Bringing People Together For Christmas

Peregrine waited until everyone who had gotten there before him went in, then he walked up to host and held out his hand. "Good evening, sir. My name is Peregrine Desmarais. Thank you for hosting this party, it will be nice to meet some other people." He holds out the wine bottle in his other hand, quirking his face at the wrapping. "My parents taught me to always bring a gift for the host. I hope this is appropriate. I apologize for the wrapping job, my uh sister did it."

After talking with the host, Peregrine looked around at the other guests. It felt odd to be among others who were openly supernatural. They looked mostly like students his age too. He saw one of them bump into another, and a cat-looking person standing off to the side. So he decided to introduce himself to the cat-person first. He took the others hand in a firm grip. "Hello. My name is Peregrine, or Bird if you prefer, what is yours? I'm a new student here at the Academy."

As with every party, there is always at least one person who arrives late. Sometimes on purpose, and sometimes by accident. The first was a woman of twenty three years, who admittedly had a difficult time with the stairs. This was entirely her own fault, since she refused to go anywhere without wearing her roller blades. She had rainbow colored hair that she was always fussing over, and bore a message for the host. She had written it herself, since she could not speak.

Trailing not far behind was another woman with decidedly red hair. She spoke, just not very often. The two didn't notice eachother until they arrived on the doorstep. Since the red haired one had arrived latest, she rang the doorbell. As they waited for the door to open, they both silently pondered as to whether or not they should have brought something as a gift for the host.

He grabbed the hand of one of the late persons who had offered an introduction, his name was Bird "My name is Lachlan Macloed" . He wondered if he should use one of his nicknames, well one of them he only used privately and would incriminate him, the other was his cat name and the third was close to the cat name. Eventually he would decide against it.

"Nice to meet you, I am going to mingle so I will probably bump into you again." Nodding in birds direction as a, well not a goodbye but more of a see you later. His plan to mingle and take a bite here and there, while mingling, until his hunger was sated. These plans where soon destroyed, as he came up to the closest table with food on he couldn't stop eating.

Would have been alright with being quiet and alone for part of the party. He rather liked watching instead. But suddenly he felt himself bumped into. Quasar actually moved for once, a hand reaching out towards Anthony to steady him and push him a bit further away from Kris. The girly boy, on the other hand, soon turned to face him for a moment, blinking a few times.

"Eh. S'alright."

He offered a simple shrug, uncrossing his arms to take the other person's hand and give it a shake, "The name's Kris. Tall, green, and silent behind me is called Quasar." he said, repeating his words from earlier to the guy who bumped into. Anthony. "So. 'sides bumping into me.. You do anything? I mean you go to this weird school, you have a weird ability or are you some weird spooky monster thing in disguise?" he asked, rather bluntly at that.

After being pushed by the tall, green guy, Quasar is his name apparently, he shake the hand of his friend, heh, friends already, Kris. Hearing Kris' blunt question, Anthony did not even flinched, instead he gave Kris a big smile, excited about someone actually asking him who he is.
"Well, I have, as you call it, a weird ability. And no, I am not some weird monster in disguise, not that there is anything wrong with that." Anthony said, and as he said it, he realized he should at least gave Kris something for bumping into him. Anthony withdrew a glass and also a bottle of Coke he kept in his Infinite Space, and offered it Kris while saying "My weird ability, is to store and withdraw anything, well, almost anything from this huge other dimension space I call Infinite Space. Well, I cant really store living things" Anthony said.
"How bout you? What's your weird ability? And again, sorry for bumping you, it seems to have upset your boyfriend here" Anthony asked, while choosing to leaning on one of the pillars at the hall.

The party brought three questions to Victor's mind.

Number one: Why was he here, of all places? The place was full of people, none of which he had even seen before. Sure, it was a party for new students, and he did want to meet new people, but Victor was afraid he could screw up- heavily. The only thing that made him come was that girl he met, Lila, in the library trying to get him to be social.

Even so, he stood in the corner, wearing his usual orange shirt and jacket, and watched the other party goers, and well as hiding from the floating mistletoe that kept following him around. That was number two. Was it dangerous?

His final question was if he could make it through the night without talking to anyone. He had already managed to enter the building by stopping time and walking in without talking to the host that insisted on greeting everyone.

The people here seemed quite strange, like that college student that made the horrible joke, or the girl his age with the silent companion. Thankfully one had just walked into the other. With both occupied, he could just walk past without being noticed.

He was right behind the pair when he heard the girl speak to the older boy.

Stardust Crusader said:

"So. 'sides bumping into me.. You do anything? I mean you go to this weird school, you have a weird ability or are you some weird spooky monster thing in disguise?

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He couldn't help it, but that brought to mind a meat suit tuxedo (on special for $14.99!), and he laughed loudly.

As he was waiting for the girl and her answer, he heard someone laughing from behind them. Laughing quite loudly. He release himself from the pillar, and watched as someone with an orange shirt laugh loudly at, whom he assume, is him and Kris. A couple of questions emerged from this:
1. What the hell is he laughing at?
2. Why is he wearing an orange shirt?
3. And how come no one notice his arrival?
For the third question, Anthony assumed he must have some sort of teleportation ability. Or maybe he can turn himself invisible. Ever the friendly, open person that he is, Anthony extend a welcome to this newly arrived guest.
"Well, hello there. Didnt see you arrived. My name is Anthony, the lovely person I have just bump into is Kris, and her lovely companion is Quasar, if I am not mistaken" Anthony sneakily peek at Kris, to make sure he has not offend the girl.
"And you are?"

Oh no, He thought. First impressions were the worst.
"Uh, I'm V-victor, and sorry for l-laughing at you, Anthony." He stammered. He slowly reached for the boy's hand, but quickly pulled it back, and instead fiddled with his glasses.

Looking up, he noticed that the Mistletoe had finally left. He was safe for now, at least. Victor took a deep breath. Keep calm, he reminded himself. Victor zipped up his jacket and put his hands in the pockets.

"I can sorta, uh, bend time, a bit."