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fiery_ring) wrote2008-10-15 06:36 pm
fiery_ring) wrote2008-10-15 06:36 pm
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It had been a good nature walk, up until now.
Carlotta gives an exasperated sigh. Angry at herself more than anything else, for being so easily seperated from the others. She's not too worried for her safety, because Pat saw her get pulled into the barn, but she's got an unpleasant feeling that the other girls will spend too much time getting a teacher and not enough just barging in.
"Frank, the more you pull this sort of stunt, the less I trust you." she says, sitting down on a bale of hay. "You're an idiot, you must have known the others would notice you doing this in broad daylight."
"I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to talk to you." Frank says, swinging his legs idly from a beam. "I'll be gone long before your silly teachers get here, and you can't be in trouble for talking to me if I shoved you in here."
Carlotta, for once, remains on the ground.
"I don't want to go with you. I have to finish school. Now let me out, please. Miss Theobald will call the police."
"Oh Carlotta, you're so wasted in that place!" Frank pleads, dropping down. "You and I could earn a fortune out there, you're awfully good. Oh, and by the way, I found this back at the circus and the others said it was your mother's a long time ago."
He passes her a charm bracelet, with a little silvery elephant, a unicycle and a circus tent dangling from its chain. Carlotta takes it, and looks at it.
"Thank you." she slips it on under her sleeve. "I'm still not coming."
She springs up, climbing the sticking out areas of the wooden barn walls until she's at the rafters. There's an open window the other side. Catching on to the idea, Frank quickly follows, and chases as she leaps between the rafters. By the time they are half way across, it is clear that she is the more practiced acrobat, and he lands clumsily on a rafter, slipping and having to make a grab to prevent himself from falling.
Carlotta jumps and swings on a rope attached to the ceiling, probably used to lift hay she assumes. She lands gracefully the other side, turning around just briefly to Frank.
"You've grown out of your trained centre of gravity. If you are in a circus, you aren't training."
With that, she takes a run-up along the final beam towards the open window, hoping that she has remembered the outside layout correctly, then makes the biggest leap she can manage.
She sails neatly through the air, turns a double somersault, then lands with a very inelegant splash in the middle of a large pond.
Carlotta gives an exasperated sigh. Angry at herself more than anything else, for being so easily seperated from the others. She's not too worried for her safety, because Pat saw her get pulled into the barn, but she's got an unpleasant feeling that the other girls will spend too much time getting a teacher and not enough just barging in.
"Frank, the more you pull this sort of stunt, the less I trust you." she says, sitting down on a bale of hay. "You're an idiot, you must have known the others would notice you doing this in broad daylight."
"I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to talk to you." Frank says, swinging his legs idly from a beam. "I'll be gone long before your silly teachers get here, and you can't be in trouble for talking to me if I shoved you in here."
Carlotta, for once, remains on the ground.
"I don't want to go with you. I have to finish school. Now let me out, please. Miss Theobald will call the police."
"Oh Carlotta, you're so wasted in that place!" Frank pleads, dropping down. "You and I could earn a fortune out there, you're awfully good. Oh, and by the way, I found this back at the circus and the others said it was your mother's a long time ago."
He passes her a charm bracelet, with a little silvery elephant, a unicycle and a circus tent dangling from its chain. Carlotta takes it, and looks at it.
"Thank you." she slips it on under her sleeve. "I'm still not coming."
She springs up, climbing the sticking out areas of the wooden barn walls until she's at the rafters. There's an open window the other side. Catching on to the idea, Frank quickly follows, and chases as she leaps between the rafters. By the time they are half way across, it is clear that she is the more practiced acrobat, and he lands clumsily on a rafter, slipping and having to make a grab to prevent himself from falling.
Carlotta jumps and swings on a rope attached to the ceiling, probably used to lift hay she assumes. She lands gracefully the other side, turning around just briefly to Frank.
"You've grown out of your trained centre of gravity. If you are in a circus, you aren't training."
With that, she takes a run-up along the final beam towards the open window, hoping that she has remembered the outside layout correctly, then makes the biggest leap she can manage.
She sails neatly through the air, turns a double somersault, then lands with a very inelegant splash in the middle of a large pond.