I was just looking, I swear! {Mathias}

[lilizwingli]

When one is confused as to where they should go, or where they should be, they normally ask a nearby person, superior, or a friend. If they don't have someone to ask, they should have a map to consult, or maybe a cell phone to use for calling said person/superior/friend.
Unfortunately, there was not a soul in the long hallway. There was no one to ask for directions or help besides a few paintings on the wall, which were not talkative objects. And the suitcase gripped in her fingers did not hold a map, and her cellphone needed charging.

In short terms, Leonie was very, very lost.

To be frank, she expected at least one person to be wandering about, maybe as lost as she was. It was terribly lonely standing by herself in a hall that was so large in comparison to her, she almost feared she was going to be gobbled up by the walls and carpet. Her papers were buried somewhere in her suitcase, which would probably explode with her belongings if she were to open it, and Lili didn't quite fancy the idea of having her shirts and stuffed animals strewn about the rug.

She continued walking, swinging her suitcase back and forth slightly as she stepped along. Passing doors, she read the numbers and tried to remember what room she belonged to.

103? That didn't click in her head, and Lili moved on.
102? Didn't sound right either.
101? It sounded familiar, but all she could remember it from was the cute cartoon 101 Dalmatians, so she continued.

The girl stopped in front of 100. The shiny numbers looked inviting and it sounded like a good number, and she set down her suitcase in front of the doorway, reaching out and twisting the doorknob to let herself in. The room appeared to not have anyone inside, which was unfortunate, because she would have loved to meet her roommates. She carefully tiptoed across the floor and into the bedroom, where four beds sat unoccupied. Her roommates' own things were already set in place, it appeared.

Lili couldn't deny the fact that as she looked at all their stuff, she wanted to look a little closer.
It wouldn't be an invasion of privacy if she just looked at the things that were already set out, would it? No, of course not. They would expect their things to be looked at if they left them in the open, of course, and her roommates wouldn't mind, considering they would be sharing a room anyway.

She silently moved to the first bed, peeking at the bed covers and pillows, which seemed to be decorated in red and black. The two colors looked well together, despite the fact the bed was unmade and the pillow lied at an angle not aligned with the bed.
It practically screamed to be tidied up.

Lili pulled the covers into place, smoothing out wrinkles in the blanket, and reached to put the pillow back when she discovered a small, brown leg of an animal jutting out from underneath.
Tugging it out from the pillow, she found it to be an old stuffed animal, a moose. And it was so...
Cute.

Her mouth turned upwards into a smile as she looked over the small animal, all the while wondering who would be keeping a stuffed animal under their pillow. Most likely is was one of the younger students, she concluded, tucking a lock of blond hair behind her ear before setting it down to rest on top of the pillow.
Maybe this school wasn't as frightening as she thought it out to be.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Today had been a rather good day for Mathias. No one had messed with him, or made fun of him, and he managed to actually scrounge up some money for something other than a cheese sandwich. Which definitely made him beyond happy. The only thing that threw the day off was that he woke up much too late and ended up missing his first class… And the fact that he couldn’t sleep the night before which contributed to his tiredness. So he pretty much went through all of his classes sleepily… but now that classes were over, he’d be able to go right down to his lovely dorm room- room one hundred of course- and take a nice long nap before he thought about maybe doing his homework… okay he probably wasn’t going to do it, but oh well.

On his way to the flat, he stopped by the water fountain to get something to drink, and then he paced towards his room hoping he’d be the first one there so that he’d be able to go to sleep without the others chastising him for not wanting to do his homework and going to sleep instead.

When he pushed open the door to his flat and walked inside, he suddenly decided that he had to use the restroom, so he walked past area where the beds were situated and towards the bathroom, before realizing that a certain blonde individual was sitting on his bed without his permission.

He shuddered a bit before he moved backwards to face his bed, “Lukas you’d better not be looking for your trolls underneath my—“ When he opened his eyes, he realized that this particular blondey wasn’t Lukas. It was in fact, someone he’d never seen before. It was a girl. A really really adorable one at that.

…Although this adorable girl was sitting right next to his moose… which was on top of his pillow. Who put it there, he had no idea. But his bed was now fixed and the girl definitely knew that the little stuffed moose was his. Shoot. People weren’t supposed to know this stuff!

Making a dive for his bed, he quickly scooped up his only toy and shoved it underneath the pillow, before he glanced at the girl, “Ssh! People aren’t supposed to see that! You can’t tell anyone that I keep a stuffed animal! They might think I'm a girly weirdo!"

He seriously wondered what the girl as doing in his dorm anyways. She did seem hopelessly lost… but at the same time, she seemed to fit just nicely in his room… She seemed like such a delicate flower though... so maybe she didn’t quite fit in the room although Kiku was pretty delicate himself… Oh he didn’t know, but either way, all the beds were taken so she definitely didn’t belong in the room.

“Also, are you new here? You must be in the wrong room! Do you need me to help you find your room? I don’t like imagining someone as young and as cute as you are getting lost! There are some real weirdoes running around here!” He plopped down on the bed next to her, feeling his face flush a bit, “I feel bad kicking ya out but…” He scratched the back of his head, then placed his hands in his lap, “But this room is filled up already.”

