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Ralph Kocharyan (tenmilesdeep) wrote in nosuchplace,
@ 2009-10-28 18:14:00

Entry tags:

chris jung, hayate ishikawa, ralph kocharyan

Thursday: February 14, 2008
Who: Chris, Hayate & Ralph
When: Night
Where: Hayate's place
What: Going to hell in a handbasket of bad deeds and bad choices
Warnings: Mature sexual content w/three people (eventually) and one is a teenager, jsyk.

Ralph crossed his arms over his chest. He was trying to lock warmth inside his coat. The days were easy to bear, but the nights were freezing. He walked steadily on a dirt road. Ralph counted his steps. He was on two hundred and seventy-three when the menial task bored him. He stopped counting. Ralph thought on the reason why he was out tonight. The path led to the address on the slip of paper in his pocket. Paper given to him by Hayate last night.

What had he agreed to? Ralph never did anything like this before. Just thinking about it was bizarre. He said yes though. Turning back on his word now wasn’t right. How is this right? Ralph thought. He frowned. It wasn’t wrong if everyone agreed. Morally ambiguous. Ralph liked to look at it that way.

Was what he tried to do last night right? It wasn’t any different. Ralph had moral lines. He did. The problem was figuring out where they began, and where they ended.

He noticed the lights of the cottage. Ralph walked up to Hayate’s home. His hair had fallen into his face so he raked it back using his hand. He knocked and held his breath. Morally ambiguous. He could do this.

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splitimpulse
2009-10-29 01:33 am UTC (link)

Chris had stopped by for a short visit earlier in the day to let Hayate know about her plans for the afternoon. She was going to take some time out with her brother and her friend, Logan, and Hayate had said nothing regarding it but gave her a soft, encouraging smile. Chris needed to spend time with her family, and Hayate understood that; she had friends outside of her life with him as well. Hayate had to squash the trickles of jealousy seeping in as he faced the fact that he was not the only one. Selfish to a fault, and intensely possessive, Hayate abhorred all things connected to her that did not involve his presence.

During her brief visit, he talked with Chris about their possible visitor tonight. She seemed to take the news about their visitor happily, but he sensed the waves of anxiety underneath her skin. Chris agreed to Hayate’s idea when it first came up, but she was still just a girl and she was going to have her misgivings. He mentioned tonight was only a visit; if things did not go well enough in a simple conversation, they would send their visitor away. Hayate detected the relief in Chris’s eyes as he told her so.

He spent the majority of the day alone, but Chris returned in the late evening. Hayate assumed she came up with another one of her miraculous excuses for which friend’s house she was going to for the night, and her guardians bought it or perhaps they just were not paying enough attention to Chris. Either way, Hayate was glad for it.

With Chris’s help in the kitchen, Hayate began to prepare a light meal for the evening. He figured both humans would be more comfortable with food at their fingertips. He recalled a saying once about food helping conversation flow and thought it was not a bad idea. He left Chris in the kitchen to go and set up the coffee table in his sitting room when he heard the knock at the door. It was loud enough for Chris to hear it, too. Hayate approached the door to open it, hoping things went well tonight.

He opened the door and let a welcoming smile spread across his face at the sight of Ralph. The man did not disappoint. “I see you’ve made it,” Hayate said to him, stepping aside as he held open the door for Ralph.

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runasone
2009-10-29 04:36 am UTC (link)

Despite Chris's intense attachment to Hayate the girl still managed to make time for the other people in her life. She had her brother (with whom she was very close), and now that she was living with Mitsuko and Logan she had them as well. She had to make time for them in the same manner that she did for Hayate; though truth be told Hayate took up much more of Chris's time, and that was the way the girl liked it. She hated being away from him for very long, and she tried to make those moments few and far between.

She had returned to Hayate's cottage in the late afternoon after spending hours with Logan and Charlie. She loved them dearly, and it was nice being with them in the same way when they traveled to Elysium. They bonded then, and now it felt as if that kinship was being rekindled. It was nice, and Chris enjoyed it. But she enjoyed being with Hayate, too, and it was important to be with him tonight. He had invited someone over for a visit, and it was enough to make Chris's stomach fill with butterflies.

The girl knew the reasons Hayate had invited a man over. It was for the idea he proposed to her a week ago. She hadn't expected them to go through with it so soon, but she knew if they waited too long she would get cold feet, and not go through with it at all. Chris didn't want to disappoint Hayate in that way, and so she did her best to calm her nerves. She took a deep breath when she heard the knock on the door, and she knew instantly that it was the "special" visitor. Chris took a deep breath, and finished up the tray of snacks she had prepared before she bounded out of the kitchen.

She smoothed the front of her shirt, and fixed her hair by smoothing her fingers through it. She appeared behind Hayate, and smiled brightly at the stranger. The only problem was that it wasn't a stranger at all. "Ralph!" The girl moved from behind Hayate's to hug the man tightly. All thoughts of their plans for the night flew out of her mind, and she focused on the unexpected appearance of her friend.

"Oh my god, it's so good to see you!" She stepped back to smile at him, and reached a hand up to his face. "You shaved," she said. "It suits you better," she said as she pulled her hand back. She had made a habit of reminding herself to not act like a child, and so there was no giggling or childish bouncing as she talked to Ralph. She had also started to wear a little bit of make-up, and though it was subtle it was enough to make her seem slightly older than before. "What are you doing here," she asked as she pulled him inside.