RP: Talk Over Coffee
Date: September 30th, 2011
Characters: Neve Stadheim, Ezra Loy
Location: Stadheim House
Status: Private
Summary: Neve decides to finally have that talk with Ezra.
Completion: Complete
It had been nearly a week since the strange dinner with Jake, Star, the girls and Kyle. Neve had been going back and forth on if she should even ask Ezra about Kyle's behavior, why he had acted the way he had. She knew the kid was quiet, but in her mind - and maybe she was wrong - but he had bordered on rude with Jake.
Neve couldn't lie and say she understood being uncomfortable with strangers - her entire life had been a revolving door of strangers. She had almost grown up with the opinion that a stranger was just a friend she hadn't met yet. It had bothered her though that Kyle had acted the way he had, with people she counted as friends.
She sat out in the backyard with a cup of coffee and a book, glancing up as Ezra slipped out the back door and gave her a faint smile. "Hey, Evie." He murmured as he dropped into the deck chair next to hers. "You've got that look you get when you've been thinking on something for awhile." Ezra studied his older sister, trying to figure out what she might have been thinking about that had put that look on her face.
Shaking her head, Neve laughed softy. "Nothing ever gets past you, Blue." She replied, setting down her coffee on the side table between them. "Jake and Star brought dinner by last Saturday...." Neve trailed off, aware that Ezra knew this, he'd had leftover when he got off work. "And I meant to talk to you sooner, but Kyle was acting really unlike himself, at least the Kyle the girls and I are used to seeing." She was being honest, and wondered if Ezra would be able to shine some light on this for her.
Ezra wrinkled his nose as he listened to Neve talk. He knew Kyle wasn't great with strangers, but Jake and Star weren't strangers - least not in Ezra's mind. "Unlike himself?" The fact that Neve had been thinking on this a week concerned Ezra,
"To be honest, Blue. He was almost bordering on rude, or at least that's how I took his behavior." Neve wasn't going to sugar coat her opinion. "Jake did a really nice thing, and Kyle acted like a grumpy child about it." And he was a child, Neve was just realizing this now. Nineteen was still young, and in her opinion Kyle still needed life experiences that would help him move beyond himself and mature as a person.
Sighing, Ezra didn't exactly know how to answer his sister, he hadn't been there. But if Neve was saying Kyle was almost rude, well, that concerned Ezra because his sister wasn't a rash person who went around judging people. "Evie, what did he do exactly?" Ezra asked quietly, trying to ignore the voice in the back of his mind that said he should worry about this - that maybe this was a red flag he needed to look into.
She felt terrible putting Ezra in this position, but she needed insight. Though she wasn't sure Ezra could give any, not when he hadn't been there. "Barely spoke to anyone, barely ate. At the dinner table he only said anything when Mack called him out on acting weird. Jake spoke almost directly to him and instead of an answer he just gave a noncommittal noise." That was the best way she could explain his behavior. "Any insight, Blue?"
"Wish I could give you insight. But I don't know why he acted that way. " Ezra knew Kyle didn't like strangers, but he'd met Jake and Star before. So they weren't strangers, right? And Jake, in Ezra's opinion was one of the easiest people to be around. He hadn't spoken to the other guy much, but the couple times he had, he found Jake easy to talk to. "Evie, I'm sorry." It was all Ezra could say, he wasn't going to make excuses for Kyle's behavior, but he was sorry that a nice gesture had turned into something that his sister had spent a week dwelling on because his fiance had been less than hospitable, or so that's what Ezra was gathering from Neve's description. "Maybe I'll talk to him about it."
Neve felt terrible for putting Ezra in that position. "You don't have to, Blue." She began, sighing softly. "But if you want to, I know both myself, and likely Jake for that matter would love to know why he acted that way." And she realized she should talk to her brother about the thing she had going on with Jake, but that was a conversation for another day.
Ezra shrugged and gave his sister a half smile. "It's bothering you, Evie. So I want to figure out why it happened." Getting up from the deck chair, he leaned down and gave Neve a hug before moving back towards the house. "Don't stress about it anymore, okay." He called over his shoulder before slipping inside.
She thought that was easier to say than to do, but Ezra was right - she needed to stop stressing about it. Sighing again, Neve picked her coffee cup back up and took a sip before going back to the book she'd been reading.