Although honestly, he would’ve gladly taken her over the non-hugging kids any day. He didn’t like trying to hug someone only to have them duck out of his arms awkwardly or tell him to disappear and bother someone else. In fact it made him feel quite upset. And most people didn’t like with Mathias was upset, because that meant quite a bit of trouble for themselves…

Oh! Mathias never introduced himself to the young lady. How rude he must’ve been seeming! He quickly stuck out his hand, “I’m Mathias! Fancy seeing you here, I’m in the twelfth grade, so if you need anything don’t hesitate to ask.” He could tell that she wasn’t in his grade, so he just started at that, “Also, you may have heard some bad rumors about me… please don’t think too much of thm, they don’t mean anything.”

Yeah… there were some pretty bad rumors about him out there… Mostly involving him beating up any students that he didn’t like, which totally wasn’t true, because he only beat up the kids that pissed him off. And he never beat down on any one who was of the opposite gender… it was just against his beliefs…

Hopefully his negative connotation hadn’t preceded him to this girl… ‘cause it would be a damn shame to find out that she was afraid of him before he’d gotten a chance to make a friend.

....Or she thought he was kind of oversensitive freak for keeping a small stuffed moose under his pillow...

[lilizwingli]

Had Lili payed attention to her surroundings, she might have noticed the sound of someone entering the flat. Had she payed attention, she could've noticed that said person had been walking right past her. But she had just been so profoundly distracted by the adorable little moose she didn't hear a sound, until the older boy made quite the dramatic dive for the mattress, causing her to bounce into the air a few inches. She had the decency to refrain from crying out in surprise, but wasn't able to stop the small squeak she had made, which probably made her sound like a small child. The moose was snatched from sight and shoved back to its home under the pillow, and a spiky haired boy started babbling about how the stuffed animal was a secret, and he might appear girly to 'they', whom she assumed was his peers.

“I-I thought it was cute, sir,” the blonde stuttered out, clutching at her chest as if it would stop her heart from beating so fast at the surprise appearance. “I'm sorry, I v-won't tell anyone, promise.”
He seemed confused by her presence, and her stomach dropped as she realized that she must have gotten the wrong room all together. This certainly was not her day.

“Are you new here?” She nodded quickly the question, beginning to remove herself from his bed, feeling very out of place in this dorm all of a sudden. Probably because you are out of place, her mind chided.

“Ah, I..” Her pride wanted to make her say she didn't need help finding her room, but it had been beaten thouroughly today, so she sighed, “I do.. require help finding my dorm.” Lili tried to ignore the comment he added afterwords, hanging her head and allowing blond strands of hair to cover the blush rising to her cheeks. “N-nein– No, it's fine, I'm sorry for coming in without invitation, I completely understand.”

She jumped back as he stuck his hand out, but looked up to see he wasn't acting as if this were a negative action. She cautiously took his hand, shaking it. “Mathias is a very nice name.” With a smile, she relaxed enough to not be sitting up so straight she appeared to have been electrocuted. “I'm Lili.”

For a twelfth grader, he was extremely nice! She mentally commented, trying to memorize his features so as not to forget him. Her smile dropped from her face when he mentioned rumors. She hated rumors, and had suffered her own share of them back at home, and instantly felt empathetic for Mathias. She had arrived just today, anyway, and hadn't heard any rumors. It was extremely hard for her to even imagine someone so kind to really have bad rumors floating about his reputation. He slept with a cute moose, for Pete's sake, he didn't deserve that kind of treatment.

“I'm sure you're very nice, sir, and I don't believe in rumors anyway!” Lili tried to assure him, ending the handshake and folding her hands in her lap. “A-and I am very sorry for snooping. Your bed was just.. It needed made, and.. Well, that poor moose could've suffocated.. ..N-not that I think a toy is alive or anything.”

She couldn't help but imagine the moose feeling hurt at that comment, but quickly brushed such an immature thought away. It was time to grow up, and she was with older kids now, fitting in was priority.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Mathias felt his eyes widen, and he leaned forward a bit to stare directly at Lili, “Not cute!” He placed his finger on her nose, and flashed her one of his stereotypical Mathias grins, “He’s a buff little moose and he’ll have your head for calling him cute!” He let out a loud laugh and pulled his finger away, “But he does enjoy visitors since he doesn’t get out much… so thank you for visiting him. But still don’t tell anyone about him.” What was he even doing? Talking back to her as if the moose were alive. Was it that he didn’t want to up his new friend? Why was he so attached to Lili already? They only just met! But she did seem like such a nice and innocent person unlike so many of the people he had been running into lately... he couldn’t help it!

And she was new here! How awesome! This probably meant that she could use him as a friend to help her out and show her around as much as he needed a friend that wouldn’t take advantage of him. Plus she did seem somewhat out of place wondering around in the dorms alone. A girl like her shouldn’t have ever been alone. He began to wonder if she had some dramatic story to tell him… oh but he couldn’t pry too much yet. Maybe later if the rumors didn’t scare her away or someone else decided that Mathias wasn’t safe enough because his powers liked to go out of control in the weapons room. People should’ve known that Mathias shouldn’t be allowed in a room full of weapons, no matter how much he liked them himself.

