Piper's Got the Chalk(Open)

[glitteronthefloor]

She didn't like the cafeteria. She really didn't like it at all. It was loud (which wasn't a huge deal), it was usually crowded (also not the biggest deal) and she hated the pattern on the linoleum. Piper could deal with crowded and loud but ugly? No, that was the thing that caused the little brunette to regard the space with ever so slight contempt. Yes, the freshman was ridiculously high and might in terms of aesthetics if nothing else.

As she made her way through the cafeteria line, polka dotted purple plastic backpack in tow, the girl tapped her feet impatiently. She didn't want to be stuck in the area for longer than necessary, let alone stuck still waiting for her cheese sandwich and chocolate milk that might even encourage let growth spurt to actually occur. She would have wiggled and shoved her way through the line but cutting the queue at a school where every student could be a member of the Xmen? Not the best idea, even to her.

Finally, the obnoxiously long wait was at an end! Grabbing and subsequently paying for her beloved cheese sandwich, chocolate milk, carrot sticks and cookie, Piper got out of the cafeteria as quickly as possible.

At long last she had made it! The courtyard, that was where the girl liked to be. The fresh air, flowers and most importantly, the absence of linoleum made it a far better place to actually enjoy lunch instead of just scarfing the food down with lightning speed and trying to escape the room. Which was dangerous, she found, on the choking front.

Grinning a little grin, the Australian sat herself on the nearest bench and dug into her lunch, swinging her legs a bit as she ate. As soon as she finished her sandwich, cookie and milk, she threw the crusts and container out and tucked the carrots in her bag for later. Now was the real reason she preferred eating outside.

Getting out the 64 pack of chalk from her bag, the girl paced the area for a bit before deciding what masterpiece she would gift the school with today. With a serious expression, Piper had reached a decision and sat herself down at the center of the cemented area before digging out the prettiest purples, oranges and yellows from the package of chalk she so treasured. Today she would be doing an homage to Tangled and with that in mind, she began drawing.

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Peter hummed to himself as he entered the crowded room. There was something about the cafeteria that he loved. Between the noise, the elbow to elbow spacing at times, and the occasional conflict; all together it reminded him of the small town he lived in. He hadn’t taken much notice to everything as he waited in line to get something to eat. He wasn’t sure what the choices to eat were today but the food often tasted good here.

He adjusted the blue hat that he was wearing, causing a tuff of blond hair to fall in front of his eyes. He huffed slightly annoyed as he shoved the hair back under his hat as his eyes continued to wait for the line to move, slightly causing his impatientness to go off. He tapped his foot as his light blue bag was on his back. Blue eyes darted from one thing another, then something stood out to him. A polka dotted bag that stood a few people ahead of him, caught his attention as a color stuck out in a sea of the standard school uniform.

He watched as the student got her food, and made for the door as fast as possible. “Which ever.” Peter was in a hurry as he was given his food, which he promptly paid for and dashed out the door after the other student. There was something about her that seemed different, he wasn’t sure why he was following but chalked it up to curiosity and boredom. Walking quietly he found himself in the courtyard. He looked at the food he had, noticing a ham and cheese sandwich, a small milk, and a small thing of celery. He took a bite of one of the celery sticks as he looked around. His minds traced a little wishing he had paid more attention to his meal choice and got a desert.

Taking another bite his blue eyes looked around, thinking he had lost sight of the other student. He sighed as he was about to sit down and eat, when he saw someone drawing on the cement with chalk. He wasn’t sure what the image was right away, but figured it would be noticeable soon enough. As he started to see her art unfold, he couldn’t help himself. His blue eyes sparked with excitement. “That’s amazing!” He could help but almost yell in his almost constant exuberant behavior.

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Pausing every so often to make sure she was going about recreating the chalk drawing the correct way and massaging her wrist to prevent cramping up, Piper was near a girl possessed with the determination to do the homage justice. If that meant her forearms, hands, knees and well, frankly everything including her forehead being covered in chalk residue, making her look like a chameleon doing a fantastic job blending into a circus, than so be. Sticking out her tongue a bit in concentration, her brows knitted together and her chalk stokes became even more purposeful.

In the back of her mind, the girl noticed the footsteps approaching her all this time but she made nothing of it as the school was a pretty crowded place and gosh darn it, she couldn't be the only one intent on eating lunch in a pretty atmosphere! At least that is what she hoped. She had to put some faith in her generation, yeah? Even if a lot of her classmates were frankly idiots. overly tall idiots. With superpowers. Not the best idea in retrospect.

