What nightmares are made of

<SavanahHolland> Wendy at the moment is at a desk in a empty math classroom, her worst subject really, a bunch of papers sprawled on the little desk and a textbook buried somewhere in there.. She dropped a pen and at the moment is trying to bring it back with the tip of her foot, rather not wanting to waste time to bend down and grab it. Her little Neru had let himself out earlier to Wendy's dismay, the li
<SavanahHolland> ttle light blue fox with floppy ears running around the classroom.
<Endorb> James enters the classroom. Good, he hated the winter, and the early darkness that came with it. He had come earlier today and thought it would be a good idea to get a feel for the place to settle in better. Upon entering, he very quickly looks and walks over towards Wendy. ~Here we go, first person to talk to. Don't screw it up~. He takes a moment to prep...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy looks up from her desk to look at the boy, having by now given up trying to grab her pen and sitting back normally, she would get it later, even if it was still in the back of her mind and would bug her /forever/. She gives a small curious hum to him, something of a 'hm?' more than anything. At this point her little familiar had stopped running around, laying on its back on the floor
<SavanahHolland>  with its belly of flames exposed.
<Endorb> James doesn't notice the familiar yet, which is probably a good thing. ~Darn, I took a bit too long.~ "H-hi. I'm J-James. I'm new here, and I was just, uh, looking around. N-Nice to meet you." He sticks his hand out. ~Great, I sound too nervous. She's going to think something's wrong!~
<SavanahHolland> Wendy gives him a small smile, nervous, it was fine, she didn't really care, she's had plenty of run ins with nervous people. Offering out her hand and giving him a firm handshake with her very doll-like hand. "Nice to meet you James." she says to him, despite the mulling sadness in her heart that could be attributed to the fact that Neru was out. As the blue fox rolls a little on the grou
<SavanahHolland> nd, much like a dog begging for attention.
<Endorb> "...What's your name?" ~Did I screw up that bad?~ "Wait, that sounded invasive... My bad. So, what are you working on?" he asks as he looks over the work ~Wait, was that also too invasive?~
<SavanahHolland> Wendy lets out a small laugh, standing up from her desk to go over and pick up the flaming ball of fire in the shape of a fennec fox she called Neru in her arms. "Wendy, don't worry." she glances over to where she was working "Just studying for the test next week.."
<Endorb> James sees the flaming fox, and recoils to the point of falling over (complete with scream), balling up for a bit before realizing it's not attacking, and giving a confused look at it.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy stumbles back, completely caught off-guard by the scream and the reaction, dropping the little fox of blue fire to the ground as it obviously looks as annoyed as a fox completely made of fire could at James. Her eyes wide she looks at James as well, maybe a little panicked. "W-why did you scream??" her words slightly jumbled in her mouth.
<Endorb> James takes a few more seconds to recover into a seated position, although he doesn't look like he plans to get off the ground any time soon "I-I thought that was going to attack me. You can see it, right? Of course you can, you were holding it... What a first impression, huh?" His brown, teddybear-like eyes seem very frightened and apologetic up at her
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes a deep breath as she calms herself down, looking to the little fox as it steps backwords and jumps up to the girl's shoulder, more of a gliding look than anything from the living flame. "D-don't worry.. he hasn't attacked anyone.." she says, putting back her smile on, and she was telling the truth.. sorta, Neru almost /did/ kill Katlyn. She moves over to him, offering her hand
<SavanahHolland> to help him up.
<Endorb> James takes the hand, and looks rather embarrassed. "I... Yeah, that's good to hear. I can never really trust things that don't look like animals... Well,I think I can trust this little guy, right?" he asks both of them as he goes to pet it. Seeing as she wasn't being burned, the idea it might burn /him/ didn't cross his mind
<SavanahHolland> Wendy gives him a warm smile, he was nervous and probably shy she reasoned, but it was faintly refreshing to see someone like him. "Yeah, you can trust him, he won't hurt you.. unless you hurt me." she mumbles the last bit under her breath, easily missed. The little fox certainly doesn't burn you, and gives you a faintly warm feeling that blossoms into your veins and heart as you pet him,
<SavanahHolland> a almost bitter sweet feeling.
<Endorb> "Yeah. So, where's he from? I havn't seen many things like this, and most of them..." He stops himself as he shudders for a few moments. He almost spoke of the devil...
