Flying Pencils[open]

[Delilah Grande]

Lily stayed in her corner, legs pressed against her chest, the quiet little nymph simply watching as the world around her weaved and sway. Students entered and students left. The TV was screaming out tunes which Lily was trying her damndest to block. No sign of Will. No sign of Sidra. No sign of Noah. She was alone in her corner at a table not so often used and deserted. Her pencil, every now and then, would create a new set of scribbled lyrics on the page.

A song in Italian to sing in the restaurant come the 12th of December when Jet lag had left her and she could help papa bring in a few more customers. This Christmas, like any other, would be not only busy but amazingly profitable for the restaurant. She could hardly wait to start off packing for home. Four more days and she'd be on a plane out of there. Her eyes scanned the page of lyrics before pushing it aside to practice a little more maths.They had a big test tomorrow. Finals.

She was quite looking forward to it. Lily tapped her bottom lip with the end of her pencil before turning her attention to someone walking past. She quickly snapped the pencil from her lips accidently sending it flying off in the very direction the person was walking past. Lily gasped then screamed.
"Watch OUT!"
Lily screamed at the person praying she was just quick enough to stop the collison.

[Lucy Holiday]

Lucy softly hummed along with the song pouring out of her ipod earbuds as she walked through the student lounge. If you listened closely enough you could just make out the melody of Christina Perri's Jar of Hearts. The distracted brunette was making a conscious effort not to belt out the lyrics. Not that she would make anyone's ears bleed or anything. Lucy actually had a beautiful singing voice. She was simply trying not to add to the chaos of television noise mixed with teen conversation and various other sounds native to the student lounge. Unlike some students, Lucy was actually considerate towards those trying to concentrate on various efforts.

At the moment, however - Lucy was having a heard time being considerate. She had a lot on her mind and with Avi nowhere in sight, music was her preferred emotional outlet. Lucy was desperately resisting the urge to stand on top of a table and belt the song out at the top of her lungs. She was about to give in to that urge when something long and narrow came flying in her direction.

The voice shouting out a warning registered in her head just as the object entered her peripheral vision. "Holy smokes!" Out of instinct, she covered her head with her hands and ducked. Her reflexes were a split second off. Fast enough to save her head, but too slow to save her knuckles. The pencil bounced off her hand then fell to the floor with a tiny thud. With a giggle she looked around to see where the voice of concern had come from.

Her eyes fell on the person that had called out to her. She gave the girl a small smile as she bent over to pick the offending object up off the floor. Lucy took it over to her and held it out to the owner. "Geez. Didn't know these things could be so dangerous." The small joke was followed by a cute wrinkle of her nose as Lucy held the pencil as if she were afraid of it.

[Delilah Grande]

Lily gasped when the pencil barely missed the girl bouncing off the girl's hand instead and her own hands shot up to cover her face muttering soft curses at herself in Italian. She peeked through her fingers at the other girl as Lucy moved the pick up the pencil and return it to her. Lily was surprised at the giggle. Lucy could have lost an eye and she was giggling about it? How was that possible. Oh dear God, she was such a clutz for what she continuously did. Sidra was her safety net so with Si not there she was being a disaster area again.

Lily sighed and quickly took the girl's hand instead of the pencil, to examine it, brushing her tender fingers across the girl's knuckles where the pencil had hit.
"I'm so sorry..."
She said quickly but softly as she lifted her eyes to meet the girl's and was quite surprised at how pretty the girl was. Oh wow. If she had gotten the girl in the face! Urgh! Delilah slowly pulled her hands away from the girl's and dropped her eyes to the pencil.

"I didn't hurt you did I?"
Lily could hardly bare to look at the girl she'd nearly injured.
"Everything's dangerous when I'm around. Don't underestimate my powers of chaos. It could mean your life."
Lily muttered a red rosey blush tinting her cheeks.

[Lucy Holiday]

Lucy ruefully realized that at one time her reflexes had been quick enough that she would have easily caught the stray pencil. With the fatigue of chemotherapy that had changed. Just like her sense of taste, her reflexes had become dull and hazy. Of course Lucy let none of her frustration show on her face. As always, she was careful to keep her struggle well hidden. Lucy simply wasn't ready for Hammell to see her as a cancer patient.

