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Aug 19, 2017 22:20:34 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 19, 2017 22:20:34 GMT
Jay
She let out a soft chuckle when he answered, even if the last part wasn't exactly directed to her. "You really should've," she spoke agreeingly, it would've been quite the sight but she was also certain that he would've actually knocked him out cold. "It's that he had the advantage of hitting your bad cheek, otherwise he never would've gotten such a good blow. His aim was off and his fist was clenched in the wrong way. Had he used more force he would've broken his own thumb. Pity he didn't," she then mentioned, breaking the silence for a moment since she didn't quite feel like having to stare at his cheek in all silence. It seemed awkward to her, let alone that it probably would feel worse for him. Davor was surely breaking the silence too, arguing with himself, though towards her, about how she was letting her guard down too much and how she shouldn't try to be so friendly but get away. How he could take care of his cheek himself easily, or walk home. But she just didn't want a repeat of the day before and just now in class. "It's honestly no trouble, especially since I just got new tires, helps to get a new feel," she answered. Perhaps she was pushing her luck a bit, she tried to come up with good excuses because she really didn't want him to go home alone. And to be shadowing him seemed to be a bit.. Much. After about ten minutes had passed she decided to take a peek at his cheek, removing his hand with the ice pack from his cheek. "That's already looking better. Let's keep it on for another ten minutes and then I'll clean it up," she explained and moved away again, walking to the desk to lean against it, yet that way her back and ribs were slowly starting to ache more, so she shifted somewhat uncomfortably and sat down on top of the desk instead, which didn't go all too smoothly either, but it looked fine. It just didn't feel fine.
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Aug 19, 2017 22:50:47 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 19, 2017 22:50:47 GMT
Skyler
He looked at her again when she talked about how the blow he had given him wasn't that well executed and that it could've turn out bad for him if he really had broken his thumb. "I'm glad he punched my bad cheek, saves me trouble of trying to take care of my whole face," he mumbled. He rather had one big bruise on one of his cheek rather than two smaller ones on both his cheeks. Then he at least could use some muscles in his face without it hurting too much. "It would've been funny if he had broken his thumb," He said with a soft chuckle, keeping the ice pack on his hurting cheek, looking at his lap for a moment until she spoke up again about bringing him home. "If you're really sure that it isn't a bother." He then said, he didn't feel like arguing for too long about it, if she wanted to drop him off that bad, then why not. Spared him time.. It still didn't feel right for him, but it was probably a once in a lifetime thing so he could use it for now, and it spared him some looks that probably would be given. He let her remove his hand with the ice pack so she could eye the bruise on his cheek again, nodding calmly at what she said and placing the ice pack back on his cheek. He eyed her movements when she walked over to the desk to lean against it but sitting on it afterwards. "You seem hurt too though," He then said as she wasn't making an attempt to take care of herself and he didn't think she would, even if he said something about it.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:07:33 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 19, 2017 23:07:33 GMT
Jay
She had taken out her phone and messaged a few important people, leaving the rest unread. She needed to do something to kill some time and right now was a good moment to do so as well. "I'm sure," she assured him, being glad he agreed since she really didn't feel like explaining herself. But it started to get harder to keep things a secret, so she needed to step up her game massively in order to keep things as calm as they seemed to be becoming again. When he mentioned that she looked hurt, her mind ran blank for a moment. Was she that bad at hiding? It couldn't be, she had had worse injuries and gone through days of school without anyone giving an odd look. Otherwise she just blamed Davor. "Ahh.. Yeah, I'm a bit sore. Didn't sleep well and then this friend of mine came around in the break and we like play-fought a bit, but it can get rough," was that really the best lie she could come up with on such quick notice nowadays? She really was out of shape. It seemed believable at least. Unless a bruise would be visible, then she was sure to be quite honestly, fucked. How she managed to carry herself so well compared to the ache she felt was still a slight miracle to herself too, but she simply had gotten used to the pain as well. Enough to go through the day at least. "Let's check that cheek of yours, yeah?" She jumped off the table, hoping to keep the subject changed that way since she was somewhat frantic about it. She carefully moved his hand away again, noticing that the swelling had gone down a bit again. "I think that's as far as it can go for now, but I really recommend icing it every hour or two to keep the swelling down, so I'm putting this one back so you can take it to class," she took the ice pack from him and walked to the freezer, taking the towel off and laying it on top of the freezer, closing the door once she had put the pack back on it's previous place. She then walked back to Skyler and looked at his cheek. "That cut seems small, but it won't hurt to put a steri-strip on it, that way it hopefully stays closed," she thought out loud, grabbing a cotton pad and putting some alcohol on it. She warned him again for the pain and then softly dabbed around the cut and very carefully onto it.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:34:33 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 19, 2017 23:34:33 GMT
