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Post by laceface1 on Jun 23, 2011 14:40:17 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww98/thisistheshyt/backgrounds.jpg), border: solid #ffffff 5px; width: 400px; height: 500px;] no one attacked her about her daughter, it was a topic that was completely off limits. anyone could come to her prepared to dig their teeth into her about anything, let it be her demeanor, her past, her actions, even something as trivial as the clothes she put on her body. coasta was a subject that could never thought of being breached and used as something to assail her about. in her sophomore year she had tottered around for nearly the whole school year with a stomach that had progressed in size drastically as the months carried on. the ridicule she had suffered through would have worn any girl down but her walls of steel defense had been raised to heights that exceeded reaching past the clouds. meridian was socially independent, she extricated herself away from the cliques and the gossip and fortified herself a lone force. people had circulated outrageous rumors about her, some of the things that had been whispered were too brutal for meridian to repeat and had only said that she was tired with the talk. this occasion was different, her pregnancy had been done with for nearly two years and coasta had grown into a toddler. yet someone still found it necessary to take a stab at her daughter. threats against coasta meant that meridian would jump into her mamma cat act and show her claws. she carried through with every word she said when she was worked into a state of rage.
they had gained the audacity to begin to run their mouth with an endless flow about how immoral it was that meridian had given a birth to a baby when she was unmarried and a young teenager. somewhere in their rant they had called coasta a sin and meridian couldn't grit her teeth any longer. she felt her fingers begin to thrum with energy and sparks began to ripple off of her fingertips. she had been only a lunge away from relentlessly grabbing at the girl's throat with charged grasp. carlisle had somehow slid into the picture and laid his hands onto his twins shoulders, only a mouthful of words were spoken and she backed off but not without yelling fiercely the whole time she was being dragged away. she ordered carlisle to go home and see what coasta was getting her tiny hands into, she was too infuriated to make the brief walk home and instead decided to wander off to the cliffs. she needed to blow off steam and walking through the snow and carefully picking her way to the cliff edge occupied her mind for some time. she stood precariously on the edge, glancing up at the clouded sky with her hands shoved deep into the pockets of her coat. she was physically shaking, her body responding to the fury that was swelling up inside her. she couldn't go back to maple hallow until she was decently calm. the last time she came home fuming coasta cried because she scared her so much.
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Post by marci4 on Jun 23, 2011 18:36:47 GMT -5
Em was a person of two minds just now. On one hand, it would be a real bummer if she allowed herself to stay so intensely angry all day. On the other, the guy had groped her, and she'd gotten detention for the next week for burning the skin off of his hand. On the one hand, she was really looking forward to seeing Tasha that night, but she really didn't think she could handle another lecture from Jacob. On the one hand, she'd never get all of her homework done while she was in a rage, but on the other hand, did she really care? No, that was the answer. She didn't much care about her school at all anymore.
Em stormed out of the office, out of the academy, almost out of the grounds. Her gaze seared everyone who approaching her, and she really though that even Xav would have to stay away from her for awhile. Either that or she would do something stupid and ruin their wonderful friendship. He was very patient with her, somehow gaining all of his normally short temper when he was with her. All she had to do was smile, and he'd calm down and entertain her. And all he had to do was give her that look he did and she'd normally calm down herself. But not this time. A weeks worth of detention for being groped? Not in hell.
Her feet carried her toward the cliffs, the normal spot she found when she needed to think, or cry, or vent. She could send columns of flame off the side of the cliff without worrying about doing damage. They'd putter out long before reaching the bottom. She could shout at the heavens, cry and sob and scream without worrying whether someone would hear her. The wind would pick up her words and take them far away, and they would be lost forever, like everything else that was good. This train of thought had Em tearing up, and she released a growl and wiped her eyes. No. she thought in anger. There was nothing that could make her go to Jacob for this.
Arriving at her usual spot on the cliffs, though, she saw something that made her temper flare once again. There was someone there! How dare they come up to her place right when she needed it, right when she needed to shriek at the sky. She hadn't vented in weeks. This girl could have come up here any other day. Just not today. She set her jaw, stopping a short way away and studying the girl to figure out who it was. This was....oh, this was the girl who had been pregnant at school two years before. Em hadn't ever payed much attention to her, too caught up in her own troubles. But she knew all the gossip—it was her job. Had she been in a better mood, she might have tried to make friends. But at this point, all she had the strength for was, ”Don't you normally have a kid with you?”
