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Not so much startled by this man's appearance rather than his actual introduction, Lite returned a simple "Buona sera, good sir. My name is Lite, but perhaps you know me as the "Giant Afro Man" that people circulated through the school today." It wasn't the best introduction, but it was true never the less and Lite didn't particularly care if he came off as strange. This guy changed his body appearance for crying out loud. He was sure that the guy had heard much stranger. "What's your name?" Lite didn't want to address his skin changing, it was obvious that he knew that it happened, possibly not that it was occurring at the time, but bringing up the obvious was pointless. Lite put some posture in his sit while lighting another cigarette. He stopped himself from rambling, and took a deep inhale of smoke.

"Oooo! I want cookies!" she exclaimed with a little clap, her stomach grumbling for a little snack. She giggled and looked up at Marie with a big grin when she asked how her first day was. "It was okay by first day standards. Still boring as ever!" She said with another giggle, "The only class I really like is my Chorus one and my German class. All that guttural noise making is so much fun. You can sound as angry as you want, and still end up saying I love you or something, it's awesome!!!!" she exclaimed her hair flaring up with her excitement. "How was your day??"

Sergey could hear the girls talking and stopped typing when he heard that Marie was merely asking for cookies. He still had some of his 'mothers' cookies up in his room that he hadn't even broken out yet. Maybe that would e a good way to apologize...but why was he the one going to apologize? He had had every right to be angry with her, and he really hasn't been that rough, just taken her hands away from the keys so she couldn't play that song anymore...He groaned and shook his head going back to typing up his short homework.

"Sorta... Or used to be able to. Haven't tried since I was little." Aki shrugged, remembering why she'd stopped. Her parents had taken the skates when she tried to mimic one of the pros, jumping around and doing tricks. Needless to say, she'd wound up with her arm and wrists broken in several places. The same thing happened with the skateboard. She looked to Lite, realizing she couldn't smell the smoke. "Wind?" she asked, realizing it made no sense afterwards. "You're power I mean. Manipulate it?" she clarified, now watching how the smoke spiraled up to where no one else would have to deal with it.

"Ah, a camoflage power, no? I tried surfing once. Got a broken arm. In any case I got a few sets of skates and boards in my room I can lend you both. This place is pretty much heaven. Back home I just broke into places like construction sites and road works." He said, shifting his plain black canvas bag about. It had his surname etched out in military font, a gift from his cousin. "So I know, you are friends with my room mate Matt right?" He said, using his power to give the illusion of being made up of rolling waves of water.

"Ah. Teaching people to skate is no problem. Really." He said, pulling out a bottle of cold water, drinking a little before offering some to his companions. He was doing his best to be friendly and he now kind of regretted making jokes about Lite earlier. He also appreciated being able to avoid talking directly to Aki right now.

When offered with some water, Lite put out his hand, palm facing him and he swayed it left and right as if to say no thanks. Having surfed a portion of the day, he had had enough water until the next. Bear had started climbing down Lite's side, so Lite picked him up and placed him on the spare bench to his left. "I'd really love to learn to skate, having fun is way better than doing school related crap. Learning is okay and all, it's just not as important as having a good time. That's my philosophy at least. And you're right, from what I know about skating, this place looks to have it made." It really had been on Lite's agenda for learning new things for enjoyment, but skating never really hit it off where he lived in the Mediterranean. "Hey, what about you? Surely you want to learn to skate too, eh?" Lite addressed the girl as he would any other stranger, abruptly and bluntly.

The color schemes this man emitted from his skin intrigued Lite, who started to wonder just how complex and obscure the patters could become. "I've met my teammates, they're as strange as the rest of us I guess, as strange as all of these queer creatures on the island. I'm sure your husky would have loads of fun chasing these little geckos around and around, they're quite a handful. This specific one here I call Bear, he's my pet. Since my roommate's stuff disappeared, I kind of made a small home for him." He looked around at the amount of people outside and started simulating how he could best keep his learning to skate as minimally embarassing as could be. "So, when would this learning to skate happen, huh?"