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Post by Arual on Jan 31, 2009 16:59:23 GMT -5
Maddie pointed to what she wanted to the waiter and didn't know how else to figure out the mystery of the note.
(Im exhausted from the auto show today- sorry i couldnt do more)
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 31, 2009 17:37:02 GMT -5
Efram was trying his best to calm down but it looked like something was obviously bothering him, one could easily ask Harriet, but she wasn't around and so they'd have to wait till later to go see her and it was obvious that being here was kind of a big deal and so nobody would necessarily want to just walk out on something that Efram put so much time and money into. Efram was looking a little bit tortured though, this- was a relationship with communication problems.
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Post by Arual on Jan 31, 2009 17:46:30 GMT -5
Maddie looked at the note again, making only so much of it out.....and tried to pin the clue together if she could. She saw that look he had, and she was worried- and she wanted to figure it out.....she was trying and going as fast as she could.
Maddie looked at Efram again, trying to figure it out. So far, it said....
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 31, 2009 17:56:36 GMT -5
The note only consisted of a combination of incoherent sounds, which really wasn't much. Efram's writing wasn't something that came out in words and letters, it was all sounds so if you only understood a little bit of it then you would only get a few sounds from the words, a single letter could take as many as five or seven different symbols so understanding the entire thing was nearly impossible. This apparently wasn't something that could be understood in the most basic of symbols. Either that or Efram was too worried to bother making it simple with beginner symbols. Efram took a drink of his glass, it looked like water but from the way he drank it you could tell it wasn't at all water, who would have thought that Efram would drink alcohol? Well, he did but probably not enough to get himself drunk, right now though he had to loosen up a bit because before he was worried but now he was some kind of nervous wreck.
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Post by Arual on Jan 31, 2009 18:00:03 GMT -5
'What's wrong Efram? I mean, I'm trying to figure out the note, but I can't........I didn't get far enough to figure it out completely! You don't look so good.......' she wrote. She was extremely confused, only seeing that he was a total wreck right now. That made her stomach uneasy.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 31, 2009 19:34:29 GMT -5
Efram shook his head, pointing to Maddie before drawing his mouth up into a smile and giving her a thumbs up, hoping she understood that right now and he began looking around the resturant, different thoughts must have been passing through his head as quickly as synapses were able to fire, whatever his thoughts were was a mystery and whatever he believed was likely to go with him when he died which certainly was depressing.
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Post by Arual on Jan 31, 2009 20:22:27 GMT -5
Maddie made a swipe of her hand over her forehead for the universal meaning of 'phewwww', the action of relief from some sort of tension in the air or from someones now open thoughts.
'Efram, calm down. I dont know what it is, but I'm sure its okay.' she wrote.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 31, 2009 20:49:38 GMT -5
Efram looked at the note with an unconvinced expression phasing into his current one but he instead looked at the food that was placed in front of them, his was a noodle dish of sorts with little bowtie noodles in it as well as bits of spinach and feta cheese. He nodded gratefully to the waiter but didn't say anything as he was incapable of such things, the joys of half mute life. He picked up the note he wrote to Maddie and put it in his pocket, for what reason nobody knows.
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Post by Arual on Jan 31, 2009 22:36:07 GMT -5
Maddie was now forced to forget the note's contents.....whatever it was......and eat as her flounder and white maracroni and fried rice had come out in front of her. It looked amazing- edible, but the smell of it was just awesome! The young woman took her untensil's out and took a bite of her fish.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Jan 31, 2009 23:37:37 GMT -5
Efram smiled towards Maddie, watching her eat and there was the slight jingle of a laugh over his vocal chords. Laughing was an involuntary noise that came naturally- kind of like all of Efram's noises so even if Efram's speech was gone from him, laughter was still something he posessed which was blessing enough for many people. Maddie had never heard Efram laugh before and he was trying to be so reserved about it. He took another bite of his food, looking down at his plate now, a bit of shyness in his actions at the current moment and he took a sip of his clear not water drink that was probably something reminiscent of vodka or something like that.
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Post by Arual on Feb 1, 2009 0:02:13 GMT -5
Maddie's head lifted at his laugh. You laughed! Efram, I love it- but you did- you laughed! It's more than even I can do! She refused to recognize his drink at all, and her smile widened in surprised shock.....not eating now.
'You have a wonderful laugh....' she said through her royal blue hued eyes.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Feb 1, 2009 1:24:12 GMT -5
Efram froze promptly with his eyes looking towards Maddie, his little laugh something that never even existed anymore thanks to his embarrassment over it and he looked at his food, focusing on it like it was a Where's Waldo book and he had to find Waldo or that one child who was like the female version of Waldo, or the yellow and black Waldo, and wasn't there a wizard in those books too? Yeah, the only problem with those books was that whenever you got them from the school library some jerk had gone through it and circled everything. Anyways, that was completely off subject. He took quiet bites of his food as he sat there, it was really good food and he really did think that it was worlds better than anything he could cook. He closed his eyes for a few moments and he shook his head before going back to the meal. Efram didn't look up at her at all and he looked at the food, making the whole situation really awkward.
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Post by Arual on Feb 1, 2009 8:12:34 GMT -5
Well, at that note, Maddie did the same- she ate her fish and pasta sides before they were cold; but she didn't scarf it down either! The young woman simply resumed eating.
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Post by Señor Sunday Friday on Feb 1, 2009 10:36:27 GMT -5
Efram soon resorted to pushing his food around on the plate, looking at it nervously. He looked up at Maddie and gave her a thumbs up and a questioning expression. It was wonderful that he continued trying to communicate despite his obvious inability to speak, it made it necessary for him to be innovative and thoughtful about everything he did. Unlike most people Efram was completely unable to say he was sorry for something or to explain something so that he didn't look like he did something wrong, whatever people gathered from his actions and his expressions and the like was all he could tell people so he had to make sure he got the correct point accross which actually wasn't one of his strong points.
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Post by Arual on Feb 8, 2009 11:15:56 GMT -5
Maddie finished her food, occassionally, of course- looking at Efram with a smile. In some small way, she felt like a failure to him because she couldn't figure out his symbols of communication. The redheaded girl took the napkin from her lap and pat it over her mouth to clean off any food that may have stuck there, and took a deep breath.
What to do now....
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