No Boys Allowed (Lucas)

[Olivia Baker]

It was a rare occasion that Liv found herself the only inhabiter of apartment 406. Since coming back, it'd been buzzing with life... granted it always kind of had been, especially with their non official extra roommate Lucy. 

She'd still yet to get to know her most recent roommate however, Karalie.. whom she assumed was nice enough based on their incredibly brief interactions, but just on a different schedule and living at the opposite side of the apartment. 

Liv flopped onto the old worn couch, her record player turning out some Tom Petty as she took to her sketch book. Given the rare occasion, she was going to take full advantage of the living space and had even ordered herself a pizza, to share with me, myself, and I. Oh yes, it was going to be a blissful day off. 

[Lucas Blacke]

Luke was, given the fact his past attempts had horribly failed, trying to get to his girlfriends dorm to try to see what was going on with her. It wasn't until he stepped out of his own dorm that he smelled a pizza and eventually saw a guy holding it. The boy stormed over as fast as he could and asked the man who it was for, he was nosey like that. After having gotten the answer that it was for 406, which just happened to be where Luke was going, he offered to pay foor the pizza if he could take it up there.

The man hesitated but eh, money speaks persuasion. Luke, several dollars lighter and one pizza heavier, finally made his way over to Karalie's dorm. ''Pizza!'' He yelled as he banged on the door. It hadn't occured to him that Karalie wasn't really the type of person to order pizza, or that he at least had never seen her do so.

Luke finally just opened the door on his own and stepped over the threshold, spying someone.. not his girlfriend there. He wondered who she was.. That new roommate perhaps? She spoke of a new roommate in hush tones so he couldn't be sure, but there was someone new there anyway. The boy shrugged and sat down on the couch next to the unknown girl with the pizza box over his crotch.

''Did someone order pizza with extra sausage?''

[Olivia Baker]

Liv blinked absently at the boy who was so obviously not the pizza guy. "uhm.." She didn't want to be rude, but it was somewhat creepy and alarming to have some fucking stranger in her apartment. It was even more alarming to the brunette that he had her pizzas. "Ew." Was all that fell out of her lips. Not only was the joke stupid, but gross. She couldn't hide her humor long though before a smile broke onto her lips despite her brain telling her not to engage the seriously unfunny stranger sitting in her house.

"So, should I call security or are you connected to Pen or someone here?" She asked raising a brow. "Or are you some psycho stalker killer?" She really shouldn't be this ok with this guy here. She started to back up towards the kitchen as casually as possible in case she needed to grab a knife. It was funny that her mutation never crossed her mind at times like these. She could easily freeze time and grab one then stab him to death if she needed to. But alas. Nope. That thought was so far from the front of her mind.

[Lucas Blacke]

''Pen?'' Luke repeated as he dropped the act along with the pizzas on the table. ''That's yer roommate with the stick up her ass, right?'' They had tried, or rather, Luke had tried to get along with her, but she just didn't respond like a normal human and it frickin' irked Luke to no end. Luckily this one reacted as expected, though a bit quick on drawing her weapon.

''Luckily I have no connection to her.'' He added with a smile, trying to keep a straight face as the girl, obvious to him, began moving towards the kitchen. He knew what for, it wasn't like he hadn't seen people move like that before.

''Drop the act, hun, I'm not a psycho killer.'' He finally said as he plopped his feet on the table right next to the pizzas. ''I'm Karalie's boyfriend.'' He smiled and hunched over to turn the music that was playing off. Awful, Luke thought.

He motioned for the girl to come closer and sit next to him on the couch as he was under the assumption his girlfriend, yet again, wasn't there. ''Your pizza is getting cold.''

[Olivia Baker]

How comfortable the boy was in HER space was a bit unnerving. How he talked about Penny was simply unacceptable. No, her and Pen weren't best friends, but she was still her friend, and she didn't take kindly to some A-hole who stole her pizza and came barging in for some roommie replacement. But she wouldn't let off to that. She bit her lip, and smiled to save a little face. She hadn't met this roommate yet. She hadn't met her. She deserved a fair chance, and if this guy was part of it she didn't want to cause problems for herself. She decided not to comment.

