Didn't Think I'd Turn Around

[Danicca Waylan]

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Dani had been avoiding Robbie like the plague. It seriously was harder than she thought. Despite their moments of being friendly, Robbie had thrown anything positive Dani thought about him to the dark, tear-it-apart corner of her mind, and she had avoided him to avoid going to jail for murder. It was harder than she thought, staying away from the blonde boy. On top of the Jared-AJ situation, and her new job, and her brother, and Moe, and... Okay, there was too much to list. But on top of all that, at the forefront of her mind, was a certain blonde boy. She needed to deal with him somehow. For now, it was looking like avoidance was her best bet, even though that meant ducking behind people who hated her to avoid his gaze, and jumping into closets when she heard him calling her. She'd wait, her heart pounding in her ears, her face red with the shame of being unable to face him like she could everyone else, until she was sure he was gone.

She'd rather get detention for taking a foil to him, to be honest.

She was doing her normal lunch thing, which was get food, stick to wall, plunk down at the lonely, ill-lit table in the far corner to scribble in her notebook, and nibble on whatever food there happened to be on her tray. She was doing great, knowing that Robbie never looked for her in the cafeteria, probably didn't know she even ate like normal people, and so she was relaxed, her guard down as she tried to figure out angles and materials for a floss-tripped toothpaste cannon. Oh, math. How those kids that think you'll never be used for anything are wrong. Dani would make fun of nerds, but really she loved math. It was great for her pranking.

Her boots were kicked up onto the table, her chair tilted back some. She was just really getting into the numbers when a shadow blocked what little light she had. She looked up, about to tell whoever it was to go eat in the library or the art room like all the other socially stunted, but her words caught in her throat and she narrowed her eyes, a menacing hiss making its way through her teeth even as her stomach dropped. "Go die."

Robbie was so going to get his head ripped off in ten, nine, eight...

[Robbie Wilkes]

No Estelle. No Jared. No Evan. No Levi. And now no Dani.

Robbie didn't realise his whole circle of friends would just wither away just because of some stupid part of a pretty epic prank he wasn't even part of. He didn't even look through the slideshow; mostly because Zac was already pulling him away and he thought it was a gross invasion of privacy. Not to mention seeing PDA icked him out.

But losing Dani as a friend had been unexpected. Well, he didn't lose a friend...she just suddenly started avoiding him. Like he was the plague or something. So he decided to just eat up his pride and say sorry. Even though he had no idea what he did wrong.

As important as it was for him to have someone at least on his side, even if it was the girl he loved to tease and sometimes nastily joke with, he was still hungry so he went to the cafeteria and grabbed a bowl of lasagna and a cup of jello before looking for a seat.

That was when he saw Dani. "Waylan!" He pointed to the girl before dropping the tray on one of the nearby tables to run towards her. She didn't seem to have heard him shout and as he loomed over her, he raised an eyebrow when he saw her doing Math. Geek.

Her words didn't sting as much as she probably intended but before she could do or say anything else, Robbie apologised.

...well, as much of an apology Robbie could muster anyway.

"Look Waylan. I don't know what the hell I did but I'm sorry okay? Now can you please stop avoiding me and talk to me?"

[Danicca Waylan]

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...seven, six, five...

Dani glared hatefully at Robbie. She was very close to losing it. He should be glad she's not allowed to bring her foil to lunch, because if the rules allowed otherwise she'd be tackling him and stabbing his eyes out through his mouth. Thinking this, her eyes flickered to his mouth, then back to his eyes. He was an idiot, but she had to admit, he was a good kisser. That wasn't enough of a redeeming quality to get her to forgive him right away, though.

Dani shook her head disgustedly. "Wilkes, you have got a freakin' death wish. You know what you did?" She spat the words at him, leaving no room for him to respond before she was off again. "You helped LaRousse. You could've done anything else. But no, you're LaRousse's bitch, you do whatever he asks. I mean, if you wanted to pull an epic prank you could have come to me and we could've figured something out." Dani honestly believes that this all could have been avoided if it weren't for Zachary. To Dani, Robbie wasn't to blame for making Moe cry. And she couldn't really care any less about the rest of the student body, but the fact that Robbie was her friend (one of her only two friends) and he did something that stupid without even thinking about her, instead just blindly following Zac? That was a painful one.

She didn't have tears in her eyes (she never cried, ever) but she did have a terrible shaking in her voice, something that could be chalked up to fury. She slammed her notebook down on the table, something that would have made the entire population of the room jump and watch had they not been staring already. There had been suspicion that Dani was involved in preparing the slideshow involved in the annual Talk, but most knew the exact people involved, and any remaining suspicion would disappear when rumor of this little interaction got around. When Dani stood straightening, her entire five feet of girl (plus some extra that she insists is more than a quarter inch--that measuring tape is off!) shaking, her dark expression looking downright scary to the onlookers.

She leaned up until her face was an inch from Robbie's, her dark eyes glaring directly into his. "Listen, Sunshine. I'll forgive you, but you better give me a damn good reason. None of this 'because I'm cute' or 'I didn't know this would happen' bull. You tell me right now why I shouldn't take the pen in my hand and stab your trachea by way of your ear." Dani let that sink in, then let herself relax, stepping back and looking at him tiredly with a faint smirk. "That enough talking for you, Sunshine?"

[Robbie Wilkes]

When she revealed the reason why she was angry, Robbie groaned quite audibly. People were starting to stare and as much as he had gotten used to attention, these stares made him very uncomfortable. "Are you kidding me? That happened like...two weeks ago. It's ancient history. I'm serving my time. Are you trying to remind me what a fuck-up I am?" He asked, his tone surprisingly calm.