He moved his hands upwards to his necklace, “I can help you, don’t worry! I can give you a tour of the entire school if you’d like! Oh and don’t worry about it, ‘cause you didn’t know!” Mathias laughed at himself. He knew that if this was almost anyone else, he probably would’ve gotten mad, and even more mad when they took the moose out from underneath his pillow. But… she did seem lost, and she was very sincere about it too. Which he liked even more.

“Oh well Lili, it’s nice to meet you! And thank you! I kind of like my name too, in a not braggy way… Your name is pretty too though! It’s like a flower or something! And I enjoy flowers!” Okay so he was rambling now but who cared? He enjoyed rambling. In fact he rambled to just about everyone. And he was reminded of this daily. So what?

And now that she relaxed around him, it only made his mood that much more lighter. So light in fact that he felt like he was going to sail on the wind. When people were tense around him, it only succeeded in making him tense and nothing else.
He had almost forgotten to comment upon the rumors thing before he jumped onto his feet and began to walk out of the room… “Lili? You don’t have to call me sir! I don’t look fifty do I?” A small laugh escaped his lips again, “Being old doesn’t sound fun. So don’t get me started early!”

He then released a final deep breath of air, “And it’s good that you don’t believe rumors. Sometimes that’s the only way to survive in high school it seems like.” Judging from her voice, He was already, be it creepy or not, imagining that Lili had some rumors spread around about her… the thought caused him to shake his head in shame. Why were kids so frigging mean? It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t understandable how a girl as cute as Lili was could have any mean rumors spread about her… But he guessed it happened to the best of them, including him.

“Okay so! Instead of taking that nap I promised myself, I’m going to show you around the school!” He help out his arm for her to grab a hold of, “And I’ll take you to your proper dorm!” Hopefully the kids in her dorm were nice ones…

[lilizwingli]

Not cute? But he was so, so, so cute! Lili blinked as Mathias spoke of a buff moose that didn't like to be called cute, one she imagined to be very different than the one stuffed under the pillow. She had thought he might pretend to be a tough moose, but probably loved all the attention he got from Mathias.
He said the poor thing didn't get out very much, but honestly spending time under Mathias' pillow had to be an adventure all on its own.

Here you go again, acting like the moose is real, she shook her head slightly as if to rid herself of that thought. Mathias was acting like it was real, and he was much older than she was, so it couldn't be that bad to act so childish. It was too bad she didn't actually have this room, because it would be nice to know someone this nice so early in the school year.

She actually was curious as to what Mathias' power was at this point, but it would be dreadfully rude to ask. She found that some people didn't like talking about their powers, and she had just met this energetic guy, who knew if he was one of the people who minded talking about their abilities. He didn't mind the fact that she had tidied up his bed and discovered his moose, though, which probably meant he wasn't extremely uptight.

“Danke, I'm rather fond of my name, too,” she felt better with every moment she spent with him, and the terror and humilation about being lost and going into the wrong room was soon slipping away. Lili was sure those feelings would return when she left his presence, though, and would have to deal with her own mistake. A mistake that earned her a potential friend, mind you.

Just a moment ago, she felt as if she were about to have a heart attack, and now she was almost bouncing on the mattress in happiness that she had found a new friend, someone to help her around this large, will-eat-you-if-you're-not-careful school. Her luck just got instantly better, there couldn't be anything to make her –

“A-ah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were old!” She had meant it as a gesture of respect, but apparently things were very different as far as formalities went around here. He certainly didn't look fifty, and she didn't want to 'get him started early', even though she wasn't completely sure what that term was supposed to mean. Maybe it meant she was trying to make him older than he was by callg him that.
That would be an odd ability, she thought in an off topic way. To be able to make someone older by calling them 'sir' or 'miss'.

She focused on Mathias again, having spaced out for a moment. Something about the only way to surviving high school was to not believe rumors. Since he was senior, he obviously knew what he was talking about, and she nodded in agreement, still puzzled over what rumors could possibly be spread about Mathias. Too happy? That was ridiculous. Sometimes she wished people could just get along and try to be nice to each other. Maybe then high school wouldn't be so easily compared to hell..

“Oh, you can take a nap, s—Mathias! I don't want to be a bother.” She took his arm anyway, not wanting to be rude and turn down the invitation when she actually desperately needed to be shown around, and more importantly, find her dorm. “I-If I get to troublesome, you can leave me, okay? I won't mind.”

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Mathias smiled blankly at the girl, oh but if she knew his poor moose’s story. It had been through so much in its lifetime… in its fourteen years of living, it had been washed and rewashed, forgotten, lost, hugged, kissed, torn, tattered, and loved on, and somehow it still resembled a moose, and in fact it didn’t even look like it had been through that much… because it was so tough. And although Mathias couldn’t read Lili’s thoughts, she would’ve been right in assuming that it loved the attention it got from him.

