Woah, Hey! (Mia)

[Noah Washington]

This had been a huge day.

Noah didn't think it would be. He got up at around seven thirty as per usual, begrudgingly threw on his sneakers and went out running with Chase. He spent all day trying to study, but instead really spent the time exchanging messages with Valerie. Really, after a long enough time you would think he'd lost things to talk about. Well, you would be wrong. He drove with Ravyn to the local place he volunteered and they helped out for hours. He sang to some kids, prompted her to join him but she graciously declined. Then she suggested they go out stargazing. Which they did.

And she said she loved him.

It was an awkward drive back but he tried his best not to make it. He wanted to maybe talk to Cam but wasn't sure if this was something to approach him with. He wanted to talk to Valerie but, well, wasn't sure if this was something to approach her with. So walking through the halls of the Co-Ed dorm, he was intent on making it to the boys dorm to simmer in the news alone when he ran into someone who just exited one of the dorm rooms.

"Ow, watch it!" He called out, though served him right for walking so quickly with his head down. He still hadn't opened his eyes to see just who he ran into.

[Mia Bell]

Mia sat on her bed and sighed, she had nothing to do. It was a boring Sunday night, Noah was out with Ravyn or something, and she really wasn’t sure what Fer was doing. It seemed like everyone always had someone better to hang out with than her. Maybe that was her just being a pessimist or just plain complaining. It checked her phone to see what time it was a groaned, it seemed like this day would never end.

The day had been a bit boring for Mia, she got up at five, like she always did to go running, by herself of course; no one wanted to be around her before she completely woke up. Then after that she had started her day at the doughnut shop which she had been thinking about quitting, because she didn’t want the chance to deal with Cameron. Speaking of Cameron, she felt herself slowing getting over the situation. But since it had gone down only a couple days ago, it was still on her mind and it was still a fresh wound.

Mia got up of her bed grabbing her phone, put a pair of shoes on and headed for the door. She needed to get out of her room; she was so tired of being stuck in it most of the time. She was pretty sure Kouji was out with Tak, the mere thought made her roll her eyes. Kouji spent way too much time with that girl. Once she opened the door she made to walk out of her dorm room she ran into someone. In turn made her fall backwards landing on her butt, she let out a small noise in surprise. “Ow…” she groaned a little, bruising your butt was not a fun thing. “What the hell!” She looked up to see who it was and her eyes widened. She placed her hand over her mouth “I am so sorry, Noah!”

[Noah Washington]

Noah stumbled back from the hit, throwing his hand up to press it against his shoulder. Damn, that hurt like hell. He still hadn't looked, but as soon as he heard the other person make a sound he realised who it was. And he instantly felt bad about it. He really wished he'd been looking where he was going.

"Woah, Mia. I'm sorry." Noah said quietly, extending his hand out to her to help her up. It was the least he could do, really. "Sorry," He apologised again, "I wasn't looking where I was going, I don't know." Alright, so that clearly sounded frazzled. He couldn't really help that.

[Mia Bell]

Mia shook her head at Noah “It’s alright. I’m pretty sure I didn’t break anything.” If he had said her bumping into him hurt, he clearly didn’t know what it was like to fall on your butt. “Though I think I broke my dignity..” She smile at him, hoping it would make him laugh, cause yeah she sensed he was upset about something.

Taking Noah’s hand she pulled herself up and rubbed her butt. “So, you okay? You don’t seem okay…” She sighed, was everyone at this school having personal problems? “Is it anything you want to talk about?” She asked as she moved to the side and gesturing for him to come inside her dorm if he so wished. She did say that she had wanted to be there for him and Fer for anything and she meant it. Not to mention she gave great advice, at least that’s what she thought.

[Noah Washington]

Noah did laugh at her statement; it was hard not to when it came to Mia's humour. "I'll help you put it back together, I promise." He replied. She knew how to get him cheered up.

"Huh? Oh... Yeah." Noah said vaguely. He rubbed the back of his neck idly with his hand. When frazzled, he was not the greatest liar in the world. He was a little unsure about talking to her about it, only because of the connection she had to the person in question. But Noah supposed he had done his best to help her out, maybe she wanted to return the favour.

With a nod he chose to walk into her room instead. "Something happened." He began, looking over his shoulder at her. "With Ravyn. Something happened."

