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Post by terrel on Jan 3, 2007 14:45:22 GMT 1
Terrel woke up and walked quietly outside, it was too warm for him, he needed to go somewhere that was nice and cool, he looked around the town. People scattering everywhere, rushing into business’s and out, the people don’t even take a look around and take the time to watch the environment grow and how beautiful it all was. Terrel walked slowly through the streets and then looked up, there was some mountains in the distance, a perfect spot for training he thought. He walked quickly to the edge of it, he looked up, it looked like a long hike, so he decided to make it a nice warm up jog. He started off running through the winding trails through some trees. It got cooler the father he went, he soon decided to walk and look down onto the town. It looked so small from up here Terrel thought.
Terrel got to a nice flat ground with a stream and a bunch of trees surrounding the area, he sat down at the stream and took a sip of water, the nice cold fresh stream tasted great on his parched lips. Terrel got up and stretched, he thought it would be a nice day for a partner to be here to train with, but if that did not happen, then he would make it a nice day anyway. He needed to focus he thought, it was so quiet and he felt as thought the world had completely stopped, he could hear nothing but the wind going between the trees. He wrapped his hands up tight with some tape, then began throwing some punches out wildly, just to stretch his muscles. He continued with his legs, by jumping in the air. He then started to do some somersaults to stretch out his back, he thought that it felt good. He looked around just waiting for some one to give him a nice little spar.
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Post by raven on Jan 4, 2007 7:01:29 GMT 1
Today was different. It was a warm day and the sun was out. Raven was tired of the city. But unlike Varron, SF seemed to have a place just outside of it that was filled with nature and places for her to kill time and do things. So instead of staying in today and being lonely and bored she had decided on a hike. She had never gone hiking before so she packed herself a bag just incase she got lost or something and needed a few things including her newly acquired cell phone to use in just emergencies. She smiled as she put the backpack on her back and dressed in white tennis shoes, a pair of jeans, and a short sleeve but for fitting red shirt she set off to the mountains.
There were beautiful trails there filled with wild life among other things that her blue eyes took in. Her camera hung on her hip so that she could take pictures of her hike to bring back with her. Not that she had anyone to share them with but perhaps one day she would. It was nice and quiet now that she was outside the city and she was able to just enjoy herself and the wildlife. She came up over a ridge and began working her way down when she looked down below and saw someone training it seemed. Fists moving out and it seemed. That they were fighting an invisible enemy. She smiled softly, but inwardly she hoped that she wouldn't be getting herself in trouble by accidentally coming the same way that he had.
Once down from the path and into the area the boy was fighting in she began walking, intending to head across and continue her hike. But then she froze. He looked familiar for some reason she couldn't quite place it at first. And then it clicked. Wrestling. That day in the gym he was the one that talked to her for a while until all the other boys came and then Lesta had taken her away. She missed Lesta. He had been her only real friend left in Varron and now.. well she was trying to make new ones. And so, remembering his name, as Terrel. She headed over and sat down on a large bolder putting her backpack next to her. She pulled her knees up to her chest and merely watched not wanting to break his concentration.
It was funny. This was the second time she had watched him practicing anything.
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Post by terrel on Jan 6, 2007 1:35:00 GMT 1
Terrel followed through quickly with his punches and threw some kicks in the air, always imagining an opponent in fornt of him. He waited for an opponent that would give him a challenge, he hadnt had any fights in this school yet, he was wondering if this school had any rules against it or something. He stretched some more, and focused all his thoughts on trying to train. Just as he had retained all his thoughts off of everything around him, he decided to take a drink of water at the stream, he bent down and took a sip of the refreshing water, the cool water felt good against his chapped lips. He got up slowly and then out of the corner of his eye spotted a what looked like a person sitting on a rock near him. As he turned, he saw it was a girl in some jeans and a red shirt, she was obviously on a hike through the mountains, Terrel could tell from the backpack and camera at her side. He was turning to continue his training, he stopped for some reason, he must have reconized the girl, he didnt know many people, so it would be hard for him to know any one. He looked closely, trying not to seem like he was staring he walked over by some trees. He did reconize her, it was when he had his last wrestling practice in the gym, her name was Raven.