“No, no! I’ll stay with you until you are comfortable here. I know this place can be pretty intimidating and all, especially with all these kids who could like, blow something up in the blink of an eye. I don’t even know how I’ve managed to survive!” Because you are pretty intimidating yourself when you are angry.

Chasing his thoughts away, he smiled back at her, “The other day I blew up some kids camera ‘cause I was really mad! I didn’t mean to of course, but when I get really livid I tend to destroy things that have a lot of metal in them… which is usually electronic stuff. You don’t even wanna see my laptop… Well that was actually me and not my powers acting up, but you get the idea right? This place is insane.” He led her into the kitchen area, and grabbed two bottles of water from the fridge and handed one to her, “Just thought you might be thirsty.”

“Oh, and I know you didn’t mean to make me feel old! It just makes me feel all weird when people start calling me sir and mister and all that… I’m only eighteen! That’s not too old… right?” Well technically he /was/ an adult. But like hell was he going to act like one when he was still in school and could get away with it. Plus, he was never going to be free from all the debt he owed people anyways. He’d be living with his mother forever.

…Oh that thought just scared him… he could just see his large mother with her humongous spatula and rolling pin, chasing him down the hallways telling him to get a job. Being all old and stuff... Yuck. That was just… a horrible image..

Suddenly he was pulled back to reality, and he realized that he’d sort of been staring out into space…He still had his arm intertwined in hers, and he figured that maybe it would be more useful to her if she had her suitcase… yes that would definitely be more useful. He slipped the bottle of water into his pocket- with luck of course, seeing as how the bottle was rather oversized to be carrying in his pocket- and pulled her back into the room where the beds were, and grabbed a hold of her suitcase.

“Do you know where you are going to be staying?” If she didn’t, it was okay, because they could always check at the end of the hallway where they had a listing of where every single student in the whole school stayed. So whether or not she knew wasn’t that big a deal. Mathias had to refer upon that thing quite a few times when he was her age, but eventually he had just gotten used to room “100”,and he knew that even eighty years from now he’d probably still remember room “100” and all that had happened in it over the years, and even the various kids that had stayed there. He was lucky enough to have roommates that, when he was younger, were much too cool to worry about him and his issues, so he never really got into fights with them or exploded at them as he did with some of the other kids.
But boy did those kids do some strange things late at night…

He pulled her out into the hallway slowly, kind of disappointed that she had to be going to a different room than his, but he figured it was probably better to just take her where she needed to be.

[lilizwingli]

Lili followed Mathias around the flat like a lost puppy, listening to him speak with wide eyes.
If he had a tendency to make things with metal in them explode when he got irritated, that meant he had control over metals. There was a possibility that he had a general telekinesis power, and metal was a victim normally attacked by his uncontrolled talent. But the former sounded much more possible, and it saved her the trouble and awkwardness of having to actually asking about it.

“That poor kid's camera.. It wasn't terribly important to him, was it?” She pictured a small camera, exploding and sending metal guts and wires all over the place, and couldn't help but wonder why he had a camera out in the first place. It had to have been a horrible surprise, especially if the kid had the camera near his face! Goodness, then he might've been injured by his own camera pieces!
However, she was confident in the notion that it had been a complete and total accident on Mathias' part.

She accepted the bottled water with a nod, taking of the cap and taking a drink. He had been right, she did need a drink. Lili hadn't really realized how thirsty she really was until delicious water was handed to her. The blonde licked her lips, before replying. “No! You don't look very old at all, and eighteen isn't old, either.” She had been enjoying her water too much to realize the silence that followed after that, and by the they walked back to the bedroom, half of her water was gone.

He had picked up her suitcase, and she frowned, reaching to take the suitcase before drawing back. Could this be considered rude, like the 'sir' problem? She didn't want to have to make him feel like he had to carry her things that she had brought into his dorm. But to act like she didn't want him touching her suitcase could be considered equally rude.
Lili decided to let it go, and allow him to do as he wanted. For if he had picked up the suitcase without grumbling, he didn't mind, right? Of course not.

“U-uh, nein, no, I'm not sure.. I was certain that number 100 was mine,” she gave a glance to her suitcase, and almost wondered if she should just get the papers with her room number on it. Oh dear, how embarrassing an exploding suitcase would be, though! She didn't want to risk that, certainly not. Surely there was some other way to find out what room she had, and Mathias was sure to know what it was, as a senior.

It was too bad she couldn't just have a room with him and whomever else resided in the room behind them. As he continued to speak of this school being insane, she began to fret over her own, real roommates. Would they be insane? What if they were mean? What if they hated her guts? Surely, she was just over thinking it, but the worries picked at her mind as she continued to stand in the hall with Mathias.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

“You have no idea.” Mathias uttered, remembering the incident clearly, “Sometimes it’s hard being able to control magnetic fields… especially when you are mad… I don’t even understand what my power is even supposed to do… it’s pretty stupid.” An awkward laugh escaped his lips, “So you are here for a reason too. You have a power, what is it?” He hoped she’d be willing to tell him. Because along the same reasoning she had, some people just didn’t like to tell, and some people got mad for even asking. Mathias himself didn’t care about people knowing, because quite frankly no one ever understood it and neither did he really.

