go. I don't know what just made her start to break down, but she got tears in her eyes and started getting close to crying. She raced off to the girl's restroom. Karrie started to follow after her and then just stopped and went home."
Jessi frowned at this, obviously quite a bit upset at this part herself. "He left, went home, so Tommy and I stayed and comforted Amy. She wouldn't tell us exactly why she was crying. I think it was just a combination of everything. Tommy and I tried to convince her to stay the night with us over at Tommy's, but she wanted to go home. I think it's good she went home, but... I just don't know why Karrie would leave her here when she was obviously so upset. He stayed next to Kits most of the night, but Amy... I think she was feeling like she really was alone again, like Karrie was automatically taking Kits' side even though Karrie is her boyfriend. I honestly don't think Karrie was taking sides at all, but I can see it from Amy's perspective, too. In that kind of situation, I think you'd want your boyfriend to be by you and support you, no matter what. Amy didn't have that. She read Karrie's initial actions incorrectly. The last part of the night... that I can't explain."
She took a deep breath and then let it out. She raised her feet up onto the chair beside her and leaned back.
{{Daaaaaang that was long. lol. Still don't know if it will match your length at times, though, Daniel. lol.... That sounded wrong. Post length! XD}}
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