Snake Party

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji had felt bad for not going to see Pandora as soon as he had gotten word that she was out of the infirmly with a cast on. The day the event happened he still had work that he had to get to and it had just been a hard and long day. Pretty much after that day he had taken a day off and just slept in order to recover a little bit. Then he had gotten a little busy with some other work and thus had not seen Pandora right away. He figured she would have been okay with it because that meant that she as well get some rest of her own and would understand that Seiji still had work and school to take care of while Pandora just had some class work to take care of. Seiji of course had at least made sure to drop off her class work and notes under her dorm room, and just hoped that she got them since he could not get passed the common area door unless he knocked and his drops off had just been really quick.

"Alright, you all have to be on your best behavior. I forgot to ask her if she was even okay with all of you coming over." Seiji told his snakes as he headed for Pandora's room with an army of snakes following behind him. Well not really a army, just Ghost, Sapphire, and Leevi with Akiko having won and gotten to get a ride on Seiji while he cared to plates of food for Pandora. He did promise to make her anything that she had wanted and even if it was meant as a joke he did have a plate of sour gummy worm spaghetti. The other plate was something he made off of a recipe he got from the internet about something that people in Hawaii liked to enjoy. Seiji was pretty sure that he had gotten at least close to what it was supposed to take like and just hoped Pandora liked it. He actually did not even remember what he made was even called, so he just hoped Pandora would be able to tell from looking at it.

He arrived to her dorm room and managed to balance one plate on top of the other in order to knock on the door. He felt bad that Pandora was going to have to move and get the door, but he did not have a key to her room and he did not just want to barge into the room. His snakes all gathering around him and already gathering to try and climb up on their master while they waited. "Pandora, it's me Seiji...and guests.” Seiji said, speaking up loudly

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

Well this sucks.

The teleporter glanced around the room as she stayed seated on one of the couches in the living room section of the dorm. She sighed heavily as she pouted, her eyes went back to the television while switching through one channel after another. She had spent most of her time in her room resting up ever since she was released from the infirmary. Now she had a huge cast holding down her tiny leg and making it almost near impossible to do anything fun, or exciting. Heck, it was even difficult to just get up to walk around, she was given either the options of a crutches or a wheelchair that sat in one of the far corners of the dorm. At least they allowed her to pick a pink casting for her leg, which she ended up decorating once she was helped back to her room. She was a fashion major, what did you expect?

The worst part about it was that she was advised to not use her powers to teleport anywhere and see the counselor about why she was having the weird nightmares until one of the Side-Effect Specialists could figure out a solution for her. She knew both of them (Seiji being one) but wasn't really in the mood to bother either about it. If they found a solution, then they found one and if not... then, yeah. Pan could have sworn she graduated High School because she had such an amazing control with her powers and now she just felt like she was taking steps back. It was starting to frustrate the Hawaiian.

She stared uninterested at the current show that was on; Maury. Something about someone cheating on their mom or whatever. Wait, wasn't that incest? That show was always weird. Boredom would soon be the death of her and not to mention that she missed Seiji and wanted to just be around him but she knew he was busy with classes and work so there was no reason for her to be bothering him with text messages about how she was given a stick to scratch an itch that was being blocked by her cast. At least she was sure that he was the one who passed her notes and class work along to her from underneath the door. He was so kind.

"Pandora, it's me Seiji...and guests.” She sat herself up as she looked towards the door. Her eyes lit up, "Seiji!? One sec, I'm coming!" He also mentioned guests, and she somewhat hoped it was his snakes... was that weird? To hope that snakes would be company? She didn't think so especially since she missed Akiko, and hadn't seen Ghost and Leevi in a while and she was sure to want to greet Sapphire again for her help. Now only if she could get to the door... "Crutch." She telekinetically teleported one of her crutches next to her before hopping up on one leg and propping herself on them to crutch her way to the door.

As soon as she opened the door wide enough for him to enter, she noticed him carrying covered plates of food in his hand and his snakes around his feet, she stood there and looked up at Seiji with her hair in its natural curly state and the saddest pout ever. "Loooooooook at what they've done to me." She whined as she looked back down at the pink decorated cast on her leg and looked back up at him. She surely wasn't about this life.

Oh my god, wait... was that loco poco she smelled?

