[img]http://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjg4LmQ1MjA0Mi5SMmx5YkNCVVlXeHJJUSwsLjA,/endless-heartache.regular.png[/img] [img]https://49.media.tumblr.com/91c5dc97cab62e25bd723c159faa75e2/tumblr_nnsfwn2jDp1qgn6muo1_500.gif[/img] [img]http://static.tumblr.com/f480a7fdec7cb4b4c838583801811aa0/ab1ybei/aW0mhigrr/tumblr_static_waving.gif[/img] Location: Wilcox Lodge Interacting with: Each other (Nina and Tessa), Austin [@Wade Wilson], Ash [@Undine] [hr][hr] Tessa took a few steps toward the fire that Everett had apparently built. It looked fairly awesome. [color=cd9575]“Okay this might not be awful.”[/color] She said outloud to Austin. She looked around for Mal, but didn’t see him immediately. She did see Nina though, sitting with Ashton, Tessa gave her a wave. Nina leaned over to Ashton and seemed to say something before getting up and walking over to Tessa and Austin. [color=d86c00]”Hey Austin, hey Tess. How are you doing?”[/color] [color=cd9575]“I’m doing well.”[/color] Tessa was smiling, and had a bit of red spreading on her face. [color=D79100]”Hey, Ashy! I’m doing alright.”[/color] He nudged Tess with a smile, before disappearing into the crowds with a childish grin, whispering, [color=D79100]”Ninja vanish!”[/color] [color=cd9575]“You wanna talk?”[/color] Tessa asked, nodding away from the rest of the masses. Nina nodded. [color=d86c00]”Yeah, sounds good. I know a spot in the woods that’s good for this sorta thing.”[/color] She turned and looked at Tess before heading towards the woods. [color=cd9575]“Today has been weird hasn’t it.”[/color] Tessa said as they walked further into the woods. [color=d86c00]”You’re telling me. You didn’t… see anything did you?”[/color] Nina sounded a bit worried for a moment. [color=cd9575]“No I didn’t. Despite my gran’s best efforts.”[/color] Tessa shook her head remembering how loud her grandma had been playing the news. [color=d86c00]”Oh thank god for that then… Sooo you and Austin huh? Saw you arrived together. You are going to tell me everything, now.”[/color] Nina stopped walking and turned to look at Tess, with what looked like curiosity written all over her face. [color=cd9575]“Yeah Austin and me.”[/color] Tessa blushed again, and held her hands against her cheeks to cool the heat burning through them. [color=cd9575]“Well we’ve been friends for a while, since he moved here almost. Play video games and such together. Today I asked him to Simone’s and well... I don’t know it just kind of happened. I went to kiss his cheek and accidently kissed his lips and then we went back to my house and played Splatoon.”[/color] She gave a shrug. [color=cd9575]“He’s sweet and he doesn’t look at me like... Like I’m the lesser choice.”[/color] Nina seemed to bounce a bit as Tessa talked and let out a small squeak. [color=d86c00]”Oh my gosh I’m so happy for you! I’ll admit I haven’t really had the chance to talk to him, but he seems nice. And you look happy too, and very red. It’s kinda cute. I gotta ask though, does he… y’know… have some talent like we do now?”[/color] [color=cd9575]“Yeah he does, he can run at super speeds. It’s not easy on him, but he finds it great.”[/color] Tessa grinned at Nina. Her face was hurting from all the smiling she had done in the last few days. All together it was more smiling than she had done in well over a year. It was nice. [color=d86c00]”So he’s like Quicksilver. That’s pretty cool. I mean, it seems like almost everyone I’ve talked to in the last few days got something.”[/color] [color=cd9575]“I think he’d prefer Barry Allen, the Flash, over Quicksilver. Yeah, it’s crazy. I don’t know if we’ll be able to keep it under wraps if everyone got a power. How hilarious is it though, small town Washington suddenly full of people with superpowers. I was going to say superheroes, but clearly not all with powers are heroes. It’s also a bit scary. We don’t know who has what. I mean we only know a handful of the people who were in the astronomy meeting had powers.”[/color] Tessa shook her head, her smile gone now, it had been replaced by a fearful look. [color=cd9575]“And to think someone could be using their powers to... kill.”[/color] Nina’s smile disappeared as Tessa switched the subject, and she bit her lip. Her hand reached into a pocket, and she pulled out what looked to be a lighter and started flipping it over in her hands. [color=d86c00]”I really hope not, because that would be just sick. We went through enough last time and… I can’t do it. Not again. I’ve been saying that pretty much all day. I mean, when I saw what happened to Rachel, I just froze up. I don’t even remember getting back to my house. Apparently Everett dragged me off and brought Petyr with. We’re kinda crashing here tonight since Otec is out of town… but he’ll be coming home once he hears about it, I’m sure.”[/color] Tessa was nodding along as Nina spoke, until she got to the part about Everett, then she frowned. [color=cd9575]“You know my place is always open for you too.”[/color] Tessa couldn’t be sure Nina would take the offer, especially with how distant they had become... how distant she had been recently. [color=cd9575]“I can’t do it either to be honest. I wish I could just leave this damn town.”[/color] Tessa wrapped her arms around herself. She watched Nina flick the lighter, of course she would carry a lighter, she needed a source of fire. It made Tessa wish she had a more offensive power. [color=d86c00]”I’ll keep that in mind. Bratr isn’t exactly happy to be here. Says Everett is a loose cannon, and… I might be inclined to agree. I just, don’t know anymore. Everything is so confusing Tess. Between yesterday and today it feels like the world keeps getting tossed upside down.”[/color] Nina leaned up against a tree a little and seemed to pause in thought. [color=d86c00]”I was talking with Ash earlier and what I said then is still how I think now. Kinda wish we could go back to Sunday when everything made sense.”[/color] Tessa nodded. [color=cd9575]“Me too.”[/color] How could she tell Nina about the conversation she had had with Everett, and who was she to judge people on being unstable, god knew she was well practiced at being unstable. Maybe she’d let her ‘me too’ hang in the air between them unplaced in what Tessa was agreeing with. She’d let Nina decide what she was agreeing with. [color=cd9575]“I’ll be honest. I’m scared.”[/color] [color=d86c00]”Same here. But we can’t just up and leave this place, now can we?”[/color] Nina flipped the lighter more in her hand a bit and let out a sigh. [color=d86c00]”At least we’re talking again, so that’s a good thing, right?”[/color] [color=cd9575]“Best thing to come out of this mess.”[/color] Tessa smiled. [color=cd9575]“Sorry for being such an ass.”[/color] [color=d86c00]”Hey, I understand. Too many reminders yeah? But I still need my bestie at times, so don’t do that again, okay?”[/color] [color=cd9575]“Promise.”[/color] Tessa held out her pinky finger. Nina hooked her own pinky finger with Tessa and then shook it. [color=d86c00]”Promise.”[/color] Tessa and Nina turned and started back toward the party.