A Nice Workout(Serena)

[Louis Scott]

The community gym was sparsely filled as Louis walked in, getting ready for his workout regiment. As he gave a quick glance over the large room his eyes were almost instantly drawn to a very attractive woman running on a treadmill. He stood there for a good five seconds staring at the woman before he gave a silent thanks that his regiment started with the treadmills. Louis then walked on over to the treadmill that was next to the woman, looking her over again, his eyes focusing on two specific areas, before he thought to himself, Holy shit she looks amazing. He then gave a small greeting as he started the machine up, trying to sound friendly and confident, but the little bit of flushing in his cheeks eliminated that illusion, "Hey, never seen you here before."

[Serena Varsair]

Serena had gotten sick of the Hammel campus once again, and decided to walk into town to do her workout in the Pilot Ridge Community Gym instead of around school. She had noticed the place while riding around with Lucas one time, so she remembered it and now she was here, on a treadmill.

Her hair in a ponytail, glasses firmly on her face, black sports bra comfortably hugging her, and grey athletic pants combined with white sneakers gave her a somewhat colorless (especially when her silver hair is added into the occasion) look. And that went with her rather colorless/emotionless mood. Studies were going fine, friends at school were good...nothing was really wrong with anything. Maybe she'd call Lucas later to hang out...

Serena was pulled from her focused thoughts by a boy (a rather cute boy actually, the more she looked at him) who started a treadmill next to her. His cheeks were flushed, so either he had been working for a bit, or he was nervous from what he said to her. Serena gave him a grin and said, "Yeah, first time working out here."

Getting a better chance to look him up and down, she added, "I take it it's not the first time for you, huh?" He had really well-defined muscles, Serena was jealous. With a teasing smile she put her hand up, fingers mostly closed and then let out a breath of air and splayed the fingers, acting like a balloon had grown in her hand, referencing one of his arm muscles. "Wish I could get some muscles..."

[Louis Scott]

Louis gave a smile, still having flushed cheeks, as the girl answered him and gave a response to her question, making his arms flex a little bit while he started running on the treadmill, "Yeah, I've been coming here since I was fifteen." He smiled again at her gesture to him. He had to say her outfit definitely accented her "assets" well, on top of the strange hair color and the fact she wore glasses while she worked out he was seeing why he noticed her so quickly. When the silver-haired girl mentioned that she wished she could get some more muscles, Louis almost stumbled a little bit, not believing that no one had offered to this girl yet, but caught himself and tried to give the most charming smile he could and said, "Well if you want any help, I could give you a couple pointers. Free of charge for a pretty girl of course." Louis added the last part as a joke, not sure if the girl would bite the bait, though he could sense her jealousy and he felt a little safer in his assumptions.

[Serena Varsair]

"Fifteen, huh? Anything I should know about this place?" Serena asked with a cheeky tone, making it clear that there didn't need anything to be known, but she wanted to hear it if it was.

Serena seriously kept glancing at him as she continued to keep up with her pace on the treadmill. Man, he was the best built (and with that cute face and really, really nice looking hair. Serena couldn't believe that jawline was for real...

When he stumbled slightly, she stifled a laugh, a laugh that could no longer be contained when he made his overt flirt. It was a smooth and sweet laugh, its louder volume balanced out by the breathy-ness of her running. "No thanks, cutie. I know how to do it...I just physically can't. It's kinda hard to explain." Not spoken within that sentence was 'And I don't want to explain being a meta if you don't know what that is...'

But she didn't want to let the flirt go unnoticed, especially one from such a good looking guy like this, "But if you can think of something else you could give me pointers on, I'd be happy to listen." She rose her eyebrows suggestively for a moment in case he looked at her at any point.

[Louis Scott]

Louis kept his smile as the girl asked him about the gym. "Well, you'll probably meet some people who come to here for, uh, other things than working out." He said with a slightly suggestive whisper as he looked behind himself and saw a perfect example with a guy and a girl leaning against a wall, being very close together.

Louis's smile became a little less charming and more flustered as the silver-haired girl laughed at him. He knew that what he said wasn't the most original thing, but he didn't think it was that bad. After she told him a little bit about her trouble gaining muscles and about being a meta, he gave her another look over again, wondering how he hadn't seen her or her body at Hammel before. "No need to explain, after all I been to Hammel too. I'm just trying to rack my brain on how I missed you there." He added the last part in a bit to try and flirt with her a little more, after all she looked amazing.

Louis's flustered smile continued and now had the added benefits of flushing cheeks to accompany it as the girl asked him if he could help her with anything else. "Uh, there are massage rooms in the back if you want to receive "pointers" in private." He said in a very flustered tone while placing emphasis on the word pointers. He then got off the treadmill, standing next hers with his hands in the pockets of his gym shorts, trying to give a smile that wasn't as flustered as he actually felt while when he spoke it still showed his feelings of being flustered, "Hey I'm moving on to the next machine. Do you want to come with?"

