Post by NAEGI YUUKO on Aug 2, 2012 22:27:51 GMT -5
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[atrb=style, background-image: url('http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp256/doggydude24/misc/grey-parchment.jpg'); border-right: 1px dotted #1C1C1C; border-top: 3px solid #1C1C1C; border-left: 1px dotted #1C1C1C; border-bottom: 3px solid #1C1C1C; border-bottom-left-radius: 50px; border-bottom-right-radius: 50px;] [STYLE=float: right; border: 4px solid #1C1C1C; width: 90px; height: 90px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: -60px;][/style] [STYLE=float: right; border: 4px solid #1C1C1C; width: 90px; height: 90px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: -60px;][/style][STYLE= margin-top: -57px; margin-right: 200px; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 23px; color: #FFFFFF; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #151515; letter-spacing: -2px; text-align: left;]I AM NOT IMMUNE,[/style] [STYLE=float: left; text-align: justify; margin-top: -64px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 214px; font-size: 9px; font-family: arial; color: #1C1C1C; opacity: 0.7; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px;]I ONLY WANNA BE LOVED, BUT I FEEL SAFE BEHIND THE FIREWALL. CAN I LOSE MY NEED TO IMPRESS? IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH, I NEED TO CONFESS: I AM NOT ALRIGHT, I'M BROKEN INSIDE, BROKEN INSIDE. AND ALL I'VE GONE THROUGH, IT LEADS ME TO YOU.[/style] [STYLE=width: 330px; font-size: 10px; font-family: arial; background-color: #F7F7F7; color: #1C1C1C; padding: 18px; text-align: justify; border-top: 3px solid #1C1C1C; margin-top: 42px; border-bottom-left-radius: 30px; border-bottom-right-radius: 30px;]Everything about this entire disaster-waiting-to-happen disguised as an event made Yuuko uncomfortable. The Hotel was crowded and bright, the people were absolutely horrid (she was almost certain the osakan woman who took her plain black peacoat would have smacked her across the face for dropping it out of nervousness had her Father not been standing right next to her.) and the familiar and comforting sight of Saint Valentine’s Mother Superior was very absent from the crowds in the main hall. After drifting into the hotel, Yuuko’s Father escorted her to the table nearest to the women’s washroom - “Just in case.” - and gave her very detailed instructions on which direction to face how many paces it would take and where he had hidden the cans of mace in case someone tried to follow her in there. Then, he patted her head and walked off to join the other parent volunteers (of which there were about two) in a vain attempt at stopping the more…hormonal of the students from doing anything inappropriate on the dance floor. As she listened to his footsteps fade away it dawned on Yuuko that she had never felt so vunerable in her entire life. While it was uncomfortable to be in places she had not mentally mapped and trained with, it wasn’t anything horrific for Yuuko. She had been in situations before where she had not know where she was and make it out just fine. No, the thing that truly terrified her was the sheer amount of teenage masculine presence that was expected to be present at the hotel and the fact that, despite his best intentions, her Father had effectively sent her like a lamb to the slaughter. She was all dolled up with nowhere to run. Well, besides the bathroom, but that wasn’t exactly a conventional hideaway or one conducive to fighting. A few hours prior Naegi-san had made the terrible assumption that he knew exactly how his teenage daughter was feeling and had arranged for her to go get her hair done, get stuffed into some designer dress and then return home to get poked and prodded in the face by various make-up untnsials by a very well meaning neighbour who philosophy on beauty was: “If it doesn’t hurt, it’s not working!”. The end result was actually quite nice; her brown hair had been lightly curled and then twisted into a bun, the dress they had picked out was a simple cotton strapless a-line that was cinched at her waist with a silver bow that contrasted nicely with pitch black tights and dark flats. But, all that was lost on sightless Yuuko, who could only dwell on how much her head throbbed, how hard it was to breath and how a harmless comment of: ”Oh, LOOK at you dear. I bet your mother is so proud to have such a beautiful daughter!” constantly threatened to push her to the breaking point and cake her face in leaky mascara. Yuuko was just about ready to lay her head onto the table and feign sleep when she heard the sounds of approaching footsteps. Jolting upright from her slouch against the chair a million scenarios ran through her mind and just about sent her like a bat out of hell towards the washroom to find that can of mace. But, then again, it could just be one of her classmates. ”U-um…can I help you…?” she asked no one in particular. [/style] |