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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:30 pm
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How long had she been at the academy now? A few weeks, and the experience was really... Interesting. She met little to no people, preferring to stay by herself until she could adapt better. She'd never met, much less seen, this many people in one place. She'd never had a room as large as the one she currently shared with Dani, and she'd certainly never thought of other people as “friends” like she did Dani. If, or when she returned home, she would go to her mother and tell her all the things she'd learned. She would also get her mother out of hiding, she wasn't different like Basia, so why feel the need to hide? Her mother had told her once how unsafe it was, how people sometimes wouldn't be very nice to her because of who she was, which was why she'd only ever gone to the library. There, she could hide in the dark corners with the smell of books and the quiet knowledge they brought.
Thus, after a little debacle at the cafeteria, Basia had needed to feel safe, and the library seemed like the best place to find it. The academy's library was large, larger than the one she had back at home, and Basia giggled inside at how happy she was, which translated into almost skipping into someone. Wanting to read something of interested, Basia headed straight for the historical section, rummaging through what she'd already read, and what she hadn't. It was easier here to open up a portal to stick her head in so she could read the top shelves. Though she probably did get a few odd looks from thsoe who passed her section.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:49 pm
Odd looks were nothing in comparison to the look currently on Theo's face. The poor unsuspecting boy had merely been wandering from the section where all the cook books were located to the front desk to ask for help. He was much too short to reach the top shelf on his own, and although he was very apprehensive about asking anyone for help with his minute problem, he didn't want to be stuck in the library forever trying to figure it out.
The few books he had already gathered on baking and cooking tumbled to the floor with a loud clamour as Theo starred slack-jawed at Basia, her head obviously detached from her body in some weird vortex like way.
Now, Theo had a small inkling of what he was getting into when he joined the Academy. There'd be others like him with special abilities, some who wanted to push their limits past their breaking point, and a small grouping like him who merely wanted to be able to control themselves.
Up until this point, Theo had met a variety of individuals with powers that differed from levitation, fire wielding, smoke control, and other various elemental things. He had not, however, seen anyone who could make their body parts detach and reappear in different areas. Understandably, he was a bit shaken by this discovery.
"Uhm...," Was the only thing that could escape Theo's poor little lips that would be even minutely coherent.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:20 pm
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Because of the height Basia's head currently was, she never caught sight of poor Theo and his expression, not until he dropped his books that is. The sound was enough for Basia to turn her body and look down with her head, once she caught that scared look on his face she ducked down, her head disappearing from the top and reappearing on her body once more. Basia had no idea what to say to him, much less what to do with the poor guy, so she just starred, and starred, and starred. It was like time had stopped, no one had ever given her that look, heck she'd scared him to the point where he couldn't eve talk. The silence was starting to get heavy, is this what she'd read about 'awkward encounters'?
So, Basia did the only thing her mother had taught her about people who stared. “It's rude to stare you know.” Her tone wasn't angry or anything, it was calm like she was stating a fact. Thinking that it might be rude for her to also stare, she turned her eyes downwards to the books he'd spilled on the floor. Mentally, she closed her previous portal and opened up a new on beside his feet, then she reached in and grabbed one of the books and took it through the portal onto her side. Turning the book over, she read some cooking title, then she flipped a few pages to look inside. She looked back up at him and extended the book towards him. “So you like cooking?” An obvious question to everyone but Basia.
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:56 pm
Theo's eyes widened as Basia pulled her head back through the little loop hovering in the air and appeared back attached to her body at the bottom. They starred at each other for several moments, Theo's cheeks reddening the longer they exchanged this unintentional starring match.
When the other girl talked, Theo was jolted back into reality. It's rude to stare you know. Theo flinched slightly at her words. She may not have sounded like she was being scolding, but it was still taken that way by the very timid boy.
Theo jumped slightly when he saw a new one of those cylindrical vortexes appear near his feet and grab one of the cook books he had planned on taking out. You'd think seeing her open and close her portals more than once would have him acclimated to the motions of what she does, but nope. Not Theo. Special boy that he was.
