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Alpha - Irresponsibility, Can I make it up?

Eli listened as his statement heated Kerrigan's mood again. An obvious mistake that he realized. That was one of Eli's issues, he tended to say what was on his mind and said it before he could think about it.

He thought a moment about the bonfire for a moment and looked down to his attire. "Damn it... The rest of my clothes were in my backpack." He said, remembering he left if on the helicopter.

He looked to Wilbur and Leion, "You guys wanna grab a bite to eat before the bonfire?" He asked, his stomach seconding that notion with a growl. "We've got about an hour, nothing big in case they have more food there, you guys in?" His glance also jumped to Jack, Isabella and the most recently arrived Matt, indicating they were invited too.

Eli was trying his best to socialize, he knew that he had trouble socializing, and maybe only had two friends at the academy; if they could be called that at all. On the helicopter ride over the channel he knew it'd be an opportune time to practice his socializing skills, and to be honest, from his recent displays, they weren't that great.

Omega: Show-offs? Yea, It’s kinda our thing.

Jacen cringed slightly, realizing immediately that he had messed up yet another greeting. More than a year on the mainland and he still couldn’t figure how to perform a simple method of greeting. Silly little quirks…

“Suamalie, Another Omega to add to the ranks.” Jacen said, smiling warmly to the new recruit. “And yes… It seems most just want to… make a name for themselves, as it were. They all cool down and go with the flow soon enough. With a few exceptions…” Jacen said, with a glance towards Alek’s dormant form.

He looked over to the group the new guys had amassed, scrunching up his eyebrows. “Hey Leion, What’s going on over there?” He called out to the other Omega. This whole beach was abuzz with activity it seemed, and he had heard talk of a bonfire.

ALPHA maybe going out tonight?

Wilbur stepped out from behind his shield of bodies to see that Kerrigan was not going to beat him up as he’d originally assumed. She was mad, but that was totally reasonable. Hoshi offered a tour of the teams, and this time Wilbur couldn’t disagree, he’d wanted to know more about Narcissa and some of the other Alphas.

“Yeah, sure! You know, I think this whole X-Men thing is gonna work out. Haven’t even made it to the academy and I’m already enjoying myself.” He smiled. Eli’s offer to go to town for the day sounded incredibly nice at the moment, but before he could jump for joy, Isabella shot down his hopes and basically told him they were marooned on the island until daybreak. Now, he wasn’t the least bit upset that they were having a bonfire, it’s just that the thought of walking in the fancy shops and town specialties just sounded much more fun.

“Tell me at the bonfire?” Wilbur asked Hoshi. “I don’t want any more interruptions,” he laughed, “I think this crowd’s a bit too unpredictable.”

Not fifteen seconds after Wilbur mentioned the group’s unpredictability, Eli offered him and Leion the chance to go get food before the bonfire. He let himself laugh a little at how spot on he was about the group. “Um, I don’t mind. I wanted to go for a walk anyhow. I’ll go if it’s you and Leion,” He turned to Hoshi. “Are you down too?” Slowly, Wilbur could see some close ties forming within his team, he just hoped it would be the same at school.

Omega - Finishing up food... lingering


The moment he noticed that his friends and himself were being watched, Christian felt uneasy. Not that he wasn’t used to being targeted by folks, but why now? Did their group look THAT touristy? Shandra told him he didn’t miss much in his brief absence aside from their dinners being brought, which set him slightly at ease.

To his surprise, Christian didn’t mind eating a meal with everyone today. Normally, he’d at least eat one meal by himself. It was just the way he was. He firmly believed that it was best to eat a solitary meal out of the way from everyone. The best to sit down and read a paper, book, or even to just collect his thoughts. Lord knows he had a lot of them to try and collect anymore.

After a small spell of time, their server noticed they were all done eating and dutifully picked up the empty flatware. The conversations at the table were beginning to wind back up again, yet Christian was remaining silent. He couldn’t wrap his head around why it was the four of them were being scoped out by that group. Was it something that Shandra did before she joined them for dinner? Were they being singled out from all the rest of the crowd around them because of their youth? He could only guess that was the case, and the fact that the gang had maybe the cajones the size of cantaloupes… not that Christian would be useful in any regards due to his injury.

His train of thought was derailed yet again when Shandra sparked up conversation again, bringing up the idea of walking around for a spell. It made sense. It gave time for people’s stomachs to settle and to enjoy the time they were spending together. Christian voiced his agreement with that, and leaned back in his seat slightly. He was relatively stuffed now, and could definitely use a nap sometime in the near future.

Again, the group was interrupted when their server came back to the table and deposited the bill in between the four of them. It looked like everyone was going to reach for it at once when Christian flat out said, “I’ve got this folks… no worries.” As he was assessing the monetary damages, he felt a set of eyes on him again, this time from someone close. When he looked to his right, he saw Shandra looking at him with intent. After he put what money he owed for the meal into the small server book, he looked the redhead straight in the eye.

“That’s half the fun of being out and about right?,” Christian replied, “Finding surprises along the way.” The way he said it kind of surprised him. Gone was the relatively happy tone he had a bit ago. Now he was on edge. He was prepping himself mentally for what may happen. He didn’t answer the first question purposefully. Christian knew he wanted to try and replace the rod and reel he lost previously, but there would be plenty of time to work on that while on vacation.