Skyler
He nodded when she said she was sure about not being bothered in dropping him off, and she also seemed happy he just accepted it. There was a lot of weird things going on today, and he was pretty sure she was hiding stuff from him, especially when he heard her excuse as to why she seemed hurt. She really should've been in a panic to know he had noticed, but he let it go and just nodded in understanding. If she didn't want to tell what happened he'd leave her be and just mind his own business, he rather kept her a friend rather than becoming annoying and pissing her off, cause we all know what happens when you piss Jay off and he didn't want that. He looked up at her again and nodded, removing the ice pack from his cheek again so she could take a look at it. The cold against his cheek sure had felt soothing, not it made the pain fade a bit too, but once the ice pack was removed it hurt just as bad as before, at least the swelling was down. He listened to what she said and nodded to her words, keeping quiet since there wasn't really anything to be said about it further more, taking the advice in and letting her take care of him. "I sure do hope it closes quickly," he mumbled to himself again and sat still when she cleaned the little cut, the only flinch that went through him was to his eyes when she dabbed onto to cut, but the rest was doable, he could manage with this bit of stinging.
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Aug 19, 2017 23:48:45 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 19, 2017 23:48:45 GMT
Jay
Once she had cleaned the wound she proceeded to close it up with the steri-strip, there was no use in putting make-up on top of it, it would only irritate the wound and make it worse. Besides it was best not to touch his cheek more than absolutely needed, which was basically only when cleaning the cut or putting on ice. "It'll close up within a few days, might leave a bit of a scar for a few weeks though, that usually takes longer to regenerate," she answered, even though she realized that it hadn't been directed to her, it was no harm in letting him know. After he was all taken care of she cleaned everything up, getting the ice pack out of the freezer and wrapping the towel around it again, handing it to him. She searched through her back, looking for her own painkillers but couldn't find any, making her sigh. The ones they gave in the infirmacy weren't as strong as the ones she used, and she needed strong. She pressed the palm of her hand against her forehead, it feeling damp and cold at the same time. She wasn't feeling well, that was clear. It couldn't be due blood loss, that wasn't so bad from what she and Davor recalled, but then again, it could easily have been that her rib was actually broken and started to puncture through her lung. She waved the idea off, however and searched for painkillers in the cabinets. If that really had been the case, she would've collapsed by now or started hyperventilating. Her breathing sounded fairly normal to her, she wasn't squeaking anyway and that usually seemed like a good sign to her. Once she found some painkillers she threw the package next to Skyler and closed the cabinet, washing her hands in the sink after. "I'll tell you now that those things are quite bad, but perhaps that's just me so it doesn't hurt to take some. Might help the pain you're feeling," she spoke before she splashed some water onto her face to wake herself up and also get rid of the heat that she was feeling, coming up from her cheeks and forehead. She grabbed a towel and carefully dabbed her face, trying not to disturb her make-up before she was going to be the one showing how bad her bruises were. Once her face she was somewhat dry she walked back to the bed he sat on, looking through her bag to see if she had everything, also looking for her little mirror to see if she actually hadn't disturbed her make-up, because it felt worrysome.
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Aug 20, 2017 11:41:10 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 20, 2017 11:41:10 GMT
Skyler
He sat still for the rest of her care and listened to what she said about the cut, smiling slightly and nodded when she was done. "It doesn't matter if the scar takes long to regenerate, as long as the cut closes up," He said calmly and received the ice pack from her again, smiling at her. "Thank you for your care," He said with the same smile even though it wasn't as comfortable with the sting in his cheek but he couldn't care about that, he would not spend the rest of the days while he has that bruise looking blank. Besides, it was hard for him not to smile, so it was hopeless anyway. He looked up when a package of painkillers was thrown at him but he shook his head calmly. "The pain isn't that bad, I can manage." He said calmly as he looked over at her. He wasn't one to take medicines often, he tried to stay off of them. Unless he was very sick and had to use them to get better, but as for painkillers, if the pain wasn't that bad, he didn't need them. It wouldn't be right because other people could probably use it better than him at this moment. And if it became unbearable he'll just grab some at home, his parents sure had a pile of medicines in at his place, so he'll make it through. He now got up calmly as he was pretty sure she was done with him and looked around one last time before waiting for her to grab everything again so they could move back to the classroom. He still couldn't believe what she had said earlier, about a friend coming by during the break and play fighting. She didn't show any signs of soreness this morning. He let it be as she could take care of herself probably, at least he hoped she did once she would get home.