Although to give himself credit, he was getting quite good at controlling it, sometimes when he completely lost it, things tended to explode. Quite a bit. And he got in trouble for that.
“Oh well, I know where we can check. I used to get lost all the time.” He lead her down the hallway that connected all of the flats, to the end where the listing were and checked it over, looking for Lili’s name… “Room 101… Leonie? Is that you? I don’t see Lili on here...” If Leonie was her then she’d only be next door, which wouldn’t be so bad.

He wouldn’t have to worry about those idiots messing with her. Just to be sure she wasn’t staying with any jokers, he checked the list, ‘Wang Yao’ and ‘Lovino Vargas’… He was sure those two weren’t that bad. He didn’t really know them that well, he did know that Lovino was grumpy all the time, but in Mathias’ opinion that was more hot air than anything and the boy actually wasn’t as bad as he acted. Plus, Mathias did know that the boy wasn’t bad to women... although if he was… Mathias knew whose ass he could kick.

“After we find your room, I’ll take you to the best place in the entire school if you promise to not tell anyone about it.” Oh the roof. Any roof worked in fact. The cafeteria roof was nice. Not many kids went up there, even during lunch. But the best roof was the roof to the dorms. It was nice and flat, and the trees towered over it made it a nice place to receive shade during the summer when the sun was in the right place.

The he would show her around and get her acquainticed with the grounds a bit, and maybe if she felt up for it, he would take her out to eat at the restaurant. Hopefully he had enough money for them both. He hardly ever had any money at all… Luckily he had just gotten sent a check from his parents..

((//Ignore shortness is braindead.))

[lilizwingli]

Mathias, magnetic fields. If she had a notepad out right now, she would probably write that down, just in case, but unfortunately, she would just have to hope to remember it. Lili had never been one for science, but she knew that in English terms, her new friend basically had the powers of a giant magnet.
Only.. A giant magnet with a cute stuffed animal.
She probably wouldn't get over that cute little moose, but luckily secrets weren't difficult to keep.

“Umn,” her hands reached up to redo the bow in her hair, as she tried to think of a way to explain what her power was. It would feel embarrassing and useless in contrast to magnetic fields, but it would also be rude to ignore the question all together. “Sound waves, and.. maybe hypnotism?.. I-I'm not very good at it, though.” Lili waved her hand, as if shooing away the power all together, and smiled. This is probably going to happen often, the blonde thought. Someone with an absolutely amazing power would come around, and all she would be able to say would be something like 'I sing good'.

The halls seemed very much less scary when in the company of a friend, this was fact. The colors were more welcoming than they had appeared before, and she did not feel as if she were going to be lost forever inside them. This time around, there was someone to at least stop whatever threatened to make her disappear.

And of course, there was a list at the end of the hall, where she could've checked all along. Lili felt increasingly dumb as she stood on tiptoe to peek at the list. “Oh, ja, Leonie, sorry..” Lovino and Wang? They didn't sound like they were particularly mean, and maybe they were as friendly as Mathias!
It was a happy thought that calmed her a bit, and she thought it funny she was so excited to meet strangers whom she'd never even seen before. Even though...
“I-I can't believe I missed my dorm when it was.. right there.” Lili ran a hand through her hair, biting her lip. “How silly..” She continued to gaze at the list, reading each name and trying to imagine what their owners' looked like. It would actually be kind of fun to know peoples' names before she knew them. Kind of like a search-and-find game, really.


“You seem to like secrets,” she laughed, quietly, putting a hand over her mouth as she did so. Her interest was piqued, however, at the thought of a 'best place in the entire school'. This was such a large school, could there really be a 'best' place? The library is a place she half expected to be the 'best', but she reminded herself quickly that making herself known as a nerd would be complete and utter social suicide. It would probably be in her best interest to avoid the library as long as possible. She could survive without books for a while, because she still had her laptop and magnificent headphones tucked away in her suitcase.

“I know it's odd, but I'm almost glad I got my room numbers mixed up,” she paused, thinking out how to phrase the rest of her sentence before continuing. “You're a very nice person, and.. Well, first days are always hard..” It didn't feel like enough. After a second thought, she gave Mathias a quick hug before letting go and taking a drink of her water bottle. Even with her own family, she didn't give hugs very often. It had felt.. extremely awkward, but her thanks had to have been understood by the action, surely.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Sound waves? Did that mean she could sing well? Mathas thought of his own singing… oh he sang very well. Well enough to make glass shatter… not that that stopped him from doing it any. He loved music and singing and that was all there was to it. It honestly amazed him how things could make such nice sounds when he himself couldn’t even do that with help from instruments. Only instrument he could play was the triangle… if that even counted.

“Sounds waves? Meaning you sing? If you sing, I’d totally love to hear you sometime, if you aren’t too embarrassed! You seem kind of shy, but you don’t have to be shy around me, ‘cause I love hearing people sing even if it is bad…but I doubt that an ugly sound can come from you… that would be absurd.” Yes he was rambling and he didn’t care. He was actually really interested in her power. It wasn’t like it was anything amazing or super flashy like his was, it was nice and calming. Not destructive and evil like the powers some other people had.

