julianne keller just wants love (superkinetics) wrote in superbabies, @ 2013-01-29 17:56:00 |
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Entry tags: | julianne keller, tomás keller |
who: Tomás Keller & Julianne Keller
when: Sunday afternoon, before Billy's post of returning.
what: The siblings finally go out for tea, tiramisu and talk! Jak grills him on his boyfriend~ and asks why the hell doesn't she have one. (Hint: floozy).
Somedays, Tomás just had to get the fuck off the Xavier campus and get away from everyone for a few hours or else he was going to freak out on everyone. These urges to leave were more frequent in the past two weeks, though in true fashion to himself he refused to acknowledge that. He refused to acknowledge the fact that he died, the fact that his sister had gone crazy, and the fact that some days he felt like he would go as well. Nope. Not going to acknowledge it at all because that was clearly the smart decision here.
What he was going to do was invite his sister to go off campus with him this time, which was why they were currently sitting in the Grind Stone Café in Salem Center enjoying coffee and baked goods. His own drink had a couple shots of espresso in it, though sadly his body would now filter through it faster than he could feel the effects from the caffeine. At least there was tiramisu? Tiramisu that he was currently shoving in his face like he hadn’t eaten anything in the past hour.
In Jak’s defense, crazy was relative to the things that had happened. Further more she didn’t remember Tomas’ death and only knows a bit of the hearsay. Mostly she had stayed away and then, well, more people she loved and considered family seemed to like leaving too... Well, maybe crazy wasn’t relative. Maybe she was reaching her end; at least the mysterious pills from Tomas’ room had given her a fun night and a nice long sleep when that finally came.
She had been up since mid-day, didn’t bother going to classes, and drinking tea. Tea was safe. Tea had nothing in it besides a little caffeine (this was the tasty green variety) and warm and soothing. Watching her brother stuff his little face with food made her smile while sitting tucked up Indian style on her chair. It was slightly awkward with her height but Jak made it work. After realizing it would be a hot minute before she could drink her tea, she sighed and asked, “So. Henry. Boyfriend. Do go on.” She liked those dirty details.
For the record, he got rid of any remaining little pills in his room by flushing them down the toilet. The monetary value meant nothing to him, plus it wasn’t like he could actually use them any longer. Yes, Tomás had taken them himself at one time, but knowing his sister did the same thing didn’t sit well with him one bit.
“Hmm?” he asked as he looked up with a mouth full of the dessert. Give him a moment here to swallow. “There’s nothing much to say really.”
If Tomas needed time to swallow then he wasn’t doing his job right. Jak nodded, glanced around, then said, “Really? Because...” she gave a wide grin, waggled her eyebrows and raised a shoulder. She knew when her brother was avoiding a topic that made him either uncomfortable or felt cornered. “You were not in your room which makes me think you are, oh, spending all your time away?” Oh, room. Right. Immediately after saying that she dropped her smile, “Which... sorry for going in. I... should not have done that. At all.”
Sometimes you just have to savor things. “Yeah. I spent time with him this weekend.” Doing things and stuff and junk. Thankfully, his sister gave him a nice out to completely change the subject. “You really shouldn’t take random pills, Jak. It’s really not a good idea and I know from personal experience here.”
Damn, she shouldn’t have deflected. It took Jak a couple minutes to respond, thinking on it. She was upset, Billy was gone, and caffeine was a great stimulant to keep her happy. Coffee had always done it before and, at the time, this seemed like a wonderful idea. Keep the happy going despite everything. Sometimes she felt like people were weirded out when she was upset and given the general mental state of the school lately Jak hadn’t wanted to make even more people worry. When one pill didn’t kick in she took another, and when the second didn’t, the third seemed like a great idea. What she didn’t realize was that they weren’t exactly caffeine and the substance that made up Adderall was a thousand times more potent.
Well, she learned. “I know. I... guess I won’t any more.” Assuming there’s a next time. Hopefully not, people really needed to stop leaving her and just stay. One place. That’s all she asked.
