Puzzles. I loved them almost as much as I liked hot sauce. They were fun to do plus they helped me think. I took a break from mine and looked up at Gray again, he had that stony expression on his face again. Not like earlier though, he was trying to hide it but I could tell he was in pain. It had been happening frequently in the last few days, though he'd never say that, he felt that he deserved any pain.
I went back to my puzzle, something about his expression reminded me of something, but I couldn't place my finger on it... I thought about Asuka, she was shy yet I could tell she was strong willed, I hoped that it was going well.
I noticed something though going on with everyone, they all seemed to have an urge in telling everyone their pasts. I didn't know whether it was because Gray told his or because we were opening up to each other, after all to be a close group we had to get to know each other. Anyway, my past was nothing to be interested in, not that anyone would ask about it. But I didn't care, the past was the past and I was living the present.
I scratched my back, feeling the scars. I frowned as I felt the numb pain, the cut that was made there was deep. It had severed some of my nerves, my back, it would never be the same. But I could cope, it was just a little pain, I'd gone through worse. I saw Rei pull Ariel aside, more past stories I guessed. Kasumi went over to talk to Seth who was smoking that weird way again, it was kind of ironic, a dragon smoking. I saw Kovu siting by his sister, he had a lot to learn.
I sighed at my puzzle, it was a hard one with ten rings you had to make into a bracelet. I just couldn't figure out how to untangle three of the rings. I looked up at Gray, hoping to encourage a smile out of him but his eyes were closed. I put down the puzzle and got out my bottle of hot sauce, everyone who hadn't seen me with it before stared at me. I drank it with a a contented sigh, my thoughts thinking back to Grays expression earlier, were had I seen-
It hit me like a punch in the gut, could it be... I set down my bottle of hot sauce. That has to be it...
"Sky?" I called to her.
"Yes?" she said questioningly, looking up at me.
"What day is today?"
"Ummm, I think it's Friday, why?" she asked.
I didn't respond, I was too deep in thought, so it was about halfway through the month. "Dani?" Sky said, looking at me thoughtfully.
"It's nothing..." I said and picked up my puzzle again, I had to think. The intertwined rings suddenly all aligned at the movement I made with them and I had in my hand a bracelet. I put it on, still in deep thought, the moon was going to be full soon...
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If you figure out what's going on, congratulations! If you haven't then I'm just going to keep you guessing.
FYI Dani is pretty good with puzzles, I hope you got the pun.
It's hot in Texas right now, I just want to say that cause I'm sweating with the AC on. And it hasn't rained in months... I'm bored so I'm entertaining myself by posting on here, I'm really having fun. Sorry for talking about my life on a fiction post.
Back to the story, I hope we start moving on cause I need a good place to post the thing going on with Gray. Something dramatic hopefully... Oh, and I just want to tell you people are awesome, this is such an epic story and we got some writers out there.
May Harmony be with you...I'll just shut up now...
