Bottled Up [OPEN]

[Alyss Everheart]

Alyss lay across the couch in the dorms common room. A place she normally comes to whenever she needed an escape, but didn't actually feel like making it up to her dorm room or possibly deal with the roommates. What if they started to bug her about her mood? She wasn't exactly the type to 'talk it out'. Nah, bottling up seemed to work better. No explanations, no worries. Whatever, she came here to stop thinking about it! Not to continue! Huffing, the blonde sat up from the couch and leaned back against it, sitting upright in her seat with feet propped up on the coffee table set across. Tension etched lines into her forehead, and small fingers did their best to knead out the creases and around her temples. A massive headache was coming on, but thankfully it wasn't there yet and if she got some caffeine into her system it might help stave it off.


You might ask what has this teenage girl so wound up tight? Boy problems? Parent drama? Lost her favorite pair of shoes or lucky hair tie? No, she was mad, no pissed, that she just went to train for two hours on her ability to control the photosynthesis in plants and to not only not make any progress, she almost nearly stopped the plant's ability to do photosynthesis all together! She almost killed it! She was supposed to help it grow, damn it! "Ughhhh... moaned Alyss, as she finally stood up from the couch and stomped over to vending machine where she fed in her dollar and punched a button for Cola. A second and whirring sound later, a can deposited itself into the bin at the bottom, a Dr. Pepper. 'Yesssss.' Thought Alyss as she popped open the can and sipped on it's caffeinated goodness.


The drink helped to calm her nerves and settle down the pounding in her head. She had used too much power again, and needed the sugar in her system. Taking the drink back to the couch with her, sipping heavily now, she sat back down smoothly. Alyss needed to get this whole issue off her mind. She'd been in a real stale mate with her powers lately, making little to no progress for the past three months. It was almost to the point where she was regressing! Al took in a deep breath, and allowed her shoulders to drop and back to relax as she slowly exhaled. Chill, bottle it up, get over it. That's what she needed to do. It was a routine she had going here, and it worked so far. Emotionally wise. But chilling was her main priority right now she decided as she took another sip of the Dr. P.


"Guess it could be worse."

[Rebecca Adler]

Rebecca kept her nose in her book, fairly certian she was going the right way to get to her dorm room, she had finally gotten the courage to go and see if her roommate was there. Flipping through the pages of her book there was no possible way for her to notice that she was walking straight into a couch, which is why when she fell over said couch and hit another person Becca could only squeak and try her best to use her powers, only realizing that she was still visible and still obviously ontop of someone who did not seem to be in the best of moods.

[Alyss Everheart]

Alyss lay back on the couch, eyes closed in meditating sort of way as she tried her best to release the tension from her shoulders. These days, the training sessions only seemed to annoy here more and more, but she knew it was pointless to get upset over this. After all, she was still learning. Controlling another living being was hard work, especially when they have their own wills you had to override or manipulate. Which, is shocking to think a plant has it's own mind, but they did, to Alyss. Moaning, she opened her eyes and took another sip of her coke as she lay there thinking. It wasn't like she couldn't use her powers at all! At least it wasn't something like that! No, she had just run into a little...speed bump. That's all.


Alyss placed the coke back down onto the coffee table across from the couch and laid her body back down on the couch, her eyes sliding shut. She heard a person shuffle their way into the room, though, she didn't care too much to crack an eyelid to see who exactly it was. She wasn't really in the 'talkative' mood. I mean, it wasn't like she was angry, or in a 'talk-to-me-and-I'll-rip-off-your-face' mood, she was just happy with being alone for the time being. Though, it seemed like that wasn't going to happen, not today. Alyss's eyes popped open and bugged out and mouth dropped open with a loud squeak bursting out, like one of the dolls people squeeze for stress. Someone was sitting on here. No, not sitting, they had fully laid out on her. She didn't know what had happened, but the only thing she could think of was trying to breathe. This wonderful klutzy stranger had knocked all the breath from her.


