Picknick for one (aura)

[Victoria Jean]

Vikki was reading and walking, a skill she had cultivated over several years of reading. There was this tree next to the pond where the trunk was perfectly shaped for her to sit with her back up against. As she neared the pond she didn't change direction to walk around it. Instead as her foot went out to step on it the water directly under it froze with a thick layer of ice. Repeating this process Vikki walked across the pond and under the tree. Only then did she lower the book so she could set herself up.

Out of the walmart bag she was carrying she pulled out a piece of cloth about the size of a large newspaper. She laid it on the ground before pulling out a large sub sandwich, an apple, a jug of Lemonade, and what looked like a ball of ice. Inside the ice was a spoon and frozen yogurt. It would melt by the time Vikki was ready for it.

Smiling over her feast Vikki took a bite of her sandwich then went back to reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Technically she had already read it and was now rereading it for the third time.

[Ava Anderton]

Ava was tired she couldn't believe how tired she was her powers where becoming such a trouble when she slept she tended to dream of the memories she had absorbed but they all tended to fuze into one and they all ended the same way with her waking up screaming her body trembling and the sounds of her room- mates calling out to her the first few nights it happened Xavier and Mai both came to her door wanting to make sure that she as ok of course like normal Ava put on a brave face smiling and waving them away not wanting them to worry about her she would find a way to pull herself back together.

So she was now hiding out by the pond trying to relax and even catch up on some sleep she smiled as she slipped her headphones in blaring her iPod out with some nickel back she grinned looking forward to sitting under her favourite tree and just watching the world go by she only stopped when she saw a girl sitting under her tree well it wasn't her tree didn't have her name on it or anything but still she liked to relax there. Due to the sheer exhaustion she was feeling her manners had gone out of the window she just offered a small smile and side stepped the girl moving around so she could lay in the shade of a tree instead shrugging off her light jacket she wriggled so she could lay on that indeed finally comfortable Ava glanced around listening to the fish in the pond.

[Victoria Jean]

As the girl sat down Vikki glanced at her for a second and nodded in return for the smile. She wasn't the type of girl to really be bothered by the presence of humans as long as they didn't annoy her while she was reading. Vikki's way of reading was different then others. Instead of just reading flat out, she'd read a chapter or a page or an event in the book, then set the book down and stare at something, dissecting it in her head. She liked to think of what the scene meant, what idea it was trying to get through. She liked to think of symbolism behind the book.

It was during one of these deep thoughts that the idea occurred to her that it was hot out here. The girl behind her on the tree stump didn't have anything to drink. It was easy enough creating a ice covering on the inside of one of her plastic cups, and since she had just brought a whole case of them Vikki had more then enough, so quietly she passed the girl a cup of lemonade.