Pretty in pink [Ty]

[Avery Sainsbury]

The previous day had been long; it was full of meeting a new person and wondering about the snow that was supposed to come. It was nice for Avery to wait for the weather instead of creating it, trying to keep her emotions under control was the worst part about her ability. Her headache from making it sunny the other day finally subsided and now she just wanted to relax. After all it was about that time of day, and she knew exactly where she wanted to go too, the student Lounge. Besides her outfit begged to just be a comfy day, definitely a lazy day outfit . After putting her hair up in a messy bun she decided to head to the lounge and just read her book, or maybe write in her journal, she wasn’t all to sure yet. Just in case she met any nuisances she had also grabbed her pink I-pod to cover any encounters with people like Zach. Diligently, Avery packed her purse with her notebook, a new book she had borrowed from the library and her pretty in pink I-pod. Then got on her boots and headed out the door, anxiously awaiting her arrival at the student lounge.

Walking in she looked around for any people she might know or might not want to run into. Nodding to herself in approval she stepped threw the door way, blowing up a piece of hair that fell into her face, sighing as she found the chair she wanted to sit in. It was what Avery considered to be the most comfy chair in the whole lounge and she was glad that it was vacant and available for her to cozy into. Walking over she sat down; putting her purse in front of her and taking out the book she borrowed. Soon Avery curled her legs up and opened her book ready, leaving her purse in front of her not paying attention.

[Thyme Ersilia]

For once, things were starting to look up. Training was becoming easier, thanks to the help of Raphael and Taitum, and now he began to feel like a normal boy for the first time. He could walk around without as much of the paranoia that had often kept him from even attempting to do anything fun. Instead of trying to completely contain his powers as he usually did, he let it out in short bursts, which were completely harmless and took the strain off of him. It was a fantastic method really, and he wondered why he had never thought of it before.

The boy walked through the halls, every once in a while playing with one of the lights above him as a way to release the electricity within him, and made his way into the student lounge. Ty didn’t really have anything to do there. He mainly just wanted to see who was there and…um..socialize; anything really. He was just glad to finally feel a sense of security that he had not had since before the birth of his powers. However, as Raphael had said, he could always hurt someone, so despite his newfound confidence, he was still going to have to be careful.

As he looked around, he was a bit disappointed to see a girl in the best chair in the room, but he sat in the next best seat, eyeing her as she read her book and did not say a word.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Brushing a hair form her face Avery caught a glance of the boy just looking at her. Slowly she looked over at him smiling with a slight blush, not sure what is wrong. “Um…hi…I’m Avery…” A thought of maybe something was clinging to her shirt or her hair was messed up came to her mind. Re-situating herself she sighed hoping she fixed her shirt then she ran her hand threw her hair trying to fix it in case it was messed up. “Was I disturbing you? If I was I’m sorry” The blush still visible on her cheeks as she gave him her I’m embarrassed smile. Avery doggy eared the page of her book as she closed it and placed it on her lap. Turning to face the boy she was a little creeped out, if she can call it that. He made her slightly nervous just looking at her like that.

[Thyme Ersilia]

Ty smirked a bit as the girl realized he had been staring at her, but she did not call him out for his rudeness and rather apologized instead. She introduced herself, and a blush formed on her face in embarrassment. He found it rather cute, but wondered why she would apologize instead of asking him why he had stared. Thyme rested his head in his hands, supporting himself on the arm of the chair.

“Nope. Nothing wrong”

Ty actually found it amusing to get under her skin the way he was, and he continued to stare at her as if it were completely all right. Perhaps he was becoming somewhat sadistic...or maybe he was simply becoming more like Taitum...

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery got goose bumps all over her skin, she could feel them forming and the thought of looking atrocious to someone was freaking her out. After all why was he just staring, it was as if she was made of glass. Was she doing something wrong? Why was he just staring at her like that? Question kept popping up in Avery’s head wondering what was going on and if this boy would ever stop. She just looked at him still blushing, hopes of controlling her creeped out emotions lingered in the back of her mind. This was one of the few times she was actually creeped out, she didn’t know what would happen if her emotion got out of control. Avery was glad that she had her ability almost under control. She hoped that this wouldn’t be one of those times where it happened to control her ability. Slowly she tried to calm herself down, just thinking that he was goofing around, though as she studied his face it was weird. Not that he looked weird it was more like the expression on his face was weird, at least to her. To a person who wore their emotions on their sleeves like Avery it might be strange to peer into a face that had an emotion they couldn’t read.

