Morningstar Manor

They'd talked about ceiling fans, so now here they were, standing in an aisle at that department store Alec could never remember the name of, with their heads tipped back staring up at the display models.

"So...what'd ya think?" Alec said finally, bringing his head back down and turning it one way and then other, making it crack noisely. He was starting to get a crick from staring up so long.

Travis was occupying space at a table in the Mocha. He hadn't ordered anything. He couldn't eat anything. He'd barely slept last night. Every time he closed his eyes and started to drift a loud bang caused him to jolt awake.

He had gotten up with Memphis and gone in to the shop. He hadn't been any help and Memphis was still angry with him, so he'd sent Travis off to home with the request that he stay there until Memphis was back. Travis wanted to eek past that and go find out how Amarie was doing. Just some way to find out would be a relief, but nobody would give him information over the phone. He'd already tried.

So now, he sat here, occupying space and causing anybody talking to him to repeat themselves.

There had been no news for a horribly long time, so rather than just sit there, listening to Romana pointing out his shortcomings as a surrogate parent, he had gone down to see his mother.

She was distraught, but her faith in God was absolute. Amarie was hurt - but lived. They would both get well and then everything would be as it was before.

Vincenzo had to agree - any expression of doubt would have been cruel - but once he had left the Oncology department and headed back up to Amarie's ward he found he didn't want to go back just yet.

He found a bench to sit on, closed his eyes and leaned back against the wall.

Warm, sunny weather! Everybody was out somewhere, enjoying it:

• Andras was in Riverwalk Park, on his bike, giving Axminster a run, and ogling the male joggers.
• Lajos was sitting outside the Italian restaurant on Rutherford, waiting for his fettucine.
• Charlotte was in the Manor garden, drinking cappuccino and watching three of her cats play.
• Cindy was at the Foundry Market, buying melons.
• Manny and Marek were hiding out in the basement as the day was much too bright for ghosts.
• Ashley was in the swimming pool on the roof, drifting, on his back, eyes closed.
• Maude and her son Manny were sitting on their living room balcony and discussing the imminent baby.
• Ricky was sitting at the foot of the statue on Vine Square, happily licking a large old-fashioned ice cream cone.

The Nazgul just discovered that Apocalyptica are playing in Munich this Friday! Supporting band: 'Subway To Sally', an excellent German Medieval Rock crossover band, two of whose songs made it onto my Teja playlist.

The Nazgul managed to still get tickets, late in the day though it was! We are going! I won't be online on Friday even before eleven my time!

Okay another quick recap of my insane schedule.

Tomorrow I am gone all day. I'm headed to Warped Tour and working my ass off all day. Friday is the 4th of July so I might be around in the morning then off to spend time with the fam. Saturday - hopefully I have time to recover. But I'll try and pop on at some point over the weekend.

Have a good one guys!

Kel

( Gossiping maids )
The woman ran out of the laundry room, up the stairs and through the lobby without even thinking that she had left a pile of laundry behind. She only stopped running when she was already knocking on the door of apartment L-E.