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((lol i didn't mean to put mar mar.. he just sent me something super wierd, read my mind. haha as well as you. you're all in kahoots!?))

Aiden perked up at this and smiled. "I guess so..." he accepted the hand Seth offered him and jumped up... (well, as well as one can with shaky legs and a hurt knee) and they WALKED towards the town. Aiden occasionally shifted the bag on his back to make sure his doll was okay, then would smile again. "where do we go to first??"

The doll woul clatter a bit moving up and his head would hand down but would be looking towards the antique shop.

The shop ownere was out sweeping out this time. The smell of stuffing anf other food came heavily from it. The Owner didn't stay oput long. A few sweeps and he was right back in doing as he was before.

(not much i can do with an inanimate object ))

((remember... or did i not tell you??? lol The doll can speak, though at first only Aiden and his father can hear the doll... with the whole spirit thingy... yeah lol))

Aiden tugged Seth and Lulu by the hands into the shop and smiled sheepishly at the store owner. "Hallo!"

Lulu's hand slipped free from Aiden's as something caught her eye. She ran her fingers through the porcelean doll's hair, picking it up gently. She turned it over and moved it's arms. It was just like one she had had when she was younger. When she ran away from home she smashed all the things her mother had given her. She let out a soft sigh and set it back down, returning to Aiden's side with a smile that looked like it had never left.

The shop owner merely turned holding the broom. He blinked looking to the child who entered and smiled at him.

"oh hello young one" the shop owner said giving a bright smile before kneeling to be to his level, "How can i help you today?"

"Uhm, yessir. I'm hungry." he smiled and looked at him, then gasped. "And and and, i have a doll here, he needs some cleaning, and he needs his clothes taken care of..." he smiled sheepishly "I don't know how to take very good care. He tells me i'm not a very good caregiver, but he can forgive me." The shop owner gave him an unreadable look as Aiden reached in his backpack to pull out his doll that he calls Kuro. Its red hair was matted some and the clothes in need of cleaning and patching up. He handed the doll to the shop owner and smiled again, then walked past him to the counter where snacks and small lunch items were sold. Seth smiled as he watched AIden press his face against one pane of glass, looking at all the choices.

"He acts as if the doll were a real person." he said, not looking at the shop owner.

"And what tells you that it isn't?" He turned and walked behind the counter, sitting the doll in a chair. Lulu shivered when she looked at its creepy appearance.

"What is that supposed to mean, do you think?" she asked Seth, who was equally confused. He shrugged and they walked to stand behind Aiden, who looked up at them. "Hey Seth, can i get an icecream bar? I don't want a cone... OH, and some ramen!!!"

Aiden's excitement and joy for toys lights up the owners face with a warm smile. ""whats your name little boy" the owner says as he begins to lean forward and reach to ruflle Aiden's hair. Seth quickly steps infront of Aiden and pulls him beside him cutting off the owners hands. "-_-...how about you just put the ramen in the bag sr."

he leans next to Aiden and whispers in his ear. "I was watchin this episode of different strokes the other night, the bicycle store guy offered Arnold some ice cream...turned out to be a total pedophile." he looks back up to the store owner bagging the supplies, who was actually a very nice, generous guy that was being completly misjudged by Seth's weird sense of reality. he doesn't take his eyes off the store owners as he shakes his head up and down with a smug look on his face. "yep...open and shut case".

Seth takes a roll of money stuffed in his socks held together by a rubber band, and begins to unfold it. It was $150 in ones, as he counts out how much he needs for all of the supplies he sees lulu in the corner of his eye and quickly clinches the money. She always hides his singles away from Seth for he can't go to the "gentleman's club." She wasn't dumb, she knew exacly where those singles were going. what else would a stack of ones be doing in a mans wallet for, all FOLDED DOWN THE CENTER.

Lulu shook her head and looked a a carosel horse painted in golds and blues, "Your a bad role model..." she teased. "Your going to give the kid the wrong idea..."

The shop owner handed her the bag and she thanked him. Aiden was looking around at all the little trinkets with the curiousity she did. Her and Aiden weren't completely different, she was young once, and still was, once in a while, when she wasn't watching after the rest of the gang. She felt like a mother to those boys, and felt special that she was the only one who could feel that for them.

