Savanna barely noticed he was purposely ignoring her, coming up next to him. Standing by the side of the table, she glanced across the room as she spoke to him.
"Or I gave you too much. Either way works." She hummed softly. "But that doesn't matter, what matters is the fact I found you. Have I met your satisfaction in waiting to see your face, or do I have to put more effort in?" Savanna asked, glancing down at the cat in his lap. She gave a light smile, continuing to sip from her coffee.
"If you're making me work for it more, at least tell me your name. I need something to go off of."
Well then, guess ignoring didn't work out as planned. granted, if he really wanted to act as if she wasn't there he could, it might even be fun to see the distress on her face if he acted like she was invisible. However, he wasn't that cruel, or at least, she hadn't done anything to earn it yet.
He wanted to make her work for it more, but he also couldn't read with her obnoxiously talking his ear off with her annoying voice. Especially after it sounded exactly like he imagined the female lead character in the book he was reading.
He let out a sigh, looking down at the cat and muttering something before looking back up. "Kaido." was all he gave her, sure it was his last name, but he doubted she would be smart enough to figure that part out. He shut the book, setting it down on the table and giving a large sip of his coffee.
(Ack- I'm so sorry. I was really hoping to get to respond over the weekend, but I got busy again-)
Savanna let her smirk continue to settle on her face, loosely wrapping her arms around herself. "Kaido, is it?" She stated softly, still chewing on her straw as she stared out the window.
"Nice name, it suits you. I dunno why, but it just seems like you." She continued to ramble to herself, muttering under her breath before picking her head up to look at the back of his head. "Anyways, you're probably just going to ignore me again, huh?" She hummed, leaning on one of her legs to stand in a more relaxed position. Her gaze wandered around the room some, before coming back to where he sat.
"Am I right, or what? If you don't answer, you're technically answering my question." She hummed, starting to fidget with her rings again.
(its fine lol)
aaaand he was right, ding ding ding, she didn't think it was his last name, well he had liked his last name better than his first name sometimes when he was a kid, then again he went by kai.
Kai had been his favorite ninja in the Lego Ninjago but was he ever going to tell her that small detail? highly unlikely. He turned his face towards her, observing her habits as she spoke and then after she had spoken. Seeing how once again she was twisting the rings around on her fingers, could be a nervous habit, more her hands just liked to fidget he couldn't imagine it being nerves.
There was no reason to be nervous while talking to him.
He let out a sigh.
"Fine, what do you want?" he frowned at her, hands stroking the cat. he stared her down, wanting a reason why she would bother him so much.
"What I want, is for you to want me. But you don't." Savanna hummed, glancing at her nails halfheartedly. "So, I want to know what it is. Why are you so different than everyone else, huh?"
She continued to sip from her iced coffee, glancing back over to where he was sitting, chewing on her straw some. She kept up a little smirk as she fidgeted in place. Her thoughts were all over the place as she watched him, trying to focus on one thing. But that was not working right now. She just had to be careful what left her mouth before being filtered in her mess of a brain.
"Are you just not into women, or what?" She continued, gaze glancing all around the room. "Or is it me? Am I just too much for you to handle? I get that a lot, but it's normally after the guy goes out with me."
"and you would think that would be obvious." He grumbled something under his brother when she said the first statement. He rolled his eyes as she talked, petting the cat gently, letting it purr and he smiled slightly at the cat vibrating, before frowning back at her.
"why am I so different? Well let's see, I don't like interaction, I don't like interacting with people, I don't, like, people." He stared her down, eyes cold and calculating. "I like animals, this cat is all the company I could need, I prefer animals over humans any day of the week. I will not like you no matter how much you persist, especially if it's how your doing it now." He grumbled, ", and actually, since your so oblivious to my hints, Leave, me, alone. Don't talk to me, don't pretend to know me and don't try and go after me. I don't need you. I don't want you." He growled a bit, before picking up his coffee and drinking it expecting her to leave, since usually this shuts the person down annoying him and they call him a jerk and leave.
A smirk crept up on her face, eyes focusing on him and only him. For someone who didn't talk much, he spoke a lot right now. Maybe a little too much. Now she had a better idea of where she was going wrong, and what she could do to fix it.
"Yet." She hummed, twisting her keys around her fingers. "Always keep an open mind, trust me. It's worth it." She hummed, seemingly ignoring his request to be left alone. Turning on her heel, she headed out the door, with a slight skip in her step as she made her way down the path. A grin had settled on her face by now, eyes lit up with a bit more excitement than she had had in the coffee shop.
"No, I will not keep an open mind. I don't want you, I don't need you period." He grumbles then watched as she took her leave and walked smugly out of the coffee shop. He huffs. now my mood is ruined he picked up the cat and pets it the cat purrs gently.
He sighs walking out of the store after paying and deciding to go to the library and check out some books to read before he headed home.
(I'm guessing I should skip, huh?)
(Okay, I'm here. School is on my back, man. I'm really sorry for the wait… again.)
