Soft Words

[Aurora]

Her first day. The young girl's fingers tightened into balled fists, but not in determination... she was scared. A new school, new people, not a single one that she knew! Her throat tightened, and she squeezed her dark eyes shut. Maybe this all was just a dream....

And yet when those same large eyes opened...it wasn't. Aurora took a deep breath and tried to calm her nerves. Her pale hands smoothed down the plaid skirt she was wearing. The blue and black fabric looked good against her black leggings and flat black shoes. She wore a black long sleeved dress shirt, the collar and sleeves decorated with a bit of lace. Her white purse was carefuly strapped on her shoulder. No backpack for today. At least for the moment.

Instead, Aurora began to walk out toward the school. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad right? Surely this could be a school full of nice people...but the rumors...well...they suggested otherwise...thus was she was so afraid.

Aurora took her first step in and looked around quietly. Maybe no one would even see her... The red head stepped toward the walls and tried to make her way around the odd crowd gathering for the start of the school day.

[ghiste]

"G, get the hell out of my way god dammit!"

Pushing his way out of the crowd, Ghiste found himself falling on his shoe lace, and found his face going on a full force collision to the ground! Face plant! You see, the crowd was based off a bunch of people watching two people exchanging words together, and what looked like to soon be a started violence. Not wanting any part of being in the group, Ghiste was trying to get out, where we see him now, falling to meet the ground, face first!

That was when Ghiste caught himself on both hands, and then did a magical flip where he could then fly around in the air on rockets and save himself from embarrassing himself!...

YEAH RIGHT!

BAM! Ghiste fell hard against the ground, but luckily everyone's attention was focused on the guys in the middle of the crowd. It seemed Ghiste fell right in front of a red hair girl to.

"God dammit, I should just lay here and die, this is so embarrassing!"

Ghiste said as he slowly began to push himself up, his body aching from the collision. When he made his way to his feet, his eyes moved to see the red hair girl, acknowledging her for the first time as he then let out an awkward laugh.

"Heh... heh... sorry about that!"

[Aurora]

A fight. Wasn't that just the greatest thing ever for Aurora to run into? Her dark eyes had been wide, and the pale girl had been hugging her purse to herself.

Did she want anyone in that group to notice her? NO! NO! NO! So when a boy landed on the ground in front of her she almost screamed. Mostly out of shock and suprise.

But...he seemed..friendly. Friendly enough to be friendly back to.

"I-it's alright. Everyone trips...right?"

Her voice was soft and quiet...one could almost not hear it in the crowd's noise. But that was just the red head. She tried to put a smile on her face, but it came out very weak as she looked at the crowd.

[ghiste]

"What did she say? Something about me being alright? Alright only!? What!? We all know I'm 'hawt'!"

Beginning to brush his clothes off to get them all nice and neat looking again, he looked back over at the crowd for a few seconds seeing that she seemed to be interested. Either that, or Ghiste was really bad at telling what people wanted with non verbal communication, he hasn't been able to make that out yet! Waiting a few seconds, Ghiste decided to be more friendly, she seemed like more of the nervous kind, so Ghiste decided he would try to remain kind to her, it's the least he could do after popping up and falling down out of no where, right?

"Right, thanks for uhh... understanding!"

And so Ghiste smiled, alright he didn't know what to say because he barely heard what she said before! What can I say, I'm not Ghiste, just the guy who says what he does!

[Aurora]

"Your welcome then."

There, a better smile worked it's way onto her face. This guy seemed nice. At least nicer than the ones in the crowd. Aurora still felt a little edgy being this close to them.

"I-I'm sorry, just a bit nervous. It's my first day here..."

She clutched at her purse once more before making herself let it swing back into place. Aurora shouldn't let her fear hold her back. Instead she smoothed her skirt down. Nervous habits all in one. Just like her tucking a few strands of red hair behind her ear.

"Oh! I'm sorry! My name is Aurora Nevin." She held out her hand to shake his. So what if it was shaking slightly. The red head was nervous about the crowd!!!

[ghiste]

Moving back a step seeing she was a bit nervous by what she was doing, and giving her more space he listened to what she said. He made sure to listen a bit better this time, so that way he could hear everything that she was saying. She even said she was nervous, well what do you know!? Ghiste gave a confident smile to show that he understood, and when she introduced herself, he put out his hand to shake hers. A good firm hand shake, nothing stupid or anything.

"Roy Jacobs, they call me Ghiste though... Hey, do you need any help with anything?"

It was only polite to ask, it sucked when Ghiste was first here because he came on the day school opened, so there was nobody at all that could help him! Well, teachers could, but they were scary people to talk to at this place. Fear the adults, or get thrown out a window, that's how Ghiste was raised here!

[Aurora]

He was offering to help her? That was really nice! Her eyes softened and Aurora stopped fixing her clothing. Maybe she could just relax around him!

"I need to get my class list, and locker and such... Do you know where the main office is?"