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Aug 20, 2017 12:11:14 GMT
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Post by pieceofmind on Aug 20, 2017 12:11:14 GMT
Jay
Finally having found the mirror she was looking for she checked up on her make-up. She noticed redness and bruising coming through in some places so she grabbed a cushion and fixed that quickly. After that she zipped up her bag again and threw it over her shoulder, putting the painkillers away and walking to the door to unlock it. "If that pack starts to melt, you can just ask a janitor or so for a new one, they'll get you here," she mentioned before opening the door and walking out. "I'm gonna head outside for a minute to smoke since we're already out of class anyway, you can join if you don't feel like going back yet," she shrugged at her words, showing that either way it was fine with her. After such an eventful day, five minutes worth of having a cigarette between her lips was nothing. And she deserved it too. However it was probably best to let Davor do his thing again, since he has been on a roll today. She figured that was the best thing to do, also because she felt far too exhausted to be dragging herself throughout the schoolbuilding. But first she'd claim a cigarette, that was something she could drag herself for.
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Aug 20, 2017 15:49:04 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 20, 2017 15:49:04 GMT
Skyler
He waited calmly for her to be ready to go. He looked at her when she said something about the ice pack and nodded calmly before walking out of the room once she opened the door for them. When she said she'd go out for a bit to smoke and said that if he wanted to join he could. He doubted that it was a good idea to return alone, since that would mean that Jay had run off and had decided to stay out of class, in the eyes of the teacher that was, so he just nodded. "I'll go with," He said then. He didn't want her to get in trouble if he was the only one returning to class, and it would take a while before the hour would be over, so they had time anyway. And it wasn't like the class was very interesting to him. If it had been something interesting he would've gone back without a doubt, but it wasn't so he didn't really care, though he didn't want to get used to skipping class, even if it was just for a while, he didn't want every movement of him in school monitored by teachers because they thought he was becoming careless about school and his grades. And that would bad on him too if his parents would get air of it.
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Aug 20, 2017 16:04:56 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 20, 2017 16:04:56 GMT
Jay/Davor
She had given him a thumbs up, walking ahead of him already since she was eager to get outside. Though she was weary, so when she got outsid and immediately took a cigarette between her lips, she also looked around a bit to see if anything suspicious was going on. Which, luckily, wasn't the case so she could actually sit down on her usual spot and relax a bit, clear her mind and try not to fall under the pressure of all the pain she felt. Her cheeks were throbbing, her lips felt slightly painful with each drag of her cigarette and her lungs screamed bloody murder each time she inhaled and exhaled, her ribs probably feeling the worst out of everything. She licked her lips, looking at the cigarette between her slightly trembling fingers. She couldn't hide that as easily, the pain was affecting her whole body and that was only logical. She rubbed her above her eyebrow, her headache still not having any mercy on her. She hoped Davor would be better at hiding everything again since she starting getting close to her breaking point, there was no adrenaline to keep her going and the painkillers that she had taken for Skyler did nothing to her, so there was nothing she could do that would help her go through the rest of the day until she got home. This had occured before, many times in fact, she would turn up to school absolutely beaten to pulp, but her face was usually in tact so she could hide her actual bruises with clothing and the rest of her injuries weren't to be seen, no one paid attention in the first place. But next to that, she was great at hiding the pain because she was pretty much as high as possible on painkillers, had far too little sleep to be fully into reality and wasn't watched by Ellie like Skyler watched her. It made her uncomfortabl in some sense, having someone notice things more than others did and watch out for her, in some ways. She wasn't used to it at all, and she couldn't agree on whether she liked it or not. With a soft sigh she took another drag of her cigarette, averting her eyes to Skyler. "You're a stubborn youngster, I hope you realize that."
