Take Our Meals By the Pond [open]

[Keavy Sparrow]

In this day and age, wireless electronic communications streamed through the air everywhere. Ten years ago, this would not have been as much of a problem. Twenty years ago, it would have been barely an issue. One hundred years ago, no one would have even known what "electronic transmissions" really meant or how they would eventually be used. Unfortunately for Keavy Sparrow, she lived in the here and now when and where they were everywhere. She couldn't go five feet without something to bother her. When her abilities were first blooming, she took aspirin all the time for the headaches. Now, she knew that even though it helped, it wasn't a good idea.

Of course, as she popped two aspirin into her mouth and washed them down with a bottle of water, Keavy decided that she could really care less for such nonsense.

Keavy sat cross-legged on a green and orange checked blanket, a woven basket lay beside her filled with all sorts of goodies like potato chips and pickles and sandwiches from ham to peanut butter that she'd taken from the cafeteria during lunch time because the day was too perfect and sunny to spend all her time inside. Outside there was sun that sparkled off the beautiful pond, shade provided by a large oak tree, and soft earth to eat on.

She screwed the lid back onto her water bottle and set it beside her knee, then, looking around for another person--anybody--to join her, Keavy took out two sandwiches: a peanut butter and strawberry jelly and a roast beef and salami out of the basket. She laid on on the ground on the other side of her basket and unwrapped the plastic protecting the peanut butter and jelly. Then, with a final glance around, Keavy began to munch on her sandwich contentedly. Someone would want to join her eventually. Someone not worried about something as silly as rudeness.

Really, what person would come out here with all this food if they weren't willing to share?

[Alexander Lyons]

(Sorry for the bad post hope u don't mind I joined)

It was a beautiful day and Alex had to be outside. Even though he loved the cold days like this made him want to go outside more than the snow. He thought about where he would go after he left his dorm for quite some time. He was a little hungry but, he hadn't gone to the pond all week. So it was decided then the pond it was.

He got off his bed and changed his clothes. A black t-shirt with black cargo shorts would be fine for today. It was a little warm to him while it may be average temperature to others. His powers really did affect him some time. It made him look like the only weirdo sometimes. Being the only person who was wearing shorts while other people where really uncomfortable. He checked under his bed for some shoes but decided just to wear flips flops. He put them on then just walked outside.

He kinda rushed to the pond he hoped he would be alone. He hadn't really talked to anyone since he been here. He was a shy person you know. It wasn't easy for him to find friends until they initiated the conversation. When he finally approached the pond he dipped his hand in. With a touch of his hand the water started to crystallize.

Anyone with common sense could tell that he had froze the pond. The whole entire upper layer was frozen. He looked up to see a girl at the other side of the pond. He decided he might be nice if he wanted to make any friends here. So he walked on the frozen pond to where she was sitting. "Uhhh... Hi"

[Keavy Sparrow]

Keavy knew that she was at a school for people with odd abilities. After all, she had only gotten in because of her ability to make cordless phones ring for no reason at all... and randomly knowing about the texts her parents sent each other though she didn't want to think of that. So watching as the pond froze over at the touch of a fairly handsome-looking boy put a huge grin on her face. She wanted company and he appeared, like that. Part of her wondered if he was psychic or if someone psychic sensed that she wanted company and decided to throw a poor unsuspecting person her way. Poor unsuspecting male...

Of course, compared to him, she was actually dressed for the weather. With an undershirt, a set of long underwear, one of her favorite floral dresses, a pink sweater with lining in various colors of yarn, and a rainbow winter coat on top just covering the top half of Keavy's body, she could expect to be fairly warm. From the waste down, it looked like she was just wearing jeans and some hiking boots. Whoever thought that would we wrong, wrong, wrong, but Keavy didn't want to think about her personal insulation.

Instead, she picked up the still plastic-wrapped roast beef and salami sandwich and held it towards the boy. Inwardly she hoped he liked roast beef and salami. Keavy rather thought it was pretty good. "Hello, I'm Keavy. Wanna eat with me?"

