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Yep, this was definitely bad. Yin was cringing back in his seat and looking more sick then he had through the entire trip so far. Why couldn't Alex just keep his mouth shut about the twins? Surely they weren't actually that bad....It was probably just that he was still holding a grudge after they had cut his head off years and years before.

And then proceeded to terrorize him at any given chance afterwards.

He cringed inwardly, then scooted forward in his seat again so that he was closer to Yin and could speak to him quietly. "You know what, it'll probably be fine. Just because I don't get along with them doesn't mean you wont. As far as I know they've only ever been...less then nice..with me." That might be as far as Alex knew because he tried to stay as far out of their business as possible, though.

"Nothing bad is going to happen, my family really is a lot of fun, you just might need to take some time to get used to them, is all. I'm sorry if the things I'm telling you are upsetting, but I just don't want you to go in blind and be completely surprised by things" He reached out tentatively give Yin a pat on the shoulder, really not knowing what else he could do. He loved his family (except maybe the twins) and he wanted Yin to be able to enjoy them as much as Alex did.

But he was quickly realizing that it probably wasn't going to happen.

The train had stopped, passengers had gotten off, and it had started forward once again.

"If you want, at the next stop, we can get off the train and I can buy you a ticket back to the school?" that was one thing Alex could at least still give the other boil, and that was an out to the whole weekend. Yin could go back to the school alone, and Alex could continue on to his families place, also alone. It would be hard, because he'd really been excited about this, but it was harder to see Yin obviously in so much discomfort.

On the one hand, it was good that Yin was still determined to go to Alex's house for the weekend. On the other hand, over-thinking all the possible things that could go wrong now, at the last second, was turning Alex into a nervous wreck. Why hadn't he thought about all of this before? He should never have invited Yin along! This was quite possibly the stupidest thing he'd ever done.

Not at all convinced that Yin was 'fine', not even for a second, Alex very slowly removed his hand from Yin's shoulder, again, but this time didn't sit back in his seat and stayed sitting knee to knee with the other boil.

"My other sister? I don't think you'll even need to worry about her. Isabella doesn't talk much, keeps to herself most of the time. She's just turned 11, and is the smallest of my siblings...she hasn't really chosen to grow much bigger then your average say...8 year old? She looks more like me, and my mom, my brother looks the most like my dad, the twins are somewhere in-between." He shrugged. He really didn't know what else to say about his youngest sister. She was really just very shy, quiet, and unassuming, which was a nice change of pace compared to the rest of the family. She was probably the least threatening member of Alex's family, Alex included.

"We still have half the trip to go, is there anything else you'd like to know?"

Alex couldn't help but notice a faint yet warm pressure on the inside of his leg, one that made his stomach feel very..odd. He glanced down for a split second, then back up at Yin.

Really, do not read to much into this. He's your friend. Just your friend.

This was almost painful, and Alex had to fight to keep himself from just, moving his leg away.

At least Yin was trying to keep the conversation flowing, which was good because Alex didn't really know what else to talk about at this point, and his brain was turning slightly to mush at the moment. He was going to grasp at whatever Yin had to ask him with extreme interest, so as to try and ignore the stupid...feelings, going on right now.

He was actually confused for a moment. Alexander? Wha----ohhhhh.

Ya, his brain was totally not keeping up at this point at all.

Regardless, he grinned broadly, "Ah, Alexander is a different character all together. You probably don't have too much to worry about around him, though" except when he's trying to rip your chest out and bite a large amount of flesh out of your shoulder. "He's generally pretty happy, amiable, very easy to please. Might be a bit stubborn about things from time to time but I think he may have met his match when it comes to that." He gave Yin a look that said 'I think you know who I'm talking about.' "Uh, yes, so, he's also quite lazy, useless in most things except schoolwork, and doesn't take very good care of himself..."

His face became quite serious now "But he does have the best friend he could have ever asked for. One that's always forgiving him even when he doesn't deserve it, and..." he had to swallow past a small lump in his throat, his voice maybe slightly hoarser then it was before "putting up with a lot from him."

Ok, time to lighten the mood, this was getting too sappy, so he smiled again, and tried to sound more cheerful."This friend of his is even willing to put up with Alexander's somewhat dysfunctional and overly large family just to hang out with him for a weekend. Alexander must be a really great guy after all, for his friend to be that desperate to spend time with him." He really hoped Yin caught the joke in that and didn't think Alex was just being cocky or something.

Alex by this point was just smiling like a complete idiot, and had to laugh at Yin's retort, even if the other boil was trying to remain serious when he said it. "Well, you're probably right. Who's to say if Alexander would ever even get off of the train if he didn't have his friend to carry him." Let Yin take that however he wanted, but Alex was still completely joking.

Maybe.

