'nuzzer challenge
Mon, Jan. 27th, 2003 05:51 pm
Another challenge set by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drazzi:
Scene: Bathroom
Sentence: "Hey, you, get offa my cloud"
Item: Post-it note
AND mention the song: Bohemian Rhapsody in some way
“You know, you’re generally supposed to tally in days, not minutes.”
The dark haired girl added another stroke to her tally. “One, they’ll let us out before tomorrow morning, and two, I’m not doing it in minutes.”
“What’re you timing it in then?”
“Songs.”
The older boy with the same dark hair rolled his eyes and slouched down against the tiled wall, glancing at his watch. “Aren’t you tired yet?”
“Noop. Wanna play naughts and crosses?” The eight-year-old scrambled over to her brother, older than her by almost ten years, and slapped her pad of post-it notes on his leg.
James cringed inwardly. Bohemian Rhapsody had started again. They’d been stuck in the Greater Union bathroom for two hours and heard that song at least five times. He hadn’t minded that song before two hours ago, he’d even go so far as to say he’d liked it, but now it had just been ruined for him. How had they managed to get locked in anyway? Yes, they had been the last out of the cinema, and so the last into the loos, but still, they weren’t there all that long, were they? He sighed and turned back to his sister.
“Sure, whatever,” he said, picking up the pen she offered to him. He drew the grid up on the yellow post-it note and stuck a circle in one corner.
Sophie frowned at the grid, tapping the end of the pen on her cheek in an effort to decide which of the eight remaining squares would be occupied by her cross. Very carefully she drew the cross in the opposite corner and handed the pen back to her brother, who quickly added a circle to one of the remaining two.
Sophie’s shoulders slouched. “Aww, no fair, you’ve won already! If I put a cross here,” she pointed at the square between his two circles, “then you’ll put a circle in the other corner and have a two way win.” She folded her arms and pouted at her brother.
James grinned. “Bingo,” he said, handing the pad back to his sister and glaring up at the speakers. “Hey! You! Get offa my cloud!” pumped vigorously into the bathroom, making him bury his head in his knees.
“If I hear any of these songs when I get out of here I am seriously—” he was cut off when the whole bathroom went black and silent. He sighed with relief and rested his head back against the wall. “Thank God for that,” he whispered, then turned when the young girl at his side clung at his arm, whimpering slightly.
“James, I’m scared,” she mumbled.
James sighed and pulled his mobile out of his pocket, pressing one of the buttons to make it light up.
“When’re we going home?” Sophie asked, a thumb in her mouth.
“When they unlock the loos,” James answered, “’bout nine, I’d say.” He lay one arm over her small shoulders and let her snuggle up to him.
“You sure?”
“Pretty much. Either then or earlier.” He pressed the button again on his phone, the green glow shining off the girl’s closed eyes. He smiled warmly at his younger sister and rested his head on hers. “Don’t worry, just go to sleep and we’ll be out before you know it. You’re perfectly safe.”
drazzi:Scene: Bathroom
Sentence: "Hey, you, get offa my cloud"
Item: Post-it note
AND mention the song: Bohemian Rhapsody in some way
“You know, you’re generally supposed to tally in days, not minutes.”
The dark haired girl added another stroke to her tally. “One, they’ll let us out before tomorrow morning, and two, I’m not doing it in minutes.”
“What’re you timing it in then?”
“Songs.”
The older boy with the same dark hair rolled his eyes and slouched down against the tiled wall, glancing at his watch. “Aren’t you tired yet?”
“Noop. Wanna play naughts and crosses?” The eight-year-old scrambled over to her brother, older than her by almost ten years, and slapped her pad of post-it notes on his leg.
James cringed inwardly. Bohemian Rhapsody had started again. They’d been stuck in the Greater Union bathroom for two hours and heard that song at least five times. He hadn’t minded that song before two hours ago, he’d even go so far as to say he’d liked it, but now it had just been ruined for him. How had they managed to get locked in anyway? Yes, they had been the last out of the cinema, and so the last into the loos, but still, they weren’t there all that long, were they? He sighed and turned back to his sister.
“Sure, whatever,” he said, picking up the pen she offered to him. He drew the grid up on the yellow post-it note and stuck a circle in one corner.
Sophie frowned at the grid, tapping the end of the pen on her cheek in an effort to decide which of the eight remaining squares would be occupied by her cross. Very carefully she drew the cross in the opposite corner and handed the pen back to her brother, who quickly added a circle to one of the remaining two.
Sophie’s shoulders slouched. “Aww, no fair, you’ve won already! If I put a cross here,” she pointed at the square between his two circles, “then you’ll put a circle in the other corner and have a two way win.” She folded her arms and pouted at her brother.
James grinned. “Bingo,” he said, handing the pad back to his sister and glaring up at the speakers. “Hey! You! Get offa my cloud!” pumped vigorously into the bathroom, making him bury his head in his knees.
“If I hear any of these songs when I get out of here I am seriously—” he was cut off when the whole bathroom went black and silent. He sighed with relief and rested his head back against the wall. “Thank God for that,” he whispered, then turned when the young girl at his side clung at his arm, whimpering slightly.
“James, I’m scared,” she mumbled.
James sighed and pulled his mobile out of his pocket, pressing one of the buttons to make it light up.
“When’re we going home?” Sophie asked, a thumb in her mouth.
“When they unlock the loos,” James answered, “’bout nine, I’d say.” He lay one arm over her small shoulders and let her snuggle up to him.
“You sure?”
“Pretty much. Either then or earlier.” He pressed the button again on his phone, the green glow shining off the girl’s closed eyes. He smiled warmly at his younger sister and rested his head on hers. “Don’t worry, just go to sleep and we’ll be out before you know it. You’re perfectly safe.”