[Debut of Mirabelle Nesa] Mirabelle Nesa stood near the back of the room, mainly because she felt guilty. Not because of the fighting. Or at least, not directly because of the fighting. No, she felt guilty because she knew what Master Xiang would say if he saw her here, if he knew what she was plann...

David nodded. It wasn't really all that difficult to place Jason, now that he could remember his name: he did have a British accent, how often did one of those creep up in Minnesota? Of course, there was that girl with the French accent, so perhaps it happened more often than David thought... He sho...

"Christ, you kept up me, yeah?" David laughed. "I don't do anything except run, when I'm not fuckin' around on the computer." Despite his failure to break four minutes he was feeling pretty good. His legs had that odd, hot numbness that always seemed so peculiarly good to him, he...

" Wanna sit for a second? I've been running and jumping most of the morning." "Oh, sure," David replied, smiling. "I...I need a break after that, too." He put a hand to his chest and exhaled, trying to catch his breath, and then moved towards the bleachers, keeping Kale...

Always running, eh? David could sympathize with that. Not wasting anymore of their breath on words, both Kale and David pushed themselves (the other boy a bit more than David, but he was still keeping up and even David was starting to feel tired, he could feel the pounding of blood in his temples as...

"Damn right," David managed, breathing a little harder now that he was pushing his limits. "Tryin' to-" he broke off, taking a few breaths to steady himself. "Break four minutes." He managed a grin. "Not that I've had much luck." His legs were burning now, but...

Simon got to his feet, grimacing. "Brook, eh?" he said thoughtfully. Simon tended to be a bit antisocial, but he see'd Liam around enough over time to know his name. The other kid ( who , he reminded himself ruefully, was havin' a great conversation before I showed up ) had had water dumpe...

"No one's fault," Simon said gruffly, leaning in to help the other boy clean up the patch. He realized he didn't really know what to do, so he simply grabbed a few of the gardening tools and moved them to one side, freeing up space for the more-experience boy to work. "She had to go t...

[Just in from One Pen Two Pen Red Pen Blue Pen ] Lucy was with the flowers, of course. Not that he'd really expected her to be anywhere else. She was always with the flowers. Simon had been peaceably sitting in the library, trying (albeit unsuccessfully) to get his work done. And then a series of ja...

(Simon's first appearance) Simon sighed and slumped in his chair It wasn't like he'd been trying to work--not really. He didn't go out of his way to take difficult classes, and his current exams weren't really much of a worry (except, perhaps, for Pre-Calculus: then again, he didn't think he had any...

[This is a track-thing. If anyone wants to show up whose interested in a friendship with David or just in mocking him, feel free. All members of the track and cross-country teams welcome.] David wasted no breath on words, on taunts, on mockery. He simply ran: let all his strength, all his awareness,...