Lets get down to business (Aislinn)

[ash]

Why was he being so sweet to her? It’d be easier to ignore him and move on with her life if he stopped with the cute comments and being sweet. It wasn’t like she was inviting it or anything, he was just…doing it! Why? Well, probably for the same reason that most boys did the things they did, to get in her pants or something…right? That was what her aunts always told her and from what she had seen, it was entirely true. Sad, but true. He didn’t seem to want that from what she could tell. But he was making her all flustered which made her hair turn pink which was…annoying. She hated that quirk about herself. She was trying to remain impassive and move on as soon as possible, he was simply making that hard for reasons she didn’t understand! Why was he making this so hard for her? Was it a random mission in life for him or something? She shook her head and turned her attention back to him, because now he was talking.

And now he was complementing her. Again. She blushed a bit, but she was a bit shocked. How had he known to pick a dark blue for her? That was beyond weird to her…she wore all white, she kept herself entirely impassive and never showed any preference, but when she walked in dreams, she always wore dark blue. It was her favorite color, which was a fact she never told anyone. ”I would if I could” she muttered entirely to herself, without realizing she had spoken out loud. And then she shook her head and turned her attention back to him, trying not to dwell on the fact that she had just spoken to herself out loud. ”Why do you say dark blue?” she asked, curious. She was so not going to comment on the fact that he had paid her a complement. Not if she could help it!

But the way he acted after he spoke, that was what made her question her earlier thought that boys only paid you complments to get in your pants. He was acting all bashful, rocking on his heels and all and it actually made her laugh a bit. It was a soft noise that she so rarely used…ever. And she had shocked herself that she had actually laughed for once. Usually Finn was the only one to ever hear her laugh about…anything. But she had laughed in front of this boy. She ducked her face behind her hair until she could compose herself enough to rejoin the real world.

She nodded, impressed about his affinity. It seemed more useful than her stupid one. Not that hers was actually an affinity. She had been born with her ability to dream walk. And her ability to get sucked in to the damn place if she wasn’t careful. Subconsciously her hand came up the brush the always lit lantern that hung around her neck. It was her guide back to the real world if she ever got stuck in the land of dreams and such. But that was what happened when she was born in that world, and not this one. She was never supposed to manifest physically in the real world, but she had. And she wanted to stay here. She nodded at him thought, the cute boy. She didn’t want to think that, but she did. ”At least you have a useful affinity, Xander” she said with a small smile, still being impassive but unable to help that little smile. It had mostly been because she had actually said his name. She kinda liked how it was…different. ”Mine is entirely useless” she said, slightly exhasperated with it, obviously.

She tilted her head a bit, studying him after her own wolf, her friend and companion that usually helped her ward off boys and helped her be her impassive self backed down. Finn never backed down, especially not around boys. That was why she had called him Finvarra in the first place! He didn’t like boys and usually he was so good at keeping them away from her. But he had backed down from this one. What did that say about him. She frowned a little, studying the boy when his attention was on her pup. He had never back down before. She wasn’t used to that in the slightest. She pulled her face back into neutral when Xander had straightened and spoken. ”I suppose so” she replied, her voice thoughtful. Because she was. This was something that had never happened to her before. It was so strange.

She wasn’t sure how she felt about it.

Words: 779
Muse: Good
Comments: She's being all flustered. It's funny

[xander]

Xander couldn't help how he was feeling right now. He was completely captivated by Ash. Why? He couldn't have told someone if he tried. It was weird. On a normal instance, this girl would have bumped into him and he would have told her not to worry about it and went back to his meditating.

She had broken him right out of it and he had fallen into a trance. It was almost as if she had him under a spell. She just radiated light, there was barely ever a facial expression on her face but even just that was beautiful. He found himself odd for actually thinking that anyway. Xander usually thought girls were attractive but not like this.

He just liked everything about her so far in the mere moments that he had known her, he liked her smile when it was there of course and he liked the tone of her voice, he liked when she blushed. He loved when she blushed. She had just been blushing when he had been talking about her hair and how Dark blue would be good for it.

She said she would make it that color if she could and he raised an eyebrow at her. He was curious, maybe he should pry. Maybe she didn't wanna Risk it, maybe her parents wouldn't let her do that color. Xander wouldn't know, he knew nothing of parents he didn't remember or even know his.

"Well Why can't you? If you don't mind my asking"he asked softly with his head cocked to the side. he wanted to know why and he didn't think it was too much to ask. Well, even if it was, he really didn't mind.

Then she asked him why he picked Dark blue and Xander stopped for a moment. Why had he chosen Dark blue? He was so not sure. He just looked at her and thought Dark blue. She looked stunning in white, but Dark blue just seemed like a color for her and he couldn't explain it, he just thought the color was so her. How to tell her thought that was the problem.

"Well..When I look at you..that is just a color that comes out at me..Dark blue is a color for you..I think so"he said with a bit of a shrug and a blush on his own face. What if she didn't like that answer? Or worse, what if it made her upset and she left? He didn't want her to leave in the slightest.

She nodded about his affinity and she seemed to be deep in thought about it. She probably thought it was a dumb affinity to have or something. Xander mentally shrugged, most of the time he found it kind of useless too but that was only to others. It was useful for him who was in fact a Martial arts specialist and he had been since before he was even marked.

She spoke now and he smiled because he liked the sound of her voice, she said that at least his affinity was useful and he was about to speak and ask what hers was and she said that hers was useless and he shook his head. He strongly doubted that anything she ever did could be useless so he just smiled and spoke"I doubt that...what is it?"

