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Annie's eyes widened and she smiled widely. Happiness flowed through her entire body and she wanted to scream it to the world. Gino's alive! But she didn't. She just stood there gazing at him.

And then she nodded and took her arm back. "I missed you." She whispered. SHe smiled at him and walked back to Allison and sat down.

Gino watched her walk away. He saw that she was happy about him being alive, but he could also tell that she was sad that he didn't remember her. He wished he had, because he didn't like making anyone sad, especially not girls. He wanted to remember her, and dug through the annals of his mind, but couldn't come up with a name, even if she did look vaguely familiar.

((OOC: Sorry this took so long. The whole time the gold bug was happening my computer wouldn't let me get on Gaia.))

Gino felt bad. She looked really sad, and he had a feeling he knew her. 'Gah, what is her name?' he thought. 'If I could only remember it, then maybe I could say I remember her and wing it from there. I think it starts with an A. Grr, names are longer than one letter, so that doesn't help me much. Curse my memory; it is so fickle and if it had a mind of its own, I would think it hates me.' Gino ran a hand through his blond hair and sighed heavily. He thought it over for a moment before noticing that the sisters didn't seem to be paying him much attention. He walked over to Annie and Alison.

"Excuse me, but could I possibly leave with you two? This disguise isn't working very well, and I don't really like being around those two," Gino explained, pointing at the two girls being mentioned. He made the cutest helpless look he could manage, knowing that the look almost always got him what he wanted, even if he did feel guilty for using it.

Her eyebrows raised slightly when Annie very basically complimented her. That had been...well, unexpected, to say the least.

"So I qualify as a nice person, eh?" Putting a hand on her hip, she pulled a long strand of hair behind her ear. "That's a new one."

And it honestly was. But whatever. It wasn't everyday that someone actually liked her (even some of her friends tended to find themselves hating her apathy sometimes), and she wasn't going to fight it.

"All the same," she said, her voice holding a rarely heard tone of lightheartedness, "I'm the infamous Allison. Alli for short."

Though you already know that...

She didn't hold her hand out to shake his, instead, both her hands were shoved into her pockets and she stood lazily, using her right foot to support nearly her entire weight. She hardly shook hands when meeting people for the first time, and she certainly wasn't going to shake anyone's when she already knew them. Honestly, she was only doing this for Annie's benefit. She hadn't expected Gino to remember her and not Annie. If anything, she thought she would be the one forgotten, and Annie remembered, especially considering their...relationship, or whatever.

But that wasn't the case. It was obvious Gino didn't know who Annie was, and for whatever reason, he recognized Allison. And well...she didn't want that to bother Annie. She didn't want her to feel hurt.

...Did that make her a nice person? Eh. Maybe. In a subtle way.

"But I don't care if you come with us. Though I have no idea where we're actually going." Shrugging a little, she turned to Annie. "You have any ideas?"

(( Welcome back.. I'm idle here, since no one is interacting with my character...

Yay for being the one with the large question mark for his motives.. I want to make this RP very interesting. ))

"Th-the Isle de Gambino?" Gino stuttered. He wasn't sure if he was ready to go home yet. He wasn't too fond of seeing what his father had done, but he wanted to get away from the sisters. He couldn't say he hated them; he didn't think he was capable of truly hating someone, but he really didn't like them, especially when they try to control him. "Well, I guess that's fine. I have some gold, but I think I'd be recognized of I went into a store in my hometown, so when we get there could one of you buy some clothes for me?"

She stared blankly, though her eyes were slightly wide, as she watched Annie in the water, and they widened even more when she told Gino to get in. If Allison was going to stay in this little group, then that had to mean...

She backed up from the water just a little bit. "I can't-," she said loudly, but her voice was halting and higher-pitched than usual. Realizing the tell-tale signs of fear in her own voice, she stopped speaking almost immediately, but she backed up even further.

Reaching up and taking her hat off for a moment, she allowed the wind to play with her auburn red hair for a moment as she stared at the water with wide teal-colored eyes, a certain fear in them that looked most out of place on her usual nonchalant face. She had to feign haughtiness when she spoke again, tossing her long hair over her shoulder only to have the wind toss it back in another direction. "I'm not going with you. I don't have my bathing suit with me, and the clothes I'm wearing are so heavy that as soon as I get in the water I'll probably drown."

You'd probably drown as soon as you go in regardless.

She frowned, taking yet another step backwards. "Besides..." she said, more quietly, looking off to the left, deciding she'd rather not make eye contact with anyone. "I hate the water."

Annie stared at Allison for a second. "Well we can't go without you, Alli. And since you're so obviously terrified of swimming we'll need another way to get to Isle De Gambino." She squiched up her face in thought.

"I've got it!" She declared. "I have a boat back home. It's kinda..... obsolete, but it'll get you across." She explained. "I could swim over and bring it back and then we can all go back to Isle De Gambino. We wouldn't leave you out of all the adventure Alli." She smiled.

(man this is such a lame post. I apologise for it's lame-ness but I couldnt think of anything else to put)