Her Look

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji had actually been working on getting some kind of medication together in order to help with Pandora's nightmares. He had already made some medication for other students for their nightmares and had the medical staff hand it off. He needed to check in on that boy at some point and find out if the medication was helping him out. Well, having made the medication would have been a lie. Seiji didn't actually know how to make anything besides a vaccine, and that was with liquid based shots and not pills. He just wrote out what needed to go into the medication for the mutants that he had worked out something that would lessen certain side effects to a degree and then someone that was an actual doctor or at least more in the medical field then he was made the medication. Still, he was a part of what went into it all and he was working on doing the same for Pandora, he just had not told her about it.

It was not like he meant to not tell her, it just had literally slipped his mind with all the other things he was working on with class work as well as his job. Plus he was hitting a few road blocks because study teleportation’s powers closely enough to pinpoint where they were causing the brain waves to cause more vivid nightmares that trigger her power was actually pretty difficult with just her hair and blood sample. Said samples having been given to him by the infirmary staff a little after Seiji had dropped her off there when she had broken her leg. He forgot and he was actually having a hard time with it as he expected. After all her power involved teleportation and man was that hard to study under a telescope. He probably was going to have to end up actually having her come in to be monitored so he could get a better reading then what DNA was not outright revealing to him because of Pandora's molecules were all over the place, much like what happened when things were teleported.

"Take your time; I don't want you hurting yourself." Seiji quickly responded back, hearing the energy in her voice was a good thing, but it also worried him. He was now slightly regretting brining over the sugary sour worm spaghetti but before it had seemed like a god idea. He would just hate it if she ended up breaking her other leg because she ended up bouncing around after having too much sugar in her system. Seiji gave her a warm smile when she opened the door, his eyes looking over her and he could not help but to chuckle a little at the pout Pandora gave and her words about what they had done to her. "What, is pink not your favorite color?" Seiji teased a little and figured that it had to be with how she was wearing a matching outfit and how both the pants and the shirt had read pink on them. "I heard that you were going to have to wait a little while until a healer who could handle healing your leg could show up so I figured I bring you something to eat and the snake gang decided to come with." Seiji said as his snakes were already slithering their way into Pandora's room.

Seiji just hopped that Pandora's roommates did not mind that there were now four snakes of different species and sizes just slithering around their common area, being extra nosy. Ghost had pretty much already made himself comfortable on the couch. Leevi was peeking in pretty much anything he could peek into. Sapphire already moved to hide under the couch, while Akiko worked her way up Pandora's cast and body until she was at the human females shoulder and was nuzzling Pandora's under her chin. "May I come in? I would ask if they could too, but they sort of already did." Seiji said, slightly embarrassed that his snakes had pretty much made themselves at home in Pandora's dorm room, but that was so like them.

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

Not only was she surprised that Seiji had stopped by with the gang, she was also relieved. Pandora was going to go crazy trying to "rest up" or whatever that meant and it was bad enough that she hardly saw her roommates. It was like whenever she was busy, she could always spot one of her roommies around but when she was bored out of her mind, no one was ever around. It was silly how things worked out that way but it was great to know that Seiji thought about her enough to come over with not just the snakes but to keep her company and she really appreciated that. She mad a sad squeal as she continued to pout jokingly as he teased her, moving out the way so that the gang could do whatever they liked. "It iiisss my favorite color, I just never expected to have it wrapped around my leg in a heavy cast... that's driving me insane."

Her pout turned into a soft smile, "You're a sweetheart, Seij. That was kind of you." Ever since he had practically came to her rescue that night, Pandora felt butterflies pretty much every time she thought of him, which was pretty much all the time now. Her eyes followed most of the snakes until she felt Akiko slither up her body and nuzzle her. Pan lifted a finger to gently caress Akiko's head. "Awww, I missed you too babe."

She blinked when Seiji asked if he could come in noting that his snakes were already making themselves at home and Pandora didn't mind one bit. Her roommates were all in class or in their sports and activities. "Of course you can come in, silly." She figured that he was just showing manners which she had no problem with but he never really had to ask, she opened the door wide for him to come in.

