Know-It-All [Leo]

[Eloise Eaton]

Eloise walked down the long hallway of offices, her black converse scuffling along in the silence. There were a few people in the offices having meetings and talking behind the closed doors, but it was very quiet in comparison to other places around campus. Eloise adjusted the beanie that covered the top of her head (which she had chosen after waking up with horrible bed head) as she counted the doors to find the office that she was told to report to at 11:15. It was now 11:17 and she hadn't found the office yet.

She wasn't 100% sure why she was being called to the office of Leo Rhodes. She had simply received the email requesting her presence. Ella knew better than to skip out on meetings about her education. Her father would hate it if he found out Eloise was skipping out on anything regarding her studies. El hoped it was just to fill out some missing paperwork or something. The shorter the visit was the less of a headache it would induce.

She finally found the room she had been called to, and knocked on the door, rocking on her toes and examining her chipping red nail polish as she waited for a response.

[Leo Rhodes]

Leo wasn’t one to be confined in an office. He was normally outside, driving his Impala, or outside in general, or even at the Churchkey shooting pool and drinking. Leo just wasn’t one to be in an office, no matter that he was relatively new and now with more students, all the trainers were becoming busier with students. He’d been sleeping like a rock with a drop-dead brunette in his bed when the school called him in to meet with a new student, and he’d had to send the woman home.

He knew that he wouldn’t sleep with her again; it was just who he was. Love ‘em and leave ‘em, that was Leo. He took a shower and got dressed in dark jeans and a black button down that had the first couple of buttons undone to show the definition of his collarbone, and drove with his leather jacket and Impala to the school. The message had been that he was meeting another telepath, a blonde girl named Eloise.

He made it to his office with enough time to settle in the chair and prop his feet on the desk before he heard a knock on the door. Quirking a brow, sipping the coffee he’d managed to snag, he looked at the door. “Come in,” he called out, his voice portraying boredom.

[Eloise Eaton]

Eloise let herself in when a voice came from behind the door. She flipped her hair over her shoulder, and pulled the strap of her tote bag away from collarbone and off her arm as she walked into office. Behind the desk sat a man who appeared almost apathetic. His expression was enough to let Ella know he didn't want to be there just as much as she didn't want to be there - she didn't even have to read his mind to know that. They stared at eachother for a few moments in silence, carefully observing one another.

"I'm Eloise...Eaton..." El finally stated, "I got an email about coming down here for some sort of meeting today?" She didn't even bother sitting down in the chair that had been pushed to the side on the opposite side of the desk. Eloise still hoped that something was just wrong with her transfer papers or something. She wanted to just get back to her day and continue enjoying her summer before classes really kicked in. However, the office didn't appear to be anything administrative. There was hardly anything in it except the desk and chairs.

[Leo Rhodes]

The door opened and in walked a very pretty blonde, one that made Leo perk up a bit. Granted, he couldn’t touch, but her hair made him want to fist it as he took that mouth of hers, showed her a good time. God, the girls at this school were jailbait and a career ender for Leo. Right away he knew her to be another telepath, and from her body language, she looked how he felt.

Excellent.

“Ah, Miss Eloise,” he said, taking his feet off the desk and linking his fingers. “Yes, as did I. Apparently you need a trainer and I need more students.” A small smirk graced his full mouth, his icy blue eyes twinkling with trouble. “I can see you don’t want to be here, and I don’t want to be here, so how about we step outside and talk in the fresh air?” he offered. He couldn’t leave the office yet, the staff would kill him, so he offered a compromise for the girl to get out of the stuffy office.

[Eloise Eaton]

"I need a trainer?" Eloise asked with an eyebrow raised. She hadn't signed up for a trainer. Were they mandatory to have here? She kept an eye on the man as he suggested they go outside. She got a weird vibe from him, and it only took a moment to realize he was a telepath when she tried to read him. When Eloise tried to read a telepath it was like hearing a constant echo. She pulled her bag back up on her shoulder and asked, "Am I required to have a trainer?"

He had offered to go outside, but that offer told Eloise this meeting was going to be long and drawn out - which she wasn't particularly in the mood for. "I mean outside is great but... if it would make it quicker to say I don't need help then let's just leave it at that," Eloise offered in a tone that didn't suggest superiority, but merely that she felt secure with herself. She wasn't about to disrespect any authority figures in her first few weeks. She just wanted to take the last of her math and english classes and graduate and get out.