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Post by Kitten King on Sept 12, 2011 2:14:01 GMT -5
"Er, yeah," she responded to Jacob (maybe a little too quickly), still having trouble keeping her words straight. "W-we see a lot of each other, uhm, actualy. See, there's this sparrow's nest..." Things weren't going too bad, really... could be going so much better though. At least she hadn't done anything embarrassing ye- OHMYGODWHATWASTHATHOLYFUCK?!!>! She, indeed, yelped and flailed, and her elbow decided to fly out and smash right into the closest thing beside her, which just happened to be the side of her date's ribcage.
"Wh- oh my god, I'm so sorry!" Great, not only was she making a horrible impression for the night, she had flailed around like a spaz and ended up doing this to Zeke. She was on a roll. "You okay??" Christ, what had even spooked her? She thought for a moment, and then became more aware of Laelia than she had been before. Oh fuck.
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"I'd consider than an understatement."
"Heeeeyyyyy," Lilith protested, but Nic didn't pay her much mind. He simply smiled that annoying smile of his, and continued on the conversation without acknowledging it. Ugh. How she ever managed to deal with him was a mystery even to her.
"Now be honest with me - how in the world did you ever get Miss Won't-Touch-Anything-Feminine-With-A-Ten-Foot-Pole to wear something like-ow! Lilith, watch it! That's my foot!"
"I know where your foot is!"
"Then why are you-"
"Because you're a-"
And so the night begins.
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Post by Jaydee on Sept 15, 2011 1:56:41 GMT -5
He wasn't sure why he said nothing as the other girl oh-so-slowly leaned in and blew in Mika's ear - maybe it was out of curiosity, maybe he was too distracted by her fangs to pay attention - but either way, he paid for it.
"Ow!" With a sharp elbow to the ribs. He doubled over, eyes squeezed closed for a moment while he recovered. "Um, don't worry about it, haha..." He straightened back up and gave her a meek smile.
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Harriet kept searching despite the itch that told her not to. She turned around and scanned the room, that small sense of dread growing stronger as she did. It was a primal thing, she realized now, an innate, ancient sense of wrongness that she couldn't put into words. She didn't need to.
It grew stronger still until, for just a moment, she tasted the slightest tang of copper - just as she found herself staring directly into a pair of yellow cat-slit eyes. She froze.
"Harriet?" Someone noticed. She whipped back to the group with a smile coated in sugar to hide how cold she felt, sending out little waves of calm to keep the others from worrying. Damage control, damage control…
"Hm?" She looked to the younger student who'd said her name, watched her handiwork kick in as a blank look came over the boy's face, followed by placid contentment.
"Oh, nothing," he said. "You just spaced for a minute. Want some punch?"
Harriet smiled and let him lead her away. Had he not been under her influence, he would have felt her hands shaking.
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Post by Ixtlilton on Sept 15, 2011 18:15:19 GMT -5
Laelia kept smiling, taking a bit of perverse glee in how Mika reacted. The girl was priceless, really! She sort of wanted to take her home and keep her.
She was aware, in the back of her mind, that she was definitely getting a bit of notice at this point. Her smile faltered somewhat. She'd hoped that she'd blend in a bit better than she was. After all, there were other people with strange hair (like Jacob), and other people with yellow eyes (like Mika). So why was she...
Her train of thought was interupted by a bit of a twang in her stomach. Hunger... what kind of hunger? Not that it made a difference, here. It's not like she could chomp down on that cute little blonde thing in the baby blue dress. Which was a pity... there were worse things in the world, than looking like that. She tried to clear her head. "Jacob, do they have anything to snack on here?"
"Huh?" said Jacob, who'd only half been paying attention. He'd been busy worrying over Zeke, who'd gotten an elbow in the side for some reason. "Oh, yeah, I think so. Want me to get you something?" he said, with a half glance at Zeke, who seemed to be recovering fine. Say, was he staring at Laelia a bit much? Hmm, come to think of it...
"Mika, would you mind helping me get some food for all of us? I don't think I could carry it all myself." Not without stretching out his wings for balance anyway. He was always a bit off-kilter with them tucked in. He gave her his best smile, hoping she wouldn't pause to think about why he was asking her and not Zeke or Laelia.
"It was her idea, really," Dragon said with the faintest hint of a smile, which might even have been visible if it weren't for the full-face mask she was wearing. "She wanted to pick my outfit, and then said we should pick each other's. I think she got the longer end of the stick, really." She, after all, was dressed appropriately, not like a cursed doll. "At least her mask isn't preventing her from eating. Although, with the rate she brings food back to the dorm, that might not be a bad idea..."
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Post by Kitten King on Sept 25, 2011 21:13:51 GMT -5
Huzwhawhonow? Mika tried really hard to keep her mouth from just falling open at that. She, looking back at it later with some shame, just about forgot about poor Zeke at that moment, trying to keep herself (somewhat unsuccessfully) from going red in the face.
"I-I... yeah! S-sure!" Omigod he was asking her! Not Laelia, but HER. Really she should have found that more suspicious, but she was too busy trying to keep herself from turning into a gibbering mess that was melting into a puddle on the ballroom floor. "They're uhm, this way, right?" She was going to die. It was official. She was officially going to die.
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"Hey, hey," Lilith objected. "Don't make it sound like I'm a complete pig! I'm not!"
"Are you sure about that?"
"...I really will punch you." Nic put his hands up, surrendering with a grin, before putting them down again and smiling meekly at Dragon.
"Well, I better get back to Travis - I left him standing alone, poor guy. He's probably having a heart attack."
"Yeah, yea- wait. Wait." All of a sudden, his sister's eyes were on him in a sharp sort of manner that Nic wasn't fond of. "You came with a guy?"
