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"So your telling me that those nightmares are real? That my blood spattered dreams that wake me up screaming- there all real?" The impact was hard for Calintha to swallow. She'd thought they were just the result of some kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. That's what all the doctors had told her; they'd even prescribed medication for it (not that the pills did a fat lot of good anyways).

Her brown eyes paced back and forth along the table before finally landing on Ignacio's face. It was a little twisted now, not entirely grins and smiles. She could see pain, clear as day. Maybe the same things that haunted her also haunted the boy in front of her.

"Do you want to go for a walk?" She looked around her for a few seconds before turning back.

"This cafe is starting to feel a bit stuffy..." Calintha knew the notion was ridiculous. How did an outdoor patio get stuffy? The truth of the matter was that she felt positively trapped. People's stares were becoming more and more frequent, and less and less polite. She had a chill that was raising goose-bumps on her arms and neck. The blonde girl just felt the need to get out of her own skin.

Calintha giggled a little when he mentioned Meadowview. It was true that she didn't particularly want to attend school anymore either, but since the government had no clue exactly how long she'd been missing, they'd told her she'd either have to repeat the last two years or not get her high school diploma. "I agree with that, no school please! But my apartments nearby, and there is a nice little park down the corner." She smiled a bit though at the sound of a laugh coming from her own throat. Didn't seem to be much humor these days with her, though the smile quickly faded as she looked at the street behind Ignacio.

She shivered a little as she stood up. "As long as we don't go that way, I'm fine with anywhere else." She nodded her head to the street behind them. For some reason it seemed darker to her, sinister almost. Even though the people on the street seemed to be bustling along happily, just as always. It gave her the chills.

"Alright then." She nodded and led the way out of the patio and onto the street. It was fairly busy, everyone was shopping around. She noticed quite a few high school age students around her as well, and figured they must have been shopping for supplies before the semester started.

Ignacio looked a little perplexed about the mention of the street, but she was glad that he didn't ask any questions because Calintha couldn't explain it. "Unless you count plants as roommates, yes, I live alone." She smiled gently. It was a bit difficult being away from her sister and father (though, being away from her mother was quite nice.)

"Me and my mum... don't really get along. She ponied up the money for a small apartment so I could move out and come to school in the city." Sticking her hands in her pockets, she looked about her as they walked. It was a pretty beautiful day with the sun shining and all of the leaves still green and bright before the coming of fall. "What about you? Do you live with your family?"

Calintha guided the way to her apartment, strolling casually with a boy she'd not really quite met until today, talking about a school that couldn't quite be explained. "Seems like we're opposites then. I get along perfectly with my Father and my little sister. I don't even think I've spoken more than a sentence to my mother since before I got accepted at Barren Pines."

The park that the blonde teen had spoken about wasn't really anything more than a small square of grass with a few trees, benches, and lamp posts. It was surrounded by streets on all sides and probably was about the size of a half a city block. Though, Cali had to admit it was better than her windows facing a brick wall or another building.

Her apartment itself was above a little drugstore. The building looked fairly old, and certianly nothing special. Most people would simply just walk past it without a second thought. "Would you like to come up? I know you've just eaten and still have coffee I think, but I could make some tea? I've got cookies too I think still, made from scratch just a few days ago." It wasn't much, but with her meager budget it was all she could afford. Plant sales would go up in the winter, but until then she lived pretty much just from her mothers contributions.

She probably should have been thinking about how strange it was to invite someone she barely knew into her apartment where she lived alone, but Cali was never really one to double think things.

She led him to a small door on the side, which blended into the shop front like nobody's business. The stairs weren't very wide, and they led up to two doors. Cali veered to the left, and unlocked a solid looking door.

Inside was a quaint little apartment, a studio separated into two rooms by a bit of wall built in on each side, leaving a wide open gap in the middle. There was a kitchen, fair sized, with an island that also served as a dining room table, flanked by a few bar stools. Beyond that was a little space with a couch and two little chairs, centered around a low coffee table. To the left side there was a bathroom.

Calintha dropped her stuff at the door and took off her shoes. She head into the kitchen to put on a tea kettle. The next room beyond, however, was quite different. It was like stepping into a greenhouse, chock full with exotic plants. Almost the entire far wall was windowed, heavy drapes gathered at the center of them. On one side was a small bed, partitioned off by a folding screen. On the other, however, was rows and rows of different kind of plants, each more strange than the next.

She looked around her and sighed. "Its not much, but its home."

Calintha came up behind him and nodded her head. "Yes, this is what I'm good at. Though, for some reason I can't raise 'normal' plants, just the weird ones." She smiled softly at all of her plants. They were the reason she'd gotten the bigger apartment. Apparently her sister had been taking care of them after Calintha had disappeared and her mother wanted all of them gone. Remove her negative influence or something like that.

"Its okay if you touch, I don't keep any here that would hurt you on contact. Try running your finger along the basin of that one." Cali pointed to the green and yellow trumpet in the corner. It was a trapdoor plant that when stimulated shut its mouth, so to speak. Pretty scary for a bug, but no more than a tickle for a human. "Keeping plants is what keeps me at peace. Plus they have a lot of practical applications as well."

Cali wondered aloud. "What got you into Barren Pines?" She was always curious at others gifts.

Blush tinged her cheeks as she looked away. "Thank you." It wasn't often that someone complimented her on her plant work. More often than not, actually, people thought it was very strange and it seemed to make them uncomfortable. Like the plant was going to wake up and eat them. Like...like a monster.

Uncomfortable with her own line of thought, Calintha shook her head and looked back up at Ignacio. "I keep all different kinds, usually what I can feasibly grow in here. Some plants just wont grow in these conditions." She took a step up next to the table and ran a finger along some of the plants. A few closed, some did nothing.