Good songs, [Eric]

[Avery Sainsbury]

The day was long and Avery just wanted to listen to her ipod. Some how she heard about the student lounge. She never knew that schools actually had student lounges, but she was interested to see what it was like. Walking down the hall she heard laughing and she smiled. Wondering what was going on she slowly rounded the corner, looking in the doorway. She saw some kids playing pool, some where fighting over a pinball machine. Avery laughed slightly as she walked in. Being a little shy she tried not to bring attention to herself.

Looking around she saw a nice cozy looking corner that seemed to have a cushioned chair. The kind that looked like you could curl up and read a good book. Walking over, she noticed everyone was having fun. That seemed to make her happy. Avery found it relaxing when people where having a good time. Sitting down she gave a relieving sigh. It felt like the day was already melting away. She dug threw her metallic pink purse and found her i-pod. She turned her music on and stuck her head phones in. As the music started to go she closed her eyes to reflect on the day. This was truly one of her favorite things to do.

Avery brought her feet up next to her. Curling up into the chair and relaxing even further. She wrapped her arms around her legs and started to bob her head along with Kerosene by Miranda Lambert. Her purse was on the other side of the chair, in the corner. Avery's hair was curled down past her shoulders and swayed back and forth as she bobbed along with the music. Her eyes stayed closed and her mouth kind lip singing along.

[Eric Bower]

Eric usually wasn't the type to stay indoors on a good day, but recently the weather was crappy and cold, so he easily decided that staying inside was the better choice. However, he didn't want to lounge around his room on a day where he wanted to do something. So, it took him a hop, skip and a jump to land himself in the student lounge. He usually didn't hang around in such an area, mostly because he was outside and also because Zac had him doing something. Not that he didn't like hanging out with him.

He was happy because the stitches were finally out of his forehead and his black eye was completely gone without a trace. People didn't double take anymore, unless they found him wildly attractive and cute (Zac's words, not Eric's). Today, unlike usual, he actually had his ipod buds in his ears. He figured since he was inside, he couldn't make the trees dance and hurt someone accidentally. So now he was openly rocking out to his ipod. At the moment, it was R Kelly's I believe I can fly. He slid in through the door and made his way around the pool game and the pinball machines to his favorite chair in the corner.

Though upon his arrival of said chair, it was occupied by someone currently enjoying their ipod. And while he was a bit upset to not be able to sit down, it was first come first serve with the lounge. He was fine to pull one of the large bean bags from the wall and plop down on it. He folded his hands behind his head and started to tap his feet to the rhythm.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery was really into her music. Soon Animals by Nickleback came on and Avery was dancing in the chair. She wasn't even noticing how out of control her movements where getting. Still it didn't seem like people where staring at her yet so Avery really didn't care. Flinging her leg out she kicked the boy next to her. By total accident and in fact she didn't even notice. The music was too loud and Avery was to caught up in it to realize what happened.

Avery's purse fell to the ground as she continued to dance. For the first time she actually felt like she was home. Although if that was true she had a lot of brothers and sisters she didn't even know. The thought kinda made her laugh as she was still lip singing. Her curly blondish brown hair was flying all over the place. It made her happy just to let lose and to feel as if no one was watching her. This was surely a pleasure for her.

Soon the song changed to Angels by Withing Temptation, and Avery's dancing was no more. She took a deep breath and relaxed again. Now that a calmer song was on Avery became calmer. She missed her music, this was the first time she got to listen to it since she arrived at Hammel. That also made her very happy.

[Eric Bower]

I believe I can fly fizzled to an end, and then Eric's ears got to be entertained by P!nk's 'So What.' He couldn't help but let out the "Na na na-na na na." Eric really did enjoy a wide assortment of music and it wasn't long until he was dancing in his seat. You can't not dance to a song that had so much fun like that. He usually lost his inhibitions pretty quickly and was the same. He didn't care that he was in a room full of people (well he kinda forgot) and he was wiggling and lip syncing greatly with the song.

However, then came a foot that knocked against him that broke his concentration. He cracked opened his eyes to see the person that was sitting in his favorite chair. He sat up, and was about to move farther away, so that didn't happen again. Eric was too jolly of a fellow to break the girl's flow to tell her she kicked him, because it hadn't hurt that much. It was actually pretty funny.

