The Thing about Boredom (open)

[Kevin Venear]

The sun shone down on those in the court yard today, its warm glow drifting down into the field. The small puffs of clouds gently floating by, creating shadows that seemed to dance around on the grass. The warmth of the sun shone down upon Kevin, a meta human who today found himself bored and alone in the court yard. He had completed all the work he needed to, and was not really needed anywhere at the moment. so instead of walking around like a lost child, he sat down in the center of the yard. sitting cross legged he had his shoulder back next to him, full of books, and other usefull things.

With a sigh Kevin looked down, stareing at the sky for several minuets before. His eyes were full of the bright light, the it kinda hurt when he looked away. He rubbed his eyes for a second, to try and allow them to adjust to the light now. thinking for a second he thought that it might be fun to practice his power a little. Reaching into his bag Kevin pulled out a little battery powered lantern. Flipping the switch on, a small glow emitted from the glass jar shaped lantern. The artificial light gave off a false sense of security, one that Kevin could destroy.

With a smile he took out a small rubber ball. One that was black like it had been burnt or set fire to before. Gripping the ball in his left hand he focused, and began to throw the ball up into the air. With the lantern sitting in the grass, still alight, the teen focused hard. The lantern dimmed a little, and after a second the light left the lamp.

But the ball, the target, that was still being tossed at a rythemic speed was not glowing. He stopped tossing the ball as he noticed that instead of moving the light to the ball, he had moved it to his hand. From wrist to finger tips his hand was giving a glow from the light. Shaking as if a fire had started he paniced, which caused the light to shoot back to the lantern, then it shut off. He looked around sucpisoiusly, as if he had committed a crime.

[Elena Williams]

Elena was sprawled carelessly across the grassy ground of the courtyard, her hair brushed back into a messy bun for once. Her Converse clad feet waved in the air idly as she stared intensely at the notebook in front of her. Her messy, lopsided script filled roughly half of that page and nearly three quarters of the book. She had recently began attempting to write a novel and it had been going very well as of yet. She had been filled with loads of inspiration thanks to Hammel and it's students. Her pen tapped a simple rhythm on the page as she considered how to word the next sentence. A brilliant smile spread across her face as she finally decided the best way to get it down and she quickly scribbled away, tongue poking out delicately from in between her teeth.

A few minutes flew by as the blond teen wrote furiously, a pleased smile settling on her lips. She was thoroughly enjoying the writing. It was one of her methods of relaxation. When she wrote anything - music, short stories or even in her journal - it was her way of getting it out. Elena hated sharing her emotions with people and often struggled with showing them too, so writing about how she felt always seemed to help. She paused in her writing, setting her pen down lightly before shaking her hand. It was starting to feel cramped so she decided it was time to take a break. She capped the lid on her pen and snapped the book shut, slipping both of them into the messenger bag that was next to her.

Lena rolled onto her back, squinting up at the sunny sky. She sighed blissfully, eyes drifting shut briefly as she enjoyed the sun's warmth. Though she favored rain, Elena did enjoy a nice warm day. Especially when it wasn't overly hot. A few more minutes flew by as the meta-human allowed herself to relax. She started to feel drowsy but she wouldn't allow herself to fall asleep outside, so she reluctantly opened her eyes and sat up, stretching as she did so. She glanced around curiously, spotting a guy waving his hand frantically. She saw light shoot from his glowing - glowing?! - hand into a lantern before it disappeared. He was looking around and Elena caught his eyes.

"Are you alright?" she called, her Welsh accent thick, despite the six years she had spent away from Wales itself.

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[Kevin Venear]

To be honest Kevin was not paying any attention to anyone in the courtyard today, he knew there were people there but he could careless, didn’t mind who was there or if they had just seen what he had done. Sure he was a bit shy and kind of embarrassed that he had screwed up his power right there in front of everyone, but he was not going to make a scene and attract any more attention than what he was already getting. Raising his head up to look was more out of shame and the need to know no one was looking, rather than to see who was looking, but as he did gaze around he glanced over another student a female, a attractive female at that. But he was not one for stareing at others and did not really pay her much mind, allowing his eyes to continue past her.

