Tabby and Hikari

[HIKARI YUREI]

Hikari walked with Tabby up to their new dorm, and she held Jake, a fluffy cat, in her arms as her best friend unlocked the door and walked inside. Hikari followed her in and took in the room. She smiled and her eyes widened. It looked so cool...

Both sides of the room were a complete mirror of eachother, but one side was completely white, and the other side, the one with the window, was completely purple. There was a bed, a small dresser, and a mirror on both sides, with two side tables in between the two beds. From where she was standing in the doorway, the window was directly in front of her, and under it was the purple bed, the white bed against the wall beside the door. Between the two beds, on her left side, were the two side tables, and on her right were the two dressers, side by side. The mirrors were up on the wall on opposite sides of the room, next to the foot of the two beds. There was a fair amount of space in the middle of the room, between the two beds, and on the floor in that space was a plush rug, half white (on the purple side of the room) and half purple (on the white side of the room).

She absolutely loved this room. She herself chose the white bed, and Tabby simultaneously chose the purple, placing their bags on the rug. Tabby hopped onto the bed, testing out the softness. Hikari chuckled and plopped Jake down on her angel wing-white comforter, and he curled up on the soft surface, purring and falling asleep. Hikari sat down next to him and smiled at Tabby.

"It's really nice in here. Want me to help you unpack? Or should we just chill for a bit? It's been a long day..." She said, falling back on the bed and closing her eyes. It had been a lot to take in, but she felt like as long as she didn't run into too many mean people, she'd really like it here. "It's up to you, I'm ok with anything..."

She opened her eyes enough to locate her side table, and placed the bottle of soda that Matt had given her for Jake. She couldn't for the life of her understand why a cat would like soda, but Matt said it was his favorite, so she figured it was ok. She let her own bag fall to the floor next to her bed, and waited for Tabby's response.

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[TABBATHA JARETT]

Tabby walked to their new dorm, slowly letting her frustration level go down so that Hikari wouldn't notice. She was still pretty pissed off at the fire chick, Freya. She took a deep breath and dug in her bag for the room key she'd obtained upon applying for the school. It said "Room 214" on it, stating the girls' room number. She quickly unlocked the door and stepped inside their new room, lugging their luggage along with her.

As she stepped into the room, a large smile appeared on her face. This room was beautiful! She quickly dumped their stuff into the middle of the room and leaped onto the comfy looking purple bed. She sighed as she landed on her stomach, face buried in a bunch of fluffy pillows.

"This is the life" She mumbled as she felt herself relax on the super comfortable bed. She could definitely get used to this. She looked up at the one window in the room, which was above the bed, and peered out at the clouds. It was a beautiful day, and light flooded the room. She hadn't even had to turn on the overhead light when she walked into the room. She looked over at Hikari and grinned at her friend as she saw the ghost happily flop back onto the adjacent white bed. "Great, isn't it? Sure beats living on the run all the time."

She looked down at their bags and shrugged, sighing. "Nah, we don't have to worry about it right now. I'll get them later. Let's rest for a bit, then you can head down to the library to check it out. I know you want to. I'll unpack while you're gone."

She winked at her friend and laughed when Hikari turned pink, like she didn't know how to take that. Tabby held up a hand. "And before you protest, it's no trouble. I don't mind unpacking. You go have fun. I know how much you want to go to the library and get a truck load of books. Knock yourself out. I wanna stay here all day anyways. This is heaven!"

She exlaimed the last part and threw her hands up in the air, laughing. Then she yawned. "So, why don't we catch up on the sleep we didn't get this morning, then figure it out from there?"

Hikari nodded, and the two girls caught up on some much needed sleep. Later, when they woke up, Tabby shoo'd Hikari off to the library and got to work unpacking everything. Hikari left hesitantly, but Tabby knew how much she wanted to check out the library. Eventually, the shy ghost left, and Tabby picked up their bags, unpacking their clothes into their respective dressers, setting Hikari's teddy bear on her bed next to Jake, and laying the ghost's notebook on her side table, next to the mountain dew. She didn't even want to ask about the soda, even though she was curious. Hikari didn't drink soda...

Tabby shrugged, then stacked her music CDs on her side table and dumped all of her books on her bed, contemplating where to put them all, her hands on her hips. She continued to contemplate this as she hung Hikari's bag on her dresser handle and stuffed her suitcase under her bed.

"Hmm...maybe I could run to town and buy a small bookshelf for the room. I can push the two dressers a little farther apart and fit the shelf in between them..." She pondered, picking up the books and stacking them neatly on the floor at the foot of her bed until she figured out a better place to put them.