Swallowing a deep breath she tried to calm herself further down, feeling as if she had to approach the situation like she approach LaRousse. He didn’t need a first name because she knew who she was referring to. Then it hit her, looking at him was like looking at Zach when she had made the hail come into the windows of the lounge. Shock and slight fear appeared on her face as the blush started to dissipate. The fear of causing something like that again weighed heavy on her, Memories from her past impacted her emotions more than she should have let them. “Please stop staring at me…I don’t like it and you remind me of LaRousse and I don’t want a repeat of that incident if you don’t mind, boy I have never met before.” She hated to be blunt and she had hoped that she didn’t hurt his feelings but it was the only way she could convince herself that she would never make the same mistake twice.

[Thyme Ersilia]

It did not take long for Ty to see a drastic change in the girl’s personality. She was a fickle thing, wasn’t she? One moment, she was shy and bashful, the next, she was irritated and blunt. All he had done was stare, but it seemed to stir something within her, and he smirked even more in curiosity. It was as if she had seen someone entirely different rather than him.

Then, the name was uttered. LaRousse. Thyme had heard many things, and even though he did not personally know the Asian boy, he knew that anyone who made his cousin Sage twitch just from the mentioning of his name, he must have been bad news.

“I don’t know LaRousse, but I can tell you I’m nothing like him. You really shouldn’t jump to conclusions. And by you mentioning this ‘incident’ you don’t wanna repeat, is that you implying that you want me to ask?”

He leaned forward, watching her carefully for her answer.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery gauged his reaction and when he had asked her the question she immediately shook her head. Bad memories were filling her brain and she didn’t want them to be blurted out. The fact of her lack of control for her ability in those times was frightening to her. On some level she was terrified of her ability, even to this day. She knew that if she let fear and anger consume her she would cause a a hurricane again, and pure anger and hatred made it hail. She even knew that if she became to happy the sun would become intolerable, her ability seemed to be a monster to her something she yearned to control. “Lets just say my ability isn’t so pleasant all of the time. It can be scary for me when I let my emotions control me….” With a sigh she looked down almost deep in thought and then looked back up at him, all shyness and fear gone from her face. “If your nothing like him why were you staring so intently at me and what is your name? Like I said I’m Avery…” Placing her hands on her legs trying to relax as best as she can she just looked at him wondering what he was thinking.

[Thyme Ersilia]

The girl seemed to only get more frustrated at his question, but he hadn’t expected her to suddenly go on about her abilities. Was that the supposed ‘incident’ that had occurred? Her powers slipping? It wasn’t unusual around here, and he had had certainly had his own times of weakness.

“You act as if you’re the only one with unpleasant abilities. You’re here to train and learn, like all of us, and I suggest if you wanna control your powers, you could start by not getting so upset over someone staring at you”

He laughed as she once again tried to understand how he was unlike Zac LaRousse, and he found the question rather amusing.

“Am I really just like him because I stared? You’re not giving me much wiggle room, you know…and if you’re really that upset about it, I’ll just leave. The name’s Thyme, by the way, but everyone calls me Ty”


The boy rose up from the seat, turning away from the girl in preparationt to leave.

[Avery Sainsbury]

With a heavy sigh Avery knew that she was in the wrong. No matter how much she hated it she knew that she couldn’t compare every guy that reminded her slightly of Zach to make her so upset and rude. “No…I’m sorry Thyme…please stay. Your right I can’t judge a book by its cover and I shouldn’t get worked up but it’s hard when you give me that stare.” Avery shivered as if he was still staring at her.”If you sit back down I’ll…well I’ll tell you why I hate my ability so much if you tell me what yours is. Kinda like a show in tell…” For the first time since they’re meeting Avery gave him a friendly smile trying to ignore what had just occurred. Intently she watched him wondering if he was going to sit back down and talk to her; after all maybe if she got to know this boy she might actually like him. Then she could at least add one more friend to her list of friends and all her current friends would know Avery would enjoy that. “And no you’re not like him because you stared at me it was the way you looked. I just really loath that guy. He even gets to me when I’m even nowhere near him. Seriously I’m sorry” Avery looked up at him as if she was looking at one of her friends, smiling at him with her sincere apology.

[Thyme Ersilia]

He must have said the right things, since the girl’s mood changed quickly back to her shy and kind self. She seemed to feel bad for having judged him, but then again, Thyme had to wonder just how creepy he had come off as. Had he made some kind of strange look? She did say after all that it was the way he looked that really freaked her out. Thyme twitched his nose a bit as if trying to change the shape of his face.

“The way I looked, huh? Maybe I should wear a mask next time. Girls like the mysterious types, don’t they?”