Terrel walked up slowly to her, she seemed like she remembered him, but he was going to make sure before starting into regular conversation, he didnt want to seem like a wierdo.
"Hi, ahh, havent we talked before, in the gym, at Varron, you are a transfer student right," Terrel asked a little quiet, he was of course shy, he didnt have the confidence like he had at Varron, he felt like he was at home and could fit in easier at Varron.
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Post by raven on Jan 6, 2007 3:21:13 GMT 1
Raven watched as Terrel fought. It was interesting to see someone fight an invisible opponent. She sat her chin on her knees and let the breeze blow through her hair. It was a beautiful day, still was but she was merely enjoying nature. It wasn't so much the hike that meant anything to her it was just getting out of the city and doing something different for a change. The scenery was beautiful, almost majestic in a way and Raven more than anything enjoyed the fresh air that was around them.
Terrel stopped and looked at her. She immediatly blushed, a normal occurance really he would know that, that is if he remembered her. They had only met once but Raven had an excellent memory and she remembered talking to this boy. It was then he began to head over to her and she blushed a bit deeper making no sudden movements just watching him. Her powder blue eyes shifting as he walked ever closer to her destination and she could tell that he might have been out here for some time. He stopped a bit aways from her and she blushed when he addressed her.
"Yes, I was there that day. In the gym. With you, Xae, and Bruce. Wrestling day." she said softly. "You are Terrel. I am Raven." she said with a soft smile.
"I was coming out here today, to hike getting away from the city for a little while. And I came across you so I .. decided to stop and say hi, at the very least. If I bother you, I can go, I just wanted to see how you were." she said softly.
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Post by terrel on Jan 6, 2007 3:33:49 GMT 1
The wind blew Terrels hair out of his eyes as Raven talked, it was her form the gym, he had found out. Well she seems like shes been doing all right. Terrel remembered the day in the gym with her, they did have a nice talk before Lesta had shown up to take her away. The good times back at Varron, Terrel thought. Terrel leaned against a tree near the boulder, he decided since there was no one else around, and it didnt seem like any one would show up, he would like to have a nice conversation with her.
"You be a bother to me, I really dont think thats possible," Terrel answered her," So how have you been, you like this new school of ours, because i think it is too different, I miss all the old faces."
Terrel waited for an answer as he cracked his back, he was bored, and there was noone to fight. This school is much different, everywhere I went in Varron I could feel like someone wanted to take a shot at me, I guess its just to modern around here, Terrel thought.
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Post by raven on Jan 6, 2007 4:18:33 GMT 1
Raven blushed and chuckled when he in a round about way complimented her. She smiled at him as he leaned against a bolder not too far from where she was. She smiled at him and relaxed a bit. She had enjoyed Terrel's company back in Varron. Though they had only met that one time it was still nice to see him again. And he had been nice, even back in Varron, to her, a quiet shy girl so out of place in a gym of boys.
"I.. I don't know. I miss all the people that stayed behind. I miss a lot of things. My house, .. and.. " she looked away for a moment. ".. other things."
She sighed soft and ran her hand through her hair tucking it behind her ear to get it out of her face. It wouldn't stay long, it never did that was the problem with having silken hair. She sighed softly and looked back over at Terrel.
"What about you? Are you settling in allright? This school.. it's harder to be in.. than Varron, for me at least."
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 6, 2007 19:52:20 GMT 1
OOC: If you mind me going into this thread, just speak up.
"This is so lame!" Dante groaned. Today was the day every year that his whole family went on some stupid hiking trip, "The worst part of it is, that I brought us here..."
