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]

"Yeah. I think we maybe had math together last year? Something, anyway. Something without reports though."

[instar]

"I said, apparently, I'm supposed to distract you."

[aeskhyne]

"Well, that's adorable," says Ethan's friend, sitting up straighter with a little shake of his shoulders and tipping his head toward Bella to better display his grin.

[palmofyourhand]

"Hmm - math, yes," says Ethan. "Sounds about right. You sat by the window and your compass had that little—" He makes a fluffy wiggly sort of gesture with his fingers.

[pandion]

"Yeah, it was supposed to be a pencil topper," says Andi, "but then you can't erase anything, so."

[instar]

Bella shrugs. "My sister shares a school with a symmetrically-featured British dude, and I didn't have anything better to do."

[aeskhyne]

"He's gonna break her hea~aaart," hums the friend. "Just like he broke mine. Well." He flashes a quick grin. "Maybe not just like."

[palmofyourhand]

"Ingenious," says Ethan.

[pandion]

"Uh, I don't know if you remember my name? I'm Andi - Alexandra but it's Andi - Swan."

[instar]

"Should I be passing along dire warnings?"

[aeskhyne]

"Oooh, but where would be the fun in that?"

[palmofyourhand]

"Ethan Rayne," he says. "Pleasure."

[instar]

"I have the overwhelming majority of fun when I'm not comforting a heartbroken twin."

[pandion]

Andi giggles. "I know that. I have to do my report next week," she adds. "Any tips on not being, like, terrified because public speaking? They say people fear public speaking more than they fear death, I dunno about that but it's competitive with my fear of, like, falling out of bed and breaking my nose on my desk or something."

[palmofyourhand]

"Picture your audience in their underwear, isn't that the traditional advice?"

[aeskhyne]

"In that case," says Ethan's friend, "you should probably grab her and run."

[pandion]

Andi giggles again. "It is, I just don't know why it's supposed to help!"

[instar]

Bella casts a suspicious glance in Ethan's direction. "Why? What's wrong with him? What would he do?"

[aeskhyne]

"Oh, nothing's wrong with him," the friend assures her. "Stellar sense of humour, adorable accent... thing is, though, he's a total ice queen. Girl's got more chance of winning the lottery than getting him to like her."

[palmofyourhand]

"I think it has its charms, personally."

[instar]

"Are you basing this solely on him not liking you as much as you like? Because a majority of the population is, reportedly, heterosexual. Or do you have more examples?"

[pandion]

"Sure, but I don't think it'll do a good job of helping me not stutter when I try to talk about Czechoslovakia. Whose idea was it to name the place Czechoslovakia?"

[palmofyourhand]

"Czechs," says Ethan, "and maybe Slovaks?"

[aeskhyne]

"I never said he doesn't fuck me," the friend points out. "I said he doesn't like me. I know they kind of sound similar, but they're really not the same thing."

[pandion]

"Probably those egotistical Czechs and Slovaks, naming things after themselves. They should have named the place after something pronounceable instead."