"I don't think you'd have to worry too much about whether he would come back or not. Unless something really bad were to happen to him, I'm pretty sure he'd somehow manage to return....eventually." In all seriousness though, it really wasn't safe for students to be travelling on their own anymore, and Alex was glad that Yin had decided to continue on the trip with him instead of separating at the next stop.

Speaking of stops, the train was beginning to slow down again, and Alex had another glance out through the window. "Won't be much longer, now." He said, happily, as he watched more and more people exiting the train.

Yin appeared to be feeling much better, so Alex finally moved back in his chair, leaning his head back and practically sinking into the seat. "So, how are things going with your classes, anyways? We never seem to talk about this stuff. I had to do first aid with Michi...it uh..could have gone better." He admitted, but it also could have been worse.

Contract class? That must have been a new one that Alex hadn't heard about yet. If it was anything like the other classes he'd heard about, though, it probably wasn't really his thing. Though contracts just sounded like some kind of legal document class. How could that be disturbing?

"That was nice of her." Alex responded to the information Yin gave of Xui watching Princess Eva for him. "My pets don't really need looking after, which is probably why I have them and not something like Princess Eva, I just don't think I'd have the energy for it. I just left them some food and they'll be fine until we get back."

Nurse Cricket had been a pleasant instructor? Really? Alex hadn't been overly fond of her the three times he'd taken the class. Maybe she had just been in a bad mood the days he'd gone.

"I did some silly trashology class with Mort a while back. Almost got myself tossed in with the schools garbage because Mort couldn't get the robot to let go of me." The train was well on it's way now, and the next stop would be the one they were to get off at. Now that conversation seemed to be going a lot smoother and Yin was feeling better, Alex craned his neck around to look for the food trolley. He hadn't had anything to eat yet and his body felt like it was starving, which could potentially be a very dangerous thing, sitting across from a warm blooded creature.

Spying it coming down the aisle, he lifted his hand to indicate that he would buy something and waited for it to approach. "Are you feeling better now? Do you want anything?" he asked the weremantis before the trolley could make it's way over.

Never gonna give up on trying to buy Yin food, it seemed.

Yaaaa, lightening and running uphill really didn't sound like something Alex would be interested in for two reasons, both of which were pretty obvious. "I've heard of that class...it sounded too dangerous and uh..ya, there's pretty much no way I could run up a hill." He mumbled the last part, somewhat ashamed that he had to skip out on so many classes just because they were too physical for him to manage. "Did you pass it at least? You didn't...dissipate, did you?" He knew that Yin had dissipated twice already, at the same times that he had himself, and he also knew that dissipating too many times could have hazardous consequences.

The trolley was stopping next to them now, "Do you have any raw meat flavored snacks?" Alex asked politely, waiting for the response before digging in his pocket for more seeds with which to purchase it. He just needed something to tide him over until he got home and his mom could start feeding him real food again. The trolley pushing ghoul handed him the bag, and he opened it up to start munching on the contents happily.

It wasn't nearly as good as real meat, but it would suffice.

Alex was happy to hear that Yin had passed his class, but nearly dropped his bag of snacks when he heard that he'd also dissipated twice in the attempt. His mouth gaped open a bit. "Why would they even have classes like that??" He finally managed, completely aghast, and then "Don't tell my mom anything about that class. Ever." She'd probably try and haul Yin out of the school as well if she could manage it.

Alex saw it as it was happening, the stranger walking by and hitting Yin on the elbow, the cursed bottle of water spinning out of his hand and in Alex's direction, flinging water at him that ended up on his shirt, and his pants, starting to soak through the fabric to his skin. He somehow managed to snag the water bottle out of the air, because he always seemed to have much faster reflexes in his arms then in his legs, for whatever reason. Unfortunately, however, it was upside down when his grip crushed it, and the last bit of water that was left in the bottle began to run down his hand, his arm, and spill onto his seat.

Before he could even do anything about it, Yin was suddenly right there, touching him wherever he was wet with his hands and attempting to brush off the droplets of water where they were sitting on top of the fabric. Not that it did much good, anyways, since most of it was already soaked in.

So now he was a partially wet zombie, with his friend practically in his lap. He vaguely realized that he'd dropped his snacks on the floor in all of the activity, but it was hard to even think about that at the moment with what was going on.

"It--it's fine..." He tried to smile reassurinly, but he couldn't, because he was mostly just too horrified by what was happening and by how much is brain was telling him to just enjoy the physical contact while he could get it. He didn't want this. This was his friend, nothing more then that, and he didn't want this. But his brain just kept telling him differently and it was becoming very frustrating.

He finally just closed his eyes tight, putting the water bottle down by his side and reaching up a hand to rub at his forehead with a grimace. He then said very quietly "Could you please just stop? It's fine, really, you don't have to do that." he wasn't trying to sound angry, but he was just tired of dealing with the thoughts running through his head constantly and second guessing everything all of the time. "We should be there soon, and I'll dry off faster once we're outside."