While they continued to sit there, Christian took note of the fact that the sun was almost completely out of the sky and the moon was starting to ascend to its position in the night’s sky. As he sat there and after he was watching the stars appear in the sky as well, he found his gaze falling back onto Sophia. He knew he was going to try and stick somewhat close to the lass, considering that they were all being tailed. Not too close, however. He didn’t want to have her worry. Judging by the way Shandra was speaking with him, she knew what the deal was. Two people in the know, for now, would have to be enough.

Alphas:Food is always a good thing

Hoshi gave Wilbur a fangy smile. It was a talent she'd acquired a few years ago and it amused her sisters to no end. "yeah, I'll tell you at the bonfire... and I'll give you a rundown on why we're on vacation in the first place..." She had to think about the offer to go to get food with the guys for a few minutes. Then she shrugged inwardly. She did need friends and the last six weeks hadn't really been conductive to making friends amongst her teammates.


"Sure, I'm Starving." she said as she realized how true it was. "Let me go change first." She said as she lifted into the air and flew up to the house through her bedroom window. She quickly shimmied into a kimono like dress and rejoined the guys as she pull her long hair into a ponytail."Ready!" She announced cheerfully.

Alpha-Slow on the Uptake

Sophie kept up a simple chatter going, filling the air with small tidbits of information and quotes—Her happy voice in complete contrast to what two of her companions were thinking. She knew that she was…Missing something, by the way that they talked, but she didn’t know what. Sophia was too…Gentle, to suspect that someone may or may not be following them.

She frowned, faintly, when Christian paid… She hadn’t expected him to… Especially not because what she had ordered hadn’t been cheap. But to complain of him, or to argue about the bill would have—Probably just made an unnecessary scene. Christian was stubborn.

So once the bill was paid, and dinner was over, it was with a wide smile and a full stomach that she picked up her small handbag and danced towards the exit, hopefully with her friends in tow. So it was that she even got outside the restaurant, and waited the scant seconds it would take them to catch up.

“Where should we go first?", she questioned, her accent stressing some parts of her sentence more than others. It was clear that she wasn’t from the area, especially with the Creole lilt to her… It was probably Sophia that gave them away the most as being tourists. She was, for the most part, awed by everything that shined and sparkled.

It was when she was about to unthinkingly head towards the first booth she saw when her comm link went off with Bella’s voice: Bonfire at Descanso Beach in an hour—That she paused and pressed her hand on her purse to drown out her voice. They were supposed to keep low key, how could they do that with their comm’s going off?

She looked around, hoping everyone around her would think it was one of those walky talky Nextel cell phones…When her eyes landed on a group of individuals not far from them. It was strange, because the entire group stared in her direction. Confused, Sophie looked around her…Wondering what there was to look at, before realizing that they really WERE looking at her, and her friends.

And that she had more than likely just given them away.

A little afraid, she tried to cover her blunder with a bright smile and pointed towards a booth selling charms… All the while making sure that she was planted firmly beside either Shandra, Antonio, or Christian. She wished Raine were there. She knew now, that this was what she had been missing at the table.

“Le merde…Ah’m an idiote…”, she muttered just under her breath, taking down a charm of a kitten to show to Shandra.

“We should…We should head towards the bonfire. Our friends will meet us there, non?”, she questioned flippantly, hoping she wasn’t being as obvious as she thought she was.

There were signs that pointed towards the correct Beach…But it pointed towards several darkened area’s…That didn’t seem good…She swallowed hard as she put the charm back and grabbed another, nervous as her fingers trembled slightly.

What did they want, that they would stare at them so—Had they done something wrong?

Maddy had broken off from the group soon enough and promised them that she would find them at the bonfire. The girl had just gone back into the condo, dripping all over the floor on her way to her room. There she tried to shake she sand off herself but gave up and opted for a shower. She simply stood in the bathroom for the majority off the time until her skin was nearly all red not from sunburn but from the hot water. When the door opened from her leaving steam poured out into the air-conditioned hall. She dried off and changed into a pair off black capris and threw on an old Led Zeppelin t-shirt.

She nuked some taquitos in the kitchen and returned to her room to eat them there with a glass of chocolate milk. There she stayed reading over a book on physical diagnosis her uncle had sent her until the light started to go down in her room, and she noticed that it was almost time to head to the beach. Maddy hoped somebody had some marshmallows to bring.

She trekked down the beach by herself, but she could see a small group with Bella not too far in the distance. The beach was a nice one, though she hadn't been expecting other people there besides the X-Men. Well, at least she had brought her own bottle of soda. Maddy never drank. She valued her brain cells, but she'd been to some concerts back in Boston [which seemed to be in a different galaxy from here in California] where stupidity ensued.

Maddy sighed slightly and began to walk through the center of the grouping looking for others. She'd lost track of Isabella's group right off. There was a group of boys in tank-tops with two ditsy looking girls, one blond, one brunette, that beckoned her over. She simply acted like she hadn't seen them and went on.