Avery apologized up and down for her behavior, but it really wasn’t that necessary in his mind. She didn’t want him to leave, and he took his seat back on the couch and kept limited eye contact with her as to not freak her out again. She also wished to speak about her feelings about her powers, and Ty decided to be the person she could confide in. After all, didn’t girls also like to talk about their feelings and stuff? He didn’t have very much experience with females, but then again, Taitum would argue that he was hardly manly to begin with.

“Sure. Shoot”

The boy cued for her to continue as he leaned back into the seat.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery shook her head, almost giggling at the girl comment. “not all girls like that. I like straight forward honest guys. Most of the time, mysteries aren’t really my favorite type of books.” Smiling at him once more she nodded.

“Ok so I get angry and I mean really angry and it hails. I get too happy and the sun almost fries everyone. I get scared and mad and a tornado rips threw my house. And when feel all bubbly inside it snows…” Letting out a long sigh Avery wondered if she should continue but she was already this far ahead she figured she might as well continue. “Since I came here I have learned to control it a lot more then I use to. I can actually make the sun shine just a tiny bit brighter, just enough to warm me up but not so much where everyone would be eating boiled fish. LaRousse mad me so mad and furious that I made it hail, the hail came into the lounge and repeatedly tried to hit him. I have never been that mad before. Unfortunately he was fine and I had a headache the size of an elephant.”

Avery took a good look at him and noticed he was trying not to stare, with a slight chuckle she kept looking at him. “It’s ok you know...I won’t make the same mistake twice. I get it that you didn’t mean to freak me out. I just over reacted. Anyway off of my sob story and on to yours. What’s your ability?” Bringing her legs up Avery decided to sit Indian style on the chair, waiting to see if he told her or came up with an excuse.

[Thyme Ersilia]

Thyme was relieved that he was able to somewhat lighten her mood with the joke about mysterious guys. At least she wasn’t accusing him of being creepy anymore, and she went on to speak about all the different emotions and how they affected her. For him, it was a much simpler thing to explain. Rather than all the different outcomes, he had the same for any intense emotion. If he was angry, he would shock someone. If he was sad, he would also shock someone. If he was too happy, well…that should be clear at this point.

“I see…”

He nodded his head, listening to her as she apologized again for overreacting, and she then cued for him to go on with his own ‘sob story’. Ty wasn’t sure he wanted to discuss everything with a girl he had just met, but he would at least tell her about his powers.

“I have electrokinesis. Electricity. Not really fun, and really dangerous, but more controllable as of lately”

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery nodded in response and smiled at him again. She had to admit she enjoyed talking...a lot, even if it was to a complete stranger. “Electricity wouldn’t be a fun ability. I never created lightning and I never want to. One hit and it would possibly kill the person it was aimed at.” Looking him over she decided to be as kind as she could. Not really detecting any bad or good emotions from him but a person who can level with her on the I ‘have a horrible ability’ playing field must have done something that either haunts them or makes them sad. “Would you like the comfy chair? I mean I can switch with you if you want. Honestly it is no big deal.” Avery got up and stood in front of him her head hung low as she waited to see if he would take the chair she offered. Still with her head down she spoke again “My ability got better to you know. I don’t really usually just blurt things out...Anymore that is…but I can see and understand why your ability wouldn’t be pleasant either. When I was brought to Hammel, my family was in a hotel room because of me. I nearly killed my little brother and my parents. That’s why I really don’t trust myself to be able to fully control my ability.” Memories of that night ran threw her head as she thought about the horrible things she had done, and would regret for most likely the rest of her life.

[Thyme Ersilia]

Ty was relieved that the girl couldn’t create lightning. If she were to be able to harness electricity as well, it would be a problem for him. What better conductor was there than another bit of electricity? She seemed to understand the dangers of it though. Ty knew fully well, since he nearly killed his grandmother and himself in a few days time.

She asked if he wanted the comfy chair, and Ty did not really care whether or not he sat there. Avery had been there first, and he shook his head in denial.

“No, that’s fine. The couch is comfortable”

Thyme listened as the girl spoke more about her struggles, and he remained silent all the while. Sometimes it was best to just let a person get out all they wanted to say and be there to tell them that everything was fine and could’ve been much worse.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Giving a long sigh she slightly giggled at the fact she kept going and going like the energizer bunny. Looking back at him Avery smiled, knowing full well that the couch wasn’t as comfortable as he made it sound. “I am so sorry…I keep going on and on. And I know that couch isn’t that comfy. I have sat on it before.” Blushing she brushed a hair from her eyes. Finally noticing that he seems to be a good guy, “So instead of me blubbering on how about you talk for a change?” Avery turned completely in the chair so she could look directly at Thyme without having to keep her head turned; wondering what was going to happen between the two of them, hoping if they would be friends.