Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 25, 2010 20:39:41 GMT -5
Romi had never been good at estimating time. She's thought she'd had enough leeway to make it to the library, drop off a book and pay the late fee (three days, not so bad) and make it to French.
That is, until the seam of her backpack had ripped and everything had gone everywhere. Her heavy history text had dropped on her foot, her papers had scattered all across the floor, and everything else had rolled far out of reach.
Romi stood in the middle of the now-empty hallway, shoulders slumped, broken backpack hanging from one elbow, sighing and muttering in something between French and English.
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 25, 2010 21:02:34 GMT -5
Something moved in Bird's peripheral vision, a small thing skittering quickly across the floor from the hallway parallel to the one he had just stepped into. Instinctively, he crouched and sprang, and in two bounds had gone from the doorway of his Vampire Studies class to landing on the thing. It slid and careened, and he skittered on all fours trying to keep the thing in his claws, finally stopping with both arms crossed over the thing, ass in the air, grinning down at it with fangs extended.
And then he opened his arms, and saw that it had been a pencil, and Bird's rational mind returned to him just in time to feel like a fucking idiot. He sighed and stood up.
He blinked at Romi. He looked down, and then he understood.
Bird closed his eyes in concentration, then zipped around the hallway, picking up Romi's things with inhuman speed. He landed in front of her with full arms and an awkward smirk on his face, fangs still extended.
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 25, 2010 21:23:21 GMT -5
Romi arched an appreciative eyebrow and smiled lightly down at Bird.
"Thanks," she said, zipping up her backback and using it sideways to hold things. She hoped the zippers would hold at least until lunch-- then at least she could run back to her room and put her things in a tote bag or something.
When the last of the papers had been stuffed inside the ruined backpack, Romi straightened and tucked the bundle under one arm.
"So, are you headin' to French?"
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 25, 2010 22:00:29 GMT -5
Bird rolled his shoulders and tried to look a little more manly and definitely not like the kind of guy who routinely pounced random objects that fluttered around all preylike. "Ah, yeah. Last class ran a little late."
"Maybe, if you don't mind, I could ask you how your day went on the way, instead of in class like I usually do?"
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 25, 2010 22:09:29 GMT -5
Romi smiled fully and shrugged. "We'll be late together, then?"
Pretty smirk. "You... you could do that. I mean, as long as I get your version as well."
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 25, 2010 22:17:40 GMT -5
"Heh. I guess we will." Tiny mental dancey dancey dancey. He began walking down the hall backwards, keeping Romi in sight. "So you wanna go first, or should I?"
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 25, 2010 22:41:35 GMT -5
Romi giggled. She and Bird didn't spend any time together outside of class-- which was a shame, because he was a ridiculous little charmer in his own way. She enjoyed working with him in French and English.
"I'll go first," she offered, her drawl making the sentence smooth as silk despite its short length. "Hmm... Well, I woke up late because I was downloading new Angra and Lacuna Coil singles last night. And then I forgot my notebook in Film Studies class. But the lesson made up for it-- we got to watch Dracula vs Wolfman as an exhibition of early special effects in cinema." She laughed again. "After that was Bio 102, nothing much to report on there. And then French." Chuckle. "Ran to the library, backpack exploded, and here we are."
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 25, 2010 23:09:29 GMT -5
"Ahh, sounds like kinda a bad day so far." He pulled his backpack off and swung it around to his other shoulder and put it on. "Except for Dracula vs. the Wolfman. That sounds really cool."
"Uh, I woke up, and I went to math, and learned what matrix theory is, and then I went and punched things in the gym, and then I went to Vampire Studies and the sub ranted about some politics or something that I think might've, uhm. So we learned about political history." He grinned. "Annnd now I'm here."
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 25, 2010 23:21:03 GMT -5
Romi shrugged. "Wasn't horrible," she insisted. "And yes, Dracula vs. Wolfman was glorious."
Romi walked, shortening her stride a bit so as not to run into Bird. "Sounds like your day was pretty normal," she commented.
She was quiet for a second. "We should chill outside of class."
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 27, 2010 19:13:46 GMT -5
He snorted, still grinning. "As much as normal ever happens here."
Bird nearly tripped over his feet and careened backwards into the wall before stopping.
"Uh. Yeah! We could hang out, or go somewhere or something. If you want." He picked himself up off the wall, turning around and jogging back to Romi's side. "You're a university student too, right? Maybe this weekend or next we could get permission to leave the grounds, and uh, I know a really nice restaurant in Italy I can get into. Or if you don't like fancy, there's a little hole-in-the-wall pasta place, god, the lasagna there-"
He was grateful to be a vampire at that moment, or he'd be blushing even through his complexion. "-Or there's laser tag." Idiot. She probably just wants to hang out as friends. "Or whatever, uh, I'm just eager to get out sometime. The only sort of "friends" I've got here are Sam and Tebryn, and I don't know them that well."
Just shut up, you moron.
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 28, 2010 13:22:17 GMT -5
Romi couldn't help the giggle that came from her at Bird's temporary loss of balance-- she was sure that if it weren't Bird, she would have been worried, but as it were she was quite certain that he was made of much stronger stuff than she was.
As she listened to him, one of her eyebrows arched, which seemed to pull one corner of her mouth up as well, as if the two were connected. She pursed her lips slightly and let her eyes roll up towards the ceiling in thought.
"I like that idea-- hanging out off campus. Tell you what--" she pointed at him as if she were revealing a grand proposition. "I'll pay for laser tag if you handle dinner. Both options of which, by the way, sound really good. But I'm going to go for the lasagna." She grinned. "And if we have enough time after laser tag, we should go bowling. I've got a wicked curved pitch and I like to show it off." She winked.
As an afterthought, she added, "Aaaand because I'm fairly certain you're going to kill my score in laser tag. Just saying. I'll have to redeem myself somehow." Keeping in mind that if she cheated and used her magic, she would be in deep trouble. And Romi didn't use the phrase deep trouble often. But whatever.
"I can do this weekend or next," she told him, grinning. "So whatever works best for you."
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 28, 2010 17:39:58 GMT -5
"Sweet." He seemed to regain his confidence. Did Florence have a bowling alley? It had to.
"I'll see if we can get this weekend." Do I want to ask the asshole for money, or just use my savings? I have no idea how he'd react to "Sire, can I have some cash for a date?" He'd probably ask if she was mortal... "So should I text you, or just talk to you in class?"
The door to the French class was down the next hallway.
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Jul 28, 2010 22:52:51 GMT -5
Romi pulled her phone out of her pocket and slid the keyboard open. "We've got that test today, remember? But here, I'll give you my number and we can talk later if we don't have free time after the test."
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Post by Sakda "Bird" Ruark on Jul 29, 2010 0:15:12 GMT -5
"Ffff." Test. Right. Oh hell, there was a test. He yanked his phone out of his bag.
"Uh, okay. Want mine?"
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Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette
Keme
University Freshman: Mage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spine of others are stiffened.
Posts: 21
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Post by Rosemary "Romi" Ouelette on Aug 3, 2010 23:43:48 GMT -5
Romi bit her lip and grinned, pulling up her contacts list to add him in. "Sure. Here's mine."
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