"I- yes?"
"...huh. That answers a lot."
"Wh- NO. No. I'll say it again, I'm not gay, Lilith. We're just friends." She nodded at him in that sarcastic way, rolling her eyes as she went.
"Uhuh, says the guy in the puffy gold shirt with the bunny mask who came to a formal dance with another guy." He stuttered and opened his mouth to object again, but she cut him off for the hell-knows-how-many time, shooing him away. "Go on then, get back to your friend, Nicadee." Huffing a little but deciding not to dig himself any deeper, the odd-eyed boy disappeared into the slowly growing crowd again, leaving the two girls to fend for themselves by the food and drink table again. Lilith snorted, watching as he walked off. "And he says he's not gay..."
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Post by Jaydee on Sept 27, 2011 2:08:47 GMT -5
Zeke felt his stomach drop as he watched two of the only people he knew here walk away together.
He opened his mouth to say something, but they were already gone. Of course, Mika would be one of Jacob's fans - few girls in this school weren't. Something like dread settled in his chest, from both losing his human shield and worry that she'd become more interested in Jacob, now that she knew they were friends. He'd barely registered that thought before he managed to convince himself that it was true - and who could blame her, really? The coherent half of his brain told him how stupid he was being, but he was pretty good at tuning that part out when he wanted to.
Oh, right, and they left him with Jacob's date. He turned back to look at her now, even timider than before, with no one else to hide behind.
"Uh," he said. Clearly dealing with a verbal heavyweight here.
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Post by Ixtlilton on Sept 27, 2011 21:19:30 GMT -5
Laelia was a bit confused as to why Jacob had to take Mika, the object of her current attention, away from her. She pouted a bit, but Jacob turned around and winked at her, then gestured his head towards Zeke. Oooooh, he wanted her to make friends with his anti-social buddy!
She turned towards him, eyes narrowing slightly as she now had to decide exactly what kind of a person he was. And then her eyes caught a little detail inside his hanging-open mouth. Altogether too quickly, she was right up in his face, leaning close as she was a good bit taller than him. Her hand grabbed his chin gently and pulled his mouth open a bit wider. "Your teeth! They aren't just pointy, they are REALLY, REALLY pointy!" She'd thought her eyes had been playing tricks on her. "That's amazing? How do you do that? I mean mine tend to get sharper when I'm hungry, but yours are like, awesome, full time! I'm jealous!"
Okay, so she could have picked a better topic to start on. He just shrugged and hoped for the best as he led the bumbling Mika way, a hand lightly on her back as he steered her towards the food, which was the opposite way as she had begun walking.
He wracked his mind for an interesting tidbit he knew about Mika that would make for good conversation. Flash's sister, no. Roomed with... who was she roomed with again? Oh, Ashley, the grumpy one... Yeah that was a no too. Uhm...
"You have a cat, right?" he decided on. "The boy that fathered those kittens?" Good enough.
Dragon looked kind of introspective as Nic walked away. After a few moments of silence, she turned to Lilith as the girl was taking a drink of punch. "Is that really a smart thing to point out when we came to the party together?"
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Post by Kitten King on Sept 30, 2011 0:57:19 GMT -5
Hahahahahahah, oooohhhh man. She was so out of her element - what had she been thinking? How could she have even thought she was ready for this? Ooohhh she should have stuck to admiring from afar, that never got you into trouble. Well... not if you did it in the non-creepy way. GAH. NOT THE POINT! He was talking to her! About... her cat? O-oh. Oh! She could always talk about Xan!
"Y-yeah!" she said, feeling a little confidence come to her at the thought of her furry little friend. "Xanthur, a little black cat. Uhm, little like small, not young! He's already around 14, that's why I didn't have to get him fixed. Uh," Wow, this was a little embarrassing. "But, clearly that didn't work out so well... Th-that aside, uhm, yes, the father's my cat." Oh man, and this wasn't even her fault! Her brother should have gotten his cat fixed! Augh. AUGH.
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There was probably no truer spit take than Lilith's reaction to Dragon's statement - she was also bright red. She stammered for a split second, put a hand to her face, then stammered again. She paused for a moment to clear her throat.
"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII . . . sh-shut up," she finally managed. "The answer is clearly shut up."
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To no one's real surprise, it wasn't long until Flash began to get bored with his post as a chaperone to this event. Really, whose bright idea had that been in the first place, anyway? He wandered around a little, passing some of the other teachers and making his way up to the little booth where a familiar face was working the little makeshift sound booth.
"Hey Brett, are you bored out of your skull yet?" His voice was a little more sour and perhaps more sardonic than usual, but he really couldn't help it. The young boy glanced over, stopping from futzing with the CDs of music for a moment.
"You're enjoying yourself less than usual. What's the matter this time? You usually like the formal events - gives you a chance to hit up the ladies," he said with a smirk. Flash scowled a bit at that, and the shifter got the message. "Oh I see. No luck with the hens today, eh?"
"Shut up," Flash snapped, then dropped his voice a little more, despite the fact that no one was nearby. "Like you've gotten any more ass than me lately." Thaaaaat shut him up for a moment.
"Ouch, you must've gotten burned bad. Better luck next time, bro." With that Brett ate a Funyun from his bag and shooed the electrician away, clicking something on the board and picking up the microphone from the stand before making the announcement.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Ansembourg Boarding School's annual fall formal and Masquerade. We now encourage the main floor to be cleared for dancers, while those who wish to socialize may move to the sides of the room. Please remember that all hazardous powers, including but not limited to those with fire, teeth, claws, toxic fumes, electrocution, suffocation, and extreme boredom, are banned for the evening. Refreshments are available along the south wall, and let the Masquerade officially begin!"
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