Not Normally This Clumsy

[Roxana Strix]

All classes were pretty much being close to being done for the year since it was summer break. In fact they might have already been done, but Roxana had a few things she had needed to take care of in one of her classrooms. Having forgotten something she considered important while it should have been something that was not really that big of a deal to other students. It was a text book, and while the textbook itself was not that important, it was what Roxana had hidden inside the text book that was important. It had been a drawing of her teacher for the class that she needed the text book for. It was not like Roxana had a crush on the teacher or anything, but they had this certain beauty to them and Roxana having that artistic side to her could not help but to end up drawing it. She did not want to deal with the questions that would come with someone picking up her textbook and finding the drawing and that were why she was in a rush.

Thankfully she made it to the room without any real problem and no student or staff had touched her textbook from where it was. Letting out a relieved sigh, Roxana picked it up and then was off sprinting since she had to get back and send a letter out she had written up and send Delta out. Music playing in her headphones as she hummed along and sprinted down the halls, dodging past people with ease and probably being told to not run in the halls. Roxana could not hear them of course, or at least pretended like she could not because of the music in her ears so it did not matter. So it was her own fault when she rounded the corner and came super close to crashing into a girl in the hall. She acted quickly to avoid a hard crash and ended up shoulder checking the other girl while dropping the book that she had been on a mission to get.

Thankfully the picture had not fallen out of the book that lay on the floor and Roxana still slightly stumbling to keep herself from falling. Normally she was not this clumsy and had a faster recovery time. Still she did run into someone and it was only right to apologize. "Sorry about, guess that whole no running in the halls has a purpose after all." Roxana said in a half joke, something light that had her give a very small smile for a moment as she patted the shoulder that she run into the other girl with. Hoping that she didn't hurt the other girl at least too bad or anything.

[Cionne Davenport]

When Cid had been at her old school, she had been super into clubs and had been the team captain of the gymnastics team. After the accident, certain things had not seemed very important to her anymore and socialization was kind of one of them. Gymnastics was out of the question until her wrist, shoulder, and ribs healed. Still, you can't go from being a social animal to an anti-social hermit overnight and she longed for something familiar.

Looking over the club rosters, she had picked the movie club and the equestrian club to join. Maybe, if those worked out for her, she'd be comfortable enough to join others. She made a mental note to email her father to see if he would send Caesar, her bay roan, to her for the equestrian club. Calling him was out of the question. Cid and Liam had a silent agreement to use the most impersonal form of communication and even then, to use it as little as possible.

It was on her way back to her dorm that some girl just came around a corner and slammed into her bad shoulder. Hissing audibly, her uninjured hand came up to squeeze it, as if that would stop it from feeling like someone had just tried to rip her arm off at the shoulder. "Are you serious?!"

Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and counted to ten before turning to the girl. At least she was trying to apologize. "Yeah, it's kind of like the warning labels they put on stuff like microwaves. You know someone tried to microwave a fork before they put that label on there." Rubbing her shoulder fiercely, trying to work out the burning, she could not quite smile at the girl. "Forget about it," she sighed.

[Roxana Strix]

The shoulder bump had not really hurt Roxana since she was pretty much all healed up since the time she had been punished. It clearly had hurt the other girl by the hiss that she let out and the yelled question. Yes, clearly the hit must have hurt and it must have meant that the girl had to be injured. Roxana's body was solid but she was pretty sure that a fully healthy person probably would have just felt a little sore. This reaction gave way that there was something physically wrong with the girl and also meant that if Roxana had made it worse it was her fault. Not that she was chocked up about it or anything, but she did feel a little bad since she did run into the girl in her haste. She had to pause her music so she could clearly hear anything the girl might have been saying to her after Roxana had given an apology.

"Well people do a lot of stupid things." Roxana responded back simply, not saying that running in the halls was stupid. It was when the halls were full of people and when you were not careful with turning the corners. Roxana was not clumsy so she did not see herself running around in the halls as stupid, she just messed up this time. "As for the guy putting a fork in a microwave he probably was pretty stupid or just wanted to get money." Roxana pointed out since that was a big reason for why people would do stupid things. If they were getting paid to do it or felt like they would get pair after, then there was a chance they end up doing something. Once Roxana had picked up her book she moved a little closer to try and take a look at the girl's shoulder.

"May I?" Roxana asked since she did have some medical experience after all and just wanted to make sure that she had not done something serious to the other girl.