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes a sharp breath in, looking over to Neru on her shoulder before looking back to James, her smile still warm and certainly still there. "He's from... me I guess? I.. don't know how to explain it really."
<Endorb> "I understand. Must be nice, having something so cute whenever you need it. Having a friend always by your side..." ~Don'tsighDon'tsighDon-oops~ "So, how's your math coming along?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's eyes sharpen a little.. Neru wasn't exactly a friend.. now that she had some idea of what he was, she didn't want him with her, constantly following her, even when he wasn't where anyone could see, always in her eyes. "He's not a friend." she says quietly, despite the fox still on her shoulders, she puts the smile back on, though looking over to the math she deflates a bit. "Terrib
<SavanahHolland> ly.."
<Endorb> "Not a friend? Why not?" ~Wait too invasive~ "Maybe I can help with the math? i'm not /great/ at it, but I can at least tell when I'm wrong right away"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy decides not to answer his first question, really she didn't know how to answer, or maybe she did, she wasn't sure. "You don't have to really.. plus it's just studying so nothing to really check if right or wrong."
<Endorb> "Oh. I thought you might be doing practice questions... Well, what are you studying right now?"
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy moves to sit back at her desk, her fox jumping down and wandering off into the classroom. She removes the papers of notes from on top of the textbook. She says a little reserved. "It might sound bad, but I have no idea what it's called..."
<Endorb> "I've said worse to my teacher. Let's take a look, then"
<SavanahHolland> The book is filled with simple problems that needed to be solved, but the page she's on is mostly filled with some stuff going into detail about certain equasions. She breaths a small sigh, she was hopeless at math.
<Endorb> "Ah. I don't know much about this, except that these bits" he points at a couple pairs of segments "always cancel eachother out. So try writing it up without those." ~there you go, you helped someone. Now you can go to bed tonight~ "So, what do you do for fun?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's eyes go just a little wider as if James had actually shed some light on something she didn't realize with the subject, though he probably did, Wendy was absolutely tragic with math sadly. She moves to write down on her notes, crossing a few stuff out. She looks up to him while still writing. "Fun? I just talk to my.. friends I guess? I just do whatever works at the time.."
<Endorb> "Whatever someone else offers, huh? I know if I lived like that, I'd never have any fun" ~No, don't make yourself a tragic story to her!~
<SavanahHolland> Wendy looks up at him, maybe a little concern on her face. "What do you mean?" she asks him.
<Endorb> "I never really /did/ anything with my friends. We really only hung out at school" ~because I didn't want them to get hurt~ As James thinks that, he tries to cover the bite marks on his left hand. "And we mostly just had crazy discussions, like which sandwich you'd take to a desert island"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy glances to his hand, idly wondering why he moved it, but she wouldn't press it really. She seems a little understanding, even if she has never fully experienced something like that. "Well, one of these days we can do something together, you seem nice."
<Endorb> "Really? Thanks. But what would we do? We both seem too passive to really make eachother do anything..."
<SavanahHolland> Wendy puts a smile on her face "Really, we could go to town? That's alway fun with friends." she wondered if she could possible drag Jace or Akemi too, that would be fun. "Whatever seems good at the time really." she half laughs.
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<Endorb> "I guess. What is there in this town?" James' face itches, and so he twitches a little ~damn it, it's like an invisible force /wants/ me to show the bite marks!~
<Endorb> darn it*
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy thinks for a moment "There's a cafe.. the rabbit cafe.." she says, its been forever since she went there, she kinda missed the taste of coffee really, boiling hot and fucking strong. "Or we could just walk around town?"
<Endorb> "hmm. I'm not much for caffeine" ~After all, it seems to send them haywire. Like, conga-line haywire~ "But I guess it's fine if I'm with you." He can't take the itching any more, and scratches his itch with his right hand, which has to cross his face at an odd angle to do so. It'd be quite easy for Wendy to notice the rather sharp teeth marks on his hand if
<Endorb> she looked away from his face at all.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy smiles a little more at the idea that he thinks it would be fine if he was with her, they've only just met but Wendy sees him as good company already. "They don't only have coffee, I think they have normal pastries there, though I could always just make you those if you wanted that." at the moment taking on both traits from Jace and Akemi, planning out ideas in her mind so she can ha
<SavanahHolland> ng out with a new friend, they would be proud. She looks away from his face, if only for a second catching a glimpse of his hand. Her face contorting into even more worry. "What.. happened to your.. hand..?" she half mumbles out.
