The Beach - Wednesday before Cheerleading practice

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette brought Angel to the beach with her at Chad's suggestion that his cat and her cat might have fun too. She spread a beach towel, put up a small umbrella, and brought along other necessary beach items that included a frisbee and a football.

She didn't think about bringing a cooler; she wouldn't have been able to carry it anyway.

Anyhow, she was here and waiting for Chad.

(The beach is open for all your beach like needs!)

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[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

And Chad came along eventually (hopefully Annette hadn't waited too long), Prince Oscar Pedro (with sunscreen on him) perched on his shoulder and an umbrella, some towels, and his own football with him. He gave Annette a smile as he approached, carefully setting things down. He didn't want to inadvertently make the kitten fall off. "We made it."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She watched him approach as she was sitting on her towel, Angel playing with the corner edge of it. "I see," she smiled wide and looked up at Pedro. It was the first time she had seen him. "That's uh, a neat looking cat you have there."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"You...haven't met him yet?" Chad sounded surprised. Prince Oscar Pedro leaned forward as Chad straightened, digging his claws into Chad's shoulder (he didn't mind so much) as he tried to get a closer look at the pretty new person and meowed happily at her. He even started purring without any provocation. "Well...Prince Oscar Pedro Neko-kun." Pause. "The Third?" Chad held out his hand for the kitten to climb into and then held them both out toward Annette. "Meet Annette. Annette? Prince Oscar Pedro Neko-kun." Pause. "The Third. And that must be Angel over there, right? She's pretty."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She shook her head and watched the cat dig his claws into Chad's shoulder - ouch. Ahh, it was purring at her! She smiled and came up on her knees to get closer when Chad reached out with his hands, kitty on top. "Hello Prince Oscar Pedro Nek0-kun, the third." And that was a mouthful. "Can I hold him?" she asked Chad, glancing back over at Angel. "Yep, that's her. And thank you!"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"You can hold Prince Oscar Pedro," Chad offered, "if you let me hold Angel. They're kind of opposites, aren't they? I see what you meant now, about the sand..."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," she reached out to take Pedro and inwardly squeed over the feel of the cat. "So different from Angel oh my. No hair. This is so weird, Chad, I mean in a totally cool way." Annette was grinning wide, holding the cat up against her chest, petting over his head and down his body. "And yes, oh please, you can hold Angel!"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Yay, kitty!

Chad gave a stoic nod and then went to sit down beside Angel, holding out his fingers a little for her to sniff before she decided whether or not he was worthy of her attention. Prince Oscar Pedro, purring up a storm, happily kneaded his paws against Annette. His wide, bulging eyes closed, content and quite pleased.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Angel sniffed Chad's fingers then she jumped and crouched low, batting at them before she went in again to sniff at them, swiping one paw out in a teasing fashion, claws retracted. She was purring very loudly and pounced at Chad's hand again. Annette giggled watching her before she looked down at Prince Oscar Pedro. He was so sweet! "I'm in love." Annette teased, not minding when his sharp claws pricked her just a little.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

And the toying battle between Angel and Chad's hand began!

"That's what I thought, too," he said with a smile to Annette's comment, "when I spent a little time with him at the shelter. He's just so happy at the smallest things. And he grows on you, once you're used to the lack of fur."

He turned a grin toward Angel. "Maybe you should let him borrow some."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Getting used to the lack of fur is not hard to do at all. It gives him his own character. I've never seen one of these types of cats before in person, only pictures. And I'm falling in love so so much," she said in an itty-bitty voice against the kitty's head, nuzzling it.

Angel was a fireball of fur. She jumped and hopped and patted Chad's fingers, purring and rolling onto her back while she batted in the air at his hand.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Don't let her hear you talking like that," Chad warned, rubbing Angel's tummy lightly with his big hand. "She'll get jealous, and then shave off all her pretty fur and go through a rebellious punk phase."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette giggled and gave him a look, "Not true. I love my kitty. Yours is just unique." She set Prince Oscar Pedro down upon the towel and said to Chad, "Come on, ready to toss the football while these two play?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Charlie headed to the beach later in the day, with her bag of fire tricks. She settled pretty far down the beach from Annette and Chad, waving at them when she saw them, then practiced burning off power in the water an area where there were no people to be hurt.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad gave Charlie a wave after he'd spotted her between throws, in a way that he hoped made it clear that if she wanted to join them, she was welcome, but without, again, he hoped, disturbing her in case she didn't want to be bothered.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Charlie waved, and gave him a thumb's up of appreciation, but didn't wander over to join them just yet. Maybe after she and Johnny had practiced for a while. That would be safer.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny rode to the beach on his motorcycle. He was enjoying riding it when the opportunity presented itself and there was no time better than when he knew he was going to be in town, or there abouts.

After parking, he sauntered off down towards Charlie, waving and calling out to her, "Hey, how's it going?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" Charlie waved back, wading out of the water and walking up the beach to meet him. "Pretty good. I was practicing sending out heat, farther and farther. How was work?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Good. You doing good with that? Sending it out farther?" He leaned in to kiss her cheek. "Work was great actually. I got to try my awesome pick up lines on a couple chicks, Isabel included."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Charlie returned the kiss, then snickered, patting him on the cheek. "How'd that go?" She wandered over to her pre-dug firepit, and flopped down on the sand, then pulled out a rope from her bag. "Any takers? Any new dates?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He followed her. "You bet. I got a dinner date out of Mary and a kiss out of Isabel. A very fairytale chaste kiss from Isabel," he grinned and dropped to his knees on the opposite side of her firepit.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Mary? I don't think I know her." She brightened. "You've seen Isabel? I hadn't see her for a while, I was starting to get worried about her." Charlie danced the rope upward. "Okay, I'm going to set fire to it, then try to put it out by burying it. Can you stand by, in case it goes wrong?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"She's from the Arms Hotel." he said. "Oh yeah, she came in today to share her ice creamm with me. Turns out she was staying with the Jerries last week while she was a dog." He said this all matter of factly but it made him flail just a bit inside.

He nodded, "That's what I here for, sweetheart."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Surprise made Charlie drop the rope, blinking. "She was a dog? Whoa. And the Jerries? Are they the crazy guys, who run that one shop?" She shook her head, and slowly raised the rope again, then reached out with a quick burst of heat. The bottom end of the rope ignited and started to climb upward, and Charlie let it drop, then telekinetically pushed sand over it. It smoldered, and smoked, but didn't quite go out. "Come oooon. Die, stupid fire..."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny nodded and looked down, "Yeah, they're the crazy guys who I have to apologize to still. Maaan."

He watched the rope and Charlie then dropped his eyes when she buried it in the sand. "Give it time..."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Charlie took a couple breaths, and finally managed to get it deep enough for the flames to gutter out. "Whew." She leaned back on her hands, and took a breath of relief. "Apologize to? Wait, this was about that Detention you got, right?"