Hearts and Dances (OPEN)

[Aura McKinly]

"Oh my god! You're Aura McKinly aren't you!?!?" Aura winced as she heard this, slowly turning around she sighed as she saw a small group had slowly started to gather behind her, trying to figure out why she had looked familiar to them. She let out a soft sigh, knowing that it was inevitable. People learning about who she was outside of the school was going to happen, and now that it had a small crowd of her fans were finding her. She smiled awkwardly at them as she slowly got pushed into a corner, not liking the attention. She was used to attention, yes. But that was from the normal teenage crowd, people with powers were another story. It was uncomfortable, she wasn't sure how to react, she had grown up with most of the people at her old school, fans outside she dealt with on the blogs.

Right now she was really wanting to be writing a blog post.

She sighed a bit as the obligatory rush of offers to dance erupted, many of the boys wanting her hand, and even a girl or two. She stood there, a little overwhelmed and at a loss for words. What was she supposed to do? She was caught between a rock and a hard place, and was somewhat wishing she hadn't grown out her hair just to keep up the difference in appearance. "I...err..." She shifted, holding her hands up in the air and taking a step or two backwards, her heels clacking on the floor. She shifted a little uncomfortably, this was not the kind of attention she wanted to attract. She wasn't an outspoken battlefront member, but she knew people probably knew she was one.

Oh well, not like she could do anything about the situation now, she was already surrounded. She blinked as a random guy got on his knees and grabbed her hand, kissing it making her feel even more awkward, "I...err....what? I'm no princess you know...."

[Sergei Tepish]

Sergei adjusted the collar of his coat. This wasn't the usual kind of dance he was used to attending but it still seemed enjoyable. He scoped out the other people at the dance, most were dressed nicely but he still stuck out with his more elaborately sewn clothes, he hoped it wouldn't come off as pretentiousness or snobbery on his part. This was just the way his family dressed back home and to everyone else in his country it was odd to see a member of the royal family outside of formal wear. His amber eyes locked onto a crowd of people surrounding one girl, he chuckled slightly and approached."Gentlemen I believe is more traditional to offer a dance to a lady with a little dignity instead of begging for it." He extended his hand towards the girl."Domnișoară(Miss) I am Sergei Vladaslous Tepish and I would humbly offer you a dance." He said leaning a bit close to whisper."I've dealt with adoring crowds before it's best to just seem like you're busy interacting with someone of importance." Sergei raised his voice a bit for others to hear. He was sure some teeth were being gritted at his display."But I apologize I have neglected to ask your name."

[Aura McKinly]

Aura blinked as she saw an unfamiliar aura out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head from the boy kissing her hand, blinking at the huge man walking their way in some elaborate clothing that didn't fit the dance one bit. Sure, she herself was in a fairly pretty dress. The small group that had gathered around her also turned, blinking at him just as confused as she was at the man. None of them had ever seen him before, he was odd. Why was he dressed like royalty? When he spoke the girl couldn't help but face-palm, was he seriously acting like royalty? And what was this saying he was important?

He was acting like some big shot royalty type, a type that was annoying to someone who had grown up the way her and the surrounding fans had, who were all slowly starting to snicker, a few already having burst into laughter, one being on his back, giving a whole new meaning to "lmfao". She raised an eyebrow, looking up at him as he spoke, keeping a straight face before speaking, being completely serious. "And who is it that graces my presence and claims they are important. I have never heard of you, nor seen your face in my life. If you were that important don't you think I would have heard of ya?" she asked, crossing her arms across her chest and shifting her weight, the rest of her fans bursting into tears over her directness.

That was the Aura that had returned for ya, direct and to the point. Every day she was looking more and more like her old self, though she still wasn't the flirt she used to be. That would only come if she ever was able to get over her fear, the one instated by her ex. That would come with time though, considering the trauma she had gone through and the reveal of her powers because of it not many could blame her. She knew none of her friends in the Battle Front judged her for it, as far as her friends she wasn't sure. "What are you? The son of an actor? Who is it? I know a lot of people who are well known." Finally her own facade broke, a sheepish grin spreading across her face before bursting into laughter. "Seriously dude, who do you think you are, royalty?" she finally gasped out, standing back up straight and wiping a tear from her eye.

