Step Away from the Bunny Who: Blake and Lindy When: Sunday June 21, 2009 mid-morning Where: Lindy's front yard
Blake was well on his way to becoming a morning person, which would probably lead to his brother eventually strangling him - he wasn't the quietest guy in the morning, and he definitely didn't do well getting dressed in the dark. Lucky for Blake and for Jackson, the most he needed at 7 in the morning was a pair of swim trunks and flip flops which were downstairs. He went for his morning swim, back at the school this time because it was open once again. Tomorrow would be his first day meeting with one of the coaches of the swim team. He expected that it wouldn't go over exactly smoothly, but Blake was prepared for hard work. He had been acting since the age of three, which meant long hours of rehearsals and sacrificing the majority of his summers for theater workshops, set building, and the ever fun summer production at the community theater - well except for this year. Swimming would just fill the void that acting had left.
He returned at 9, showered, and changed. He was still the only one up in the house and thus was trying his best to be quiet. It was an unspoken rule in the Lowell house that Sunday was the day for everyone everyone to sleep in. This was a rule Blake had respected since he was little, it meant no crying before 10, which sometimes was more than he could bare. Especially when he was little. But for the time being? He could manage. Since no one else was up, he went outside and sat on the front porch, Tao sat in his lap as he went over lines that he had mostly memorized by this point for the musical that he would most certainly not be in. Tao warned him how this wouldn't be good for his poor ego but he didn't listen to her. That familiar might as well have recited the magna carta - Blake wasn't going to budge. He was still under the belief that he deserved to be upset about all of this. Just another reminder about how Bunny and he were on the rocks. Not in the boyfriend/girlfriend sense because she made it ultra clear that she didn't have those sorts of feelings for him, but rather the friendship sense. He hadn't talked to her in eight days now. Eight whole days and it was eating him up from the inside. It was bad enough being in love with someone and they didn't love you back, but when that person was formerly your best friend until you went down a slippery slope of just screwing things up even further? Well that bit the big one.
After a while he got bored of that and started searching for his skateboard, his old one, the one that didn't have the bunny on it when he heard a car pull in across the street from him. At first he didn't think anything of it, but then he realized what day it was. Lindy was supposed to get back any time now from her dance camp and while they hadn't been particularly close, well at least not as close as say he and Rhys were (because he had long suspected she came over for Jackson and not him), he was still very excited at the thought of seeing her. She could be the whole person in the whole world who didn't know about his complete and utter humiliation on the camping trip. How he had told Bunny he loved her in song form, complete with hip thrusts and choreographed dance moves that would have made Lindy cringe. He forgot about his need for the skateboard and ran across his yard, leaping across the street until he got in her driveway. The moment she got out of her parents' car, he picked her up spinning her around like she was a stuffed animal, which wasn't the best route to go considering she wasn't one. "Lindy!" Blake said spinning around a second time before putting her down.
You have issues. Tao told him, hopping to his side.
Ignoring this, Blake gave Lindy his best smile. "How was camp?" He shoved his hands in his pockets, his sunglasses were halfway down his nose at this point from all of the movement, so it wasn't hard for him to make eye contact with her.