Bombed - Haley tags Sammy M

[Haley Shapiro]

Haley was, by no means, a smart girl. Though she didn't pride in it, she didn't mind it. But one thing she knew for sure was how to get a bucket of glittered water shower down on unsuspecting victims from any known doorway.

For instance, it only took a very long string, a bucket filled with water and glitter and a metal ruler stuck [with great might, one might add] in between bricks above the walkway heading towards the pond.

She was also rather tiny that even the slightest of shadows could hide her were she to know exactly where to stand. And she knew where to stand so nobody would suspect any foul play.

But minutes turned to hours and nobody came through. Haley just about gave up until she heard footsteps coming her way. She almost squealed but she couldn't give herself away! And when the person finally turned the corner and walked under the arc way, Haley pulled one part of the string that tipped the bucket and whoosh came the water down from the bucket.

Haley let the strings loose and the bucket fell to the ground with a thud as it bounced away from the two of them. "Oh glitter bombed!" Haley laughed, doubling over with laughter to see the boy shimmering under the sunlight with the glitter that had stuck all over him. "Oh you look so pretty!"

[Samuel Morris]

Sammy had been boarding all day, and had at one point pulled off a pretty cool kickflippy-thing before completely wiping out. But wipe out he did, and now a wheel on his board was acting weird. It was stuck and wouldn't turn, and so he paid little attention to his surroundings as he walked along, trying to figure out how he was going to fix it--and if he couldn't fix it how he was going to afford a new board.

And so, even if it had been really freaking obvious, Sammy probably wouldn't have noticed the bucket or the girl before he walked through the doorway. He was that distracted by the wheel.

When the rush of sparkle came down upon him, though, he very much noticed the bucket. And when she laughed, the girl. He sputtered a bit, dropping his board and trying to keep the glitter out of his eyes and wipe it off of most of his face. Some ended up in his mouth somehow. He spit that out, then grabbed the hem of his shirt and wiped his eyes with it. (The inside of it. He's not a total idiot.)

As he blinked against the bright reflections of light brought on by the glitter left on his nose, he focused his blue eyes on the girl. He smiled, stepping closer to her as he talked. "That was so cool! I didn't even see it coming, and it's all over me and totally never gonna come out of my hair all the way." He grinned, shaking his head and mussing his hair with his hands to get some glitter to go flying in her direction. "There, now we're even!" He felt triumphant.

If only he knew what he was getting himself into.

[Haley Shapiro]

The reaction she got from the boy was not something Haley had expected. Horror, anger, tears...those were reactions she hoped for but this boy...this boy was grinning.

To say she was disappointed was an understatement as the boy shook his head, sending some of the glittered water her way. What was even more disappointing was when she saw the skateboard in his hand and she got excited about it.

Horrible, horrible fail.

"You're weird. I hope you realise this." Haley started with a frown. "Nobody reacts that way to glitter being poured down on them." She pouted halfway and nodded at the skateboard. "You any good at that?" She asked, her curiosity getting the best of her.

[Samuel Morris]

Something Haley would learn very soon about Sammy if she hung around him at all was that he was not the kind of person to react negatively to much, and if she tried to change that she would probably not succeed. At all.

He continued to smile, turning his grin on the girl when she addressed him. "Duh I'm weird! If I wasn't weird, why would I be here?" Here meaning the school. "It was a cool trick, anyway. Wish I'd seen my face when it hit me, bet I looked awesome." If Haley was hoping for Sammy to have any other sort of intelligent reaction, she was going to be very sorely disappointed.

Especially because brining up his skateboard makes a person at least semi-cool in his book.

"Well, I like to think I'm pretty cool with it." Sam rubbed the back of his neck. "But I totally crashed a minute ago and I'm pretty sure I busted it." Laughing, he turned his blue eyes from the skateboard to the girl and held out his hand for shaking. "Hi. I'm Sammy. What's your name?"

[Haley Shapiro]

Haley couldn't understand naturally happy people. She didn't necessarily hate them but she always had the urge to punch their faces in. Sure, recently she had been experiencing some lifts in her mood and such but generally, she was still angry. So this boy, all smiles and sunny aura, made Haley...jealous.