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Aug 20, 2017 16:41:06 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 20, 2017 16:41:06 GMT
Skyler
He followed after her, looking around the corridor a bit until they were outside and also looked around there. It was pretty much dead outside, which wasn't a surprise as all classes were still ongoing, but he was used to more activity in his last school since hours for every class were different, it really was complicated back then. He sat down too, a bit further away since he didn't want to come over as clingy, and pulled his legs up to his chest so he could lean his arms on his knees, looking at the sky and everything going on beyond the school gates. He still wondered after the month he's been here why Jay caught his attention so much and he always wanted to keep an eye out towards her, and what kept that interest going. It wouldn't be the fact that she was Asian, since he also had some Asians in his class at his last school, so that wasn't it. He didn't know, and maybe he'll never know, it didn't bother him as much as it would've bothered someone else probably. He was surprised when Jay suddenly said something to her and tilted his head slightly at what she had said. "How so?" He then asked with a small smile as he didn't exactly see how he was being stubborn. Except for not wanting to take care of the bruise and not wanting to take pain killers, he didn't see what made her say that, and now
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Aug 20, 2017 20:09:56 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 20, 2017 20:09:56 GMT
Jay
She shrugged slightly when he questioned her words, not being entirely sure herself, or at least not being able to openly answer his question since that'd seem awkward in her eyes. It already felt awkward to tell basics about herself since she didn't like telling anything remotely personal. Usually she even told people a different name than her own, if she wasn't in school, because it just seemed better to stay hidden and practically a ghost to society. She worked under a different name in the underground too, to keep her family safe and even was considering changing her name for a while, but that already had proven useless. Since the people she worked with already drove past school endless times and now also had attacked Skyler. She still couldn't grasp why, her family had been a much better target. It wasn't that she didn't care at all about Skyler, but if she had to weigh the odds of her family being murdered against a youngster she had the same classes with, the decision was easily made. But that was if she had to be selfish and absolutely had no choice but to choose. If she could spare casualties, she definitely would and it was what she was trying to fix. She was definitely going to fix it, if anyone had to go down, it'd be her. "Just.. You seem so aware, of things. And you ask far more questions than anyone ever has done. Ellie never asks so much, she was well past that stage after a day of hanging out with me and yet you just remain so stubborn," she explained, looking at her shoes and the cigarette between her legs. "I suppose it isn't a bad habit, however. I just don't think you should use it on me, it's quite a waste of your time that you could be using making actual friends and a steady social life in this," she gestured a bit with her hand, waving around. "This.. Mess of a city and mostly school." She shrugged slightly to finish her words and looked at him for a moment before taking another drag of her cigarette, which almost had finished up. "That brings me to questioning why you decided on this school, there are far better schools out there. This one in particular is described as a school for indecisive students, youngsters that will end up no-where in life. In fact, we have people from juvy here too." She let out a chuckle at the thought, remembering an encounter with a boy that had just come out of jail and was sent to this school on probation, not lasting a day since he had encountered Jay and tried to beat her up because she caused him to get angry. She blew out the smoke of her last drag through her nose and pressed her heel on the cigarette remains that she had dropped onto the ground. "Let's get back," she announced, grabbing her bag and standing up, walking ahead already.
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Aug 20, 2017 23:17:55 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 20, 2017 23:17:55 GMT
Skyler
He chuckled softly when she didn't seem sure of what she meant by her own words, making his eyes drift of for a moment again until she would get her words ready to tell him why he was being stubborn. He knew he could be stubborn if he wanted to be, but it wasn't this bad. He never showed stubbornness in Japan, following everything up from everyone around. Since they moved to America he felt at least a bit more free than back at Japan. He looked over at her again when she had her words ready and listened closely to everything she said. "I don't mind wasting my time asking questions that probably never get fully answered. I rather waste my time on that, than wasting my time on making so called friends. As to why I ask questions, I'm just curious, and I really can only out it when I'm at school. I haven't even asked all questions I want to ask, since I know I won't get a truthful answer. Being quiet at class and observing really helps me a lot to get things off of my mind by replacing them with things I notice. It became a habit since I've moved to America and observed my new classmates on how the culture was." He said calmly, not minding to speak openly about it as he was happy enough to talk with her. When she asked him another question he shrugged slightly, smiling at her. "I don't know what I want to achieve later in life, and it was the closest school to where I live." If he hadn't cared that much about his parents and their approval, he wouldn't have been here, he'd be auditioning for sure. He still didn't regret his decisions, and he was still young, if he wanted to choose to leave his parents behind after all, he still could.
