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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 23, 2008 10:47:58 GMT -5
Scritch, scratch, scrape...
Scritch, scratch, scrape...
While some people might wonder why the head of the drama department was pulling down last spring's posters herself, Toni really didn't mind. She liked spending time in the auditorium, with or without other people.
...Besides, the last time she'd asked somebody else to to it, they'd sold all of the old ones. To her various admirers. Who had all asked her to sign them. Talk about annoying!
Still, it would be nice to have a bit of company, she mused, pulling out a particularly stubborn staple. It came out, but not before it embedded itself in her thumb.
"Shit!" she muttered, trying to pull it out again.
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Post by linette on Aug 23, 2008 11:16:18 GMT -5
Linette didn't know what she was doing or why, but she found herself in the empty auditorium. At least, at first she thought it was empty. But then she spotted a girl nursing her thumb on the other side of the room.
"Are you okay?" Linette called over, making her way over to the girl. She was alone, so she thought she might want some company.
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 25, 2008 22:56:35 GMT -5
Toni looked up, slightly embarrassed to have not noticed the other girl come in.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Or I will be, if I can have a minor surgery on my thumb." She held up the slightly bloody appendage with a grimace.
Giving up, she ripped down another poster; this time with her left hand. It was just so hard to pull the damn thing out one-handed!
"Ah well," she said with an obviously fake self-sacrificing air, "That's what I get for doing everything myself."
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Post by linette on Aug 27, 2008 13:30:52 GMT -5
Linette cringed at the injury. When the girl went back to trying to take down the posters, this time one handed, she couldn't help but notice she was struggling.
"Here, I'll help you," Linette smiled, reaching up and aiding her in taking down the posters. "I'm Linette, by the way."
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 27, 2008 14:18:31 GMT -5
Toni smiled gratefully, "Thanks much. I'm Toni."
Pulling down another, she was satisfied to notice that her face ripped in half. She hadn't much liked the picture- it was for the spring musical, Little Shop of Horrors, in which she had played Audrey. The character was fun to play- but the costumes were atrocious! Way too much makeup+way too much cleavage. Not to mention that it was hard to sing quite so high...
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Post by linette on Aug 27, 2008 19:50:56 GMT -5
"Nah, don't mention it. I've got nothing else to do," Linette laughed, shrugging. It was true. She didn't have a lover to go off to, and she didn't have many friends yet.
"So your thumb's okay?" she asked, just to make sure. She didn't want it to become infected.
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 27, 2008 20:21:50 GMT -5
Toni winced, looking down at it, "It should be. And I'll make sure I put antiseptic on it when I get back to my room."
"Sooo..." She said, as she often did when scrambling around for a conversation topic, "What brings you down to my neck of the woods, anyhow?" She indicated the otherwise empty theatre.
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Post by linette on Aug 27, 2008 22:08:42 GMT -5
Linette shrugged.
"Would it be weird if I said that I was just bored and was looking for a single girl with nothing to do and no strings attached?" she asked, but not really meaning it as a true question, more like a reason. Two things struck Linette. One, Toni doesn't know Linette is a lesbian, and two, this description pretty much fit Toni, but Linette didn't want her to get the wrong idea of why she was helping her. "Er... let's just leave it at, I was bored..." she said, biting her lip in embarassment.
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 27, 2008 23:35:55 GMT -5
Toni shrugged in return, "Hey, there's nothing wrong with that." She ripped down another poster, wondering how on earth Ted- a budding photographer who did most of the art for the posters- had talked her into standing in quite that pose. Honestly, she knew it fit the part, but the entire school did not need to be so intimate with her cleavage.
"I mean," she said, ripping through her overly made-up face again, "I am single," rip, "I'm pretty bored, pulling down posters by myself," tear, "and all I have in the way of marionettes is a protective little brother."
She grimaced, "Oh, and my fanclub. The reason I'm pulling these down myself, rather than letting them circulate through the school."