"M-me?!" He chirped, his voice breaking slightly when Basia asked him her question. "I uhm... Y-yes I l-like to c-cook. I mean, uhm... M-mostly bake."
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:31 pm
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It was hard not to keep staring at him, Basia was starting to feel like a scary beast. For all she knew she didn't like the feeling of being looked at with those scared eyes. “Look I'm really sorry.” She stuck both hands into the portal now, grabbing as many books as she could to take back to her side. When her hands were full, she placed the books beside her and went back into the portal to grab the few that were left. Once no more books were left on his side, she closed all portals and picked up the large stack of books. She wobbled up at first with the weight of it all, than made her way over to him with a bit of a struggle. How many books did this guy plan on reading?
As she got closer to him, she saw the red on his cheeks, and the few curious onlookers who were watching them now. Basia felt her own cheeks start to warm, but she kept her head high, she hadn't done anything wrong as far as she could understand. Or maybe she had and she didn't know? She'd obviously done something to scare the boy guy. When she reached him, she stopped and extended the books towards him, her arms trembling from the weight. “I've never cooked, or baked. Ever.” While it may not have been the right thing to say right there and than, at least is was something other than silence. Plus, the thought of scaring him even more now that she was closer to him crossed her mind, she wondered how he would react to her eyes.
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:11 am
"Huh? Oh! No! You, uhm, you don't need to apologize. Really, it's uhm. It's my fault," Theo stuttered, clamoring up to Basia as she finished gathering his fallen books and began to waddle her way to him with the heavy looking stack.
"I'm sorry, uhm. It really is my fault, I shouldn't have been staring, uhm, I-," Theo said quickly as he took the heavy pile of books from the slender looking girl.
Why was he so bad at this socializing thing? Oh yeah, because kids were cruel and he closed himself off to them completely prior to coming to the Academy. Damn he was sad. As he got lost in his own pitiable train of thought, the girl before him spoke once again, uttering words that changed Theo's expression from that of a spooked sort of awe to a look of absolute disbelief.
I've never cooked, or baked. Ever.
"What? You've, uhm. You've never baked anything? Not cookies? Or a cake? Ever?" Theo was truly being the rude one now, but he couldn't help his reaction to Basia's statement. He had never met someone who had never baked in their life. He thought that baking was a sort of milestone in any child's life and a process of bonding with a parent. How could she never have baked?
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:05 am
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Basia wasn't the best either with interactions, but she got the feeling that this guy was just as bad with people as she was, and this thought made her smile and relax a little. It made her wonder if he'd had a similar fate as her own early in life, no father with an over protective mother. Though apparently, her mother had a good reason to be over protective, Basia had no knowledge of what had been going on in the dark. Better that way, her mother would say.
“Nothing, ever. I mean I've read recipes and stuff from books. When the library ran out of new books on the world, history and whatever have you, than I turned to other subjects. Can't say I read as many as you have probably, but yea...” She was rambling now, this boy made it seem like she had missed doing something critical in her life. She didn't feel any different not knowing how to bake, she'd tasted cookies and cakes from the bakery, why should she bother making them if someone else was? “I've tasted cookies and cakes, from the bakery you know. Just never made any on my own.” Basia ran her hand through her hair as a nervous habit before sticking it out towards him.
“I'm Basia by the way.”
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:54 am
Theo was still a little shocked at the fact that this girl had never physically made her own baked goods before. Realizing he probably looked like a fool to Basia, with his stupid look plastered all over his face, he quickly switched to an awkward grin.
"Well, t-to be honest, uhm, I haven't really read many books," He said quietly, "I'm, uhm, I'm trying to learn new things... to, uh, keep me occupied. Also, some of the food here isn't all the great, so..."
Not that the food was terrible. But there were occasions where they served things he either hated, or just couldn't stomach for one reason or another. And he expected this, so it wasn't like it was something absurd that was happening. On the other hand, they always had some a la carte stuff that he could pick up and eat, but he just didn't... like the idea of other people making his food most of the time. Especially since they weren't his mom. As a result, he began putting some effort into learning some easy recipes. He probably wasn't supposed to... but who the hell cared, right?