"Wait, are you saying you're mad because I didn't go to you, oh supreme prankmeister?" His tone held sarcasm but deep down he kind of understood. She felt betrayed because he didn't include her. He understood that very well. His sense of loyalty to Zac was indeed unwavering and he would go to the ends of the world if the Asian heir just asked. But Robbie still had allegiance to four other people whom he cared deeply about. And Dani was one of them. Or rather she should have been. He shouldn't have kept her out of anything because despite their rather odd pairing, Robbie did care what Dani thought.

Much like how Estelle's hatred was killing him inside, being completely avoided by Evan and in little parts Jared and JD sucked like hell. Did he realise he would lose his closest circle of friends for what he didn't do? Hell no. And he had a creeping suspicion that he deserved it. He was starting to feel completely sorry for even taking part in it. He still didn't blame Mia or Zac for not telling him the entirety of the plan but the damage was done. It wasn't like he could ask a time controller to turn back time and do it differently. Barring the slideshow, he still thought the prank was awesome. It was supposed to be harmless fun.

Suddenly, Robbie felt tired of defending himself. The pen to the trachea sounded like a much better plan than being yelled at by Dani, being given cold stares by Evan and not seeing Estelle at all. Sighing, Robbie ran his fingers through his hair and shrugged. "I can't give you a reason let alone a damn good one. I'm not sorry for going through with the plan. I thought it was epic. I'm sorry that I didn't include you though. I wasn't thinking about involving anybody else and I knew I was gonna get in trouble and I didn't want you to too."

He paused and inched backwards from Dani's table. "So uh...sorry."

[OOC: OH MY GOD EMOTASTIC ROBBIE I SO SORRY >_<]

[Danicca Waylan]

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Dani continued to glare at Robbie. While a tiny part of her(okay, a very large part of her, but the part she didn't want to listen to right now) was telling her that he had a point and that she was holding onto this for far too long, the rest of her snapped for that part to shut up. It still nagged at her. She sighed, her tone changing from murderous to simply irritated. "Sunshine, you don't need me to remind you what a fuck-up you are. I'm pretty sure the rest of the student body drove that point home with a punch and some hate mail." A dry smirk flashed across her features for a moment, and she waited for his reaction to her knowing about that. It was kind of hard to not know about things that kept getting thrown under and through the door to the room that they shared. At one point, Dani had come home to an amature trap that involved a very visible trip wire and a bucket of something that smelled extremely chemical. She expected it, welcomed it actually, but would have appreciated a better setup. She took it down before anyone got caught in it, and threw the contents of the bucket on the people she had seen waiting around the corner with a video camera.

That's the thing about living in a place like Hammel--you know where everyone sleeps.

She bristled at his sarcasm, spitting out a response. "That--is not why I... Ugh!" she facepalmed. "Godsdamn WORDS." What she didn't want to say is that he was right--she was actually being jealous of Zac LafrackingRousse getting Robbie's time for something that got the entire population of Pilot Ridge up in arms. Plus, she didn't get how so many halfway non-stupid people ended up joining that complete idiot's ranks and getting into all kinds of unneccesary crap. She gritted her teeth. At this rate she would grind the things down by 30.

Dani blinked in surprise, her face going blank. She'd expected him to fight back, or to defend himself. That was... rather off. She stared at him in confusion for a moment, then set her pen down on the table. "Robbie, wait." She didn't know she was going to say it until it came out of her mouth, and then she didn't know what to say next to make that sound less like an acceptance of his apology. Especially because it kind of was. So she swallowed her pride for just a second so that she could talk without cussing him out. "I guess I can forgive you or something. Just start thinking before you do something stupid, since I can't ask you to not do anything stupid. That's like, your whole being." Yes, she just called Robbie stupid. But at least she didn't completely shut him down and send him packing, so he should take what he can get. And besides, it was her one attempt at returning to their usual banter.

She kinda missed the kid.

[Robbie Wilkes]

Dani's smirk was somewhat a welcome gesture from all the glares and hissy fits he received from the rest of the Hammelites and that was saying something since those glares and hissy fits were...dramatic to say the least.

Speaking of things thrown, he realised the fact that he truly felt sorry for making Dani feel excluded was significant in the way that he was throwing away his pride right now by apologising at all. Which sort of made him really upset as to why he couldn't have been this way with Estelle. His best effing friend. Damn it, he missed her.

When Dani sputtered out a response to his earlier words, Robbie couldn't even feel smug about it. All he felt was remorse and that was not something he liked feeling. Well, this was exactly why he never intended to have people he cared about in the first place. Emotions freaking sucked.

Robbie paused from his moving and breathed softly when Dani 'accepted' his apology. A small smile was teased out before Robbie shoved Dani by her shoulder. "Thanks." He said before shrugging. "Um...I'll see you in the room? I don't...wanna let any more people see us talking. They'll think you actually like me." He chuckled and raised a hand before walking off.

[Danicca Waylan]

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Dani agrees with Robbie on at least one point there: Emotions freaking suck. This is and her pride keep her from expressing her real ones, the fact that she doesn't want to be left out because she actually does like Robbie, and doesn't want him to keep doing things without her. She has approximately two people that don't want to maim and/or kill her because she made a joke at their expense, and she likes to think he's one of them. Also, she doesn't pull things on him often because he is, in her terms, "cool with me(insert shrug here)". So it actually hurt her a little when he said "they'll think you actually like me" because dude, she did actually like him. Instead of telling him that, though, she rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, Sunshine, see you later." She knew she would get over it, and maybe he would too.

That evening, back in the room, she told Robbie he'd be having lunch with her tomorrow. No negative answers allowed.

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