However in the girls flailing, she knocked her purse over. Eric usually wouldn't trespass on someone he didn't knows stuff, but things started to roll out of the purse so he leaned up on the bean bag and started to nudge the contents back into the bag, half of it he had no idea what they were--they could be torture devices for all he knew--and when he was done, he picked it up like he didn't know how to hold it right and looked at the girl. She seemed to not be dancing anymore so he guessed her song changed. He decided it wasn't rude to interrupt her anymore. He leaned sideways so he could reach her with his hand and tapped her knee. "Hey uhm....you dropped this..." He said slowly while he pulled his ear buds out of his ears. It was rude to try to talk with them in, anyway.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery was startled slightly. Looking at the boy she smiled, and took out her head phones. After all you can't hear some one with music in your ears. Avery's cheeks went red as she grabbed her purse. Feeling the blush on her cheeks she quickly looked towards the window to make sure the weather didn't change. After all she didn't know what did what yet. So far she knew sadness caused rain, but she didn't know what embarrassment caused. She placed her purse back beside her she sighed and put her head phones on her lap.

"I'm...so so sorry. Did my purse hit you? It can be heavy sometimes. I must have got carried away and my purse got flung on the floor." Avery was so embarrassed but she tried to relax for the fear of she might cause some strange weather again. She definitely needed more practice with her gift. Avery was always worried that someone would think her a freak or would be afraid of her, because she would honestly be afraid of someone who if got mad could make a tornado go threw your house. Sighing again she tried to calm down. "I really do apologize. I guess I kind of forgot that there where other people here"

[Eric Bower]

Eric could easily see the girl was embarrassed, and he felt bad that he'd caused it. He looked sheepishly down into his lap when she blushed. "No, it's seriously Ok. Your purse didn't hit me." Maybe she noticed the infliction that something else had hit him, which was her foot, but it was water under the bridge. Seriously. He totally didn't mind 100% that she'd accidentally kicked him while she enjoyed music the way it was supposed to be enjoyed.

She kept looking outside like something was supposed to happen, and while he wasn't much of a paranoid person, it was enough to get him to scratch the back of his neck to ease the growing tension there. "I always forget there are other people when I'm listening to music--all the time. So like don't fret about it, seriously. I totally don't care. 'Sides, it was fun to watch, for a moment." Maybe since he told her it was funny, she wouldn't be so embarrassed? I apologize that Eric's a bit inexperienced in the matter, but he means well.

[Avery Sainsbury]

"Really? I wasn't trying to be funny. But I guess it would kind of be funny since no one else can hear the music but me." Avery let out a light laugh and a sigh. Looking outside one more time she finally relaxed. "I know I must look crazy cause I keep looking outside. For some reason today I'm kinda afraid that my emotions are going to get out of control and something will happen. A little while ago, I got bad news and I made it rain, then the rain turned into a storm. I'm really new at this. I definitely can't trust my emotions and that's why I keep looking outside."

Avery's blush didn't disappear, it stayed on her cheeks. Although now it was a little less noticeable. She is still a little shy, especially when she meets someone she thinks is good looking. "I'm Sorry I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Avery, Avery Sainsbury." Her mind was still reeling as she fought the urge to look outside again. She just had a bad feeling today. She knew that nothing was going to happen it was just a feeling she had.

[Eric Bower]

Bullet dodged with that one. She didn't catch the infliction, and if she did, she decided not to do anything about it. Eric wondered if that was the case, but she was embarrassed about her purse hitting him, when it didn't, so he figured if she thought she'd hit him herself, then it'd be a different ballgame entirely and not something she'd just not call to attention. Which was good, you know, because Eric didn't care. Then the thought occurred to him that he was really thinking a lot about something he didn't care about, which caused him to shake his head and chuckle. Zac was rubbing off on him, apparently.

"Not funny, like I think it's bad, but funny 'cause I can easily see you're just enjoying yourself." Eric sheepishly looked down again, he didn't wanna make her self conscious, too, but she didn't seemed to mind. She noticed him noticing her looking outside and after her description, he felt bad because it seemed like he was the one that was upsetting her emotions. He probably should have just set her purse next to the chair, out of the way of her feet, and then went back to jamming--speaking of, he hit the pause button on his ipod (no sense running down the battery). "Oh, you can control weather? That's awesome." He did look impressed by it, because weather wasn't something small time, as say, lignikinesis. Eric didn't like the way the word sounded so he just called it wood bending. But whatever name it was, it was still a silly power, since he couldn't even figure out how to work it.

"Avery? That's a cool name, I've never met no one named that before," he said while he picked at his thumbnail. He smiled up at her with a gesture to himself. "I'm Eric Bower." He smiled like he was proud of such a thing. "Nice ta meetcha."