<Endorb> ~Stupid itch!~ "Remember how I freaked out when I saw him?" He points at Neru "This is kinda why. They don't hurt as much as you might expect them to, at least. They still hurt, though... A lot..."
<SavanahHolland> "They..?" Wendy asks with slight reserve in her voice, she didn't want to force him to tell her his demons, she knew everyone had their demons, no matter who they were.. but everyone she's met, has had some of the worst demons inside them.
<Endorb> "Yeah, they. all..." He stops to count "20 of them." That demon thing was more fitting than Wendy'd likely realize. "What'd you think I meant?" ~you were invasive, now make up by being revealing~ "I mean, there is more than one of... them" He gulps. He can practically feel one breathing down his neck. Actually... Nope, nothing behind him.
<Endorb> yet.
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<SavanahHolland> Wendy looks somewhat confused, she isn't fully understanding, confused and concerned more like, what the hell would hurt someone like that? She thought he was a little dopey but its refreshing and kinda makes her want to hug him. "I.. don't think I fully understand.. you don't have to explain if it makes you uncomfortable really though."
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<Endorb> "I suppose it's only fair you know. Especially since I'm in a place where it's standard to have something comparable to... this" he doesn't bother gesturing to the bite marks
<SavanahHolland> Wendy bites her bottom lip faintly. "I.. don't think it's really a standard.. It probably is.. I hope it isn't."
<Endorb> "Well, aren't we all here for some oddity like this? But if you're going to be my friend, it'd be cruel for you not to know. I..." He hesitates. He doesn't want to summon them... but... "I'm followed by nightmarish creatures. The haunt my dreams, my life... It's not just creatures, either" He gets it all out in one breath. Like a bandaid
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's breath catches, then letting it out, that was.. some suprisingly heavy stuff for someone she just met, but really, we /all/ have our demons. Wendy, when she thought of nightmarish creatures, she couldn't quite understand, her nightmares were horrible, but horrible in a sense of reality, they were people, people she's known, people she thinks shes killed. "You.. you are..?" she asks
<SavanahHolland> , not completely sure what to say.
<Endorb> "Yeah. I hope mentioning them didn't make them show up... That happens a lot... Hopefully it doesn't bother you, though." James sighs "That'd make a horrible first impression, wouldn't it?" He finally decides to find a spot to sit, taking the closest chair to Wendy
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes another deep breath, that.. that was a lot to take in really. "It's.. fine.. I don't think it would bother me.. though how often.. do they come.. out..?"
<Endorb> "Usually, more than once a day. And almost every dream. That's when they get /really/ aggressive. There's variety, at least, so I never really get bored of their designs..." he gives a single laugh at his own joke.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy doesn't laugh, more so looks really worried for the boy, she knows what its like for nightmares, hell she's barely slept in the longest time, hell lately, she doesn't sleep, she just lays there, holding Akemi tightly, staring at the ceiling, god knows what going through her head. "I'm.. I'm not really sure what to.. say.. are you.. okay?"
<Endorb> "As much as I ever am." suddenly, he looks very tense. How can he not, when the feeling of very damp breathing that smells of blood and mucus suddenly appears on his throat ~Do I run? Do I stay still? Do I scream?~ James takes a risk and slowly turns his head to see what it is. A 6 foot monstrosity that looks vaguely humanoid with scales, gleaming sharp teeth
<Endorb> , and lack of eyes greet him. It takes a second, but he immediately dashes across the room "Stay Back! Please!" He doesn't know why he bothers begging any more, it never works. Maybe he just needs to hope it can work some day. And of course, Wendy has no idea of the monster existing right in front of her, because it doesn't... yet
<SavanahHolland> Wendy's eyes go wide as she dashes to the otherside of the room, moving to stand up quickly and almost as if it were planned Neru's playfulness sharpening as it the flames gather together, the creature going slightly as if taking on a protectivness. Wendy not even looking at Neru, just at James. "W-what's wrong??"
