May 9 - Seriously, I've had a lot better days than this

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel chuckled a little. "It's..." He sighed. "You're the only one who's ever given two damns about me. At least who actually knew me. And no, I don't think I'm worthless because of... where I came from or anything, it's just... sometimes it's like 'holy shit... she loves me and she's being sweet to me. How the hell do I deal with that?'" He smirked a little. "Maybe that's why we argue so damn much over the stupid shit. It's too familiar to feel bad."

[Kyra Raphael]

"Yeah, and I'm not used to a guy liking me for me, and not because of who my family is or because of my potential as breeding stock."

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel smirked a little "Well, I can't say that I'm not a fan of your 'capabilities' as breeding stock," he teased, giving her a quick grope. "But yeah... I know what you mean," he admitted.

"I tried to hate you for a while, when we were kids," he admitted. "Didn't work, of course. But I tried."

[Kyra Raphael]

"I'm sorry." Kyra said "I'm sorry I didn't have the guts to sneak out and play with you anyway."

[Daniel Uriel]

"It wasn't your fault," he said, sincerely rather than dismissively. "And I knew it wasn't your fault then, either. We were kids. I was too young to see things from anything other than my little view, and you were too young to figure out that hey, maybe this rule really is stupid." He shrugged. "It was... eh, it was stupid, nevermind, this dismissal a little too quick.

[Kyra Raphael]

"It was what?"

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel hesitated. "Remember when we were... shit, what, seven? Eight? And your parents started dropping all the 'I get a pet for my birthday' hints?"

[Kyra Raphael]

"....yeah."

[Daniel Uriel]

"Well, you were always going on about it to all your friends, how you were going to get a kitty. And... it was really just bad timing, you know? You had one friend, she was a real snot, and I can't remember her name, and she kept rubbing it in that you were getting a cat, and it'd eat orphanage rats like me, and that's why they didn't allow pets in the orphanage."

"Aaaaand that was about the time that Mr. Mouse, my only friend in the world then- god, do I sound emo saying that or what?- got really old and died. So in my seven-year-old logic, you sucked because you could just get bought a pet, but I had to hunt for mine and make it want to come out where I could catch it and make it my friend, and then it was gone just like everyone else I ever liked in the orphanage, and even if I caught a new one it wouldn't be the same and- look, I know it was stupid, I was seven," he said, forcing a smile into his voice.

[Kyra Raphael]

"And I totally envied your mouse." Kyra said "I mean, taming a wild mouse and getting him to be your friend, totally awesome."

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel had to chuckle at Mr. Mouse being referred to as 'wild'. "Seriously? Did it really sound impressive at seven years old?"

[Kyra Raphael]

"It was cooler when we were six." Kyra said "But yeah, it did. That was why I acted like I didn't think he existed. I was jealous."

[Daniel Uriel]

"Oh, God, that pissed me off," Daniel chuckled. "I... okay, I'm going to stop now before I start feeling too pathetic. I mean... picture every possible 'so sad you want to hug them' scenario of a little lonely kid with a pet mouse, and I guarantee you that something almost exactly like it took place. There. Enough said."

[Kyra Raphael]

Kyra hugged him "Awww, poor Daniel."

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel chuckled a little. "See?" he said as he hugged her.

[Kyra Raphael]

"See! It took ten years but your plan to get sympathy worked."

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel gave her a very fake scowl as he tickled her. "Brat. I only started playing it for sympathy eight years ago, get it right," he joked.

[Kyra Raphael]

"I was estimating!" Kyra protested.

[Daniel Uriel]

"Well, that's what you get for estimating with ticklish ribs," he teased, not letting up.

[Kyra Raphael]

Kyra responded in the only way she could, by tickling back.

[Daniel Uriel]

And it went on like this for quite a while, until Daniel, who couldn't take being tickled any more, started wrestling to catch Kyra's arms to stop the tickling he'd started. Oh, irony.

[Kyra Raphael]

Kyra, of course, responded by rolling on top of him and kissing him hard.

[Daniel Uriel]

Daniel kissed her back hard, and was about to try to wrestle her onto her back when he decided that, y'know, he'd just let her have this one.

[Kyra Raphael]

"I love it when you let me win." Kyra said, moving against him interestingly.

(ftb duh.)