[Mia Bell]

Mia chuckled and smiled, if only he could help her put back together her heart. “Aww! That’s so nice of you.” She was glad that she knew just how to cheer him up. Because she didn’t really like seeing him like this; then again she didn’t like seeing anyone this way.

Mia looked at him curiously. He wasn’t being a great liar, she wondered if he was always this bad at lying. It wasn’t about returning a favor for her, it was about helping a friend that apparently needed help. “I’ll try to stay unbiased?” Just in case this had to do with anyone she knew. She didn’t want him to not talk to him if he was worried about whatever it was would affect her opinion of said person or if it was a situation that would affect her emotionally.

A smiled crossed her face when Noah decided to come into her dorm. “Did you want to go into my room?” It was more private that being in the common room. She moved to close the door and then sighed when he said it was about Ravyn. “It’s always about Ravyn…” She mumbled, she had to deal with the aftermath of what happened between Cameron and Ravyn, helping Cam with what happened and helping him figure out what Ravyn was feeling. Now it seemed that she needed to help Noah with whatever Ravyn had done.

“Yeah, I think my room would be better..” She walked to her room, stopping at the door to look over her shoulder at Noah to make sure he was following. “So… You want to play a card game while we talk about it?” hey it might help him, he could figure out his thoughts while they played and he wouldn’t have to feel like he had to talk right away. Mia just wanted to make him feel comfortable with talking to her.

[Noah Washington]

Noah nodded at the suggestion, following along into Mia's room. "Sounds good. It'll keep me busy while I talk." He replied, which was always useful really. As he walked into her room, he bypassed her snake's cage and looked into it for a few moments. He just found the little guy mesmerising to look at sometimes. And that made him smile too.

He moved then to sit down on the floor with his legs crossed. He ran both hands through his hair, remaining quiet for the moment to try and figure out where to start. How to explain what happened? What was he supposed to say? He still couldn't really see what was going on. "I can talk to you about anything, right?" He asked, not wanting to make her feel uncomfortable, "Like... Girls and dating and stuff. Because it kinda has to do with that too."

[Mia Bell]

Mia nodded and went into get a pack of cards from a drawer in her desk. “Figured it would…” It would also help her in a way. If she didn’t know what to say she could buy time to figure out her thoughts while playing. She looked at Noah as he watched Spike and smiled. Glad the snake was also helping him “He also helps me when I’m upset or have a lot on my mind.” He had helped her calm down when she came back to her room that day Cameron said he had a boyfriend.

Sitting in front of Noah, she smiled at him “What game? Blackjack?” She knew how to play most card games; she used to play card games all the time with her older brother and father. She started shuffling the deck as she listening to Noah’s question. A jolt went through her when she realized he might be taken and looked at him thoughtfully; she smiled, glad that he might be with someone though a little disappointed. “Of course you can. You can talk to me about whatever.” She was going to push aside her feelings, no matter what. He didn’t need her to butt in with her emotions. “Girls, guys, dating, love, marriage; anything and everything, you can talk to me about anything, and I mean that.” She wasn’t the type to put herself before her friends and he should know that. “So, what’s up? You dating Ravyn or something?” because of course he would be. "Oh! Or did you kiss a guy and like it?" She grinned, trying to lighten the mood a bit "the taste of his cherry chap-stick." She stuck out her tongue after singing that part of the song.

[Noah Washington]

"Sure, let's do this." Noah replied with a nod. He knew how to play it pretty well, so it wouldn't be overly distracting trying to figure it out. This was a good thing.

Noah nodded once when she spoke. He couldn't help but smile at the way she was acting. His eyes went wide at the question about dating Ravyn, but then she kept talking and he couldn't help but laugh. "Not since the birthday, no." He replied, because of course he had drawn the same-sex kiss dare.

"And no, I'm not dating Ravyn." Noah pointed out afterwards. "Actually. Okay. I met this girl a few weeks ago. At first I wasn't sure what to think because I couldn't figure out if she liked me or not. But it's crazy, we talk all the time in some way or the other. Text, phone calls, all that kind of thing. Honestly? I'm crazy about her and I barely even know her." He admitted. And that was a relief to be able to say, because he was sure he couldn't talk to Ravyn about it anymore.

He really just wanted people to be happy for him. "But when I told Ravyn about it, she got kinda weird." He paused, searching for her reaction before he let the bomb drop.