"No worries. It happens." Unfortunately her reflexes failed her once more as the girl grabbed the hand that hung by her side instead of taking the pencil. The tenderness of the girl's touch caught Lucy off guard and distracted her from hiding the preexisting damage. From the pencil there was only a small red mark, but beside it a bruised puncture mark between her first two knuckles stood out against her fair skin. Lucy's cheeks flushed a pale red. "Don't worry. You're not the one that hurt me." As she said it, Lucy concentrated on the visual illusion of healed skin. She made certain to use her ability to hide both of the marks since the girl seemed to be so worried.

As Lucy's eyes finally drifted away from their hands, the blush on her cheeks lingered. She was a bit confused by the dramatic claim that the girl made in response to Lucy's attempt at humor. "I'm sure you're exaggerating. You don't look like chaos to me." In fact the girl had a serene beauty in Lucy's opinion. The petite girl giggled lightly. Surely the girl was joking.

[Delilah Grande]

Delilah's eyes snapped to Lucy's hand once more frowning immensely at the damage she'd caused when she'd not been paying attention. Well, even when she had been paying attention, people suffered. It was like a curse following her everywhere. She couldn't stand it anymore. She wished, just once, She could be fairly normal. Act normal. Be normal. Do normal things that girls do instead of the weird freak who made things fall apart around her. Delilah gave a little sigh and lowered her eyes from the hand to the ground before she heard the girl laugh at her words.

Her eyes darkened and flashed up to Lucy. Her lips puckered in determination.
"That wasn't a joke. I was being serious. I'm bad."
Her eyes flashed to the girl's hand to remind herself of the damage she'd done then noticed it was gone. Again, she gently grabbed onto the girl's hand and stared down at it blinking repeatedly. The marks she'd seen from the pencil were now gone. Llily's frown deepened into a perplexed frown as she turned the girl's hand this way and that thinking she might have just missed it.

Then Lily gently leaned down to peek at the girl's palm underneath ther hand. Slowly she righted herself when she saw nothing then allowed her thumb to brush across where she'd seen the mark, her eyes lifting to Lucy once more.
"Why would you do this? There's no need for it. I should have been more careful. You don't have to hide it to make me feel better... Unless! You heal?! You heal real quick don't you!"
Lily started to bounce a little in her excitement.

"Oh God! This means nothing I can do can ever hurt you!"
Lily tugged at the girl's hand lightly patting the seat beside her.
"Sit down! Sit down! I'm Delilah Grande, the transfer student from Italy. Hi! I'm sure I've seen you around... like in my classes or something."
She stopped babbling to breath and her shoulders lifted and lowered as she took a deep breath, big brown eyes buldging with excitement.

[Lucy Holiday]

The giggles faded as Lucy realized the odd girl was majorly serious. One brow quirked as Lucy resisted the urge to continue giggling as the girl labeled herself as "bad." Apparently looks were deceiving. This peaceful looking girl seemed a bit high strung! "Bad. Really?" Disbelief lingered in her voice as she watched the girl eying her hand.

Lucy smiled softly, expecting the girl to make a comment about her cool illusions ability. Once again, Lucy was totally wrong about the girl. Forget high strung, this girl was intense. She actually seemed to feel insulted by Lucy's illusion. "Oh no...I didn't mean..." Lucy's voice was cut off as the girl excitedly rambled on. This was not good. Lucy's eyes widened as the girl began to bounce around and tug on her in excitement. Her lips opened to speak several times, but there was just no room in the string of words to fit an explanation in.

Lucy shook her head to disagree as she moved to sit next to the girl. The giggles returned as Lucy started to set the record straight. "No. No healing. Just illusions. Sorry to disappoint you. I was just...um...trying to show off." Lucy shrugged and held her hand back out for Delilah to see. The pencil mark had returned and Lucy let a few freckles show through. She kept the iv bruise carefully hidden. "I'm Lucy, by the way. Lucy Holiday. We've seen each other in the halls."