“Remember last summer when we went to Spain? And to Ibiza? I can’t remember most of those few days thanks to taking random pills,” Tomás confessed as he set his fork down on the plate. What he could remember was fun, but loss of time really wasn’t a good thing in the long run. “I don’t want that happening to you.”
Oh, that was a fun summer holiday. This summer she’ll, well, she might be watching a birth. That would be a severe departure. She did remember, but more than Tomas it seemed, and smiled in fond memory. Their summer holidays were the best. Reaching for his hand, she gave him an understanding look, “I know. I appreciate it. I do. But! I am not you. I won’t... make the same choices.” Except she is and she doesn’t realize it.
Watch a birth? Screw the birth. Tomás wanted to hit a couple cities in South America and go on a meat eating fest in Buenos Aires. Now that would be much more fun than watching a vagina stretch in all sorts of weird directions. Hesitating for a moment, he finally picked back up his fork and tried to determine exactly what his sister meant with his words. “Good thing you aren’t me. The world doesn’t need three Julian Kellers.”
That made her laugh, “Tomás ! The world has three Julian Kellers.” It’s true, their father is an egotistical man and couldn’t help himself. At least their middle names were different. “How are you, though. Really. Really. And do not lie.”
Technically, she was a Julianne, but come on now. It was pretty damn obvious she was named a feminine name that sounded like Julian. Either way, Tomás had to laugh at her statement because she was correct. “I’m okay. A lot better than I could have been, I guess.”
“Good!” Because it is good. Any worse and he would be dead. Though she thought not of this but more of the future, where they could go. The team ups, the life saving, the heroic adventures. “...How did you know you liked boys?” Left field question!
Not that he would have really known he was dead, but Tomás was glad he wasn’t. When he thought about it, the idea that he had once been deceased actually scared him, so he was fairly thankful that his sister didn’t want to dwell on it. “How did you know you liked boys?” he threw back at her as he shoved another piece of tiramisu in his mouth.
This caused her to think. How did she know? She didn’t, actually. “I don’t... I don’t know if I do. They are pretty! Like Theo and Jason’s faces, and Noe’s. He’s more exotic. But then... some of the girls are pretty!” Surprisingly Jak had no qualms with either. Not like her brother, who openly went both ways, but she thought everyone was pretty. Not a single ugly person. It was something she had been thinking about a lot lately. How would she know? She wouldn’t. She would just be. “Did you know?”
Well this conversation just got more interesting. Perhaps at the next family gathering they should just announce ‘Surprise! Both your children want to bang everyone! Yay!’ Julian would be so please with that turn of events. “Really now?” Huh. This was... huh. “I just knew. At that age when all the other guys started noticing girls, I was noticing guys too.”
“Oh!” Well that made sense. And cleared a lot of things up. Jak noticed boys first. She was the one pulling their hair though and laughing when they cried. Then she learned that was mean and gave them kisses on the wounds she made. The girls came later. “I guess not then.” Jak paused, tested her tea for coolness (not yet) and thought some more. “I don’t understand our school, Tomas. Everyone... No, nevermind. Forget it. Have you spoken to mom or dad lately? I miss them.”
Sorry he couldn’t give you the idea that it was some great revelation with a choir of angels here, Jak. It was just something he knew, though it took coming to Xavier’s to... well everyone knew how he dealt with that. “Dad sent me an email. He wants me to see some doctors he knows to make sure everything is okay with me. I don’t know.” Another bite of tiramisu. “Everyone is what at school?”
“He does? Like what?” That was suspicious. Jak thought the school had taken care of all that. They did, after all, have a lot of doctors and access to chemists and labs. “Who would he know that would be better than who we have?” This was her attempt to distract but even she couldn’t distract herself. “Tomas, I want a boyfriend. I don’t understand why I don’t! My butt is very cute!”
“I don’t know. He just knows specialists or something in the city. Who knows.” Tomás was going to go see the specialist just to get his father off his back. There may have been threats to his credit card if he didn’t comply. “Why? Most of the guys at the school are jerks.” Plus he had slept with a lot of them and frankly, that would be a bit awkward to have banged both the Keller siblings.