[Mia Bell]

Mia placed a card face down in front of both of them and then a card facing up on top of the card facing down. After dealing the cards she waited for Noah, to see what he was going to do. She looked at her cards, the one facing up is a seven of hearts and the one facing down is a two of spades. “This game is better than poker at least…”

Mia laughed “That was too funny.. Did you like kissing Cameron?” You would think she would have been jealous he had gotten to kiss him but she actually just shrugged it off and didn’t really care. “Eh.. I actually wrote the dare thinking of you and sort of Ravyn…” She hadn’t been totally sure if he was straight or not but got the vibe that he was, same with Ravyn.

With a tilt of her head to the side she bit her lower lip. Mia wanted to ask what Ravyn did than, or well what Ravyn had to do with any of it. But she let Noah go on; anyone could tell her spirits died a little. Yeah she had a crush on Noah, and it hurt to know that he found someone better than her; but she couldn’t blame him for finding someone. Not to mention she just wasn’t the type of person to put her feelings before her friends.

No, this had to do with Cameron. The way he talked about this girl reminded her of the way Cameron and Mia were like when they were just friends. She looked at the ground, maybe she wasn’t as over Cameron as she thought. Or maybe it was just because she missed his friendship. She knew that there would always be a part of her that missed Cameron, but it wouldn’t be healthy for them to be friends. She knew she needed to find herself again.

Mia looked at Noah with a grin “Oh my god. That is the cutest thing I have ever heard! So You really like this girl huh? What’s her name?” She wondered if she knew her. Yes, she was going to be as supportive as she could be. She just hoped Noah didn’t catch on to her little depression state earlier and hoped he didn’t think it was because she had feelings for him, that was the last thing she wanted him to think.

Mia looked at him curiously. “really? Isn’t she like your best friend?” She would have thought being Noah’s best friend she would be overly excited about him finding this great girl. “So, what did she say about it? Are you sure it just didn’t bring back memories for her? And that’s why she got weird?” Like it did for Mia…

[Noah Washington]

Looking to his cards, Noah thought about it for a second or so. Showing was a ten of hearts, but underneath was only a three of clubs. Tough hand. Wincing, he tapped the floor. "Okay, hit me." And he cringed, awaiting the response.

"It was... Different." Noah laughed, "I still don't get the appeal of the guy, but that might just be me." And the fact that he wasn't into guys. But all in good fun.

Noah thought that Mia mightn't all together like the news. But, that was why he asked her if it was alright in the first place. It hadn't been alright with Ravyn, after all. "Her name's Valerie. She's in college. She also doesn't have powers." He added. "But she's okay with metas." He threw that in quickly, because he knew that some people weren't comfortable around them.

"Exactly." He replied. Ravyn was his best friend. "Well, that's what I thought initially. But it turned out to be more than that. We were just hanging out earlier tonight when-" He paused again, really unsure as to what he should say. How best to word it, and how to maybe shed some understanding light on the situation. But in the end, he had no idea; "She said that she's in love with me."

[Mia Bell]

Mia placed another card face up in front of Noah. She smiled at him, hoping he didn’t just lose. “You aren’t taking risks are you?” She waited to see if he was going to take another hit or stay.

Mia laughed and then shrugged. “It is different. I mean kissing a girl and kissing a guy..” Did she just tell him she kissed both genders? Oh well, she didn’t care though he was the only one who knew. “Though I think most of it is because of the fact it’s going through your mind that your kissing the same gender.. For most people it’s not something you think about. It's like eating an animal you would never had thought of eating.” Long explanation, but he should know by now she did that a lot. She didn’t say anything about the appeal of Cameron; and she was never going to. Mostly because she didn’t know what to say, she just looked at the ground and frowned.

Mia might not have liked the news as much as she could have but that wasn’t going to stop her from being happy for Noah. She grinned “Well I hope I meet her soon. So I can hug her to death for making you so happy.” Because he really did deserve to be happy. “Oh she must be really impressed with you then.”

Mia was now more confused but as Noah went on her eyes widened and the palm of her hand met her forehead. “God.. this is like déjà vu.. Just a little different..” She shrugged, “what did you do?” From the sound of what Noah seemed really into this Valerie girl, so the question was who did he pick? “I can see why you’re out of it though…” she had been in kind of the same situation as Noah. “Do you feel the same way about Ravyn?” Because in the end, it all came down to what he wanted. But to her, it seemed like Ravyn was just being really selfish, if she knew about Valerie before she told Noah she loved him.