Alyss pushed the girl off, promptly sitting up and gasping for air as she here head whipped around to find this person. Yeah, if she wasn't in the great of a mood to begin with, she was definitely in a bad one by now. "What the heck?!" she screeched as her eyes landed on the girl she'd just shoved off of her. Why did she decided to fall on top of her exactly? Had she tripped? What was this? Alyss had missed the whole incident where she was too busy reading and ran into the couch, but saw the book in her now. This just wasn't Alyss's day.

[Rebecca Adler]

Rebecca felt herself being shoved to the floor and all she could think of was how much trouble she was going to be in, this really was not the best way to start her day she just wanted to get to her room and now she had made someone upset, oh yes it definatly wasnt the best way to start her day.

At the other girls outburst Becca opened her mouth to reply and all that came out was a pathetic squeak and she felt her face turn the shade of a tomato, there was no way anything she could say would make this worse, she had basically belly flopped onto someone who had just been laying on a couch.

"I..I..I.. um..I didnt mean! .um.."

Becca started to panic, there was no way she could fix this at all, when suddenly she realized she was no longer holding onto her book and she started to look for it, hoping to god that she had not lost her page.

[Alyss Everheart]

Alyss wasn't exactly livid, just annoyed really. Sure, she could get pissed off cause someone decided to body check her laying down and knock the air out of her. Though, she could probably do something more productive with the energy it would take for her to get that worked up. Alyss was now sitting up from the coach, clutching at her chest as she did her best to suck in air and regain her breath. The person whom had landed on her was now on the floor, where the blonde had pushed them off to. Her eyes stared down at them, able to clearly look at them now.


It was a young, brunette girl, one she hadn't met, and seemed quite flustered at her little blunder. Alyss didn't blame her. She'd feel pretty embarrassed too if she had just flat out tripped on top of a person. How the hell did she do that anyway? "Uh," Aly started out saying as she looked down at the girl, who started to frantically panic and explain herself, it seemed. The girl was struggling for words, and a little lost as she turned away from Alyss and started to search for a novel. Sighing loudly, having regained her breath, Alyss started to slowly simmer down.


Yeah, she felt bad for the girl. I mean, she hadn't meant to fall on her, right? At least, it seemed that way. "Here," Al said flatly, as she knelt down, picked up the book, and held it out the girl. "your book?" Alyss's tone was a little distant and emotionless, being that she was still in a mood, no longer irritated, but just not up for trying to be happy. "Soooo, did you like trip? Or something...?" Alyss offered, finding out how the girl ended up on top of her in the first place?

[Rebecca Adler]

Looking up Rebecca smiled slightly, someone was being nice to her after she almost caused them a heartattack, she took the book out of the other girls hands and started to inspect it to make sure it wasnt harmed when she realized she had been asked a question. A really good question, why had she fallen anyway? Oh thats right, she was completely ignoring every other being so she could read in peace.

"I'm sorry, I just wasnt paying attention, was um.. occupied." she held out her book like that answered all her questions. "I forget to notice things when I read...like..people, or..um objects like the couch. Are...are you ok?"

Becca was sure that the other girl was fine, considering she saw no blood and that she wasnt screaming in pain, but the fact that she probably had all air knocked out of her at once could be unnerving and Becca wanted to make sure that she didnt need to see a nurse or anything.

"Do you need me to call someone..like..for help? or..um do you need to get something to drink?" Becca stood up the best she could and dusted herself off, setting the book on the table so she could fix her clothes without dropping it on the floor.

She held out her hand to help the other girl off her knees and offered an awkward smile "My name is Rebecca..or Becca for short, Im really reallly..sorry about falling on you..."

[Alyss Everheart]

So the girl had been distracted? By the way she flipped through her book checking for damage and searching through it, she guessed that it had been her object of attention when she had run into the couch. But dang! She must have been really absent-minded. Though, Al, being the sweetheart she was deep down, couldn't find it in her to blame her for it. Everyone had those moments where they just 'space-out', and forget the world around them. Wasn't that what Alyss was trying to do on the couch for a little bit until this girl had landed on her? Taking in another deep breath, letting the tension roll off of her as the girl had finished explaining the little incident and continued to ask how Alyss was doing. "I'm fine, I'm fine." she drawled as she held up a hand and waved off the whole thing as nothing.



