RP: Fun At The Zoo
Date: October 4th, 2011
Characters: Shoshana Wise, Sloane Wise (NPC), Rori Milburn
Location: Fort Worth Zoo.
Status: Private
Summary: Sloane has decided it's 'bout time she sees 'Her Rori' - and Shosh agrees.
Completion: Incomplete
( So I've got this list...... )
Characters: Shoshana Wise, Sloane Wise (NPC), Rori Milburn
Location: Fort Worth Zoo.
Status: Private
Summary: Sloane has decided it's 'bout time she sees 'Her Rori' - and Shosh agrees.
Completion: Incomplete
( So I've got this list...... )
Rori grinned at Shosh. "Probably will, yeah, but by the time she's a big girl of seven I doubt she'll want us, Milburns or no, carrying her around anymore." She smiled and jiggled Sloane fondly. It would be awhile yet before Sloane really was too heavy for her to handle.
Rori could imagine Ava would have been uncomfortable. It wasn't like Ava was really out to anyone else, except for Rori, and Rori knew that kind of discomfort. "Thanks. If she says anything, I'll beat you up when the time comes" she joked, or mostly joked. Not that she'd ever do anything like that to her friend, but she might smack her on the arm hard enough to sting. "I know, yeah. Getting skillz, man."
She winked and dug out her wallet to pay for her ticket and Sloane's, doing it automatically. "So how's things with the boyfriend? Is he pissed that I won you the other day?"
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Shosh made a scoffing noise. "You and I might be old news, but I highly doubt Cody will be." She would actually bet money on that. As Rori jiggled her, Sloane laughed and grinned up at her. "I'm never goin' to grow up." She chirped, looking between her Mama and Rori.
Laughing, Shosh didn't doubt Rori would beat her up if Ava said anything to her. "Well you know where to find me." She replied with a grin. "I won't even fight back, promise." Shosh tacked on. "Only took me twenty five years to do it." Her Dad would have been impressed with the way Shosh was learning to hold her tongue sometimes.
Paying for her own ticket, Shosh pondered Rori's questions for a moment. Things weren't going bad, but she kept getting the feeling everything was moving too fast. "Honestly, I feel like we went from figuring out this whole dating thing to warp speed." She sighed. "He keeps telling me I'm incredible and I don't see how two months can make a person think that. Hell, you've know me years and you know I've got my flaws, but it's like Jase doesn't see them - he thinks everything I do is just me and that it's kind of great. Or at least that's the feeling I get." Shosh knew it seemed strange, but she would rather her boyfriend admit she had flaws and things people wouldn't like about it; it would make her feel less like she was on some kind of pedestal.
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She grinned. "Alas, we're not the mostest favorites," she said with a sigh, still tempted to be jealous. "Sure you will, little one. Someday you'll be as big as me," she said with a grin.
She laughed and nodded. "Oh, sure you won't fight back a little?" she teased. "We can kill two birds with one stone, film it, and grow rich from our fight," she joked with a wink.
Rori listened and nodded. "Well, honey, you are incredible," Rori pointed out. "But you're right, you got flaws same as me." She hefted Sloane up a little higher on her hip, heading automatically toward the giraffes first. "I mean, we both want to smack each other upside the head sometimes, right?" But she figured that was half because they'd known each other for fucking ever, but that didn't mean they didn't occasionally annoy each other as well. "Sounds like he's got himself a pair of rose colored glasses."
It wasn't like she would ever be a relationship expert, she was floundering all the time with Ava and trying to figure things out. But it never felt like they were going way too fast, or the few times it did, they clung to each other and worked it out so far. They were both scared. Maybe that was the key.
"Have you tried telling him it feels too much too fast?" she asked.
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She smirked. "We never were, that little girl has loved Cody since nearly day one." Shosh had long ago given up understanding why it was Cody had such a soft spot for her daughter, or vice versa. "You know you're her favorite 'Auntie' though." Shosh continued with a grin while Sloane shook her head. "Mama says I'm goin' be as tall as her."
"Not even a little, I'd deserve whatever was coming to me." She replied with a laugh. "We could make it even better and fight it out in a mud pit or Jell-O or something. Guys seem to love that shit. I wouldn't have to worry about my ranch if I was making money off a video like that." She paused. "Might even know someone who could film the whole thing for us." Noah always had his camera on him, she figured she could talk the kid into it.
