A Shirt Full of Apples (Open)

[myblueskies]

Characters: Romeo and apple lovers!
Format: Whatever you like
This log is: open
Location: The courtyard
Summary: Romeo finds some apples and is handing them out, come share!
Warnings:

The forest was a little bit scary, he had always been told not to wander off into the woods because wolves might eat him. So he had not explored very far into the trees around the school but earlier that day he had found an apple tree not too far from the edge of the woods.

A lot of the apples had fallen so Romeo had gathered them in his shirt and was now sat in the corner of the courtyard with a lap full of apples. He was eating one; it was very delicious! He looked around at the people in the courtyard, a lot of them were adults but there were some children in the school. Like Fletcher! Still even if they were adults none of the adults had hurt Romeo at this school. He should share the delicious apples.

"Would you like an apple?" His voice was quiet but enthusiastic.

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[letsdownherhair]

Rapunzel had decided Romeo was clearly 'a good friend' and as such was perfectly fine to flop down beside, hair trailing from a corner of the courtyard.

"Oh apples? Did you pick them all yourself? I didn't realize we had apples." She did wait for permission, keeping her hands to herself, but her enthusiasm for the fruit was undeniable.

[myblueskies]

Romeo have a big smile to the lady who he had met on the roof. As before he could not help being amazed by the length of her hair. He held out an apple to her with a smile, "Hello miss Repunzel! I found a tree, they were falling off so I took them before they went bad. I hope no one minds..."

He bit his lip he hoped he hadn't stolen them, that would be bad!

[letsdownherhair]

She took the apple, taking a big bite and letting out a hum of satisfaction.

"I don't know why they would, you just saved them the trouble of picking them themselves. They taste so good. Mother used to bring them in sometimes at home but not that often."

[myblueskies]

Romeo smiled again and took another bite of the apple. "They are good! I love apples," he tilted his head, Repunzel had lived with her mother? Even though she was an adult? Maybe Repunzel wasn't married yet.

"Did you live in a city?" He asked refering to the fact Repunzel had said her mother had brought back apples, rather than Repunzel had picked them herself.

[letsdownherhair]

"A city?" She'd read about those in books, dreamt of places with many people, but to be honest, even this school was overwhelming in size. She shook her head and took a bite, chewing as she thought.

"We lived in a tower, I've never been to a city? Are they nice? Do they have a lot of people and stuff?"

[myblueskies]

"A tower?" She lived in a tower? Romeo had never met anyone who lived in a tower before.

"I've only been to Milano, I was a chimney sweep there last year. It was so big!" He spread his arms out to show how big it was. "It had lots of people but was pretty, especially on the rooftops, the sky was so blue and the light reflected off the roofs. It was beautiful!"

"What is it like, living in a tower?"

[letsdownherhair]

Rapunzel imagined the light glittering off roofs, shining and sparkling, but it was only the vaguest of imaginings. She'd never seen it, it was impossible to really picture.

"Milano? What a pretty name. It was...fine living in a tower. I guess you can't really be afraid of heights you know?"

[myblueskies]

Romeo smiled and nodded. "Was it a very high tower? I bet the chimneys are so hard to clean!" Romeo was not scared of heights, when he had been in Milano the rooftops had been his favourite place. "Do you miss it?" It must have been strange going from being in a tower to being at school.

[letsdownherhair]

"Oh it was really really tall. As tall as my hair is long." She spread her arms wide and grinned, "It was nice too, for a tower I guess, but not nearly as nice as the buildings here. I don't miss it at all."

Then a pang of guilt hit and her face crumpled, "W-Well I miss Mother and all and I shouldn't really be here."

[myblueskies]

"That tall!" Repunzel's hair was really really long Romeo tried to imagine a tower that hall. It sounded like something from a story, something that Angeletta would read to him. He tilted his head as she continued, she looked sad and Romeo didn't want her to be sad.

He smiled at her, "Why shouldn't you be here?" It was a school after all and Romeo thought that everybody had been sent here. "I miss my mother too, but you will get to see her soon right?"

Surely this school had holidays; they were bound to be able to go home soon.

[choseanidiot]

"Huh?" Enki hadn't been expecting to be offered an apple while walking past, but hey, free fruit was free fruit, even if it wasn't a peach (and besides, if he ate too many apples while Shōryū was looking, there were horse jokes. He didn't approve of horse jokes. Especially not those involving his not-equine-at-all-behind thank you very much).

"Thanks," Enki grinned at the kid and crouched down, taking the offered apple. He really didn't understand why there were so many children, here. What could that possibly accomplish? Why would whoever in charge want to to do this to children?

"Where did you find these?" Maybe he should attempt to be nice and have some conversation with the person who'd offered him fruit, instead of just demolishing the apple.

[myblueskies]

Romeo looked up at the boy who approached him, he seemed to be maybe about as old as Alfredo had been and his hair was so yellow! Romeo smiled as the boy ate the apple, he was glad that he had picked lots of apples, that way he could share them with a lot of people.

"In the woods, I didn't go too far but there's lots of fruit trees there," he took another bite of apple.

[choseanidiot]

"That's good to know," Enki said with a nod, though he couldn't see what would make him go pick the fruit from the trees, considering there were both, oh-so-nicely, vegan food and fruit provided in the dining hall.

It was kinda funny... despite all his trips out of the palace, most of the kids he saw was when he went to Hourai. The palace didn't have any (Tentei forbid Shōryū ever think of praying at the riboku...), and when he wandered around town, he was mostly in places there were no kids (though not the same places Shōryū tended to... patronage). It was, quite honestly, strange to see so many people closer to his height and shorter.

"You didn't happen to see a peach tree?"

[myblueskies]

Romeo grinned and nodded, "There were peach trees too, but I didn't go that far in the woods," he actually doubted there were wolves this close to the school, he heard they didn't like being near people.

"My name's Romeo, what's yours?

[choseanidiot]

"Enki," he answered with a lop-sided smile and a grunt as he stood up, ruffling the kid's hair. Usually, he'd have used Rokuta. He wasn't actually, exactly, sure why he wasn't. He hadn't used it with Gaara either and he still couldn't put a finger on why.

"Thanks for the apple, Romeo. I think I'll go find the peach trees." Because even if he could get perfectly good peaches in the dining hall, he'd noticed they weren't present at all times, and if he could get peaches whenever he wanted to... why settle for less than that?

[myblueskies]

"It is nice to meet you Enki!" Romeo gave another smile as the boy ruffled his hair. "They are that way," he pointed to where he had found the fruit trees, "I hope you find delicious peaches!" He smiled again and took another bite from his apple happily, glad he had met another nice person.

[loyal_liar]

"Yes, please!" Lyra was beaming as she picked up an apple and took a big bite out of it. And this was another kid, which meant...

"Hey. D'you know Mei?" Lyra asked, sitting down to eat her apple.

[myblueskies]

Another person his age, this was the third he had met in the last couple of days. This made Romeo happy because he had been getting a little bit lonely not having anyone his own age to talk to. He smiled at the girl and nodded.

"Yes I know Mei! We painted her room!" That had been a fun afternoon.