Crepuscular Rays (open)

[Lani Hunter]

Lani's head bobbed as the sound pounded in through his earbuds. He hadn't had a day so bright in a while. It was sunny and things had been going well. His payday a few nights ago had let him off the hook for at least a few weeks. So he needed to play catch up in his classes. He smiled a little at that thought; he wasn't going to catch up. Sure he had his book bag with the intention of studying, but it was such a glorious day. He was glad he was dressed in light weight sneakers and jeans and a cozy hoodie. Spring had arrived early and the last dusting of snow had melted but there was a promise of snow later that night. He had a lot to think about. A lot had happened in the past few weeks, besides meeting Adrianna he had also met Martin, or rather as his file said Odion, but he wasn't sure why the man had lied to him but he would find out.

His boss had given him a break and so Lani had all of this time to himself suddenly and had decided that he would try to spend it alone to try to gather his thoughts. He wasn't sure whether or not he liked Martin yet. He certainly was the most frustrating person Lani had met in a while but at the same time he seemed to have a good head on his shoulders. Adrianna, he wasn't sure what he was going to do. He was smitten with the girl, but it terrified him how innocent and dependent she was on people. She trusted too easily and he was starting to wonder if she was afraid of him leaving. His freedom was being threatened and he wasn't sure he liked it. Too much happening at once. His secret was being threatened and his love life had suddenly become more active in the past week than it had in seventeen years.

And to add onto that, he only had a few weeks until he turned eighteen and he would check out of Hammel. If he could of course. He still needed to ask someone about that. Generally Lani wouldn't ask but he had a bad feeling that if he just up and left people might be a little disturbed and come after him, especially since he had made minimal progress in the eyes of his trainer. Lani didn't care; he had enough control, well no that was a lie too. He could figure it out on his own, though. "Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done," He hummed unaware that his hum had actually turned into soft singing. "I was soaring ever higher! But I flew too high!" He shuffled a little thinking about the moves Adrianna had taught him. He was still awful but then again there was no one around... At least that he knew of.

He grinned and did a small air guitar solo. It was rather amazing the kinds of things people will do when they think no one was watching. He fountain and rolling up his sleeve he touched the water and called all the quarters to his hand. He pocketed them and smiled. What? He needed laundry money. He took a penny and started moving it around his hand like a little bird. He looked up and his smile turned to an expression of shock as he saw a person standing there. He pulled out his earbuds and shook his head a little. "Wow, sorry I didn't see you there."

[Belle Harrington]

Belle had spent her day studying within her room, after her last run in in the library she knew she wasn't going back there for a very long time. So after a few hours of studying, Belle felt she needed some time to walk around and stretch her legs. The last time she had gone to the courtyard she had run into a new friend, Kane, the cooking teacher, a man who also shared the same curse of wings protruding from his back. But unlike Kane, Belle didn't have a lizard like tail. So she decided she would take some quiet time alone at the pond.

Belle had recently been playing around with her look. With what she had learned from Romeo Buckland, she was pissed. She hated being the little soft, sweet girl that was pushed around by others. She needed a change, and she needed more than just cutting her hair. So she tried something new. Having purchased some (temporary) pink hair dye, Belle felt like she was a new person. An edgier one. She slipped into her black leggings, and a baggy grey shirt, and made her way out.

Earbuds in, Belle's music taste was still the same. Her outer appearance was different, and she tried her hardest to be as edgy as her appearance, but she would always be one to listen to Taylor Swift or Disney music.

Arriving at the pond, Belle stood back and watched the blonde boy. What a weird, weird boy. She watched him air guitar, and Belle couldn't help but laugh at it. So she watched him. He was probably the most interesting thing she had seen all day. She moved closer as he began to pick some of the change out of the water, and she waited for the boy to notice.

When he noticed her, Belle couldn't help but smile, and chuckle a bit at the boy. Moving towards the water, Belle took a quarter out of her pocket and threw it into the water. "St-stealing people's w-wishes are we?" Belle giggled and flipped her light pink hair.

[Lani Hunter]

Lani cocked his head curiously at the person he was now confronted with. A smile grew on his face, the pink hair was certainly an interesting touch. Certainly not anyone he had met before, he was pretty sure he would remember someone with pink hair. She didn't seem very much like a punk to him though, but then again he had a different definition of punks than most people. Punks were the kind of people that pretended to do bad things but lived with their parents in the suburbs, most dressed the way they though people with street smarts would, but then most drew too much attention and that went against rule number one. The punks Lani was thinking of were more like thugs. He didn't like that word, partially because he was part of that crowd. He didn't like to think of himself as a thug. Though he knew quite a few people worthy of such a title.

He wrapped his headphones around his neck for safe keeping and turned off his ipod. He still had one of the old ones that were large and had metal backs. He could have gotten a new one but this thing was sturdy and had space for another couple hundred songs so he wasn't in any hurry to get the latest fad of touch screens. He personally didn't really like them all to much. They made it too easily to do things by accident. He looked up at the girl again and something caught his eye. Were those wings? If they were Lani was about to be extremely jealous. If there was a power he could have had if he could chose it would be flight, well probably with telekinesis as a close second.

He grinned at her and wondered in the back of his mind if she had a stutter or if it was just that she was shy. The coin made a little plunking noise as it dropped in the fountain. He reached his hand in and caught it before it hit the bottom. "And if wishes were fishes we'd walk on the sea." He held the quarter out to her. He couldn't remember where he had heard that quote before. Probably something he had read, but either way it stuck with him. He really liked it. One shoulder put their faith in wishing. "You shouldn't waste your money on wishes."