Rose 30: Skye spam

Rose

Link graduates today!

   Pedro is the only one of us that actually has an umbrella, and his is destroyed. The rest of us get soaked.

Chasity has one. I guess she has more sense than the rest of us.

(I had the best time listening to and laughing at the bullsh*t names during the graduation ceremony. It's been a while since I've sat and listened to it.)

     Link graduated as valedictorian! He was voted most artistic.

    We're all about to starve to death since the ceremony interrupted brunch. So, we all go home, and Link and Chasity move into their little house inside the city wall. One has been built in the neighboring lot where I lived when I first moved here.

(Bye, Link! Now, go make pretty babies with your wife! Yes, be fruitful and multiply.)

(I'm going to apologize ahead of time for the Skye spam. I just like to look at him. The camera loves him too.)

Skye

    "How many times are you going to believe his bullsh*t?" I ask Carmen almost angrily.
    "Skye!" she exclaims, shocked that I'd resort to swearing. "And then he accused me of cheating on him with you." if only "I told him we were just friends." huh "He didn't believe me, so I got mad at his gall. So, I broke up with him."
     I feel my jaw drop and my eyes widen as what she just said finally makes its way to my brain.
     She starts giggling at my slack-jawed expression.

    She takes a step towards me and puts a hand on either side of my face. "I finally saw him for the jerk he is.. the jerk you've been trying to tell me he is for forever."

     Then she wraps her arms around my neck. Oh. I can't help but bring mine tightly around her waist. I love the way her hair smells. I love the way this feels. I don't want to let go.
     So, what does this mean? Does this mean that she likes me like I like her? Because she knows I like her. At least, she'd better. I've only just about told her a billion times or more.

     I'm thrilled that she's not trying to wiggle out of my hold. Instead, she rests her head fully on my shoulder. I like this.
      She starts talking again, and I honestly try to pay attention. I keep getting distracted by the smell of her hair, among other things.
      "...and so I got mad at him. Crystal graduated, and she's staying with Glen. I won't be too surprised to find out they're engaged soon. Anyway, so Efren, when he saw that, he started begging me to forgive him and come back, but I'm not having it. Besides, I don't even like him anymore." Then she whispers, "I like somebody else."

     I pull back to look at her face. "Tell me what you mean by that." I nearly plead.
     Giselle walks into the living room, obviously having escaped Mom. Carmen looks over at her nervously.
      I turn to Giselle and ask her to leave.
      "Put a sock in it, Skye. I don't have to go anywhere. This is the living room. A communal area. ... that means an area where everyone can be, by the way." she finishes like I don't have a large vocabulary.
      Carmen shakes her head and says, "It's okay. I don't know what I was saying anyway."
      Noooo! I could strangle Giselle right now if I thought I could get away with it. What Carmen said, and especially was hopefully about to say, took guts. Now, she's lost those guts.
      I'm sure when I look back on this, I'll wish I had just taken her outside, but I also don't want to lose this moment. "Because you know I like you." I blurt out. I'm not sure why I started with 'because', but she doesn't look like she minded. Still, she looks incredibly uncomfortable thanks to Giselle. At least, I almost hope it's due to Giselle.. who's hopefully ignoring us while she watches her stupid soap opera. "Please tell me if it's me." I ask while she fidgets.

     "Okay, well, I'm going to take a chance here since you know I like you, and I have to ask. Will you go steady with me?" I hope I'm not blushing like a girl. "If you don't want to, it won't ruin our friendship. I just want to ask you before anyone else goes and asks you before I get a -"

    -chance.
     She doesn't let me finish, but I don't mind. Right now, I don't mind anything. I don't even care if my brat sister is staring right at us. Carmen is kissing me. Wow.
     She starts to pull back, and I lean in and try to make it last a little longer. It was just a simple kiss, and I should be surprised she did that in front of Giselle. I still don't want it to end yet. I guess I'll have to pick up where we left of later because she succeeds in pulling away.

     "I take that as a yes?" I ask, and she nods nervously.
     I have rendered Carmen speechless. Cool.

   After Carmen goes home, I go out in the backyard. Ever since Link graduated, I can't get anyone to play with me. Donovan does nothing but complain about getting burned... or bugs... or allergies, or losing all the time, etc, and Milo flat sucks at it and gets aggravated and leaves. Giselle, the one time I asked her, merely glared at me with a 'you gotta be kidding me' look on her face.

    Carmen is my girlfriend. Finally.


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I've worked on the Rose Chapters tab to update stuff like the half-a-roll that I didn't screw up for the first generation as well as parts of the roll for the second. (Of course, I didn't want to spoil the whole thing.) The next chapter, Donovan ages to adult in the first half of it, but the theme of it keeps it in the 1st gen section.

Stuff that happened:
Glen Romano and Crystal Valenci engaged, just like Carmen suspected. ;)
I roamed around in edit town, came back, and Skye is now the youngest. Dammit, game... he ages up on Thursday.
Giselle has quite a following of guys. It must be the aqua-phobic trait lol. I keep getting bombarded by notifications and phone calls. Driving me crazy a little, actually.

Deaths:
Gino Ferrari, Myles Burnett

Births:
Beppe + Marta = Cosma (f)

Oh, and here's an adorable pic that didn't fit in, but I just had to take it:

Just an ordinary expression.. he does those so well.

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