Shosh sighed and pulled a face at Rori. "Yeah, but you've had years to figure that out. How the hell do you figure someone out in just a handful of months?" she replied. "You and me cart around some of the same flaws and some days I'm not sure if learned some of mine from you or you learned some of yours from me." Shosh remarked with a half smile. "We've had our good days and our bad, but at the end of the day you and I both know we'll get over it, and yeah maybe a punch or two was thrown in the process." They were thick as thieves, her and Rori. Shosh couldn't imagine her life without her best friend in it. "You know I told him the same exact thing, and he just grumbled about having a right to think I'm incredible." It had been frustrating at the time, and it was still frustrating. Least everyone else in Shosh's life, or at least the people she considered family were straight up in realizing she had some massively annoying character flaws.
She made a frustrated noise when Rori asked if she'd talked to Jase about any of this. "He's been so busy with the shop, and me with the ranch that we really haven't connected, I mean i've seen him since everything happened." Shosh sighed, trying to figure out how to explain it. "Honestly, I feel like we're just going through the 'relationship' motions, not that I know them well. I just, I don't know if we're really meshing anymore." It was a thought that had come up, and maybe it was just lack of serious face time, or if the 'honeymoon' period was over and the infatuation had worn off.
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"You will be, I bet," Rori told Sloane.
She laughed loudly, tickled. "Oh god, I'm almost tempted," she told Shosh, still laughing. "Just for shits and giggles. God, we could have avoided sponsors all those years..." she giggled again. She wouldn't do anything like that now, honestly, as she was sure it would make Ava uncomfortable even if it was innocent, but oh the thought truly amused the fucking hell out of her.She wasn't attracted to Shosh, never really had been, but the concept of mud wrestling for money just tickled her. It wasn't like she hadn't dumped Shosh in a water trough or changed in a barn stall with her either.
"We rubbed off on each other, I'm sure, just like me and Cody did on each other." She shrugged. It really did work that way. They had their bad days, and yeah, they'd had their fights too, completely with yelling and once or twice actually punches, given their tempers and knowledge that they couldn't really hurt each other. "He does, but no one is perfect. Fact of fuckign life." She knew Shosh or Cody would smack her upside the head if she ever thought she was.
"Well that sucks," she said. "Can't seem to make time in the schedules, huh?" That she didn't have too much trouble with--yeah, she and Ava couldn't get together a lot during the week, but they talked and texted at least every couple of days, and tried to spend time together every weekend. She frowned. "You kind of need some face time, at least," she said. "At least, that helps me and Ava. You think it was just sort of lust and it is finally out of your system now?"
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Shosh smirked at her friend. "Almost tempted?" She laughed and made a face. "Just think of the headache we would have been able to eliminate if we'd done that instead of being at the beck and call of a sponsors." Shosh had never been a fan of smiling and playing nice with the sponsors, but they made it possible for her to do what she did, so she had learned how to fake it. Though she knew the tape was mostly a joke, neither one of them would do something like that - okay, well, maybe they would.
"True, we really did. And you know you're still my favorite Milburn, even if you do share traits with Cody." She remarked, her tone teasing. It wasn't like they hadn't ever argued before, actually, when they did it was a well known fact that everyone should get the hell out of the area because they both had tempers and no fear of yelling or getting physical. But those fights had been few and far between, and at the end of the day they got over them and moved on. Shosh always just kind of thought it was the sign of a true friendship if they could argue and still be as damn close as they were. "And we all know I'm not." This was what she liked about Rori, the fact that her best friend could recognize her flaws, and didn't just try and brush them off as 'interesting' or simply a part of her that added to the whole package.
"With everything going on with the ranch I haven't had time, and he's down an employee." she sighed. "So yeah, guess we haven't been able to make time." And part of her wondered if that was a bad sign, because even with everything going on she was still making time to see other people, so shouldn't she be making time to see Jase? "Face time I'm finding is a serious must." Shosh paused and thought over Rori's second remark. "Honestly, maybe...." She trailed off. "I mean, everything was so new and exciting early on, but now I feel like we're two very different people, with two very different goals in life."
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"Almost. I don't think Ava would like it much so it's a no, but the idea is amusing as all hell," she said, still chuckling sporadically. "I know, right? I mean, i do it, but I don't like it." In fact, it had been the worst part of riding, though it had given her a set of people skills, she despised when she put on her sponsor act, feeling like a hypocrite and like she was in an untenable position.
"See, Cody can't be all bad if we share traits," Rori teased back. Yes, she could and would heckle both her friend and her brother about their mutual enmity. It was her right as being the one in between them. "No one is, not just you."