“Oh, weird.” Very weird. Their father was up to something. Maybe they could push later, wait to butter him up with some nice things.
“I... I see how happy everyone else is. Sometimes I think it would be nice.” But being a kissing ho was a little nicer, too. She did shy away from Todd; relationships seemed scary. Was there something that incorporated what she wanted without the monogamy? Probably not. “You seem happy. You have one.”
Or maybe their father just had better doctors than the ones at the school?
And there was something like that Jak, but it usually accompanied a reputation that others looked down upon greatly. It didn’t seem like the type of thing she could handle. “I’ve been in one for, like, three days.” He paused a moment to eat the last bit of his cake. “You don’t need a relationship to be happy, Jak.”
No one was better than Dr Starsmore and Dr Lady Starsmore! Well, maybe Beast... but he wasn’t around anymore, the blue furball.
“Well,” Jak had enough of him eating the cake. Using her finger she ‘cut’ a piece off and fed the piece to herself. Screw manners. No one liked those. “Sure, but a lot of those people drink, or sleep around, or do other things.” Clearly relationships were all hearts and stars to her.
Don't think about it too much, Jak.
"You are aware I did all that, right?" He was fairly sure she knew about his reputation, but then again Jak could be... well, very Jak. "I mean if that's what someone wants to do, that's okay."
Too late. The cogs were turning and she was thinking about this. While she knew Tomas had done these things, that he had spent a large portion of his last few years indulging himself while she looked on, she didn’t understand why. Though now she was beginning to understand and yet, “Why did you do that stuff? Why? Do you... do you regret any of it?”
He didn’t quite understand why either beyond it felt good and overall it was a fun time. Some people might think it had something to do with his parents shitty marriage, but good luck trying to tell Tomás that. “I regret a few things,” he replied with a shrug. “Guess that’s life though.”
Oh, finally her green tea was cool enough. It was like drinking the outdoors with a touch of mint. “What do you regret?” Specifically. She’s curious about this era of his life that no one knows that much about. Well, that she didn’t know that much about.
If he had his way, Jak wouldn’t know anything about certain aspects of his life. It went way beyond that talking about things of a sexual nature with his sister were weird. In many ways, Tomás was afraid of the judgement he might get from here and while he rarely gave two shits about the opinions of others, his sister was a completely different matter. “Just certain things I did with certain people.”
That was not an answer! She pushed. “Like?” Because, he could tell her! Jak has proven to be quite good at keeping secrets. Absolutely wonderful, really. “You can tell me. Who am I going to tell? Mom? I keep secrets.”
“No.” Tomás shook his head vigorously in an effort to drive his point home. “It isn’t about keeping secrets.”
“Then what? Are you ashamed?” There wasn’t much to be ashamed about! Jak had no shame. Granted she hasn’t done much... at all.
“Yeah. I am ashamed of what I did that time.”
Oh. “I’m sorry.” She didn’t want her brother feeling ashamed of activities! So to drag them out of the sad and back into the happy: “Noe took me dancing. For a man with a few missing fingers he’s very agile. You should go dancing.” Jak kindly left off that ‘with your boyfriend’ part.
Being the proverbial other woman in an infidelity situation was something he would probably always feel ashamed of doing. While he didn’t feel bad or ashamed of many things, Tomás did about that. “Noe is an alright guy.” Who better stay a Bible-width apart from his sister while dancing. “We should go out dancing.” Not to a club, but rather the nice ballroom style they had been taught growing up in the city.
That may be something she didn’t need to know about. Even though she wasn’t close to any of them it would still make her a little sad. “Noe is a good person.” But that bible’s width didn’t exactly happen; that’s no way to dance. But proper dancing, well. “When? Soon? You should bring your boyfriend!” Ha! She’s said it more than he has. “I will... find someone.” With class and elegance.
Exactly, Jak. Exactly. At her suggestion she bring Henry along with a formal dancing outing, Tomás had to laugh. “Nah.” As funny as the mental picture was, no. “Something tells me Henry Power is not coordinated enough for me to lead him in a foxtrot.”