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Wonder City Interlude #5
May. 27th, 2011 08:23 pmWhat I Did On My Summer Vacation
"So have you been watching the Wonderful House?" Malik asked, leaning back in his chair and knocking back his espresso.
"Of course," Ivy said, examining her glass of chai. "What about you?"
"Hell, no," Malik said, running his brown hands over the mass of his longish natural hair that he hadn't bothered to control with his usual headband. "I don't really want my roommates to connect me with him."
Ivy gave him a skeptical look over the lip of her glass. "What makes you think they haven't?"
"None of them have asked me," Malik said.
"Why would they?" Ivy said, a toss of her head setting her beaded braids clicking. "We're all on Parapedia. Anyone looking up Simon -- and you know that thousands of people looked him up the day of that first episode -- saw us."
Malik looked away, rolling his head to one side to look out the windows in the garage door at the front of the coffee shop. "You know, you and I are the normal ones in the family."
"Are we?" Ivy watched him from under her eyelashes.
"Oh, come on," Malik said. "You've changed your name so no one will know you're one of the family..."
"I changed it," Ivy said slowly and carefully, "so I wouldn't get special treatment from my professors."
"Ivy Sullivan," Malik said, as if testing the flavor of it. "Rolls off the tongue better than Ivy Canis."
"Aesthetics were not the first thing on my mind," Ivy said stiffly. "Though changing the last name is better than trying to drop it entirely, Mr. I-Have-Only-One-Name."
"I'm a musician," Malik said complacently. "It's a tradition."
"And that's normal?" Ivy said.
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From the Author:
Wow. That was hard work.
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"So have you been watching the Wonderful House?" Malik asked, leaning back in his chair and knocking back his espresso.
"Of course," Ivy said, examining her glass of chai. "What about you?"
"Hell, no," Malik said, running his brown hands over the mass of his longish natural hair that he hadn't bothered to control with his usual headband. "I don't really want my roommates to connect me with him."
Ivy gave him a skeptical look over the lip of her glass. "What makes you think they haven't?"
"None of them have asked me," Malik said.
"Why would they?" Ivy said, a toss of her head setting her beaded braids clicking. "We're all on Parapedia. Anyone looking up Simon -- and you know that thousands of people looked him up the day of that first episode -- saw us."
Malik looked away, rolling his head to one side to look out the windows in the garage door at the front of the coffee shop. "You know, you and I are the normal ones in the family."
"Are we?" Ivy watched him from under her eyelashes.
"Oh, come on," Malik said. "You've changed your name so no one will know you're one of the family..."
"I changed it," Ivy said slowly and carefully, "so I wouldn't get special treatment from my professors."
"Ivy Sullivan," Malik said, as if testing the flavor of it. "Rolls off the tongue better than Ivy Canis."
"Aesthetics were not the first thing on my mind," Ivy said stiffly. "Though changing the last name is better than trying to drop it entirely, Mr. I-Have-Only-One-Name."
"I'm a musician," Malik said complacently. "It's a tradition."
"And that's normal?" Ivy said.
( Read more... )
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From the Author:
Wow. That was hard work.
Through May, I'm running the commenting incentive again. If I get 50 total comments in May, I will post twice weekly through June. As before, if you all post 75 comments, I'll post twice weekly through July too. Get up to 100 comments, the twice-weekly postings continue through August.
Vote for us at Top Web Fiction. Clicky please!