Although maybe her power could be more destructive than he thought. Sound did make sonic booms after all, and those could be quite intimidating… and very loud noises could give people headaches. So maybe this girl didn’t even know what she had. Oh but in time she would he guessed.

“No, it’s not silly… I’m sure I would’ve done the same. I mixed up a classroom that I’ve had for my fourth year now at the beginning of the year, so you shouldn’t worry too hard about getting confused, it happens to everyone right?” Hahaa. He remembered that. It was quite funny really. His frigging training class. He didn’t even know why his mind told him it was room 607, when it was really room 706… it was really quite weird to walk into the childhood development room when they were learning about child birth…

Shrugging that away though, Mathias turned back to his new friend when she began to thank him.

“I know it's odd, but I'm almost glad I got my room numbers mixed up, you're a very nice person, and.. Well, first days are always hard..” OH! Yes first days were hard! In fact, they were very hard. People also talking to their friends, and socializing, welcoming back people they hadn’t seen since before the summer. But then you try to find your friends, but they aren’t anywhere, and you then you are starting to get frantic and the—
You get hugged by a new friend?

… Mathias had to restrain himself from screaming out like a small girl. It wasn’t very often that someone else hugged him first. In fact, it had only happened a few times and when it did, it practically gave Mathias heart attacks of extreme emotions, usually happiness. Especially when it was from someone who he liked. And he was really quite fond of this girl. He really was. She seemed like she would be such a nice, loyal person… someone who cared what people thought of her because she didn’t want to seem rude or jerky to anyone who didn’t deserve it, and that was what Math’ liked in certain people. He liked it when people actually cared about what other people think of them. It was a different change of pace from his own, ‘If you think badly of me, it’s your own fault okay?’

When she released him, he let out a curt laugh, before pulling her into an even larger hug… a ‘thank you for the hug’ hug.
“Thank you very much Lili! I appreciated that! Not let us take your stuff back to your room and set it down so I can show you around the rest of the school.” He released her, and picked up her suitcase again, before linking his arm in hers again and leading her to her room. Room 100.

[lilizwingli]

Oh dear.
Lili turned red at the compliments, and began to wish dearly she could sing for Mathias. It felt like it would be the nice thing to do, even though she would be embarrassed to death. She had never sung for anyone alone, save for birds and the like.
… The image of Mathias' head exploding danced inside her mind, and she almost cried in horror of the very thought. Thankfully, she didn't and instead just nodded at him, even though she was quietly resolving to never singing for the Dane, even if he asked. She would never be able to forgive herself, even if she died! Her ghost would probably forever be wandering about, feeling sorry for itself and the person it made explode.

Though, Lili thought, I do miss singing. It was really one of her only forms of expression that she could use to truly, well, express herself. It was something she could completely call her own, a skill that she didn't learn from her mother, like sewing. The thought of singing as she once had frightened her to no end, but the idea of never singing again made her heart ache.

When Mathias laughed, she half regretted hugging him. Maybe he thought it was quite amusing that
a little Freshman had just hugged him, and he would tell his friends about how weird it was. What if he was uncomfortable with contact like that and was now thinking 'Oh, never going to hang out with her again'–

She gasped in surprise as she was swept into a wonderfully warm, oxygen depriving hug. At first, Lili wasn't sure how to react, but soon hugged him back in the end before he let her go. She smiled as she realized that he seemed so very happy, and felt infected by this happiness. Her arm was linked with his again, and they were going down the hall again, towards her dorm. Yes, her dorm.

With how he acted, you would think he wouldn't get hugs very often. No, he had to get many hugs! Not
only did he give very good hugs, but he was such a beautiful person, and she had only known him but for twenty minutes. Someone who actually lived in his dorm was surely a lucky person and was given many hugs.

“Mn, would you mind telling me where the.. best place on campus is?” Her curiosity had been temporarily forgotten, but now it was back, and just as strong. They stopped in front of her dorm, and she looked up at Mathias, hand raised to her mouth to chew on her thumbnail. It was a dreadful habit, yes, but she didn't have time to scold herself for it now. “I-I mean, we can see most of campus first, of course, I need to know my way around anyway..”

Her smile was still on her face, even though minutes had passed since the hug. It was just such a nice day today, despite the unfortunate events. She felt as if she were going to float away. Much to her surprise, she never hit the ceiling. Lili's feet stayed on the ground, held down by the spiky haired blond with his arm linked in hers.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

“Oh! I had almost forgotten!” Mathias laughed as they walked towards her dorm together and waited in front of the door a moment so she could gather herself, “Okay. Let me just set this stuff down, and then I’ll show you the best place.” He placed his hand on the doorknob and pushed it open. Luckily most dorm rooms were unlocked at this time. Even though at times it could make it hard to find thieves, it did make it easier to get in without having to pick the lock... which incidentally Mathias was quite good at.