After that, Tabby sat back on her bed with one of her books and glanced at her stack of CDs before settling back and reading her book. She'd need to buy a small CD player as well. She'd lost her old one before they came to the school, so her beloved music was silenced until she got a new device to play them in. All she possessed was what she'd unpacked. It was pretty sad, really, but at least it was better than nothing. She sighed and got lost in her book, forgetting all of this as she slipped into a new reality for a while.

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[MATTHIAS HUNTMEN]

Matthias woke up in his dorm with a slight start a few beads of sweat dripping from his face as the night had brought back an old memory from back in his old town. He slowly got up and shook his head blinking his eyes to let the memory fade back into the back of his mind as he wiped his brow. After the ordeal was over he got out of bed and remade it just as he had seen it when he arrived in the dorm. He liked the dorm it wasnt very difficult to keep clean, he did find it an odd feeling to sleep in a real bed after a few years of sleeping in a military cot. He stretched and yawned a bit happy he didnt have a room mate it ment he could do what he wanted without being bothered. Gathering a pair of slightly faded jeans a white t-shirt and deciding it wouldnt be a day for his leather over coat he grabbed a well fitted flannel and headed into the bathroom to shower.

Out of routine he turned the shower on cold and stepped in, after a few moments he remembered where he was and had a tempting thought to try the hot water . He finally made his mind up and not realizing how hot it would get he turn the hot on near high, it didn't take but for a second before Matt realized it was too hot. "Holy~!!" he howled out as he squirmed under the water to end up falling over and hitting his face on the wall of the shower then falling over onto the floor of it. Out of reflex he used his ice ability and froze the shower head, that gave him the time to get up and turn the water back onto a more lukewarm setting and he sighed with relief as the lukewarm water hit him. "much much better" he sighed happily and laughed at himself for being such a dork.

He got out of the shower and dried off before putting his clothes on and brushed his teeth and messed with his hair a bit so it wasn't as bedheadish. He hadnt unpacked his belongings yet so decided to do so while the morning was still anew, as well as took a time to sharpen his katana before putting it back in its sheath and put the harness with the sheath and blade on the corner of the bed. Going to the cafe he got his morning's food and ate it when he remembered that the girls still had Jake with them. Finishing his food he went back into his dorm and searched though a bag of Jake's items, pulling out his bowl he decided to take it to the girls so they could use it for the dew.

Walking out of his dorm he looked around as he walked into the main area that branched off into the two separate sections of dorms. He reached his mind out to see if he could contact Jake from a distance but to no avail, he must be sleeping he thought to himself as he headed into the girls dorms section. He could vaugly remember a rule about guys not allowed in the girls area but he wasnt sure. He kept his mind searching for jake and then he felt a familiar mental aura and stopped at a door numbered 214. He knocked on the door and said in his usual gentle tone. "Hey its me Matthias i wanted to drop something off for jake" he said through the door as he waited outside patently.

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[TABBATHA JARETT]

Tabby had fallen asleep reading, her book lying open on her stomach. She drowsily rubbed sleep from her eyes and sat up, running her fingers through her tangled hair and yawning. A knock on the door had woken her up, and it took her a moment to process that a voice had spoken through the door. A male voice.

Her eyes widened a bit and she grimaced, jumping as her book fell to the floor with a thud. She grumbled and picked it up, dog-earing the page she'd been on and setting it on her side table.

"One second." She yelled to the door, stretching and waking herself up before walking to the door and opening it a crack.

"What is it?" She asked, trying to stay friendly even though she really didn't know what to make of this guy yet. She didn't want to unfairly judge anyone, but she was very analytical and even more so for guys, since she could never trust them. Why should he be any differet? She glanced at the bowl in his hand and gave a it a quizzical stare. "What's that for? Water or something?"

She didn't know that Matt had given Hikari the mountain dew, or that it was for Jake. She figured cats drank something normal, like milk or water. She had absolutely no idea why Hikari had the mountain dew, but she didn't think for one second that it could be for a cat. She'd probably just been polite as someone offered her a drink.

She opened the door a little bit, reluctant to let Matt in, but doing so anyways because, well, she had taken his cat, and he had the right to check up on him.

"Come in, but don't touch anything please. Jake's asleep on Hikari's bed." She said with forced friendliness.

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[MATTHIAS HUNTMEN]

Matthias walked into the room and looked around a bit seeing it was identical to his dorm. "I came to check up on Jake to see how he was doing and to bring by this bowl for him. I figured that it would for when it came to drinking the dew i gave Hikari for Jake. He loves the stuff I practically raised him off the stuff when i found him as a kitten." he said chuckling softly as he explained and put the bowl next to the dew. He saw Jake sleeping on Hikari's bed and went over and crouched to pet him while he slept. "So has jake been on his best behavior since i last saw him?" he said smiling softly "Sometimes he can be a handful when he wants to be, and i didnt awake you with my arrival did i? If i did i apologize." He said as he realized that he clothes were a bit wrinkled and such as well her hair was slightly cowlicked, and was worried he might have woken her when he knocked on the door. While Matt was petting him Jake rolled onto his back stretched slightly while making a cute kitty yawn before rolling over on his other side curling up.