[Noah Washington]

"This isn't my poker face, I promise." Noah laughed. The card came his way and damn it all, it was a two of clubs. That made fifteen, which was a obvious stalemate. "I'll... Stay." He said finally. See what happened.

"You know from experience?" He asked, not that he minded what she was into. To each their own and all that. He knew that when he'd kissed Cam the first time that he was trying his best not to think about what was going on. Making a joke of it helped too. It just wasn't his thing.

Noah shrugged, "I don't know how. There's nothing special about me." But somehow she saw something to like in him.

"I thought about it, and we talked about it." Noah began, looking back towards Spike. "I did once, I think. I told her that. But there had been a few times where she's picked better people over me. Like Cam, and then Lucah. I guess I took it as a sign to move on, y'know?" He asked, wondering if this was making sense to her. "I didn't say if I did or didn't love her. I just said that I was sick of being the "other guy" to people."

[Mia Bell]

Mia chuckled “Well I hope not..” She teases. She nodded when he said he would stay. She Drew a card for herself, and blinked at it, a nine of diamonds. That made eighteen, which meant she had to stop there. She looked at Noah with a raised eyebrow. She turned over the card that was face down to reveal the two of spades. “Eighteen, what did you get?”

Mia blushed and nodded “well.. yeah… But I only kissed one girl so far…” Like it mattered, she was pretty sure she swung both ways. “But I haven’t dated a girl…” The time she kissed a girl was just out of curiosity, for both of them.

“Aww, come on Noah. Give yourself more credit than that. You are a very special person.” It was true; he was very special, at least in her eyes. But she guessed that didn’t count for much. Mia found something to like in Noah, there was a lot of things she liked in Noah. So she could see why this Valerie girl would like him.

Mia looked at the ground; his situation with Ravyn was completely different than hers with Cameron. “It wouldn’t have been healthy for you to be hung up on Ravyn. I don’t think it is even healthy for anyone to expect or wish it would go somewhere when you know it won’t. So, I agree you had a right to move on.” She nodded, she couldn’t see why Ravyn would think Noah would be still hung up on her and thought it was a little selfish and from what she got from it, it seemed like Ravyn also had an ego problem.

‘the other guy’ Mia frowned at that part. She couldn’t help but think that she also made Noah out to be ‘the other guy’ and she hated herself for it. Not just because she was out of luck now, but because Noah didn’t deserve that. “Look, from what I’m getting from it, it seems like Ravyn is being a little selfish… She obviously saw that you were pretty serious about this Valerie girl and got scared… It wasn’t right for her to do that to you. But if you are over her than you shouldn’t feel obligated to do anything about Ravyn’s feelings. It is what it is. but if you do have strong feelings for Ravyn, than you need to come to terms with that because that wouldn't be fair to Valerie“ Mia didn’t think it was right for Ravyn to push her feelings onto Noah knowing he might be very happy with someone else. That wasn’t fair to Noah, but it also wasn’t fair to herself or their friendship. But the situation at hand was that, it all came down to what Noah wanted.

Mia sighed “You don’t feel like you will be able to talk to her about certain stuff now do you?” Besides that little fact, it will be awkward for both of them because of the feelings that were now out in the open.

[Noah Washington]

"Only fifteen!" Noah replied, turning the cards over. "Okay, okay. You win. But this time I will wow you with my poker face." He smirked.

His smile boiled down into something more genuine when she said what she did. He knew he got a little negative about himself, and it was always good when his friends were stopping him from doing it. It was also good to know that she agreed with him; he should have moved on.

"Ravyn did say something about feeling like she was being selfish." Noah replied, recalling her words then. "And yeah, she kinda told me that once she found out about Valerie, she sort of panicked and decided she needed to tell me." As the conversation went on, he found himself recalling new pieces of information that he might have forgotten. It did only just happen, after all. But it was such a shock to the system.

Noah shook his head. "Well, I can't talk to her about Valerie. And then what happens when she becomes a bigger part of my life?" He asked, hoping Mia might have some advice to help him. "I don't have those kind of feelings for Ravyn. I want to be with Valerie, but I don't want to lose my best friend."