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery smiled "Like wise. Nice to meet you too. Although I have to disagree weather control is not cool or awesome. Well not when you can't control it at least. Thats why I'm here. I learned the hard way that anger is a bad bad emotion. All that happened was I heard my mom and dad yelling and then boom a tornado appeared in my house and then boom I was here. Basically. I try not to get into that to much, but Since I'm a normally shy person sometimes I just go on and on." Avery took a deep breath and tried to relax. Noticing Eric turning his music off she did the same.

Putting her i-pod back into her purse she looked at him. "So what your ability? I bet its better then mine." Avery started to play with her hair like she usually does with her jewelry when she gets nervous or just can't keep her attention straight. Today was just one of those days for Avery. The kind of day where everything just seemed to blend into each other and kept going and going. Kind of like the never ending song. Avery shook her hair out and smiled. "So anyway how did you get here at Hammel? I my self am pretty new here still. But I keep noticing almost everyday there is a new student, which is really cool."

[Eric Bower]

She was like a floodgate of information. She made a tornado come through her house? Wow, that sucks. Eric's story wasn't nearly as tragic, but at the time for him, it ripped his little world upside down and tossed it in the air a few times. He noticed she was still frazzled, but maybe that's because she was just shy? She about said as much with got him to grinning a little, though what she had told him wasn't a happy thing. "Man that sucks. But no one got hurt? That's the important part, right? Insurance replaces things, but not people. I've only been here a couple months, so I still feel new here--not to mention I'm just a Freshmen." Eric didn't think being the lowest of the classmen was such a big deal, but Zac had a thing about hierarchy. It was super important.

"My ability? They told me Lignikinesis. Apparently that's Latin for 'wood,' so it's a smart way of saying I can move trees. And maybe like table wood--in theory. I've got like nooo control over it. I mean I've only used it like three--four times now, and I never have been able to do it on purpose, it's all been on accident," he said with small gestures of his hands. "Well, when I first used my powers, my older brother and eye were playing in our old treehouse, when I fell off a branch and my powers moved a branch to catch me, only it collapsed the treehouse and knocked it down and stuff. My brother got pretty hurt, but he was the only one that believed that I didn't do it on purpose. My parents looked at my like I had the plague or something. It got in the town's newspaper and I think a minute on the news, but they never showed my face or anything like that. My brother convinced my parents that I wasn't some monster meant to hurt anyone, a recruiter showed up at the hospital where I wouldn't leave my brothers side and took me here." Eric shrugged his shoulders a little. There really wasn't much to his story. "Oh, and I've been here a few months. Wait I think I said that already." He furrowed his brows while he tried to think back on what he said, but he still couldn't remember.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery nodded "No one got hurt. I've only been here for a think a couple weeks. Even though there are a lot of other like me I still kinda feel Left out. I don't know maybe I'm just weird or something." Avery let out a small giggle. Her laugh was like a child's. It was one of those cute laughs that could make others laugh. Her face lit up only for a minute while she giggled, showing that she had small dimples. "Sorry I had a case of the giggles. But I'm only a sophomore myself. Even though Sometimes I dress older I'm only sixteen. But i have to say I really do Like it here. Its a nice school, it has a place just to relax in and most people are very friendly. Its much better here then any where else I've been."


Avery crossed her legs and thought about what he said about his ability. She wondered what that would be like. Able to control tress. It would definitely be less taxing on the nerves and emotions. People probably wouldn't get killed or ripped apart. "That would be nice. Able to control trees. I guess in away your ability is like mine. We don't know how it happens but it does. It took Hammel to convince me that the tornado was my fault. I thought it was just a freak accident. It made scene when they told me its my emotions. Sometimes when it rains I wonder is it raining cause I'm crying, is someone else who controls the weather sad too? or is it actually just mother nature? Its weird sometimes definitely."

[Eric Bower]

"See? Then it's not so bad," he reasoned afters he told him no one got hurt. That was what mattered. Eric couldn't be so thankful because when his powers manifested, it indirectly put his brother in the hospital for a week and in a cast for several more weeks/months. Justin took it in stride and was just happy for all the girl affiliated attention he got from his cast. The small town they were from ate it up that one of their own turned out to be meta. Eric was infamous like that, but it made his brother and sister really popular.

"Aww, you don't gotta feel left out. I know of at least one person here that's control's weather. She's a teacher and power trainer....well she might be your power trainer, but um...still you don't gotta feel alone, 'cause you most certainly are not." He was a bit red around the ears for his captain obvious statement. When she giggled (he could tell it wasn't' directed at him), he chuckled along with her, because it was like a yawn; irresistible and contagious. "Well that's good," Eric said in reply to her liking it here. He liked it here too, despite the whole being involved in a hate-crime. He could get past that, though, especially since his black eye was gone. Now it was nothing but a scratchy memory. The scar on his forehead was still fresh, but it was fine since the stitches were gone, people were less likely to ask about it now.

