Luna
I know that look, Big D. You’re worried about Pratt aren’t you? Is Eve really that scary of a girl? I’m more concerned about Gigi and Corin. They’ve been talking for a long time. I’m afraid of how that conversation could be going."
I’d bet my favorite item Pratt messed up and come off too strong. At least he’s trying.
Prometheus
Eve seems stand offish again. Damn. There I go again.
“Give them time, Eve. They need to find their way to that point. Not everyone knows how to fight their own internal battles alone. Nit like you and I can.”
Then a gleam of hope. She asks if I’m returning to the house with her. I close my canteen, sling it over my shoulder, grab my plate and stand up. I hold my hand out to her to offer to help her to her feet @Catha@Patch@Ash
" No, honestly more the other way." i explain Luna " And about Genesis and Corin. Genesis knows how to handle him. I guess they are fine."
I look out of the window again and see Pratt and Eve finishing their food and meeting. Perfect, it is time to go back to work. With that i stand up. " Ok, time to get back to work. " i look aourrind the table. " just come outside when everyone is finished. I will chek the to do list for today." i tell everyone before i head back outside. One eyes still at the strange pair.
Eve
" Guess you are right." i need to admit. he holds aout his hand for me and i look at him. " You don’t give up, don’t you?" i ask him as i grab his hand.
Prometheus
Eve takes my hand and I carefully help her up. I look her in the eye for a moment and with a small smile I reply. “No. No I don’t.” I laugh and follow her back to the house. “That’s weird.” I think to myself. “No one has made me smile like that in how long?” I displace the thought as we pass by Genesis and pretty boy. Guess I’ll talk to him later. Once I’m back in the kitchen, Luna winks at me and clicks her tongue. With my hand at my side I flip her off. making her laugh. I then look at Devon.
“Hey, Dev, what still needs to be done for the harvest? I know I JUST got her but I want to jump all in.” I watch Eve walk passed me. I’ll sort my thoughts out later. @Catha
Permission was granted to me by Lottie for the momentary God Mod of Eve when Pratt followed her back to the house
I make my way towards the door and peer out the window and I see Corin and Genesis I’m deep conversation. I decide I don’t want to interrupt them. I stand there for a moment thinking what I should do but I don’t want to be seen just standing there so I make my way back to the table regretfully.
Luna
Sabrina had walked through the kitchen after she changed Fenella. She stood outside for a few moments and then came back and sat next to me and looked as if she were defeated. I put my hand on her shoulder and whisper in her ear, “I know the feeling. I knew her back in school and now she acts like we were never friends.”
I could feel the tension in her shoulder. That was probably all of us to be honest.
I watch as Pratt and Eve walk in. Something tells me, she’s fighting a losing battle against his friendship. Then my attention goes to Fenella. I gently stroke the little hair she has and tell her, Hi, cutie."
I look back at Sabrina. “So how do you know, Pratt? I don’t remember ever seeing the two of you hanging out?”
I also don’t realized that I had started rubbing her shoulder. I stop but don’t move my hand away." @Eagle
Prometheus
Devon tells me what he needs to do before making his list and asks if I want to join him. I laugh a little bit and nod.
“That’s why I said I’m ready to jump all in. Let me change my shirt and I’ll be ready to go.” I go to the front room where my backpack is and pull out one of my sleeveless shirts. I take off my coat and pull down my suspenders. I don’t pay any mind to the sleeping woman to my left. I quickly unbutton and take off my long sleeve. I put on my sleeveless Underarmour shirt and pull my suspenders back up over my shoulders. It’s a bit nippy but not too cold for me to wear to this shirt. I leave my top hat with backpack. However I take the goggles off of it and pull them down around my neck. I then grab my gloves and head back into the kitchen.
“Hey, Dev, I’m ready to go. I’m also a might curious, are we going to wake up your girlfriend and put her to work?” @Catha
I wait for Pratt to change his clothes. He comes back and i have already reached the front door he asks me about the new girl. " let her sleep, i will wake her when i am back." i answer, trying to ingore his " girlfriend-talk" there is no time for this.
Before Dev and I head out I turn to Sabrina. “Luna, I’m going to be helping Dev. If you’re asked to do anything, be sure to do it. If you talk to uh… Corin, before I do, find out which house we’re staying in.”
She’s obviously ignoring me since she never looked away from Sabrina’s baby sister.
I then see the look that Dev is giving me. I know that look. I better stop teasing him. The last time I didn’t, I couldn’t feel my jaw for a week and there was a crater in the ground the exact fit of my bum.
I look at Eve and give her a wave goodbye and then follow Dev. I catch my reflection in the window. Even after all this time, I’m still surprised to see I have the definition in my arm muscles that I did back on the farm. @Catha
We finally leave the house and i lead Pratt to the barn. " We started counting the supplies this morning, so far we are fine, at least i hope that everything will be enough." i start to explain and walk over to my little wood table and grab the paper on it. " ok, there are three things which need a strong hand. " i look at the list " repairing the guest bed in the house, repairing the fence on the north side of the corn field or chooping firewood. What do you want to do?"
Dev brings me to the barn. He goes over the list of things that need to be done. I find the most important one first.
“The pretty boy can chop the firewood when he’s done making out with Gigi,” I mutter. “As important as the guest bed is, the fence on the north end of the corn field is the priority.” I think more about it. “I’ll get the poles and the barbwire. Do you have a spare generator anywhere?” @Catha
I nod at Pratt about his suggestion. Thinking about Corin chopping firewood let me grin. I am not sure if he would be able to stand it for more then 5 minutes…
" Ok, so the fence is it, thanks. yeah, you find everything in the next room. Just place everything back when you are finished" i answer and clap his shoulder. It feels good to have him back, especially during such an important time.
