Crash
Crash shrugged his shoulders his cheeks tinting at her question. “Yes, it’s a little hard to forget” He murmured. Crash adopted a sulky expression at her words about Mercy, he wasn’t sure he liked the idea of Kathy and Mercy joining forces...he knew it would not end well for him. “Of course you do” He murmured, already grimacing at the idea. This is not going to be good...I’ll have to think up counter measures, yeah a good defense... Whilst Crash was wondering how to cope with the combined forces of Mercy and Kathy as well as how to apologize again to Nikola about his previous digressions without bringing them up again –an impossible task- he didn’t see Kathy glance at him quizzically.
Having adopted a new thought process and taken Nikola’s introduction in a completely logical way he was surprised when Kathy started waving her arms about in front of her, apparently in complete denial over something. What? You just greeted him how can you deny you know him now? His perplexed expression maintained dominance over his face as he watched Kathy go a very impressive shade of red, he wasn’t sure what she was thinking as she glanced at him, so he lifted his hands palm up in a questioning motion. “Ah! What are you-“ He exclaimed as she audibly thunked her head down on the counter before wrapping her arms around herself protectively. Damn that must have hurt...Why is she so flustered?!
Crash by all means wasn’t stupid, he actually had a pretty high IQ but apparently this only seemed to be in effect in a classroom and when it came to social situations he was a complete plank. Worry etched its way into his eyes as he frowned at Kathy, he felt himself look at Nikola questioningly, as if the teacher could instruct him on the inner workings of Kathy and shed some kind of light on the current situation.
Crash –bless him- had not put the sentence into that context, though it may have passed his mind he had buried the idea as quickly as it had arisen as was the trend with his fast paced thoughts, things like this got buried. The word ‘engaged’ to him meant many things all to do with ‘engaging in’ so Nikola’s sentence had read somewhat like this in his mind "It is not that rare to see engaged students entering the bar” Engaged students as in students Nikola had engaged with previously, interacted with before now...this logical answer had imprinted itself quite firmly in his mind and was stubbornly denying the teacher had meant anything else by it thus his confusion.
He was frowning when he felt something tug at the bottom of his shirt, he glanced down to see Kathy’s hand gripping the fabric tightly, causing him to lift his gaze to her face well her arms, a level of concern apparent in his expression. “... Aren’t you going to deny it…? Please don’t tell me that I’m hearing things…” He looked a little puzzled, though he automatically wanted to deny the it just to calm her down. “I erm...well su-“ He started though he paused as he heard an unfamiliar voice say.
“Do a fair amount of students get engaged during school now or something?”
Engaged?...Wait! Engaged?! As in marriage engaged?! Crash looked at Nikola running over what the man had just said a few more times, after hearing the previous comment no amount of will power could prevent him from coming to the same conclusion. Did he just...did she think...WHAT?! Crash’s mouth dropped open for a moment a new level of shock spreading across his features. Now it was his turn to become flustered though he wasn’t quite as animated in the way he did it. He felt his palms grow damp and became painfully aware they were being looked at, he was being scrutinized he could feel it! Maybe it was because he hadn’t denied it. But how could he deny it now?
"I didn't think...so...but engaged or not, they do look great together, don't you think?"
Crash lifted a hand to his eyes covering them from view, his blush spreading from his flustered cheeks down to color back of his neck he really wished he hadn’t heard that conversation...in fact what he really wished was for The Doctor to appear in the Tardis and offer him a lift back in time or anywhere away from this situation...but there was probably more chance of Nikola doing the ‘Robot’ than that happening...
He was sure steam was rising off of his face considering the heat that was rising from it, he wasn't sure he could cope with this much blood flowing around his head he could hear his own pulse hammering in his ears. “OK lets rewind this a bit” He finally said, trying to keep his pitch even though his usually deep tone was obviously strained “We are not engaged, big misunderstanding” Crash told Nikola though his voice was very hushed he had said it loud enough that Carmen and her friend (Ara) could hear him thus clearing up their misconception of the situation.
He turned to Kathy looking extremely apologetic, well as much as he could considering his face was the same color as his hair. If I suffer any more embarrassment I’m going to shift... “L-look I’m sorry I didn’t even think about it...well I did...m-maybe a little not a lot though” Crash stuttered, though he was so jumbled it took him a moment to become aware of how his words could be taken. Ah! Could that be taken the wrong way? BACKTRACK, BACKTRACK! “Not about that! I didn’t mean erm...I just-” Crash blurted out, though he wasn't helping the situation at all, biting his tongue he ran a hand down his face trying to hide the grim expression he was currently sporting as he shook his head.What am I trying to say? Pull yourself together you knub
Forcing himself to stop for a moment and take a deep breath, he touched the back of his neck resting his palm there as he offered her an apology –because that was his answer to most things-“...I’m sorry...” he glanced over at Kathy briefly, some part of him was hoping that Nikola would take pity and put rum or something in those Fruit Loops...not that a small amount of alcohol could solve this. “I thought Lovelock meant ‘engaged’ as in previously engaged in interaction” He muttered, eyes focusing on the counter in front of him he was avoiding Kathy’s eye for fear of increasing his -and probably her own- nervous disposition.
Mercy
Mercy’s response to being splashed was to squeak in surprise, as she splashed Garden back before she drifted away from her, a smile breaking across her face as Garden dove under the water. She was glad to see her friend was having fun, her eyes lifted as she watched Dendus run towards the pool, she blinked scooting backwards as he leapt into the pool causing a wave to splash out onto the side, as well as causing ripples to lap across the surface of the water splashing her in the face as she retreated to the edge of the pool noticing another girl hop into the pool wearing a rather revealing swimsuit, she felt her eyebrows rise in surprise before she shook her head and averted her gaze in embarrassment. Watching Garden splash around happily brought another smile to Mercy’s face, she laughed as her friend surfaced speaking with a gleeful tone as she pulled her hair off of her face. She glanced over her shoulder to see whether Darwin was going to join them, at that particular moment he was sprinting towards the pool.
“Oh sugar honey ice-“ Mercy inhaled a lungful of air before she plunged under the water watching Darwin fly over her head and plummet into the pool not far from her, she kicked her legs drifting back to the surface breaking through the water a few moments before the unicorn, pushing her hair off of her face she rolled her eyes at Darwin as he complained the water hurt him. “It was quite a jump” Mercy shrugged at him, paddling over to the side she pulled herself out with ease, perching herself on the side of the pool with just her lower legs submerged in the water. "Hmm you know what's needed now an inflatable beach ball and a net..." She grinned at Darwin and Garden.
