✩ Starfish & Kelly ✩

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{Kelly}
"It's very beautiful, I'm surprised she found something that matched you so perfectly!" Kelly flicked his tail into the air, holding it high to show off his charm. "Yep, when I outgrew my first pair of Ray-bans, my mom didn't want to throw them out, so she tied them to my tail." He felt his ears begin a nervous twitch, and his fur got a little stuffy around his neck. "You don't happen to have anything cold to drink handy, do you?"

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S t a r f i s h
"Aww, that's super sweet," Starfish said shyly. "Yep, I have iced tea...or lemonade. Tea is sort of an acquired taste to some, I suppose!" She showed Kelly into the kitchen and began rummaging around in the top cupboard for her nice glasses. "Please help yourself to the cookies, by the way!" she called, her tail wiggling a little as she reached for the very back of the cupboard. /Why are all the pretty glasses in the way back?/ She finally emerged with some tall glass tumblers embossed with sea creatures.

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{Kelly}
The sweet aroma of cookies reached Kelly's nose as he entered the kitchen, and he couldn't resist munching into one right away. "Oh ma gersh, thes are delishus," Kelly mumbled through a mouthful of cookie. He saw Starfish struggling to reach the top of the cabinet, and almost went to help, but she got it a moment later and he retreated.

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S t a r f i s h
"I'm so glad you like them," Starfish said happily, bustling over to the refrigerator and opening it. She drew out what appeared to be a glass jug of homemade lemonade and poured a generous amount into each glass. Tidily replacing the jug in the refrigerator, she opened the freezer next and took out an ice cube tray. She popped out several ice cubes in the shapes of strawberries, matching the mold, and slipped them into the glasses. "Here you go," she said, handing him one glass. She took the other and sat down, fingering the tablecloth nervously, as if her hands were still looking for something to do.

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{ Kelly }
Kelly swallowed the rest of his cookie and took a generous gulp of lemonade, a perfect balance between sweet and sour, and it was the perfect concentration. He gently ran his paw across the seahorse engraving, enjoying the bumpy feeling. "That's delicious, and I love these glasses! I'll have to get some like this with skimboards on them."

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S t a r f i s h
"Why, thank you," said Starfish happily, taking a little sip of her own lemonade and swishing it slightly. The fancy ice cubes, a strange preference of hers, clinked against the side of the glass. "My adopted sister bought them for me at a garage sale. She knows me so well..." She sighed and then laughed. Just being around this bean made her oddly happy. Feeling as though she ought to be doing someone productive, she got up from the table again and began to straighten various photographs and seashells that lined the shelves.

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{ Kelly }
"That's so cool, I love garage sales. I seem to always find the best stuff there." Kelly grinned and looked down to take another sip of the wonderful drink, spotting the cute little strawberry ice cubes. "Oh, these are awesome! I have an ice tray like this, except the ice cubes come out as little penguins." He took a drink and slurped up a strawberry, munching down on it, delighted by the shape. He looked up when Starfish stood, seeing her adjusting a vast amount of seashells decorating the room. "Wow, you have a great shell collection!"

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S t a r f i s h
Starfish looked around, startled.

"Oh, these?" she asked, gesturing to the shells scattered around the rooms. "Thank you!" /He likes my shells!/ A tiny thrill ran through her body. "These are nothing compared to my living room," she laughed. "Most of my shells are in there." She flicked a speck of dust off of a large conch sitting on the windowsill by the sink. "Shell collecting was my hobby, before...the Crack." She sighed abruptly and sat back down, delicately taking a cookie and fingering it without eating it.

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{ Kelly }
"Oh... What happened?" Kelly suddenly got worried, the topic slipping from the shells to "The Crack". It made him nervous and upset that anything bad had ever happened to such a lovely girl, his tail began to twitch anxiously and his grip on the table became tight, his knuckles getting numb.

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S t a r f i s h
"The Crack is what I call the accident that made me have agoraphobia," explained Starfish. She broke a little piece off of the cookie and let it crumble onto the table. "I don't like thinking about what really happened, so..., She laughed a little. "It's silly, I suppose." /He's going to think I'm stupid now, hahaha.../