He hoped that he wasn't prying or anything. Once again he was afraid that he had over stepped his boundaries. Once again he was afraid that she would just get scared and run off. He sighed and took a deep breath...She wasn't going anywhere...if she was, wouldn't she have left already?

He was having fun as he had pet her little wolf and he smiled as he straightened. The wolf liked him so that meant he had gotten in with Ash some what right? He hoped so because he wanted to spend so much more time with her. Find out as much as he could about her, was that odd? He didn't think so.

"So When will i see you again?"He asked shyly and almost hesitantly. Was he being to forward? He took a deep breath he needed to stop freaking out. If she was still here then she was still here and she wasn't going anywhere. Maybe she would agree to go out with him. Maybe she wouldn't either way he had to see her. "Gotta teach you meditation an all"he added shyly. That made it less intimidating or scary if she was worried. He hoped she wasn't but you never know.

Words: 810
Muse: Good!
Notes: it is, this word count is epic for Xander.

[ash]

Ash blinked when he asked why she couldn’t do it that color. For a moment he had stumpted the little trickster child who could usually spin a lie in under a second when she needed to to cover her ass. But for a moment, just that one little moment really, she was stuck because…in all truth…she hadn’t actually expected him to hear what she had said, she thought she had said it quiet enough. She shrugged though a moment later, recovering enough to cover her tracks as best as she could actually manage at this point because she had after all been stumpted for a moment. She hoped he hadn’t noticed, she prayed as much. Daughter of a goddess, someone should be listening, right? ”Its just a parental thing.” she finally answered.

It wasn’t exactly a lie after all, just almost one. She was careful about that, it helped her remember if it was almost the truth. It was a parental thing that she had the pink in her hair, it came from her immortal half of the heritage. And it was also because of that that no hair dye worked in her hair. It would just run off like water. It was so frustrating to the girl who would so much rather dye her hair a wacky color or two. It would have helped with Ash’s need to stand out in a crowd, while still being her quiet, inside herself self.

He was blushing again, and she couldn’t help the little thought that said that was kind of cute. He gave off this vibe, like he didn’t want from her what all the other boys wanted because of her looks. But at the same time, she wouldn’t let herself get too close to this boy. She didn’t let herself get close to anyone, that was a disaster waiting to happen according to Ash. But she thought it was sweet that he was blushing as he stated what she would look good with. She shrugged a bit when he said that was the color that seemed to go best with her, for no set reason as far as she could tell. ”Maybe its my eyes” she said with a small smile, just the tiniest of hints that she was actually amused right now.

She would have run off a while ago if she wasn’t of course. Ash didn’t usually stick around.

She liked his affinity though, it was useful. Hers wasn’t. At least with his he could be calm and center himself but also he could defend himself if he needed to. It was so much better than hers. Hers ended up almost tugging her out of this world every time she used it. Even though hers wasn’t an affinity in truth, hers was more…something she had been born being ble to do. If you could call what she was being born after all. She liked his though, this Xander. It seemed to fit him too which bothered her to think about too hard. She refused to start thinking about seeing him again, but the thought popped into her head anyway.

She reasoned it away as him being interesting and her being lonely or bored. She was going to stick to that too, no way she would let anyone think, even herself, that she would actually be interested in someone else, in a boy none the less. That wasn’t allowed to happen, not with Ash who had to be on her own. She had to do justice to her heritage. She wouldn’t let herself fall for people. Not boys. They only ever wanted one thing anyway.

He said he doubted that and asked what hers was. She shook her head. Hers was so usesless and he would see that in a moment when she told him so. She debated in her head how to put it, but in the end she figured that simplicity when dealing with these things would be best. She couldn’t explain it really without getting into to much about who she was after all. ”I can dreamwalk.” she said simply with a little shrug as if that one word entirely explained what she could do. How she tended to give people nightmares because she got jealous. How every night there was the threat of her being sucked back there. He didn’t need to know all that.

And then he asked when he would see her again. And for a brief moment, Ash felt this surge of happiness that he actually wanted to see her again, her and her iced off self that refused to feel too much. But then she got frustrated with herself. She had to stay away from boys, they were just trouble. She couldn’t let this one, who seemed all shy and such and nothing like the boys that usually bothered her, make her feel like this. She couldn’t see him again, she shouldn’t see him again. Not if she wanted to keep up the non-chalant way of being that she tried to keep up all the time. There was no way she could manage that around him.

And that was what she wanted, right?

Ugh! She didn’t like this. It wasn’t allowed. She wasn’t allowed to like a boy, it went against everything that she was. She was about to give him a very noncommittal answer when he added about the meditation. Right. Okay, she could do that. She could do that if it just stuck to meditaion, right? She hoped as much.

She nodded slightly. ”I’m around, usually in the big tree in the courtyard. I doubt you’ll have trouble finding me” She finally answered. She was almost, so close, to giving him her cell phone number. But that wouldn’t have been good, that would have been incouraging the interest she felt for him and she couldn’t do that, not if she wanted to stop caring like this.

Finn started to pace and she sighed. She had interrupted his run in bumping into this boy, she had interruipted her own run as well. They had to get back to it. And she hated how much she didn’t want to leave him. She wanted to stay here. Ugh! That wasn’t allowed!

She shook her head at Finn. ”Well, I need to get back to my run. Before Finn bites me. And you should get back to your meditation.” she smiled a little, just briefly at this boy. Why did he keep getting all of her smiles? ”See you soon, Xander” she said, hating that she had phrased it like that. And then she ran off after her anxious black wolf pup.

Words: 1162
Muse: Epic
Comments: So I think after your post this is done?