pencils, pens, pages, ink

There he was once again sitting alone in the park studying the people that walked by him yet again. He would usually be here at the same time everyday after class, he would see his mother and then walk to the park where he would sit down on his usual bench and begin to write about the people and strange things that happened to pass by. The park was great, the best place to study in little Joseph's eyes, for one it was usually nice and quiet and two he usually found the most interesting people there. Sure school was a good place too but there everyone called him creepy for what he did so he preferred to stay at the park after school hours to avoid the other kids.

So there he sat writing away, he was getting quite a lot done today. The park seemed to be lively and that was a good thing, so long as no one came by and interrupted him. He was bad at talking to others and often found it awkward and that was one of the reasons he wrote everything down because he was bad at talking to others and this would help him remember peoples names and the way they acted so he didn't have to worry about remembering people who he didn't take a liking too.

He always had his blood jug next to him while he wrote just incase anything decided to jump out at him or someone uninvited. He was busy writing down about an odd looking lady when Melanie approached him. At first he didn't notice her but when she spoke he slowly move his head up to see the girl that was standing in front of him. This was the second time this sort of thing happened to him and it went rather well so his hopes weren't totally in the gutter. He slowly make the blood from his jug float around his head and closed his notebook before speaking."......Hi?..... Nothing.... just school work....... can.... can i help you?" he spoke in his usual dull tone. He was lying of course but he usually didn't tell strangers what he was up to.

Joe looked up at Melanie and then let out a sigh and looked to the side for a moment to think. She was going to find out one way or another so he decided he would spill the beans, she looked tame enough after all."...... Yea..... telling people its school work..... never works anyways. I write stuff about the things and people i meet here...... call me creepy if you want....." he said promptly and rolled his eyes. His blood started to swirl in the air and formed a cane and floated it towards her." Do me a favor and..... hold onto that for me" he added smirking the slightest bit.

He looked at her puzzled, there he was sitting at the same bench he always did and this was the second time someone came up and offered to talk to him. He didn't think of him self as the type you would want to approach, no matter she was already here and he had to anwser."I..... suppose.... just hold that for me first" he said and pointed to the cane with a dull expression on his face.

He quickly examined the girl and wrote down her appearance and quickly labeled the page "another encounter..... with a another weird girl". He also wrote about her choice of clothing and how he found it was silly that she was wearing a skirt in such cold weather.

His mouth gaped a bit and a discomfort could be seen in his face as she told him about her watching."......Ok..... you should probably hold that cane...... now...". he said still looking a tiny bit discomforted.

Josephs intentions with the cane where in fact a bit shady and he had no intention to hurt the girl what so ever, but he enjoyed watching someone walk right into a try by there own will. It was really the only thing that made little Joe laugh and it might just give him the chance to give her a few more questions in a more assertive way.

He looked at her with a "Really?" facial expression." Its a cane...... i like canes they make me feel all cool and fancy..... just grab it.....". In Joe's head he wanted her to grab it so badly. Come on just a little bit closer, he had never done anything like this before so he was excited to see how this would turn out.

His face lit up with a bright smile as she reached out and laid her hand on the cane, something he didn't often do was smile like this but this was different. The cane quickly turned back into blood and rapped around her hand before turning back into a soil iron like metal to weight her hand down. He started to giggle and snicker like crazy.

He sat there snickering, he had just pulled off a dumb trick that anyone who had similar powers probably could have pulled off. But Little Joe felt like he was some kind of evil master mind, he had never done anything like this before and he was happy it acually worked. Even though it was a trick he could learn from this and use this to his advantage in the future if he ever needed to render someone immobilized, this was amusing.

He began to write again positive that her hand was stuck on the ground and so he took another look up and to his surprise she was still standing, his eyes widened."How...... are you....." he said and let out a sigh. He probably should have seen this coming, if there was one thing he had learnt while being on the island it was that nothing is as it seems and that looks were extremely deceiving.
His face was now filled with a little bit of doubt and a little bit of awkwardness as she spoke about playing ,it reminded him of someone.

".......Fun? What are you tal-" he was cut off by her sudden jump onto the bench and he jumped a little and quickly wrote something down about her being rather strong and weird, he had no other words to describe her but weird."What....... why...... are you...... you remind me of that..... Red fellow....." he had never meet anyone else that would do such a thing."....... Admittedly..... i'm extremely entertained" he said before standing up to write some more things down."You should..... also probably stop before you break the bench. N-never mind ill just.... do this". Joseph snapped his fingers and the shackle turned back into blood and began to orbit him once more, he didn't have to snap but he found it kinda cool.

Wow she was beyond weird, more weird then anything and anyone he had meet so far and that was saying quite a lot. He had meet magic users, spider people and many many other things, yet she appeared human and in all honesty she probably wasn't, remembering that nothing on this island made any sense. This whole thing was silly, really silly and he wondered why every time he came to the park something like this happened to him.

"That..... looked like anything but fun....... looks more like it really hurt..... are you ok?" he asked wondering to him self why she wasn't crying, it really did look like it hurt. He wrote down a few things about the girl and thinking pain was fun for some reason. Fun something he rarely had and this whole thing was admittedly a little bit fun if not really weird.

Wait what? What point was there to prove, Joseph was confused and puzzled for a moment."What point? You just ended up hurting your self...... for no reason..... i don't get it...." he said looking confused.

"Oh yea.... i guess its useful, but all the blood is hard to come by.....". He didn't see his powers as a cruse or a gift they were kinda just there, although he like the island its self a lot. It was interesting and there was so much to write and learn more about, it seem like there was to end to the knowledge he could gain.