And I care, because?

Noelle snapped her gum as she entered the student lounge. She'd been in there once before, when she'd first gotten here, but she decided that it would be nice to come back to it. Strangely she didn't see many people around, maybe one or two, but they seemed busy talking to themselves, or using the computers. She walked as far away as the room went from the people, and sat on the couch spreading her legs out. She felt awesome. She was wearing her favorite orange tank top, and despite the weather outside, black shorts. But her legs felt protected in her green and orange striped knee socks. She pulled out her green Mp-3 player and stuck her ear buds in. She scrolled through her list of songs, glancing up occasionally to make sure no one was around. She closed her eyes, enjoying the music for a few minutes when suddenly it stopped. "What in the tarnation is going on?" she said, speaking to her mp-3. The little battery symbol in the upper right hand corner flashed. "Low battery. Low battery? Can't a person do one thing without her tech devices failing on her? Seriously, how much do I have to charge you to get you to play for ten straight minutes!?" She stopped. She was yelling at a inanimate object. But what was that to stop her? "And don't you forget it!" she added throwing it down on the couch. She tapped her foot thinking about where the charger for it was .'I'm too lazy to go get it' she thought to herself.

She drummed her fingers on one of the small tables and picked up her device before sitting on the couch. "Well, I suppose it would help to turn it off" she said rolling her eyes, exasperated. She stretched her legs out onto the couch, once again and yawned. She looked out into the darkness outside, and despite the glare of the lamps, she could make out quiet and good amount of things. Some students looked like they were rushing around, going from place to place carrying their books. She watched them fight the wind and cold and smirked to herself, before turning to face the whole room again.

Noelle jerked her head up a bit a she saw a guy sitting on a seat, closer to her than any other students. She wanted ask him what he was looking at, but she stopped instead. She paused for a second and looked at him carefully. 'Hey, not bad looking,' she thought, before she could stop herself. 'Get it together, and stay in character, no slip ups. Unless the need for it arises.' She stood up and sauntered over to the boy, holding her mp-3. She sat down on the nearest chair, and swung her legs over the arm of it. What exactly was her plan? Usually, she never talked to anyone unless they said something first, but she was interested in seeing how a conversation with this guy would go. Well, a leap of faith must be made once in life right?

"Sup? I'm Noelle. I haven't seen you around here before, you new?" She pulled her blue hair to one side and smiled in a slightly flirtatious manner. Ahh, she hadn't done anything like this in a while, of course, she never flirted with people really, but she never went in her "out-of-character-mood. She seemed to be doing it a lot at this school, however, maybe things were going to change.'Still gotta keep my cool though, it's part of me.' She embraced the unusual coolness of the room and smiled, watching the boy.

Noelle studied him closely as she sat. She didn't want to seem like a super bouncy energetic person, but she didn't want to seem like a creep either. He didn't seem very bubbly either, but that only made Noelle happier. He had nice colored skin, and she wanted to feel his hair, but that would probably come across as creepy. He introduced himself and she smiled. She was always interested in what people's names meant, and then she would decide if it suited them. Her name fit her pretty well, she was born in December, and she had powers to do with ice, but she didn't know if that had to do with anything.

"Alec you say? That's a nice name, but what does it mean? Some people don't know the meanings of their names. I'm not so sure I fit mine to well, I mean it means "born in the Christmas season, but most people associate Christmas as a happy time, and I don't really come along as happy... or nice."

She thought about it. 'I blame it on my brother' she thought. 'It's his fault for making me afraid of people, and scaring me at such a young age. Guess I never bounced back.' She'd never really thought about this before, such deep questions for her, all because she asked the meaning of a guy's name. 'i suppose that's a good thing about meeting new people.' She found that she couldn't stop looking at him. She gazed at him sorta with a blank zoned out expression, till her gaze fell to the book on his lap. She wondered what is was. Looked old. 'After he's done talking, you can ask him' She looked back at his face, giving him her attention.

There seemed to be something interesting about this guy. Noelle wanted to ask him questions, and talk to him all night, but she wasn't sure he'd feel the same way. She didn't know why, but something about him made him easy to talk too. She looked at the book once again. What was it about? she liked books, but not really boring ones. Text books were pretty boring. Books about snow and ice and winter sports were the best in her opinion. "Guardian" she whispered. "That's nice, you look like a guardian of some sort too, with your dark hair and nice green eyes. She loved to look into people's eyes, but usually it confused them, or made them feel intimidated. "Yea, I like my name well enough" she said shrugging. "What are you reading?" she asked, her gaze drifting to the book once again. It looked like, ancient to her, although she was never very good at guessing how old things, or people, were.

She yawned quietly, with her mouth closed, wondering what time it was. Not that she was really concerned, she was content to talk to Alec all night. Of course, if he didn't want to talk to her anymore, she supposed he would just say so, or make an excuse and leave. Then what would she do? Go for a night walk? Maybe pick up a book and head to bed? She hoped they'd be able to talk more, she'd just met him, but he was already fascinating to her.

Noelle actually hoped that he took her saying he looked like his name as a compliment, because that's how she meant it. She was in a surprisingly happy mood talking to Alec, and she felt a strange vibe of laughter go through her. She reached out and and grasped the book carefully. She didn't want to mess it up, because it kinda looked like it could fall in pieces. "Oh, it's okay, I like old things, their neat." She turned the book over and looked at it,interested. She Opened it and flipped the pages. After some observation she said "their hieroglyphics aren't they? I can't read them, but I've learned about them before in school" she said smiling. She carefully handed the old book back to him and pulled her knee socks up, because they had twisted down a bit. She blew a bubble and swung her legs as she though of the symbols she had seen on the page. Come to think of it, Alec looked like he could be from around that area, probably another country, but he had dark hair, and not too light skin, and spoke with an accent.

"say, now that I think about it, are you form around there, or a country near there? Your appearance seems so, and you talk with a nice accent. Take it as a compliment." Noelle loved accents, and he had a nice one. She could listen to him talk a lot, and still love it.