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Post by laceface1 on Jun 23, 2011 22:46:55 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww98/thisistheshyt/backgrounds.jpg), border: solid #ffffff 5px; width: 400px; height: 500px;] the last thing that was needed was company. meridian had sought out the cliffs for the sole reason that people only came to the cliffs and caverns when they heard word of a party that was taking place. parties didn't happen in the early afternoon, no one else needed to be around. the cliffs were a place that offered her a place for thought. it was a place were meridian could unwrap the layers of her mind and better understand her thoughts. it would be impossible for her to deepen her thoughts or even concentration on anything besides her anger with someone standing behind her. meridian didn't appreciate that someone else decided to come to the cliffs when she had come for a serious reason. what was the reason that anyone else would travel to stand on the crumbling cliff and stare out into nothing? meridian was fuming, that was her reason, but why could anyone else even fathom of coming to the cliffs? she was being unreasonable, she was aware of it but that didn't stop her from thinking that this person didn't have the right to be here. they needed to go away, meridian was hardly in a pleasant mood and she wouldn't be able to keep herself contained for much longer. she hadn't even turned around to face the intruder, she had felt their eyes burning into her back. stares were something she was used to.
she slowly came to turn around, letting out a heavy breath that brought a frosty batch of air that slightly stifled her lungs. it was emilia reece, she stood five inches over her and she could see the flares of fired anger nearly steaming off of her. meridian pressed her lips together to withhold a bitter smile. she could get a rise out of her, she had a temper that meridian had seen being put to action on a few occasions. carlisle had mistaken her once and he had mistakenly laid his hands on hers, it had been a grim memory that he didn't like to recall. he had the burn marks to prove that he had worked his way onto the wrong side of emilia reece. he was more of a gentleman and didn't think in the spiteful ways that his twin sister did. she wasn't someone who meridian would airily approach, she had done something wrong to one young and that mean that meridian had nothing pleasant to say to her. she hadn't been too friendly either, making a remark about coasta. bites about her child had been the reason she had been driven to the cliffs after all, she wasn't going to take anymore remarks regarding coasta. emilia hadn't done anything ill meant towards her before, she had just been the person that said one thing that pushed merridy too far. it would be a bad moment for her now.
"tsk, tsk. never mention a mother's child in anyway that could be described as improper. it doesn't settle well with a mother, sweetheart," meridian remarked, a menacing smile setting on her lips and a craving for an argument sparking in her eyes. emilia would bite the bait, she was sure of it. it had been a direct stab at her, it would be considered cowardly of her to walk away now. meridian on average was more humble towards people that could be considered strangers towards her. she only blew up on someone she was foreign with if they did something to upset her cool. a guy had shoved her out of the way once and she had hollered at him and called him a few choice names. the word bitch was mention and meridian came lunging after him. emilia hadn't spoken any profane words towards her or shoved her out of her path but she had injured her brother and taken a crack at coasta. it was good enough reason for meridian to explode.
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Post by marci4 on Jun 24, 2011 12:53:47 GMT -5
In the time it took for the other girl to turn around, Emilia managed to put on a haughty gaze, raise her chin, and shift her weight so that she could rest her left hand on her hip. Her eyes narrowed as they met Meri's, her mind working furiously as she tried to think up how much she knew about the girl. Mother at fifteen, thunder and thus weaker than Em in a pinch, spiteful like the rest of those thunder bitches.... Well, except for Tori, but she was an altogether different story. Em really didn't feel like having a shouting match—it would take her longer to blow off steam that way. On the other hand, she was already riled up and raring to go.
She scoffed at Meri's words, glancing to the side for long enough to give the sky a disdainful look and then looking back at the girl. Though the tone had been biting, the words hadn't quite broken Em's defenses. 'Don't speak improperly' was the message, with a little mocking nickname after it. Her brother had done worse many times, though she tended to be more forgiving to him. There was the fact, however, that she hated being criticized, her temper flaring whenever a person told her she was doing something wrong. Meri had come close to that, and it was lucky for her that Em was already engaged in fuming about something else.
But her natural tenancies won over, and while she was able keep a haughty look on her face as she stared the other girl down, she was unable to stop the words from forming and being throw like daggers. ”Well I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything improper. Though I completely understand if you secretly hate the little tyke and can't stand being reminded of her while you have your freedom. How difficult is it, caring for a child at your age?” And there she was. Em was notorious for doing things that other people told her she shouldn't do, and this girl had just told her she shouldn't talk badly about her kid.
Emilia wasn't in the habit of insulting kids. Like most girls, she had a motherly streak that made her unable to be mean to a child the same way she could be mean to adults. She also had her own little sister to think about, the girl popping into her mind whenever she saw other children. But once a person hit thirteen, all bets were off. Meri had decided to say the perfect words to pick a fight, and Em had never been one to back down. Ever.