Her voice was still soft, but maybe not as quiet. Aurora tended to speak more "normal" when she relaxed. The volume of her voice being controlled by her level of nervousness.

"It's nice to meet you... Ghiste." Odd nickname, maybe there was a reason behind it! But it wouldn't be right to ask after just meeting him. Aurora just kept quiet, and waited for an answer.

[ghiste]

"Yeah, it's in building one, since we're in building 3 (I'm assuming), we will need to go back, through the school court yard, and to the next building, it should be easy to figure out after that. I'll stick with you though if you need help finding your locker and stuff."

Yes, Ghiste was pretty much an index of the school after going around it so much with random people talking to them. People found Ghiste to be a talkative guy, and he usually knew how to act around people, but that wasn't the important thing right now. Ghiste's main focus was on the girl, to help her out the best he could, we aren't saying perverted focus, just a good focus as he kept that light hearted smile, and willing to help as long as it was reasonable.

"It's nice to meet you too, Aurora."

[Aurora]

"Thanks...let's head to building one then!"

Aurora smiled and turned, glad to be going AWAY from the crowd. Shouting, yelling, cheering. It all just made her nervous. The girl stepped outside, feeling better already.

What had he said? Across the courtyard? Or something to that degree right?

Aurora turned to look at him, dark hazel eyes questioning even as she began to speak. She couldn't control that, it just happened naturaly with her. Her words tended to speak themselves through her eyes first.

"Where was it again...Ghiste? Sorry..."

[ghiste]

Pointing ahead at a building across the court yard, which was also known as building 1 of 4, Ghiste just kept that smile as he gave a weak wave to tell her to follow before moving ahead along his way to the building. He put both hands into the pockets of his black leather jacket, and he began to speak about the whole school thing so she might get everything a bit easier.

"The school is based off of four buildings. Building 1, 2, 3, and 4, we are going to building 1, we just came out of building 3. The court yard is the middle of the whole thing, and with as many students that go here, I'm not surprised this place is so big."

Continuing along his way while he said that, he hoped she understood everything that was going on. It was up to her rather she followed behind or beside him. If she chose to stand beside him, then he would keep partial eye contact toward her to be respectful.

[Aurora]

Aurora walked forward with him, keeping pace. The girl listened while he spoke, taking everything in. She made mental notes to make sure she wouldn't loose her way again.

"Right! Courtyard in the middle, four buildings. We just came out of three and we're going to one! Then that makes that two...or four...and that one the other one right?"

She pointed to the others, a smile on her face. This place wasn't so scary with someone explaining everything to her. Ghiste really was nice to show her around. Maybe she should tell him!

"But...really...Thanks Ghiste. It doesn't seem so scary with some one helping me." She let out an embarassed chuckle, and a sheepish smile.

[ghiste]

"No problem. So... what was the reason as to why you had to attend here anyways?"

Ghiste asked with a curious voice, if she didn't want to talk about it, that was cool. Ghiste was well aware there were people out there who came here for the wrong reasons. If she didn't want to tell him, Ghiste wouldn't push, but it was nice to try and get to know the girl, right? He wanted to make her feel comfortable as possible around him, that way she could at least say she had one friend, everyone needed one after all! They were about half way to the building, so after this question they would most likely be inside the air conditioned building yet once again!

[Aurora]

"No problem. So... what was the reason as to why you had to attend here anyways?"

What to say? What to say to all that? Explain it all, or just come up with something that was still the truth without all the pain? Aurora's shoulder's slumped a little...thinking on it all. It was a slightly depressing thought process for the tiny girl.

"My step-father... he has two kids. And when he married my mother... he didn't want the child of another man living in the same house. So... I was sent away to another part of the state. I moved into this apartment with this guy... he's really nice as well. It's no problem...but this just ment I had to go to this school. It was the closest one."

She added a smile on at the end. Was it real? No. Aurora still hated the way her step father had come in and shoved her out. But...her mother had needed to remarry. Things hadn't been working out. At least now everyong was eating and having clothes. What needed to be done, had been done.

[ghiste]

"I see... Well, I hope things turn around for you!"

Ghiste wasn't here to dwell on things that brought sorrow inside the hearts of people. It just wasn't fun to grieve all the time, sure, Ghiste has had conflicts as well, everyone has, but he tried to let them all past him, all the past did was make the man of the present, no need to regret, even if things weren't your fault! Of course, not the best logic, but it was the logic of Ghiste's, what can I say? Keeping that smile he opened the door at building one, and then waited for Aurora to pass him up.

"We're almost there."

[Aurora]

"Right!"

Aurora walked into the new building, smiling at Ghiste for holding the door open for her. She looked around. More people. More people she didn't know. The red head felt nervous about it all of a sudden. She grabbed onto her purse again, holding it to her.

She bit her bottom lip and stopped walking. So many people she didn't know... and it made her heart race. What would they think of her? What would she do? Aurora felt like walking along the lockers...blending into them or something. But her knees were locked. It was hard to even move to the wall. Her throat felt tight and she didn't want to move or cause anyone to look over. What to do?