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Rayne turned her head at the last moment, so he kissed her cheek as she turned bright red. She didn't want her first real kiss with a guy to be so fleeting and a goodbye one, at that, thus the reason she did it, but she also didn't want to say that... What 16 year old hadn't been kissed yet? "See ya!" She calls out falteringly after a moment when she'd gotten her nerves back and when he was almost gone. Rayne then takes a deep breath and takes their trays over to the kitchens before leaving.

Rachel strode merrily into the dining hall alongside Nobara. She'd spent a lot of time sitting out in the courtyard reading, and had managed to forget about how hungry she actually was. Moving quickly to the line, she waved Nobara over behind her and grabbed a tray.

"Man... I really lost track of time back there," she said, smiling a little. "I'm totally starved!" She started putting things on her tray, deciding she was in the mood for a nice big salad and a bowl of vegetable soup. She'd pigged out on pizza the night before, so this would sort of balance things out... not that it really mattered anyway, with her powers and all.

Rachel snickered silently at Nobara's treatment of the guy who'd jumped in line between them. This girl elevated humiliating men to an art form; it was very impressive to watch. She gave Nobara an approving grin as she moved her tray next to hers and began picking out her food.

And here I was, concerned about how much I was going to be eating in front of her... Rachel mused to herself, looking at all the stuff that ended up on her friend's tray by the time they reached the end of the line.

When she got to the cashier, Rachel took out her student ID card and was about to pay when Nobara interrupted and charged it to her family's account instead. She glanced back and forth between her friend and the cashier - apparently her family must have been pretty rich, because the cashier didn't even flinch when she announced the name of the account.

"So, your family's pretty loaded, huh?" she asked as the two of them walked over toward the window seat to eat their meals. "Nice, not to have to worry about money that much, isn't it?"

Alexi walked into the dining room with his usual casual, cocky stride. Today he had taken out his lip ring and replaced it with a retainer. Today he had a small black strip on his lip in place of his lip ring and his eye's were still outlined the same way with the strip down the left eye. His clothes today were a simple tight purple sleeveless shirt and tight black jeans like the jeans he wore yesterday.
Because he wore a sleevelss shirt today you could easily see the steel armguards taking up the space from just above his wrist to just below his elbow. He took made his way accross the dining hall heading for the line up for food.

Startled by the sudden appearance of the young girl, Nobara stood up quickly, firsts forming. "Are you okay!? You look lost!" She said, staring at the girl. Something like this had happened to Nobara before...

"Mommy, where are you?!" The young girl cried, tears pouring down her pale pink face. "I... can't find you! Mommy, come out!" The young girl without her glasses, curls bouncing up and down, ran through the aisles of the small supermarket that they both used to go to together, hand in hand. First she passed the apples, then the bananas, then the cereal... tears in her eyes as she ran by in her ratted old sandals.

It was then that she noticed a tall young woman with the same curls as her running past the aisles as well, twice the speed at which she was going. It took all she courage she could to muster up enough to scream "MOMMY, I'M RIGHT HERE!" The young woman stopped in her tracks, and changed her direction, coming clearly for the little girl. Tackling her in a warm hug, one could clearly see she was sobbing. "Nobara, Nobara... please don't run off again..."

Nobara shook her head, the sudden memory fading away, and looked at Rachel before walking over to the little girl. "Tell me... where did you last see the people you were traveling with...?" Out of the corner of her eye, she also noticed Alexi wandering around... what a fool. He couldn't even keep up a fight.

Alexi sat in line a minute impatiently waiting his turn. He peered around the line and noticed that it was a girl running the cashier. He smiled and bought himself a piece of pizza when he got to the end of the line. It was clear from the way he was leaning against the counter and hte way he was standing that he was flirting wth the cashier. After a while he passed her a piece of paper and with a smile left without having to pay for his food.
He looked around for a place to sit and saw Nobara. With a mischeivous smile he walked over and set his tray down on the table she was sitting at. He was about to say hi before he notived hte little girl acrros from her. She looked upset and it made Alexi feel sad for her

Alexi had been stuck staring at the poor little girl, his eyes filled with pity. Her comment snapped him out of his trance and he couldn't help but laugh at it, but then he stopped and shivered. " Clowns... those are scary people, but i'll take that as a compliment " He finished his comment punctuated with a laugh. He turned his head to face Nobara " What happened did she get lost, she looks rather sad ? "