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[TABBATHA JARETT]

Tabby's face got an odd expression and she glanced from the bowl to the mountain dew, and back to the bowl. Then she glanced at Jake, then at Matt.

"What!? You raised a kitten on SODA?" She squealed, shaking her head in disbelief. "How on earth is that healthy for a poor kitty? It's pure caffeine and high fructose corn syrup! Poor kitty!!!"

She ran to Jake and scooped him up, ignoring his meows of surprise as it woke him up. She snuggled the cat to her chest and pursed her lips, sending Matt a death glare. "There, there, kitty. I'll take good care of you and feed you good, NOURISHING food and water!" She cooed, patting a very bewildered Jake on the head.

She then sighed and placed Jake on her purple comforter, which was a bit ruffled from where she fell asleep on it. The fluffy cat immediately fell back asleep, purring, and she turned around, her attention back on the boy in her room.

Then it hit her.

There was a boy in her room. She immediately got flustered and frustrated, realizing that it was against the rules for boys to be in a girl's room, and that she barely knew this guy, and she didn't trust him yet. He was a guy after all, and they were not to be trusted.

She hurriedly nudged Matthias back towards the door, nodding at the bowl and mountain dew. "Ok, thanks for dropping off the bowl for him, but you need to leave now. This is against school rules and I barely know you. You can't stay in my room."

Despite how flustered she was, she noticed how polite Matt was being, and it threw her off a bit. She didn't want to admit it, but she appreciated how he hadn't just barged in and everything, and how he'd apologized for waking her up. She suppressed a smile. It wasn't enough to make her trust him, but it was a pleasant surprise, and much different than how she'd ever been treated by a guy, especially one her age.

She still wanted him to leave, though.

"I don't want to get caught with a boy in my room, and I certainly don't want detention so early in the school year, so, if you'd please, kindly get out of my room and off of the girl's dorm floor." She said sternly, but not rudely, eyes steadily focused on Matt.

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[MATTHIAS HUNTMEN]

Matt watched as she exclaimed at the news Jake was raised on the dew. It didn't really phase him much it was the normal reaction he got when he told people, he just figured that maybe being around him caused Jake's physiology to change a bit causing him to require more sugar and carbs in order to go through life plus it helped to have a boost when he would sometimes help him in a fight. "He isnt that bad on my way here ive had him checked up by several vets to make sure he was flee free and that his vitals were all good, so far hes passed with flying colors, he is a faithful companion almost like a a younger brother to me." he said with a soft smile and calm tone as he remembered back in the day with Jake.

When Tabbatha began to nudge him out he didnt resist as he remembered a bit about a rule that might have suggested he wasnt allowed in the girls area. "no problem and if there is anything you might have questions about Jake while he stays ill be happy to help" he offered as they neared the door he noticed what looked liked a stack of cd's. As he opened the door he turned around before fully exiting. "Ya know if you like we could go into town i saw a good music place while i was on my way here and i think i saw Lindsey stirling's new album out on the shelves if you're interested. That way i am out of your room and we can still talk." he said in his friendly tone with a gentle smile.

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[TABBATHA JARETT]

Tabby paused and glanced at Matt, listening, but trying not to listen, to his calm, even voice. He didn't sound like all the other guys she'd encountered before, and in unnerved her. She didn't know how to deal with guys like this, only ones she could defend herself from. His politeness kept catching her off-guard. She narrowed her eyes, desperately trying to analyze him. It was hard, though. She pinched the bridge of her nose, shaking her head, trying to wrap her mind around this. Her psychic powers were really weak today, since she'd just woken up, and she was incredibly un-focused.

She coughed lightly and was about to close the door on him as he left her room, surprisingly without resistance, when she heard him say the name of her absolute favorite musician of all time. She froze on the spot and her eyes widened.

"L-Lindsey Stirling?" She sputtered, face showing total shock and bewilderment. This guy liked good music? She didn't think guys liked good music, let alone absolutely, brilliantly talented violinists. "You like Lindsey Stirling?"

Ok, what was with this guy? No one earned this much of her respect in one day.

Shaking her head again, she gave a small smile and shook her head. "I'm really sorry, but I have no money, or, sadly, a CD player, despite my stack of CDs. It got lost before I moved here."

Her shoulders slumped a bit and she frowned slightly, wondering why she was telling this guy all of this, and why on earth he was acting so different than other guys? It sent her head spinning, and she had no idea how to handle it. She dropped the 'I hate guys, so I'll be a jerk' act, because she genuinely wasn't sure what to think of Matt, and so far, he was totally going against her expectations of a guy. It slightly intrigued her. She wanted to read him, and figure him out, like a puzzle. She felt her mind tug her towards the idea of going to town with the guy, but again, she had no money.

