Learning to square dance?

She stood before her mirror in her room, staring at her reflection. She had put on a light bit of makeup, a rare thing for her, her lips were shiney with gloss, and light pink. A light line of black circled her eyes, making then stand out even more. She nibbled on her lip. Trephas would probably be waiting for her down stairs, but she wasn't ready to do down. Mentally, that is.

Her hair was curled to frame her face, hairsprayed down so that it wouldn't whip around with her mind, and she smiled experimentally. A few things levitated off of her dresser with her nerves. Was it a date? Or just a friendly thing? They hadn't really cleared that up. She adjusted her flowy skirt, a patch work skirt with swirls of red, purple, blue, and black, that reached her knees. Typical to her style, she wore a pair of black converse high tops.

She focused on the levitation objects. 'Down. Down..'

Lex sighed. Time to go down. She turned, turning off her light, and as she moved away from the levitating objects, they rested back down on the dresser top. She opened her door, and bounded down the stairs, as though she had not a care in the world. She stopped when she saw Trephas, slightly surprised at her own reaction. 'Just friends, until he deems otherwise...If he does..' she coached herself mentally, then continued her decent, til she was at the bottom of the stairs. Trephas had his eyes closed. "You ready to go, Trephas?" she called in her customarily cheerful voice, no traces of the things going through her mind on the outside. She continued to smile, even though an even more startling thing came into her mind, 'I wonder if Eben told him..'

Lex smiled widely when he offered her the rose, and she took it, breathing deeply. "Thank-you Trephas. It's beautiful." she glanced up at him with shining eyes, pure adoration leaking through her gaze for just a moment, before it was masked. "I'm going to put it in water now so it won't wilt." she added, floating the rose up to her room, where she moved the vase, turned on the water, filled the vase, and placed it on her dresser, rose within the water, all with her mind. Then she smiled again, breaking out of her concentration with the task finished. "There. I'm all done." she said again, softly.

She desperately wanted to tell him how much he'd grown on her, how much she cared for him, but her fear of being hurt held her back. She realized that she'd been looking up at him steadily since she last spoke, so she shifted her gaze to her feet. 'Feelings just mess up everything.' she told herself, continuing to stare at her feet.

Lex frowned when he made the comment about his powers draining. That bothered her for more reasons than one, but she didn't say anything. What could you say to something like that? Then he offered her his arm so that she didn't have to. She took his arm in the proper way, and waited for him to start walking before following his lead. Then she wondered, once again, if Trephas knew that she knew about his past, or if he didn't. She didn't want to keep it from him, and risk him finding out and not trusting her, and judging by how Eben had reacted, she wasn't sure that she wanted to be the one to tell him. She wasn't smiling at the moment, and it was rather obvious that she was thinking about something, because her face was completely straight.

Lex glanced up at Trephas, and smiled slightly. "Am I so transparent that you know what I'm thinking now?" she asked him, cocking her head to the side. She didn't really need an answer. "But I'm glad he told you, and I'm glad you don't care...I don't know what I'd do if you were as angry as Eben was." she breathed out a sigh. She wasn't proud of her reaction to Eben that day. She glanced back up at Trephas and grinned. "Well, we're off to a real good start. Why don't we take a detour past the Hospital wing? I hear some aliens attacked."