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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 21:53:48 GMT -4
Oki sighed. "Yeah. And then I'm still the same cute blonde that everyone else sees. That everyone has always seen. I've honestly thought about dying my hair just so I can fade a little into the background and life would be that much simpler without men swarming around making idiots of themselves to get my attention."
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 21:57:40 GMT -4
Mrs. Harmony smiled dispite the displeasure in Oki's words. "I'm glad he's found one that uses her head for something other than a hat rack... But... If that's your wish... You don't think brown hair is natural at my age do you dear?" Mrs. Harmony said laughing with her offer...
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:01:32 GMT -4
Oki grinned. "A lady never revels her age, or asks another about hers. But the brown really is a good colour. I'll keep it in mind if I ever get that frustrated."
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 22:06:08 GMT -4
Mrs. Harmony finished her tea. "Ok dear. But I don't think the hair is your problem anyway. Yuki's never liked blondes anyway. Said they were too... 'ditsy'... Or something like that. So I think it's something else he sees in you..."
She had no more on the subject, and no more tea in her cup, and so she returned her attention to the cheesecake in front of her...
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:13:34 GMT -4
Oki simply smiled, finishing her tea, and set to work scrubbing out the oven now that the cleaner had had a chance to loosen the grime. As she worked, she hummed softly to herself, the gentle tune of a recently popular love song.
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 22:18:31 GMT -4
Luckily for Oki, Mrs. Harmony did not recognise the tune, and so she didn't comment on it.
For an oven that she couldn't clean, Mrs. Harmony's oven was surprisingly clean already, and so Oki's job was quite simple today...
Outside, Yuki was putting all of the planter boxes together, and getting ready to hang them. He wouldn't be much longer...
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:26:03 GMT -4
Since the oven was so clean already, when she finished with the inside, she began to wipe down the outside as well. With a damp cloth, she made sure that the door and the stove top gleamed. It didn't really need it, but it felt like the right thing to do in Mrs. Harmony's neat kitchen. She liked keeping her hands busy, and she enjoyed having the older woman working near by.
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 22:30:22 GMT -4
By the time Oki finished with the stove, Mrs. Harmony was finishing her cheesecake, and wrapping it up so that Oki could take it home with her.
Outside, Yuki was re-potting all of the flowers in the installed new planter boxes...
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:31:51 GMT -4
Oki gathered up the cleaning supplies and looked to Mrs. Harmony.
"Is there anything else you'd like me to do while I'm here, m'am?"
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 22:34:21 GMT -4
Mrs. Harmony, in her matchmaking ways smiled as she handed Oki the cheesecake. "When you go outside, take a good look at that man out there," she said, grining almost ear to ear. "And then bring him back inside so you both can have some lunch..."
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:38:31 GMT -4
Oki smiled and took the cheesecake. "Thank you Mrs. Harmony, I will."
Holding the cheesecake, she stepped outside and quietly stood watching Yuki for a while.
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 22:42:24 GMT -4
Yuki was covered in sawdust from the work, but the actual carpentry work was over. He was repotting the final few flowers and making sure they were secure and watered. Yuki was so caught up in what he was doing, making sure Mrs. Harmony's flowers would survive, that he didn't even notice Oki standing behind him in the shade...
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:45:43 GMT -4
Oki smiled, waiting for him to finish with the last of the flowers before she spoke.
"Mrs. Harmony wants you to come in and have some lunch to thank you for all of your hard work. The boxes look great."
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Post by Yuki on Aug 19, 2009 22:47:21 GMT -4
Yuki jumped a little in surprise, but turned and smiled at her, trying, and failing to mask it. "How long have you been standing there?" he asked, thinking his skills had grown rusty, or her's amazingly better..
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Post by Oki on Aug 19, 2009 22:54:14 GMT -4
Oki shrugged. "Just a couple of minutes. You were so focused on what you were doing I didn't want to interrupt you. I also didn't want to seem creepy, so I thought it might be a good idea to speak before you turned around and caught me watching you."
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