The story was that one day he was trying to find his dog, Elliot, who wandered off into the mountains. Dante followed him there and when he finally caught up, Dante found the reason that Elliot had run away from him was that there was a pack of meat at a small shack in the middle of the mountains. He entered the shack and found out that no one was inside but there was stuff, including the meat that he later found out that went bad. He found it was a perfect place to meditate and relax. He later came home and told his parents about the great place he found and they thought it would be a great place for the upcoming trip.
"Me and my big mouth." He muttered, "Mom! Dad! I'm going on my own for a while okay?" They agreed. Dante was planning to run towards the shack with Elliot when he found Terrel training by himself, Typical. He thought. Then he spotted Raven on the ground with him, "Soooo, Terrel's not alone then..." He said quietly.
Then he ran up to them both, "So what are ya'll doing up here in the mountains?" He asked when he got to them, "I'm on this hiking trip with my family..." He then waited for a reply.
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Post by terrel on Jan 7, 2007 2:17:52 GMT 1
Terrel thought about the things he missed when she told him about hers. He wasnt at Varron for that long but still liked it better than this place, sure this place seemed much brighter and out in the open, but he liked Varron for its atomsphere. He smiled as she brushed her hair away, Terrel always loved his hair in his face, it always seemed he could avoid being approached by people if he kept it that way, and thats just the way he liked it.
" I guess im fitting in here all right,.. this place is wierd, I dont think I feel in place, Terrel answered. Just as he answered, his old friend Dante cam running up towards us, He seemed to be following Terrel everywhere. He asked what we were doing up here in the mountains, and he was with his parents, well Terrel never thought of Dante of a family guy, but he guessed surprises do happen.
"Well I decided this was a great day to train with someone in the peace and quiet, and Raven kinda found her way here, so how have you been," Terrel said. Terrel got tired of standing and decided he was going to lay down, he found a nice place next to the two and layed down on his back to look up at the sky while keeping one ear on full attention to the conversation.
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Post by raven on Jan 7, 2007 3:45:38 GMT 1
Raven smiled softly at Terrel. He wasn't too happy being here either it seemed. She could understand that completely. Where she had once been at least comfortable at Varron here she felt more out of place. At least in Varron there were so many different kinds of accents and people from all over the world. Here she seemed so lost in a see of fast paced, and very loud Americans.
It was then the boy from the library showed up and she smiled softly at him. It seemed she was running into the same people all over the place these days. She didn't even have to try they just kinda seemed to all get together at the same time. Seemed he was hiking with his family and Raven's smile grew even more. She didn't have a family, so she thought it would be nice if she did in fact have one to go hiking with.
"I'm just here because I couldn't stand being in that apartment alone any more. I needed some fresh air. So I went hiking and ran into Terrel." she said with a soft smile. "I didn't get very far, but.. I'd rather be with someone than alone, if given the choice."
"If.. either of you are hungry.. I packed a lunch. We could.. share if you like. I don't mind.. I usually make and bring too much anyway." she said with a soft blush.
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 7, 2007 18:01:04 GMT 1
"A-alone?" Dante asked, "There's n-no one else in your apartment?" "Don't be stupid." Dante muttered to himself, Since when was it polite to get into such touchy subjects?"
"Well... Yeah, I was just on my way to this neat little hut that's perfect for relaxing and meditating, but bieng with freinds..." Then his ears grew pink, "Or someone I-I mean, is way better than meditating."
Then he laughed, "You can tell I'm not the type for sitting still anyways." Then he sat down, "So, what's been up since everyone came to San Fransisco?" Then he shook his head, "It's not even close to bieng as good as New York..."
He sighed, "God how I loved that city, so many different groups, the hustle and bustle, always an exciting moment, and best of all, there was Broadway there!"
He looked around, "Not that this city is bad, but it's just so boring!"
Then when Raven offered to share her lunch with them, Dante shook his head, "No, no, I thank you for your offer but I could never take another persons lunch.."
