Good songs, [Eric]

[Eric Bower]

"Yes, but have you ever held one? They kick with them back legs, and it hurts. And they poop on you too," Eric replied with a tilt of his chin. Bunnies were evil things indeed, they just got good reputations because they are cute and extremely fluffy. Eric's on to them~! "And most things would hurt flies. They are nasty and are annoying when they fly around your head. I commend you for your war against flies, and ask to join you on your quest." Eric = nerd. Big time. He smiled sheepishly when she patted his leg and told him she was glad to meet him. He looked bashfully down at his lap and picked at his nail, because he honestly didn't know what to say back to that. Thanks just didn't seem to cut it.

He realized she didn't know the entire story to his Tonka Truck rescue mission, he kinda smacked himself mentally because of that. She couldn't read his mind so she didn't know the whole story. "Well me and my big brother were just chilling in our old treehouse, playing with all our toys that were still up there that were, like completely covered in dust. My sister's dollhouse had a family of squirrels living in it. Anyway, when we saw that Justin's--my brothers--and my favorite Tonka Truck was precariously perked on a branch, I was volunteered to get it. I fell, and a bigger tree branch moved to catch me like Treebeard or something like that," Lord of the Rings reference, Eric = nerd, "and it collapsed the treehouse with my brother inside of it. His arm broke in like a million places and he had to spend a lot of time in the hospital which was all my fault. If the branch hadn't moved to catch my fall, then my brother never woulda gotten hurt." Eric shrugged his shoulders as he recounted what happened. He was entirely at fault there, what kind of idiot climbs out on a thin branch that's twenty or so feet from the ground? Eric.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery smiled "Sounds to me its kinda similar. If I never wished my dad to be hurt a tornado would have never ripped my house in half. My family would still be together and I would be with them and my animals." Avery didn't know what else to say. Sometimes she was good at making people feel better, other times, not so much. However she definitely could relate. The pain she still harbored for trying to hurt her family was the evidence for that.

Avery produced a weak smile. "So are you still really close to your brother? Does he have an ability to?" She was really curious about that. Her brother didn't seem to have an ability but then again maybe he didn't deserve one.

[Eric Bower]

"Yeah, but again, you had like, no way of knowing that your wishing woulda actually done something. And it sounds like to me that your dad is a dick, no offense though, so maybe it's better for you to not be around him?" Eric shrugged, he didn't consider himself good at advice giving, at all. Generally Eric was a happy person, and it didn't take a lot for him to be happy. When he was sad, it also didn't take a lot of work on someone else's part to cheer him up. He was maybe too optimistic for his own good--and innocent.

"We keep in touch, but several hundred miles makes it hard to be close to anyone," that really was just meant to be a joke and Eric kinda laughed at it. "Nah, out of the three of us, I'm the only one with a power--well Amanda is still too young to tell, but hopefully not. I'd feel sorry for Hammel if she was." Eric did love his sister, but she was a brat, and he knew it. His parents knew it. Everyone knew it. Justin, was the star player. Everyone loved him, everyone wanted to be his friend. He had started out almost as socially awkward as Eric, but now he knew how to talk to everyone about anything. Eric secretly aspired to be like his brother, but it was hard with Justin wasn't around to influence him, especially when Zac was.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery smiled "Sometimes I wish I had a brother I could be close with. It must be nice to have someone to hang out with...well, use to anyway. So what do you like to do around here?" Being still new Avery was curious what else there was around here. Maybe a pool, or a gym. She wasn't quite sure. All she knew was she wished there was more besides school, training and music. There most likely was, but she probably didn't know about it yet. "Does Hammel have a pool?"