[Cionne Davenport]

Cid laughed. "Yes, people do a lot of stupid things for money." Money, however, had never been the cause of Cid's own stupidity, as she had always had more than she knew what to do with. In a way, she was actually kind of glad her father was limiting her finances while she attended the Bellefonte Academy. It made her think about things before just throwing money away on them.

As Roxana moved closer to her, however, Cid took an instinctive step backwards. "I, uh, I'd rather you not," she said, trying to keep her voice from sounding panicked. The color had drained from her face and her stance was guarded. It was not that she was afraid of this girl, but she was afraid of being touched. Or rather what she feared could happen if she made skin to skin contact with someone else.

"Look, thank you for the offer, but I..." she sighed, looking up. "I just would rather not be touched."

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana smiled a little when the other girl laughed and nodded her head when she too agreed that people did stupid things for money. In a way someone could say that Roxana did stupid things for money. After all she was only at this school because she was told to transfer and she was being paid for what she was doing. She still had school work that she had to do and still things that made her a normal student, but she was still doing certain things for money. Heck she lost her virginity for a job or money if you looked at it on that level. Roxana came from a sort of wealthy family due to all of them having the same jobs and Roxana was being paid so she was pretty much free to spend her money on what she liked. That amounted to things that helped her with her job and then things related to art and music, since she really enjoyed the two of those things.

When Roxana moved closer she clearly saw the reaction out of the other girl that pretty much told her that the girl had fear. No, Roxana could easily figure out that it was not a fear of Roxana herself since that would have shown up earlier. No, it was a reaction that happened when Roxana reached out to check her should, so it was clearly a fear of being touched. Nothing too surprising or weird there since Roxana had to deal with people who did not like being touched for tons of different reasons. The color drained from the other girls face and Rox was worried that she was going to have to deal with the girl fainting on her or something. Words revealing what Roxana already knew, causing her to give a small nod.

"I understand. You should at least take a seat for a moment and let me look at your shoulder. Unless you rather go to the infirmary to have it looked at." Roxana suggested since well she was going to check on the girls arm no matter what. "I'm Roxana by the way. May I ask who you are?" Roxana asked since the girl had to be new since Roxana did not recall her face or name.

[Cionne Davenport]

Huffing at the other girl, she dropped her purse and let her butt fall rather gracefully to the floor, in a way that only a gymnast could. "If you're not going to drop it, then," she grumbled, shoving the thin strap of her Parker Lily summer dress to one side. "But it's fine," she told the other girl, "I was in an accident a couple of months ago, that's all." Even if she had not been the one to get hurt. Either her mother or Alexander had torn the ligaments in their shoulder and Cid had been the one stuck with the pain.

"My name's... Cid. I mean, that's what I like for people to call me." Cionne was a very recognizable name for a girl, though it was less so if she did not spell it out for them. She did not know this girl or if she was the kind of girl that would have seen her in some of the tabloids or even some of the business or fashion magazines.

"Before you get too close... Are you hurt... anywhere? And I mean, no matter how minor, it's important." Hopefully, she would be able to stop her power from magnetizing to Roxana if she was completely healthy. "If you are, you really don't want to touch me."

[Roxana Strix]

Well Roxana didn't mean for her to just sit right on the floor then and there, but hey it got the girl sitting. The girl had clearly some skill in terms of control over her body by the way she sat down, but Roxana just made a mental note of it as she knelt down beside the other girl. "An accident? Safe to assume a car on?" Roxana asked because there were a lot of different kinds of accident. She was looking the girl over now a little more closely to see if she could tell by the healing injuries what kind of accident it was for sure before the other girl would tell her. There were at least a few injuries she could see without actually having to see them, just based upon the girl was sitting and held her body. Hmm...wondering if she is taking pain medication.

The other girl was nice enough to give a name in return, one that was a nickname and that was what the other girl liked to be called by. She did wonder what the girls actual name was, even if Cid probably been someone’s real name since Rox she had met people with stranger names or heard about them on the new so it might have been the girls name. Either way Roxana would end up looking into her a little bit so she would end up finding out the real name either way. "Nice to meet you Cid. You can call me Rox if you like. At my old school some kids liked to call me Roxas." Roxana said with a small smile at that little personal memory there about her friends at her old school. She did miss them but she had a job to do here so that was what she needed to focus on. Plus it was mainly the big games that liked to call her that and made her dress up like Roxas from Kingdom Hearts.

