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Post by .Emmi. on Apr 25, 2009 3:38:23 GMT -5
Ebony's soft footfalls echoed through the empty gymnasium as she entered, her bright red-and-white gym bag over one narrow shoulder, her too-large, too-thick black-and-white competition tracksuit hanging off her tiny frame as her eyes raked the area. Letting the bag slip off her shoulder she crossed to the nearest wall where she began to stretch, gasping occasionally in involuntary pain as her holidaying muscles were pulled beyond their comfortable limits. She knew she had to get back into shape after her recent hospitalisation where they had barely let her out of bed for three weeks straight. Her stomach clenched momentarily and she paused, relaxed, while it passed. Every time the hospital let her out she promised she would eat properly and she never did. They were so blind and gullible...
After continuing stretching for about 15 more minutes she made her way to the beam pushed to the side of the wall. She pulled it out with a bit of difficulty and arrange mats around it. She pulled off her tracksuit jacket, revealing a simple spaghetti-strap black leotard that was actually from ballet but doubled as her training leotard for gym.
She began her routine from her last meet, just over a month ago and was pleased that her flexibility was not as bad as she had expected. Her balance was off; she found herself struggling to stay on the beam as she tumbled and turned, but as she repeated the final exiting leap of the routine for what was probably the hundredth time in the last fortnight she was relatively satisfied. She landed straight without a single wobble and presented to the imaginary judges with a brilliant smile.
Satisfied with this result Ebony recovered her bag from where she had abandoned it by the doorway. She chalked her hands good and proper before leaping up apparently effortlessly on the uneven bars, whipping around them in a black-and-white blur. A small smile graced her stunning features as she remembered the graceful feeling of weightlessness she always experienced on the bars. Swinging off the higher bar in a perfect-10 double back somersault she landed, presented then took a sip of water from the bottle in her bag. 'Evidently I'm not too out of shape,' she murmured to herself as she gazed around the gymnasium. 'I just hope that I can stay at school long enough this term to get back down to 65lbs...'
An hour later Ebony, having completed her routines to almost-perfection on those two apparatus, contemplated rolling out the floor mats over the raised padded section of the gym. She nodded subconsciously and made the decision not to leave until her floor routine was back to its perfect state that she achieved last meet - a perfect 10. She pulled the gym storeroom keys from her pocket [she'd had a spare set ever since joining Starr Academy, requested specifically] and began walking towards the door on the opposite wall.
Very suddenly the whole room appeared to spin sickeningly around her and she stumbled and fell to the cold wooden floor, dizzy. She sat and put her head between her knees, feeling the blood rush back into her head and wondering why the sudden dizzy spell. The keys had fallen out of her limp hand and skidded several metres away. She stood carefully to retrieve them but only just made it to picking them up when her vision blacked out and she lost consciousness.
[[sorry its REALLY long...I got carried away]]
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Post by godienarutohaters on Apr 25, 2009 18:18:09 GMT -5
(wow, really small font) I came in just as Ebony finished her routine, I saw her jump to the floor, get her keys and bag, stagger, and fall to the floor, I hurry to help her up, she looked really pale, "Are you ok?"
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Post by .Emmi. on Apr 25, 2009 19:40:47 GMT -5
Eyelids flickering, Ebony felt hands pull her up off the floor into a sitting position. Eyes now open properly she turned her gaze towards the voice and face that spoke to her - 'Are you OK?' She nodded slowly, frowning slightly as the world came to a gradual standstill around her.
'Mm, I'm alright. Just dizzy for some reason.' She swallowed and tightened her hand around the keys now back in her tiny hand. 'Oh, I'm Ebony, by the way. Ebony Towns.' Her voice was tired and very quiet, she noticed, as she stood carefully and surveyed the distance between herself and the storeroom door, hoping she would make it across. She flashed a small smile across to the newcomer in gratitude.
'Thanks, by the way. But I'm OK.' She wasn't quite sure why she always said that to people. She knew she wasn't, well aware that her lifestyle for the past six years could have killed her already if it hadn't been for others telling her she wasn't 'OK'. Yet she still insisted on being the silent one who couldn't take help from anyone...
Her stomah clenched again and she winced as it made a strange growling gurgle. The corners of her mouth twitched as she made eye contact once again with the person who'd helped her up. She shrugged and spoke again. 'Sorry, I don't think we've met, have we?'
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Post by godienarutohaters on May 10, 2009 12:44:00 GMT -5
"No, we haven't, my name is Sander, nice to meet you, and you don't look ok to me, you sure you don't need help?"
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Post by .Emmi. on May 12, 2009 5:14:14 GMT -5
A faint crease scarred her otherwise flawless face as she frowned. "Help? No. Really, I'm fine." She spoke perhaps a little too harshly, only having seen the boy before her once or twice at the most, never mind speaking to him.
She stood quickly and crossed the floor towards the storeroom door, cartwheeling carelessly onehanded over the hard floor on her way over, suddenly feeling less unwell however still annoyed enough to show off a little. Reaching the door she unlocked it and threw open the wide door to reveal the equipment stored there. A small smile graced her lips as she laid eyes upon a rhythmics rope tied to the inner doornob of the cupboard.
Hooking it over one arm she proceeded to push down three of the great rolls of gym mat and, with only a little difficulty, managaed to pull the end of one out of the cupboard and dragged it across the room. She repeated the process and, five minutes later, the raised padded section of the hall was covered in the deep blue she was so accustomed to.
Untangling the bright red rope she gave it a few experimental twirls then began to skip quite fast, revelling in the familiarity of the warmups she used to do when she was about eight or nine up until the last time the hospital abducted her and banned her from rhythmics. 1000 forwards, 1000 backwards, 500 crossed, 500 backwards crossed... the list went on and on.