<Endorb> James simply points at the lumbering monster. It has dozens of tentacles for arms, and it's missing half it's left leg. It spits up a white goo at James, which he avoids, and he half yells "Can you not see it?". That seems to have inadvertently tripped his power, as it appears shortly before stopping to let out an ear-splitting, indescribable noise of pure
<Endorb> terror. Scream might work, I guess?
<SavanahHolland> (As *he dashes to the otherside of the room)
<SavanahHolland> Wendy turns to face the monster, her face going pale in utter horror, she's seen worse, delt with worse, /killed/ worse, but something about all the built up as James talked about it. Sent her to stumble back, falling on the ground staring at it in complete horror. Neru acts quick, now the size of a extremely large dog, it's flames crackling with a horrible sound as it screams. Standing in
<SavanahHolland>  front of Wendy and inching back as if guiding her to get as far away back from it as she can, it isn't just protecting Wendy because it cared, it's doing it because it /is/ Wendy.
<Endorb> James realizes, just a little too late, that he's cornered himself. so, he does the only thing he can do, and gets in a position that covers his vitals as much as possible with his limbs, rocking back and forth on the floor. The monster seems to not notice Wendy as it starts feeling over James with it's flailing tentacles, obviously searching for the best
<Endorb> spot to bite him. It lets out a gurgling noise as it begins to drool a sickly yellow-ish liquid.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy tries stumbling up off the ground as Neru helps her, it wants her to leave, it wants her to run away and ensure her own survival, and its own.. She sees James in the corner, she can't leave him, he seemed really nice, she didn't know him that well, but she sure as hell wasn't going to leave him. She runs over to him, trying to use her hand to get the tentacles.. or whatever they are
<SavanahHolland> away from him, trying to grab his arm so he'll get up and run, trying to mostly sheild him at this point. Neru for as much as a faceless fox made of completely flames looks angry, perhaps thats just the crackling of the flames as it bounds to the creature like a blood hound.
<Endorb> James sees Wendy coming to his rescue "Wendy! No!" Unfortunately, it's too late, as the monster takes an interest in her, attempting to wrap one set of tentacle around each of them to prevent their escape. Unfortunately, it already had James, more or less. It seems to not notice Neru, though
<SavanahHolland> Wendy feels the tentacles, really she feels like she's going to vomit, it was digusting really. Neru reacts accordingly getting closer to the creature and taking a stance on all four paws, it stares at the creature with icy intent, it stares with eyes that aren't even there, just intense flames. A freezing cold coming over it as if it would never end. The girl taking a moment to try to gri
<SavanahHolland> p off the tentacles from her, trying to grab James. "We need to go!" she nearly screams at him.
<Endorb> "It'll keep up. They always can. Just save yourself. They can't kill me, but they might be able to kill you!" James starts struggling, trying to divert it's attention more than actually escape. The monster, all in all, doesn't really end up with a very good grip on Wendy. She could easily break out if she tried. James, on the other hand, would take some work.
<SavanahHolland> Neru doesn't know exactly what to do, focusing it's power on the beast even more, before it does the obvious thing, fire. Setting a fire at the heels of the monster. Wendy at this point has gone beyond complete fear, but she isn't a coward to leave someone behind like that. "I'm not leaving you!" she says, still trying to quickly pull the tentacles from him, trying to free him so she can s
<SavanahHolland> tart running with him.
<Endorb> The creature and James have one thing in common at least: They both hate that plan. The monster decides to focus more on wrapping Wendy, and quickly restrains her legs, going for her hands next. However, it still manages to spit just a little bit of that white stuff onto James, which burns his face. Nothing serious, but still burnt. "Wendy! No!" He manages to
<Endorb> break out of the tentacles enough to attempt to reach the ones on her, although he finds he can't actually do anything yet, and goes back to fussing with his own tentacles
<SavanahHolland> Neru isn't ready to let Wendy die, or rather isn't ready to die at all, though with nothing it can do it just tries to keep attacking the beast that hasn't even noticed it yet, rather fruitlessly. Wendy feeling the creature wrap around her legs as she falls over, her head hitting the wall harshly as she kicks and nearly screams, not letting whatever the hell it is geting near her hands, tr
<SavanahHolland> ying to free herself.