Al had only the breath knocked out of her momentarily, it was no big deal honestly. The whole situation was really no big deal, but she could see that from Alyss's earlier actions the girl took it as if it had been. "Don't worry, it's fine, you were distracted." She replied finally, trying to soothe the nervous girl and move on from this little incident. The more Alyss thought about it, the more it annoyed her. She didn't know if it was because the other girl's absentmindedness that bothered her, feeling she should know better, or still ill feelings towards her earlier training session. It was probably the training. Whatever, Al just wanted to forgive and forget.


Furrowing her brow and cocking her head to the side, a little perplexed by the young girl's question as to if she needed...help? or something to drink? It was like the girl was actually wounded. Though, she realized that she only trying to help and did her best to bite back any irritation. "No,no," she said with a light shake of the head and chuckle, "I'm fine, just had the wind knocked outta me." Reaching forward to grab the hand of the girl, whom had already stood up from the floor and placed her book on the desk, Al stood. Becca, was her name, and she was sorry for having fallen on Aly. Well, the blonde was glad the girl apologized, hopefully next time it didn't happen to someone a little more volatile than her. There were some scary kids here at Hammel, and Al kind of felt like one of them at the moment, deep down. "I'm Alyss, but I guess you can call me Al or Aly if you really want. Kind of prefer Alyss, though." It wasn't that she didn't like the nicknames, she just preferred it if those she had just met called her by her first name. That, and sometimes people thought they were talking about a guy if they started calling her Al.

[Rebecca Adler]

Glad that the other girl was ok, Becca let herself relax a little bit. There was no use being nervous about this considering the girl kept insisting she was fine. Alyss..well that was an interesting name, not that Becca would ever comment on it outloud, but it was a name she had not heard before and she thought it was actually kind of pretty.

"Its nice to meet you..um Alyss..I would like to say that this is my first time doing this but um...its really not...I really dont pay attention much if I read..guess thats a bad thing huh?"

Becca laughed slightly, not sure why but it felt like a moment where she should laugh a bit, Glad that she fell on someone who wasnt going to try and throw her into a dumpster or hit her or something. "Guess I picked a good person to fall on...not that I plan on doing it again! If I do..you can hit me or something"

Becca offered with a smile and really hoped the Alyss did not take her up on that offer, Becca really did not want to be hit.

[Alyss Everheart]

"Oh?" Alyss asked a little shocked. The more she thought about it, it didn't really surprise her that Becca had run into others while reading. Though, as Al had previously thought before, you think a girl would have learned by now to look up every now and then from her book! "Maybe it'd be good to look up every now and then?" Alyss offered kindly, she tried to hold the flat tone and bite out of her voice, but her face still had that blank and bored look to it.


Al realized then that maybe this could be a distraction from her earlier failure of a training session. Meeting someone new and all would be a nice way to momentarily forget some things until her animosity had completely passed over. The brunette in front of her laughed a bit and Aly found herself giving a short chuckle as the girl continued on with a rather shocking statement. "What?!" She exclaimed when Becca mentioned hitting her if it happened again. "Uh, no I...I don't think I'll need to hit you." She laughed a little unsteady as she gave her a sympathetic look to tack on.


"If it happens again I'll probably see you before you see me. I guess we were both a little bit spaced out this time." Alyss mentioned as she remembered that if she had seen Rebecca, she probably wouldn't have been landed on in the first place. Though, this girl really should watch where she was going. She was right about Al being a good person to have landed on, others would probably have blown up by now. Kind of surprising Alyss was going along with this anyway and hadn't blown up herself. Today having been another bust and soured under the pressure of her training session. Oh well, like she had thought earlier, this chick would make for a decent distraction. Get her mind off it all. "So what book are you reading?"