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Sept 10, 2004 0:04:45 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 10, 2004 0:04:45 GMT -5
Liesl was the next out, She darted for Gretl. "Gretl- again? Oh take it easy" she said as she picked her up and still managed to form a line. Liesl stood there in line holding a sobbing Gretl. "Father-" she said as she looked from Gretl to him then back to Gretl.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:14:31 GMT -5
Post by Aline on Sept 10, 2004 0:14:31 GMT -5
Georg was heading to Marta and Gretl's bedroom when the power went off. He thought it would be a good idea to have everyone together in a situation like this. He reached for his whistle and blew it. Soon after he heard a door being slammed open, and someone running out of it. Then it came: "Bang!"
Gretl was crying. "Oh, my, where is she, what happened?" Georg asked himslef, worried.
In the dark, but with some light coming from outside, he could see five of his children forming a line in the corridor, a few meters from him. When he stepped closer to them he noticed one of his children were two; Liesl had Gretl.
"Father-" he heard the oldest girl saying.
"Is Gretl alright? What happened?" he asked, trying to figure out who was missing and picking Gretl from Liesl's arms.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:18:29 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 10, 2004 0:18:29 GMT -5
"She hit the wall father. Her mouth is-" Liesl didnt want to frighten Gretl. "She lost a baby tooth thats all." Liesl then looked at Gretl to sweet talk "its alright, its just a tooth." Liesl wobbled a bit for Gretl was gaining a little, so she handed her off to her father. She then stepped in line.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:20:47 GMT -5
Post by Buzzer on Sept 10, 2004 0:20:47 GMT -5
"If it's just a tooth, how come theres blood in my mouth?" Gretl asked Liesl. She put her finger in her mouth and felt a gap.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:22:44 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 10, 2004 0:22:44 GMT -5
Liesl looked to her father for him to answer. Liesl had done enough she thought, if her father could command a whole ship, he could handle a daughter without a tooth.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:26:03 GMT -5
Post by Aline on Sept 10, 2004 0:26:03 GMT -5
"Yes, Gretl, it's alright," Georg assured. "Let me see your tooth," he asked.
Gretl handed it to him.
"It's so tiny," he thought amused.
Suddenly the power returned. He saw his children's relieved faces. He also could see who was missing: Louisa. "Why hadn't she aswered to the whistle?"
"Do you know what happened to Louisa?" Georg inquired looking at Liesl.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:28:50 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 10, 2004 0:28:50 GMT -5
"Father, I thought she was with you." Now he couldn't handle his own children...
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Sept 10, 2004 0:34:15 GMT -5
Post by Aline on Sept 10, 2004 0:34:15 GMT -5
"Actually she was with me," Georg explained. "But I mean before. Because I know something happened. She was quite bitter when I talked to her."
Liesl didn't answer. She seemed to be thinking.
"Has something gone wrong while you were studying?" This time he looked at Brigitta and Gretl.
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Sept 10, 2004 0:37:59 GMT -5
Post by Buzzer on Sept 10, 2004 0:37:59 GMT -5
Gretl nodded. "She was mean to me." she informed Georg. "She was gonna hit me. Brigitta made her go away." She smiled at her sister.
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Sept 10, 2004 15:21:10 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 10, 2004 15:21:10 GMT -5
Liesl walked out of formation. She went down the hall and muted her father's words to come back. She had to find Louisa. "Louisa Von Trapp, you answer me right now!" Liesl stood in the hallway and tapped her foot.
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Sept 10, 2004 19:41:25 GMT -5
Post by Aline on Sept 10, 2004 19:41:25 GMT -5
Louisa had been reading on her bed. Sometimes it helped to calm her down. And she needed that. Unfortunately the power had gone off and she couldn't go on. The girl put the book on her bedside commode and stayed there on the bed, alone with her thoughts. Not for much time, though. Soon after she heard her Father blow his whistle from the corridor.
"Ouch! Why blow that thing so strongly? Does he think we are all deaf?" Louisa thought angry, rolling in her bed.
"I'm going to answer to his whistle. Why do he want us to go there in the dark?"
She had just manage to concentrate on her thoughts again when Liesl came calling for her.
"What now? Can't we be in peace in this house? Why do shout like that?"
Louisa was angry. She had been trying to settle her thoughts foe almost an hour and nobody let her. She wouldn't answer to Liesl.
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Sept 12, 2004 15:56:37 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 12, 2004 15:56:37 GMT -5
"Louisa would you please!-" Liesl stumbled into her room and found her on her bed. "Oh-I didnt know you were in here." Liesl sat on her bed and realized that only made her more aggitated. "Now whats going on with you? First you fight with your younger sister, then you don't answer father, and now you look as if you want to harm me too."
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Sept 12, 2004 16:21:54 GMT -5
Post by Aline on Sept 12, 2004 16:21:54 GMT -5
Louisa turned slowly to face Liesl. Contraried, she sat in a upright position, never diverting her look from her sister's.
"Do you really want to know? So I'll tell you," she said coldly.
Liesl waited.
Now Louisa would say. Hadn't Liesl asked? So she would say what she had been wanting to say for a long time.
"You always think I am the wrong one," she started, observing Liesl's reaction. She only raised an eyebrow.
"Specially you, Liesl. You always take the others side just because they are youngest. And never ask what really happened," the blond girl continued.
Liesl opened her mouth to protest, but Louisa didn't let her speak.
"And this time I was only wanting to help Gretl," she told. "She wouldn't stop sucking her thumb. I told her that Father wouldn't like to know she was doing that, but she was stubborn as always and didn't pay attention to me."
"I would have minded hadn't she spat on my hand. When I got nervous she bit it!" Louisa recolleted angry. "Look," she said, showing the outline of Gretl's teeth that was still there. "It was enough. I bet you would have done the same!"
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Sept 12, 2004 16:31:04 GMT -5
Post by Liesl on Sept 12, 2004 16:31:04 GMT -5
"well I doubt I would have done exactly the same...But I know what you mean." Liesl looked at the bite mark and looked away "Did she apologize?"
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Sept 12, 2004 16:40:43 GMT -5
Post by Aline on Sept 12, 2004 16:40:43 GMT -5
"Liesl hadn't gotten angry with my comments? Better that way," Louisa told herself.
"Apologized? Don't you know Gretl, Liesl? She is too proud to do such thing," Louisa said. "Even Brigitta asked her to do so, but she still wouldn't obbey. The worst thing is that she thinks it's alright to suck her thumb. And Father keeps saying it's our falt that we don't tell her to stop."
Talking of Father, the moment Louisa stopped talking his whistle was heard again.
"Oh, no, not again. What does he want with us? I won't go there!" Louisa said decisively.
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