ooh, british accent

[pandion]

It's not like Andi never noticed him before. He's totally cute and everything. She's been noticing boys for, like, a while. (She doesn't have the date noted in Inscrutable Cipher like Bella, but it's definitely been a while.) It's just that until he had to give that report in week two of American History she didn't hear him talk very much.

Mmmmmmmmmmm British accent. There's probably kinds. She can't identify this one and doesn't care, they're all yummy. He's yummy. Yum. She's going to have to talk to him at lunch, or something, if she can get him off by himself. Maybe Bella will help.

Andi scopes out the situation around Ethan Rayne, He Of The Hot Accent, at lunch.

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[pandion]

"Well, I mean, she said she wouldn't mind, so."

[instar]

"Only if I guess correctly, which I can only verify in the case that there is a prize," Bella says.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble shrugs. "Does that mean you don't wanna play?"

[palmofyourhand]

"And you didn't think I'd notice?"

[instar]

"Enh. I don't have anything else to do with the rest of the lunch period." She finishes off her banana. "I should probably be guessing things you might actually have on you. Stick of gum? Thirty-seven cents in assorted change? A snazzy-looking pencil?"

[pandion]

"I didn't actually think about that," confesses Andi.

[palmofyourhand]

"Not so well-planned after all."

[aeskhyne]

"Ooh," says Trouble. "You're good."

He rummages in his pocket for a moment and pulls out a pencil. The paper wrapped around the wood is sparkly pink, and there is a large eraser on top shaped like a chunky blue-and-pink butterfly. It is unsharpened.

[pandion]

"Well, I didn't have any other ideas."

[instar]

"Yay, I win," chuckles Bella. She tucks the pencil into her backpack.

[aeskhyne]

"You do," says Trouble. "You're a winner."

[palmofyourhand]

"And it worked like a charm," Ethan observes. "Kind of."

[instar]

"I will treasure it forever. That or actually write on things with it until it is a nubbin."

[pandion]

"Kind of?"

[palmofyourhand]

"Depends what you wanted, doesn't it?"

[aeskhyne]

"One of those," laughs Trouble.

[pandion]

"I just wanted to talk to you."

[instar]

"How come you hang out with Ethan if he doesn't like you? Or vice-versa, for that matter."

[aeskhyne]

"He thinks I'm funny," says Trouble. "We have fun together."

[palmofyourhand]

"Mission accomplished," says Ethan. "Congratulations."

[instar]

"...And this doesn't qualify as liking you? What am I missing?"

[pandion]

Andi giggles. "Thanks."

[palmofyourhand]

He grins.

[aeskhyne]

"There's 'like' the way you like a friend, and then there's 'like' the way you like a really good video game. That bakes awesome pies."

[pandion]

"...So is there stuff you miss about home besides the candy?"