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Post by Mercado on Mar 27, 2007 20:05:45 GMT -8
Yzal was leaning against the window of one of the many stores in the mall. He wasn't doing anything particularly special, just earning his meal with a little job he did on the side. His sunset orange eyes scanned over the various people of the mall looking for just the right person.
~Naw to young....~
~to old....~
~to broly....~
Suddenly a small twinkle flashed in the boy's eyes as he spied the ideal target. Okay, so petty thievery wasn't the best job a guy could have, but Yzal had to make a living somehow right?
Yzal pushed off the glass and began to close in on his intended target. He planned to quickly scan his mark over, slip his hand in, grab something, which he hoped was valuable, and be out of there in less than a second. As he finally came up behind his target he suddenly felt a weird sensation grip his nose.
~Oh no! Not now!~
The young korean boy quickly shut his eyes as he tried to hold in the exposing sneeze. Yet the tingle was to great for even the sly thief to hold back and the boy could no more stop it, than he could stop the hunger that would always eventually grip his stomach.
"Ahhhhcho!"
~Crap.~
OOC- Hm....very very bad...>_> My apologies!
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Post by reggie on Mar 27, 2007 20:28:51 GMT -8
Reggie had been walking harmlessly down the corridors of the city mall, she was wearing a pair of jeans and a navy blue cardigan with her suede purse hanging down the side of her shoulder. She wasn't looking for anything specific, she was just wandering, and that's when it happened...
Someone had their hands snagging at the ends of her purse, trying to open it, was it a thief? As the light-haired girl began to turn around to interpret what was happening, the unthinkable did: "Ahhhhcho!"
Not... again...
And alas, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado the blonde began to slap herself on the head in different angles and quickly with the palm of her hand. Something you probably would have expected her to do to what appeared to be a miserable pickpocket, but no, it was herself that she landed three swift blows onto and straight in the face as well. As roses began to blossom on her milky white cheeks, through the corner of her eye, Reggie began to inspect her surroundings to see if anyone else had witnessed the terrible, terrible moment.
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Post by Mercado on Mar 27, 2007 20:54:04 GMT -8
Yzal stared at the girl with wide eyes as he wondered what in the world just happened. He contemplated running away for a second but then decided against it. He hadn't committed any crime yet right?
Yzal watched as the girl's cheeks lit up as from either the hits she had inflicted on herself or perhaps from the embarrassment of actually doing that in public for no apparent reason. Yzal had a give no/take no policy when it came to pity, but he felt as if he was oddly responsible for what had happened. Maybe she had a mental disorder and when she had realized he was robbing her she had just kind of...lost it.
"Um, are you okay miss?" Yzal tried being polite to the girl thinking it might have cheered her up....maybe. Hey! Just cause the guy was a pickpocket-er didn't mean he was crude. It only meant that he was down on his luck....that or extremely lazy. Sadly...he's the latter.
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Post by reggie on Mar 27, 2007 22:12:54 GMT -8
"Um, are you okay miss?"
It came too soon... the reality came too soon, the reality that someone had seen her came way-way too soon! Reggie wasn't certain of where the pickpocket had gone, or even if the boy whom had encountered her after the little ... accident had occured, was the thief himself! But she would assume that it wasn't. That would spare her enough time to start running, and she would if anyone started laughing...
She heard no laughing, probably a distant giggle here or there, but thankfully it seemed no one had really noticed.
"Yes... I'm sorry, it's just the sneeze..you... nevermind."
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Post by Mercado on Mar 28, 2007 21:01:34 GMT -8
~The sneeze? And me..?~ So Yzal did have something to do with the girl's unusual actions.
~Crap...guilty...conscious....is...kicking in.....~
Yzal ran a hand through his hair as he quickly sighed before looking back at the girl.
"Hey, look um... sorry i uhh...indirectly hurt you..." Yzal said while thinking back where moments ago the girl literally slapped herself silly. "...is there anyway i could make it up to you?" Spoke the orange eyed boy with a slightly raised eyebrow.
He felt slightly responsible for what had happened. The keyword being slightly. He actually blamed his stomach. If it hadn't been hungry then none of this would have happened!
*growl.....*
Yzal looked down as his stomach angrily reminded him that he could hear him. Yzal's face dropped as he put a hand on his stomach, sadly remembering that he still needed to eat.
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Post by reggie on Mar 29, 2007 16:05:56 GMT -8
"No. That's alright, you really had nothing to do with it. I just... do that sometimes.. all the time.. when people sneeze- it really wasn't your fault."
The blonde explained. Yup, all calm and cool and everything, she was for the most part just trying to be rid of the boy's company so she could get on with what she was doing and soon enough take her mind off the whole thing. She would probably report the pickpocket once receiving some sort of reassurance that there was indeed one and she hadn't just been imaging the entire incident to the mall security, shop a bit if she had to, and go home.