She gave up trying to get used to walking with crutches and placed the one crutch she took against the wall. She'd just hop everywhere if she needed to. The crutches were hurting her armpits anyway, even with the padding on top. Pan squinted her eyes at one of the plates in Seiji's hands. The scent of food from back home was really familiar but she didn't expect Seiji out of all people to know how to make it. It was a Hawaiian dish after all. "You wouldn't happen to have made a Hawaiian dish..." And if he did, she was pretty much going to freak out and jump on him because last time she checked, Seiji wasn't Hawaiian.

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji chuckled some more at Pandora’s continued play pout over the think pink cast over her leg that of course had made it difficult to walk. It was kind of cute in a ‘man that sucks’ kind of way to see Pandora hobbling around and trying to move without using her crutches. Seiji could recall having to use crutches before in his life and he adjusted pretty quickly to them but understood that they were in fact uncomfortable and even with the padding it did start to hurt under your armpits. “Well you just have a small wait before you are free of it, but for now just take advantage of being able to have handicapped parking and take the elevator instead of the stairs.” Seiji pointed out because he did enjoy when he was able to part closer and pretty much get around with little effort on his part. He could understand however that a person like Pandora who was full of energy would not enjoy such a thing.

“It’s nothing. We are friends after all and friends are there for one another.” Seiji said, sounding sure of himself as he gave a nod as if too add to that sure feeling. He had no clue that Pandora was having any butterflies of any kind at all in regards to him and was just being his usual friendly and caring self. Akiko was going to town nuzzling and flicking her tongue as an attempt to give Pandora kisses. It was a little weird for the snake to do but she figured that if Ghost did it, then she could. “Oh, yes. Akiko has really missed you and she offered to stay with you if you wanted the company why you deal with your cast. You just have to let me know and I’ll bring over her tank so she can stay with you a little while. I can even teach you how to feed her then too since I won’t be able to come over and do it myself all the time.” Seiji pointed out as Akiko let out a small hiss and nodded her head. She was all for a extended sleepover at Pandora’s even if she would miss her master a little bit.

“Thank you.” Seiji said with a chuckle because she called him silly and while he understood that he was pretty much allowed to come in and by anytime he wanted he still could not help asking. He was just raised to be polite and even if he was close to someone he still didn’t really forget his manners. Entering into the room he headed over to the closest flat surface in order to set the plates down so he did not drop anything. His dark brown eyes blinked a few times as a nervous smile spread across his face at Pandora’s question about the dish he made. “Well, I tried to. I remembered that you were from Hawaii and looked up popular recipes native to that area and gave it a shot. I’m sorry if I prepared it wrong and you of course don’t have to eat it if you don’t like it. I just didn’t really know what else to make since you never picked an actual food for me to make.” Seiji said with a nervous chuckle as he gestured towards the plate of sour gummy worm spaghetti since that was the only thing that she had actually asked him to make, even if it was just in a joking manner.

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

Pan had only kept a positive attitude since Seiji was here because if he wasn't, she would've been moping, frowning and kicking stuff around. He chuckled at her, so apparently he found it amusing... well she didn't, in the slightest and showed it through her pouts and whining. It made her feel like a baby but she couldn't help it! They were trying to hold her down! They wouldn't let her be great!

Whoever "they" were.

"That's. Not. The. Point." She said in between each hop as she hopped her way to close the door behind Seiji, forgetting that Akiko was on her person. Hopefully she wasn't making the snake nervous. "People are gonna look at me like I'm a baby and now I can't teleport anywhere." She whined and scoffed as she pointed at her chest, "Me. Not teleport. Like isn't that the craziest thing you've ever heard?" Pandora pretty much teleported any and everywhere around the academy if she had the energy for it. She might have depended on it too much ever since she graduated from the High School at BA, sure but still, that was her thing. It was like when Seiji was next to his snakes all the time and talked to them, it was second nature to them.

She turned to face Seiji and took a deep breath with a soft smile plastered on her face. Pan only wish she could soon express her gratitude. He had done so much for her as it is. "Well thank you anyway. I spoke to my parents earlier today and they told me to thank you as well. Also if you're ever wanting to spend a vacation in Hawaii, they said they'd be happy to take care of you." Even though the beginning of her conversation with her mother almost crying (over dramatic), her family were super grateful for Seiji being able to help. Of course questions about when she was going to have a boyfriend and get married arose but it wasn't something that Pandora couldn't handle. Her family just played a really big role in her life and she was used to dodging questions like that. A pro even.