"Oh, but those are just not the same." Theo commented, with a slight 'tut tut' to his voice; though he did not mean to sound like he was chiding. "Sure, uhm, they probably taste good, but they taste even better when you're the one making them. Something about satisfaction or whatnot."
Theo chuckled awkwardly, knowing that to some it probably sounded like a stupid reason and that it was not a good enough justification to put through the effort into making their own baked goods versus buying them, but that was his reasoning and it always seemed sound to him.
"Oh, uhm. I'm T-Theodo- err, I mean.... Theo," He said quietly, extending a hand out to Basia.
"Uhm, I know this sounds sorta strange, and you don't have to or anything, but uhm, would you uh.... Would you like to learn how to bake? I mean you don't have to and it's not like I'm trying to be creepy or rude or anything, but I really feel like you'd see the difference between something somebody else made and something you, yourself, made if you actually, uh.... made it," He said hurriedly, a small twinge of red flourishing across his cheeks and nose.
He needed to turn the unbeliever, or something equally cultish sounding.
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:34 am
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Now it was Basia's turn to be shocked, he hadn't read many books? She'd devour a whole library if she could, and almost had back at home if she hadn't been sent off to school. Good thing the school had an equally large amount of books, which most she had never seen or heard of, coming here was going to be a delight.
Basia took his tone of voice like grain of salt, but she did raise a brow at him. Her mother was the only other person who had ever used that tone of voice, and she'd hated it in her mother. From this boy however, he made her curious. “I wouldn't know the difference.” But how could she when she'd never baked anything, or even cooked. That was her mothers job, or a mothers job, and Basia was no mother. Thus why she thought the boy before her was odd, maybe he was a father? But he was awfully young to be one... It would probably be rude to ask, Basia did not share her thoughts with him.
“It's nice to meet you Theo.” She took his hand and gave it a good shake, bobbing his hand up and down far too much. Basia had never really given any handshakes before either, she'd met nearly no one back at home that required one. Basia released his hand finally, holding on and shaking for a little longer then necessary and gave him another smile.
Basia starred at him quietly as he offered to teach her how to bake, Theo was feeding her curiosity, and there was never a time that Basia didn't want to expand her knowledge. If this guy here, was offering. Should she try it? She was itching to do something new, to get out of her old routine, she was in school now, she needed to move away from her old self. Make friends, her mother had told her with a sad smile the last time she'd seen her, and be happy, were her last words. “Sure why not, I always want to learn new things!” For the first time, Basia actually felt, giddy about the whole thing, and she liked how the emotions felt.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:58 am
After Basia's energetic handshake, Theo couldn't help but rub his wrist, wondering if it was going to fall off from the rest of his arm. No girl had every shook his hand in such a manner before, and he was uncertain of whether or not she really shook hands with people; not like he could judge. Theo himself shook hands like girls mostly did, rather gently and for like two seconds at most.
"G-great!" Theo said, a geuinely happy smile having overtaken his face quickly. He'd never taught anyone before, but who the hell cared. He was being given the chance to prove his worth to someone, although it had nothing to do with his abilities as a rookie and more of his abilities as a mama's boy.
"Uhm, uh, we should, uhm... Books," He said, gently emphasizing the books in his hands with a slight nudge of them. "We should, uhm, check these out. Maybe we can, uhm, find something in here to try?"
That was the whole reason he came to the library after all, to get more books so he could try to bake new things. He was starting to garner a reputation around the Academy as 'that-kid-who-bakes-s**t' by some of the less eloquent students, but it didn't bother him any. It was much better than being known as the guy who accidentally dropped girls from ten feet in the air, or the creepy kid who sings to his hand to mend boo-boo's. Yep, this was a much better reputation.
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:52 pm
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“Sure thought sounds great! Lemme just grab the book I wanted.” turning around Basia headed back to where she had previously been. This time however, she opened up a portal and stuck her hand in, glancing up to make sure she grabbed the right book. Getting a hold of the book, Basia retreated her hand and walked back over to Theo, she felt giddy about doing this baking stuff. “Alright I am good!” She hugged the book to her chest and headed over to the desk at the front of the library, she shoved the book towards the librarian and waited for the check out. Once the book was handed back to her, Basia headed for the door. “So where we headed?”
