ḋɾεαṃ + сατсhεɾ (open)

[Maud A. Yancey]

Maud smiles and puts an arm around his shoulders," Thank you, i'll pay you back in whater way your OCD requires.... Possibly exact change when you need it."

She glances at her bike again but seems to feel that it is safe

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Arm around his shoulders. Okay. And... okay, he was not OCD. He just... had a good memory! Really. The cashier winked at them and... oh shit, what? No, they weren't...! Oh fucking hell, what did it matter? "No need, I don't mind." He replied, shaking his head a little. He was fine with buying things for other people - why was that such a foreign concept? He hadn't even done anything heroic, just... bought ice cream. And gave her the privilege of being the first person he'd properly flown about with. No biggy.

Gryph frowned at the bike. There were a number of them to act as witnesses if anything did happen, but still... he was concerned. It was like leaving his camera sat somewhere other than his room or someplace else which he deemed safe. He would be uncomfortable doing so.

Well, it was Maud's. If she was fine, he was fine. Really.

[Maud A. Yancey]

Maud quickly pulls away from him, givin no other sign that she had seen the Cashier's gesture. She spins on her heel and crosses her arms, staring out the window or a moment before murmuring softly," I think one of the spokes is broken, i'll go check it now,"

Maud was immediately out the door and kneeling next to the bike, purposefully keepin her head below the window as she examines the 'broken spoke'.

She felt bad, she knew he was not into girls from the way he had acted, she had many homosexual friends back home so she knew how they acted, not differently, but just tiny tiny signs... She probably embarassed him... Whoops

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Stupid cashier lady. It was stupid, because he was pretty certain she was the same one who'd been there when he'd been on that date with Kodi what, less than a month ago? It was stupid - there were girls who flirted with him and he'd say he was gay and they'd be like 'oh, playing hard to get, are we?'

Totally. Excuse me while I go kiss my boyf- FOR FUCK'S SAKE, while I kiss Kodi. Whatever - just excuse me, while I go kiss a boy, and avoid kissing girls. And then we'll see who's playing hard to get. Why was it so hard to understand when someone was homosexual? The cashier didn't really notice Maud's awkwardness. If anything, she nodded knowningly(?); what that woman thought she was understanding, she was far off of.

But now Maud felt weird. Gryph felt bad. He took their ice creams and thanked the cashier quietly (when really, he didn't think she deserved the thanks). He made his way outside and sighed, looking at her as she 'examined' her bike. Because clearly, her cycler's senses had gone off, telling her that one of her spokes was broken. Yeah, right. "Sorry." He apologized before she could - he felt responsible and bad and... this made no sense, why did things always seem to go downhill with ice cream?

Maybe it was too awesome, and the world had to counter the awesomeness of ice cream with terribly annoying or awkward situations. That had to be it.

[Maud A. Yancey]

Maud flashes him a smile, taking the icecream fro him and leaned against the wall," S'ok, nothing to be sorry about," She licks the minty icecream after sticking her tongue out at him playfully

" Damn, that lady just doesn't quite knowthe girls and boys can be legit friends at this age," she muses softly

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryph smiled back, albeit with a little strain. If Maud was okay with the situation, then he was. He did very much seem to follow what the people around him did, whilst still being individual. It was strange. Of course, he would feel his own emotions, what functioning human being wouldn't? But they were strongly influenced by the feelings and emotions of those he was with. If they were happy, it usually cheered him up too. If they were sad, he would be sad, and not out of pity or sympathy, he would genuinely become upset by it. He had too many emotions.

Gryphon ate some of his ice cream as well, relishing in the chocolatey-doughy-yumminess... mmm... but Maud made a valid point. He nodded and frowned slightly, "I don't see why it's so hard t'understand. I can be friends with guys and I don't get 'accused' of likin' them or goin' out with them." Except when the people around him knew of his orientation. Then there were comments. It was ridiculous, in any case - just because someone was homosexual or heterosexual, it didn't mean they were automatically attracted to someone of the relative gender.

People were stupid. He needed a word to use in place of stupid.

[Maud A. Yancey]

She shrugs and murmurs," The old conservatives are dying fast, thats why it's becoming more ok," she chuckles softlyc quickly eating the minty cone in what had to be record time. Her family always ate incredibly fast.. It was passed down.

Maud closes her eyes and sighs softly, nibbling on the waffle cone," Soon, it'll be ok and than it'll be more confusing on whos a couple and whos not," she giggles

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Other word for stupid... unintelligent. Dense. Ignorant, slow, brainless, idiotic, moronic (ehe, moron), simple.
..

