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Laura was fuming , how could she have lost the key to her dorm? What sort of an eejit am I? , she asked herself, irritated. She usually kept everything extremely organised, so she'd know where to find everything. Suddenly it dawned on her, she must have dropped the key when she was running away from those annoying guys she had just pranked. There was no way she was going back there to find it, she had dignity. Besides she didn't want them to try beat her up. They had looked pretty mad, but it served them right for being such jerks in the first place.

Besides, it wasn't that bad having to get a new key, at least they didn't charge you for it. It only meant she had to wait around in the admissions office with all the newbies for an hour or so. Oh wait, that's my version of Hell. .

"Oi!" Laura yelped as she felt herself collide with someone else. A tall someone else at that, and bony. So God damn bony . She looked up, she had to strain her neck a little, this guy was almost half a foot taller than her. Why is he wearing sunglasses inside? What a douche. "Why don't you watch it mister?" She snapped, suddenly feeling anger boiling inside her again. She felt something else though, more subtle than the anger but, she felt curious. This guy had weird marks on his skin, and she was wondering why they were there. It'd be rude to ask though.

"Rude." Laura muttered as he didn't even answer her. "Who does he even think he is?" He just walked straight past her, no apology. Then again she didn't exactly expect it from his sort. He looked like the kind of person who was full of themselves, I mean he wears sunglasses inside for Christ's sake.

'"What is she, a human echo?' Laura snapped around, to face him. She glared at him, momentarily forgetting her reason for being here and walked over towards him. She jabbed a finger at his chest, "Who the hell do you think you are, talking about me like that?"

"I am not a human echo , I did not repeat what you said did I?" Laura laughed coldly and shook her head. "Clearly you don't know what echo means."

*pling*

Heads.

*Pling*

Heads.

*Pling*

....

Heads.

Ives sauntered lesiurely down the austere halls of the administration section of the Starlight Academy. Black and white marble. Busts of past headmasters. Afternoon sun made patchwork of the gleaming floor.

*pling*

Heads.

A glimmer of sun caught the silver coin he tossed as he walked. With a slight telekinetic manipulation, the result was heads yet again. Ives had been practicing all day; he barely had to think about it now. But soon, practice would come to an end, as he came close to arriving at the admissions office for his schedule, and to clear his semester bill. Luckily, grants covered most of it. He had planned on arriving at three thirty local time. It was a ten minute walk from his dorm, but he had left 20 minutes early with the intention of walking twice as slow.

*pling*

...

Ives caught the spinning coin in his hand but stopped short of checking the result of the toss, as an impediment to his progress had arisen. Two souls, one occupying a tall, lithe, male body, and the other in a short, frail, womanly one, stood in opposition within the very doorframe through which it was his intent to pass.

"What's the situation here?" he drawled complacently at the two, mostly interested in seeing the delay in his progress cleared up. He figured he had eight minutes to spare on this incident, maximum, without upsetting his schedule. The waning afternoon sun danced in his yellow, spiky hair and across the shoulders of his bright red hoodie as he awaited a response.

Laura stood with her arms crossed, a stern look on her face and she was tapping her foot to a steady beat. She was waiting for this man to answer her question, let's see what this bigshot has to say for himself, eh? . Of course, she hadn't been expecting him to bite back with his own round of insults.

"A small mindset ?" Laura repeated with a mocking tone. "I'm sorry I didn't realise we were talking about you." She frowned, a scowl appearing on her features. "What you're saying doesn't make any sense." She told him, "why would you insult me, but then say the insult is sarcasm?" She shook her head, he confused her to say the least.

Somewhere at the back of her mind Laura knew she should walk away, but she couldn't . Perhaps it was because she was curious or No, I can not be building a crush on him He's a dick. . Though she had to admit he was attractive.

Somebody else interrupted them and Laura directed her scowl at them. "Yeah, what he said." For once she was agreeing with the tall stranger standing before her. She still hadn't found out his name.