Walking inside the room, Mathias began to look around for the only bed that didn’t seem to have any occupancy, before he gingerly slid the suitcase onto the first one he saw.

“Okay, so, this is your room okay? If you ever forget, you can just find me where ever I may be, or you can look at that poster over there. But I think you’ll remember. Especially since my room is the first room in the hallway, and yours is at the very end right?”
He also noticed how light her suitcase was.... well at least it seemed to be. Remembering his own suitcase... he probably carried twice as much as she was carrying. What was that all about? And to think he called himself a man.

Heck, he even had a special case just for his favorite coat. Which he wasn’t wearing at the moment, but now that he thought about it he almost wanted to. It was after all, his absolute favorite coat.

He then turned towards her again, and clapped his hands together, “So the best place here is the dorm roof. Sometimes it’s hard to get to with all the teachers wondering around and stuff but I bet we could go up there sometime before the weather gets too cold. Cause when the weather gets cold it can get all wet and snowy and when the wind starts blowing it’s just a mess.” Not that that bothered him much when he was infuriatingly mad. The snow blowing into his face was the price to pay when he wanted to be alone anyways.

So that was the first place he would take her. The roof, and the easiest way to get to the roof was through the bedroom windows. He grabbed a hold of Lili once again and tugged her to the back of the room near the window, “Okay, you see that fire escape there? Just slowly climb out onto it, and don’t worry about the escape being creaky, it’s pretty stable I promise!”

Sometimes the fire escape freaked him out when it let out a loud moan after he got onto it, especially when he was on the steps when the thing decided it wanted to be creaky. Or on rainy days when there was wet slime… oh…. That could be bad. The moss gathering on the escape often made it slippery as well.

“Oh and, watch out for the mossy stuff too. Don’t worry though, I’ll be right behind you.” He really hoped that she wouldn’t be too nervous about this. Most people weren’t too nervous about it… although sometimes they were a bit apprehensive when it came to moving up the fire escape. Especially if it was an emergency.

[lilizwingli]

The fact she had allowed him to carry her suitcase for so long still made her terribly uncomfortable somewhat. He didn't think she couldn't carry her own suitcase, right? Maybe she could try to appear less.. fragile? Lili didn't think she looked very fragile, but then again maybe that was different in someone else's eyes. When they entered her dorm, she realized that all the dorms must look almost exactly alike, for if she didn't know better, she would have thought they had stepped right back into Mathias' dorm.

She bobbed her head in understanding when he spoke about the poster and the fact she would be able to find him whenever if she needed anything. Lord, she hadn't even found her brother here yet and she felt safer than she usually did at home most of the time. Maybe it was a bad thing she had been so amazed at how very nice Mathias was. He certainly didn't give off any 'hi I'm mean' vibes, and he seemed so harmless, despite how powerful his power must be.

Blinking as he clapped his hands suddenly, Leonie tilted her head. “The dorm roof?” An image of Spiderman jumping around on rooftops flashed in her mind's eye. Superheroes had a tendency to hang around on roofs, didn't they? It was something to ponder, really. It made sense, she supposed there was a kind of freedom that could only be achieved through standing on a rooftop with wind caressing one's face. Personally, she didn't spend much time on top of houses, really. Usually only on the inside did she spend her time. Then again, she wasn't a superhero anyway, just a plain old sidekick.

Dragged towards the window, she felt very rag doll like for the almost the fifth time today. Excited for the 'best place', but scared at the same time, she put on a smile to hide any fear that might have been on her face. It would be rude if he was so happy to show her such a place and for her to be frightened of it. The best thing to do was to at least make it up to the dorm roof. It couldn't be too bad once she was up there, could it.

She cautiously reached out a hand, curling her fingers upon one of the rungs of the fire escape ladder and swinging her weight onto the metal. The ladder creaked under her, and her heart jumped in chest like a nervous rabbit locked in her ribcage. “I-I won't worry,” Lili replied, the shaking in her voice betraying her real feelings in the situation. Clearing her throat, she started over, climbing up the ladder. “I'm not afraid of heights or anything, I think I'll be fine.”

Think. Think I'll be fine. That was the dominant word there.
Ascending at a speed that was probably fueled by fear, she couldn't help but be amused by the fact she had almost chosen to wear a dress today, but had chosen jeans over skirts. Maybe she was clairvoyant somewhat.
The lip to the roof came into sight, and Lili swung herself onto the top of the roof, controlling her breath so it didn't come in deep breaths. Instead, it probably sounded slightly choppy and shaky, which was probably even worse than deep breathing. Note to self, creaky ladders equal sehr scary.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

“Thats good that you aren’t afraid of heights!” Mathias called out to the girl climbing the steps. When he was younger he was a bit afraid of heights, because of an accident he had when he went to Norway involving tall mountains and ski lifts... but that was a story for another time. But he could definitely sympathize with those who were afraid of heights, even if he himself had gotten over his fear. He didn’t even remember how he had gotten rid of it in the first place.

Once Mathias saw the young girl’s legs disappear over the top, he followed her out onto the creaky ladder, and began up after her himself, completely used to, and ignoring the fact that the ladder was indeed making what seemed to be louder creaking noise than usual. Maybe it was just his imagination...

