[u][b]Luke Schwarz--Suddenly Popular?![/b][/u]

Catching the girl running up to him as he opened a dialogue with BL--

[i]Heh.[/i]

--Luke, in spite of himself, still found his eyes slightly widening for a brief moment at the sudden pincer attack on his attention. But, like any good budding social person, the period of surprise vanished just as quickly as it had came, and he spun upon his heel to face the trio, now backpedaling and somehow managing to not trip over anything.

A skill borne of practice, since as it turns out, once it becomes known that you've opened up in senior year after spending all of high school an enigma, people had a way of getting curious about you and asking things in [i]droves[/i].

[i]Seriously, I shouldn't have been [u]that[/u] much of an oddity...[/i]

[b]"Yeah, and it was pretty crazy."[/b] he said with a weary laugh, blissfully unaware of how myopic his self-assessment of one year ago was. [b]"I still can't believe he blew us [i]both[/i] up. Figured I could go to work from side control, but that shows what I know about trying to fight like a normal person against someone training to be a hunter, huh?"[/b]

He scratched the back of his head, where there may have still been a sneaky little flake of dried blood that he'd missed.

[b]"To tell the truth, he ended up shutting me down pretty cleanly aside from that. I've a lot of work to do even after getting in here by the skin of my teeth..."[/b]