That was the perfect plan for the day! Oh, but then the unthinkable happened. An empty whining coming from the very pits of someone's own stomach. It wasn't her, she had had a relatively good meal for the morning breakfast and was very much content up to now although time was shifting through the late afternoon. It was someone fairly close to her though, for her to be able to hear it...
"... I'm sorry, was that you?"
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Post by Mercado on Mar 29, 2007 16:17:26 GMT -8
"ah.....ya...." Yzal said while rubbing the back of his neck slightly.
~Well this is embarrassing ....~
Yzal had a light grin on his face while he laughed slightly in front of the girl. Yea...social interactions weren't really his forte.
"Sorry." He said apologizing quickly and performing a small bow.
Suddenly a all to familiar small tingle gripped Yzal's nose.
~Oh no! Not again!~
"Ahhh.....ahhh....."
~aww man...its gonna be a big one. What the hell...i don't even have a cold! Maybe someone's talking about me somewhere?~ Thought the orange eyed boy as he braced himself for the unwanted sneeze.
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Post by reggie on Mar 29, 2007 16:49:43 GMT -8
"ah.....ya...."
"Well maybe I can help. There's like a food court just down the hall if you-"
Again, the worst struck as the boy experienced yet another episode of horrible sneezing. It wasn't as horrible for him as it was for her though, as Reggie began to reactively throw slaps at her own face. One landed, but sooner then later the blonde begun attempting to dodge the mindless attacks - for the first time in a long time. Routienely, when this happened she would slap herself three times, when another blow landed on the side of her face Reggie counted two out of that three. If she could just avoid the last one, that would save her so much more pain...
*Whap!*
So much for that. Her cheeks were even redder now, partly because of her embarrasment but mostly because of the reoccuring blows. She rubbed her cheek, twitching slightly after the contact of the sleeve and her sensitive skin. With the little bits of pity that she still had for the boy, even after her realization that staying around him would most likely only bring on more sneezes and yet again more misfortunes for herself, she ignored the previous moment of deja-vu and continued where she had left off on her speech.
"-wouldn't mind grabbing lunch with a stranger..?"
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Post by Mercado on Mar 29, 2007 17:01:21 GMT -8
Yzal shook his head around, trying to clear it before looking at the girl again. When he opened his eyes again, he saw the girl doing what she had done previously.
~Is she okay......i mean really.....?~
Yzal thought about trying to stop her from hitting herself, but that would probably result in her kicking his ass. And Yzal getting his ass kicked wasn't how he had planned his day. Actually, his day wasn't going anywhere near according to his plan. He was supposed to be enjoying a warm lunch by now!
"Well my name's Yzal by the way. So there we aren't strangers anymore. And as for lunch, ya...I'd enjoy that." Said the boy while grinning optimistically.
The grin quickly faded however as it was replaced with a more serious look as he looked into the girl's greenish blue eyes. "Are you sure your okay though? Because if your allergic to me or something i don't want you to be hurting yourself."
~I knew i shouldn't have gotten that complementary cologne sprayed on me today!~
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Post by reggie on Mar 29, 2007 20:15:46 GMT -8
"Well my name's Yzal by the way. So there we aren't strangers anymore. And as for lunch, ya...I'd enjoy that."
"Reggie Clifford, it's really nice to meet you." Reggie smiled, glad that the boy had been open enough to agree to what might have come off on some people as charity. When the boy asked the blonde if she was certain about her health, she nodded her head without any doubt. She was positive. There was nothing physically, mentally, spiritually or in any other way wrong with her.
"No, it's not allergies and really, people sneeze around me so much that I've gotten used to this. They're really just love taps anyway, I don't hurt myself all that much."
She reassured him by not loosing her friendly demeanor, if only he could feel the devastating pain that was soaring through her cheeks right now!
"Don't worry about me - I assure you, I'm not mentally-challenged and I won't attack you for... burping or anything. Come on, the food court is down here."
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Post by Mercado on Mar 30, 2007 15:49:18 GMT -8
"Likewise! The feeling is mutual!" Said the boy as his classic smile returned to his face.
"No, it's not allergies and really, people sneeze around me so much that I've gotten used to this. They're really just love taps anyway, I don't hurt myself all that much."
~Well thats different....but the way her cheeks are glowing....i wonder...~
"Don't worry about me - I assure you, I'm not mentally-challenged and I won't attack you for... burping or anything. Come on, the food court is down here."
Yzal's thought sequence stopped abruptly as he turned to look at the girl chuckling slightly.
~So she's got a sense of humor too....nice!~
Yzal didn't really want to eat lunch with someone who brought down his mood. He could find that atmosphere anywhere at his high school. Lunch was his grace period where he preferred to enjoy his food.
"Sure!" Replied Yzal as he walked next to the girl.