[Eric Bower]

"Yeah, it was pretty cool but he was a few years older than me," Eric answered honestly with a small smile. Usually, when Eric had wanted to play with his older brother, Justin had obliged for a half hour or something, until he'd become too bored or needed to do something else, however Eric had quite the slew of friends so it wasn't like he didn't have any other play mates. "Oh, for fun? I usually hang outside with my friends and uh...hang out. And work out too. I run a lot, some people hang out in here but even though I love video games, I can't spend too long outside. Uhm...a pool? I honestly don't know....I know there is a pond, that's outside, but it's not for swimming. It's got fish in it. Oh what are they called....the big pretty ones. Coin? Cor...Koi!" Eric snapped his fingers when he remembered the name of the fish, and generally felt proud of himself for being able to remember.

"The older kids generally leave school grounds for fun and go...do stuff. I'm not exactly sure what, but the mall is really popular."

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery sighed "I would like to go to the mall. I'm more of a shopper. I love shopping its a very bad hoby. I mean I probably spend alot of money on clothes, but my mom always paid for it. " She smiled and placed her hand on her knee. "So I asume you can't stay outside to much because of your ability?" Avery could understand that. She spent alot of times wondering if it was sunny outside because she wanted it to be. Avery realized that the permanet lush on her cheeks went away because they didn't feel warm. "Do make the tree's dance and stuff?" She wasn't trying to be mean she was just honestly curious.

[Eric Bower]

"Oh the mall is cool and all. I haven't been yet. I uh...tried once, but got kinda lost." He unconsciously lifted a hand and touched the scar over his eye. He looked down at his lap for a moment and then looked up at her. "Maybe we could go together sometime, and just hang out? You could go shopping, and I could do something that doesn't envolve training. For once." He was exaggerating, of course, but it would be nice to get off the grounds for a change, and away from Zac's....Zacness.

"Oh, I can go outside, I haven't figure out my trigger yet, so I do my best not to...linger I suppose, but I was raised to play outside...well mostly, so I don't like being inside too much. The last few times my power started to work was because I was dancing or crazily distressed." Eric stroked his chin in thought for a moment. "I'm sure I will be fine if I don't start dancing. On the off chance that I start, smack me in the head or something." Eric grinned a little as she asked about his power, he nodded a little.

"This one time, I was dancing to the Monstermash outside on the courtyard, when a tree started to move its branches like my hands." He mimed his arms twisting around his torso for a moment before he dropped them back into his lap, "And then I started to head bang and the top of the tree started to flip down like my head was doing. It almost hurt a girl...and threw a kid into the wall." That 'kid' was Zac, don't tell him that Eric referred to him as a 'kid', please.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery gave a weak smile. She felt bad for him, not knowing what triggered it. For her it was easy to know what the problem was. When she creid it rained when she was happpy it was nice out, wkhen she blushed the sun became unbareble sometimes. "Maybe its when your happy? Or when you let your guard down. I mean it has to be when you do something right?" Avery looked at Eric with the I'm sorry I can't help but I'll try anyway look. "So do you spend alot of time in the student lounge?" Avery looked around and sighed. The lounge was still pretty full. "I haven't even heard of a student lounge until Hammel."

[Eric Bower]

"It makes sense for it to be, but I'm happy like...all the time." Eric shrugged his shoulders. His power was like Murphey's Law--or something like that. It worked when he didn't want it to, and it never worked when he tried to get it to. However, his eyebrows knit together in thought when she mentioned him letting his guard down. Him dancing out in the courtyard could only happen if he was completely immersed in his mind and the music and he just forgot his surroundings; guard completely down. "Avery! I think you figured it out!" He was nearly bouncing from his elation. It was just so simple. wasn't it?! When he was the least bit focused, his power worked, through that he would have to figure out exactly what caused his power to work and his training could begin properly! (and Zac would get off his back.)

"Oh, I don't usually. I spend all my time on homework and training." Well, training with Zac, but that was pretty much the same thing, right? "I like being outside more. Just things tend to happen when I got outside, like trees flinging students left and right--not to mention the weather is juuuust a tad bit too cold for me. It rarely got this cold where I am from." Eric shivered a little as if just talking about the weather lowered the temperature in here a few degrees. "Uhm, I think big private schools like this have them, but we sure as heck didn't have one at my public school."