She shuddered. She had barely been back to school five days when she got her first "anonymous" love letter. It turned out to be from a boy she had repeatedly rejected; trying to be nice at first, and slowly losing her patience until her last rejection. That had involved his head, her shoe, and a trip to the emergency room to be absolutely sure he didn't have a concussion.
Not that the poor boy got the picture, or anything so sensible.
On a completely different note, Toni had no idea why she was being so open with Linette. Sure, she supported her little brother, and sure, she was curious about herself, but she had never been quite so... blase about it.
Interesting.
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Post by linette on Aug 28, 2008 9:42:26 GMT -5
Was it wrong that Linette smiled at the 'I'm single' Toni said? She shook it off and listened, properly.
"Aw, a fanclub? I'm jealous. I'm afraid nobody at this darned school really likes me. I've already pissed off Tinsley, and I haven't really met anyone else." She rolled her eyes. "Who would want to be friends with the creepy, grungy lesbian girl? Ugh." She couldn't comprehend why she was venting to poor Toni, knowing she wouldn't really want to hear her problems.
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 28, 2008 11:14:59 GMT -5
"Me." Toni said matter-of-factly, "I would. Antonia Mercedes Coello, head of the drama department, and just as popular as that bitch Tinsley, who she cannot mouth off to to her face if she wants to keep living because- Isn't she so lucky- she's forced to share a room with her."
She rolled her eyes, "And my fanclub is the only thing that makes me rethink going into acting as a career. I like to think of them as 'paparazzi conditioning.'"
That is, if she ever got good enough to be bothered by paparazzi. She never voiced her fears out loud, but the movie business was a cutthroat industry. For every star, a hundred hopefuls had their dreams crushed. It was just a little terrifying to think about.
"So, you're lesbian?" she asked, wondering why she was reinstating the obvious.
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Post by linette on Aug 28, 2008 17:03:13 GMT -5
Linette nodded, smiling sympatheticly.
"Bunking with Tinsley? That must be hell on earth."
Taking off yet another poster, she nodded.
"Yup. Lesbian all the way. My parents, both women, were les, and my father was 'Doner 132'," She smiled. "When you grow up in a les household, it's kinda hard not to live it. Too bad that's not respected nowadays. There's like, three other lesbians here, and they're all weirdos." She sighed solemnly.
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 28, 2008 20:35:33 GMT -5
Toni winced, "Oh, it is. It is. She opened up a pen over my favorite sweater for snubbing her in front of her 'friends'."
Listening to her talking about her mothers, she had to sigh. "You're lucky. My little brother's gay-all-the-way; out to everybody except two people. Care to guess who those bigots might be?"
She laughed ruefully. "It must be nice to be able to trust your parents."
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Post by linette on Aug 28, 2008 20:41:42 GMT -5
Linette shook her head, tsk tsking Tisnley telepathicly.
"You're brother is gay? Hmm... I'll have to meet him. It's not every day you meet someone you can relate to. My parents may be okay with it, but a lot of people around here don't. Oh well. I'll look for a girlfriend when I'm out of here."
She took off another poster, accidently stabbing herself the way Toni had, but on a different finger, somehow. This made her laugh as she nursed herself, examining her finger, before rolling her eyes and going back to the posters and convorsation.
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Post by Antonia "Toni" Coello on Aug 28, 2008 20:53:00 GMT -5
"Yep; the baby of the family does not adore the rents. I'll introduce you sometime. ((OOC: as soon as somebody makes him )) "He's the one that really opened up my eyes, so to speak. I used to think my parents were bigoted, but tolerably so. But when he explained to me why he wouldn't come out to them..." she shuddered. "Ah! These staples are cursed!" she moaned, looking at Linette's now-damaged hand. "Anyhow, he's been taking great pleasure in asking me if I'm straight. Honestly, though, I'm not sure. I think I'm probably bi, but," she waved her hand, "I rather lack the experience required to be sure." Moving to take down another poster, she realized that she had come full-circle around the room. "Damn, that took way less time than I thought!" she said. "Now, I just have to put up the audition posters!"
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