[Sergei Tepish]

Sergei eyed the group of laughing fans for a second the vein in his forehead bulging briefly. But he swallowed his pride and smirked"Actually I believe the fifteen generations of my family sitting on my country's throne and myself being the most recent does make me technically royalty. Duke Sergei of House Tepish to be exact." He looked around."But here I am mostly just Sergei Tepish. I apologize for the....formalness of my introduction it's just how I have been taught to talk at public events and has kind of stuck with me ." He straightened his tie."As for my attire it is all I have with me. I was unable to pack do to the....."Sergei stopped and made an obviously forced smile."..Urgency I had to take with arriving here on time." His country still lay in the back of his mind."All I meant by my words was that there are many ways to disperse a crowd. I never meant to come off as pompous." Sergei cleared his throat."If I wanted to do that I would have had someone announce my arrival." He joked with a chuckle."You seem to be quite famous around here though. Miss....?"

[Aura McKinly]

Aura almost immediately gave a dismissive wave, having never heard the name before in her life and really not caring for the claim. She was American after all, and not many of them cared about royalty. To her royalty didn't matter if the people didn't like you, and it mattered even less when you were dragged from your own country like he had said he was. "You do realize that you can be the king of France and it still wouldn't matter here, right? If anything flaunting who you are will only lead to more problems," she stated, her southern accent flowing smoothly as she spoke.

She shrugged a bit as she realized he had asked if she was someone famous herself. She wouldn't consider him famous, how many people knew who he was? A few thousand? She had millions who knew who she was, though that wasn't always a good thing. "Name's Aura McKinly, and yes, I'm pretty well known among the citizens of the United States. My father is a country singer, my mom a well known model, I myself am a model and amateur singer. I guess you could say I'm famous, though not sure how far out of the States my own fame extends, I know my dad has done a few tours over seas though." She tapped her chin thoughtfully, the group who had gathered finally calming down with their own laughter.

She crossed her arms and shifted her weight, looking up at hi silently for a moment. "Drop the formality too will ya? I may be a southern gal but it's weird being called miss, it's too formal and makes me feel like I should be in my thirties, not my teens.

[Sergei Tepish]

Sergei nodded this girl was cheeky."Ahhh Aura Mckinly I think it's ringing a few a bells. But I don't pay much attention to modeling and news from America has been difficult to achieve back in my country for the last two years. In fact news at all has been difficult to obtain." He tilted his head up slightly and scratched under his chin all the while maintaining eye contact with the girl."I only called miss because I had nothing else to call you and I only stated my title because you asked if I thought I was royalty." A small smirk formed out of the corner of Sergei's mouth."You must be waiting for someone. Why else would you be at a dance and not be dancing?"

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What could be the most annoying part of dating the Second-in-Command of the Battlefront? The fact that everyone, and their mother wanted to talk with her. Seriously, sometimes Bridget popularity within the Battlefront was to much for even him! It was, simply put, mind boggling to him how she just seemed to radiate in everyone's eyes. Not even five minutes ago they were slow dancing, totally having a moment, when Oliver Fucking Grey cut in the middle, and started chatting it up with Bridget. About absolutely nothing! Sheesh, it made Chandler want to bash his head against an iron pipe, or something. What that something was he had no clue, but that didn't matter now! What mattered was that "Olliebear" stop his moment with Bridget during their song. Come on man! Fireflies was playing and everything! For realies, Oliver?!

The sad part was that "Ollievear" played for the other team. The boy was freaking Prefect! Chandler didn't know what was worst. The fact that his moment was ruined, or that his girlfriend let it happened so she could let happened so he could chat with her Prefect buddy. It was kinda heart wrenching, not gonna lie. But he digress, Chandler knew that Oliver was one of the few Prefects that Bridget got along with. Especially after how well her friendship with the Nazi Queen herself has gone. So, being the kind, and loving Boyfriend that he was, Chandler decided to roll with it. After all, it gave him an excuse to make a run to the punch bowl.