Then he put down his backpack that he was carrying, "I brought my own anyway..." He opened his lunch bag and inside was normal camping snacks, trail mix, water bottles, goldfish, etc. Then he dug through it all to get the best of it all, the yogurt pretzels. He loved them, they were so addicting and tasty, and it was one of the only healthy snacks Dante could stand.
"I'd be happy to trade though..." Dante grinned.
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Post by terrel on Jan 8, 2007 0:48:49 GMT 1
Terrel played with the grass around him, he pulled and ripped some out as he listened to their conversation, she also lived in her apartment alone, well thats not uncommon, what parents of the students that transfered here, if they had any to begin with, would travel across the country, get new jobs, finds new friends to just come and stay with thier child for school. Terrel, since his mother passed away when he was born and his father had died when he was fifteen, was used to being on his own, in fact he would rathered it be that way, alone is the way he liked life. He had some breakfast before he had came to the mountains, he hadnt had lunch yet, but his body was still fine since he hadnt had any real hard training. He was a wrestler, he knew how to go days without food to cut wieght.
"No thank you, I think I can live without some lunch for now, I planned on eating when I get home," Terrel said.
Dante said something about being alone in her apartment, well thats probably different from what he expected, hes still young and he has a family that moves with him. Terrel kept his mouth shut and didnt say any thing, he just picked up a twig and started to peel the bark off of it, playing with things always kept him amused.
"I havent really done any thing in this city since I have been here, so nothing much has been up, and I guess ill have to agree that this city would seem more alive, but it is boring. There is alot more rules, its always bright, I used to love the darkness of New York, I could always get away with more things there," Terrel said.
After Terrel had spoken his eyes went back to the sky, he did love how New York had been dark, but nothing could compare to the California sky, it was so radiant and blue, tiny clouds that look like they are fake float in the sky, a perfect day every day, thats the only thing that he found good about this change.
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Post by raven on Jan 8, 2007 1:17:28 GMT 1
Raven moved down off the boulder and sat down on the ground around the area her two friends were sitting in she was unzipping her backpack when Dante seemed to be shocked she lived alone. She smiled softly and nodded.
"Yes. My grandmother died back in Varron she was who I lived with. After that, I moved in with my boyfriend. But then, one week I went out of town. Upon coming back he was gone, left a little note and that was it. He had gone, moved away." she said softly casting her eyes down. It was still a sore subject. "I am.. not used to living alone."
Then Terrel spoke as did Dante. Both saying they weren't hungry and she grinned softly and nodded. Poor saps didn't know what they were missing out on but then again, none of them knew she could cook like she could either. She opened her back pack as Terrel answered Dante's question and she pulled out a small collapsable but thermal lunch box. Humming softly she opened it and revealed not only sandwhiches, several of them, but real, warm, fresh cooked roast beef sandwhiches, not to mention there were fresh carrots and some some freshly baked home made cookies.
"A shame no one will share this with me. I can't eat it all. I brought extra incase I got lost." she chuckled with a blush. She picked up one of the warm slightly steamy sandwhiches and bit into it. She smiled, it was good and still warm. That lunch box had come in handy once again.
"As for me, I don't like it here. Not yet anyway. I miss Varron. Everything about Varron, it was my home in America. After coming from Russia that is where I have lived. This city is very different." she said softly after she swallowed her bite. "I have just been trying to get through the day. Though thanks to a friend I got a job at the bakery close to school. He tasted a brownie I gave him and he got me a job." she chuckled with a shrug.
"You still wrestling Terrel?" she asked softly and then turned to Dante. "And what is it you do here?"
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 9, 2007 23:32:34 GMT 1
OOC: Really sorry about the late reply.
When Dante heard Raven talking about how her grandmother died in Varron, he said sadly, "Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that." And he meant it too and then he looked down when he said, "My grandfather died when I lived in Varron too, in a couple of weeks it'll be the three month anniversary of his death. To me he was closer than my real father..."