Pan looked down at Akiko and smiled before looking back up at Seiji. "Really? You'd allow that? I mean I would love to have her around for a few days I just don't want to snatch her away from big papa snake." She smirked. It would be interesting to have Akiko around and to take care of her. Pan was sure she could handle it even though she wouldn't be able to understand Akiko but the snake would probably understand her. Right? Pandora wasn't really sure how human/snake communication worked. She always just talked to Akiko and was told what she said in response from Seiji. She looked down at her shoulder to Akiko, "What do you say? You think daddy will be fine with us having girl time together?" 

She hopped over to the counter with a bright smile and uncovered the dish. It smelled so good and gave her a feeling of being homesick. God, she missed home so much. She looked over at Seiji, "Mahalo nui loa. Thank you, so much. It looks amazing..." She frowned a bit but fought to keep a smile on her face. "Just as if I was back home." She reached to the other plate only to find out it was really sour gummy worm spaghetti. Her eye lids closed as she grinned and started to laugh, "I can't believe... you actually did it."

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji chuckled again at Pandora making her point and he really did find some enjoyment of her pouting in a way. Not that he was like enjoying her pain or sadness or anything, but he was enjoying her overall stubborn mood. “I know, I know. I understand what you mean.” Seiji said with a grin on his face as he watched Pandora hop her way through the room. He still listened as she explained how she thought everyone was going to look at her like she was a baby and pointed out that she would not be able to teleport. He could slightly understand why she would be upset at not being able to use her power. Seiji could not really turn his off in a way. He could ignore the thoughts his snakes sent him, he could control when he looked through their eyes, but the whole sensing them would not go away.

“Well you could either get one of your roommates or other friends to come in and take care of you or get like a wheelchair.” Seiji suggested, not really sure if that was his best idea but he didn’t really know what else to offer. Seiji started to blush a little when Pandora brought up the fact that she told her family and that they thanked him for helping out Pandora. They even invited him to vacation in Hawaii and that was very nice of them. “Tell them I said thanks…maybe I’ll get some time off of classes and work and we could take a trip there together.” Seiji suggested, knowing that he would not want to go there by himself, especially if he was going to be visiting Pandora’s parents. He didn’t know if he would actually be able to go through with it, but the thought was nice. He was just really shy about the matter.

Seiji could not help but to chuckle a little at Pandora calling him papa snake since he never actually thought of himself as the father of his snakes. His snakes called him master even if he told them to call him by his name. Their relationship was more of a loving and kind master with loving and kind servants in a way, but all still a family. “I would be fine with it. My snakes are in a way smarter than normal snakes because of their connection to me and I’m sure you have noticed that while they can’t communicate with people beside me, they still understand you.” Seiji pointed out because his snakes were pretty advanced in a way, but the four of them were bonded to him. Akiko nuzzled Pandora more, easily hanging on to the women when she moved. “She said she would love to stay with you…” Seiji said, dropping off there and blushing a little more because he did not say everything that Akiko had said.

Seiji had no clue what she said and just smiled, assuming that her next words was the translation of what Seiji could only relate to Leo and Stich. He only knew English and Japanese fluently, his brain was too full of everything else to squeeze any more languages in there. At least that was what he would say if someone suggested that he learn another language, but he would still try. He smile went away a little bit as picking up that Pandora seemed to be upset. Maybe I made it wrong…oh no she said just like home. Okay she probably is just home sick. Seiji thought to himself and was smiling again as Pandora started to laugh at the other dish he had ‘made’ for her. “It was the only dish you actually mentioned.” Seiji said with a small chuckled as he moved to grab a seat on the couch with Ghost.

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

“I know, I know. I understand what you mean.” She sighed yet once again. Until the healer was back and able to take her leg full on, she would have to deal with the old fashion way of healing... by letting your body do it's work. For now she wasn't allowed to put any kind of pressure on her casted leg, so that meant hat she either had to stay seated in a wheelchair (which was not going to happen) or she had to shift her weight on her good leg when she stood, which made her leg tired.