[Delilah Grande]

Delilah couldn't help but smile and shake her head at the disbelieving tone in Lucy's voice. What was the point of arguing about it? She was gonna be told to not worry about it anyway. It was just a slight bit of a relieve to hear those words when they were spoken but she still believed that she was dangerous for whoever was around her. She did find a bit of relief in the fact that the whole thing was funny to the raven haired girl. Lily smirked a bit watching Lucy with softened eyes.

She would never stop sending herself on a guilt trip for this. It was all her fault. She was far too dangerous to be anywhere around people. So very very dangerous. Look, even with a pencil she could actually hurt people around her. Lily pouted when the mark returned moving her fingers to trace over the bruise once again before smiling and making a short game of connect the dots with her finger before her eyes flicked back up to meet the other girl's eyes. She slowly pulled her fingers away from the girls hand and nodded.

"I'm Delilah... Delilah Grande. The exchange student and yes. I saw you in the halls with the other thin girl with lighter hair?"
Delilah made a little hand movement, motioning to her own hair.
"You're actually talking to me? You're not scared something else will happen that's bad? "
Lily asked softly glancing down at the freckled skin the girl normally kept covered.

"They're cute by the way... You shouldn't cover them. Freckles are totally in now adays... or so I heard..."
Lily waved her hand nonchalantly flicking her eyes from the girl to her hand again

[Lucy Holiday]

Though they were sitting perfectly still, Lucy found the confusing girl to be a bit difficult to keep up with. She didn't know whether to laugh as the girl introduced herself yet again, or to worry about the girl being frazzled. Lucy just shook her head and smiled. "Nice to meet you, Delilah. The other girl is Avinea. She's my bff." The simple label for Avi felt like it wasn't enough and brought up all sorts of odd thoughts in Lucy's head. That had been happening a lot lately.

Lucy blinked the thoughts of Avi away gently. She smirked slightly at Delilah and nodded. "Yep. I'm still talking to you. I guess I'm a bit of a dare devil." Warrior Princess was her official nickname, but dare devil could work, too. Lucy shrugged it off and looked back down at her hand where Delilah was conducting an inspection. The mark from the pencil was already fading to a light pink. If Lucy wasn't severely anemic at the moment, it probably wouldn't have left a mark at all. Lulu was contemplating that thought when her dangerous companion commented on the revealed freckles.

"Awww...thanks." Lucy studied the pattern of the scattered marks thoughtfully . "I'd actually forgotten those were there until now. I started hiding them for practice and just sorta got stuck in the habit." Lucy playfully poked at them before shrugging again. "So, how do you like it here so far?"

[Delilah Grande]

Delilah was frazzled yes. She'd met someone who actually took the time to talk to her. She'd hardly noticed she'd introduced herself twice already now. Lily wasn't the type to notice these things. There was something about Lucy though. It wasn't just in the hallway where she spotted Lucy. It was other places too. She just couldn't put her finger on it. Where... where ... whe-. Lily gasped and stared at Lucy in surprise. That was it.

"You're in the meta alliance as well. So am I? I'm the girl that showed up late at the meeting. I knew I'd seen you somewhere else before as well. "
Delilah forgot completely that she'd been asked how she was getting on in the school. If only Lucy knew to what ends she was going to impress one particular goth girl that she'd met when she'd arrived here on one pretty ruthless day. When Lily did remember however, she smiled and shook her head lowering her big brown eyes.

"You would not believe me if I told you how I got on here. I met the strangest girl a few weeks ago. "
Delilah smiled softly and glanced down at her work before her before glancing beside her again.
"Did you wanna go grab lunch one day or something in town? It might be fun right? "
Lily blurted out praying that Lucy would consider her offer. She really needed a normal friend and Lucy seemed normal as can be.

Plus she had that cute smile that was kinda infectious. Lily let her eyes wander across the freckles.
"You're lucky to have the power you have. At least it's useful. You can save on make up and clothes. Double bonus unless there's a really bad side effect....?"
Lily knew that great powers had the worst side effects.