Then he shook it off, "Well, he's in a better place now right? So no use making a big fuss about it now is there?" Yeah right. He thought, he didn't believe it, but there was no use in making everyone else depressed just because he was.
Then he laid down and rested for a while while talking to the two. When Raven said, "A shame no one will share this with me. I can't eat it all. I brought extra in case I got lost." Dante looked up and smelled one of his favorite smells: cookies. "You have cookies?" Dante asked. Then he saw her take them out he thought, Whoa, they look delicious...
Then he walked slowly towards Raven and asked, "I can have the cookies, maybe?" Then Raven asked them what they were doing, then Dante stopped and thought for a while and said, "Well, when I'm not at Hircine or goofing off, I usually act at the theater near Hircine and act there." Then he repeated, "Can I have the cookies?"
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Post by terrel on Jan 10, 2007 3:34:05 GMT 1
Terrel just listened as they talked about their dead relatives, yes Terrel's father died when he was young, but he wasnt the kind to go and make comments about it, he decided when he was young that there was no reason to talk about the past, at least with people that didnt need to know about it. Terrel watched as Raven then took out her food, it looked good, but he didnt need any of it, he didnt like to eat, he loved to keep his wieght down, and junk food just wasnt good.
She asked if i was still wrestling, of course I was, I was always going to continue wrestling, but he didnt do it at the high school level, he wrestles at the college level.
"Yes, I still do wreslting, I wrestle at the college near here, sorry if i dont accept any of your food, but I need to keep my wieght down," Terrel told her.
Terrel watched as Dante asked for food, the boy could do with an extra few pounds Terrel thought. Terrel just lay there looking up, he was bored, he was thinking about what he was going to do tonight, probably go and get drunk, his favorite thing to do when there is nothing to do. He then snapped back into the conversation, he always daydreamed, sort of a habit he had.
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Post by raven on Jan 12, 2007 1:12:00 GMT 1
Well it seemed she finally got a reaction. Or her home made cookies had anyway. Dante was all over them and she chuckled. She handed him the bag as he told her that he acted at a local theatre. She nodded and smiled knowing she could NEVER do anything like that. There were too many people and she wasn't the most coordinated girl in the world she could totally just bite the dust in the center of the stage in the middle of the play and ruin it all for everyone.
Terrel began to tell her that he now wrestled on a college level. That was amazing in her opinon. He must be really good. Truth to tell she didn't know exactly what was good or bad and wrestling but she was still proud that he had that talent. She smiled at the both of them and sat there among her new friends.
"Don't worry about not eating, but you should eat something some time, it isn't healthy to eat nothing." she said softly as she bit into her sandwhich again. Leaning back against the boulder she had been against earlier she looked up at the sky.
"It's really pretty out here. I"m glad I ran into you both. It's nice to have someone to share my day with." she told them with a smile.
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 12, 2007 23:34:59 GMT 1
Dante started devouring the cookies with a ferocity that it wasn't even going to be surpassed by the Devil himself. He finished and then brushed his hands against his plaid overshirt, "Those were the... Best... Cookies... Ever..." He said calmly while looking out to nowhere.
Then he turned towards Raven and asked her, "Did you make those? They kind of have that homemade taste." Then he continued, "I really wasn't exaggerating though when I said they were the best cookies ever. I think for the interval of time I was eating them, I knew what heaven was like..."
Then he laughed, "Okay, that time I might've been exaggerating. But those really were awesome cookies!"
Then he asked, "So, how old are you guys anyway? I'm sixteen, going on seventeen. And I know that you're in the later college years Terrel, but you're still a mystery to me Raven..." Then he chuckled softly at himself at what he said accidentally, "You are sixteen going on seventeen..." He sung softly from the musical The Sound Of Music.