However, his head snapped back almost like a cat hearing a noise, when her words entered his head. They were sweet and gentle, accompanied by a accent that he could not pick out. He turned to see her, laying his eyes on hers as her question finally settled in his mind. He was quiet for a few minuets, silent as to what he should say. Not many people just talked to him out of no where, it was rare for someone who was not close to him already to engage him. But he was glad this girl did.

“Ummm..yea…im fine. Sorry if..I scared you. I was just trying to get some practice in today, not really working out though.”
He kind of mumbled and stuttered through his sentences, afraid that he might say something wrong or offend her. So he stuck to the general basic stuff, and looked down the whole time. After seeing her bright beautiful eyes, he decided to not look into them, blushing a little. He was never good with girls, being super shy and a nerd also, these things turned girls back in his hometown away. He was a creep to them, so he also shelled up when around them.

Turning his head back around he picked up the lantern and tossed it into his bag, annoyed that eh had screwed up, and even more upset at the fact that he had been seen by another student. Not that he wanted to impress her, but he didn’t have many friends, and he did not want people going around thinking he was a freak or a loser.

[Elena Williams]

Elena smiled at his words, nodding in acceptance. She understood that using powers at Hammel didn't always end too well. After all, the entire point of the place was to train you and mistakes were a given. Anybody who claimed not to have made an error was obviously lying. "I know the feeling," she told him dryly. She was curious as to why he wouldn't look at her, but chalked it up to him either being shy in general, or simply shy around girls. Could have been both. She didn't know the guy or anything, so it wasn't like she would be able to know. Reaching up and rubbing the back of her neck absently, she watched as he put the lantern into a bag next to him.

Wanting to talking to him some more, just to find out if he really was that shy, Elena mused loudly, "You know when I first shifted - I'm a shape shifter - I turned into this huge teddy bear." She giggled to herself at the memory. Thought it had been painful and scary as hell at the time, she couldn't help but laugh whenever she thought back on it now. It helped provide amusement whenever she thought about, so she often relived the memory when she was feeling a little down. Unless, of course, she was feeling down about her powers. Not always the best idea to think about one of her mistakes when she was moping about making them all the time. No, not a good idea at all. A wry smiled tugged at her mouth and she shook her head, ridding herself of those thoughts.

Elena stood slowly, scooping up her bag and slipping the strap over her head. She walked over to the boy, sitting down opposite him. She sat Indian style, pulling her bag off again. Really, she didn't know why she had but it back on in the first place. There had been no point to it, but Elena found that lately, there was less and less point to the things she was doing. It seemed the older she was getting, the less common sense she had. And she had never had very much common sense in the first place. She sighed inwardly, barely refraining from sighing out loud. That would cause questions to be asked she didn't really fancy asking. She had no want to appear crazy to someone she didn't even know the name of.

Oh, that reminds me! she thought, rolling her eyes at herself. Lena stuck a hand out, making sure the boy before her could see it. "I'm Elena," she introduced brightly, a warm smile on her face.

[Kevin Venear]

She spoke, her words floating out over the courtyard and into his ears. He was glad she still wanted to speak to him, after him lowering his head and being shy in front of her. Kevin was just not good with words, and he was afraid to speak at all. It didn’t help that they were far apart and were speaking loud enough for those around to hear. He still listened though, happy someone was giving him some attention. He couldn’t help but force a small smile across his face and look up at her as she told him about her power and the mistake he had made. It made him feel a little better knowing that others, like her, had messed up with their powers to. His eyes met hers as he heard about her ability to shape shift. A really awesome ability that he had heard about but never really seen before. Apparently she wanted to continue to talk also for she now stood and walked over to Kevin, sitting across from him, a small smile on his face.

