Frivolous?

Ava was a bit cranky. Everywhere hurt and she had small burns here and there since some genius had thought that "Hey, she can turn into lava so she doesn't burn, right?". Think fucking again genius! The guy had made a simple excercise into fireball dodging practise and Ava would've beaten the shit out of him if Titus hadn't stopped her. She would've shown them what her lava could do, goddamnit.

Now Ava was just chilling outside, sitting on the grass by the doors. Titus had given her his usual burn cream and Ava was applying it to her face at the moment. She was thinking of asking Titus for some extra lessons if the old man had time. Ava felt like spending some pent up feelings still. Or maybe she could catch Shir and get him to spar a bit.

Ava could smell Maddie before she even looked up. And when she did her face was blank, void of the usual smirk she had. Right now Ava didn't have the energy for it. And she wasn't close enough with Maddie for the demon girl to automatically bring a smile to her face.
"Huh? To me? Well yeah, sure, I got time."
Ava was a bit confused as to what business Maddie had with her. She stood up and crossed her arms loosely, waiting for Maddie to state her business.

Ava was too stunned to even react for a moment. She had wondered what Maddie might've wanted and then she blurted out that she knew Ava liked Shir. Not think, or wonder. Knew. Normally that would've annoyed and amused Ava at the same time. But right now it just annoyed her. Because she had absolutely no feelings towards Shir. Not Shir, or Cardinal, or anyone. This whole island had a thing with romantic feelings, or at least that's how it felt.
Ava sighed a bit and shook her head.
"Lemme just make one thing clear. I don't have a thing for anyone, and that includes Shir. He's a friend and that's it, done. Not gonna ask him out now or never. 'Sides, any of that shit ain't real in this age anyway so why bother?"

Ava thought they were done, she had almost already turned around and left because this didn't make her annoyance go down. Well, it didn't escalate it either. It was just meh. Any other time Ava would've stuck around to maybe vhat but now she was tired and irritated. And Ava had no idea about feelings or any of that shit, nor was she interested. She had never had a crush of any kind and if she was honest she couldn't care less.

But apparently Maddie still had something to ask her and Ava wanted to groan. The girl had grabbed onto Ava's words about her views on dating. Oh boy, how should she say this nicely? Man, being nice was a pain. Fuck it.
"Well, you know, it's not like it's gonna last. Being a teenager is all about things being temporary, about trying things and letting them go. Okay, saying it's not real was a bit harsh, but it's ultimately a phase, right? Thing that'll pass. And before you give me shit, you asked."
Ava sighed a bit and pulled a scrunchie from her pocket to tie her hair up. There was a one last burn on her neck she needed to get and the hair was on the way.

Ava knew when she was pissing someone off and she was obviously doing that to Maddie. Well, at the moment Ava was too tired to care.
"I shouldn't have said anything, my tongue slipped. I shoulda known it'd piss you off. And if I'm 10 years too young to tell you that then aren't you 9 years too early to be doing dating and things like that? Although dating itself as a teen ain't bad, I guess. Good practice and all that."
Ava sighed a bit and spread the burn cream on the last burn on her neck. It stung and Ava almost grimaced.
"Some fucking genius thought that lava dragon wouldn't get burns and started throwing fucking balls of flame at me."
Ava said and growled a bit just from remembering it.

The corners of Ava's mouth did twitch upwards slightly when she remembered Titus' fury towards the guy. Oh man, that had been priceless. And kinda frustrating because Ava hadn't been able to direct that same fury towards the guy herself.
"Oh he got in trouble alright. I think Titus would've decked the guy if he hadn't been a student. And who knows, maybe next time I can test some of my new moves on him."
Ava smirked, she was clearly joking. She knew that as a dragon she had the potential to seriously hurt people, so she more often than not held back.

Ava looked at Maddie kinda surprised when she spoke her next words. Ava sighed a bit.
"Yeah, I remember. Something about defending Shir's honour or something. I'm not gonna fight you though. Or what, did you want to seriously challenge me?"
Ava was kinda amused by that thought and there was a small smile on her face. Because even though Maddie's illusions seemed like a tough thing to beat in a normal fight Ava would just need to turn into a dragon and sniff her out, or just turn the ground into lava. Hell, she could sniff her out as a human just as well.