A romance and a move

Sanya Lime tells:

A lot has happened since we moved here in Emerald Harbour… At first everything seemed to go well – almost too well to be true – except that I didn’t like it when the paper girl kept coming all the way to our backyard!

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Even if Diamanda, Dennis and dave were my best and only friends, as a loner I often prefered solitude…

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The Sastiras were very motivated to proceed on their criminal careers, and took much effort on improving their skills. Dennis and Dave concentrated mostly on physical exercise…

…while Diamanda trained her brain with the computer. Except one day, when the PC all of a suddenly totally broke! A lot of ominous smoke came out of the device, and I tried to convince Diamanda, that we need to call a pro computer tech… but she insisted, that as a computer whiz she can easily fix it herself.

I was quite nervous when she started to work on it! What if she would get a lethal electric shock?! Oh my gosh!!! When the computer made a smallest sinister sound, I was almost jumping on the walls of fear. (yeah, a lot of things make me nervous… I guess I’m neurotic, then).

Luckily everything went fine, and I had freaked out ALL IN VAIN (hrmph... actually that detail makes me kind of grumpy... but anyway I'm absolutely joyful that nothing happened to her!)

Because the criminal organization doesn’t hire teens, I sometimes feel quite left out and bored. Even SO bored, that at times I voluntarily do my homework!

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Despite of me being a loner, as the time passed even I got some friends from school and the neighbourhood. One of my favourite friends is Mick McGruber, even if he’s quite mean at times… Well, I guess I’m so used to hang out with meanish people, that it doesn’t bother me.

Finally Mick’s mum came to open the door, looking slightly grumpy and hostile… I ignored her mistrustful glare and headed straight to the cellar, where they actually live. I gladly greeted Mick, and soon we started to dance together.

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Then we watched TV, even if the show was pretty boring… Mick’s little sister Anisia played on the background with a red rocket, and because we weren’t focused on the TV anyway, we started to chat about children and toys.

-Anisia has played with that same rocket for weeks! Mick exclaimed, -She would seriously need a new toy - a stuffed bear, for instance.

 

-Well, at least she can amuse herself by mopping the floors, I joked, 'cause Anisia had just started to clean up a puddle...

-Personally, I think that cleaning is awful! I added.

-Yeah, it definitely is! Mike approved, gazing into my eyes, -That’s why Anisia can do it for me too!

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After that we simply froze, looking each other deep into the eyes… Even if the topic, that we had been discussing, was most unromantic, and even the room was tumbledown, I suddenly forgat about everything around me, except Mick… and I was filled with a flood of attraction.

Then it just… happened. Without us saying a word.

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After our fist kiss I felt terribly shy and embarrased, so I desperately needed to say something, that was NOT related to romances and kisses… So I quickly asked, if Mick would like to come over to our place, and he gladly agreed.

When we arrived there, it was quite late already, and I was afraid, that Mick would leave almost immediatly. So I invited him to stay over the whole night, and he agreed to that too.

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At that point Mick seemed already very dirty, and I presumed, that their bathroom was out of order - AGAIN (or maybe still? Maybe they had never fixed it?). So I thought, that inviting him over the night wasn’t only a gesture of friendship, but for him it was also a practical favour?

I guess I was right, 'cause Mick headed right away to the shower!

 After that he mentioned, that he was quite exhausted, and went to take a nap on the bench outside our house. On my behalf he could have used the comfy sofa in the livingroom, or even some of the beds, but maybe he was shy of my room-mates, or simply needed a moment of solitude (which I would understand very well).

If it was solitude he was looking for, he couldn’t enjoy it for a long while…

...but on the other hand he was asleep, so maybe Diamanda's "coffee break" didn't disturb him.

 

Meanwhile I and Dennis were watching TV, but I concentrated more on his fascinating stories about their heists, than the TV. It made me feel a bit jealous to hear all the adventures the Sastiras had experienced, while I had only slacked off at school or at home.

When Mick woke up from his nap, he joined us on the couch, and even the TV show was finally getting interesting…

Too bad for Dennis, that he needed to go and eat just when the show was reaching it's most exciting point.

 

Whoah, and it really WAS exciting!

 

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When the movie ended, even I started to feel quite tired. But I couldn’t resist flirting with Mick a little more! I could as well have asked him to go steady with me – that’s how deep our crush already was – but I’m not of the most “commitment-yearning” type, and I think that Mick neither is.

That was one of the great days of my life… but then something not-so-great happened! A failed robbery gave us a really hard time…

The Sastiras were given an opportunity to pay huge sums of penalty instead of spending a long time in jail, and they chose to pay (just like I would have done). In the lack of money we even had to give up our beautiful house on the beach!

 

Our new home is a spooky, run-down cottage on the opposite edge of the town. I hated it at the first sight!

First of all, the yard is full of dreadfully creepy garden gnomes, in different, weird positions! Their names are written on their soles, and even they are sinister! One of them is called “Mean Marwin”, just for instance…

Diamanda was deeply annoyed by the gnomes too.

Secondly, the yard is swarming with all kinds of disgusting bugs…

...and on the backyard there is a little pond, that bustles of somehow mischievous-looking fishes!

Seriously, those huge black ones, that are jumping in the air all the time, give me cold chills…

...not to mention those... little SHARKS?! At least they look like sharks... I bet that one day they'll grow up and gobble us in their mouths, if we go too close to the pond! Brrrrr... the nature is just so creepy!!!

 

To crown it all, we only have an OUTDOOR bathrooms!

 

And it just keeps getting better... someone has obviously died on the lot! So we must prepare ourselves for howling ghosts that disturb our sleep, and everything!

 

When I stepped inside, I realized, that I hadn't even seen half of the horrors of this cursed cottage yet! There was something truly sinister about the fridge!

At the first sight I thought, that it was broken and surrounded by dangerous, little lightnings… but it turned out that it works just normally. Still it has this weird radiation around it, and somehow I think that it affects my mood – negatively. It’s like if every time when I’m nearby the fridge, I feel sad and tired… it must be some kind of a ghastly curse!

After all this it wasn't too encouraging to find two urns in the bedroom! In addition to it, that one of the beds have a similar, mysterious radiation around it as the fridge...

 

PS: Sorry everyone for the horrible graphics! I’ve had computer problems, and I had turned the graphics down to make sure, that the game doesn’t crash anymore (recently it crashed so badly, that I had to re-install it). Well, on the screen (when I was playing the game) the graphics looked just fine, and even in the screenshots, when I open them on my computer, it looks OK, but for some reason, when I uploaded them here, they looked all grainy and very bad

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