Growing Pains

[Kyrie Jamal Pierce]

Kyrie's head was throbbing. Damn was it throbbing. And he didn't even drink the night before! No, this was one of the headaches he'd get from time to time as a side-effect of his power. They started when he was fourteen, around the time that he was beginning to understand how his power worked. Unfortunately, the more control he began to display over his abilities, the more prominent the headaches became. It was why he'd ultimately decided to just let his powers work for him. He never had a problem before he tried to control them, why would he want to change that? Besides, all he had to do was stay one-hundred percent positive, one-hundred percent of the time and everything would be alright, right? That was easier said than done considering his head felt as if it were about to explode.  

He began to rub his forehead, his eyes fixated on the grass beneath his feet. Grass. Wait, why was he outside? The throbbing in his head began to be accompanied by voices. Great, now he was going insane too? The voices got louder and clearer. They were coming from behind him. Kye turned around to see two male students yelling at one another. From what Kye could remember from the voices in his head earlier, the altercation had something to do with... Welfare? Warfare? Girlfriend maybe? Kye couldn't remember shit honestly. The yelling got louder. "Someone really needs to discipline you annoying little fuc-agh," his head again. One of the boys suddenly tackled the other and now they were rolling around on the ground, trading blows. At Bellefonte though, fist fights could escalate into much worse very quickly. It was time for Kye to man up and be an adult for once. But damn did his head hurt. 

[Ayane Somerfield]

Ayane tapped her hand on her leg, finishing up the double strength latte that was in her hand. It was her day off, she was just taking a gently stroll around the campus. All things considered it was a fairly nice day, the sun was out, the clouds were in the sky and most of the students were in a fairly good mood. 

Ayane was just outside, enjoying the sunshine. She was in work out clothing, shorts and a sleeveless top, she had decided that today was a good day to go out for a run, picked up coffee on the way back and then was coming back this way on campus. All things considered it was a pretty good morning. 

When she had left the campus was rather quiet, only a few students about and most of the staff were just waking up. One of the perks of having a day off is that she could be up and out this early. She wasn't even exhausted. She was glad that she had managed to keep in such good shape, even after moving back from Chicago to Montana. 

As she strolled across she could see a fight breaking out and slowly started walking towards it, another adult ambled towards it looking a little disconnected with reality. The student on the right yelled something and tackled the other, Ayane immediately broke into a sprint.