He was giving her suggestions and she appreciated them, she did but she knew none of that would happen. She gestured to the far corner where her new wheelchair sat and would soon collect dust. Pan just wanted to be able to walk like everyone else, and now she figured she would have to use that wheelchair sooner or later. "Yeah I guess I'll have to get used to using it." She'd rather take care of herself than have to bother someone else to look after her. She broke her leg on her own so it was only right that she learned to take care of herself on her own as well. And she was pretty sure she would have to get back into going to class in a day or so now that she was given crutches and a wheelchair. Pan wasn't really looking forward to having to wear the uniforms...

She nodded, "I'll let them know and yeah, I haven't been back home in like forever. So just let me know when. You'd love Hawaii." Of course Pan wouldn't let Seiji go by himself. She wasn't too sure if he would be comfortable dealing with her whole family alone. They were a bit much but they were known to be very welcoming. They pretty much took anyone in as their own but were a real pain when it came to Pandora. She wasn't the baby of the bunch, she was the second youngest but they kept treating her like it.

"Yeah I totally noticed it. Smartest snakes I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. You must be very proud, Papa Snake." She laughed, because that's exactly how she saw it. She saw it as Seiji being a father and the snakes being his children. Of course she wouldn't understand the true nature of it seeing how she was only from the outside looking in but she saw so much love and trust between all of them and him, it was very lovely. She nodded with a smile as she petted Akiko, "Okay then it's set."

She re-wrapped the Hawaiian dish and put it in the fridge for later, she was totally going to devour it for dinner thanks to Seiji but for now she would so go crazy off of the sour gummy worms. She hadn't had sugar and sweets since she baked Seiji cookies. Pan took a handful from the plate and stuffed almost all of them in her mouth as she tried to talk a the same time, "MmmpAawwhmphThankmphYou." She chewed away as she looked down to her shoulder at Akiko curiously, calling out to Seiji who was on the couch "Hey, you think Akiko can eat sour gummy worms or would it give her heartburn or something?" She stuffed one more in her mouth before hopping over towards Seiji and Ghost but she stopped behind the couch and dangled a colorful sour gummy worm in his face from behind him. "Hiii I'm Bobbb, would you like to devour meh in all of my sugary and sour goodness?" She put on the most abnormally high pitched voice ever, clearly the sugar was getting to her before she even digested the ones she ate.

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji's graze went to the wheelchair that Pandora had gestured at, causing him to chuckle again at the fact that Pandora had options yet she still was fussing. It was still all very amusing to Seiji and he could not fully understand why that was. She was just fussing about having to deal with a cast and not being able to teleport, which Seiji could understand why she would be upset. He personally didn't have a problem with wearing the uniform since he was a guy that did like to dress in a uniform way from time to time. he probably would end up being bothered by it after having to wear a uniform every day and he certainly was going to have to mess with the uniform a little bit to ensure he had at least a few places where one of his snakes could hide on his person. That was just to be expected. "Okay...I'll let you know then." Seiji said with his smile faltering a little because he really didn't know if he would remind her.

It was one thing for him to say gives someone money for a trip, but going on a trip he normally did with just his snakes and it was never to see anyone’s parents. he just felt like he would be a big ball of weird and awkward so would have to think on it a little while before he felt confident enough to do such a thing. Seiji smiled and nodded as he assumed that Pandora was mainly talking to Akiko since her words were coming out as more as complements. All of Seiji's snakes were pretty smart with Akiko actually having a smaller level of intelligence compared to Seiji's other snakes because she was the newest of his snakes. That did not mean she was dumb or anything but her intelligence seemed to lean more towards peoples; and her own; appearances and physical aspects. Pandora said that it was decided so Seiji made a mental note to make sure he would bring Akiko's tank over to Pandora's room sometime. "Alright, I'll bring her tank over as soon as I can and from here on and until further notice she is staying with you." Seiji said as he leaned back on the couch some, petting Ghost as the snake made its way onto his lap.

Seiji was actually pretty shocked when Pandora wrapped up the actual food and put it away, since that was the actual food he brought over. The other had just been more of a joke and something that Seiji figured she would snack on and leave out for others in her room to snack on if they wished. Seiji's eyes went wide as Pandora grabbed a handful and just went ahead and shoved them in her mouth like they were candy. Well, they were candy but Seiji just had not expected her to go at it with such a...craving manner? He was not sure which words best fit this situation and he could not help but to just look at Pandora as she consumed the treat. Pandora hopped over towards the couch Ghost of course making some room for there on the couch. Pandora instead was dangling a gummy worm in front of the snakes face and if he could, he would certainly be blinking.

