"Is that flirting I hear?" She said in a teasing tone, kicking some of the mulch over at him a bit, which made her spin back and forth a bit since she had to turn her body to do so. "I don't think I'm all THAT interesting, but I appreciate the compliment. You are dangerously interesting. I like that."
"Is that flirting I hear?" She said in a teasing tone, kicking some of the mulch over at him a bit, which made her spin back and forth a bit since she had to turn her body to do so. "I don't think I'm all THAT interesting, but I appreciate the compliment. You are dangerously interesting. I like that."
Jamie blushed a little, but looked down so she couldn't tell. They finger-combed bark out of their hair and flung it back at Evelyn, saying, "Hey, I'm pretty boring if you ask me. Compared to most people at least. Thanks, though." They manoeuvred carefully on the swing until they were able to get their legs in a cross-legged position, sitting on top of their feet.
"If you face plant I'm not feeling sorry for you at all. And you don't look boring. Boring is like, old grandpa's who just watch TV all day. You are very punky and not to mention totally my type." She picked off the mulch and began to swing higher and higher.
"Your type, huh?" They laughed quietly, their face angled down so their hair would hide their increasingly reddening face. "That's quite the compliment." They swayed gently on the swing, picking at the holes in their jeans.
(bump again lmao)
She smiled and nodded. "Indeed it is. But hey hot punks are hot punks." She grinned at that. "I of course am not a hot punk,just a punk but you sure are."
Jamie scoffed. "Who says you aren't hot yourself? Cause they clearly need to get their eyes checked." They smiled despite themselves.
"Bitch I got my eyes checked and I wear contacts! I know EXACT how I look and how you look. I could never compete." She scoffed and kicked more mulch at him.
Jamie ducked, laughing, and said, "Maybe you should go back then, 'cause I definitely disagree." They leaned down to scoop up more bark but lost their balance and tipped off the swing, landing on their back. Still laughing, they flung a fistful of bark at her and it ended up spraying over the both of them.
Evelyn turned so her back was facing him when he flung it,so that it didn't her in the face. "Opinion and fact are two different things, clutz. You think I'm pretty but I'm actually really not." She shrugged. "Prove to me that I'm pretty,and maybe you'll earn something. A date or whatever ya want I guess." She shrugged.
(BUMP!)
(my bad, been busy with school stuff. will reply later today)
(SKHFKSAHC SO I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS AND IM REALLY SORRY- I JUST STARTED AT MY NEW SCHOOL RECENTLY AND THAT COMBINED WITH PERSONAL PROBLEMS FROM BEFORE TOOK UP ALL OF MY TIME AND I WASNT ABLE TO GET BACK TO THIS- PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY AND WE CAN CONTINUE IF YOU STILL WANT TO D:)
(It's fine I get it. I kinda forgot about it myself. Go ahead and reply!)
"Ah, a challenge. Well then, let's make this go both ways. If you prove to me that I'm attractive, and I prove to you that you're attractive, we each get to take the other out. Dates, if you will." They grinned at her and winked.
"It's the boldness of your eyes. You're daring and could kill me with a word and a movement but you won't. Electricity in your eyes and throughout your veins. It's the cutting edge rebel clothes to hide the too hurt rebel heart inside,that if I cracked open like a coconut would bleed red and black. Red for purity and black for pain. It's all poetry though. It's that smart little smirk that seems to trick people you're a know at all, but nary will I get a natural smile out of your dangerous self. Not unless it's 3 am and we're laughing in eachothers arms at the stupid shit. And even then you won't be truly soft, still putting up a front until you're comfortable. Really comfortable. But I like it. It's kinda like finding hay in a needle stack. A heart in a room of knives. And I will. I've done it before. You aren't the first runaway wannabe I've caught and given a home to." She nodded once as she sat there. "Alright then, danger. What you got?"
As she talked, Jamie's eyebrows raised and their face reddened. Her poetic way of speaking and her eerily spot-on analysis of them…it flattered them, surprised them, intrigued them, made them feel things they hadn't ever felt. When she finished, they laughed softly and angled their face down at their lap for a moment– "all that from a first impression, huh?" –before looking back up into her eyes, pushing their hair back from their forehead and letting it bounce back down.
"For me it's…the way you carry yourself. The way you so effortlessly stand out, yet fit in. You're so comfortable with yourself, so confident, so assured in your actions, in ways I could never be. You seem to see the potential in everyone. And…I feel like that's one of your pet peeves, how nobody seems to live up to what they're capable of. You're not afraid of getting looks, and yet you're so comfortable where you are, so fluid, so graceful, so…so you, and that's…I admire that. It's something I could never be."
They were unaware of the slightly dreamy look in their eyes that had leaked through their facade of stoicism.
"Hey Cloudy, do remember that Hell often disguses itself as heaven to lure in the sinners. And all that glitters is not gold. Anyways. You're an easy read, but that doesn't make you any less exciting. Comic books are easy to read. But I am a walking mystery novel, and you're more…oh…" She snapped her fingers together,trying to remember. "Tip of my tongue…damn. I'm an english major and I can't remember a book genre. Not fantasy adventure. You've coated yourself in reality and then tried to set fire, not realizing it's your skin now. Oh well. Do we gotta date then,Dreamy?" (SO. Canonically Evelyn is genderfluid. So I'm gonna…try to start putting that into my rp. Mind if I experiment here?)
(yeah, totally! go for it!)
"Dreamy?" They let out a laugh of surprise. "If you insist. Do you usually find relationships this way?"
"We live and learn. Yes Dreamy. Ya gotta know how to charm even the toughest of the tough. Anyways, I find dates where I want. I don't gotta tell you my list of shattered hearts. Take away the mystery. Now then, we need a time and place for our date."
"Hmm." They picked at their shoes as they thought. "What about the skate park at that strip mall by the high school? If you don't skate I can help teach you. And there's a café there too if you're more into a traditional date. Friday at 7?" Looking up at her, they cracked a smile between chapped lips.
"I roller blade but don't board or anything. 7? Seems kinda late. That part of down can be pretty dangerous…6. It'll still be daylight and then we can get comfy. I can definitely roll with all that." She smiled and hopped off the swing, stretching, and wiping off all the wood chips that were still stuck to her clothes. "Of course I'm always down to hang out too. It's only a sunny saturday afternoon. I've got nothin' to do."
"Six works. My mom wouldn't care if I were gone either way." They stood up from the ground and brushed bark out of their hair and off their jeans. "I've got this essay I should start on, but I have another couple weeks, so it's not a big deal. It can wait one afternoon longer. Anything interesting around here you feel worth showing me? Nothing's too far unless it's out of town, I can make my way back fine anytime."
"Not anything you haven't seen. Strip clubs and bars, and corner hookers if you go really deep into the neighborhood. But here it's mostly teens struggling through highschool and basically making it from break to break. There's the stream where we always catch frogs in the summer, and the lake that it leads to where I've gone skinny dipping more then once. The abandoned park that we all have named Smokey Park for various reasons. Some person even started just wildly growing weed there. I don't like going though except for a hit. A lot of stray condoms and broken glass. Too many popular kids up there too. There's always the mall of course, but I ain't got a lot of cash. Honestly I'm just bored. Bored and interested in you. You're the most interesting thing I've seen in a while."