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Post by kristay on Feb 21, 2011 3:44:14 GMT -5
Aya carried the still-warm Tupperware filled with Georgiana’s white chocolate chunk and macademia cookies. They could persuade anyone to do her bidding but today she needed the godsend cookies for another reason. She bit her lip as she stuck her free hand into the pocket of her black leather jacket as she made her way to the field, having an inkling that Garret Walker was there.
As soon as she had arrived, she walked around the perimeter first, trying to think of something to say without sounding like a jerk. She had been the one to lose her patience and throw the ball at his head in the first place. Aya thought about it now and it was quite a childish thing to do but it seemed that Garret, not unline another boy she knew, brought out the little demon in her.
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Post by Tiff on Feb 21, 2011 4:07:00 GMT -5
Garret and Grady were in the center of the field tossing two balls back and forth, pitching the balls at one another at the same time and catching the one released from the other simultaneously. Garret saw Aya walking along the perimeter of the field, but he couldn't keep his eye on her long enough to realize that it was really her.
"Incoming..." Grady shouted as Garret took an entirely too long a look at Aya. He managed to reach his hand up and catch the ball before it slammed into his face, resulting in a second black eye. He took the ball out of his glove and held up a finger to Grady. "See, Grady knows how to warn someone!" He shouted at Aya. "Grady hid the spare balls, I don't want her getting anymore ideas." He laughed, he wasn't really mad. "What are you doing out here?"
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Post by kristay on Feb 21, 2011 4:16:18 GMT -5
Aya finally found the two brothers tossing balls back and forth at each other and it only reminded her of what she had done to Garret the previous day. A soft sigh escaped her lips as she made her way to him, holding out the container in front of her. "I come in peace! I'm really sorry about the other day, Walker; you just pissed me off too far." She half-yelled, half-mumbled. Aya ran the rest of the way, reaching the two brothers faster than she had expected. "Begging for your forgiveness?" She opened the container, hoping the addicting scent of chocolate would be enough for him to smile and say she was forgiven.
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Post by Tiff on Feb 21, 2011 4:25:23 GMT -5
Garret looked down at the warm cookies she'd brought him and with his mouth salivating he looked up at Grady and swore. "Well it's a shame I can't have nuts." He was joking, he could have nuts, he just liked teasing her. "Thanks for the cookies." He tossed the ball underhand at Grady, removed his glove and picked up a soft cookie, he took a massive bite and looked at Aya curiously as she chewed. "I should push your buttons more often Tay, I might be bruised and battered, but if it results in fresh baked goods, why the hell not?"
Grady walked the two balls and his glove over, took Garret's glove and started toward the dugout. "Nice seeing you Aya, I'll see you at home Garret." He said securing the equipment and then heading for the locker rooms, leaving the two of them on the field alone.
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Post by kristay on Feb 21, 2011 4:31:32 GMT -5
Aya's expression changed to one of pure grief when he said he couldn't have nuts. "I-I..." Her face turned to one of pure confusion when he confidently took a cookie and bit into it. "I th-thought you couldn't." She rolled her eyes and hit him on the shoulder with a bare hand. "I swear to god, Grady better keep the bats away from me or you're going to be more than just bruised or battered Walker!" Aya smiled a bit at Grady. "Yeah, nice seeing you Grady." The boy was cute and she wished the kid would find someone already. Being Garret's babysitter wasn't an easy job after all.
She fidgeted slightly when she realized the two were alone. "You mind walking with me?" It seemed like she did a lot of walking nowadays but she had learned that it helped her a lot when she was thinking.
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Post by Tiff on Feb 21, 2011 22:23:50 GMT -5
Garret continued to munch on his cookie and reached for another. "Yeah I'll walk with you." He rubbed his shoulder where she'd hit him. "I don't think you need a bat, damn, you hit like a guy." He massaged his shoulder a little more and then stuck the cookie in his mouth. "So are these cookies to make up for the ball?" He asked, glancing at her.