[Lucy Holiday]

One slightly thinning eyebrow arched as the girl next to her gasped and gave Lucy an odd look. Lucy had no clue what to expect. This girl was turning out to be pretty unpredictable. Not a bad thing in Lucy's book...just...different. Once the girl explained, Lucy actually gasped and made a funny, excited face of her own. "Oh yeah! I remember you now! Too bad we don't have some sort of super cool secret handshake to greet each other with or something. Maybe at our next meeting." The thought made Lucy giggle. Her comic book obsessed little brother would totally love the whole secret handshake idea.

The connection made Lucy feel even more at ease and excited about meeting this odd girl. Lucy gave Delilah a knowing look and nodded. "Oh, I don't know. Around here you get used to believing pretty much anything. We're all a little odd at Hammel." Of course some were more odd than others and Lucy was a bit curious about which oddity Delilah had run into. Instead of prying, she just smiled and waited to see if the girl would share.

It was a bit endearing how the other girl had blurted a social suggestion out as if she was terrified of rejection. At the mention of food, Lucy's stomach answered Delilah's question before she could. The rumble started out low then built into a noticeable growl. Pandy patted it obligingly with a smirk on her lips. "Sure - anytime. A trip to town sounds good to me, and I'm always up for food." Stupid steroids! As if to further prove her stomach's greedy nature, Lucy dug into her back pocket and pulled out a fruit roll up. Before she tore into the package, she held the little silver tube out to her new friend. "Want one? I've got plenty."

Settling back onto the little couch, Lucy watched thoughtfully as Delilah eyed her freckles. It was always an odd sensation when Lucy discovered a little piece of reality that she had forgotten. She was slightly lost in that thought when Delilah spoke again. With a blink, she cleared her mind so she could respond. "It's a fun ability to have. The side effects aren't too bad. I just get worn out easily when I have to concentrate a lot. Then there's the headaches sometimes. Oh...and I forget things... you know...like I loose little memories of what's real and what's fake." Like freckles on the back of her hand and the real color of the blanket of her bed or that ugly crook in her left pinkie toe. Realizing that she sounded a bit like she was rambling on about herself, Lucy blushed slightly. "But anyway...how about you? What's your ability like?"

[Delilah Grande]

Lily's eyes widened at the idea of a secret handshake and nodded her head making her curls bounce against her cheeks and shoulders.
"Oh we should totally bring that up! The hand shake thing could be one hell of a fantasticly awesome idea."
Lily grinned and already started to think of a combination of different handshakes they could use for the occasion.

Lily giggled at Lucy's words. They certainly were an odd bunch here at Hammel. Funny enough, Lily felt like she finally fit in somewhere. So people were a little wierd around Hammel. That only meant that she was better off where she was. Lucy seemed the most sane out of the mess of people she knew of already. They were all wickedly amusing though and se was thus far, enjoying her time at Hammel. Lily could tell the girl was waiting for her to spil but it kinda felt wrong telling Lucy about a very secretive Sidra.

Lily decided to take a chance and hoped that Lucy would not freak out with the name. She imagined Sidra to be a real bitch to other people.
"You know the gothic girl? Sidra Cotton? We're kinda sorta friends. She's nice once you get under her skin. That sounded totally creepy didn't it?"
Lily winced waiting for Lucy to respond to that bit of awkwardness. At her request for lunch, Lily found it highly amusing to hear Lucy's stomach growl.

Lily giggled a little and watched as the fruitrolls were revealed though shook his head when asked if she wanted one.
"Never really liked dried fruit and you seem like you need it more then I do."
Lily frowned when she heard the side effects of the power that Lucy had. That sounded a bit scary. She was loosing herself each time she used her power, or bits and pieces of herself at least.

Lucy asked about her power and she took a deep breath. This would be embarressing.
"I'm a dreamwalker. I accident or on purpose slip into other people's dreams and get trapped in them. "
Lily tilted her head and watched Lucy to see if she would get a good reaction or a bad one. She really did expect a bad one. Where powers were concerned she'd recieved the short end of the stick.