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Post by laceface1 on Jun 24, 2011 20:10:45 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww98/thisistheshyt/backgrounds.jpg), border: solid #ffffff 5px; width: 400px; height: 500px;] the words had an edge on them and they cut her delicate skin with ease, slicing and landing deeper than they had ever intended. meridian was more sensitive then anyone would ever imagine, her feelings bubbled and boiled with such ferocity that at times they were hard to handle. to have someone so obviously take a strike at her child was menacing and meridian was a menace of her own. she could still feel the sting of the words, they were infiltrating her open wounds and seeping deep in to do as much damage as possible. she was left feeling vulnerable, having someone so quickly spot her weakness was disarming. meridian was going to react in the only way she knew, being a defensive bitch and tearing her claws into emilia. she would become ruthless until she exposed her own weaknesses and came to use them to her advantage. her eyes were filled with a scathing heat, the feral glint in her eye obvious if emilia was staring back at her. "you shouldn't give out apologies if you aren't sincere. i don't even think you know what sincere means," meridian cooed, her tone matching the sort a parent would use when lightly reprimanding their child for a wrong choice they had made. she was only snapping lightly at emilia, she would go to sink her teeth in deep with more brutal words eventually. it was always more fun to paw at your prey, the animals on the discovery channel taught meridian that. "improper seems to be the only way you know how to act. it's quite all right, some guys like it when girls act the opposite classy. i think it's called trashy," meridian silkily purred, giving emilia a nonchalant shrug of her thin shoulders.
the sarcasm regarding coasta bit into her and she could feel her skin being slowly torn apart. she was going to have retaliate, it didn't matter how low she had to sink to match emilia. it had been amazingly low of the fire elemental to bring her child into an argument that had been started between them for no said reason. both of them were fuming and it had been only fuel for a few choice words to ignite a blazing exchange. meridian took a few steps towards emilia, she had a good few inches on her but she didn't come off as imposing to her. mer could carry it on with the best of them, that included emilia who was staring at her like she had some sort of superiority over her. "i don't want to hear you speak about my 'tyke' again, reece," she spat, her words searing with venom and carrying every intention to harm. "i don't give a damn that i am a teenage mother, but i do give a damn about you thinking that you can come across as a cocky little bitch," she hissed, disregarding the promise she had made to maddox to keep her mouth clean. she was still standing at a reasonable distance away from emilia and didn't think of coming any closer to her. she was sparking, the air around her subtly cracking and becoming infused with the electricity that was being palpably felt off of her. "for your information i completely adore being a mother," meridian snapped, glowering over at emilia.
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Post by marci4 on Jun 25, 2011 12:25:26 GMT -5
The fire senior really did scoff that time, finding the jab at her completely comical. Sure, she had a very short fuse, and she was already angry, but that was....that was weak. The tone of voice used was a little aggravating, but Em was able to bite her lip and not fall into an argument about that. Sincere? She could be sincere. But only when people earned it. This girl was being a bitch, looking for a fight, and taking up her spot on the cliffs for no good reason. After all, if Mer had enough control to oversee her tone of voice, she could certainly oversee her emotion somewhere else.
Mer spoke again, and Em burst out laughing. It was a dry, mocking laugh, and when she was done she took a step forward and gave her a challenging look. ”You ever heard of that saying, it takes one to know one? This is a perfect example, darling. If I'm trashy, you belong in a toilet.” Though Mer was taking the tactic of being cool and collected and falsely sweet, that was not Em's strategy. She'd say ugly things in an ugly way, with no guise or ruse. The ruse annoyed her, the simpering voice of her opponent rubbing her the wrong way. But she was a seasoned bitcher, and she wouldn't be brought down by remarks such as that. She wouldn't be brought down at all.
Her haughty stare got even easier to keep up when Mer closed the distance between them, showing off the fact that Em was several inches the taller. She didn't back down or quail when the dominance was shown, her own face angling slightly downward so she could give the other girl an intense, powerful stare. She fought back a brief urge to just shoot a good fireball at Mer, then tilted her head and smirked, still staring at the girl. Even though it was winter, she was completely confident that she could be the victor in a real fight.
But there was a threat in Mer's next words, and she said the absolutely wrong thing to keep Em from mentioning the child anymore. She took yet another step forward, her composed demeanor turning into a hackles-raised snarl. She looked actively aggressive right now as her words came out with biting hate, ”I don't think you should have kept the child, sweetheart. I don't think you're a fit mother. You should have given her away to someone who might have been a good example. With you as the mom, I fear for her sanity.”
”And of course I can come off as a cocky little bitch.” She said, chuckling drily, ”I am a bitch, if that clears of any confusion there. Don't worry, I didn't expect you to catch on any sooner than this, you do tend to miss a lot.” She effectively just called Meridian stupid just then, and a thought gave her a slight smirk again. Perhaps she wouldn't catch onto the insult. That would make it even more true. Meri hadn't found any of Em's weak spots yet, and though Em was already fuming and feeling a great need to punch someone, the ability to throw out hateful words was helping her feel better.
She laughed again, an even less mirthful one than last time. Shaking her head, she said patronizingly, ”I like how you seem to care what I think. You really felt the need to make me understand that? Pathetic.”