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Post by kristay on Feb 21, 2011 23:51:50 GMT -5
They began walking around the perimeter in a pretty comfortable silence. Aya had so many things she was just itching to tell Garret but she wasn't sure if his offer to relieve her still stood between them so before she could ask, she stopped walking, turned to him and wrung her hands nervously. "Will you still let me? I mean, rant and rave at you... Will you still let me?" She smiled apologetically as she kissed her fingertips before lightly touching the dark bruise around his eye. "I'm really sorry about abusing you; you've been really nice about it." She nodded tentatively. "Yeah, sort of my bribe to get back into your good graces."
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Post by Tiff on Feb 22, 2011 0:17:27 GMT -5
Garret grinned. "Rant and rave all you want, just try not to beat me in the process." He closed his eyes as she pressed her previously kissed fingertips to his bruised eye. "It's all good, it's not my first black eye I promise you and I can guarantee it won't be the last one either. So what's on your mind this time madame?" He finished off his second cookie and put his arm around her shoulders. "Tell me darling, what is on your mind."
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Post by kristay on Feb 22, 2011 0:34:21 GMT -5
Aya grinned cheekily. "No promises there Walker." She shifted the cookies slightly so she could be comfortable under his arm. "Well I went on a date with Dan and that was..." She didn't know how to explain it without being teased by Garret so she moved on. "And I spoke to Monte." That was what she really wanted to talk about. "And it's getting really complicated but we're friends... I think." Her face furrowed into a frown of confusion as she took another cookie and stuffed it into his mouth. "Think about what you're going to say to me Walker; if it's half-assed I'm going to pinch you."
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Post by Tiff on Feb 22, 2011 0:54:30 GMT -5
Garret gave her a nod, her figured she wouldn't be able to promise not to abuse him, he was a bunching bag after all and had the tendency to say things that asked for a beating once in a while. Dan listened to her mention the date with Dan, but instead of interrupting her, he let her continue, it didn't seem like that was her main concern. He lifted his eyebrows at the mention of Monte Mondego and opened his mouth to make some remark, when she continued and he shut it again, but she forced a cookie into his mouth as soon as she'd finished talking and he chuckled through a mouthful of cookie. He pulled the majority of the cookie out of his mouth and chewed what was in his mouth before speaking, giving the illusion that he'd thought before hand. "I'm curious about this Dan guy." He held up the hand holding the cookie, giving her a 'one second' signal. "I'm only curious because I didn't know he existed as for Monte, what exactly do you mean by you think you're friends? You think you might be more than friends?"
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Post by kristay on Feb 22, 2011 1:00:01 GMT -5
She shrugged. "I would have introduced you at the park but you went and disappeared on me. Jackie said she saw you guys but you never went to find me. He's a guy I met at the grocery store and we became friends and..." Aya sighed heavily. "I really like him Garret. And it's driving me a bit nuts that I feel this way for someone else when Monte's here and I-..." She let out a frustrated groan as he spoke again. "Well I spoke to Monte the other day; cleared things up with him. We talked a lot about Serena and Dan and about us and what had happened and what we were going to do about it." She paused again in their circuit and looked at Garret, her eyes were wide and she bit her bottom lip in guilt. "I want to be someone in his life so I promised him I'd help him out with Serena but... We kind of... kissed." The admittance made her shoulders feel a bit lighter but it still felt bad. "UGH! I feel terrible about saying this but I really liked it Walker! This is driving me nuts."
