Charmiane – pronounced Shar – me- on. (So like you're saying Charlene, but only the Char.) It's a name for a character (Oooh! New person! Excitement!)
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Rhade finally managed to get his emotions in check and stood up off of the floor at the exact time that a woman entered the room. He picked up the weights that he had dropped in his grief and walked over to put them away. Strangely, he thought he felt her gaze on him. Even stranger, he got a bad feeling and became uncomfortable.
Deciding to shrug it off, she was just one of the ship's crew after all, he began to work on some of the machines getting a short full body workout.
'Beka was just scared this morning. Neitzschean mean commitment, and Valentine means anti-commitment. She didn't seem mad at me at the meeting, I think I even heard her yelling at Dylan as I stormed off. Maybe she just needed time to think. I'll go back to my room, take a shower, and ask Andromeda to send a message to Beka asking her to join me for dinner. I'll block off the Obs deck and plan a romantic evening. If she comes, then she feels for me what I feel for her. And if she doesn't… then I'll just have to find a way to deal with it.'
Finishing his last rep on the machine he noticed the girl rush into the ladies locker room. As he was ten feet from the door he saw her come out looking like someone just told her she won the lottery but her puppy died.
Internally sighing when his instincts to help won over his instincts to run away from this girl he turned to her.
"Is something wrong?"
"Yes", she said as her face bloated like a puffer fish, "the showers are broken and I'm all icky and sweaty. What will I do now?"
Fighting the urge not to laugh at her puffy face and blinking eyes, what was she trying to do anyway? Squint in bright light?
'Maybe I should let her use my shower. She looks like she could use a break. Poor girl, probably went through a breakdown recently. Maybe she did have a puppy that died, but do I really want to deal with someone when I have plans to take care of? If I want to cook dinner for Beka and myself I still have to decide what to make. Maybe I can ask Andromeda what she likes. Inside, he sighed. "Is there any where else you can shower?" "No", she whispered like she was going to cry over it. 'She'll take a shower and then leave.'
"Well, you can use mine then. Come on."
He turned and began walking out of the door expecting her to follow, but instead she caught up with him and walked beside him.
She opened her mouth a few times as if to speak but said nothing.
'I wonder if she is a species that is part fish.'
"So, do you like being an uber?"
'What did she just say?"
"I mean, is it hard to be a species that are mean and ruthless?"
'Would anyone really care if she died?'
"Do you ever hate your family? Or did you ever kill any of them? Or any try to kill you? Do neit wives ever get jealous of each other and have catfights over who gets to carry the next baby? If two wives had a kid on the same day, would they be twins? Is it hard to be so sexy? Why do you have such great hair? Can I pet you hair? You smell nice."
'Maybe showing her where my room is isn't such a good idea.' Thought Rhade as he glanced at her again, nervously.
'Hmm, she is right though, I do have nice hair. It's in my genes; I'll have a gorgeous head of hair until the day I die. And I always smell nice, why would I want to smell bad? Maybe she means even after my workout. Wait, did she ask to pet me? Ah, her hand is going near my head. Dodge, Tel, dodge!'
Thankfully, she arrived at his door at that exact moment. Entering his quarters he rushed her into the bathroom and showed her where the towels and soaps and such were and then quickly left the room wondering if she was on drugs or something.
Lying across his bed he slowly inhaled and exhaled. He analyzed the day so far and wondered if he could still salvage it.
"Andromeda."
A hologram appeared next to his bed, "Yes Rhade?"
"Can you please send a message to Beka asking her to please accompany me to dinner at the Obs deck tonight to discuss where we stand. If she does not show up, then I'll assume that she wants to go back to the way we were before. She'll know what that means."
The hologram nodded and blinked out.
As Rhade sighed he heard the girl enter the room after the fastest shower of all time.
"Hey. I'm all done."
He looked up to seeing her flushed face, most likely from hot water, blinking at him and chewing her finger like a celery stick.
'Maybe she's trying to blink something to me. Blink. Blink blink blink. Blink. Blink. Blink blink blink blink blink. Blinkkkkkkkkkk. Hmm. Not any code I know.'
He stood up and she stepped closer.
'Okay, note to self, never again invite strange girls into your room.'
"Umm, thanks, uh, I'm going to go, and um, use the shower now."
'Is she still blinking? Okay, second note to self, never invite any girls into your room, except Beka, unless forced to by torture of blinking. Does she mean to do it?'
He sighed.
Rhade quickly stripped and stepped into the shower turning on the water. He then heard his doorbell and wondered if he really wanted to leave the water to answer it.
'Nah, not worth it. Wait, is that Beka's voice?'
He turned off the water, and grabbed the nearest towel to wrap around himself. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't a very big towel.
"Why, what happened last night? Oooh, was it something juicy?"
Frowning he stepped out of the bathroom just in time to hear Beka sounding agitated and embarrassed.
"No really, that's okay."
As he walked towards the door the girl must have heard him for she replied something to Beka before she turned to him and looked as if she had gone into a trance as her eyes got really big and her mouth opened.
'Well, at least she stopped blinking. But the funny face thing…"
He walked up behind the girl and saw Beka standing in the doorway looking like she wanted to be anywhere but there at the moment.
But then she saw him and her expression changed to one of hurt.
'What? Oh fack, she thinks something happened between this girl and me. But I don't even know her name!'
Before he could reach out and stop her Beka fled down the hallway and the girl turned around and smiled at him.
Barely containing a growl Rhade asked her what happened and what did Beka say, and then told her Beka was the lady at the door when she seemed confused as to who Beka was.
"Aww come on snuggle muffin"
"Did you just call me 'snuggle muffin'?" asked Rhade who temporarily forgot everything else.
'Really, who would miss this girl?'
"Snuggs, you know short for snuggle muffin."
'Just one slash of my boneblades.'
"Forget about her. I'm here, you're here, and we're both in towels. There's a perfectly good bed do the math."
'I think I'll throw up on her, and then slash her throat. So she'll die smelly.'
"I don't like math" he growled out as he shoved her out the door and locked it.
The last he heard was "But I'm only wearing a towel! Snuggle! Snuggs!"
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Trance made it to the airlock as he came out and her breath caught in her throat. He was beautiful.
About Dylan's height and build, silver, and his hair was the darkest charcoal black slightly shaggy. He wore an outfit similar to the make of hers, but it was a dark gray shade. Hw wore a necklace of woven green grasses that held a small charm in the front. It seemed to normal, but she knew that it was special. It held a tiny model of the planets his sun guarded, with his sun in the center. The planets all moved around by looking at the necklace he could see how his spot of reality was doing.
She had exactly like it, but now kept it hidden in a small wooden box. She didn't want to take the chance of anything happening to it. It almost broke once, and it was the only way for her to see her home, and she didn't want to loose it.
"Transcendence Gemini"
"Dasher Charmiane"
"You may call me Dash."
"And may call me Trance. It's what the rest of the crew calls me by."
"Alright, so I take it that we will go to your quarters and then I will meet your friends at dinner Trance."
Blushing she replied, "Yes."
He smiled at her.
And holding hands they walked back to their room to get to know each other a little bit
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Okay, so we've met the fiancé, and learned Rhade's part in it. Tell me what you think so far of Dash. Can the crew trust him? Or do you think he will plan something? Do you like his name? What do you think Allison will do locked in the hallway in only a towel? She can't go in her room, so where will she go? How will she get clothes? Will Rhade be able to fix things with Beka? Will she show up to dinner? Should she?
I already KNOW the answers, but it would be cool to know what you guys think.