Pulling up to the school, Savanna shut off her car, unplugging her phone so it would stop playing her music. Pocketing it, she pushed her door open and grabbed her bag before heading inside the school building. She was completely distracted as she made her way to her locker, drumming her fingers on her leg. She gave slight smiles at her classmates as she passed them, seeming genuinely liked by a decent amount of people around.
Pulling her hair back out of her face after putting her books in her locker, she glanced around the halls, looking for 'Kaido'. Though she was staring in the opposite direction people were coming in at. No, she was looking at the backs of people's heads, only really knowing what the back of his head looked like. He never seemed keen on her seeing his face.
(ack sorrry for not responding)
Akira had walked to school, not bothering to use his locker since he didn't care for them as much, preferring just to carry around a bag, he felt awful just leaving the kitten alone at his house and almost skipped school just to make sure the kitten was unharmed and then she was eating well enough and didn't choke,
he really needed to stop thinking about that, he was only gonna stress himself out the more he thought about it. He reached up to his hair and tied it back in a ponytail, slipping the ponytail through his cap and walking down the hallway looking down at his phone making it through the crowd and trying to avoid running into a certain someone.
(Dude, it's fine. Honestly, I sound like a total hypocrite but don't apologize. It's totally understandable.)
Savanna was dead set on trying to find him before class, ignoring her brother when he started talking to her. She mumbled responses to whatever he was saying, not bothered in the slightest. His talking honestly distracted her from getting distracted, so that was nice.
"Yeah, sure thing, Pheonix." She mumbled, eyes lighting up a bit when she caught sight of Kaido. "Look, I'll see you later… gotta head to class." And with that, she left Phoenix standing there by himself.
Pushing past her classmates, she was doing her best to catch up to him, only a couple of steps behind him. But out of the blue, she found herself being pulled away from him and off to the side. Whipping around, she noticed it was one of her 'friends' seeming rather excited to talk to her. Of course, at the worst possible second.
"Savanna! Oh my god, guess who's been talking to me!?" She shrieked, thus causing the surrounding few people (including Savanna) to flinch.
"I- I dunno, but now is not really the best time…" Savanna mumbled but was being talked over by the other girl. She didn't even remember her name, and just felt awkward as she tried and find Kaido again. But he had disappeared.
(I'm about to pull a pro gamer move)
He had almost made it to his class when he heard a familar voice, and that voice didn't exactly sound happy.
He turned to see her being cornered by this girl rambling on and on about something trapping the girl in and not listening to anything that she tried to say.
He sighed, turning back to them and walking over towering over the girl talking to her, he tapped her on the shoulder, "Maybe pay attention to the person your talking too and they might actually care about whatever bullcrap your talking about. Your talking over her so much it's making my brain cells hurt." He spoke in a cold tone, almost glaring at the female talking to her.
(Oop-)
The talkative girl continued to talk over Savanna until she felt a tap on her shoulder. One look at his face and the girl lost all the excitement she had had. She grew rather quiet as she said something about talking to her later, before scurrying off down the hall.
Savanna was still trying to process what had happened, glancing up at him out of confusion. Stammering for a couple of seconds, finally managing to get something out.
"I- thank you..? Why- why'd you do that?" She asked softly, watching the other girl run off. "I thought you were going to class..?" Eventually turning her head back to Kaido, she blinked a couple of times to try and comprehend his actions. She wasn't fidgeting, or even moving. You would assume she had been glued to the floor with how still she was.
"i seriously don't understand how you tolerate her…i would have turned her down and still lost vrainceels by talking to her." He watched her leave before giving her the same look, but a little softer.
"don't think anything of this, do you hear me? This meant nothing, this means nothing to me. I just decided to help you out so leave me alone. Good bye Savannah."
He added her name in because he heard the girl say it earlier, he then turned to leave starting to walk back to his class.
(Hey, I just wanted to apologize for my lack of responses. It’s been a really busy week, and still going to be busier until about March. I probably won’t respond much for the rest of the week.)
(Hey, I just wanted to apologize for my lack of responses. It’s been a really busy week, and still going to be busier until about March. I probably won’t respond much for the rest of the week.)
(It's okay- life is more important that roleplaying so take care of yourself man-)
(Hey, I know it's been a bit, but I'm back. If you don't really want to continue this, that's fine, but I'm gonna put in a response at least. In case you do want to.)
"Well, I… she's sort of a friend of mine…" Savanna mumbled, shrugging a little as she looked up at him. With his somewhat harsh tone, she felt taken back some, not up to her usual confident and cocky self. She tried to come up with something to say, but just watched him as he walked off.
Letting out a soft sigh, she disappeared to her own class without a word.
When lunch came around, Savanna was looking out for him, mostly just to know where he would be. Not to go up and bug him. But she couldn't find him as of the current moment, turning with her lunch tray in hand, practically bumping into someone.
"Gh-" he was pushed right into the back of someone just standing in the middle of the cafeteria, he let out some curse words under his breath before searching for why the person infront of him had stopped, seeing them also running into the person infront of them.
He shook his head in frustration as he turned to the person he crashed into, ready to tell them off for not looking where they where going until they realized it was the girl.
savannah
That was her name wasn't it?
