Someone's Watching [Marree]

Saffron and Lotus take the initiative to sleep in for the day, prompting Kalina to take advantage of the situation while she was still able to be sneak around the house quietly. In between, dressing herself in the warmest of clothes possible, she found it easy to find the heavy jacket of her fathers just laying on the couch. She slips it on, and marvels at the size difference, but it smells of him. It has that musty odor of old soap and lumber. She smiles as she pulls it further into her body, to wrap it almost another half around her petite body. In the kitchen, a sound comes to her ears as someone who is awake and finds the person to be that of her mom.

"Where you going off to?" She asks. Her face soft and slightly wrinkled with the aging years. She wasn't old, to say the least, but the worry lines in her forehead as well as in between her brow gives off so much time that has been spend worrying. Kalina responds to her mother with a smile. "YOu off to go see that Tyler again? Honey.. he's good to you. Ever thought of anything that could further that?"

"Mom... we're just dating right now... nothing too serious... " She explains but hides the fact that she wishes for more than that. Along with that statement, she shakes her head to her and picks up a peice of dry toast and brings it to her lips. "No. Not today. Besides, I"m goign to go out before the two rugrats wake. I've never known them to sleep this long. I'll be back sometime later."

With that, she forces the dry toast down with a gulp of water and leaves. She's met with the furious breath of cold air into her lungs the moment she takes it in. The new fallen snow. The white atmostphere. "How wonderful!" She says to herself and tucks her hands deep within her pockets and took off into the forests of districe seven.

Kalina keeps a steady rythm with her feet as she takes each step with ease, careful not to slip as it crunches. Something about the new snow seemed to wake in Kalina a childish wonder. A huge smile gracing her lips as she looses all train of thought of where she's going until she hears someone walking in the same area that she happened to be in. She watches him intently though, not making a sound. Just quiet. He sits on a tree stump covered in snow and she grins.

After a few moments, she decides to speak up, as she took a few steps toward the boy staring at his hands. "Ya know... your rump is going to get cold sitting on the snow like that, I imagine." She takes in the boys appearance. He seemed troubled. "You okay?" CAme her older sister response. Taking care of two young sisters makes her seem more motherly than ever. CAring. A tad bit more on the worried side than she should be with the person that she had never met before, but still, being nice to a stranger never hurt anyone.

Kalina grins when he jumps because she didn't really expect to scare the poor boy. As he turns around, she realizes that she doesn't recognize him at all, but maybe he was a year or two younger than her. Whatever the case was, she was surprised. She's usually very good about knowing the people here in the town. She can't say that's she's ever seen him at school. Though, she looks at him just once more but decides that the face isn't familiar at all. She does, however, ask if he's okay. No normal person would be sitting out here just doing nothing, at least, sitting on a snow covered stump looking a little frustrated for that matter.

Her facial expression softens a bit when he declares that he's fine, but chews on her lower lip a little when he says something about a fuss occuring at home. The only fusses she ever has to deal with is that of her two younger siblings.

"I hope everythings alright though. I mean, with you being out here and all. I"m sorry to hear that." She gives him an answer and takes a few steps to pass him up. "I just wanted to check on you, is all. I'm sorry to have bothered you." She nodds to him and begins to walk away from the lad. If he was upset, sometimes being alone is the best possible route, so she wasn't going to interrupt his alone time. Before she goes any further, she turns back around.

"The names Kalina, if you ever want to talk." She leaves him with her name and stick her hands in her pockets.

Kalina gives him a sympathetic smile as began to walk away. She was unsure if he wanted to talk or not, but she didn't want to linger any longer if in fact he did want to be alone during this time. She didn't want to pry either. The best thing that she could do was to allow him this moment without further interruption. Her fingers fidget inside of the pockets of her dad's thick jacket. A small peice of collected fuzz at one corner, she rolls into a ball as she begins to watch the steps she takes in the collection of fallen flakes. A couple of white snowflakes begin to fall again, decorating the front of her coat with the one of a kind flakes. She smiles adn the moment that she looks up, to glance toward the sky, she feels something hit the back of her head. The force behind the snowball make her jolt forward a bit, taking an extra couple of steps in the snow before she reached to the back of her head with a kind of speed and feels instantly the snow.

"Hey now... I was being nice to you." She began to say before she turned around to meet his gaze. A half smile formed on her lips as she shook her head and folded up her arms. "Ya know, you've got pretty good aim to be able to hit me in the back of the head, dead center. Remind me to stay on your goodside."

It's something about his laughter that catches her the right way that she, too, begins to chuckle slightly and not taking her eye off the boy, she bends down and scoops up an equally large snowball with the fresh snow and she holds it in her hands.

"Are you playing hard to get, or you just playing around? Cause two can play that game, you know?" Kalina looks to the snowball in her hands and she begins to feel the mood lighten around the whole area. With one more second, she takes one step closer to the boy and then lets the snowball fly at him with all the strength she could muster.

Kalina gave him a warning then threw the snowball as hard as she could and was surprised that he didn't even try to dodge it. It crashes into his face, sprayed stray flakes all over the place and I can't help but bust out laughing like he did moments ago. Karma can be such a...

"Yes. I have aim. I have two younger siblings, did I forget to mention that? Oops!" She claims and as she bends down to grab another snowball, she keeps her crouching position while her fingers pull the snow all together to form another snowball. However, before she can even get it to form, she watches at the boy start throwing half formed balls in her direction and with it the snow seems to cover her as if it was a blizzard. Her clothes decorated with white speckles everywhere and her hair now frosty and white.

"That's not the way you're suppose to do it. You're suppose to actually form the circles... then throw.. I take it you're snowball fights never did have good outcomes, right? Battle of the best... watch this!" She takes the newly formed ball and launches it at his arm and then while he was destracted, she takes off running behind one of the trees. Even at eighteen and deemed an adult by her sisters, the snow seems to bring out something in Kalina something similar to a child. The frozen droplets of water that falls from the sky and creates a game played by many. What better way to spend the day?

Kalinan does waste no time at all hiding behind the tree and once again, has a ball of snow just wiating for the boy whenever he would show up to find her. "This is war!" She claims.