Ladling himself a cup of fruit punch he began to walk aimlessly around the gymnasium floor. Dodging and avoiding the people that were dancing. All the while glancing around the room for people to talk to. After all, he didn't want to be that guy who just walked around aimlessly, right? Right. So as he walked he checked out future contenders, but came up short. After all, the only people who seemed remotely interesting was a group of four, but they seemed kinda beastly. All of them were tall, fit, and the two boys were flipping giant. Both of them had silver hair and were well over six foot. Yea, he was gonna have to pass on that.

That was when he saw the only other face he recognized so far. Blinking a few times in disbelief he quickly took another look, only to realize that he really was stuck with this. Well, it wasn't like hated Aura Mckinly. The once model, and upcoming singer, and himself got along for the most part. Expect for the times he really wanted smack her with the little miss perfect bat. Which happened to be thirty percent of the time he found himself in a conversation with the chick. But, we're not in the Unites State now are we? Chandler thought in as he walked toward the duo, and Aura's squad of fans. Almost immediately picking up on the under-line bitchiness that flowed with her words. Giving his eyes a roll before he took a moment to study the male.

Judging from the way he spoke, the way he carried himself and the budging vain on his forehead. Chandler could see how he might have been royalty. But, such thing as royalty or fame rarely mattered when it came to Ashford. What really counted was the choices one made after they arrived. "His majesty certainly does have a point. But, I doubt this surprises anybody." Chuckling a smug smirk found it's way onto the Battlefront's Dark Knight's face. The group that surrounded to group spreading out a little bit as he walked up toward the duo. A few feet tot he side of them. "I mean, after all you've always been one to contradict what you've previously said." A pause. "Although, I must admit. I certainly like this side of you better than that depressing smug cunt you use to be."

His words might have been blunt, maybe even harsh, but honestly what were they gonna do? The one of the most powerful students on the island, and the strongest within the battlefront versus a little girl, her fans and a king. Nothing but a bunch of paper tigers standing before a storm.

[Aura McKinly]

Aura blinked as she heard a very familiar voice and turned, blinking as she saw Chandler and gave him a small, yet cheerful wave. She winced slihgtly at the insult but shrugged it off, normally she'd call him out on how wrong such an insult was, but this wasn't the West Tower and not many people, even her fans, knew of her ex's crime. She turned back to the royalty standing next to her before speaking Chan, wanting to address his question before moving on. "I'm not really waiting for anyone to dance with. I came here on my own, though I do wonder why I didn't find a date, not like it would have been hard to find one..." she shot a quick glance at the slowly thinning group, most of them having left at the sight of Chan, only the few BF members she recognized staying behind to observe the curious interactions.

She turned back to Chan and gave a friendly smiled, "I haven't said anything to contradict myself. I was surrounded by fellow Americans, royalty means very little to those of us who grew up in a Democratic society ya know. And did Ash not tell ya that around Christmas time I had reverted back to my old self? Thought he would have, it was fun ice skating with him....." She trailed off, her mind wandering to how peaceful that Christmas day was.

Of all the time she had spent at Ashford that stuck out the most, it was relaxing compared to what she had experienced in the past. It was a very nice change of pace. She shook off the thoughts after a moment before looking around, having expected Bridget to be somewhere nearby. She wasn't though, which puzzled her a bit. She had expected Bridget to be close by. She looked back up at Chandler, trying to get a hint out of what had happened through his aura but saw nothing. She always had trouble reading him unless he was having a lot of inner turmoil, she never understood why. Maybe he was just that good at masking his emotions?

"How is the dance treating you so far? It's been alright for me, awkward when people started to swarm me wanting to dance but alright."