Characters: Neve Stadheim, Ezra Loy
Location: Stadheim House
Status: Private
Summary: Neve decides to finally have that talk with Ezra.
Completion: Complete
It had been nearly a week since the strange dinner with Jake, Star, the girls and Kyle. Neve had been going back and forth on if she should even ask Ezra about Kyle's behavior, why he had acted the way he had. She knew the kid was quiet, but in her mind - and maybe she was wrong - but he had bordered on rude with Jake.
Neve couldn't lie and say she understood being uncomfortable with strangers - her entire life had been a revolving door of strangers. She had almost grown up with the opinion that a stranger was just a friend she hadn't met yet. It had bothered her though that Kyle had acted the way he had, with people she counted as friends.
She sat out in the backyard with a cup of coffee and a book, glancing up as Ezra slipped out the back door and gave her a faint smile. "Hey, Evie." He murmured as he dropped into the deck chair next to hers. "You've got that look you get when you've been thinking on something for awhile." Ezra studied his older sister, trying to figure out what she might have been thinking about that had put that look on her face.
Shaking her head, Neve laughed softy. "Nothing ever gets past you, Blue." She replied, setting down her coffee on the side table between them. "Jake and Star brought dinner by last Saturday...." Neve trailed off, aware that Ezra knew this, he'd had leftover when he got off work. "And I meant to talk to you sooner, but Kyle was acting really unlike himself, at least the Kyle the girls and I are used to seeing." She was being honest, and wondered if Ezra would be able to shine some light on this for her.
Ezra wrinkled his nose as he listened to Neve talk. He knew Kyle wasn't great with strangers, but Jake and Star weren't strangers - least not in Ezra's mind. "Unlike himself?" The fact that Neve had been thinking on this a week concerned Ezra,
"To be honest, Blue. He was almost bordering on rude, or at least that's how I took his behavior." Neve wasn't going to sugar coat her opinion. "Jake did a really nice thing, and Kyle acted like a grumpy child about it." And he was a child, Neve was just realizing this now. Nineteen was still young, and in her opinion Kyle still needed life experiences that would help him move beyond himself and mature as a person.
Sighing, Ezra didn't exactly know how to answer his sister, he hadn't been there. But if Neve was saying Kyle was almost rude, well, that concerned Ezra because his sister wasn't a rash person who went around judging people. "Evie, what did he do exactly?" Ezra asked quietly, trying to ignore the voice in the back of his mind that said he should worry about this - that maybe this was a red flag he needed to look into.
She felt terrible putting Ezra in this position, but she needed insight. Though she wasn't sure Ezra could give any, not when he hadn't been there. "Barely spoke to anyone, barely ate. At the dinner table he only said anything when Mack called him out on acting weird. Jake spoke almost directly to him and instead of an answer he just gave a noncommittal noise." That was the best way she could explain his behavior. "Any insight, Blue?"
"Wish I could give you insight. But I don't know why he acted that way. " Ezra knew Kyle didn't like strangers, but he'd met Jake and Star before. So they weren't strangers, right? And Jake, in Ezra's opinion was one of the easiest people to be around. He hadn't spoken to the other guy much, but the couple times he had, he found Jake easy to talk to. "Evie, I'm sorry." It was all Ezra could say, he wasn't going to make excuses for Kyle's behavior, but he was sorry that a nice gesture had turned into something that his sister had spent a week dwelling on because his fiance had been less than hospitable, or so that's what Ezra was gathering from Neve's description. "Maybe I'll talk to him about it."
Neve felt terrible for putting Ezra in that position. "You don't have to, Blue." She began, sighing softly. "But if you want to, I know both myself, and likely Jake for that matter would love to know why he acted that way." And she realized she should talk to her brother about the thing she had going on with Jake, but that was a conversation for another day.
Ezra shrugged and gave his sister a half smile. "It's bothering you, Evie. So I want to figure out why it happened." Getting up from the deck chair, he leaned down and gave Neve a hug before moving back towards the house. "Don't stress about it anymore, okay." He called over his shoulder before slipping inside.
She thought that was easier to say than to do, but Ezra was right - she needed to stop stressing about it. Sighing again, Neve picked her coffee cup back up and took a sip before going back to the book she'd been reading.