[Lucy Holiday]

Lucy grinned at Delilah. She was glad that the other girl liked the handshake idea. To be honest, she was a bit afraid the other girl would think it was lame. Most girls Lucy's age thought super heroes in general were lame. It was nice to share her ideas without getting the whole eye roll reaction. "Sweet! Hopefully the others will like it, too." It made sense that they might. Especially since they were all into the super hero thing.

Lucy's brow arched slightly as Delilah shared the name of her odd friend. The petite brunette had always admired Sidra from afar. It struck her as a bit odd that the stand offish Sidra had befriended this awkward girl. Odd, but totally cool. Lucy shook her head. "Nah. That's not creepy. I've always thought Sidra is pretty cool. But I think I annoy her." Lucy laughed and shrugged. She wasn't really sure how the other girl felt about her, but she knew that her own perky personality rubbed a few people the wrong way. At least she wasn't as annoying as her brother, Noah.

Her rounded shoulders shrugged once more as Delilah declined her offer. "Suit yourself." Ripping the package open, she peeled the long red substance away from the wrapper with delight. Lucy's tummy growled with anticipation. She giggled with a slight blush on her cheeks before biting into it. The chewy treat made it a bit difficult to carry on the conversation, causing Lucy to blush even more. Hopefully there were no red bits stuck in her teeth. Lucy kept the description of her side effects as short as possible. She didn't want it to sound like she was complaining.

"Ooo...a dreamwalker! That's cool." That was an ability that Lucy had always been curious about. I mean...dreams could be pretty interesting - and sometimes frightening - things. "So, do you actually get trapped sometimes?" Lucy copied the girl's curious tilt of the head as she took another bite out of the fruit roll.

[Delilah Grande]

Delilah wasn't much for the superhero thing. She was more for the idea of creating a group that could be acknowledged as a possitive thing regarding the whole 'Meta's are evil' concept that people seemed to have. Generally Meta's were believed a myth back home in Italy. The laid back culture there allowed most Metas to slip easily under the radar but she'd heard that America had Meta haters and a lot of them as well. It made Lily more and more fond of the idea of having a group that would generally side with good.

That might give humans the idea that they were ... not all bad. In fact, she'd never heard a bad meta. Then again, she'd never really hear of metas fullstop. The others should like the idea of a secret handshake. They were a bunch of self proclaimed superheroes after all. She was sure she had the lamest power out of all of them anyway. Delilah raised an eyebrow at Lucy and slowly nodded at the comment about Sidra getting annoyed with Lucy.

"Wow, so do I. I annoy her too. "
Lily said in a joking half surprised manner before shaking her head.
"I think she sees a mess she's determined to clean up and polish. I'm her project I think. It's better then nothing. I need friends. Well... I guess with you as well I'm all set."
The two girls couldn't be more opposite. Lucy was soft and friendly. Sidra was hard and ... well unfriendly.

Delilah found amusement in the fact that Lucy was down to earth and relaxed, eating her fruitroll and blushing at the growling stomach. Delilah couldn't help but giggle with her for a moment as she attempted to speak through fruitroll.
"Wow, you look a little like a vampire with red dots all across your teeth. Sidra side effect. Everything starts becoming gothic or darkly. "
Lily teased Lucy smirking.

Delilah quirked an eyebrow when the subject of dreamwalking became of interest. She gave a shudder and nodded her head.
"If they start becoming aware that I'm in their dreams, thinks start attacking me or paying more attention to me and it's really scary. It's called lucid dreaming. One day... I'll show you if you like. I'll pop into a dream of yours. It will be unexpected and you might remember I was there the next morning. "

Dream walking was fun when it was with the right person. A person that knew you and wasn't surprised by the strange face in their dream. Then Lily remembered. Her face lit up with surprise.
"Oh God. The news headlines are on. "
Her brown eyes flashed to the clock on the wall and she scrambled to her feet snapping her book shut quickly.

"Do you uh... watch the news at all? "
Lily asked not wanting to leave Lucy hanging and also not willing to give up watching the news. That was her main priority every single night. She HAD to watch the news.