Don't Bother Trying (OPEN)

[Adrianna Carstyn]

Giving up never really seemed to be in Adrian's vocabulary. She'd always tried hard to stay with what she was doing. She could handle anything growing up and stick with it. No matter how hard things got, she always was determined to fix it. It was something she'd picked up from her stubborn mother. They were the same way. So, giving up was something that never crossed her mind.

Well until she'd lost one of the most important people in her life.

She'd given up on trying. Why bother after all when all that happened was her getting hurt? She should have been expecting it to come to this. She should have known. It didn't matter though. What's done was done. He left her and he now wanted nothing to do with her. Not exactly something she was happy about, in fact she'd grown distant since then. Not really socializing unless it was necessary. Except for when she'd gone running, but she was merely talking to the boy to be polite. She had no desire to talk with anybody anymore.

People were cruel and she was tired of being the punchline to some sick joke. Every person that had ever downed her were right about her. That's where her thoughts had headed. She was truly starting to believe that all the people that hurt her intentionally were right.

The hardest thing to admit to herself was that even the one person she hated more than most was right as well. Zac had called her out on her failures and now she knew he was right about everything. But why did he have to be right about everything? Was she really that predictable? It appeared to be true, and yet she hated it. Adrian refused to ever speak the admittance out to anybody besides herself.

She sat down at the lake in the cold December weather, days after her lonely Christmas. No one to talk to, no one to bother her. She simply sat alone and stared unseeingly across the lake. Her nose was bright red and her lips trembled, but she didn't feel the cold. She'd become numb.

[Melodee Riker]

There was something perfect about the way Winter settled in Vermont. In the city in New York the snow was not quite so white, it wasn't nearly as peaceful. This was what Winter was supposed to look like, as far as on red headed privileged girl was concerned. The Hammel grounds and the surrounding Pilot's Ridge were quite vast and offered many opportunities for one to simply enjoy the quiet and the snow.

Though not quite so quiet as she would have previously thought. Nor quite so alone. There was a lone figure at the lake's edge. At least they'd had the sense to bundle up, but why...

Unable to allow the opportunity to pass, and with her previous difficulties wooing her dorm mate, Mel moved forward, hoping the crunch of the snow beneath her boots was enough to alert the other to her presence. In case it wasn't enough, she also called out.

"Hello," offering a smile as she reached the other's side. "Beautiful isn't it?" a gloved hand gestured towards the lake, the edges of which were frozen, with the promise of freezing further. "Ice skating might be possible in the New Year."

[Adrianna Carstyn]

Adrian didn't jump at the sound of feet that came closer to her because she had felt the effects of her power picking up the Clairaudiance feeling. It was new and had she been in a better mood, she would have been excited to see who held such a power. Well since she was in such a mood as this, she didn't even look up at the sound of the younger girls voice.

She knew it was the polite thing to do, talking, but really she just wanted to be left alone. Unfortunately, she was too polite to not say anything. "It is pretty. Ice skating would be pretty fun. I've never done it before." She looked up at the younger girl and placed a smile on her face.

"I'm Adrianna, power mimic." She said quietly. Had it been a non-powered human, she wouldn't have added the second part, but she knew the girl was a meta, so she felt the need to answer the question that would surely be asked.

The redhead was pretty and she seemed to be nice enough. Adrian did need more friends that were girls and she got along with younger kids so maybe she'd get lucky. Fifi was the only real girl friend she had. Other than that, she had mostly guys to go to. She didn't mind it though. Then again, she was one guy short now. The thought made her grit her teeth, but she'd looked away before the girl saw.

[Melodee Riker]

"It's a wonderful feeling. I imagine it's quite like flying low to the ground. Or swimming through air. There's quite a bit of falling in the beginning, but once you find that center of balance it's fabulous." Melodee offered her own smile to the older girl. She looked sad, and there was always a story behind why someone was sad.

It wasn't a story she wanted to hear presently, and she would avoid the topic for as long as she could. There were other ways to distract the girl. Casual chatter, for example. And if she wanted to be so free with her power ability then so be it. Not that it mattered one whit to Melodee within the first few sentences. It did, however, offer her another line of conversation to follow.

The ever observant Melodee didn't miss the flexing of the cheek and jaw before the girl looked away. That either meant she was swallowing a lump in her throat or clenching her teeth. Either way she was trying to ignore something painful.

"Well if that's the case, Adrianna, then you already know what I can do." God, was she really going to have to sit on the ground in her Daryl Coat. It was a distasteful idea, but the coat could be dry cleaned. So she sat, her legs stretched out before her, heels of her boots pointed at the lake. "It must be exciting through, to gain a new power whenever you're near someone else. How does it work when you're in a group? Does it constantly swap around?"