Her first thought was that they would probably be heading towards the cafeteria, but as far as she knew, they weren't allowed into the kitchen area. Perhaps Theo knew of some other kitchen that students were allowed to use? Maybe they even had a baking class that Basia had no idea about, that got her wondering on if such schools did exist. Basia shrugged the thought away, the only thing she felt she would need when she got out of school would be cooking. Another subject she knew nothing about, and she doubted reading any books would really help her. Basia thought she ought to probably ask Theo to teach her everything he knew.
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:14 am
Theo was still mildly disturbed by Basia's ability, though now that she had used it more than once in front of him, he wasn't as caught off guard by it. He wondered if the portals closed on their own and if she wasn't fast enough would she lose limbs? A slightly morbid thought, but everything came into question when it came to people like himself. He did almost get toasted by a fire starter in the kitchen the last time he was there.
Once Basia had grabbed her book, the two made their way towards the librarian and to check-out. Basia's check-out took a considerably less time than his did, and while he waited for the librarian he was asked where they were going to be heading.
"Uhm, the cafeteria," He said quietly, giving the librarian his thanks and taking his books. He waddled along towards Basia and began his slightly embarrassing, book filled march towards the cafeteria.
"It's, uhm. It's usually quiet in the kitchens around this time, and uhm, the staff don't, uhm, don't mind me being there," He said explained. "The, uhm, some of the teachers don't seem to, uh, like it, but they're not cafeteria staff so..."
He trailed off for a moment, although he really wanted to say '...they can go to hell', but he decided to mind his manners. He wasn't sure if Basia was one of those people who didn't quite like hearing swearing, so he tried not to when he could help it. Not that he swore all that much to begin with, but 'hell' was definitely the word he used much often and his wishes for people to visit it were numerous.
Theo walked carefully. He didn't want to run into people as he walked, especially with his pile of books. Cooking books were always so much bigger and heavier than the normal books, at least in his limited experience, so it probably didn't feel so great if he accidentally dropped them on his feet or others.
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 10:09 am
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Basia bobbed her head, “To the cafeteria then!” she still felt way too giddy for this baking business, then again she felt giddy about learning anything that she didn’t have previous knowledge about. Plus, this was the perfect opportunity to get another friend, this time a boy! If only her mother could see her now, baking with a boy. She’d probably be more shocked about the boy part, since she’d tried teaching Basia a few times how to bake, but she’d never been interested in anything but books. Yes, she would make sure to tell her mother about Theo the next time she wrote a letter to her, her mother would be ecstatic. Wanting to share her excited nature, Basia gently grabbed onto Theo’s sleeve and pulled, turning slightly towards him with a smile. “Isn’t this so exciting?”
While walking towards the cafeteria, Basia wondered how they were going to bake anything in there, or maybe Theo’s powers were something related to heat? Now that got her curious on what his powers were, should she ask? She still hadn’t fully understood if it was rude or not to ask. Basia decided to ask anyways. “So you’ve seen my powers,” she opened up a portal in front of them, “now what about you? What do you do?” She’d also taken the habit of trying to figure out what everyones powers were. A fun game she’d discovered in a class while playing with the others, no one was ever able to guess her powers, her eyes tended to confuse everyone. It made her wonder, if one day her eyes would give her some sort of power.
They walked down a few more corridors before the smell of food hit them, and they passed through the doors into the cafeteria. The place was empty except for a few people probably studying or just hanging out with friends, no one paid them much attention. Basia stopped at the door, eyes glancing around the place, did they need to sit near a wall plug? What about ingredients and such, it was Theo’s time to lead. “So what do you need? Where should we sit?”
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:49 am
Theo couldn't help but smile from ear-to-ear at the blonde portal summoning girl before him. She was so excited over baking some cookies, and although he himself got pretty excited about making anything that made him feel closer to his mother at home, he'd never exactly been this excited. It was really cute. She was really cute.