"Ah. Cora... Kara... I still haven't met her." She admitted as her eyes followed his hands that were going to turn off her music, in her dorm.

"I can see you've gotten quite comfortable here huh?" She chuckled, "If my music is bothering you, I'll be happy to take it and my pizza into my room and let you wait for Corra." She said as she went to collect her belongings as well as the pizza. 

((OOC: whoops sorry some formatting went a bit weird there.)) 

[Lucas Blacke]

So how many did this make? Luke counted six, this one would make seven. With a sad thought he wondered if he had more than the two states of being in the presence of girls, he was either flirty or quick to get them out of his way somehow. He very nearly thought Karalie had broken his flirty side since he just seemed to piss everyone off as of late.

She didn't show it right away and simply smiled at him, but Luke could see a forced smile from a mile away. He'd done it himself plenty of times, after all. With a sigh he listened to the girl say she could take her stuff and leave him to wait. He silently sat by watching her gather her belongings as well as the pizza with the comment that he'd begun to feel comfortable in their dorm. Truth was, he hadn't, he really only set foot in their dorm to meet up with Karalie and had never taken any time to get to know her roommates. And when he tried to rectify not getting to know people, stuff like this happened.

He realized turning off the music was a dick move as he could've just waited for her to turn it down, if she happened to be a normal and nice person. ''I kind of don't feel.. you know.. comfortable here.'' He replied with a sigh finally.

He looked up at the girl who had picked up her stuff and was ready to go to her room.
''It is, as your roommate put it gently, the girls dorm. This isn't my thing, really. If not for Karalie I wouldn't even be here.''

''And I won't really blame ya if you left me alone, but I'd still like to ask ya to stick around. Less lonely that way.''
He shot a smile in the direction of the girl.

''I'll even drop the veil, promise.''

[Olivia Baker]

Quite frankly, Liv wasn't entirely sure what to make of the boy in front of her. First he was cocky and confident, now he was retreating like a scorned puppy who piddled on the floor. Her lips pressed into a hard line as he spoke about not being comfortable. She could relate. She hardly felt comfortable back at Hammel, it wasn't her place anymore, not that she knew what that place were. Hell, she wasn't even entirely sure who she was anymore, the girl she'd been had checked out a long time ago leaving her with only the remains. She no longer felt like a ghost at least, now she just felt like a corpse that was fighting tooth and nail to find their soul again.

He'd put her in an awkward position. She didn't like being the bad guy, and honestly wasn't trying to offend him but rather maintain the happy alone time she'd managed to attain. She couldn't exactly retreat now though, not since he'd called her out.

"The veil?" She wrinkled her nose. What was the veil supposed to mean? His wall? Was this an act? If so why was he so ready to just drop it? Or maybe that was an act in it of itself.

Liv sighed and put the pizza back down on the table. She still wasn't planning on sharing, but she'd humor him until her roommate came home. That was another disappointment. Her roommate was coming home. Not that she had anything against Kara-Corra-Whatever her name was but the whole alone thing would be lost even further once she arrived.

[Lucas Blacke]

Luke nodded slightly, not sure if this was such a good idea. But the boy wasn't really one to back down from what he'd said and figured he'd just.. do as he said until Karalie came back.

''The veil.'' He repeated after the girl. It was something he'd hung up in his mind a good 12 years ago and never really felt the need to tear it down aside from special occassions, which he'd only have three of so far. It had him covering up his sadness with jokes and the like, sarcasm where anger should have been. And there was the less fun fact of it having bled through, he wasn't really able to have normal conversations anymore though luckily this was being worked on, and his biggest breakthrough yet was near Karalie.

So it'd only make sense to at try to tolerate her roommates, right?

As the girl put her pizza back down Luke realized he'd gotten what he wanted, though at the current moment it was likely just about being nice to her roommates boyfriend. Not that the boy really cared.. someone to talk to was someone to talk to, right? And on top of that he'd promised to take down the veil so there'd be a lot of talking. Serious talking. At least from his side.

''So..'' He hesitated. ''What's your name?'' He asked as he motioned for the girl to take place on the couch beside him. ''I'm sure Karalie told me, but I forgot.''