"So whats a cute girl like yourself wandering alone? Ya know, this isnt the safest place around." Said the orange eyed boy casually as he remembered he had tried to (soughta) mug the girl a few moments before. If only he hadn't sneezed! Then again....it wasn't as if he regretted it. However, He wondered how this day would turn out.
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Post by reggie on Mar 30, 2007 22:21:20 GMT -8
"Yep, just follow me."
Before long, Regige found herself leading the boy down the mall corridor past a couple of signs, a small crowd, and the constant rows of retailer departments where unhappy people sat behind counters contemplating when their next customer would arrive to where the food court was. A little further along the way her eye caught a man walking around with a radio on his belt and a set of keys, security was spelt in small letters across his jacket and as they passed him by she wondered whether or not her decision to forget about the thief of which she thought she had encountered and take this newly met boy to lunch was the wisest of choices that she had made.
Oh well, too late now.
The food court was practically in an eye's range now, Reggie crossed over to the other side of the court and walked toward a pizza hut where they could grab a simple bite. At the boy's next comment, Reggie couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
"What's so unsafe? It's a mall..." she began to chuckle a bit, just to ease her nerves. She hadn't become well acquainted with her new hometown just yet, was there some sort of violence increase in the state of California or something? Was there something wrong with walking around a mall alone when there were cameras and security guards waiting around practically every corner?
Maybe he is just trying to make conversation...
She thought to herself as she began to pull her wallet out of her purse, taking out a couple of bills as she said casually, "A medium pizza, two toppings, mushroom and pepporoni, please." And placed the required amount upon the countertop, "With a..." she glanced over to Yzal to see if he would speak up to order his drink, but then decided to go ahead and order for him, "... Root beer, please. Thank you."
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Post by Mercado on Mar 30, 2007 23:11:12 GMT -8
"Well, i saw that guy mugging you. I was just about to stop him when i sneezed and that kinda startled him.... and you. But ya...mall's are the prime hunting grounds for quick people like that. " Spoke the boy casually in response. Yzal looked at the Pizza hut they were heading too and smiled slightly to him.
~Ahh pizza...is there anything thou aren't good for?~ Pizza was perfect for any occasion! Birthdays, dinner, lunch, hey even breakfast in some cases. Yzal stood beside the girl as she told the person behind the counter her order. Yzal didn't mind that the girl had picked his drink. He actually liked Root Beer.
"So what High school are you attending Reggie?" Asked the boy as he leaned his back against the counter. "I myself, just so ya know, am a freshmen attending the infamous 259. The school that results in daily boo boos and owies. Yup 'that' school.
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Post by reggie on Mar 31, 2007 11:03:03 GMT -8
"Oh you did? I was thinking about reporting him to mall security, I guess I'll let it pass though. Thanks for scaring him off, kinda..."
The blonde girl expressed her sincerity with a smile of appreciation. Some pizzas were already prepared at the small restaurant so it wasn't long until their's was brought back to the counter and given to them in a square-shaped box of which held the infamous red and black rooftop logo and several little letters of which spelt out the brand name.
The root beer was quicker on it's way, and when given, Reggie let Yzal take it since her hands were now sort of preoccupied due to the light weight pizza pie floating inside it's realm. She spotted a table on the sidelines of the food court and immediately entitled it hers.
"Oh, um..." Now that a table was considered, Reggie put down her purse and the pizza and took a seat, she would answer the boy's previous question of which he had asked back at the counter in a calm voice although to be entirely honest, all the information he had to give on the cons of the city weren't exactly making her feel too hot.
Well beggars can't be choosers.
"Really? You don't say... I'm kinda attending that school myself, I haven't exactly had the misfortune of witnessing anything too out of place there-- yet."
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Post by Mercado on Mar 31, 2007 11:27:10 GMT -8
"Ah no problem." Grinned Yzal as he grabbed the drinks as he followed the girl to the table.
It wasn't exactly the easiest thing holding a conversation with the girl. Besides the fact that her name was Reggie, Yzal didn't know a single detail about the girl.
"Oh, um..."
~Hm?~ Yzal thought as he turned his head toward the girl while he sat down in front of her.
"Really? You don't say... I'm kinda attending that school myself, I haven't exactly had the misfortune of witnessing anything too out of place there-- yet."
~Wow...your lucky then....~
"Well, just look out for yourself in all seriousness kay?" Yzal said in a lower tone then usual. "Anyway! Lets enjoy this pizza!" Said the boy whose tone of voice returned to normal. Yzal opened up the pizza box that held the oh so delicious pizza, and took a slice out, placing it on one of the paper plates that came with the pizza.
The boy took quick bite out of the hot pizza before releasing the all too often used expression of pleasure.
"MmmmmmmmMMMmmm......"
"So ya, you never said so, but mind if i ask what are ya looking for here?" By that question Yzal meant why was she at the mall. He was semi-curious, but didn't mind if the girl said it was none of his business.
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