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Post by terrel on Jan 13, 2007 2:02:25 GMT 1
Terrel watched as Dante ate the good looking cookies, they did look nice and warm, but he was quite content the way he was. Dante then went on to say that they were the best he had ever had, sounded kind of like a suck up, unless they really were the best, which could be doubtful considering all the cookies some one could have in a life and still remember the very first one. Terrel did not like to eat much junk food, it was harder to digest then healthy food, and is not as good for a person.
Dante went on to ask our ages, he was sixteen, still a young man, Terrel was twenty one, he wondered why it was nessecary to ask a question like that out of the blue, it actually made him laugh a little, Raven looked as if she was eighteen, it was a guess he made, he knew that she looked mature for her age.
"I am twenty-one, yes, I am in college, and as long as we are on the subject, Raven how old are you," Terrel asked. Terrel watched as he awaited a reply.
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Post by raven on Jan 14, 2007 0:50:07 GMT 1
Raven chuckled as she finished her sandwhich and packed the rest away to be eaten later if she needed to, or to be given away to the homeless on the way home. Either way they woudn't go to waste and that was the most important thing of all. Dante exclaimed over her cookies and she smiled. She had been cooking and baking for years now, not only was it her hobby, but now it was her job and her passion. It was just something she was good at.
"I'm glad you like them. Yes, I made them. Yesterday in fact. I love to bake and I do so frequently. Thus, the fruits of my labor." she said in that soft voice.
Dante then began talking of their ages. Raven, was exceptionally smart, even being from Russia, she was one year advanced on everyone else. But she rarely told anyone, and she knew of some seniors that graduated at her age. Turned out that Dante was sixteen going on seventeen. And Terrel was twenty one. She raised her brow, he was much older than she thought he was but said nothing to that effect.
"I am seventeen. Just turned seventeen, the day after Christmas." she said softly as she looked at them. "So what do you study in college Terrel?" she asked softly then turned to Dante.
"And your age.. it makes you.. a sophomore or a junior, right?" she asked.
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Post by Dante Williams on Jan 16, 2007 18:37:18 GMT 1
OOC: Soooo sorry for the late and really short reply, just got caught up in things, and I'm kind of in a rush, visiting my homeplanet and all "Well," Dante said in a long, drawn out breath while getting up, "I am a junior. I barely am one though, just turned one about..." Then he thought for a while, "Actually about sometime after Christmas. Kind of like you." Then when he fully stood up he thought, Maybe I should ask now..."Sooo," Dante asked awkwardly, "We've all been talking for a while, and we've all met each other more than once, I was wondering if we could all, like, be considered..." Then he squeaked out the word, " friends?"
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Post by terrel on Jan 19, 2007 2:16:57 GMT 1
OOC: sorry for my late reply, ive had a lot of stuff i had to do in the last week.
Terrel listened intently, watching and fidgeting, he was tired and kind of bored, he never really did like to sit and chat, he always liked to move around, thats why he wasnt fond of sleeping, it kept him still for to long. He listened as Raven told her her age, and asked what he studied in college, and what he was a Junoir, or Sophomore, he was currently a sophomore, so he had thought that he might want to become a athletic trainer, so all his classes he was taking right now led him down that road, if that did not work out he was going to try and make something work out as an assistant coach for a wrestling team, but those to options were his last resort, he still planned on making a career wrestling, he was currently trying to make his way to the nationals and get first, and after college he planned to wrestle, if he was good enough, on the oylmpic team.
"Well im a Sophomore in college, my studies are going toward a field in either the athletic training or collegiate coaching department, I may not need to worry about that right now, for all I have to worry about is my abilitie as a wrestler at the moment, i must work my way up to the nationals and win, to achieve my goal of someday wrestling for the U.S on it's oylmpic team," Terrel said.
Terrel layed and listened to Dante ask for our friendship, Terrel never actually thought that was a question, Terrel certainly thought of Raven and Dante as a friend.
"Dante, of course I'm your friend, why you didnt even have to ask that," Terrel said as he laughed.
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