[Serena Varsair]

Looking in the direction the boy did, Serena smiled, "Huh, look at that. Well, then, I can't blame them. Better than in the middle of the street." Looking at Louis, she gave him a suggestive smile in return and said, "I mean, I could see myself doing that...with the right guy, anyway." Serena chose to leave out that the right guy was a pretty broad catagory. He didn't need to know that...at least not yet.

"Oh, you missed me because I'm new to this school..." Serena took a moment to take a breath before speaking again, this time with a full French accent covering her normal American accent, "I went to the Kocher Institute and transferred here a couple of months ago." She knew he was flirting, and though his confidence was nowhere near where it should be for a guy of his appearance, Serena had to admit he was doing a good job. Then again, any flirting from a guy like him was always a plus for her.

Still, she couldn't help in nearly gasp in surprise when he offered to give her some pointers in a massage room. Though she'd love to see those hands closer to her body, she certainly wasn't in the most flirty mood either, "Whoa there, at least let me work some parts out more, don't want your pointers to go to waste..." She said it in a way that he would hopefully take to know that she was interested, but wasn't desperate (or that easy).

When he got off of the treadmill, she sighed, and replied, "This is normally most of my routine...but I'd rather talk to somebody than work alone. Sure..." She turned down the treadmill, and then jumped off. Serena was nearly 5'10", so she was used to being near the height of most guys she met, sometimes taller. In this case, though, she was looking up, this guy was definitely over 6 feet. "So, where we going, big boy?"

[Louis Scott]

Louis felt his smile grew as the girl mentioned that she wouldn't mind doing "things" if she met the right guy. After all he could be the right guy couldn't he? "Well I hope you find him, heck maybe you met him already?" He tried adding the last part as slyly as he could, though he wasn't the most subtle in how he said it.

After he heard her explanation for why he hadn't seen her before, and after hearing her accent Louis couldn't help but feel a little more attracted to the girl than before, something he didn't think was possible, and decided to say, "That explains it. So, meet any interesting people here yet?" He shook his head as he remembered some of the kids at Hammel and just knew that the silver-haired girl should've met some of them.

Louis looked over at her suddenly as he heard her gasp, he kept a face of confusion for a moment until she started talking, now he had a face that looked like a tomato as blood rushed up. "I didn't mean if you wanted to do it with me, I just meant if there was ever anyone who wanted to ask you about it." He said very quickly, he was clearly embarrassed from what the girl thought about what he meant, so much so that he didn't notice the girl's tone or her interest in him.

Still a little red faced Louis looked down at her face, his eyes sometimes drifting a little lower, after she jumped off her treadmill and, while rubbing the back of his head a little, said in a quieter voice, "Well I was about to go do some bench presses, but if you want to do something different we could do that instead." He didn't mean for it, but he sounded a bit suggestive in how he talked, he couldn't help it he just felt extremely attracted to this girl.

[Serena Varsair]

"I've met many right guys, I might even be talking to one now...I'm not exactly girlfriend material, though," It was a long time since Serena had had such a casual, flirty conversation with one who was interested yet reserved. Flirting with Lucas was...an adventure to say the least...but this guy was nice, and though he was trying very hard...he wasn't trying too hard.

Well, at least from general appearance, dropping in the French accent seemed to get his attention. Usually guys found it more attractive, so as best as she could, she kept a bit of it in, as she shifted back to American. "Powers? Very interesting. People? Here and there." She paused before giving him a smile and raising her eyebrows, "Most interesting have been off-campus..."

The redness in his face made her cover her mouth, laughter still escaping from her anyway. His embarassment was adorable. He was trying so hard to be careful around her, she couldn't help it. Her eyebrows were up high in just pure joy at the moment, and she replied, "Are you kidding, I'd love to do it with you...I just...oh..." She laughed again, a small sweet one. "You're a...you're...your face seems rather hot."

When she stopped her short bout of laughter, she removed the hand from near her face, and said to him, happyily, "My name is Serena, what's yours?" She was this close to calling him strawberry, but stopped herself short.

His bravery was ticking up slightly, and though Serena hadn't initially been in a flirty mood, the more she talked to this handsome boy, the more she wanted to know about him. Namely what he looked like with a bit less on... "Well, you mentioned massage tables...can you bench press...oh, I don't know, about 125 lbs..." She let her body drift a few inches closer to his, so he could get an idea of the response his suggestive suggestions were getting.

[Louis Scott]

"Oh, well you don't seem like you'd be a bad girlfriend, in fact I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to date you?" Louis said a little bashful in his attempts to pay even more compliments to the girl. He had never been much of a flirt, and even when he did it was with the same flustered and somewhat corny lines that he had already said, so the way this girl had been reacting to him had caused a bit of a confidence boost in the boy from Washington.