Focusing on perfecting the angle of the yellow and orange swirls, she near smudged her work out of being startled. Accidentally giving an irritated as possible look a young girl with chalk all over herself could. ". .thanks." Wait. She looked up at him for a brief moment and she noted that the boy who had spoken did look a little familiar-he very well could have been in a few if her classes as they looked the same age. Wiping her hands on her uniform, she grabbed one of the baby carrots she tucked away to chomp on as she got up to survey her work thus far, pacing around it. It was almost satisfactory much not quite.

"Hey, what do you think this needs?" Piper pointed to the drawing, asking his honest opinion. "It's supposed to be like the one in tangled-that Rapunzel movie, y'know but I think it's missing something."

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Peter smiled slightly as he watched the other student become lost in her art, appearing almost become one with it. He couldn't place were he had seen her before but felt like he had seen her a few times, maybe in class but the young student couldn't put his finger on it. He was curious about the image as it started to unfold, but his curiosity only increased as the artist got closer and closer to completion. He moved his blue hat slightly, and brushed his hair out of his eyes as he took another bite of the celery he had acquired.

His smile brightened as he watched her finish the various swirls, not noticing he had caused her to almost smear her image when he spoke up in excitement. He couldn't help it, Peter has always had issues with keeping his emotions in check. He hadn't even noticed the irritated look on her face, it took almost all the will he had not to laugh at the colors all over her face. His blue eyes followed the other student as she paced around her artwork.

Peter tilted his head slightly as she asked for his opinion on the art work she had been busy with til he interrupted her. He never had much experience with art, except the few drawings he did when he was board but those were more of the robots fighting dragons kind of art. He twisted his head from one side to another, but couldn't really think of anything. "Umm, maybe...? Actually I can't really think of anything, your art looks really cool as it is."

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"Really?" She looked to him a bit doubtfully. She surveyed the drawing once again, trying to see something, anything she could add (as subtracting would be a too big feat for even her). "Are you see it looks complete?" Piper gave the blonde a serious look, trying to look a little more friendly, hoping that would make it more apparent that the Australian girl actually needed help or at least, she thought she did.

Maybe it was latent unexpected perfectionistic tendencies she picked up from her hero but it just did seem right to the brunette. Then again, as it rained nearly at the start and end of each day due to humidity, the drawing was the definition of temporary and whether it looked complete really didn't matter as not manner people would see its neon but temporary life. She did tried to accept the piece, nose scrunching a bit as she scowled at it before flushing. "Oh shit."



What was missing was obvious now. So glaringly so that it was humiliating to Piper. It was practically a beginner's mistake, it was that terrible. Quickly grabbing the brightest of the yellow chalks, the freshman went back to the ground and after a few seconds of contemplation as to where it would be the least interruptive, signed her drawing 'Piper Evans' with a flourish.

"Erm, that better now?" She straightened herslef up after putting the chalk away, not either minding or knowing how the chalk dust dust turned her into a walking rainbow. Still, she felt better about the drawing. It seemed better to her. It looked better. However, no matter what highfaluting artists say, having approval of another person really was reassuring and frankly her classmate would have to do in that area.

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Peter blinked as the other student turned to him with a serious look on her face. H-Huh? I haven’t seen a face like that since the time I left a frog on Arthur’s bed. He shook the memory off his mind as the other student’s expressing changed to something more friendly. A small hand shot through his blond hair, as he started to twirl a finger through part of his hair as he thought. It wasn’t that he thought anything was missing but he couldn’t think of anything off the top of his head.

Peter had just about thrown out every idea that he had picked up from his own artworks, but wasn’t sure what was missing. His mind raced as he tried to think, but he couldn’t come up with anything, let alone something to put a finger on. “W-well maybe, umm.” He closed his blue eyes as he tried to think on anything as he mumbled to come up with something. It was then he heard the artist give an exclamation on what was missing; causing Peter’s eyes to pop open. “Huh?”

He watched as the brunette grabbed a yellow chalk and left a signed her art at the bottom. Okay so that’s what was missing. I do think I would have caught that. Then again most of the time he drew was in a notebook, that was never being seen by another person if he had a say in the matter. Looking at the name on the picture, Peter gave a quick clap in excitement. “It’s amazing!” The young blond repeated himself as Piper started to put the yellow chalk away, further exclaiming his point with a thumbs up.

He watched as the other student dusted off the chalk off of her. His eyes blinked as the dust started to form into a walking rainbow. He blinked as he tried to grasp what he was seeing. “Alright that’s new.” Rubbing his eyes, thinking he might be seeing things. “Umm, Piper right? Do you see the walking rainbow thing?”

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Giving a look of complete satisfaction at both the completeness of her work with signature and praise, the freshman subconsciously straightened herself up. While a true artist was only out to satisfy themselves, compliments were a thing she was far, far from being above. She was unable to stop a bit of a grin on her face when trying to recall her classmate's name in vain. "Well, ah, thanks I guess. Even if ya weren't too helpful."