"They can't eat gummy worms no. They would get sick but they thank you for the offer." Seiji said with a small smile but remained where he was. Relaxed on the couch and just watching as Pandora seemed to already be kicking into her sugar high.

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

It was nice, you know; To see Seiji smiling and chuckling as much as he did. Whenever Pan was around him, it made her happy and his positive energy somewhat fueled her to be happy even though Pan tend to be happy and energetic everyday. For a second it made her forget that she was even in a cast, until she had to move around of course. Pan was pretty sure that if Seiji ended up not wanting to go to Hawaii with her, she would've still went but would have been sad and really understanding. Even though a vacation to Hawaii was always something Pandora prescribed to people because you always left feeling refreshed and a peace. Which was why many office workers and business owners and other people visited her home. Her siblings hated tourists but Pan loved seeing different people enjoying her home land, it put a smile on her face.

"Alright, I'll bring her tank over as soon as I can and from here on and until further notice she is staying with you." She giggled, "Someone sounds eager to let Akiko go, huh?" She turned her head towards Akiko and petted the snake once more, "It's okay, we'll watch soap operas and shop online and you can be my second opinion when I'm done with these clothing designs for class and we can have soooo much girl talk about Seiji when he's not here." She smiled mischievously while putting on a fake whisper tone, knowing Seiji would've heard it anyway.

While she was indulging in her sugary goodness, she hardly noticed Seiji looking at her the way he did. If so, she probably would've been embarrassed for looking like a pig but she couldn't help it. She loved sugar so much and he had brought it for her so why not. Oh maybe because he also brought real food and she was better off eating that first instead of giving herself another reason to bounce off walls. It was clear that she still hadn't learned her lesson.

"Oh, nevermind." She chuckled sheepishly as she moved the gummy worm from in front of his face and ate it. "Sorry Bob, Ghost doesn't want you." Pan hopped to the opposite side of Seiji and sat on the couch with her legs crossed indian-style (or at least tried to with her heavy cast). Pan sat facing Seiji and Ghost as she shoved a few more gummy worms in her mouth. Her hazel eyes studied Seiji's adorable face for a few seconds before she went random, "I wanna learn how to take care of snakes. Like.. um, the basics or anything that you could tell me about them right from the top of your head." Would she remember it all, probably not but she figured if he did feel like telling her anything and she forgot, she could always check the internet or the library for more information.

"Or like, anything about Akiko that I should know for later on, you know, once she spends her time with me."
All in all, Pan was interested with knowing about snakes in general. Until she met Seiji, she hadn't found much interests in them. Her main concern was under water animals, which her mother studied since forever ago.

[Seiji Lockard]

“Not like that, she wants to come hang out with you too and it would be good for…oh you were just teasing?” Seiji asked, having gone into a small panic that Pandora really thought that he was trying to get rid of Akiko or anything. Akiko was his newest and his bond with her was not as strong as his other snakes but he did still care a lot about her. Akiko remained on Pandora’s shoulders, her body clinging a little bit around the girl’s neck to make sure she would not fall but also was not trying to choke Pandora out or anything. Pandora would more than likely feels that she just had a sort of heavy necklace or choker around her neck. Seiji started to blush some more as he moved around on the couch as Pandora talked about the things she and Akiko would end up doing together. The whole ‘girl talk about Seiji when he was not around’ really had him wondering.

Was it going to be bad talk? Good talk? What would they even talk about in regards to him because there was not much one could really say about him. At least Seiji didn’t really think he would be any hot topic to talk about. Akiko would only really be able to communicate with Pandora to yes and no question, since Seiji would not be around to tell Pandora what the snake was thinking. Ghost looked at Pandora, looked at his mater, and then laid his head back down on the couch. The large snake was tempted to just wait until Pandora sat down on the couch so he could grab a hold of her with his body and pull her close to his master and get her to settle down and to just be close to his master. Soon an Pandora did sit, the snake used the tail end of his body to wrap around a little bit of Pandora’s waist to at least try and keep her sitting for a little bit.

