Anybody home? [closed]

[Ren]

Ren flinched as Jun smacked him, his own arm raising to lightly brush away the hand as if it were an annoying fly. The redness of his cheeks ebbed as he caught his brothers eyes. Although Jun seemed passive, almost playful, Ren knew his brother was dead serious. There was a sharpness to the others eyes that caused Ren to hesitate momentarily as he returned his brother's look. Their miniature staring contest didn't last long. Ren rubbed his head gently and adverted his eyes, mumbling incoherent nonsense under his breath, though if the others listened hard enough they might have heard a few choice curse words.

He looked up in time to see Riley stepping towards him, her hand outstretched in a greeting. Ren froze, his bottom lip dropping open slightly at he focused on her hand. His eyes proceeded to trail upwards till he met her face. Damn she's pretty. Ren squeezed his eyes shut and opened them again, almost as if he had expected her to vanish. When she didn't, Ren gulped, his right hand lifting to meet hers, only to retract suddenly, inches away from pale flesh. Without another word Ren turned and fled, retreating to the safety of his room, the door shut rather forcefully behind him.

As he took a couple of deep breaths Ren rubbed his head furiously with both of his heads as he hissed between his teeth, "Dammit, dammit, dammit. You fucking blew it Ren. Again. What the fuck is wrong with you?" Ren paced back and forth, kicking clothes out of his way before he groaned and flopped down onto his bed, reaching out to snatch his gigantic cow plushie to hide his face. After a few seconds he lifted the white and black stuffed animal up to stare it in the face, "She's going to hate me Moo-Moo." It wasn't so much that Ren was particularly concerned about Riley. He reacted this way towards every pretty girl. He couldn't help it, and Ren hated things that were out of his control

[Kyte]

Some things were just always quite a sight. Kyte watched everything unfold from his chair, quietly observing everything from where he sat. While he would have liked to do something worthwhile, he really had nothing to do. No one was really addressing him, and if no one continued to do so, then nothing would happen. But still, he watched this scene carry itself out with amusement, a small smile present on his face. Despite his rather unique situation of being here in Alanor, he was still quite, as it seemed, happily pleased with everything that was going on.

It was a fact though, while everyone was having such a fun time, Kyte was thinking. He was somewhat isolated, apart from the others because . . . well, possibly because they just chose to ignore him or of his higher status. Taking a breath, he closed his eyes and thought of his best plan to do now that he was here in Alanor. What could possibly be worth doing? Besides being around Riley. She was unique, upbeat, smart and pretty. It was obviously fun to be around her.

Sighing, Kyte shrugged and returned to his amusing spectacle.

[harper]

Riley was a bit dumbfounded when Ren ran away from her. Still, it brought a smile to her lips and she chuckled softly, covering her mouth as if almost ashamed to laugh at someone so blatantly terrified. However, Riley had noted that in that brief amount of time in which Jun and Ren had stared at each other there had been an exchange of unsaid words. Something was amiss. Riley had an inkling that the two men needed time to sort it out.

Slowly she padded over to Kyte and placed a hand on his shoulder so that he would come to understand what she had to say next. She looked to Jun, "While we are very grateful for your kind hospitality I feel it is best that we both be going. You look as if you have some things to discuss with your brother. It would do us no good to further intrude." With that said Riley nudged Kyte to get him to stand and headed for the door. At it she curtsied ever so slightly in Jun's direction, a smile on her lips, before she left the room completely. Kyte was, of course, expected to follow.

[Jun]

Jun started forward as Ren dashed into his room, but stopped abruptly as the door was slammed shut. He sighed softly, rubbing the back of his neck in exasperation. As he turned back towards his guests, intending to actually politely ask them to leave despite how much he despised doing so, the redheaded Garlanger was already moving.

As she announced their exit, Jun merely nodded and swept into a deep bow to the both of them. As he straightened he smiled brightly, especially towards Kyte, "I am sorry I could not be more hospitable to you. Please, feel free to come to me if you have any further questions or any need for assistance. It was a pleasure meeting the both of you." He dipped his head to Riley to indicate that he was indeed addressing her as well.

And then they were gone. Rubbing his head Jun made his way to his brother's door.

END