Fro a second he thought back to his home town, back to when he was going up in school with his two best friends. One was a girl, who was remarkable different than this one, but he was even shy around her. She was one of his closest and trusted friends, yet if it wasn’t for Donald, his one guy friend, then all the time she hung out with amber would have been extremely awkward. He had no idea what it was, he just could not muster the strength to be normal around the female species.

But none the less he was happy right now. She had moved her arm out close to him and said her name was Elena. He turned slightly red again, and extended his arm to hers. Mumbling at first, then raising his voice so she could hear him, trying hard to not run her off.
“Im Kevin…its nice to meet you Elena. And sorry if its rude but I found your story bout the teddy bear kind of funny. Sorry…*
He felt the need apologize, not wanting to hurt her feelings for laughing at a mistake she made.

[Elena Williams]

Elena grinned when he took her hand and shook, introducing himself as Kevin. She shook his hand gently, another bright smile painted across her face. "Lovely to meet you," she chirped. And it actually was. She found his shyness endearing and sweet and she couldn't help the affection and fondness that rose in her when the demure boy said he found her story funny. He had seemed to brighten a bit after she had shared the story and she assumed it was because she had shared one of her own mistakes after seeing one of his.

"No worries," she assured him warmly. "I usually think about it when I'm upset to make me laugh." She grinned again, eyes sparkling with laughter. She cocked her head to the side, watching him curiously. She smiled at Kevin, leaning back onto her palms so she was half lying down and half sitting up. It was a favorite position of hers, actually. It was quite comfortable and she didn't get pins and needles if she stayed like it too long, so it was all good.

"Shape shifting's like that though," she commented lightly. "You make loads of mistakes, usually the type where you end up stuck in one form for a while. Hurts like hell, but it's fun, so I guess it evens it all out, you know?" Before Kevin could reply, she plunged on, eyes glinting in curiosity. "So, I take it your power is light related, right?" She knew it was, of course, but it was just if it was absorption or manipulation or something else. She was 90% sure it was absorption, but it couldn't hurt to ask.

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[Kevin Venear]

For some reason, when Elena’s hand gripped his, he felt a odd sensation inside of him. Not one he had felt many times before, and it felt weird, but good at the same time. It caused him to slowly pull his hand away from hers, not in a fast rough motion, but a slow shy smooth move. His face got bright red as he shifted his eyes again. He couldn’t stop smiling now, he wasn’t a sad depressed boy all the time but smiling was rare for him, and now that he couldn’t remove it, well it was just strange. She said it was lovely to meet him, to him those words meant a lot, for not many people said them. He chuckled a little, not really knowing why. He shifted a little as she sat back on her arms, stretching his legs a bit. In a odd way he got closer to her on accident, but didn’t mind or even show that he noticed.

Elena then started to talk about her power a little, and how she made mistakes in shape shifting sometime. She kept going, not really giving him much of a chance to respond to her words right away. Kevin didn’t mind though, he enjoyed listening to her talk, her soft voice welcoming, all he could do was sit there and listen, a smile plastered on his face. Sitting half cross legged he moved his hands to his lap and started to fiddle his fingers, trying to not get to entranced by her words and still stay focused on what she was saying. He was lost in her eyes now, finally looking back up to make eye contact. As if he was in a dream he could not help but be happy.

She paused for a second, then started to talk about his power, asking him about light related abilities. It took him a second to process this, then a bit startled responded.
“Umm yea..yea I can absorb light from objects and transfer it into other things.”
Kevin stopped and moved his hands from his lap. Leaning back a little he almost matched the way Elena was sitting.
“I was trying to make this ball glow, but missed and filled my hand full of light. Haha failed big time”
He held up the small rubber ball that was sitting in the grass next to him, then tossed it back to the side as if it didn’t matter. He laughed a little and just sat there in silence, unsure of what to say.