Cid was stopping her with a question, a very odd question that had Roxana lift an eyebrow in a small amount of confusion for a moment. Was she hurt? Roxana had to actually think about that for a moment to actually recall if she had any recent injuries on any level. Roxana was about to answer but then Cid said something else that was pretty interesting as well. "I'm not injured no. All healed up at the moment." Roxana said and then reached out to check Cid's shoulder to make sure it was still in its socket and what not. "Would you make a wound worse if that was the case?" Roxana asked because that would be a pretty neat ability in a painful way. Making a small cut a large one, heck if that was the girls power she could indeed be pretty dangerous, but Rox was not worried.

[Cionne Davenport]

"A car accident," Cid echoed, looking down, her free arm instantly going to protect her rapidly healing cracked rib. Apparently, thanks to her gift, it should be simply bruised tomorrow or the next day. "I'll be fine. Mostly healed, just some little grievances," she laughed hollowly. Little. Ha.

"Roxas? Like from Kingdom Hearts Two?" she laughed, more genuine, "Those games saved my life in the hospital. It gets really boring being stuck there for two months with nothing to do." Cid looked up at her, "I mean, I can sort of see how you might get confused with him," she teased, though it was obviously in good fun.

Cid frowned. "I don't know," she said honestly. "I don't really want to find out." She was probably being over dramatic and making it out to be worse than it really was, but she did not have a lot of experience to draw from. When Roxana did finally touch her, Cid went completely rigid and tried to force herself to stay calm. Something stirred inside of her and for a moment, she was terrified that the magnetic pull of her power would grab on to Roxana whether she wanted it to or not. The only reason she stopped worrying about it was because the hand touching her shoulder was causing nominal pain, even though the shoulder was mostly fine. "I don't think you damaged it any more than it was already, if that's what you're worried about," she said quietly.

[Roxana Strix]

"I see. I'm sorry you were in such an accident." Roxana said, not even going to ask who else was in the car and if they had lived or not. She knew things such as that were a heavy thing to talk about and Roxana didn't really want to get into such heavy things right off the bat if she could help it. She could already see how the girl was moving to protect herself, the injuries that she had that Roxana had for the most part figured out what was injured on her. She would not bring it up however, even less so with Cid revealing that she was fine and that she was mostly healed up. Just some grievances. Roxana would have said her condolences, but people mostly used that words when being sympathetic to someone dying and again she did not want to bring up any heavy thoughts or emotions for the girl. Even if the laugh gave it away to what Cid was possibly thinking about. Thankfully the talking about one of the nicknames Roxana had and caused Cid to laugh and the air around them to be a little lighter.

"Yeah. They just dropped off the N and the A and put an S there and said that I fit the character minus the whole emotional part." Roxana said, but found it funny how in the game the Nobodies were supposed to be without emotion as many people said Roxana was but the Nobodies still showed emotions clearly while Rox rarely did. Roxana was smiling to hear how Cid liked the games and how that had been a big help in her times while she was in the hospital. "So if I say anything about the game I won't have to say spoiler alert will I?" Roxana asked still keeping her smile and even chuckled a little at the tease about how people could get her confused with him. "Well I can spike my hair like his. They made me even dress up like him and dragged me to a con." Roxana admitted, messing with her soft hair, enjoying the feeling of it and still smiling at the memories and how Cid knew of the games and liked them.

The light mood seemed to be gone again with Cid frowning and saying that she didn't really know what her power could do. Well that was a huge problem. "You should sign up with a trainer and look into it. Sure they have on record what your power is since there are those at the school who can sense powers who could easily tell you." Roxana pointed out because not knowing your power was something that was a big deal when you were in a school with other mutants. You needed to know to not hurt yourself or others, but Rox was sure that Cid had to at least thought of that already. Roxana could feel and see how stiff Cid went and how she was clearly fearful, making Roxana do her check pretty quickly and then keeping her hands to herself. "Seems that way. I just wanted to be sure." Roxana said with a nod and moved to stand up and offered out a hand to help the other girl to her feet.

[Cionne Davenport]

"Not like it was your fault," she said, "And it wasn't mine, if you were wondering. Car versus semi... He just decided to change lanes." She had at least convinced herself that there was nothing that she could have done differently. She was not sure she had not killed her mother, but she had been assured that her efforts had probably saved Alex. He had gotten so much head trauma being thrown from the car that he would have died a few seconds from when Cionne had touched him. Unfortunately, it was probably that which had made her pass out and her power go wonky.

"Nope," she told her, smiling a small little smile, "Though, I don't really play that many video games, so everything else would be Greek to me." Listening, she frowned, "Huh. Did you want to?" For some inexplicable reason, Cid wanted to reach up and mess with Roxana's hair too. It really did look soft. Okay, get a grip, Cid. What the eff.

