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AJA SUBLINO [D1 | FIN] Feb 1, 2014 15:32:57 GMT -5

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Post by shrimp on Feb 1, 2014 15:32:57 GMT -5

faceclaim: neelam johal
17 or 18 year old cousin to Bette Sublino
charismatic face of the store

young, affable, tries to keep a strong face on, determined, ambitious
overly trusting, very generous, careless and a bit sloppy. very clumsy.
laughs things off - thick skin.

is she a career? No she's not - she sees Bette go to Career practice and she's kinda worried because she's become so aloof and cold to so many people. Of course, Aja doesn't know that Bette has to be, with her running the familial black market operations and all.

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AJA SUBLINO [D1 | FIN] Feb 2, 2014 4:03:17 GMT -5

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Post by shrimp on Feb 2, 2014 4:03:17 GMT -5

aja sublino

SEVENTEEN
D I S T R I C T O N E
FEMALE
O D A I R.

Sometimes I wish I was pretty, like the other girls with their hair all done up for the reaping, their skin bright and clear with a rosy complexion. I mean, I try my hardest but the zits never seem to want to go away and where their hair is bouncy and fluffy mine is more stringy than anything else. And coal-black too. They're shapely, I'm twig-thin and awkward, all strange angles pinned onto a wooden board. I do like my lips - they're full. And I like my height (sometimes, aside from the typical "how's the weather up there" jokes but who even cares people who say that can go screw themselves). I like my smile. That's kind of it.

I have better outfits though - or at least, I've convinced myself of that once Bette hands me one of the necklaces that hasn't been bought yet, a shower of imperfect pearls adorning my neck as I ooh and aah in the full-length mirror shoved in the back of the store amidst trinkets and gadgets and the grandfather clock long since stowed away "to be repaired later" by Uncle Ajay. He never got around to it though. I think Bette wants to fix it; she's always staring at it, polishing the gold-plated leaves that adorn its face, her scowl less of a "get away from me" and more of something else. I worry about her - she used to be so quiet but so warm and now she's quiet and icy. Around most people, that is. Even family.

We used to be so close, all of us, the Aunties and Uncles and my parents and her parents and then the chasm split us all apart and now some of us are here and others are scattered across the wind, floating wherever the breeze took them. I hope some of them found an ocean, they always wanted to go see it. Uncle Ajay (they named me after him 'cause his smile always lit up a room) in particular. Wherever they are, I hope they're happy. We're keeping up the fort now, they can rest.

Sometimes I worry that the foundation was too damaged when we came back to the shop, that nothing would be like it used to be. The magic was covered in a thin layer of dust when we finally managed to get past the rubble and into the store. It seemed that even the trinkets knew that something had been lost; they didn't shine as brightly as before. Bette cried. I wanted to, but no tears came out. And there was no time to cry anyway there was too much work to be done and we had to purchase the urns and make sure that everyone else didn't go the way the others went and that we got the store back up and running and our livelihood to ourselves again. We're Sublinos, we don't sit and stare at our fate - we complain about it and tackle it head on. Mostly the latter. Sometimes.

It's probably really bad, but sometimes I wish that I didn't have this as my livelihood. I mean I run the front of the store because I'm the only one left who can still smile. But I've always wanted something else for myself other than dusting pocket-watches all day. There's a whole world out there, so many things to discover and I'm limited, I'm limited to either being here or being in a factory if I don't keep my grades up and even then I'm destined to a life in luxury goods. Not that it's a bad thing - I like luxury as much as the next person - but, I don't know. Something's missing. I want to be successful and I want to make sure we're all well off but I also want to do it in my own way even if I don't really know what that is yet.

So for now, the pocket-watches still need dusting. And I'm happy to do it, I just don't wan to do it all the time, especially now that Bette and my father are meeting at the dead of night and don't allow me into their conversations, now that Bette heads down to the cellar and locks the door and I can't get in even with my super awesome lock-picking skills (that was a joke I can't pick a lock to save my life it's much harder than it looks using a bobby pin doesn't give it justice).

I don't know what they're doing, but whatever it is is keeping us afloat. Do I want to know what it is? A part of me is desperate to find out because Bette's only a year older than I am so why is she able to know about things and I can't? But do I really wan to know? The Sublinos are tough, we can handle most things without batting an eye, but what if they're doing something bad? I mean it's my father and my cousin they can't do anything that bad but what if it puts us all in danger? Ugh. I don't know.

I try to keep my head up, try to keep smiling. That's all you can do - pick your head up after you've fallen and take it step by step. Hopefully without tripping, but everyone falls once in a while (especially me). You just need to patch it up and keep going. Keep dusting those pocket-watches, keep making sure that Grandmother has enough tea in the pot and that Auntie's toenail isn't infected and that your cousin gets enough sleep at night even though you can hear her wandering out of the room at 4 o'clock in the freaking morning. That's all you can do. That's all I can do.

For now, I'm okay with that.

Last Edit: Feb 4, 2014 13:47:37 GMT -5 by shrimp

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