Eric, at the moment, was just butting heads with his power. It hadn't really done him a bit of good since it manifested, but he was pretty sure that once he got control of it, it'd actually be pretty cool--not that it was a particularly handy power to have (unless he got stranded in the woods or something and needed to build a fire)--because when if he had control of it, then he wouldn't accidentally fling people into brick walls and tear down tree houses with people inside of them. "Yeah, it'll be nice once I get control of it, but I haven't been able to find the trigger yet, it just sorta happens. Yeah, I didn't believe the recruiter when he said I was meta too, but turns out he was right!" Eric laughed a little at their similar stories while he passed a hand through his hair. It was getting long enough that it was starting to bug him, but it was still short enough to stand on end when he ran his fingers through it. "That'd be really confusing. I'd think in circles about it," Eric admitted to her. He didn't really have that sort of problem with his tree power. It was interesting to think about, though.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery shook her head "No my trainer his name is Jude. I forget what his power is though. I would love to have a power like your though. But it is nice sometimes when I'm having a bad day and I'm crying. I notice its raining, its like its nice to know that I'm sad and so is the world. It sound selfish but thats how I feel."Avery ran a hand threw her hair too. She really wanted to tell Eric about the whole tornado thing. She was just scared that maybe it would make him runaway.

Finally coming to a conclusion she sighed. "The tornado incident...you see the whole story is I did make the tornado go threw the house, but it was meant to hurt somebody. I wanted it to hurt my dad. I was wishing he would just go away and leave us alone. On a deeper thought I think I wished him and my brother to die. Then that's when the tornado came. However my father got the point that I was done with him being mean to my mom and me. After I came here my mom told me she was pregnant, getting a divorce and marrying the man that's the baby's father. She is in main. My father took my brother and ran off. Now thats the whole story." Avery hung her head down low and sighed even more. She felt bad and telling the story over and over made her relive the pain of that day. For some reason she couldn't get over what had happened and it made her feel bad everyday.

[Eric Bower]

"Oh, my mistake," Eric replied meekly. It was kinda weird to him that there was a trainer with the same power as her (or maybe he was crazy and made it up) and she wasn't her trainer? Maybe Jude had something better? He could really make the connection in his mind so he decided to drop it. "Well, I wouldn't want my power, it's uh...gotten me into a lot of trouble." He unconsciously brought a hand up to the scar on his forehead, but he swore he wasn't going to get emo about it. It was over and done with, and he was fine really. Her view point on her power and feeling bad was kinda morbid, but she somehow saw it as a kinda good thing, which was pretty...well eye-opening for Eric. He wasn't sure what he saw from this point of view, but he felt wiser from it.

When she opened up for him, he had to fight the urge to skooch into the seat next to her and put a comforting arm around her shoulders, but in all actuality, the chair wasn't big enough for his hips and hers (not that he thought she had big hips or anything). So he resigned to patting her leg a few times. "Avery, I've only known you for like....five minutes. You are not a bad person, like, at all. I bet bunny rabbits have eviler bones in their bodies than you do," he touched the side of his nose like his mom used to do when he was feeling down or regretted something. "So don't reflect on it like it was a bad thing--at the time you had no way of knowing that was going to happen, or following through with what you thought, right? So you were actually lucky---in a really...really weird way. Uhm, if it makes you feel any better, I was stupidly crawling out on one of the thinner branches of the tree house trying to reach one of my old Tonka trucks? If my power hadn't manifested, I probably would have broken my neck. So how much of an idiot was I, right?" Eric chuckled at himself as that thought donned on him. If he hadn't been born meta, he'd totally be dead or in a full body cast right now. Wow.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery smiled "Your right. And I think I might be more eviler then a bunny, because bunnies are cute and adorable and the couldn't hurt a fly, where as I could." Avery chuckled slightly. She looked at Eric and she thought to herself 'I think I really made a good friend. Eric seems really cool and really nice.'"Thanks Eric. Your really cool. I'm glade I met you." Avery tapped his leg with her hand just like he did to her.

She was honestly really happy. She had friends in her old school but none as nice as him and she just met him. "Why where you getting a tonka truck? Did everything end up ok?" Avery was naturally concerned but that was part of her personality. At first she is shy but once she starts to connect, she is a loving person.