She glanced over at the boy watching her. Sander, his name was. She wasn't sure what he was thinking - how strange, seeing as it was supposed to be her gift. She continued skipping for a while then stopped and threw the rope to one side, stepping back into the cetre of the mat.
"Um, Sander, wasn't it?" She ran lightly over to her bag and, taking a CD from within, slipped it into the player on the wall of the gym closest to the boy. "Could you possibly press play on that for me in one second when I get back up there? It's track 14..." She smiled politely, vaguely, thinking about the routine - she hadn't tried it for about a month properly and hoped she could still do her most difficult element in it.
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Post by godienarutohaters on May 13, 2009 18:56:53 GMT -5
I watched curiously as she did her warmups. She then walked up to me and asked me to play a CD from a bag, "Sure why not?" I put the CD in the CD player and set it to track 14, once I saw she was ready, I pressed Play.
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Post by .Emmi. on May 17, 2009 2:17:44 GMT -5
Smiling briefly in thanks Ebony twisted her hair skillfully into a knot with the hairtie around her wrist and assumed her starting position, her left leg perpendicular to the ground as she balanced there strongly, her arms extended skywards before the music began. Perhaps she threw herself into the routine with slightly more force than strictly necessary, throwing her first line of tumbling off a little. She landed a little crooked but, although angry, proceeded throughout the first half of her routine, wheeling and leaping without too much trouble, her flexibility apparently effortless.
The second half, she knew now, was easier save for the final element - from one corner, a no-handed cartwheel, round off and double back-somersault to land in splits. She found herself in the corner already, the mildly Slavic-sounding music reminding her of Poland and her parents. Tears brimmed but she was already whirling through the air, hair flying from its restraint and brittle ribs extending from her thin torso beneath the leotard as she sucked in breath.
She made it, but only within inches of the white tape at the edge of the mat, her back bent as far back as it would go, arms extended behind her head. She music ended there, in one final brilliant chord and she froze there, reveling in the joys of acrobatics for a split second, until she remembered the boy standing across the room from her who had pressed the play button exactly two minutes and thirty-seven seconds before.
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Post by godienarutohaters on May 17, 2009 9:56:41 GMT -5
I clapped, she was truely amazing, I was amazed at her flexibility, she looked so fragile yet she was just so flexible. I noticed signs of tears on her cheeks,I decided to ignore it, it was probably that she got something in her eyes, I walk up to her and helped her up, "Hey, that was awesome! Where did you learn to do that?"
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Post by .Emmi. on May 18, 2009 1:34:15 GMT -5
She heard applause from across the room and was surprised as Sander crossed over and helped her up. Casually wiping the water from her eyes, she felt her cheeks grow slightly warm in embarrassment. “Oh, uh, thanks. I learn all the elements from my gym coach...that last one was my own combination.”
Her cheeks faintly pink and flushed she stood properly and rolled her shoulders back, wincing slightly. Having not worked for a while she was feeling sore already, to her annoyance. Still, the routine had been OK, she thought. She just needed it back at the perfect-10 standard.
“So, uh, do you play a sport or anything like that?” She didn’t really know what to say so she asked the simple question, hoping to take the attention off herself.
[[sorry, I’m a little brain-dead and have no idea what to write!]]
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Post by godienarutohaters on May 18, 2009 20:21:14 GMT -5
(its ok, its almost summer, we're all alittle brain dead) "Well, I just play for fun, not for competitions or anything," I saw her wince, I put my hand on her shoulder and chaneled natural energy through her flushing the pain and healing whatever may be broken in her body, also giving her an energy boost, "better?"
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Post by .Emmi. on May 26, 2009 4:33:17 GMT -5
She shuddered strangely as she felt energy pulsing back through her. Almost a nauseous feeling, it was, as she hadn’t felt more than half awake in years, but still she smiled in brief thanks. ‘Haha, I was getting a little tired.’
She gazed around the gymnasium and still felt tired, underneath it all, mentally just exhausted from overcontrol. When was the last time she had eaten again? Last week?
[[sorry...dead in the brain still - you can merge this post into the one from ‘perfectionism’ if you want ; )]]
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Post by godienarutohaters on May 26, 2009 19:23:33 GMT -5
"Woah, look at the time, it's almost time for class, you want to grab some breakfast?"
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Post by .Emmi. on Jun 2, 2009 5:07:47 GMT -5
Still feeling faintly sick she pulled her CD from the player, replaced it into its case and slipped that back into her bag along with the red rope, which she had a feeling may have been hers from a few years previous.
"Woah, look at the time, it's almost time for class, you want to grab some breakfast?"
Sander's voice wasn't really any louder but Ebony heard it ringing through her head, the last word particularly clanging. 'As if...' she mumbled subconsciously then swore mentally as she realised she said it aloud.
She pulled her too-big jacket back on, mentally noted she must get another one and then, swinging her bag over her shoulder, she plastered a fake smile over her face and said: 'Yeah OK, let's go then, hey?' But inside her head all she could think was Crap, crap, crap! Why did you say it aloud?? and she was almost panicking - she hadn't eaten since the previous week, at all. And that had been one peach since the previous week...
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Post by godienarutohaters on Jun 2, 2009 19:03:05 GMT -5
'As if...' I heard her mumble, but before I could say anything, she agreed and we set off. While we were walking I did a scan, you could never be too careful with a school full of kids with powers and mutations, I noticed that Ebony's emotions were going crazy! "Hey Ebony, what's wrong?"
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Post by .Emmi. on Jun 3, 2009 5:17:09 GMT -5
[[hey I'll start a new thread of them walking to the dining hall, in the caferteria thread, k? cya there!]]
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