And there was Hikari to wonder about. What if she came back to the dorm and wondered where Tabby was? Well...if she did come back to the dorm, she'd be safe in the room until Tabby got back...she'd invite her, but she didn't want to interrupt her friend's time at the library, which she knew her ghost friend found invaluable.

She looked at Matt again, having zoned out, lost in thought. Her icy eyes shined in a new, fascinated light. She found that rather than hating this guy, she felt intrigued by him. It made her smile a bit. She considered her answer again and gave another small cough.

"Actually...I guess I could just look around a bit. Sure, I have no money. But window shopping's ok, too..." She said, avoiding Matt's eyes and grimacing a bit. Did she just agree to go somewhere with a guy?

You must be losing it, Tabby. she thought with an inward sigh.

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[MATTHIAS HUNTMEN]

"Mhm Lindsey Stirling" he repeated to her as she asked in a slightly shocked tone."Of course. She is an amazing violinist and her songs touch the soul" he said happily as he described how he felt about her music and had a genuine sparkle in his eyes despite the blindness they still showed emotions like normal eyes would portraying sight. He chuckled softly at her reaction to him but only in the best way and at the sight of her trying to get a read on him and he mentally kept anything back. Showing no resistance or ill intentions. "If you dont mind i could always get you the cd player with album i dont mind." he offered honestly as he stood in the door frame and didnt show any alternator motive to it pure a gesture of friendship.

"If you would like to think about it how about we meet up over by the school's pond? I usually like to sit by it and listen to music around 2:00 so if you would like to go into town with me ill be there" he offered just in case she wanted to think about it first before deciding about it. He looked outside the door frame a bit to check if any girls were around and sighed contently as it apeared none were to been seen just yet as he waited for an answer.

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[TABBATHA JARETT]

Tabby's eyes shined when she heard Matt's description of Lindsey. She felt exactly the same way.

"I've always wished that I could play violin and dance as gracefully as she can, while rocking out like a boss." She said, laughing. "But I'll just let her be great at it, because the only think I'm good at is appreciating beautiful music. And like...throwing water balls at people who annoy me. And reading..."

She was babbling. Why was she babbling? She didn't want to tell all of this to that guy. What was wrong with her. She shook her head.

"Anyways, I've already made up my mind about going to town. No need to think about it. If I think about it too much, I'll decide against it." She said bluntly, looking outside at the bright sunlight. "Just go wait in the lobby. I'll be down in a minute. It looks like it's hot out, so I'm gonna change into some shorts or something."

She said this while fixing her hair back into a ponytail, yawning pretty unattractively. She blushed a bit, but was unable to hide her yawn due to being preoccupied with her hair. She averted her gaze, frowning slightly. Then her eyes flashed when she registered what else Matt said. She turned back to him, shocked.

"I can't ask you to buy me something! You barely know me!" She said, aghast. She narrowed her eyes, again trying desperately to read this boy. "What do you want out of it?"

She became on guard again. Was there something fishy about this boy she wasn't seeing? People didn't just buy others music and CD players. Something was up...

She shook her head. "Either way, you need to get out now. I need to get ready, and you need to leave anyway, before another student or teacher sees you here. I don't want to get in trouble, but more importantly, I don't want rumors spread about me. I'll meet you down in the lobby."

While she said this she yet again nudged Matt towards the door, then, assuming he'd close it behind him, she walked back over to her dresser and pulled out some dark jean-shorts and a dark blue loose-fitting shirt. Since it was hot outside and sunny, she wanted to wear something airy that wouldn't make her all hot and uncomfortable. She picked out her favorite pair of navy converses as well, and then turned to glare at Matt until he left, so she could change.

Assuming he'd leave, she then changed quickly and headed down to the lobby to meet him.

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[MATTHIAS HUNTMEN]

"Im sure you would be great at it, all you need is a good sense of rhythm and the patience to practice it." he said to give a self esteem boost and an honest opinion. "And throwing a water ball is nice as well my only aqua type power of my three is ice" he said chuckling and he leaned onto the door frame as she talked and when she replied about the money he said "It's fine i promise i dont mind at all, money has never really been important to me so id rather see it be used to give you back your music then it just gather dust or get lost with me." he said honestly and it could be read off of him that there was no trickery with in him. "And if i were to ask anything of it i would only ask to listen to the Lindsey's new album sometime with you" he said gently As she nudged him out of the door he didnt resist and closed the door behind him as he made his way down to the lobby carful not to get caught by anyone. Once he reached the lobby and found a chair to sit in as he waited for Tabbatha and played a bit with the air as he created evaporating frost trails in the air that would disappear soon after being made.

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