Devon tells me where to find everything and claps my shoulder. I realize in this moment just how much I miss the small things from our friendship. He always did that back in the day when he would be on his way to do something I asked him to do, on his way out or things like that. Anything like that. I realize I’ve missed it. Hell, I’ve missed him.
“We don’t need to bring the generator with us right now. I want to see if I can convert it and get it to run off of steam first. Then we can run it regularly and attach lines to it to multiple car batteries and electrify the barbwire all around the fence. Keep wildlife away from the crops. Maybe do it around the livestock fence and keep them at bay and from escaping.”
I gather the poles and it takes both me and Devon to lift the large spool of barbwire and load it.
“Let’s get to work,” i say and take a minute. “You know, Dev. It feels good to be working with you again. I have missed it.” @Catha
" Same" i answer Pratt as after we are done loading. Of course we have some helpers here, but not all of them have worked on a farm before and you need to explain everything. Sometimes you also need to controll the work, which takes much time. Too much time sometimes… i sign, as i think back on the last week and take a deep breathe. With Pratt being back i another farmer by the hand, which makes it much easier.
" I am really glad to have you here right now. " i add on before i grap the list and turn to leave." As far as you are done, just come back. There are some more things to be done. I need to distribute the rest of the jobs for today. "
I saw the look on his face when I recommended Corin cut wood. Before I push the wheelbarrow out of the barn I look back at Devon again.
“You know, maybe we should send word to Pretty Boy that he’s cutting wood,” I say with a laugh.
“In seriousness though, I’m pretty sure Luna found a job on her own. It looks like she wants to help Sabrina out. Don’t know if you saw it or not but Sabrina let her hold the baby earlier so she’s more than likely, already attached. You know Luna. May I recommend assigning her to caring for the livestock? I can help her with that and we avoid Attituide De Luna. Know what I mean? Well, I’ll be at the fence if you need me,” I say with a laugh.
With that, I push the wheelbarrow out. @Catha
I was confused by her statement. ”What?”
I wasn’t sure what or who she was referring to.
She put her hand on my shoulder. I feel slightly uncomfortable but surprisingly I don’t mind too much.
Then she asks me how I know Pratt. ”To be honest I don’t really know him. I really just knew him from school and I remember he left Minbadurra so I was just shocked to see him today”
I look at the full plate in front of me. oh how terribly horrible. I’m going to be eating food I didn’t even help prepare
Luna
Sabrina asks me what I mean. That’s right. She just met me. She doesn’t know I was friends with Genesis in school. I sigh.
“I was talking about Gi… Genesis. We were friends in school. Since I showed up here this morning, she’s kind of ignored me for Lily. Didn’t seem interested in catching up with me. I think I know why though. I kind of disappeared without a word in high school. For the same reason Pratt did…” I trail off. “That’s my problem though not yours. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to bring you into that.” She then tells me that she knew Pratt from school. “So you were more acquaintances then? You must have been really cool then for the reaction he had when he saw you.” I realize my hand is still on her shoulder so I give her shoulder a reassuring before moving my hand away.
She turns to her plate to and looks at it. “Devon and Eve prepared it. They didn’t mind since you were busy. Would you like me to hold Fenella while you eat?” @Eagle
She mentions she was talking about Genesis. Me still a bit confused continue listening to her talk as she talks about the fact of both of them leaving. I can tell it’s gets to hard to say at some point so I give her a sympathetic smile.
”I didn’t know you two were friends before” . I mean why would I. I wasn’t even friends with Genesis before the virus.
She starts talking about seeing Pratt again. ”Yeah I mean it was good to see him too. Good to see a friendly face.”
When she asks about holding Fenella I hesitate. I want to eat because I’m quite hungry but I didn’t help all. I decide I’ll try and make up for that. ”Aw okay thanks” I smile at her. ”I’ll do everyone’s dishes after. You can hold her then as well” surprisingly I don’t know when she minds her. I just trust her.
Luna
I sigh again when Sabrina responds. “Yea. Gigi and I were friends. I wouldn’t say best friends like we hung out and stuff. Just at school but we were close enough that she gave me permission to call her Gigi. I thought you and her would have been friends long before. I know i just met you but you are really sweet and… really, pretty. I thought you would be friends with more people.” I’m being honest and maybe flattering. Hopefully she’ll blush. I bet she looks cute when she blush’s.
I snort at her comment about Pratt. Pratt? A friendly face? Friendly person, yes. Friendly face? Unless you know him.
Then she makes my day again by letting me hold Fenella again. “Thank you,” I say happily and once Fenella is in my arms, I can’t help but to kiss Sabrina on the cheek again. I look at her nervously and a blush creeps up my cheeks. “Sorry. I’m just kind of, super friendly I guess.”
I then look down at Fenella. “Alright you, no filling up your nappy on me this time. Deal?” I ask in that high pitched playful way and she just smiles at and studies me again." @Eagle
Pratt
I’m pushing the cart with all of the tools and supplies needed to fix the northern fence. Once I leave the barn I find the fence and begin following it with the cart in front of me. Suddenly someone appears in the distance. I can tell it’s a guy and he is staring at me. It takes a moment longer for me to realize that his look is not at all friendly. He looks just Lily if she were a boy and had short hair. Must be her brother. I stop and look back at him for a moment. I raise my arm up and give him a friendly wave. @Zandra