As he listened to the silver-haired girl talk about some of the things and people she'd seen since coming hear he couldn't help but lean against the treadmills, feeling even more tingly now that he heard the girl's accent flow into her voice a little more. When she mentioned the most interesting people she's met have been of school grounds, he smiled showing the whites of his teeth and asked, "Anyone I might know? After all I was at the school for nearly five years, maybe I could tell you some things about them."

His face got a little redder as he listened to the girl laugh for a few moments, some of her joy infecting him and made him smile sheepishly. He felt the blood begin to rush back to the rest of his body as he listened to her speak a little bit, he kept rubbing his head while talking, "Thanks, I guess," his face began to get a little bit of blood returning to it, but still less than earlier at her comments as he kept talking, "Sorry, I'm not very good at this."

As she finally finished laughing he perked up as he felt her happiness, glad he could at least make her feel happy. After she told Louis her name he smiled, more brave than earlier, and said, "Well Serena, my name is Louis. I've got to say I've never heard a name like yours before." To him it just felt like it added more exotic features to Serena.

When she asked about how much he could bench press, Louis smiled and patted his right bicep as he flexed it before he responded, not quite getting her intent, "125 is easy, I can go at least 30 pounds more than that." He figured out quickly his mistake as Serena moved closer to him, getting an even better look than before of her body. He began to move an arm a little bit closer to her, silently asking permission if it was okay to put an arm around her.

[Serena Varsair]

Serena laughed. Yes, she was a bad girlfriend. "You don't see, huh? Well, let me try to explain..." She trailed off with a grin as she put together the exact phrase she wanted in her mind, "Let me put it like this. I don't have boyfriends...I have boys who are friends, and I'm very affectionate with my friends...I'm no stranger to dates, I'm just a stranger to romance."

Hesistant to mention Lucas, as she wasn't sure how well he went over while he was at Hammel, Serena only said, "I don't know. Honestly I don't think I want to know anymore about them than I do..." That was a lie, but she was trying to steer the conversation away from that topic quickly. Plus, she was getting focused on him, and she wanted to know more about him. That was the truth.

Though Louis seemed deeply intrigued by her name, she made him wait just a moment to say, "Oh, I have an uncle named Louis. That get you bonus points..." Stretching her arms out she added, "I mean, Serena isn't very common, I guess. My name isn't period. Serena Aurora Varsair. I sound so French it hurts..." Though she said most of that sentence with mostly her French accent, to make it funny and hopefully get the boy to laugh, more than anything else.

Laughing when he didn't initially realize what she meant (and proceeded to show off his amazingly well formed bicep) Serena quickly replied, "Well, that's good, wouldn't want it to be too hard for you..." His body language indicated he might be trying to put an arm around her, and she shifted her body and neck in a non-verbal yes. It had been awhile since someone just casually held her outside of a bed. Plus, she wanted to feel those muscles better. What? A girl can be girly sometimes.

[Louis Scott]

Louis frowned a little as Serena explained why she thought she wasn't girlfriend material, he couldn't really see how anyone could be a stranger to romance as she put it. He also gained a bit of a blush as she mentioned being affectionate with her friends, this blush remained on his face as he said, "Well, you must have felt something for at least one of them right? If not maybe you haven't met the right person yet." He added the last part a little suggestively, but not very subtly as it was fairly obvious from his tone as to what he meant.

Louis could feel the French girl's hesitation, sensing a little more as she spoke he decided it was probably best to steer clear of the issue, he had already spent seven years in a school filled with teenagers that had drained him emotionally from sensing their problems and he didn't need that again, so he spoke quickly, "Ok. Well, if you ever change your mind you can ask me about anyone."

Louis smiled at her when she mentioned he got bonus points for his name, he then focused on her a little more as she started stretching, trying to look at her without appearing to distracted from her. He almost missed when Serena started talking as he stared at her for a few moments longer before he suddenly shook his head and gave a small laugh as he thought about what she said. Her name definitely was a strange one to him, but he didn't really care that much, if she was fun to be around and didn't mind his flustered behavior near her then they could probably be good friends. "Well, I've got to say your name might not be common, but I think it's really beautiful and it suits you." Louis said with a small blush on his face as he paid the girl yet another compliment.

He looked down a little as Serena laughed at him, he knew he had just missed a perfect opportunity to flirt back with her a he had blown it. He smiled sheepishly as he spoke, "Yeah, not a lot of physical stuff is that hard for me." When he saw that Serena had given him permission to hold her, he debated where to put the arm, around her shoulders or her waist, before finally choosing to try and slip the arm around her waist. He hoped that she wouldn't find it to forward of him to do so, or that confidence he had been building might just come crashing down.

