Alice heard Camilla behind her, she hadn't let the door swing close behind her yet in case Dyn needed to get out of there quickly.
Alice relaxed slightly what ever had happened she seemed to have missed it.
While Gage was distracted with the boy, Alice slid around the room avoiding his gaze and plopped down in the seat across from Dyn, "Wanna get outta here?" she asked smirking and tipping her head toward the kitchen. there was a back way out and Gage wouldn't be able to spot them if they didn't go out the front.
Wolfram pulled away from Gage, from Brisa, and just walked away, grief swirling in his chest like a monster, threatening to pull him under into a chasm of grief and agony. He stopped by Bleddyn."Meet......meet me in the park...whenever you can, if you even want to....I.....I want to...to talk."He stuttered softly, searching her gaze, almost a hint of desperation in his. Then he pulled away, silently walking out into the pouring rain..
Bleddyn flinched as her opponent brushed by her and dropped an invitation. Her temper flared at his audacity to insinuate that she'd even consider meeting up with him in a non-confrontational way. "Yeah, I'll be there with shoes on!" she hissed after him.
Her arms crossed even tighter across her ragged t-shirt, and she turned away from the closing door pointedly.
"Impudent jerk."
That was to both him and her rebellious,
soft innards that were somehow considering following him.
Never.
Alice leaned back as he approached the booth looking up at him surprised. As soon as he left she started laughing. "Dyn and cat boy sittin in a tree..." She grinned over at her cousin, who was obviously not in the mood to be teased. A dark scowl on her face.
"Come on, she said slowly getting up and grabbing Dyn by the elbow. Let's go before Gage calls your parents." Alice dragged her up out of the seat and led her around to the back of the restaurant avoiding the staff in the kitchen and slipping through the back door. Back out into the rain.
Bleddyn shot a smoldering glare at Alice. "Shut it."
As Alice dragged her out of the chaos, Bleddyn found herself trying to decode the reasoning behind cat-boy's abrupt loss of hostility. "I don't even know his name," she snapped uselessly at the bush that housed her skateboard. "He probably wants to get me alone to turn a gun on me or something. Who knows with overgrown orphans?" A twig dared to poke her as she reached within its realm; in rebuttal, she obliterated it and half of the bush while she was at it.
When she caught up with Alice, Bleddyn wore not only the blooming bruises from the scuffle, but now her face was decorated with hard-earned ribbons of red.
Alice spotted Yris, a girl in her class, and Brisa, as they left and decided to follow them dragging Dyn along. "come on, you can't get in trouble if they can't find you, besides it wasn't even really a fight right."
Seeing the younger girl turn and spot them Alice slowed. She didn't actually know Yris, she just recognized her. She half waved uncomfortably with an awkward half smile on her face. She was reminded that at school her and Dyn weren't exactly, accepted by any of their class mates. As far as anyone else knew they were the losers who's parents had cool super powers but they some how missed out on that gene.
Seeing Lachlan and Camilla walk up and introduce themselves, Alice walked over and joined them. "hey. I'm Alice. Camilla's my sister. And this is Bleddyn." She said nudging her with her elbow. "So what's up with cat boy? I kinda missed everything."
Wolfram sat on a abandoned rooftop over looking the park. He had clear view of it, able to see Bleddyn when she came. If she came, that was. He sighed softly, pushing strands of black hair from his face, looking up at the sky. Rain was still pouring, heavy as ever, and he was drenched to the bone. But he didn't care. Warmth and comfort wouldn't cure the ever clawing hole of agony and grief that embedded itself in his chest. A very small smile tugged at his lips as he remembered Bleddyn, so willing to just punch him without thinking. She's certaintly brave, if anything. Impulsive, sure, but brave.
Lachlan shifted awkwardly. "I think we're pretty okay."
"In short: He came in and started yelling at everyone. Delilah actually told him to fight her, he beat her," He glanced at Bleddyn.
Camilla took over. "Then Bleddyn stepped in and they got in a fight, at which point Lachlan stepped in and tried to break them up, but Gage got everything settled... I think."
"Sounds like you guys were just picking on some random guy. Hmm?" Alice glanced around, Delilah wasn't actually here. "Obviously we can't go back there today or Gage'll have our heads. I wonder if De (Delilah) was able to get out of there before her dad spotted her."
Bleddyn stood a good distance away from the sizable mass of people she all knew to some extent. This was just too much. If they were all trying to escape both parental and legal admonishment at the moment, to congregate like this
in the middle of town didn't seem to be the wisest.
But standing here aimlessly, darkly brooding over a dude she wanted to kill to get out of her head, wasn't quite constructive either.
"Hey, um, guys?" She hopped onto her board and glided right into the heart of the crowd, purposely bumping into Alice's heels. "Maybe we should go somewhere that isn't, you know,
in plain sight."