He had said it earlier when he left her in the hallway, and she didn't correct him so that's what he assumed. He had only over beard it, so he has to make sure, incase he ever got stuck with her.
"you…"
His tone still ice cold, however he stopped himself from "freezing over" if you will. He just tched at her.
"watch where your going and you might actually not run into someone."
He then would turn to go, for some reason wanting to see her reaction, but he wouldn't give that attention satisfaction.
He instead moved to an empty table instead to eat, and just read.
"Hey, I'm sorry," Savanna mumbled, looking up at him. Noticing it was him, she seemed to relax a bit more. "Looks like you can't keep from running into me today, huh?" She called out a little louder as he started to walk away. Following behind him, she managed to get by his side as he kept walking.
"Listen, before you get mad at me, can we at least talk?" She asked, her teasing tone dropping when she got to his side. "We got off on the wrong foot, at least give me the opportunity to get to talk to you. No intentions besides being friendly behind it."
The genuineness in her tone seemed real for the most part, but this was Savanna. She doubted he'd that easily let her talk to him. It was not like she deserved it. But hey, she wanted to give it a shot at least. Maybe things could be better that way.
She hoped at least. Besides the cold look on his face, he felt like he was a nice guy. He just had a hard way of trying to show it. Or he didn't care what people thought. Which was more likely.
Either way, she wanted the chance to possibly apologize. Whether he accepted it or not, she'd have no clue until it happened.
He gritted his teeth a bit when she called out to him ignoring her as he continued to walk away until she actually up and followed him at his side, warning a "go away" from him, only she kept talking.
Maybe he didn't say it loud enough?
He went to but he paused, hearing what she said. He groaned, just pointing at a seat for her to sit down and sitting down himself.
"Talk, then leave." Was all he said, acting like he didn't care for what she had to say to him. After all of that hunting him down and then she's gone to just this? He wanted to say how insincere she was being, but she actually sounded genuine for once.
He was sure it was an act, but on the off chance it wasn't he was going to listen to her.
Probably shut her down immediately when she was done, he didn't need anyone around him. Especially not her.
Sitting down across from him, she took a few seconds to adjust then looked up at him, both hands folded on top of the table. Why she was doing this, she really had no idea. Maybe she couldn't pin down the idea that she actually felt bad for bothering him, or a certain feeling that welled up whenever he was around.
"Right, so um… I guess I just wanted to apologize. And- well say thanks." She half mumbled, words clear enough to understand at least. Pushing her stray thoughts aside, she looked back up at him. "For earlier, when you… well, came to my rescue. I just want to start over."
Reaching a hand out to him, she gave a bright smile. "I don't think I ever introduced myself. I'm Savanna." She hummed, waiting for him to take her hand. Or she at least expected him to. She didn't even think about the fact that he'd probably still want nothing to do with her.
(Again, I want to apologize for being so busy. Motivation has been at an all-time low,,,)
( its okay man to be honest I'm just glad your okay and that you responded.)
He let out a scoff, "i know your name, the girl failed to keep her volume down when shouting it at you repeatedly."
He turned to look at her, really look. He stared her down, observing how she acted and how she spoke.
Was she really serious about befriending him?
Did he even want her to be serious?
Usually he would know the answer to that question almost immediately, but for once he hestiated.
He didn't know why he hesitated.
He looked at her hand, he decided to reach out his own, and shake her hand.
His hand was as cold as ice, no kidding. It was almost as if he had no body heat in him.
"don't mistake this handshake as me saying you can bother me any time you want, this handshake is if i see you in an uncomfortable situation or in danger and i do not think you can handle it, i will help. But do not think that this is my caring about you for one second, i don't. I do not care about you, i do not care what happens to you. But i know someone else who does." He sighed.
The cold hand sent shivers down her spine as she gave him a firm hand shake. She was a lot stronger than expected, for such a slender build. Pulling her hand back, she rested them both back down on the table.
"So you think I'm pathetic and need you to come to save my damsel in distress of a self." She laughed weakly, shaking her head a bit to signal she wasn't looking for any comments from him. "Got it."
Glancing back up at him she gave him an odd look, her typical perky smile dropping for a moment as she tried to read him. A person? Who cared about her? What did he know that she didn't? Hesitating for a moment, she leaned back as she looked him up and down. "Who would care about me?" She stated bluntly, brows penciled inward as she waited for a response. The honesty in her voice was so backward from the way she normally talked. It was almost foreign coming from her. Even when the truth did come from her, it sounded somewhat twisted.
He was honestly shocked, when she asked who would care about her so genuinely honest with her question, the fact that it sounded so much like himself scared him.
She wasn't ssupposed to be the loner who no one cared about, she was supposed to be the person that everyone cared about.
So why did she look so lonely when she asked that question? So sad? Was his mind just playing tricks on him?
He stumbled his words on a response.
"wh- who wouldn't care about you?" In that moment his response was genuinely concerned, "I mean-'* don't you have parents? And relatives? Genuine friends?" He raised an eyebrow at her.