“I hope that didn’t freak you out too much...” Mathias stated rather uneasily, scratching the back of his head, as he climbed the last rungs of the ladder that led to the top. He paced over to her, “I’ve never climbed the fire escape outside your room before anyways... Maybe it’s older and less used than mine or something..” Well it was true that he climbed up his almost daily, so maybe it was used to the weight of him... It wasn’t like he was a light person or anything.

Looking up though, he noticed Lili’s breath seemed to be coming out a bit shakily, and he began to a feel a bit bad making her go out onto the roof with him. Scaring people seemed to be a habit of his, whether he meant it intentionally or not.

“... Ah! I’m sorry if this scared you! I didn’t think the ladder would be that creaky...” He paced over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, “But we are here now, so don’t worry about that ladder! We can go back down the one by my room next time if you want!”

So this was it… this was the same place he spent hours away just staring at the sky… and now that he had a friend up here with him, it didn’t seem that great anymore. Just more like a roof, not really the magical place he imagined it to be… maybe it was something very specific to him or something. Or maybe the magic only worked when he was up there alone.

“I promise this place is much more amazing than it seems right now… It’s sort of more a lonely place, to go when you are feeling lonely. But it’s pretty great to hang out at. Even when it gets colder.” Not that it got too cold in Florida… but when it did, it was disgustingly windy, and that could sometimes make the roof pretty uncomfortable to someone who wasn’t bundled up.

But since he was Danish, the wind and cold wasn’t a big deal to him, and in fact, he quite enjoyed it sometimes… or rather, he’d gotten used to it… but either way, the roof was still one of his favorite places to be when he was alone… but maybe not with friends.

“So Lili, just know that this place is here in case you ever get mad, or need to be away from someone… or maybe me, although if you wanted to be away from me I’d advise not coming up here.. ahhaa.. I’d probably find you……” He fell silent a moment before he clapped his hands together and perked up, “Well anyways, enough about this stupid old place, let’s go back down and I’ll take you to the freshman core classes.” He couldn’t remember if she ever specified whether or not she was a freshman, but even if she didn’t, she definitely was, based on how young she looked, and how lost she was. Plus even if she wasn’t a freshman, she was definitely new and that was all that mattered. It was his job as an upperclassman to help her out!

He smiled and moved back to the ladder, this time it being the one closer to his room, and signaled for her to follow along.
As he descended the ladder, he decided that after he took her to the freshman classrooms, he would show her to auditorium and cafeteria, and all the main points of the school…

The creaking of the ladder suddenly cut off his thoughts and he blinked heavily, trying to ignore the bad feeling beginning to form in his stomach. There seemed to be something very strange about this particular creaking… or maybe it was just the wind… but either way, he continued moving down the ladder slowly, hoping to see Lili emerge behind him soon.

[lilizwingli]

It was puzzling.
Mathias had been so excited to get up here, onto the roof, but they had only spent a few minutes before he was rushing back down again. Not that that hadn't been enough time admire the view of the campus in that time, but it was just quite odd for their trip to the rooftop to be done so prematurely. And it was certainly not a stupid, old place as he had said!

Lili brushed invisible dust off her knees, slowing her breathing. The sensation of not having walls nor solid ground was strange, and not even in a good/bad way. It was just.. strange. Unnaturally free everything and anything. “I'm fine, really,” replied the girl with a small smile and a nod. “I'm not afraid of heights or anything.” She paused, approaching the ladder again. “Besides.. I don't have much to worry about with a friend around, right?”

No, obviously there was nothing to be worrying about, Lili had to remind herself as she put her foot down on the ladder again, eliciting a loud squeak that made her heart jump.
So many things could go wrong in this situation, and any horror movie she ever watched reminded her of this fact. She could fall off, Mathias could fall off, a random serial killer could appear on the roof and kill them both and they would–

Now those were not the kind of happy thoughts one should be thinking in this situation, not at all. Lili was over thinking. In fact, she should stop thinking all together for the moment, because all it was going to do was cause white hairs on her head. Creaaak..

… No one could deny that creaking was quite.. frightening, though. Like the ladder was screaming its protest in the worst, most terrifying way possible.
Creaaaaakk..

If Lili didn't know better, she'd say that the ladder was even starting to lean outwards, away from its place on the side of the school. Of course, this was her imagination. It was an old ladder, surely, but it wasn't so old that'd it come off the wall now, of all times. She had more luck than that!

In fact, she had a lot of luck, but it was of the very, very bad variety.
The ladder gave a final screech before falling away from the building.
But there had been something louder than the dying sound of the ladder following it, a real, human scream that was made by the small girl clinging to the bars of the ladder for dear life. Maybe human wasn't the best adjective for it, for it was a scream that had to be at least two octaves higher than a normal scream.

Lili was surprised and scared in the worst possible way. Surprised not only by the fact she felt as if she were about to die, but by how loud she was, how high it sounded. The weirdest part was how she was scared by her own voice. One should not be scared of their own voice!
She was too busy screaming with all her breath to really care.