Keavy took another bite of her peanut butter and jelly. She thought about offering him some water as well, but he could see the open basket. He could invite himself or maybe she'd have to invite him once her mouth was full.

[Alexander Lyons]

Alex sat down across from her. He really didn't eat a lot of meat. He was trying to become a vegetarian so he would prefer not eat the sandwich in front of him. "No thanks I don't like meat, but if you have a apple or something in that basket that would be nice." He gave a nice smile. "My name is Alex by the way."

He looked at the peanut butter and jelly sandwich that the girl was wearing. That looked pretty nice. He was a little surprised to see somebody else by the pond. There usually wasn't anyone else here by this time but hey it wasn't his problem now. Maybe he might make his first friend here. He fixed his cargo shorts and looked around. He wondered if any other people where around the pond he thought was his private hangout. Even though he thought wrong.

What really was on his mind was what her power was. He knew all the kids here were gifted and he would like to know what the powers of the people around him were. Hopefully nobody here would be able to control fire. He would try to stay clear out of a kid like thats way.

He didn't want to directly ask but hey she had seen his power. Even if it was not on purpose. He looked into his hand as he froze the water pressure around him and there was a little ball of ice in his hand. "So since you have seen my power whats yours?" He hoped he didn't sound rude. He didn't like sounding like a jerk.

[Keavy Sparrow]

Keavy sighed. No meat? What kind of a person avoided meat? Well, she knew that some people thought of meat as non-essential. They also thought of it as a waste of animal life or something like that. And animals did have a bunch of diseases that human could catch, but proper cooking prevented that. Maybe vegetarianism was a good idea after all. Keavy mentally shrugged. She'd just have to respect his wishes. Why did she have to go for the peanut butter and jelly before he could tell her he didn't eat meat? She could've given him her sandwich!

Well, it was good she packed a lot.

Keavy set her sandwich on one of her knees. Then, she reached into the basket and pulled out a bottle of water and another sandwich in a bag. This was peanut butter and grape jelly. She passed them both to the boy and added, "You can help yourself if you like. There's carrots and cheese... unless you don't like animal products. I didn't grab any apples because I'm not a big fan... sorry."

She picked up her sandwich and took a bite, chewing as she thought of how to respond to showing off her power to the boy. Of course, she didn't know how exactly to do that, unless the boy had a cell phone. She closed her eyes and tried to find a cell phone or email that could belong to this Alex. It would be a signal coming in extremely close for a cell phone. Not far away at all. She just concentrated on altering things so that it would seem like the phone was getting an incoming call. She wasn't very good, so all the cell phones in the school could ring or one that wasn't Alex, but it was worth a shot.

Then, Keavy waited to see if there would be a response from anything. She hoped the dull ache in her head wouldn't increase. The aspirin hadn't kicked in yet.

[Alexander Lyons]

Alex took the peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a smile. "Thanks a lot." He took a bite out of it. He didn't mind that she didn't have a apple peanut butter and jelly would do just fine. He wasn't that picky. He just didn't want to eat meat. He didn't mind animal by products he just didn't like meats. I think it had something to do with whenever he ate meat it was cooked and he didn't like hot things.

So maybe he was just trying to blame everything on his powers but who cares. He swallowed the piece he bit off before he spoke again. " I don't mind animal products. I just don't like meat that much. I guess you can say i am a little picky." Alex didn't carry a phone with him all the time.

It was actually his ipod that was always on hand. It started blasting music in his pocket so he took it out. "Did you do that." He know he didn't turn it on. His movement might have turned it on but that wasn't likely. Maybe it was an accident though. Then he would feel like a total dummy.

