A new game (Nix)

[blake]

Blake had taken his usual place upon a corridor bench, watching the multitude of people pass by. In the span of a minute he had pegged four new targets for his latest games, although all seemed too experienced. He had found himself growing tired with the limited selection. As it had been in every school he had attended, the population seemed to be divided into two; those who would willingly be conquered, and the challengers. He knew almost every girls weak spot, or how to find it. Many were so hopeful to find love, that it was almost amusing for him to recite the lines and watch them melt.

Admittedly, the last rejection, also having been his first, had left his ego bruised. He stood, tossing the remainder of his books into his sack as he began down the hall through the crowds of people. He smiled at his friends, allowing a small grin for targets of interest. One particular target passed by before he found himself stumbling against someone. He glanced down, disarming apology at the ready. "My apologies," he recited, to find himself looking into a foreign pair of eyes.

[nixnight]

Nix was in a rather fun mood, her hair was hanging down loosely over her face and her eyes were bright with wildness, her hand and feet were coated in mud and grass and there were twigs in her hair but she was happy. She had been playing with a couple of young centaurs when she'd been spotted by an adult and told to go back to school, so she'd changed and come back in to school the fun way and was now walking rather quickly down the corridor and hoping she wouldn't be spotted by the caretaker. She felt a firm bump to her side and stumbled back for a moment before her fingers touched the ground and she pushed up on them and sprang up to find herself looking at a boy and she frowned and narrowed her eyes ,"can I help you?" she said with a slightly snappy voice

[blake]

Blake was taken aback, but grinned his signature grin. She had spunk. That he had always appreciated. So very few girls now a days knew how to stand their ground. He let his gaze wander over the pretty girl, impressed.

"As I said, I'm sorry, I was just stunned," he stepped closer to the girl, not pulling his eyes from hers. He raised a hand slowly, pulling a twig from her hair as he let it fall to the floor, still watching her eyes. He offered a flash of his signature grin, known to disarm most anyone, before he let it fade to a serious expression. "I had yet to see such breath-taking eyes in this castle," he whispered softly.

[nixnight]

Nix felt her eyes narrow in on the boy and she looked him over as he came closer to her, a part of her liked having someone close to her but it was a small part and as soon as his hand left her hair, she tried to step away. His voice caught her ear and her fingers twitched and she fought back a rather sharp comment and so only said in a slightly less snappy voice than before ,"you must have very odd standards". She was not one to actually get attention from males and so this one and his clearly rehearsed grins was confusing her to no end already, She was the wild girl who spent all her time outside in trees and forests and mud and lakes and so most people avoided her because of that. Males seemed to do it more so as she was always trying to prove that she was just as good and better than them, hence her new brooms and her rather good spell work. "sorry to say that you sound a little, well, rehearsed" she said with a small smirk on her face as she snapped her eyes and her brain back to real life and focused again

[blake]

Blake wasn't surprised at the suspicion. The girl seemed too strong-willed to melt at first sight. He grinned once again at the last comment, realizing how odd it must have been for the wild girl to be approached. Of course, the tame girls were boring, and Blake had been scouting for such a prize, a girl with a backbone. He thought it a shame that so many had missed out on the spunk of many girls, but he of course benefited all the more.

"I cannot rehearse the truth, love," he stated truthfully. Her eyes were definitely an extravagant pair, not something you saw everyday. She already seemed lost in thought, as Blake was unsure what that meant. "Shame that you can't see it yourself," he sighed in resignation. He knew this was far from over. If she wouldn't give in, he would at least show her she was more than what she thought.

[nixnight]

Nix fought herself not to roll her eyes and so instead dipped her hand inside her robe to take her Wand out to distract herself, she could barely go more than a few moment with it out of her hand and many people found it odd that she would put it away one moment and take it back out the next but she just liked to feel the smooth redwood against her hand. She heard the male say his second line and nix narrowed her eyes again and considered hexing him but thought that rude, sure he may seem to be "that" kind of guy but she may be wrong. She really doubted it but she might be.

"why do I get the feeling I've heard these words before somewhere" she said with a raised eyebrow before smiling slightly ,"atleast try something original, or realistic, that would work well" she said with a tilt of her head. She would not allow herself to fall like all the other girls, she would pick who she fell for, she was not some sort of challenge or prize to work for

[blake]

Blake merely grinned. He knew she'd come around, but he didn't let it show. Pulling out his wand, he murmured "orchideous", watching the wild bloom bouquet land in his hand. He offered it out to her, with one of his signature grins to accompany it. The only goal, was that she remember him. And remember him she shall.

"Their beauty still can't match yours," he admitted, as he slid his wand away, holding the bouquet.

[nixnight]

Nix flicked her wand back and forth in her fingers before she raised an eyebrow at the boys comments, and looked at the flowers he held out before considering telling him that she disliked all flowers aside lilies or roses. She shook her head and then looked the boy over, there was a chance that he really was being nice to her but seeing as he kept giving her the same grins and then the lines he kept using were old ones she had heard in jokes and from other people. She tilted her head to one side before a small grin slipped on to her face ,"according to you" she said with a chuckle

[blake]

"Yes," he agreed. "According to any man with eyes," he realized she wouldn't take the flowers. He shrugged, his hand slipping through his messy blond hair. He continued to watch her, smiling. "I'll make sure you know it," he promised with a wink, before walking backwards, allowing a final signature grin. He turned, vanishing into the throngs of students. Of course, she hadn't accepted the gifts, but he knew he had made an impression. An impression, that if all went as planned, would last in her mind.

[nixnight]

Nix felt her skin burn slightly as the male turned to leave and she felt her head spin, she gave herself a moment to wait for his hair to disappear among the other students before she shifted over to the nearest hole in the corridor wall and sunk into the gap. She hung her head back and looked up at the ceiling and she gave a small hiss ,a male showing interest in her and offering her flowers? She gave a small whine before turning to see if he had stopped or come back towards her ,"why? Why me really? No one likes me and thinks I'm odd and weird and wild and uncontrollable, why would anyone like me" she said softly in a plead of a voice to herself as she lowered her head and sent her hair over her face to hide herself away from everyone who was walking down the corridor to get to their next classes