Stop thinking like that! Theo screamed to himself internally as Basia grabbed onto his arm and tugged with a smile. He felt a pit develop in his gut and tried his best to make the feeling go away. She's just being friendly. You don't know her really well, she's just excited. This doesn't mean anything so stop being stupid!
The trip to the cafeteria had been relatively quiet, and than out of nowhere the question came:
“So you’ve seen my powers,” she opened up a portal in front of them, “now what about you? What do you do?”
Theo winced internally and offered Basia a nervous smile, mostly because he didn't think his abilities were very useful in comparison to hers. He wasn't even sure of all that he could do, after all. Basia's abilities were much clearer and concise. She could make portals. She could stick her head through one and have it come out on the other side many feet away. It was disturbing, but it was also useful, unlike his.
"Uhm, well...," He began, trying not to embarrass himself with his own explanation. "It, uhm, it has to do with s-singing. I, uh... Stuff happens when I sing, uhm. D-depending on what I sing, and uhm,... things like that."
You need to stop speaking, Theo thought to himself with a sigh. It never bodes well for you. She probably thinks you're an idiot and after this cookie lesson she'll never speak to you again. Oh well. It was nice to watch you walk, Basia.
By the time Theo and Basia had reached the cafeteria, he already felt like he had made a major fool of himself to what he hoped would still be a new friend to him. They walked through the entrance into the cafeteria, noticing the couple of people hanging out in there and looked around. Theo was glad there was few people. It meant that they either missed one of the food rushes, or it would be upon them in the middle of baking. Either way, it didn't matter as there was plenty of ovens to use.
“So what do you need? Where should we sit?”
Theo glanced over at Basia and smiled slightly, "Well. We we're gonna go into the back and figure it out."
He hiked his cook books up slightly in his arms, having forgotten their weight as he was making a fool of himself to Basia and motioned with his head for her to follow him into the kitchen. He had a repertoire with some of the chefs in the back and since he was very good about cleaning up after he was finished, they didn't much mind that he used the kitchen. Some of the teachers might mind, but they weren't the cooks and you didn't mess with people who could expertly wield knives (super powers or no).
Finding an abandoned counter top, Theo put down the books and found the one he got specifically about cookies. He looked around and noticed the lack of chefs in the kitchen. They must have come in after one of the busy periods, which was good. They'd be uninterrupted during their cooking lesson. He opened up the book to the reference page and beckoned Basia over.
"You, uhm, you wanna pick what we make?" He asked.
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:33 am
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With Theo being nervous, Basia had to wonder if she was making him nervous. As far as she knew, she hadn’t done anything wrong had she? Mentally, she tried to recap everything she’d said and done to him so far, but she came up with a blank. She hadn’t thought her social skills were this terrible, heck she’d gotten along quite fine with Dani. Maybe it was because Theo was a guy? Did guys need different interactions than girls? Basia was over thinking herself, but she just couldn’t help herself from feeling bad if she was actually causing this discomfort. Should she ask him? But that could potentially make him even more uncomfortable with her. Gosh, all this social stuff was hard to get a hang of, Basia was going to have to make another trip to the library to see if she could find anything on the subject. Until than, she’d try to be more friendly, even if she had no idea how to do so.
Following Theo through the kitchens until they found a counter, Basia watched him quietly until he asked her to pick something. Going into her serious mode, Basia looked down and read each recipe name carefully, these were all cookies so she only had to pick a kind to bake. There was lemon, chocolate, double chocolate, strawberry, banana, orange, and so much more that Basia run a hand through her hair and frowned lightly feeling like this was a test. In the end, she decided to go with something that wasn’t usually seen. Pointing to it, Basia offered Theo a smile. “How about this one. Pomergrante white chocolate chunk cookies?” Glancing at the page number, Basia went searching for the page, once found, she handed slide the book over to Theo.
The list of ingredients seemed quite large, or in Basia’s eyes anyways. Theo might have seen something bigger, it made her wonder if they were going to be able to find everything they needed. Else, she’d find another recipe, but this one seemed to have caught her eye. “So do you think we have everything for this?” He was the expert here, might as well see what he thought.( Recipe)
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