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Aurelia shook her head. "Acutally, I enjoy your company. But, if you have something to do, you can leave if you want." His presence was comforting, even if her heart ached. "It will take some time for me to get over it, but I will." She tried to reassure him. Not wanting to go any further with the topic she picked up her soup, testing to see if it was still too hot for her. "How's your jaw? Feeling better?"

Tai looked up and shook his head. "No, no, it's my fault. I should've been more cautious." Taking the hand he pulled himself up, with her help of course, and adjusted his glasses a bit. Studying her with a slightly more keen eye that only teachers seemed to have... except the young ones. Although, he didn't have that eye yet, he could at least pretend he did. After all, he did look up the student roster, and could identify her since she was also a court member. "No, I don't think you would've recognized me. I was long gone by my sophmore year." He took off his glasses and wiped them off. "So, I hear the schools annual Winter Ball is coming up. Are the Court members setting it up?"

Ken slid down the wall to a sitting position, one leg at an angle, the other straight out in front of him. Most of the time, he and Riku played a game, but Ken had no control over what game it was. However, his favorite game that they played was Soul Calibur, and recently, he had found himself playing it. Even when Riku was not around. "I like playing the fighter games... I think that's what they're called."


Riku didn't quite know what time it was, but he was pretty sure it was either 8, or almost 8. He was grinning as he laid his back on the concrette roof, looking up at the looming dark clouds above. He tried picking out the stars behind them, or at least spotting them. Aurelia knew more about the stars than he did, so generally, he'd find them, and she'd name it... if she could. He grinned and continued to wait, he had too much to tell today to leave.

And Riku waited. Before long, an hour had passed and she had yet to show up. Riku, having become bored with his game, took a soccer ball that had been lost on this roof and began juggling it, and he also worked on his foot work. When that was exhausted, he practiced his shooting on the fence until someone from below told him to stop.

Another hour passed, and it had begun to snow heavily once again. Shivering, he began to wonder: where was Aurelia? Did she get caught up in Court things? She wouldn't be this late if it what ever she was doing wasn't important. Not too long after the snow began, his nose had begun to run, and he was huddling himself to try and stay warm. She'd show up eventually, she always did. He knew she would...

A half hour passed, and by now, he had lost most feeling inside his fingers. He was really starting wonder where Aurelia was, and just how important whatever it was she was doing, actually was. He thought about calling her and asking where she was, and if she was even going to show. However, his phone had been broken, and he had no way of confirming. So he would just have to hold out until she showed up. He knew she would... she always did...

(OOC: Urk... got a little carried away with Riku's post.)

Ken nodded, getting up from his sitting spot and walked over to the PS3 that he had got as a gift from Riku's family. He rarely got gifts from his parents anymore, and most of the stuff in their room was Riku's. All he ever got was a five hundered dollars a month as spending money, and frankly, if they just wrote him a letter every once in a while...

What did it matter anyway? He just wanted to play a video game. Putting in Soul Calibur IV and handing Trey a controller, he sat down and went to versus. When a thought occured to him, both he and Riku had a custom character (although Riku helped Ken design his to be more suiting), Trey did not. He looked over at her and asked, "Do you... want to create a character?"

Ken nodded, and went on to the character selection, where he of course, selected his custom character, who looked so much like the real Ken, it was almost scary. Not only that, but his axe too, was the same as the one he used when he fought in real life.

Although, while his character looked mean and tough, Ken couldn't play worth a darn. He hadn't quite made the connection that a fighting game revolved around controlled button smashing, rather than strategically planned combo's (although those played a factor in it, too). "Try Maxi, or Riku's custom character, Ryelle. It's a good beginners character... or that's what he told me, anyway."

Ken looked up from his fiftenth victory. Playing against Trey was fun, he wasn't constantly beat down by Riku, and discovered that winning is really fun. Better than just playing and getting beaten. As Trey said it was time for her to go, Ken swallowed and took the controller, signing her out, and was ready to start another game.

Now normally, he'd watch the person leave, and continue what he was doing. However, something compelled him to give a more formal farewell this time. Unsure of what to do, he remembered what his brother would do. He'd simply wave. So, Ken decided he'd try that approach. Lifting his hand up to just eye level, he had to concentrate hard to get his mand moving in the proper directions... how his brother did it constantly, he'll never know.

"Umm..." Aurelia looked to the floor, thinking about what had just been set before her. Her reasoning followed that it would be okay, that it would be nice to go with Jay. Even if she had to patrol around the dance to make sure all students were acting appropriately and to avoid any trouble, she could still have fun with a date. But... "Jay, I'm sorry...." Her voice trailed off as she replied. "I would go with you, I honestly would. But, right now...I have some things to sort out." Finishing her chicken noodle soup she set it aside to the nightstand and stood up, finally gathering the courage to face Jay. "I'm sorry, but I can't go...with you as a date." Aurelia then saw the time in her peripheral vision; time to do dorm check.

((Still, T3rran, nice post. ^^))

Finally, Riku was unable to resist the cold and despite his valiant effort at holding out for as long as he did, and no matter how hard he tried to convince himself, Aurelia wasn't going to show tonight. Thus, his waiting had been in vain. He got himself off of the wall he used to sit on, broken and battered, that he had been stood up today.

However, not all was as well as he thought it was. He knew his fingers were numbed out, but he hadn't expected his legs to be so weak from the cold snow that melted on his jeans. So rather than taking a few steps forward, he took one, then fell face first into the snow. He tried to move his hands, but they were also too weak from the same effect. And now, he felt tired, his eyes become heavy, and his head became light. He tried to resist, he needed to get inside, and he knew it. But, he could not. He let out a half hearted laugh, and muttered, something incoherient clinging to what little concious he had left within him.

Aurelia stood with her eyes wide after Jay had slammed the door. He... It took her a while, but it came to her. He is... Without her knowing her feet ran forward, and she opened the door and ran out into the hallway. Closing the door behind her she continued to run, passing by Trey. "Ask Mandy." She said simply, not slowing down as she ran past the Queen of the Black Knights.

As she made her way to the staircase she saw the faces of other students staring at her, the Queen still in her pajamas, as they made their way to their dorms to make it in time for curfew. However, she didn't care. Ignoring the murmurs and snickering of others she began to skip steps, wanting to get up to the roof as quickly as possible. But, in her current condition, it wasn't long before she was running out of breath. This is pathetic... Aurelia thought, summoning a wind and riding on it, forming it into a board on the way up. She didn't know why she had received that text message, and who had really sent it. Right now, she didn't have enough time to think about that, knowing that the snow was falling outside.Impossible...he's still...

Opening the door to the roof she saw Riku lying in the snow, wet and obviously affected by some time in the cold weather. "Riku!!" Riding forward she stopped and knelt beside him, not minding the cold snow melting through her clothes. Focusing she summoned a warm wind around them, gently flipping him over and hugging him for the sake of body heat. "I'm sorry..."