[Sergei Tepish]

Sergei raised an eyebrow at the greeting the man gave Aura it's seemed a bit vulgar but the way she reacted showed it was to be expected. He sniffed twice to get the scents, he labeled the first as Aura's, the second was the man but a third was clinging to the man and it was feminine."Well I'd say he found a date and she's over that way. He followed the sent with his finger."It's a fine sent probably quite the catch. Sorry if I sound....invasive the nose tells all." He pointed to the tip of his nose. He chuckled at Aura's statement about the dance."That's something to expect when you are famous and go to a public party. You're lucky that they weren't as...."eager" as the women in my country tended to be." He released a small shudder.

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Within his subconscious a small part of Chandler took notice of how harsh his words were toward the girl. Sure, the once-upon-a-time blonde may be blunt, but that was it. He rarely went out of his way to be cruel toward a person. Well, unless he absolutely hated said person. And Aura was not such a person--the blue haired model was more likely in that awkward gray area of liking and disliking. Even so, if that was the case why couldn't he help but shyly smirk at the sight of her flinching. That the knowledge of knowing that his words had strike a certain bone. What was even more amusing was how she choose to simply to shrug it off instead of retorting. Unbeknownst to him, Chandler's sea-green hues flashed to a malicious yellow color while her attention was focused on the royalty.

It was brief, but the yellow had certainly forsaken the green. Only for it to disappear before the attention of his companion was turned back to him. "Really? Well then allow me to quote you." Smugly retorting he carried on. Making sure to give his best impression of his fellow Battlefront.

"If anything flaunting who you are will only lead to more problems."

As he spoke the brunette placed his hands on his hips. Positioning his body like a nagging old grandma. "To which you went on to brag about your parent's, and your own frame." Taking a brief pause to let his words sink in. Chandler shifted his weight to his left side as he waited. "Of course I could always quote that for you too, but that would be waste of my time." He stated with a shrug. Shifting his hands from his hips, and slipping them into his pockets. Running his fingers over his phone while he watched the other two. "Yes, it little to us, but to him it could mean everything." Nodding toward the other dude while he pulled out his phone. Beginning to flip through his text messages.

"Yea, believe or not. Me and Ashton don't share everything. He said absent-mindlessly as he put his cell in sleep mode before slipping it back into his pocket. "Plus, I don't bother to ask about his relationships." Looking back up, he took a quick moment to glace at the remainders of Aura's fans. Narrowing his eyes at each and everyone one of them. Letting them know that now was the time to scam, or else they'd be running laps around the West Tower. "I do actually do have a date, but she's talking with friends." He chuckled. "Oh trust me. You have no idea." He said in regards to Sergei's comment about Bridget's attractiveness.



"It's been cool, but I'm more excited for movie night with Bridget afterward."

[Aura McKinly]

"He asked if I had some kind of fame or something, so I answered. If I'm asked I'll tell, but unless asked I wont say a thing about my heritage." Aura smoothly replied to Chan. She turned and looked at Sergei, raising an eyebrow at his statement about the women in his country. "Well I have...my reasons to deter such behavior, and most here at the school know I don't deal with that kinda BS..." She couldn't help but laugh softly as the remaining students winced at Chan's stare and left, probably not wanting to have to run laps or anything. She shook her head, noting that they were even scared of the Dark Knight even though they knew him.

She blinked when Chandler spoke about not asking Ash about his relationships. That was something she didn't expect, she thought he liked to have any bit of dirt on people. She tilted her head, taking in what he had just said thoughtfully. Knowing that he didn't ask about Ash's relationships could be useful in the future, if she could figure out a way to sue that to her advantage at least.

She leaned casually against the wall she had been backed up to and smiled at the two. Chandler wanted to watch a movie? That would be nice if she had a date, but she didn't. Anyone who knew her also knew she was picky on the kind of people she hung out with, meaning that she most likely wouldn't do anything afterwards. "A movie would be nice. I haven't sat down and watched a movie in ages. Hope you two have a good time after the dance." She nodded as if to confirm her own statement, an odd little quirk of her's.