<Endorb> Unfortunately, there's no real way to keep it from getting to your hands, and you even took the path that leads to it controlling your limbs quicker! At this point it's using all 14 tentacles on Wendy, and it makes sure it has a good grip on her, including a tentacle serving as a gag, before lifting her up and presenting her arm to his moth. He turns and
<Endorb> spits on James again, before it puts its teeth on Wendy. At first, you can barely feel it, but it slowly increases the pressure. You can even feel the exact moment it draws blood, and whatever's in it's saliva makes you feel woozy and weak. But seeing the first person he's met in such a state pushes James over the edge, and he manages the willpower to force
<Endorb> the beast away. That's actually quite the rare feat of his. Unfortunately, that doesn't heal whatever poisoning it gave you... He's too stunned to say anything yet
<SavanahHolland> Wendy falls to the ground, her head now throbbing alone from the horrible fear that was embedded in her eyes. Deep bites in her arm as blood streaks down it, the girl feeling like she was going to pass out alone from whatever the hell was in that saliva, she feels like she's going to vomit, but at the moment can only feel the tears stream down her eyes and sobbing. Neru looks as mortified
<SavanahHolland> as it can, running over to Wendy and pulling at her bloodied sleeve trying to get her to move and get the hell out of there to safety, but it can't get her to move, the girl frozen with fear and pain.
<Endorb> James immediately takes out his pocket-aid kit, spraying her bite and applying bandages to it. "Wendy! Are you okay?! Please be okay... I don't want you to die!" James' hands are trembling... a lot. He tries to keep them steady as he sees what else he can do, but it's in vein. Fairly quickly, he's left with nothing but to cry over her, knowing there's nothing
<Endorb> else that can actually be done. Although he probably wouldn't think that if he saw her fall over instead of being busy getting himself free. ~I killed the first person I met... Why!!??~
<SavanahHolland> She certainly wasn't dead, alive and breathing, but certainly ready to completely pass out, she felt weak, her vision a little shaking, her arm hurt like hell as he worked on it, she's been stabbed and punched before, but bitten was something she wasn't very used to. And it hurt. Tears coming down her face as she shakes on the ground, she had no idea why /this/ of all things was so horrify
<SavanahHolland> ing, maybe it was her being gagged by a tentical, that would certainly be a reason, she felt disgusting really, wanted to vomit bad. Neru stares at James, almost deadly if you could even tell from the fox. Still pulling on her sleeve as if trying to get her up, she seriously needed real medical attention, if only because of that saliva...
<Endorb> James knew that there was nothing left to do. The longest lasting poison he could recall from one of his nightmares came and went in 3 minutes. Wendy was probably about at the peak of it's effects. He just continued to cry over her, begging her to be okay, again and again.
<SavanahHolland> The effects finally wear after about a minute of the same thing, she felt like she was going to pass out the entire time really, but could never be dragged into the abyss no matter how much she really did want it, sleep, no dreams, no pain. She completely calms down finally, her sobbing at least quiet but tears still fell, shivering on the hard ground.
<Endorb> James sees her calm down "Wendy... Don't worry, it's over-" ~for now...~ "- you're safe. I'm sorry you had to go through that... Please, forgive me."
<SavanahHolland> Wendy slowly moves up from the ground, she looked like a complete wreck, well she already looked like a wreck before James came really, but this didn't help in the slightest. Moving away as she's on her hands and knees... and throwing up on the floor, well, she was throwing up water and bile more than anything, she didn't eat anything that day. Just remembering the tentacles grabbing her,
<SavanahHolland> serving as a gag, that was enough to make her vomit alone.
<Endorb> James goes and pats her back. It seems, despite how many times he was in her position, he hadn't really paid attention to how the other person coaxed him into calmness again. "It's okay... Get it all out. It's all over. You'll be okay... I'm here if you need me" Well, at least he knows what they /say/. He knows how to cover all the bases in that regard
<SavanahHolland> Wendy finally finishes vomiting, she didn't have much to vomit though really, leaning back away from the mess she made, her clean sleave going to wipe her eyes, then her mouth, even if the tears haven't even stopped yet. She felt disgusting, really really disgusting. "what.. what.. even.." she mumbles under her breath.