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Aug 20, 2017 23:37:55 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 20, 2017 23:37:55 GMT
Jay
She stopped and turned around for a moment to listen to him, nodding slightly to what he had to say. "You have a point there. And you are right, you won't get truthful answers. I'm not open like you are," she admitted honestly. Even if she put her work mindset aside, she still was a really private person and rather kept everything to herself unless she was actually really close to the person she was talking to, but so far she only saw Skyler as a nice classmate, which already was quite something in her book. Especially compared to what she thought of the rest of their class. She didn't even like the girl he occassionally talked to, because she knew what the history of the girl was and what her life outside of school looked like. To her, her being nice was just an act to get Skyler to listen to her or tell him things she could use to backfire at him, or even Jay. But to tell him that he shouldn't talk to her because she was trouble, that'd be unfair. Jay herself was the biggest trouble you could find yourself around, so she had let it slide and had made sure Davor did the same. After all, the youngster was smart enough to see it for himself and stumbling once or twice wouldn't hurt someone be more wary of what they said, if needed. "You wanted to become an idol, persue that. Don't follow rules your parents set up, they don't always know best," she told him, moving to class again. She went inside and for once walked to the elevator. She couldn't take on the many flights of stairs now, it already felt like with every step her shoes became filled with more weights. And then the shocks walking sent through her body, she couldn't imagine what walking up the stairs would compare to. By the time she arrived at the elevator she had already convinced Davor of going out again, eventhough he didn't feel like it anymore and since she was having an actual conversation, he didn't want to pick it up halfway because he would answer differently than she would. But then again, he pitied her slightly because he hadn't taken care of her well enough during his fight, so he had agreed and pulled her back once she had arrived at the elevator. Immediately he felt the pain worsen that he before felt, now that he actually was using her body again as his own and was actually noticing the injuries, and to say the least, he wasn't happy with it.
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Aug 21, 2017 0:33:20 GMT
Post by Sara Gather on Aug 21, 2017 0:33:20 GMT
Skyler
He chuckled at her words. "I don't mind telling people everything about me because I have nothing to hide, and I'm one of few. Ellie also holds secrets, even if she talks a lot about herself," he said softly and stood up calmly, stretching his legs since he had sat pretty cramped the short time they had sat there. He followed her inside and thought about the questions he had long forgotten to ask her once. He still thought she had severe mood swings, or she really had a case of split personality since he didn't exactly see how she could change from cold and uncaring this morning, to worried and caring earlier when she took care of him. He looked up when he got seemingly distracted, hearing her words. "I'm thinking about it," he said at that. He had thought about it just now really. He could if he wanted to, he had his basics of Korean so he could at least strike basic conversations if he decided to go. He could audition here when companies would send out people to find potential auditioners, that way he didn't have to move to Korea first to audition and then be rejected, he could do the audition here, and if he got rejected that would be fine since he hadn't paid a plane ticket and his stay in Korea then. Once he arrived at the elevator he could immediately feel a different vibe to her again, the same as this morning. He swore she was having some sort of condition. He once again didn't speak about it and once they were where they had to be he stepped out of the elevator calmly, walking straight up to the classroom, not minding if the conversation would be cut short now. He somehow thought that it wouldn't bother her at least and she'd be happy with it.
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Aug 21, 2017 0:55:58 GMT
Post by pieceofmind on Aug 21, 2017 0:55:58 GMT
Davor
He listened to what he had to say, catching up on the conversation quick so he wouldn't look like a fool. Though, there wasn't much he could say further on the topic about his dream of being an idol, but when it came to Ellie he surely had a lot to say. "That girl speaks empty words, at least most of the time." He mentioned, looking at himself in the mirror of the elevator for a moment, eyeing Skyler too that way before stepping out of the elevator again once they arrived on the floor of their classroom. "Don't think too long about it, I suppose. Otherwise the chance will be disappear without you even realizing," he then mentioned about the latter subject. Surprisingly enough he wasn't that bad at holding up the conversation, even Jay was caught slightly by surprise. Then again, he did have to think hard to find his words well enough in a way that it'd sound like Jay had done just now, but wasn't too uncomfortable for his liking. If it had been completely up to him, the conversation would've already ended. But it seemed to go sort of well between Jay and him, so he didn't feel like messing it up just yet. Once in a while he could act somewhat friendly, he just didn't bother the rest of the time because he liked to be left alone. It had paid off every time, so he wouldn't fix what wasn't broken. When they arrived in class he sat down in one of the two empty seats that were left behind, conveniently placed next to each other. He could swear people had moved seats because of it, since before he sat alone. He took his stuff out of his bag and grabbed an energy drink with it to have something that'd kick his caffeine intake up. Their teacher welcomed them back and told them what they had to do, mentioning as well that if they had any questions about the subject they could always ask. Davor opened the book and turned it to the right page to see what it all was about first, but he already knew exactly what the subject was about, so that meant he could take it easy because he'd fly through the assignment.
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