"I have a trainer," she came back with, "Blake Harlow. And I know what it is. I'm a healer. I guess. That's what she said, anyway. I dunno. The last time I touched someone... The results weren't good." Sighing, she focused back in on the shoulder. "Thanks," she said, her tone somewhat sincere. Again, she was gripped with an inexplicable urge to touch Roxana when the other girl offered her that hand. Setting her jaw, she just sincerely hoped that it was not her power trying to get her to touch her. Taking the hand, she started pulling herself up with it before she could think twice about it, though she let go as soon as she was up. There was the pull again, and it had pulsed through her hands but she had let go before it could take hold.

Her heart was racing. That was enough touching for one day.

[Roxana Strix]

"I know, but a person apologizes to show that they care and have sympathy to what happened to you. It would be heartless to not say anything, even if not saying anything might be for the best." Roxana pointed out and the only reason she pointed it out because she wanted people to know that she was not heartless. She didn't mind being called heartless when she was on a mission that required her to keep her emotions out of it, but she was not like she was completely without feeling. Okay so what a girl said to her had been bothering her a little bit and she did not know but she should not have been going on explanations on Cid, even if the explanation was still important for future reference. "I would not have asked it was, but either way I'm sorry that you had something like that happen to you recently." Roxana apologized once more and again was picking her words carefully to not touch on the subject of someone possibly dying or getting badly hurt in a crash.

"I see. Well if you ever feel like talking about certain, games I would not mind." Roxana said since video games where still a form of art and Roxana pretty much liked all form of art. Yes she had her specific taste and did not like every type of art there was out there, but she would have an appreciation for it on some level. "Not really, but it was fine." Roxana said with a small chuckle as she riffled her hair a little more. She would have loved it if the other girl had reached up to touch her hair. Roxana actually liked someone to have their hands in her hair and she liked to feel other peoples hair but the situation never arise and people to be a little more on the guarded side around her so would not end up touching her hair. She understood why since she didn't really have the vibe of the friendliest person in the world.

"Ah, just means you have to work at it harder." Roxana said, not really sure how to actually comfort someone with their power very well since she had to do all of her adjusting and coping with it on her own when she first came into her power. She had a trainer at her old school, but that had not been until later. Roxana did know about Blake Harlow, but she knew at least a little bit of information on everyone that worked at the school. Roxana felt perfectly fine when they made hand contact and helped the girl to her feet, noting how quick the girl pulled her hand away but didn't say anything about it and let her hand fall to her side. "Are you going to be okay there?" Roxana asked since she could just tell that Cid was still worked up in a way when she really should just be taking a deep breath and take it easy.

[Cionne Davenport]

"Yeah, yeah," Cid said, smiling though. "Thanks for the sentiment, kay?" she laughed. "I'm trying to live in the here and now."

"Sure," she agreed, "Maybe you could recommend some more that I might like for when I can't sleep or something. I mean, I did like the Kingdom Hearts games." Frowning, she looked at the other girl, "Hey," she said, "Don't let anyone force you to do something you don't want to do. You don't need to take that kind of shit from anyone. No one does." She may have only just met Roxana, but she knew that she would not have wanted that forced on her.

"Yeah, I guess," she said, not wanting to argue about it. "Yeah," she assured her, "I'm all right, I guess." Quickly, she changed the subject, "You know, I haven't met many girls that can pull off the pixie. You look pretty cute, though." Her cheeks flushed slightly, though she had not the faintest idea why. She complimented fashion and hairstyles all the time.

[Roxana Strix]

"Got it." Roxana said simply with a nod dropping the subject since that seemed like that was what should be done. She understood the whole living in the 'here and now' and that was how the other girl should live her life. Well at least that was what Roxana thought best for a girl that survived a car accident. After all when something like that happened and you could have ended up dead it was best to live by the day and not keep thinking about what happened to you in the past. It was important to not forget but only if you were going to use it to make you strong and not to weigh you down. Roxana felt like maybe the girl did still let whatever happened weight her down a little bit but at least seemed to show that she was trying to be strong. Roxana respected that.

"Alright, sounds like a plan. I don't play too many games but I see if I can find any that you would probably like." Roxana said keeping her small smile on her face, knowing that she was going to have to get to know the girl better before recommending games. Yet she was good at observing and figuring things out so she figured that even if they didn't spend a lot of time with one another she would still figure out a bit about the other girl. Roxana could not help but to give a strange look at the other girl when she pointed out that Roxana didn't have to do something she didn't want to. Oh how very wrong that was for Roxana. Her whole life was based upon doing what she was told and her feelings on it didn't matter. She did not reveal any of this to the other girl of course but gave a small soft chuckle and a nod. "I'll keep that in mind." Roxana said and that was all she felt like she could say because really she did not have a choice.