[Keavy Sparrow]

Keavy practically jumped out of her skin when she heard is ipod go off. She'd never done anything like that before. Ever. She'd done random things with cell phones and laptop computers. However, she had learned to stay away from ipods just the same as anything else with the possibility of being wireless. In fact, she stayed as far away from them as much as possible so she knew less about ipods than most people did. Last she'd checked, you couldn't make an ipod turn on wirelessly like phones, but maybe she was wrong and that had changed. Keavy still didn't completely understand her ability beyond the fact that it was mostly a pain in the ass.

"I'm... not sure. Does it get a wireless signal? Because... that's what I do... I can sorta tap into electronic communications. Cellphones... wifi.... that sort of thing. Mostly it just gives me headaches right now, but that's why I'm here to learn. Sorry."

Keavy giggled nervously and then she swallowed and took a final huge bite of her sandwich shoving the whole thing into her mouth and chewed. She figured that'd give him time to get used to the idea of her powers and keep her from making more of a fool of herself. Here she was at a school to learn how to control her powers and it still looked like she was the least versed in even trying to use her ability. She really must suck, but wireless communications were so boring when being face-to-face with actual human beings was much more fun.

What could you get off an electronic thingy-ma-bob that you couldn't get off of just watching other people? Weren't the people around you great enough that people half the world away didn't compare when you couldn't even get to know them in the same way?

Keavy understood that people half the world away were just that much different from the people that surrounded the people closest to you. However, it was no where near her preference due to the headaches such things gave her. While watching people and learning about them without a computer or cellphone was so much easier. It required almost no effort, and it was easy as walking outside and just looking around. How much easier could it get?

Well, thinking about such things were a waste of time and present company was so much more interesting. Keavy swallowed and waited for a response. She popped the joints in her hands and smiled through her mouth full of sandwich.

[Alexander Lyons]

Due to the fact that it was an ipod touch it did have wifi connection. He was kinda confused about her power but it sounded like she was too. So he didn't want to pry into her life like that anyway. He decided to make a joke out of it instead. "So your why my phone goes off randomly late at night." He chuckled a little bit before taking another bite.

The truth was he didn't know how to control his powers very well either. He froze his own bed once. That day his roommates sure must of thought of him as a weirdo. He looked like a sleeping icicle. He kind of put his head down. What if he made her feel bad? The joke wasn't really that funny. Especially if it might of been at the expense of her feelings.

He should think more before he talked. He was such an idiot. He was getting nervous and didn't' even notice he was freezing the sandwich in his hands. That was until he took a bite of the frozen peanut butter and jelly and chipped his tooth. He felt like such a loser now. He dropped the sandwich as he tried to check if his tooth was ok. Except for the immense pain going through it right now.

Great now she probably thought she was sitting with a strange loser. No wonder he couldn't make friends. He couldn't stop thinking of insults for himself. He was so pissed. He thought he might of chipped his tooth. Been rude to the girl who offered him a sandwich. What else could go wrong? Truthfully he didn't want to know.

[Keavy Sparrow]

Keavy giggled a little when Alex mentioned his phone going off at night. Internally, she was actually beginning to worry. Had that happened before? Had she been sleeping and caused the phones in her house to go off? Was that why her parents sent her to Hammel? To finally get a good night's sleep? But, Keavy shrugged it off. If that was the case, it was for her own good as well as theirs. And they still loved her because they tried to talk to her every day. How could she be selfish to be upset over something as silly as that? It wasn't her fault and now she was going to learn how to stop that from happening. So she should just stop.

Just then, as though someone out there saw Keavy's worried, the boy accidentally froze his sandwich and hurt himself when he went to take a bite. Keavy's mind immediately switched from her own problems to the boy's.

"Are you okay? What happened?" she asked in concern, leaning forward to try to see just what the problem was as the boy messed around with his mouth.

Keavy tried to think of the things that could happen from biting into ice. Had he lost or hurt something in his mouth? Did something get stuck like lips to a frozen pole? What could she do to help? Could she use her ability to reach the nurse from here or would that just lead to more problems?