Rori wrinkled her nose. "I can see how that would be problematic," she admitted with a sigh, though she remembered a couple of times she'd nearly fallen asleep in bed chatting with Ava on the phone at the end of the day. "Well, that could be it," she said, wishing she had more experience and knew what to advise. "I mean, Ava and I don't have much in common in some things... but so far we seem to work." She shrugged a bit helplessly, taking a moment to pause to point out something to Sloane, engaging her in looking. "I mean, I don't have much experience, yeah? Sometimes I think different goals in the same direction can work, but if they're not headed sorta the same way..."
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"Probably not, so I'll just accept that it won't happen. It is amusing as hell though, and just think about some of the reactions it would have received." She agreed, laughing slightly. "We all did it, and I don't think a single one of us liked it." Shosh had complained all the time about having to deal with sponsors, but they had kept her riding, and ultimately that's what mattered to her.
"The jury will forever be out on that one. And I don't think Cody is all bad, he's just bad once he goes and opens his mouth." Shosh quipped, having always been honest about that fact. "So if you could keep him quiet I think he and I would get along great." She continued, nodding when Rori remarked that nobody was perfect. "Isn't that the truth."
Shosh sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "Don't mind me rambling, I'm just realizing I don't have a single soul in my life who's any good with relationship advice." She really didn't, not someone she trusted anyway. But just having Rori listen to her was enough. "It is problematic, and I don't know if it's an issue that can be fixed." She got the distinct feeling that she wasn't moving at the same speed Jase was in this whole thing, and she wasn't sure having a conversation would help. Lately they just didn't seem to have that same spark they had had months ago. "God, it's times like this I wish my Dad were still here." He would have been able to give some kind of advice, or at least make her realize she wasn't turning into her mother by feeling this way.
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"I don't know, Ross at least seemed to positively preen in front of the cameras," Rori said dryly. Some people really liked the limelight--Rori on the other hand only liked the limelight of the winner's circle.
"Ha, yeah. Not believing that one, but you can think it," she said with a faint grin. She adored her brother, though she would admit both he and her friend had flaws.
"I don't mind, honest," Rori told her. "I mean, I can try the best I can, is all. I promise I'll do that." And she would, she wanted her friend to be happy. "It's not like we've had too much time for relationships, really." At least not til recently. "I wish he were too. I know I'm not much help. It's just... you guys should make time for each other," she said somewhat helplessly. "At least, I think you should, if you want something more."
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"Yeah, think most of us hated it though." Shosh replied with a laugh. She had never been a fan of the camera's or any kind of interviews either, it had been a part of riding though.
"Doesn't matter if you don't believe it." she answered with a grin. "Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it's not true."
"Well I'm glad you don't mind." Shosh replied. "Just listening to me rant is enough." That's all Shosh expected, or wanted. "No, nothing beyond a one night stand for the most part." she agreed with a laugh. "We should, but I almost think it's some kind of sign that we're not making that time for each other, y'know...." Rori had a point, they should make time for each other, but neither one of them was - claiming work kept them too busy. "You make a valid point, and who knows where he and I will go from here." Shosh sighed, pushing her hair out of her eyes as they moved on from the giraffes exhibit to the next animal. "Anyway, enough about me and my stresses, how've you been?"
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"I know him better than you," Rori pointed out in amusement. One day, she swore she'd lock them in a room together and see what happened, death or other kinds of combustion. Either way she was sure she could sell the video, she thought with a silent laugh.
"Well that I can do anytime, and you know it." She knew her friend knew that she would always be there to listen, day or night. That had always been the way. "Probably is, not that I'd know. But I think so, really." She shrugged.
"Been all right. Work and home and Cody and Ava, and you two," she said wtih a grin. "Cannon and Fly and the others, y'know. Keeps me quite busy." Some days too much. They could probably use another hand, but right now they were cutting back, not adding to.
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"Not arguing that. Though I'm still holding to the fact that he's best when he isn't talking." Shosh quipped, a smirk gracing her features. This had been her stance for years, and she was fairly certain Cody would share the same opinion of her.
Shosh nodded, smiling slightly. "I know you will. You've been listening to me rant for years." Rori really had been her go-to girl for listening for years now. Shosh most days didn't know what she'd do without her best friend, well, actually she did know what she'd do; likely go crazy. "I think so as well." She sighed, knowing she would need to think on this harder at some point.
"One day our lives will be boring and slow. Of course that will come when we're harassing people in a retirement community or something, it will come though." She joked with a wide grin. "Glad you've been alright. Y'know I think we should be like those women you see that have weekly coffee dates or something, that way you and I will stay caught up on the goings-on in each other's lives."
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