It was a weird feeling and she wanted it to stop but it would be sort of rude to just walk away now. That was another weird feeling, actually caring about being rude.

"If by awesome you mean stupid then sure, you looked super awesome." Haley rolled her eyes, though her tone held amusement rather than menace.

As he explained about his skateboard, Haley looked at it and saw the damage to the tires. She was so absorbed in thinking up ways to fix it that she hadn't realised he was still talking until his hand came into her view.

She glanced at it apprehensively at first before grabbing it with hers. She thought twice before mentally shutting off her powers and shaking his hand properly, not knowing it wouldn't have made a difference if she had kept her powers working.

"Shapiro." She blinked at the realisation that she hadn't been introducing herself as Haley for awhile and she wondered briefly why that was. "Lemme see the skateboard. Maybe I can fix it." She took her hand out from his before beckoning with it for him to hand over the skateboard.

[Samuel Morris]

Sammy grinned and laughed. Stupid, being an insult, had a very not-insulting feel to it when he was laughing at himself. And besides, she had said awesome. Even if not with a tone or context that made it sincere.

"Huh," He said of her name, and was going to say more but was interrupted by her request for his board. He handed his skateboard over with some surprise. "I dunno what you could do about it. I couldn't fix it--believe me, I tried." He watched her with some concern. Sheila (the board, newly dubbed as he had decided naming his board was cool) was not to be handled by just anyone--even if he was probably the most careless person to have touched it.

"So, uh. Shapiro... That's a weird name for a girl." The curiosity as to why she was named that was killing him. No, it didn't occur to him that she had supplied anything other than her first name. He had given his given name, so why wouldn't she?

[Haley Shapiro]

Looking at the board with interest, she hummed a little as she smoothed her hand down the base of the board. She immediately found the problem and applying a bit of force, she jiggled the wheels a little before they were properly aligned and gave it back to Sammy just in time to answer his question.

"It's my last name. Ya gotta earn the right to know my first." She shrugged. "I never seen you around before. Are ya new?" She asked, pocketing one hand while the other went to her long braid.

She wasn't the type to play with her hair and to some outsider, it probably looked like she was doing it because of the boy she was talking to but it was far from that. The split ends to her hair came into view and she pulled at them.

[Samuel Morris]

Sammy's expression changed from confusion to surprise to awe. She'd just fixed it, just like that. He took his board and spun the wheels. Everything was exactly as it had been. "You did it," He breathed. "How did you do that?" He looked in her eyes, as if some secret of fixery would be revealed to him that way.

He was disappointed to hear he wasn't allowed to know her first name. He liked knowing people's first names. Not only was it easier to remember for him, he liked feeling like he was on friendly terms with people. Well, he was always on friendly terms with people, but still. "Oh. How do I earn that?" He honestly wanted to know, so that he could do it. It was one of those weird things about him.

He shook his head, then shrugged. To be honest, he didn't know why she hadn't seen him before. He hadn't been at the school for a year or anything, but he'd been around. But then again, it was a big school. "I'm not new new, but I haven't been here forever either. I guess you haven't seen me 'cause the school is huge and, well, we're not." He laughed, scratching his ear a little. He noticed her messing with her braid, but didn't put much thought into it. But he did think her hair looked nice. Then again, he thought that of most girls' hair.

[Haley Shapiro]

The look on his face sort of made her smile too. Haley had always been good with her hands. She liked to tinker with things when she was still in the orphanage. There wasn't anything that needed fixing that she couldn't handle. Added with her power now, she could basically work out kinks everywhere. She even fixed the lockers she smashed the other day because she was bored.

When Sammy started looking at her, she grew a little uncomfortable and averted her eyes before shrugging, grabbing the bucket and tucking it under her arm. "I've got magic on my side." She joked with a grin.

His question made her laugh a little. "I don't know! Try saving my life or something. That should earn you at least my first name. Probably." She nodded, wondering why the boy was that curious. Other people would have just thought she was full of herself and walk off. Probably punch her in the face.

"Huh. Okay. You must be in some of my classes. Do you have Mrs. Page's Math class?"