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Post by Cat Valentine on Oct 30, 2011 17:23:52 GMT -5
As a Valentine Cat had a lot of secrets. Though, she didn't necessarily keep them or even know about them, but they were still there.
But now, she had a secret, and she knew she couldn't tell anyone- especially Beck. Because...
Cat had found another Sky Store Magazine after years of looking, and wasn't about to let it go for the second time. As she sat down at her lunch table she flipped through it eagerly, letting out a little excited squeal as she found things that she liked.
Soon the entire catalog was marked up with suggestions for herself, and she pulled out her pear phone and ordered all her items for express shipping (within the next two days), using her brother's credit card. She hadn't taken it, per se... she'd just found it and written down the number and saved it onto her pear phone. There was a difference.
When she had finished looking through the magazine Cat put it beside her on the bench of the circular table at which she sat, and put away her phone as well. Then she pulled out a strange looking contraption, her latest Sky Store order. It was a small red remote with a screen and several black buttons, along with a red and black collar-type thing with a microphone pad on it. Grinning, she stared at it and wondered who might come by so that she could try it out on them- the world's first dog translating collar and it was all hers for the price of $298.99! Personally Cat thought that was a pretty cheap price, now that the world would finally be able to communicate with dogs. |
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Post by Beck Oliver on Nov 3, 2011 23:20:30 GMT -5
Beck was supposed to be in class. No, he wasn’t skipping, but he wasn’t attending either. He finished the project they were supposed to be working on in class so the teacher excused him from that day’s lesson. Which was a good thing, too. He needed a break from… well, just a break. It was their last year in Hollywood Arts and he didn’t want to spend all year drowning too much in schoolwork to enjoy the last months he had with his friends. Who, now that they crossed his mind, were nowhere to be seen. He figured they were still in their classes, so he settled for heading to the Asphalt Café instead.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Cat, knowing that he wouldn’t have to spend the entire class period by himself. She had an… unusual apparatus in front of her. But Beck knew better than not to expect unusual things from her. It took a few months to get used to, but it was entertaining to see what Cat would surprise him with every time they met. Part of him wanted to ask what the machine was, but he knew that she’d tell her even if he didn’t ask.
“Hey Cat,” he said, smiling as he took a seat on the same table she was in. His eyes shifted from her to the machine and back, silently asking her what it was.
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Post by Cat Valentine on Nov 13, 2011 10:37:17 GMT -5
Of course, the least person Cat was expecting to see creep up behind her and scare her and sit down with her, was Beck. She jumped and made a little squeak, and tried to hide her new 'toy', but then realized he'd already seen it, and that he'd just get suspicious if she did hide it. Besides, what was there to worry about? He'd think it was cool, too, no doubt. And that it was! It was a really cool invention, so Cat knew Beck could appreciate it too. With a new, more confident smile spreading to a grin on her face, she greeted her friend.
"Hi, Beck!" she said cheerily, leaning across the table to put the invention inches from his face. "Look!" she demanded, as if he didn't see it already. Then, she began to explain.
"Isn't it great?" she giggled. "It's a dog-translating collar! Put it on your neck." she handed the collar to him and plopped back down in her seat excitably, holding the remote, eyes glowing as she fidgeted and waited for him to comply. He could be her first test subject! ...But he wasn't a dog. But maybe if he barked and thought something in human, it would still work! If it didn't, maybe he would help her find a real dog. |
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Post by Beck Oliver on Nov 13, 2011 17:44:09 GMT -5
Reluctantly, he took the collar from her. "Put.. put it on?" he asked, confused. Well, then again, what was he going to lose with going along with it? He was a bit curious too if this machine would work. "O...kay," he shrugged, putting his bag down and strapping the collar around his neck.
"Did you get this from Sky Store again?" he asked, trying to look for a Sky Store catalog anywhere near her. If it was, then Beck didn't have to worry if it was working or not; he remembered the juicer she showed them a few years back. "How much did you get that for?" came his second question, because he recalled how costly the items in the catalog were.
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Post by Cat Valentine on Nov 14, 2011 16:40:06 GMT -5
Cat nodded fervently when Beck inquired about putting the collar on, and made a tiny, excited squeal once he'd strapped it correctly around his neck. She was about to ask- or rather, tell- him to say something in dog language when he asked her about it- where she had got it, and how much it cost. Proudly, Cat brandished her Sky Store magazine to him, that she had been hiding, and forgot any old worries she'd had.
"Yep! My brother found this in a convenience store in that weird neighbourhood." she said, looking a little nervous when thinking about it- that was the neighbourhood that they had driven a giant cupcake through, which had broken down, to a festival many years ago. Cat had fond memories of it, though. Who knew thugs could be so good at singing "the wheels on the cupcake"?
"Um..." Cat said thoughtfully, recalling the price, "it was $298.99! Isn't it wonderful? It's such a good price, now that the whole world can finally communicate with dogs! ...Unless you're a really poor person from Uganda, and can't afford it... those poor little farmers...." she trailed off, looking rather sad. To keep her mind off it, she grinned and gave a request,
"Say something in dog!" She pointed the remote at him, staring at the screen, eagerly awaiting the dog-speech. |
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Post by Beck Oliver on Dec 6, 2011 0:10:33 GMT -5
“How did your brother even get to that neighborhood?”
Beck sighed, though he was a bit amused. “Haven’t you had enough of Sky Store the previous time, do you remember?” She bought a tennis ball cleaner; she didn’t even know how to play tennis. “That’s almost three hundred bucks, Cat. Don’t you think that’s too much?” Then again, his attempts would probably be in vain since he couldn’t remember a time when he would be able to convince Cat of anything.
“Erm,” he said rather awkwardly, looking around. Some people were giving him amused looks; none of them would question what he was doing with a collar strapped around his neck when he was next to Cat who had a weird-looking contraption in front of her. He, for one, knew better than to even figure out what Cat was up to most of the time. But now that he was involved, he wanted to know what this thing would actually do. “In dog? How do you even speak dog? Bark… woof?”
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Post by Cat Valentine on Dec 6, 2011 16:03:49 GMT -5
"Well, he was travelling through and taking a shortcut because his boss sent him on a work-mission. And he didn't want to take the long way, so he took the shortcut through the creepy neighbourhood. It was really scary, and he got jumped by a hobo and the hobo took all his money. Anyway, he chased the hobo and the hobo ran into a store and freaked the lady out, and then my brother saved the day and then... He got me this catalog because the lady said he could have one item for free for getting rid of the hobo! I'm not sure how he did it though." Cat rambled with a small giggle.
She squeaked with excitement as she looked and saw that Beck was saying dog words such as "bark" and "woof". That sounded like a dog, right? Cat had never had one because of her brother. Hurriedly she waited for words to appear on the screen, and almost jumped out of her chair with happiness, surprise, and excitement all over again when the words actually did show up there. "Look, look!" she actually did jump up this time after saying this and scurried around the table to show Beck.
The screen read, "What?!" and then translated the English with different variants underneath such as, "I don't understand what the heck is going on here" and "I don't know whether or not I should be frightened by this". It must have read the tone of Beck's bark-woof and translated it from that, oh cool! How fun this would be to try on a real dog, if she could find one. After all, if it worked this well on just Beck, then it must be brilliant with the dog it was built for! |
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