'Do you see the walking rainbow thing?' As soon as she heard that, the Australian girl's posture went from a somewhat cocky swagger not unlike that of the heroes in their senior year to her shoulders slumping in a near defeatist pose. "Dammit," she mumbled with a faint sigh. "Not again." Piper had been in a slump the past month and almost felt as if she were regressing. Mentally and physically? Not so much but her power was going haywire. Perhaps Ludwig was onto something with this who 'you are what you eat spiel'. Of course, the fact that eating broccoli could be why she couldn't focus was not exactly a happy thought.

Looking up at the boy, the edges of their mouth were in a tight frown again. "What are you standing there for? Get water or whatever." Of course, she should have been the one to fix the problem as well, she had clearly caused it but it was his fault (at least in her mind) that he distracted her. The fact that Piper was not paying enough attention that the chalk debris came to life was clearly because her work was interrupted. Even if she didn't even notice him for quite the long while into her artistic process. "Get some water and just splash it on the thing before it runs off!"

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Peter tilted his head as they both looked at the chalk work picture. He gave a cocky smile as she gave a quick grin. He took a deep breath as she gave a slight thanks that almost came off as an insult to him. Well maybe a little bit of robots might make it better. He rubbed the back of his head as he thought, and tried to remove the thought from his head.

He was a little caught off guard still by the walking art, but figured either he was hallucinating, she had created it, he got another power out of nowhere, or the island had really interesting creatures; all of which were excellent and reasonable ideas, to Peter. It wasn't til he heard the other student mumble not again, that he figure out which one it was. He gave a small laugh at least it was it was different, and the power to creating things like that did seemed really cool to the young student. It wasn't until the girl started barking orders at him to try and fix it.

"Huh? Hey!" Peter was caught off guard but then realized what was going on. What was probably a rushed order on what to do was taken quite differently by the energetic teen. A girl his age was asking for his help, his help. He quickly He ran back to his bag and started rummaging through it. "Water, water. Where are you?" He said to himself, quite loudly at that. His hands passed over several books, and other things before digging out a small canteen that he had bought a while back, well more for the fact it was a full adventuring pack and the canteen just happen to come with it. Shaking the round item he heard the water inside of it move and turn. Happy that he actually remembered to fill it up for once he turned back to the art.

"Let's see where did it run off to." He spotted the small thing trying to run. Oh no you don't. Running off after the runway dust, Peter was able to empty the canteen onto the oddity. "Haha! Nothing can stand up to the might of the great Peter." Maybe he was letting it go a little to his head, but then again this wasn't new to him. "Nothing to worry about." He smiled, it wasn't until then that he realized he had never introduced himself to other student. "Oh right, I'm Peter Kirkland, it's nice to meet such a talented artist." Despite being overly loud Peter meant everything he had said, grant it most of his drawings were of giant robots or monster attacking cities, or of random creatures that could best be described as a Rorschach test gone the wayside.

((Sorry it took so long to post, some technical and work related issues kept me from accessing the site.))

[glitteronthefloor]

Watching him did through his bag with a mildly interested look, the Australian tapped her foot a little. Piper had already had one major incident of an artistic work going rogue this year (a Medusa sketch she sleepily doodled in art) and a few other more innocuous sketches of flowers or a scrunchie she lost that were on purpose and under the radar. It really wouldn't be a disaster if the chalk dust monster got away. It would rain in the evening anyhow but somehow it didn't seem like the administration or the letter of progress to Mum and Dad would phrase it that way. 'Wouldn't hurt to hurry up,' she thought, nearly regretting asking someone else to do her clean up work even if in her mind, the sandy haired boy caused the incident.

As she went herself to find the gardening hose she suspected was out on the courtyard or dash to a water fountain, she spotted the fellow freshman dashing off after the colorful swirls talking (or rather, shouting a bit) to himself. Well then. Shaking her head, the brunette leaned a little to the side to get a good view of Peter, or so he called himself unless of course he was a bit more out there than she originally thought, pour what looked like a canteen of water turning the moving dust to a colorful, normal puddle.

"Thanks, I'm Piper Evans." She held out a chalk covered hand to shake after she grabbed her bag, stuffing her chalks inside and walked to him. The guy was loud and maybe even too energetic but he didn't seem too awful. Maybe he was even nice. Either way, it was a change to talk to someone her one age for once instead of the senior boys or one in particular that could be argued that she stuck to him like glue or he constantly was babysitting her. Figuring that she should say something else, something of the nice and polite variety she thought for a moment before piping up. "Err, thanks for puttin' out the runaway quickly. Not like it woulda' been too noticed or anything."
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