Excess Energy {Callie}

[Jez Steele]

Jez walked into the training room with her bo staff in her hands, twirling it around. Technically she and Callie were still dating but she had felt her end of the connection dwindle, it wasn't because of her brother although he was a headache in and of himself. Either way she asked Callie to meet her here because she needed to tell her, but she also needed to take care of some of the excess energy she had. So she bowed to no one in particular as was engrained in her blood and she started her routine, twirling the bo staff in the air and striking, spinning around and kicking with one leg then following with the staff. Her hair had come out of the braid and it was swinging around her as she fought no one, letting her mind go blank and only focus on the staff in her hands.

[Calliope Gallo]

Callie wasn't sure what to think. She was always happy to meet with people when they reached out to her; it was a strange place within the grounds to meet with someone but she supposed she understood it. Part of her had always wanted to ask in order to see just what she did with the bo staff-thing. Oblivious to the nature of the impending conversation, she walked in all bright eyed and smiling. She just stood there and watched. It wasn't like anything she'd ever seen before. Not in real life, anyway.

After a while though, she pushed away from the wall and started closing the distance. "Hey!" Calliope called out, raising a hand and giving a small wave. "Come here." Her voice was light as usual; she'd seen her hair fly away and just really wanted to fix it.

[Jez Steele]

Jez looked up suddenly from her crouch when she heard Callie. That was unlike her, so zoned in on what she was doing that she didn't see or hear anyone else. Never the less she smiled at her and stood to walk over to her, not noticing her hair was pretty much wild and crazy, "Hey hun. How are you?"

[Calliope Gallo]

Callie figured she hadn't been noticed because Jez had let her mind go, and was only focusing on the staff in her hands. It hadn't been a connection she wanted to break until it seemed like there was a definite break in the movement. With a natural bounce to her step she helped close the distance, raising her hands up to start fixing the braid in her hair. "Good, good." Calliope replied, turning her head slightly, "A little drama with Niko kinda going missing across Europe, but he turned up here at Pilot Ridge and the whole thing ended up being a big misunderstanding." She knew how ridiculous that sounded, but somehow it was still true.

"Haven't seen you much lately," She admitted, "But I guessed you've been busy."

[Jez Steele]

Jez chuckled slightly as Callie started to fix her hair. "Yeah just a bit, with school and a new job it's been a little busy, would be the least to say."

When her hair was fixed she plopped down on the wood flooring. She took a deep breath, "Hey Call, I gots something to tell you 'Kay?"

[Calliope Gallo]

Perhaps Callie expected some kind of sympathy to the shortened end of her family story. Jez had brothers; surely she could imagine the stress it put someone under when something was suspected to be wrong. Nevertheless, she coasted by the hiccup when nothing was said. "A new job? Wow, no wonder." She knew what that could be like, after all.

Calliope watched her sit down on the ground; the heavy sigh from her mouth as she did so. Something must have been wrong? Tentatively Callie sat down across from her, crossing her legs and taking hold of the other girl's hands with her own. "Okay, you're freaking me out now." She admitted with clear worry in her voice. "What's up?"

[Jez Steele]

Jez smiled softly as she took Callie's hands and kissed her knuckles, "Sorry for just brushing past your brother, just a lot on my mind. I'm glad he's back and safe with you two."

It really took a lot for her to not notice when someone mention siblings, especially brothers. But she did have a lot on her mind. She brushed her lips against Callie's knuckles, "I think," she bit her bottom lip and chewed on it for a moment, "I think maybe we should just be friends. I just don't feel a romantic connection to you anymore, just a friendship connection. You're still sexy don't get me wrong and I don't regret taking you out, it was an amazing night, but I don't want to hold you back from someone else who might want to go out with you."

[Calliope Gallo]

Callie gave the slightest tilt of her head when Jez started talking and stopped. She really did look upset; distressed, even. It made her feel a little bad, given that something was wrong and she should have been there to be helpful. Eric had offered his 'wisdom' on the situation, but when it came to that kind of thing she knew her brother was just being a brother. He'd rather his baby sister be single. Or more to the point, he'd rather she join a nunnery. Joke or not.

She looked down to her hands when she kept talking, watching the movements placed against the skin of her knuckles. It all felt unnatural. Slowly but surely, she withdrew her hands from the grasp of the other girl, folding her hands and entwining her fingers together. "Okay." She replied.

