chaied.
THERE WASNâT TIME FOR THIS; Â she watched him with a look of mixed fond curiosity & bitter frustration. The frustration seemed to be winning, as she stood just beside his chair with folded arms, her finger tap-tap-tapping away at her left elbow. It took her another moment of watching his slow, very very slow ( larghissimo ) progress before she realized that maybe he was talking to the small wooden blocks, not to her, when heâd thrown that ringing command of stay still into the air. Â Â Besides, there really wasnât time for this. Where the hell was Michael? She decided to ask him. Â Â âWhereâs Michael?â It wouldnât have taken a genius to catch the disapproval in her tone, & Rodrigo certainly was a genius. âYou know you have somewhere to be, right?â Â Â She leaned down, arms still folded, hair hanging just inside the bend of his arm, their heads close enough for her to force him to focus on her. âMaestro?â
RODRIGO IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT A GENIUS. not in the traditionalist sense, anyways. not how he wants people to see him, though certainly some people ( everyone ) sees him for his genius. he gets tired of it sometimes, having to correct people. having to sort through their misconceptions, trying to explain the way things work in his mind. his brain fires off neurons with all the commonality that notes are tied up in the staff lines; there is a longing, a sense of wanting to be free, sending them spiraling higher and higher with every twist, every flick of his wrist, longing, longing, longingâ
and then rodrigo screams. and sneezes.
he was lost in thought, to be sure, and in doing so forgets two very important, crucial details. one, hai-lai is at the door. well technically sheâs already let herself in, but he doesnât find that quite so pressing, although she near scares the piss out of him with her closeness. two, and considerably more crucial in his eyes, his nose has been itching for about three hours now.Â
*picazĂłn con rencor, he thinks to himself bitterly, sniffing from the floor. rodrigo is a heady sprawl, his scarf instead around his head and his tower a mess on the table.
â ¥oye, hai-lei! â rodrigo snarls half-heartedly; his pride is more than a little bruised, but that may just be in how he fell so suddenly, and with an auspicious lack of grace in a momentâs frantic antics.Â
â oh hey, that rhymes. â