Yet another subject seemed to be leaning towards being dropped and that was fine with Roxana. She figures certain things the other girl didn’t want to talk about which was perfectly fine and Roxana would do the same. Still, Cid was okay in terms of not being hurt by Roxana. Then things went random but not in a bad way but in a way that had Roxana chuckling for a very small moment, an honest chuckle. "That was really random, but that. Do you want to feel it?" Roxana asked since didn't people have the urge to feel someone’s hair after complementing it? Roxana did. She even leaned her head forward a little bit if Cid did wish to take her up on the whole feeling of the hair thing. Roxana still chuckled a little more to herself because it had been a while she someone had used the word 'cute' to describe her. She did catch the flushing but didn't think too much of it. Figuring that maybe the other girl was just embarrassed by how random that was.

[Cionne Davenport]

"Or we could play together... or whatever," Cid said, realizing how lame she sounded. Did she really sound as desperate for a friend out loud as she did in her head? "And if you didn't want to play video games, I mean, I have some old movies... or something." Wow. Just keep on talking, Cid. Word vomit for the win.

The blush deepened when Roxana called her out on how random that was. Or was it because she asked if she wanted to feel it. Cid bit her lip. The weird part was that she really did want to feel it. She wanted to run her fingers over every strand to see if it was as soft as the next, as soft as it looked. Except, that was really, really weird.

For a moment, she just stood there kind of dumbly, arguing silently with herself. Part of her was arguing that it was too strange, the other was arguing that there was no harm in it, and there was still another reminding her she did not want to touch the other girl. But if she just ran her fingers over the outside, just the tips of the girl's hair... What was the harm in that?

Okay. This was stupid. This was so stupid. If she wanted to touch the hair, she was going to touch the hair, dammit. Slowly, she nodded. Then, carefully and slowly, she reached up, sliding her fingers over the silky hair. It was even softer than she imagined, and she almost forgot that she was being careful not to touch anything but the hair. She was gripped with a strange urge to run both hands all over Roxana's head, but she restrained herself. "It's nice," she said softly.

[Roxana Strix]

There was the suggestion that that could play the video games together, with a pause and a 'or whatever followed after. Roxana was already figuring what the girl was getting at but before she could say anything Cid also offered up watching old movies together. Roxana just kept the same small smile but her eyes clearly gave away that she had liked the offer. "I would not mind playing video games or watching old movies with you when we both have time. It would probably be for the best if it was done in your room or the common area." Roxana said choosing her words carefully since she didn't always have a lot of free time with the work that she did but she was supposed to be making friends and still sort of being a normal high school student. The suggestion for Cid's room or the common area was mainly because Roxana could not really have anyone in her room and always kept it under lock and key because of the things she had set up in her room.

The blush seemed to deepen when Roxana had pointed out how random the question was, because surely it would not have been from the offer to touch Rox's hair. That was what Roxana was thinking anyways. There was a pause now, with Cid biting her lip and Roxana could tell that the girl must have been some sort of internal conversation about it. Cid did say that she didn't really feel comfortable touching people and while it was just hair, which still sort of counted as a part of a person so that might have been it. Roxana even ran her own hands through her hair again as if showing that her hair was not going to bite and that she didn't have some crazy hair power that would like try to eat the girl if she touched it. Roxana was about to say as much but after a weird silence of just standing there Cid was slowly nodding. "As you said to me, you don't have to do it if you don't want to." Roxana pointed out, even if it was not true for herself, it could still hold true for Cid.

Roxana's eyes did end up closing for a small moment when she did feel the other girl's hand in her hair. She really did enjoy someone’s hands in it after all and so long as someone was not trying to rip it out, she would not even have minded if Cid had run both her hands through it. "Thank you." Roxana said with her light blue eyes looking to the girl showing that she meant her words. "May I feel yours?" Roxana asked then after since she did want to feel the other girl’s hair. Her hand was already ready to reach out to grab a few strands of it, but she held back. Cid didn't like being touched so Roxana was going to wait for the okay. Wait for the okay and also bring up something else to talk about so they were not just standing around feeling one another’s hair, even if Rox would have enjoyed that.

"How do you like Bellefonte Academy so far?" Roxana asked she yes she safely assumed that Cid was either new to the school or that Roxana really needed to take a break from her observations and catch up on who were all students.