And when she looked up, she made sure to connect her blue eyes across the way. An unreadable expression on her face and despite the remnants of sadness, she did her best to put on a smile. However fake it surely looked. "What, because I didn't kiss you or something? I don't kiss people on the first date. That's not fair." Callie's voice was quiet as she spoke, but there was clear determination in her tone.

"Because I'm dating other people? That's what dating is. You don't get to hold me back through dating." She looked down again and searched the floor for an answer. "Because of Eric?"

[Jez Steele]

Jez reached up and met her gaze, gently tracing her cheek, "No, no I didn't expect you to kiss me on the first date. I really didn't. I don't want to hold you back from dating and no it's not your brother, mainly. Although he did put a few things in perspective for me."

She took a deep breath and let it out, blowing her bangs out of her face in the process, trying to find the best way to put it, "I just think it'd be better if I we weren't dating anymore, it has absolutely nothing to do with you. I swear. I just feel like there's someone else out there for you, someone better than me and don't lie and say there's not."


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[Calliope Gallo]

Callie immediately retorted the hand that touched her, though she was gentle about it. Her hand clasped over the other girl's and returned it back to her side. No, she didn't get to act that way in tandem with the things she was saying. It was too confusing. She let out a short, sharp stint of laughter at the comment about Eric. "It's not his job to interfere. I don't understand why you let him change how you're thinking." Calliope replied. Unless she was interested in him. That's the only thing she could think of.

"Y'know, it isn't your place to decide if there is someone else out there for me or not. Or if they're better or not." Despite the nature of her words, she kept her cool and calm demeanor. Calliope Gallo was only searching for the real truth. "Just be honest. I really don't need someone deciding what I should do when it comes to the people I'm dating. It's like treating me like a child. Yeah, I'm dating a few people because that's what dating is. If you can't really handle that, then it's your decision to go. But it isn't really your place to decide that there's someone better for me."

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[Jez Steele]

Jez had tried. She had really tried to tell her the real reason. She was spiritual, and she didn't feel that kind of connection with Callie anymore. It was no longer a romantic collection. But if she wouldn't take it that way then Jez was going to have to take a page from Angus' book and get extremely blunt and a little hurtful. "I don't want to date anyone right now. I just want to focus on school and work and my college applications for Edinburgh. I don't want to hold anyone back and I don't want to be held back."

Angus would be proud at how blunt she was but it hurt her. However if Callie wasn't going to take her first reason she'd go for reason two.

[Calliope Gallo]

Calliope nodded slowly, as if things had somehow clicked in her head. They didn't, because the explanation was still making no sense. But at least she'd stopped pushing blame onto Callie and started taking it on for herself. "If you don't want to date anyone, then you should have just said so in the beginning." She replied calmly, glad to be at the point but not glad to be pushed to the brunt end of it. "But blaming me? Are you serious? That's like, the worst thing you could do to someone." She shook her head lightly.

"If you're intimidated or something, I guess I get it. But I really thought you of all people wouldn't let brothers get in the way of things." A deep rooted fear that she was certainly not going to expose to someone who clearly had no respect or caring for her feelings.

[Jez Steele]

Jez laughed slightly and shook her head. She stood and started pacing, "You still don't get it do you? Your brother has nothing to do with this. Never did and never will. I'm upset with him yeah but that has nothing to do with my decision right now. And when did I ever blame you for anything? I don't want ANYONE to hold me back, that doesn't specify you. I don't want to date right now because that feeling and thought just came to me RIGHT NOW. When we had our first date I did want to date someone, you."

Gah! This girl was driving her crazy, she felt her eyes turn gold and her nails lengthen into claws. Jez took deep breaths to keep from changing, she didn't want to end this conversation sooner than necessary. She couldn't recall the last time that she had changed because of her emotions. When she did she was kind of stuck like that for a few hours.

[Calliope Gallo]

"You basically said I deserved better. It's like you were saying you were just waiting for me to stop being interested in you." Callie pointed out. It was like she had forgotten the beginning of this conversation already. Calliope didn't want to fight for this, because there was obviously no point in trying that. But simple, honest answers were all she wanted. "Dating isn't holding someone back. If you think that's what it is than yeah, maybe you shouldn't be."

Callie didn't leave the floor, she just leaned back on a hand and looked up at the pacing girl in front of her. Wow, something was definitely up. "You're getting angry, and you don't need to be." She pointed out, tilting her head slightly to one side.