Bwara Mr. Simple, Simple keuttae-neun keuttae-neun keuttae-ro meotjyeo, bwara Miss-seu Simple, Simple, keuttae-neun keuttae-ro yep- SJ CALL!

Minorly off track there.

But... that was not what he'd meant. Oh, well. He already thought -well, knew, in actual fact- that his sexual orientation was perfectly fine. And people were allowed to have their opinions, but at the end of the day, as long as he was happy, that was what mattered. Some people, he felt, were just too stupid -ignorant, sorry- to see that it should be accepted. There was absolutely nothing wrong with being gay.

But he was gonna leave the political debate for a day when the sun wasn't going down and he wasn't halfway through eating an ice cream, which, by the way, he was just reaching the cone of. He was slower than Maud, who he was awed over how quickly she ate, but he also ate pretty rapidly, when he wanted to. Other times, he'd let himself savour the flavours and take his time, but again - time and place.

"That's true." Was all he said in response to Maud's statement. Because it was. And that was that.

He watched the world go by for a moment, before turning to the girl with the long hair, "How old are you, sorry?" Gryph was only asking... well, because she seemed very philosophical for a teenager. Even if he was one too. He was intrigued.

[Maud A. Yancey]

" just turned 16 on March 18th," She answers, smiling and munching on the crispy cone, her hazel/grey eyes flashing toward the sun... She stares at it and smiles, completely unfazed

" What about you? I'm guessing 17 to 18," she looks abck t his face, purple and green balls of light dancing across her eyes and making him look like some kind of weird football fan

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryph crunched into his waffle cone and smiled, nodding slightly, "Ah, sweet sixteen. Happy late birthday, then." He added, holding his half-finished cone up as if toasting to her age. Birthdays were overrated - people cared too much about them. He had nothing against them, of course not, but people did tend to put too much importance on the day. It was like saying congratulations to your parents for having sex nine months beforehand. That was it - the parents should celebrate the birthdays, not the kids. I mean, it wasn't the kid who carried around another living being for three quarters of the year, it was the mother.

He was being oddly feminist about the topic. Huh.

He nodded again, "Eighteen. Technically an adult." Though it almost never felt like it. "Give it a month and I'll be nineteen, though." He grinned at her and finished eating, the only remainders of his ice cream being his slightly sticky fingers and a few crumbs on his top, which he brushed off.

Gryph looked up in the direction of the school, shielding his own eyes against the sunlight with his hand. "You about ready t'go back?" He asked. He didn't want it to be pitch by the time they got to the front doors.

[Maud A. Yancey]

" Yep," she smiles and rubs her eyes, standing and stretching before holding out her hand to help him up

" What dorm are you in?... If... That's not a creepy question," she grins

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryphon took Maud's hand with his left, his right one out of action, thanks to his injury. He smiled back, getting ready to hit the hay himself. Or maybe eat some more food... or both. He could see himself eating food in bed. He'd done it before.

That's what the tubs of ice cream were for.

"Boy's dorms. 507." He grinned cheekily. "Don't stalk me." He teased. "You?" Because he probably wouldn't do much with that information himself, other than... nothing. He'd just know where Maud was. Maybe if he had a historical emergency, but knowing him, the possibility of that was as tiny as a speck of dust. She was a nice person, though. He needed to know more nice people.

...507 didn't sound quite right, though. Had he got it confused...? He didn't usually, his memory was very good at doing it's job.

[Maud A. Yancey]

" Ah... I'll try not to," she teases back, picking up her bike again once she helps him up," Co-ed, 208," she smiles and hums softly

[Gryphon Matsuoka]

Gryph almost continued the stalking banter, but he wasn't sure how friendly it would be after a while. He was certain that it would probably make the conversation a little awkward, and he'd already had enough awkward today to last him a week. Not that today wasn't fun. It most definitely was. But it was like, Awkward Day for Gryph. With what'd happened earlier with Kodi, and then the innumerable times recently with Maud... he was just an awkward machine.

He was also incapable of conjuring up decent adjectives. Surely there were other words for awkward? If there wasn't that would be... awkward, he had nothing else.

"Gotcha." He replied, sending a friendly smile over. The co-eds were pretty popular, and he could understand why. Being allowed to intermingle with the opposite gender was exciting, apparently. Girls, technically, weren't allowed on the boy's floor, and vice versa, so it was like having a floor where there was an exception on that rule. But then again, people didn't listen to the other rules - he saw girls on the boy's floor every now and then. It wasn't an issue or anything, so no-one said anything. Except the dorm monitors, if they found out. They always said something.

[Maud A. Yancey]

Maud bumps his shoulder in the gentle, friendly manner, she hummed softly as they walked, not quite sure what to say,"... Mhm..."