Aiden ran over and patted the doll on it's head. "i'll be back for you, Kuro, soon as we finish our errand running. The shopkeeper is going to make you all nice and clean. SOrry i have to leave you..." he smiled sadly and darted towards Seth, jumping on his back. "Now to grab the ice cream and RUUUUUUN!!" He looked over towards LuLu and gave her a cheesy smile and stuck his tongue out at her.

"I'm gonna grab that tonge one of these times Aiden..." she said, teasing the kid, but with a serious tone, as if to show she was serious. As Seth and Aiden walked from the store, she picked up the doll again, and set her at the front desk. She pulled a $10 out of her pocket, as well as a few odds and ends bills.

The shopowner smiled at her, "Such a big girl with a fragile little doll... Taking after the kid are ya?" Lulu knew he was kidding with her, but still felt a bit strange about keeping a secret from the boys. She slipped the doll into her bookbag and slung it carefully over her shoulder. She'd put it in a safe place when she got home. She just prayed Aiden attacked her, or Seth got into a childish playful moon.

She ran quickly to catch up with them.

As the Shop ownere looked to the dool he merely smiled at it.

"WEll well well... a good cleaning and a change of clothes would do for you wouldn't it old boy?" The shop ownere asked smiling before going back to get its tools.

As the shop ownere was gone Kuro sat in the chair before beginning to slouch to one side.
As it did he fell onto the arm of the chair as his face was looking to the little nutcracker dool as Kuro himself was still smiling.

((heehee it's fun seeing you write these posts, but i feel guilty, like i'm holding you back, mar mar. Hm... This shop owner, he should be a fun crazed person...a character to fill in your posting until the doll plays his part?))

"You wouldn't hurt me!!!" Aiden yelled at Lulu, feigning an expression that said he was hurt at the thought. "But i will kill you at a ice-cream eating contest!!! Beware the brainfreeze, guys!!"

He cackled maniacally and gently dug his heels into Seth's sides. "giddyap!!!"

(Lol oh know.. you just making me be a whole lot sneakier in these posts is all))

As Aiden and his friends ran a Siren was heard blazing through the air. Soon a large red and white hospital van passed heading straight for the Antique shop. The same shop where Aiden has left his doll.

The door was burst outwards as the doors barely hung onto the hinges now. The store owner was across the street embedded into a car. The inside was ransacked and seemed as if a gang of people came in and busted up the place. The police was seeing if anything was stolen. Nothing was known at this point. A few witnesses saw only the store owner fly out but nothing else. Well nothing else but the Doll dressed in a nut Cracker's clothing that rested upon the old man's chest.

Blurs of red and blue wiz by them, dazzling Aidens star-lit eyes as he still rest on Seth's shoulders. Seth was chewing on the remains of a pop cycle stick that seemed to just linger out of the side of his mouth. "son of a pickle...not use to having someone else terrorize this town. so this is what the sirens look like from other side of things."

I wonder what happened...did somone die? Aiden says not taking his eyes off the fading siren lights. "yeh...looks real bad dude........OOOWELL, can't win em all." he says as he begins to walk right on the same track they were going, even faster now, scurring father and father away from the scene of the crime. Seth's been running away from cop cars all his life, what made you think he was going to run TOWARDS one now? Aiden jerks on his hair with both hands, like reigns of a horse. "OW-ow! ok, sheesh....we'll go check it out" he says as they begin walking back to the store, Aiden hands still clenched with two handfuls of hair steering Seth along the whole way.

Lulu was beginning to get dizzy. She sighed and raced after the boys as they ran back towards the cops. She wasn't to partial to cops herself. Not the fact that she'd ran from them too, but they had lied to her.

When she was younger, when her family was still together, her father had done something bad. The cops came to the door to take him in for questioning, and Lulu ran to the door and asked, 'Are you bringing Daddy back?' They told her yes, and she believed them. After 3 days she figured out her dad wasn't coming back. That's when her life went down the drain.

She was a bit hesitant to run towards the cops, but followed close behind anyway.