<Endorb> "It... Was a nightmare. Usually, they aren't quite so violent right off the bat. Wendy, if that happens again, I want you to run. They know they can't kill me, but I've never really had them deal with others before... Or, if you don't want to be my friend, I completely understand..."
<SavanahHolland> Wendy swallows the lump in her throat, or was that more vomit? She wasn't sure, she shakes her head looking to him with still fear in her eyes. "I- I can't leave you.. I can't leave a-anyone.. like that... I- I won't run.."
<Endorb> "You have to. What it did to you in less than 3 minutes would have taken an hour for it to get that bad on me. Besides, I can't escape it, no matter what. You can. This is my burden, I can't ask you to drag yourself down like that..." ~as much as I want to~
<SavanahHolland> "I won't." she says slowly, she can't leave him behind, that just wasn't in her nature to let someone go through that alone. "I'm your.. friend now, so I've got to help you.. I won't leave you behind."
<Endorb> "You can't help, really... It'll hurt you much more than it'll help me, and I don't want to be the reason you got hurt so badly... Look at what that guy did to you... He must've been poisonous or something..."
<SavanahHolland> Wendy pulls her knees up to herself, hugging them tightly and looking down, not looking at James. "I.. I still have to help you.. I- I can't leave you and make you have to deal with that alone.." as often as he says that happens, what just happened to her, she can't let that happen to him again.
<Endorb> James hugs her with one arm. Despite the circumstances, he can't help but enjoy that "I understand. But the answer isn't to go after the monster, the answer is to comfort me when it's gone, just like I'm doing right now." ~technically not, but semantics are stupid.~ "Please, don't be so reckless again?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy buries her face in her knees, later she would vomit more, she needed to get that sick feeling out of her mouth and system, she still felt beyond horrible and disgusted with what just happened, that was /not/ okay. "I.. I can't promise that.."
<Endorb> "Well, try not to? It'll work out better for the both of us in the long run..." James rests his head on her shoulder, as if that'd do anything besides comfort himself. He experienced it too. He might not have been wrapped up like a hentai and bitten, but still...
<SavanahHolland> "Fine.." she says softly "I- I should go.." she says in a even smaller voice, though not moving yet, she couldn't move yet, Neru was god knows where, probably ended up going back inside her, squeezing her legs tightly.
<Endorb> "Wendy... You don't hate me for that, do you?"
<SavanahHolland> Wendy takes a shaking breath, shaking her head softly before removing her face from her knees and standing up. "No.. no that wasn't your fault.. I can't hate you for that.. You're still my friend."
<Endorb> "But I was the one who called it... The one who allowed it into reality... I'm so sorry, Wendy!" James starts crying on her shoulder, which obviously becomes dampened b the tears
<Endorb> by*
<SavanahHolland> Wendy doesn't move, letting him cry on her, her hand going the the back of his head comfortingly as he does so. She takes another deep shaking breath. "Y-you.. at least didn't mean to.. right?"
<Endorb> "what? N-No! Why would I ever do something like that on purpose?!" James sounds confused and frightened. He at least seems to appreciate the hand on the head.
<SavanahHolland> Wendy looks at him, taking a deep breath as she tastes the air against her tongue like Akemi did when tasting emotions, though Wendy only felt the cold air against it. "Alright.. I don't blame you.. that.. that was bad, and it still wasn't your fault, so.. so don't worry."
<Endorb> James can only sob a little and offer more apologies. At least he isn't stupid enough to say it'd never happen again, because, well, she'd better get used to it if he hangs around a lot and she won't walk away when the time comes
<SavanahHolland> "James.. I think.. I'm going to go.." she smiles a little at him "At some point we can go to town together in the future.. alright?"
<Endorb> "O-Okay. Want to-to walk back together?" James tries to compose himself. Luckily, he's had /lots/ of practice
<SavanahHolland> Wendy gives him a nod "Sure, we can walk back to the dorms together." she pulls away from him, walking over to her desk to throw all the notes and blank papers in the textbook rather sloppily before closing it up and putting it under her arm.
<Endorb> In that time, James has pretty much composed himself, aside from the tears still falling from his face. He follows her out, and walks with her in somber silence to the dorm building. Most people passing by would think nothing's wrong, that the tears are an allergy and the rip a mistake. But the two of them know how bad it really was.
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