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Post by Tiff on Feb 22, 2011 1:23:25 GMT -5
Garret made a disapproving noise with his mouth as he pushed the cookie into his mouth again and she made her statement about not looking for her." He narrowed his eyes and shook his head and continued to listen like he was supposed to do. "So you and Dan are boyfriend and girlfriend?" He asked, something about the way she was talking about Dan and then moving onto Monte immediately after seemed off about it, as if they might not be at all. Then he kind of got it. "You kissed him?" He ran his now cookie free hand through his hair and looked out across the field. "Well I guess that is a complication..." He had no idea how to fix this ordeal she'd managed to get herself into, he didn't want to offer her any advice at all because he liked her more than just a friend, so in a way he was compromised. "What exactly did you and Monte decide to do about you? I'm assuming you're just going to be friends?" He raised an eyebrow. "He loves you right, you love him, I don't think you can just be friends, no matter how much you say you're dedicated to who ever, I think the two of you are always going to end up complicating everything, especially if you put yourself in tempting situations to make out. Forget him or you'll just wreck havoc on your nerves, your emotions, and any guy or girl either of you enter into a relationship with. It's either forget him and remove him completely or fuck everyone else and just be together." He removed his arm from around her shoulder and took her by the shoulders with both hands. "I don't know Monte very well, but I have a sneaking suspicion he's a lot like me and if he's in love with you, he's not going to have an easy time keeping his lips to himself and his dick in his pants around you."
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Post by kristay on Feb 22, 2011 1:32:17 GMT -5
Aya bit her lip. "I-I want to be...", She laughed when she remembered the date they had. "It's a bit funny actually because he's kind of a prude and I think that's really cute." She frowned, a sudden defensiveness overflowing in her. "I didn't kiss him! He kissed me! We-well... We kissed each other!" She scowled and crossed her arms, still holding the container of cookies.
She fell silent when he started to talk, and was almost shocked enough to drop the cookies when he grasped her by the shoulders. Garret was right, he was so right about everything and it broke her heart to hear the truth from him. Tears that she didn't even notice were slowly sliding down her surprised face as she tried to gasp out a reply. "B-but... I can't do it Garret." Her voice was barely above a whisper as an unbidden sob escaped her lips. "I can't do it..."
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Post by Tiff on Feb 22, 2011 2:16:08 GMT -5
Garret let his grip on her shoulders go and pulled her into a hug, kicking the cookie container out of the way. "You're hurting yourself more than you need to Aya." He pressed his face to the top of her head and frowned. "Tell me exactly what you can't do. You can't remove him or you can't fuck everyone and have him? Because you have to do one or the other, Dan may sympathize with you up to a certain point, any guy who really wants to be with you would, but then after a while it'll just pull them down, eat away at them and they'll give you the same ultimatum, me or him. You can't have both, and you can't expect any girl he's with to accept you or even like you. Say he somehow manages to keep his hands, lips, and penis to himself, he's still going to slip up, he'll say your name instead of hers, he'll talk about you incessantly, he'll spend important dates with you instead of her, and then she'll be jealous, she'll never want to meet you, be your friend, and then what, she'll try to monopolize your time, accuse you of being something you aren't trying to be and you'll still be unhappy."
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Post by kristay on Feb 22, 2011 2:24:42 GMT -5
Aya shook her head, she hadn't realized how confused she was, how lost she was how much she had screwed up for everyone around her just because she didn't know what she wanted. "I don't know Garret, I really don't know." Everything he said was true, everything he said made sense in her head but it all came down to her accepting the truth. And she just wasn't sure she could handle the truth yet. "I have to let him go don't I?" She didn't want to of course; she wanted to be with him, wanted to talk to him, wanted to hear his laugh and watch him confess his secrets to her like before. Aya wanted to take pictures of him and give him a stack of them in one go. She wanted to make fun of him and wanted to listen to his sarcasm and pessimistic attitude. But she thought about Serena who seemed to love Monte and about Danian who seemed to care about her more than she deserved. She thought about all the lives she could ruin if she was selfish enough to fuck everyone and be with Monte and her heart broke as she realized there was no real choice she had to make because she had made it long ago. "I have to live without him... But I don't think that I can..." Fresh tears welled up in her eyes as she realized her decision; she literally felt her heart being torn apart and it was no one's fault but her own.
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