[Serena Varsair]

What an interesting question. Most guys weren't asking Serena about the boys that she had a physical relationship with if she had feelings for them..."Oh, I've felt many things for most of them. Affection, friendship, lust, happiness, sadness, desire, guilt, anger, fear...you know, the whole range. Just not love."

She paused and looked down, but spoke loudly enough for him to still hear, "I want to give everything I can to my friends, but a vow to be only theirs...that I can't do..." It was a little deep...and oddly a bit further than she honestly wanted to go, but given how this meeting was turning out, he deserved to know.

Louis laughing made Serena feel much more at ease about her French name joke. It was such a non-American name, and it really stood out, but she loved it, and was glad she could at least make him laugh about it. "Well, thank you very much, Louis...so...I've shared a bit about me...how about you share a bit about you?" The near constant variations of blushes and redness to his face were very amusing to Serena.

"Well then, you should enjoy me...some of my friends would call me 'Energizer Bunny'..." Serena said with a laugh as she let him put his arm around her waist, very happy to feel skin on skin contact. Maybe she was feeling a little flirty after all. At the very least, he was adding color to her gray day. "I just keep going...and going...and going..." She added in a slightly flirty way, adding a bit more French accent and excitement to each instance of going. She let her arm go to the backside of his waist as she drew herself closer to him, letting her fingers go slowly and gently up and down the back muscles.

[Louis Scott]

Louis frowned a little as he listened to Serena talk about her relationships with the boys she's met, not to mention the fact he began feeling some of those things as she spoke. He thought that she must've had some problems with a relationship, he couldn't see any other reason why anyone wouldn't feel love for at least one person. Still, she looked a little down, so he decided to put a bashful smile on his face and say, "Eh, I guess it might be a good thing I'm not ready to settle down with one person yet, we can try to talk with each other without a lot of those things."

Louis kept up his smile as Serena asked about him, he was beginning to sense that she was feeling pretty good about something that he assumed was him. "Some things about me? Well, my full name is Louis Scott, I'm from Seattle," he blushed a little before adding, "And I find the person next to me very attractive." As soon as he said it Louis felt his cheeks burn even more, he realized it was one of the most shameless flirts that someone could ever say, and he hoped that Serena wouldn't mind how bad it was.

Louis smiled a little more as his arm finally slipped around Serena's waist, along with gaining an increasingly red face. He shuddered a little feeling the French girl's own arm rubbing his back as he listened to her talk about her nickname. "Energizer bunny? I'd like to see that for myself." He added the last part as she began speaking in her accent again, making it harder for him to think about things that weren't oriented towards her. He hesitated for a moment, uncertain if he would come off as weird, before he decided to rub his hand over the exposed areas of her back, blushing the entire time.

[Serena Varsair]

Serena smiled in return to Louis, thrilled at what he said. Honestly, she had met plenty who were interested in her and flirted with her, and were thrilled with the no strings attached attitude. But this guy was okay with it only because she was, and was happy to talk about it with her. "Well, a lot of those things come up for me anyway...I definitely know at least one has come up for you..."

The silver-haired girl took the compliment with a grin, "Well, Louis Scott from Seattle, I find the person next to me to be very attractive myself..." The flirt was terrible. It was obvious. And he was so adorable about it, she was dying on the inside. That's why she returned it, she wanted him to know that she wasn't opposed to what he was saying...

Accent and all, "You show me where that massage room is, and you can..." Serena let her accent hang on every word, making it sound like French speaking only with English words. He was clearly enjoying the accent and she was kinda getting into it. When he decided to run his hand down her back, she tingled and reacted by moving in a little closer to him. The sensations were triggering every bit of her energetic nature, and she couldn't help herself...using her hand on his back for support, she leaned up and if he didn't move away, she would plant a kiss right on his lips. Those sweet lips on that horribly blushing and very adorable face.

[Louis Scott]

Louis kept his smile as he felt Serena’s excitement, some of the feeling slipping then began to slip into him. The feeling causing him to get a little fidgety as he listened to her talk about some of the emotions she felt for guy friends, blushing slightly at her last sentence as he said suggestively, “If it's the one I'm thinking of then I feel the same.”

Louis felt a flow of relief through his body as he felt the French girl’s amusement along with her words, she didn't think of him as overly forward meant he could let some of the blood flow back through the rest of his body. “Thank you, Serena Aurora Varsair from France, and I hope that I can show you what I like to do with people I find attractive.” Louis said as all the blood that went back down came rushing back to his face, in all honesty it was surprising to him how hadn't gotten light headed from such quick blood flow.

Louis felt certain parts of his body beginning to react to Serena as she continued to speak in her French accent, and he was going to respond to her when he felt her move closer to him. He looked partially confused for a moment before he felt her lips brush against his own, blushing harder than ever before as he slipped his other arm around her waist, pulling her tighter to him as he kissed the silver haired girl back.