OOC: Ack! Go Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, Feebas, and Feebas! Protect my honour! *Twenty Feebas leap on Pete and bury him and his baseball bat* XD
Oh, and just for the record, anyone who hurts a Feebas is probably in for a trashing from Yibber and her bazooka. xP
IC:
Ashley nodded in response to Tessie's wish of luck and her consequent warning, although with the wind howling as loudly as it did, she couldn't even be sure if the girl had said anything. But in all honesty, her attention was needed elsewhere anyway.
"Well, here goes nothing..." she muttered under her breath, grabbing a tigh hold of the drain pipe with her right hand and placing her left foot onto it simultaneously before taking a deep breath, leaning a bit backwards and then forcing her body forward as she lifted her right foot from the street, quickly finding a fairly decent place for it in a decently sized crack in the wall and then concentrating on finding an equally firm hold for her left hand on the pipe. Both metal and brick were wet and slippery in her grasp, and the girl was constantly worried that she would slip, tumbling headfirst onto the hard concrete beneath her and leaving Kula an orphan at barely one day of age, she forced those thoughts out of her mind though, just as she did with the slight complaint from the scar on her right arm, as she pressed onward, feeling the wind and rain whipping her face as she begun a painfully slow ascent towards the window, at least it felt painfully slow, although the girl was actually progressing at a fair pace, but with every second sending a small jolt of pain down her arm and every shift of position entailing an even greater chance of falling, as if the wind and slippery surface didn't make it hard enough to stay up as it was, time certainly didn't seem to be in a rush...
"Come on Ashley..." she muttered for herself, shutting her eyes and concentrating on feeling the right spots on the drain pipe and the surrounding wall, "Pull it together...just a bit more..." With her eyes firmly shut, the girl began picturing up a far more idyllic scene in her head in an attempt to raise her spirits, a scene from her earlier childhood which she remembered with striking clarity...
It was a sunny and warm day in late May, the long exposure to sunlight having heated up the cliffs around Lavaridge to a pleasant level of warmth, a few stray clouds dotting the clear blue sky and providing a slight measure of relief from the otherwise constant glare of the sun to the two youths travelling up the jagged pass.
"Come on you Slowpoke! If you keep lagging behind like that we'll have to turn back before we make it to the summit!" called the one of the youths who was further, a somewhat short but energetic looking girl who looked about fourteen, dressed in a faded green t-shirt and a pair of suitably used looking dark blue jeans with a rather stuffed looking light blue backpack on her shoulders, her long and unkempt blonde hair fluttering in the breeze that blew between the cliffs and her clear blue eyes focused on the one below, a somewhat tawny young boy whose hair was quite strikingly dark blue, forming a contrast with his pale skin. Overall, he looked far less accustomed to climbing up slopes than his friend, his dark blue shirt and trousers (Both seeming far less used and far more high-end than his companion's) and the light blue bandana on his head all soaked in sweat, and his breathing sounding somewhat ragged, obviously marking him as the less experienced one. His manner also betrayed signs of fatigue, even though he did his best to conceal them as he strode upwards, a determined glint in his dark green eyes. The girl up above was challenging him, and he was not about to give up that easily, it would simply not do to break this little game of theirs that quickly...
"I was just...admiring the view..." he huffed back, forcing an increase in the pace of his stride and adjusting the light brown bag slung over his shoulder a bit as he climbed up the last bit, ending up the next to the girl where he stood panting in a slight crouch, his hands resting against his knees.
"View?" the girl inquired sceptically, chckling at the boy's fatigue "And what view could you possibly see when you were facing upwards all the time?"
"A view I'm sure any guy in his right mind would enjoy." the boy replied, flashing the girl a larcenous grin and casting a meaningfull look at her jeans.
"Wha-?!" the girl called out in surprise, blushing quite considerably before she cast an accusing glare at the boy who seemed quite amused by her reaction, "You've got a real dirty mind Seth, you know that?" she inquired, thwacking the boy lightly over the head, nothing violent, but enough to make him flinch just a bit.
"That I do..." the boy replied nonchalantly, shrugging, "But I do believe it takes one to know one, so riddle me this: To make it stiff and stand up straight, she rubbs it; to make it slick and slide it in, she licks it. What is she doing?"
"Wha-?!" Ashley's face turned crimson, "She's-you know...she's-you're-you're disgusting! She's-"
"...threading a needle." Seth completed the sentence, a smug smirk spreading across his face as Ashley tapped her forehead, "Now who did you say had the dirty mind here?"
Suddenly, Ashley felt a new kind of material under her fingers, opening her eyes, the girl noticed that she was now hanging near the end of the drainpipe, her right hand firmly on the window sill and the previous feeling of dread strangely lifted for the moment. With a few swift motions, the girl managed to heave her body against the window, the hinges giving in to her mass and the shutters turning wide open to make way for her as she landed on the floor of her own room with a slight thud. Struggling up to her feet and massaging her aching knees, Ashley felt a sudden and very strong surge of gratitude towards the scatterbrained handyman who had put in the hinges the wrong way.
OOC: Whew, took me a while but it's finally done. Oh, and if you see any naughty bits in the text it's only a testament to your own, dirty mind. XD
