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 Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:11 pm
Gabe was out for a light jog in the park. Really more of a jog-walk-pause-to-huff-and-puff, but the thought was what counted, right? Besides, considering his new, uh, affiliation, he had to at least try to get in shape.
He picked up his jog again, feeling thoroughly like a failure. He had to look utterly sad to anyone watching. Exercise and him were not good friends, unfortunately. But darn it, he was trying.
He spotted a park bench and flopped down on it, deciding to take a break. He hadn't been going for long, but already he looked sorrowfully sweaty and very tired.
So, so pathetic.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:19 pm
Eliza was in the park sitting in a tree, having climbed up in an attempt to share some peanuts with a squirrel, but the squirrel retreated to the ground and Eliza sighed and threw the peanuts down to the squirrel. She just came out for a bit of fresh air, needing some nature time, as she was missing life on the farm a bit. Currently she lacked shoes, they lay abandoned at the bottom of the tree. Eliza hated shoes and really wishes they were a necessary thing for city life.
Eliza looked out over the park watching the kids play some game of make believe and silently wishing she had a siblings, then wondering is Fritz had time to play with her, not that she actually knew where he was at the moment. She jumped startled out of her reverie as a boy plopped down on the bench next to the tree. Eliza grinned turning on the branch before hanging upside down from it, her tshirt riding down her abdomen causing her to push it back up and tuck it partially into her shorts.
"Hey there," she said with a grin, wild untamed locks dangling from her head, crazy manner of mix matched dress making her looking like she belonged with the lost boys of Peter Pan.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:31 pm
Gabe was definitely not expecting that there was someone in the tree next to his bench. He also wasn't expecting that it was a girl about his age, or that she would...drop in on him, so to speak.
"Waugh!" He yelped, starting. Okay, she wasn't a Senshi, and she had probably climbed into that tree, not beamed in, and he was a civilian here so he was clearly totally safe.
Right.
"Uh, hi?" he said, giving her a very faint smile. He felt rather embarrassed by his initial reaction. "Sorry about that, you startled me. Uh, hi, my name's Gabriel, but you can call me Gabe."
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:45 pm
Eliza gave a laugh and smiled at the boy, "I didn't mean to startle you Gabe. Just noticed you there and decided to say hello. I'm Eliza. I don't have a nickname so you can just call me Eliza."
She swung her legs forward hard causing the to come away from the branch and fall. It probably looked terrifying for a second as Eliza flipped off the branch oddly, but her little body came of with ease and she landed on her feet although she was now facing away from the boy.
She turned grinning before putting her feet back into shoes quickly. "You look awfully tired. You feeling okay, heat not getting to you, is it. If so you better get some water from the fountain."
The 4'11" teen lacked any real tact and wouldn't realize her words could be potentially rude.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:33 pm
"Well it's nice to meet you, Eliza." Gabe said. He had to force himself not to yelp when she swung off the tree branch, because if she had gotten up surely she knew how to get down, right?
He blinked, surprised at her well-executed landing, and knocked a little off balance by her sudden question.
"Oh, uh, not the heat, nah, I've been running." He said. That sounded so much better than what he had been up to. "I just need to sit for a little and I'll be fine." That was a little bit of a lie. He was clearly not yet cut out for doing much of anything physical. It was definitely very sad.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:02 pm
Eliza grinned and walked over plopping down next to Gabe. "It's nice to meet you too. I've met a lot of new people since I started school in Destiny City. It's so different her in the city."
She sat with her arms over the back of the chair sprawled in a most unladylike manner. "Running huh," she said responding to his words, "I much prefer climbing, but I'm sure that is obvious. I was just in a tree."
She sat up and look at him eyes smiling. She was a weird girl and highly energetic girl, "How about after you catch your breath I run with you. It will be a lot more fun with two people. It's also easy to keep a pace that way. Well for me anyway."
Granted when Eliza ran she was chasing a farm animal or running with the collies, but she doubted it matter much.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:20 am
Gabe was not always very comfortable with having his space invaded, but then this wasn't all that close. So he flashed her a very awkward grin and dealt with it.
"Oh, you aren't from here?" He asked. "Where are you from?" He tilted his head, looking curiously at her. He knew that there were a lot f people that moved to DC. He wondered, briefly, if they were somehow drawn here by the whole...mess going on.
But there was no way this girl was a fighter on either side, that was a ridiculous thought. He brushed it off.
"I think I prefer most anything," Gabe laughed.
And then she suggested coming with him, and he felt a deep, abiding sense of busteeeed.
"Well, uh, I mean, I wasn't really running, I was like...jogging...barely..." He said. "But, uh, yeah! It might go better with someone else there!" Because he'd really prefer not to embarrass himself in front of somene else.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:47 am
Eliza nodded, "well I'm from Destiny City, but not from the actually city itself. I've lived on the outskirts all my life in the rural farming area. My mother and I take care of our farm and I was homeschooled up until 9th grade. I got a scholarship to Crystal, but now I go to H.I.T.S. My mother thought I needed some real world experience."
