Post by RUBY MARIE COHEN on May 1, 2012 22:20:59 GMT -5
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[classy=appdesc]Oh, hey Astoria! Look who's it is! It's Ruby Marie Cohen! Oh, uh... perhaps you know them by their nickname, Roo? Anyway, this certain blessing in disguise came to us on March 23rd, and grew up to be a hefty 5’3”. You can always tell it's Ruby Marie because of their sandy hair, bright blue eyes and tiny stature and derpy expressions. Not to mention they've gotten themselves no tattoos! You know, everyone says they look like Jennifer Lawrence? I personally don't see it though ....[/classy]
[classy=app1] Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, thump. Followed by a high-pitched yowl and screaming from a toddler who had just fallen down some stairs. She didn’t move, just lying on her back with her feet propped against the wall that had stopped her from tumbling any further. Tears poured down her cheeks and blood from her forehead was leaking down the side of her face and threatening to stain the floor at any second. The entire household seemed to stop to run to the girl, her father getting there first and cradling the crying little girl.
PIKE COHEN,
father, rock star
"My darling little Ruby. She is a lot like me, at least that’s what I gather from her. Some say that being a bit—strange is a bad thing, but I have felt that it has lead me to greatness and it should do her just fine. Do I sometimes worry about her? Naw. We're Cohen’s we always find our own way and Ruby will be sure to figure this path out for herself."
*****
Footsteps thundered down the stairs like a heard of furious buffalo, followed by a giant “thud” as Ruby jumped the past five stairs and landed on her heels. “Ruby Marie, slow down! You’re going to break something!” her mother scolded in a near shriek. “I’m going to Mina’s! Gotta’ save the world! Be back tomorrow!” she yelled back to her mother as she started running for the door, nearly tripping on the sleeping Great Dane, Scooby, and flailing her arms to try and regain her balance. “For God’s sake, Ruby Marie, at least grab a jacket.” Her mother called back, watching her zoom down the hall with a backpack flying behind her. “It’s, like, a hundred degrees outside! I’ll catch death!” And with that she was gone, refusing to wear a jacket in Oregon’s summer heat.
WENDY COHEN,
mother, mortician
“Ruby Marie is…She’s…There’s no nice way to put it. She’s not the brightest star in the sky. I was hoping our children wouldn’t turn out to have the intelligence that their father lacks but I have to admire her for it. It’s difficult to say, really, if she knows she’s an idiot or if she’s really just too stupid to tell. This is horrible for a mother to say but it’s true. But while she may be a bit in the dense side she’s a really happy young woman. She doesn’t let people’s cruel comments get to her. Ruby Marie just lets everything roll off of her and she always sees the good in people, something I’ve never been very good at. I just hope that she matures a bit. I worry about her falling into the wrong crowd.”
*****
Several voices from within the household had already called her downstairs for breakfast, but she was still lying in bed face down into his pillow. It took a good ten minutes before she rolled off of the edge and landed on a pile of discarded blankets and clothes, wiggling across the floor and down the hallway like a worm with turrets. “Ruby what on earth are you doing?” her older brother, one of a set of triplets, asked. Though he was almost afraid of the answer. “I’m a snail!” the twelve year old declared in the proudest of voices accompanied by a large grin. Very carefully Ruby managed to wiggle down the stairs and all the way to the kitchen, demanding that she eat his breakfast on the floor like every other snail on the planet. Though she had to fight off the cat, Sherlock.
VINCENT COHEN,
brother, oldest triplet
“I honestly have no idea what’s wrong with that kid, but I love it. Some days I would give anything to be able to catch a glimpse of what goes on in that brain of her, and other days I’m horrified at the thought. You always know when she’s cooking up some crazy story or scheme because she gets this little impish side smile. She can be annoying and exhausting though. I love the girl but she has too much energy for me and she doesn’t know what personal space is. She needs to stay the hell out of my stuff. Ruby, I love you, but I need space.”
*****
“It’s this way! I promise!” she spoke with nothing but confidence, grabbing her brother’s hand and tugging their through the trees of the forest they managed to get lost in. “I can smell food! It’s this way!” she reassured him as hse picked up the pace, ducking under low hanging branches and nearly tripping onto dead logs. Their trip to the mall was not going to happen at this rate; the sun would be setting in a little over an hour and she had been strictly warned not to be out too late tonight. Finally emerging from trees the pair of half sibling found themselves standing at the edge of a cornfield that neither could recall existing in town. “Well, at least we’re not in a forest.” Captain Positive. “Maybe the farmer can give us a ride.” Assuming the farmer wasn’t a psychopath who didn’t like youngins trespassing on his or her property. She was suddenly reminded of Amos from Fox and the Hound.
EDGAR COHEN
brother, second triplet
"I have to hand it to her, she's really determined. I guess it's all of the doubts people place on her, but when Ruby gets to doing something she won't quit until it's finished. She really won't quit. I can't count how many times me and my brothers have had to force her to go to sleep because she's been up for forty-something straight hours trying to build something just because someone told her that she can't do it. She's smarter than people give her credit for. Sure, maybe not the most logical of people and she's no genius but she's clever when you give her the chance."
*****
“Ruby, can you call Dexter down for lunch?” her father asked in his sweet little voice, which he got a nod as a reply. As per usual, Ruby flew up the stairs and slipped on the first one. “Woah!” But he was fine, running into her older brother’s room and leaping on to the bed. “WAKE UP TYRANNOSAURUS DEX!” She started jumping back and forth over the twenty year old’s, kicking at the blankets and bending her arms like chicken wings. “BAWK BAWK! WAKE UP! BAWK BAWK BAWK!” She bent down and started pecking at her brother’s face and the blankets he tried to cover himself with until finally she was being kicked off of the bed and landing on the floor with a thud and a grunt.
DEXTER COHEN
brother, third triplet
"I remember this one time when me and my brothers convinced Ruby that we used to just be Vince, but Vince is part star fish so when a finger was accidentally cut off if grew back and the little piece that came off grew into Ed, and then it happened again to Ed and that little piece of finger grew into me. We used to do all sorts of stuff like that to her. Convince her she was adopted and was really an alien life form; but Mom got us in major trouble for that one, I don't think she believes that any more. I worry about her but she has some good people looking out for her. If she didn't have a friendly like Mina watching over her she probably would have walked in front of a bus years ago."
*****
A group of classmates surrounded her at her locker, Ruby spinning around to come face to face with her peers and flashing them a cheerful smile. "We're going to have a study session for next week's final. You should come," they offered with that look in their eyes. The one that said they didn't want to offer her their help but they knew she would fail without it. But she just continued on smiling and pushed past two of them with a bounce to her step. "No thank you. I'm fine," she replied in a sing-song voice, skipping down the hallway to link arms with her best friend.
RUBY COHEN
omniscience
"I don't really think there's anything different about me. People have said a lot of mean things about me and about how different and stupid I am but I don't really believe any of it. They're just Negative Nancy's. I have better things to worry about, like catching fairies and Mina and keeping my eye out for the monther ship. You know why I'm here? Mina told me that I'm special. She used to offer to let me cheat off of her on tests because I guess she thought I couldn't do it by myself but I knew it all already. I've always been like that! I had no idea it was anything special! I remember everything I hear. It gets stored away into some secret place in my brain. I mean, I have to hear it though. Clearly and stuff. It's not like I can tell you what the people at table 2 were talking about when I went to a fancy restaurant when I was five and was sitting at table 8."
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