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Neil was finding that the general population of the school was not as cool as him. Which was honestly to be expected when your name was Neil mother ******** Howlison. He'd met some interesting characters around the campus and even in the one class he'd attended. Acting, which if you thought about it was kind of a slacker class.

Most of the students brought up some kind of terrible event that had actually stuck in the back of the gimblewolfs mind. Something to do with it being terrible and something with a bound fire. Or something. Really, no one had gone further to explain any of that to him. So it sat in the back of his mind and nagged him.

But not for long, some how he wandered over to the demon dorms by mistake. There he stood in front of the gate looking up at the over dramatic building. Dare he go in? Nah. The canine gave a shrug and turned on his heel to try his luck else where. He was meaning to go to the reaper dorms not some lame a** over decorated demonic dorm.

"Hey!"
A voice called out as he turned away. It sounded pretty familiar, enough to make him stop at least.
"Neil, I haven't seen you around much."

Oh joy, it was his all time favorite demon, Elsa. She had been walking back to her dorm when she smelt his scent pass. (SO what if she remembered the type of perfume he wore... Or whatever guys called it) She gave him a smile as she trotted over to him with a waving hand. Maybe she had forgotten the last time the two hand spoken and how she walked away feeling pretty awful about herself.

"Haven't seen much of you around, how have you been."

By now she had made herself rather comfy standing in front of him, still wearing that soft smile.

The voice had indeed caused Neil to come to a stop. He turned, slowly, to face Elsa. Usually he had a very dark look on his face, but now, his features were slightly off in shock. It was that ghoul. The first student he'd met at this crazy school. Elsa.

"What?" His voice slightly cracked. The monster coughed in his hand and cleared his throat. Elsa had managed to send Neil flying in to the sky with the last meeting the two had. But, Neil had upset her. To say the least, the gimblewolf was tense right now.

"I mean.." His composure and confidence slowly returned back to him. "I mean. I haven't seen you around either." He gave her a blank stare, feeling a little awkward and unsure of him self still.

Her nose wrinkled as she gave him a welcoming smirk.

"Look, lets just leave the past in the past, okay? It's not like any of that stuff matters now. This can be our new first meeting."

She also felt really mixed about the last time they spoke, but... What can't be changed shouldn't be worried about, or so she thought. She offered him a clawed hand smiled.

"I'm Elsa, pleased to meet you."

Maybe she was being sort of cheesy, but it was also pretty cute.

It was cute. But also Cheesy. Neil took her hand but did not return the smile. The monsters eyes were soft though as he grasped her smaller clawed hand in to his larger, rougher, hand. Ghouls. They were so little and breakable. One wrong word and they could end up in tears.

"Why... I mean.." He looked down at the two hands. His hand engulfing hers completely. "Why do you want to start over. Don't you hate me for... upsetting you?"

It was true the first time they met had been less then pleseant and now here Elsa was wanting to start over. Not that Neil minded such a hot ghoul wanted to be friendly with him. Or even that her smaller clawed hand was warmly secure in his larger one.

That was when he became aware that he was holding Elsa's hand. No, Neil did not let go. How could he? He was holding a smoking hot ghouls hand.

"Seriously are you dense?"

She tried not to frown when spoke out of confusion and what seemed to be annoyance, even if it was really hard. She figured he was just a grumpy guy, so taking anything he said too personally would only hurt herself.

"No, are you?"

She chuckled and glanced down at her hand, that was now in his. (Holy balls he had big hands!); She had never held someones hand like this before, well, she did with Charlie, but it wasn't like... This.

She stood still for a moment before blushing.

"I'm not mad at you at all. You really should let that go."

Her words seemed honest and firm. Elsa really wasn't upset at all.

She didn't pull her hand away from his.

He was still holding her hand tightly clasped in his own over sized hands. Elsa didn't seem to be removing her little clawed hands from his so Neil felt no need to remove his. There was something comforting about holding something so fragile and small and warm.

"Let it go?" It was confusing, he had been the one to upset her all that little while ago and here she was telling him to let it go. On the inside, his heart was melting a little at how strong Elsa was being, but on the out side Neil seemed as crusty and grumpy as ever. Though, his eyes could not hide how soft he was feeling by this forgiveness and redemption right now.

It had been long moments but Neil released her hand from his own and folded them against his chest with a huff.

"Alright. I'll let it go." He looked off to the side like he didn't really care. But deep down, Elsa had touched something with that forgiveness, that second chance. Neil wasn't about to admit that though.

"Come on, follow me. Its lame standing out here," He shoved both his hands in his pocket and started off in another direction only pausing a moment to see if Elsa was following him over his shoulder.

As soon as his hand left hers she sighed a bit and returned it back to her side. Elsa was happy he let it go, it was better to move forward and not back. She didn't want to be someone he avoided after all, Elsa... Wanted to be a friend.

"Alright."

She nodded as he started off on his own. She was still learning all of the corridors of this place too, so this random adventure they set off on was something she was super excited for. Walking a bit faster she caught up to him and walked by his side. Their size difference was very apparent. She was about 5'5 and he was easily 6'6.

Even though she was tiny in comparison to him she felt tall and in a weird was, happy.

"Where are we going? What isn't lame to you?"

She questioned with a chuckle.