She gave a small laugh at Gabe saying he preferred most anything and since he looked tired she believe him.
At his admission of just barely jogging, she laughed out right. "I bet you were doing just fine. Running takes getting use to and you have to know how to breath through it. Animals are so much better at it. I'd be happy to run with you."
She jumped up looking excited in her mixed match wardrobe which hardly looked suitable for jogging. "Though I think if you prefer anything else, being as it still summer you might want to swim. The indoor outdoor center's pool is open all year long."
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:51 am
Gabe nodded. "Ah, I guess that makes sense. HITS must be awesome," he said. He would have loved to go there, but apparently an essay carefully analyzing evidence that the Tunguska Event was in fact caused by an alien ship and not a meteor was not a good thing to submit to them.
He frowned a little when she laughed at him. He knew he was embarrassingly bad, but was it that funny? ...Probably. "I guess we could jog together," he agreed. It'd be good for him, he supposed.
"Yrah, you know, swimming does sound like a better idea." He nodded. Cool water versus hot sun? Yeah, he could do that. "Thanks for the suggestion."
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:03 am
Eliza shrugged when she thought about HITS, not that she didn't like it, but she preferred crystal only because she didn't have to live all alone in an apartment building by herself. She'd had a dorm and knew most of the other's in the rooms around her.
"It's nice it is, but I like the Crystal dorms. I live by myself now because I need to be closer and my apartment is a bit lonely and I swear there are ghost living on the roof." Eliza didn't take time to think about how crazy that sounded, she sounded crazy to a lot of people because she believe in things that couldn't possible exist like magic and ghosts.
She grinned again and reached out to pull him up, "well come on them, best to keep moving or else you'll get jelly legs and you don't want that. And you're welcome for the suggestion. I like to swim, I figured you might and its way better than running."
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:01 pm
Gabe stared at her, wide-eyed and suddenly excited, as soon as she mentioned ghosts.
"Ghosts on the roof? Really?" He asked. "I mean, I'd think that would be kind of cool." Yes, as dedicated as he was tot he idea of aliens, he was equally knee-deep into pretty much every other paranormal phenomena. UFOs just happened to be his favorite, and most well-developed, area of interest. "Unless they keep you up, that would suck."
He accepted her hand, any potential wariness gone, because clearly she was a kindred spirit. Of sorts. "I guess you're right," he agreed, eyeing the path a little warily.
Ah well, it would be good for him in the long run.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:34 pm
Eliza grinned when he believed her about the ghost on the roof and she nodded excitedly. "You really think that is cool. I mean most people would be really scared to even think it, let alone find out. I never really went up there, but it just sound like it sometimes at night you know. What else would be on the roof in the middle of the night."
Being a page now, Eliza knew it was more likely to be a youma, or senshi or whatever else on the roof, but really she thought she would prefer ghost.
Releasing Gabe she turned to the path and motioned for him to follow and started jogging slowly down the path. Eliza had a ton of energy and could probably run circles around Gabe, but she of course did not know that and she was more that happy to start of slow and let Gabe set the pace.
"Ever see any ghost before," she asked slowly not wanting to lose her breath.
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:11 pm
Gabriel nodded. "Yeah," he said. "I mean, really ghosts aren't that scary." Much scarier was the war he had very recently been initiated into. He could handle a couple of ickle ghosites, he'd been beaten up by an invader from outer space.
Perspective, even in insanity, was a lovely thing.
Not wanting to be left behind, Gabe started jogging when she did, and was surprised that he was managing to reasonably keep pace.
"Ghosts? No," he said sadly. "I wish, that would be neat."
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 1:23 pm
Eliza laughed lightly still jogging down the path. She had to admit it was nice having some company to run about with. She missed being on the farm already, but that was also because most people her age found her childish, so she didn't have many friends, not outside the court anyway.
Grinning she proceeded to jog backwards facing Gabe, "now you have me curious and I think I may just have to go on an adventure up to the roof sometimes. I will be saddened though if it isn't ghosts, but what else could be up there at like midnight, right?"
She turned back around and continued running, narrowly avoiding a small pup she might have run into if she hadn't turned back around.
"Everyone says ghost are real and I shouldn't believe in such things. They say the same about a lot of things, but how would they know right? Just because they can't find one. One day someones going to prove them wrong."
She laughed lightly feeling giddy, enjoying the run and enjoying talking without the look. The one were they person looking thinks you are crazy.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:36 am
"It's gotta be ghosts," Gabe said. Or, you know, space invaders in frilly skirts or brave defenders of Earth, but for her sake he really hoped it was ghosts. She seemed nice, it would be a shame for her to get caught up in this mess.
"People say a lot of things aren't real," Gabe said, with the air of one who was fully in the know, "because they prefer the world is simple and normal. So they close their eyes to anything outside their little box and call the people who believe in them crazy or childish."
He knew that pretty well, and he had to admit, it was nice talking to someone who didn't treat him that way. Even his mother's encouragement came with a hint of panic, like she hoped that one day her son would move past this. Eliza, though, seemed like she could be a good friend.
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