Seiji rested his head on his mater’s body, and moved his body just enough so he could look at Pandora as she asked her question. “You do?” Seiji asked, with a slight amount of disbelief in his voice because who really wanted to learn about snakes? Well, he did but it was his power after all so it made sense that he would want to know as much as he could on them. She wanted the basics, right off the top of his head. Okay, he could do that. “Well…umm…depending on the snakes size depends on how often and what size rat or mouse you feed them. With Akiko she gets fed twice a day. I tend to feed her early morning when I get up and then around like after five when typically the morning shift workers get off of work. She gets fed small mice, typically the froze baby sized ones. You have to thaw them out in warm water and heat them up just a little bit to get the scent of the mouse to come out and because who really want to eat a cold mouse.” Seiji said, making a small joke there but his snicker died down a little bit after saying it.

“You want to have a rock in their environment as well as a light so they have somewhere to hide and somewhere to warm their bodies up. All of that is already right in Akiko’s tank.” Seiji explained and thought for a moment before giving an apologetic look since he was thinking and that meant it was not off the top of his head. “Sorry, I know more of course, but I had to stop and think.” Seiji said as he looked slightly embarrassed over the matter and ruffled his hair.

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

Pan giggled, "Of course I was just teasing." She knew Seiji would never give away any of his snakes, that was a given. They were close to him as he was close to them and seeing Seiji part from any of his snakes would surprise Pan. Which was why she was surprised to see he'd allow Akiko to stay with her for a day or so. It mean that he trusted her in a way, so she'd take that to heart because that would mean a lot to her. Besides, she never had any pets before and she was sure fish didn't count either. She at least wanted to make Seiji proud and think that she was a responsible young adult, which she was... most of the time.

Once she was on the couch, she could feel Ghost wrap around her body to keep her still. It kind of took her off guard but once she figured it was Ghost and not... an actual ghost, her heart calmed down a bit. Her gaze went from Ghost to Seiji as she nodded, "Yeap! I do." Was it really that hard to believe? She stuffed another sour gummy worm in her mouth as she listened to the snake professional but it wasn't long until she found herself stopping in mid chew.

A rat?

A mouse?

Frozen?

Heat them up?

Pandora tried her best to keep herself together. Not only did she hate mice and rats but knowing that she had to get a frozen one, heat it up and feed them to Akiko made her skin crawl. Keeping a straight face was now close to impossible. Keep it together, Pan. You'd only have to see and smell it when you feed her... that's it. That's all. She kept telling herself this but it didn't make it any easier to digest and there were currently no mice or rats in sight. The golden Hawaiian nodded uneasily as she tried to gulp down the rest of her gummy worms, only finding herself not able to eat the rest. So she placed them on the coffee table.

She nodded once more, "Right. Got it. Rocks and icky mice and stuff." When Seiji apologized, Pan gave him a sympathetic look as she reached to play with his hair. "It's okay Seij, I already know you know tons more. If I ever need more information or help I can always google or text you. No biggie." She hadn't meant to make him feel any less superior when it came to snakes. Pan knew there was no one else in the school who knew more about snakes than Seiji. He could manipulate them for crying out loud.

[Seiji Lockard]

“Okay, sorry that I missed that at first.” Seiji said blushing a little bit more as he ruffled his hair again and looked around Pandora’s room. Well, the common area of Pandora’s room since they were not actually in Pandora’s room. Seiji’s mind started to wonder for a little bit as he tried to recall if he had ever been in her room. Nope, he had not but she had been in his room. Seiji was a little bit curious as to what Pandora’s room looked like but that curiosity started to make him blush because you were not supposed to try and figure out what a women's room looked like...right? Seiji was not really sure but he felt like it was bad in a way to be wondering what Pandora's room looked like ant the possible things she had in that room. Was she super messy? Super clean? Sid she have a lot of things with pink in them since it was her favorite color?

There were just a lot of questions on it but Seiji figured that if he never got to see it then Akiko would end up informing him. Seiji felt a little bad for assuming that Pandora would not care to know such information about snakes. He made a note to apologize to her about it later but for now focused on just informing Pandora what he knew about snakes off the top of his head. He could not help but to start to smile a little at seeing Pandora's expression as he talked about mice and rats. She could hide it but all of his snakes were pretty much reading Pandora at the moment and they were all telling Seiji that she was certainly squirming a little bit about the rats and mouse part. The fact that Pandora was not comfortable with it was proved all the more when Pandora said that she got it and said 'icky mice stuff'.

