Shopping, with Tiwa

[element_wizard]

The door leads out into a shaded courtyard paved with pale red stones. Two sides of the courtyard is created by the house, the third a stable and the fourth the gate into the outside city. A tall tree with wide, flat, pale yellow leaves is in the center, its roots woven into nooks to sit in. Laruna sits on one of the roots, her fingers criss-crossing a cats-cradle game while next to her stood a man about hers and Alec's age. He has short curly auburn hair on a round face with hazel eyes. He could be nice looking except for the rather unpleasant smirk on his face. He's nuts eating from a small bag, from which Laruna occasionally snags some from.

The air is crisp with the tang of just started spring. Tall mountains cusp the surrounding view with white finger tips. Two moons hang like wisps of clouds in the sky, barely visible. The house is a two story cream colored building with a rooftop that came to a sharp point to prevent snow for clinging on to it. Glass panes protected the windows and are nudged open just a bit to let the fresh air in.

It is a rather pleasant day, all in all.

Comments

[piwakawaka]

"You need to romance him more."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Giving her an askance look, Jono said, "I do?" Clearly the concept never occurred to him.

"He does like that sort of thing," Laruna said being helpful in all the wrong ways.

[piwakawaka]

"Yes, go find him something he will adore and surprise it for him. Then you have a picnic or something in an utterly private place so you can kiss him and all that over stuff without a worry. Show him that you're truly his and he's yours."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"But he already knows that," he said.

[piwakawaka]

"How often do you tell him?"

Men can be so stupid sometimes.

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Jono gets a thoughtful look on his face. "Whenever we have sex?"

[piwakawaka]

"Do you tell him when you're not having sex? Laruna, help me out here, he's being an idiot towards your brother."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"That's standard practice," Laruna says, looking amused. "But you do need to tell him more often."

"Why? I mean he knows and I know and stop looking at me like that Laruna."

"Picnics are nice."

[piwakawaka]

"So are romantic dates, you could do one of those too. We need to find you something pretty to buy him."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

For a moment Jono looks like he's going to protest, but then he gets a resigned face. "Like what?"

[piwakawaka]

"Something fiery. What about that phoenix necklace? Would he like that, Laruna?"

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Laruna picks it up again and looks at it. "Hrmm... maybe."

[piwakawaka]

"What do you think he'd like?"

Tiwa stops because she found a necklace that's a flower which reminds her of the frangipaini at home.

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Laruna walks past a couple of booths before stopping at one. "This," she says confidently. She holds up a sword pendent with a blood red stone on it.

[piwakawaka]

"Oh that's cool, its dangerous looking and pretty."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Jono looks at it. "Almost like Alec," he says cheerfully.

[piwakawaka]

"Yup, now surprise him with it since the romance part is important."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

"Surprising him is romantic?" Jono asked, though he's clearly not that clueless. "I never understood that one."

[piwakawaka]

"Getting a gift is lovely but its even better when its just because you're you."

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Jono rolls his eyes and mutters something about "girls". He does buy it, however.

"Do you want the necklace?"

[piwakawaka]

"Which one?"

She giggles and grins at Laruna, they win.

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Laruna grins back.

"The flower one?"

[piwakawaka]

"Yeah, did you see if there were earrings too?"

[elementwizard.livejournal.com]

Turning back to the booth with the necklace, Laruna checked. "They do!" she called.

[piwakawaka]

"Sweet, did you find anything you liked?"