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Post by laceface1 on Jun 28, 2011 19:05:41 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww98/thisistheshyt/backgrounds.jpg), border: solid #ffffff 5px; width: 400px; height: 500px;] things were only going to plunge from bad to worse, meridian had initiated a debacle that quickly had intensified into what she could consider a brawl. emilia seemed to be incredibly headstrong, she was plowing right into the argument and using whatever tactics she had at her hands. there was no sugarcoating anything when dealing with this fire elemental. she didn't try to tame herself like meridian had the courtesy to do. all civility was drained from her and she lunged in without a care that she would dirty her hands. "i don't see how you can compare that statement to you and i. i am nothing like you, i never have been and i never will be," meridian slowly spoke out, she clearly enunciated each of the syllables of all of the words. it was a clear act to notify emilia that she was slowing things down so that her point could be conveyed, just in case her head was too thick to comprehend her words. emilia was staring at her, like her eyes would cause her to shiver or cower. meridian had witnessed things much more frightening than a simple glare from a girl who was fueled on nothing but unjustified anger. taking a stab at her like that would have no affect on meridian. she knew the definition trashy and neither of the girls fit into the category, they were simply words she had spoken to get a rise out of her. "i know what trashy is, hun. it is the way you throw yourself all over the better population of guys like you have no sense of dignity." meridian made her words razor sharp, she was speaking blatantly with ever attempt to sting.
lunges at coasta were low, even for emilia. anyone who saw coasta and meridian together on the grounds could tell that she was a loving mother and tried to provide the best for her daughter. merridly sacrificed so much for her daughter, she gave her the life she never had and assured that the only thing she felt was happiness. emilia was working on her daughter for a reason, it was her direct weakness and she had made it obvious when she had jumped to defend her. she forced herself to visibly relax, rocking back on her heels to make it appear like this was only a leisurely conversation. "coasta seems to be completely happy in my care. with the help of maddox i don't see how i can go wrong in raising her." she spoke coolly, glancing over at emilia with a relaxed nod of her head. coasta was a happy little thing, she never cried and enjoyed every moment of life. meridian felt even more at ease when the subjects changed from her daughter to her supposed stupidity. she gave emilia a blank look, like all traces of thought had vanished from her mind and had been replaced with a vacancy in her brooding eyes. she spoke and merridy looked at her with mimed confusion, apparently struggling to try and keep up with her words. "bitch? i don't think i know what that word means. wait, you are picture next to the word in the dictionary." meridian wasn't encouraging another reaction out of her, only wholly agreeing with what she had said. "did you learn how to master bitchiness from your mommy? things like that are usually passed on from generation to generation."
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Post by marci4 on Jun 30, 2011 11:19:04 GMT -5
Em burst out in a loud, mocking laughter, actually breaking eyes contact for a second. Meri, Meri, Meri.... Did she really not have eyes? Or common sense? At least Emilia Reece could be honest about who and what she was, as opposed to this mess in front of her. After a few moments Em calmed herself and grinned mirthlessly at the shorter girl in front of her. ”You're delusional. Look at yourself, truly. We're not that different, you and I. If I'm bad, you're just as bad or worse.” She paused, then leaned forward a bit in faux confidence, ”You know, admitting it is half the battle.”
Em's eyes narrowed when Mer's next attack came in. That one actually stung a little, but it had a very big flaw. Instead of letting the rising rage out, Em took a second to control herself, turning her face away from Mer for a few seconds. When she turned it back to the thunder girl, there was a biting, razor smile on her face. Her eyes held a deep dislike and intent to hurt. She took a slow breath, and said loudly, clearly, and deliberately. ”At least I can keep it in my pants, you filthy whore.” In the back of her mind, a little voice that sounded a lot like Jacob's gasped in astonishment. But instead of listening to that shred of conscience, she pressed forward. ”At least I don't have little mini-mongrels running around.”
She ignored both the comment about how happy coasta was and how she was the picture next to bitch in the dictionary. The first had nothing to do with her—she really had no wish to meet coasta, nor was she at all invested in the girl's happiness. Not that she meant anything bad against the kid, but truly, who could handle a mother like Meridian? The second merely hit her and broke like a wave on a shore, doing nothing to hurt her defenses or make her any more angry than she already was. Em really couldn't figure out right now whether this was cathartic or plain infuriating, they were trading such biting words.
Infuriating. Definitely infuriating. Mer mentioned Em's mother, and she lost all composure. Her whole body tensed, frozen, with her fists closing so powerfully that she was tearing up the first few layers on skin on her palms. Whereas before she had been the “fuck you” sort of angry, she was now in and past the “die” sort of angry, her eyes registering pain and wrath and hate. It took her several moments to speak, and when she did her tone didn't register an emotion. Was a simple, deadly warning. ”You want to leave. Now.”
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