"I can handle the feeding if you are not comfortable with it, but that just means that I'll either need a key to your room or that I get her eon time before you leave for class." Seiji pointed out and was going to say more but Pandora was touching his hair. Pandora was playing with his hair in a casual manner and was saying that it was okay. Seiji could not even say anything as he just turned super red, full body red. Just looking at Pandora and almost appeared as if he had frozen in time in that moment. He was the only one who was used to ruffling and messing with his hair, and feeling someone else hands in his hair was a new experience. It felt good, but it was also scary because it was new and felt good.

[Pandora E. Kāohi]

When Seiji blushed, Pan wanted to give a sympathetic 'Aaawwww' but needed to stop herself from laughing first. It was cute that he had to catch on but didn't until the last minute. Maybe stuff like not catching on to jokes came hand in hand with being book smart? The whole time they were there, Pandora hadn't really thought about Seiji seeing her room especially since he let her stay in his that one night. It wasn't like it was dirty, no Pan loved how neat she kept it but it showed signs of obsession. It was decorated really pretty with mostly pictures of beaches, nature, and back home along with tons of fashion designs that were either her own or stuff she admired on the internet or in magazines. Along with tons of stuffed pandas because well, she had a growing addiction to the animal.

But as for mice and rats... those were not her favorite as it was clearly seen from her face and the sudden goosebumps that appeared on her skin. When he mentioned feeding Akiko himself, she nodded her head super fast. She would have no issues with giving him an extra key to her dorm. "Absolutely. You can have an extra key, just as long as I don't have to touch, smell, or see a dead rat... frozen or thawed." She pressed her lips together as she smiled meekly.

Pan hadn't noticed that familiar look he was giving her because her eyes were really focused on her nice his hair felt. Until her eyes actually met his and noticed how red he turned, frozen... like the last time she touched him. Oh, only if she had learned from the last time. She slowly took her hand from his hair as she looked at him with a sheepish smile. "Sorry. Your hair- It's feels go-, This is starting to become a habit... I'm sorry." She had a real problem with keeping her hands to herself and even though he told her not to worry about it last time, she couldn't help but feel like she was invading his personal space. Which she seemed to do a lot. It made you wonder how he was capable of being around her.

Pan cleared her throat, Trying to change the air. "Do you wanna see some of my work? I figured I'd ask seeing how I've never shown you any of my designs or projects."

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji chuckled a little as Pandora nodded her head a lot and super-fast when he offered to feed Akiko for her. It really was no big deal to just stop by and feed Akiko really quick before he would go off to class or work for the school. Plus Pandora seemed up for giving him a kay which made things all the easier since he could just walk in then. Granted he would probably still end up knocking and waiting before coming in so he would not just end up walking in on Pandora or any of her roommates. He did wonder if he should give her a key to his room to be fair and felt like that would be a good idea. It was not like he was worried about Pandora doing anything bad and he honestly was fine with her showing up whenever.

“I’ll handle all of that then. You just need to make sure to just change her water at least once a week and let her out of the tank here and there.” Seiji informed her, smiling a little still but then that whole hair touching thing happened that caused him to turn red and go still. None of it was a bad thing, it just was the fact that he had been thinking about Pandora’s room, now she was touching him, and the touch felt good. Years of not really being touched or dealt with and then this year other human beings actually paying attention to him on a level outside of school was still taking some time for him to get used to. He was pretty sure he could not get any redder, but he was as Pandora basically sort of implied that his hair felt good.

“No, no. It’s fine. It feels good. You can keep doing it if you like it and want to. I’m just well you know, still getting used to it all but I really don’t mind. Promise.” Seiji was quick to say at Pandora’s apology, grabbing one of her hands as a way to assure her that it really was not a big deal. He was used to Pandora being high of energy and just clinging to him; he was used to others doing it as well, so it really was not that big of a deal as his body was making it out to be. He took a deep breath then, when Pandora asked if he wanted to see some of her work. He recalled that she was a design student and he was actually looking forward to seeing what she had recently made. “I would be honored if you would show me your work. I have always been curious as to you make.” Seiji responded back, his blush calming down and a kind smile returning to his face.