Going for a stroll {open}

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Feeling the slight movement of Zane she had to wonder why he did that but didn't bother as she pealed off her clothes. Then raising an eyebrow she looked to him as he was attempting to keep a straight face. "What's your problem?" She asked straightening out. The mud under her toes felt weird but her feet didn't stick as much which was nice. Okay so Zane had been right about taking off her clothes... that wasn't sound weird at all... Maybe that's what... yes she could totally seee Zane laughing at that but tried to keep it in for fear of being flipped or something else. "Oh because you totally go around pantsless all the time, Pant-Hater." She replied sarcastically.

If there was one good thing about the water she to to be close to Zane as he stayed close doing just what he said he would. Protecting her just in case anything would happen. It made her get that silly grin that school girls got after talking to their crush. "Is it hard? Keeping control of the fear?" She asked feeling the water swallow up the better part of her thy. It was colder than she remembered but then again she had warmed up in the sun sitting on the bank. But it still felt nice as her upper body stayed above water in the heat.

"Yeah caught that," She said as she felt the joy spread through her body and that damn stupid grin came back. Well at least she was with the one guy who couldn't see it. There were perks to lack of vision. "Well i'm sixteen, tried on the hat when i was four so that twelve times two. Twenty-four plus the like ten i bought soo... I like hats what can i say?" She giggled quietly speaking a little faster as the joy made her really happy. "[color00A0FF]Without a doubt my purple beanie. It's my favorite color and i've had it foooorever! Well no just since i was ten, my best friend gave it to me. I miss Pip so much but we had soo much fun!

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Zane shook his head when asked what his problem was, if he started talking it'd all break apart and he'd be reduced to laughter which would break his connection to Bridget. The question was generally rhetorical anyway so hopefully no answer was truly needed. At the mention of him going around pants-less his face suddenly fell and it became quite easy to keep from laughing. "Uh.. ha.. harhar.. yeah, that's totally never happened..." Damn, did everything always end up coming around to that one stupid moment eventually. Seriously. Well, okay maybe this time he had been the one to bring up the subject of pants, but he hadn't meant it that way.. 'Ugh.. whatever..'

"Hmm, well I'm not controlling it so much as suppressing it. It's not too difficult but I've never tried to hold someone under my influence for a drawn out amount of time so I'm not sure what the effects will be once I let go." God he hoped this wouldn't give him some kind of mind spike or headache once he let go. Worst case scenario he fainted, best case nothing changed.. Little bit of a gap between those two scenarios but oh well. Not wanting to freak her out Zane shrugged as if it didn't matter, "Worst case scenario I get a little headache." What, expected him to freak her out and give up a true response? Even he had more sense than that.

About 34? How she could keep track of them all and figure out which one to wear was beyond him. Making things match seemed like such a hassle.

Insanely happy Bridget seemed.. a little drunk if anything. It was pretty funny. The way she extended the forever he half expected her to just let go of him and stretch out her arms to show just how long forever was. There was no sign of fear as they continued though so everything was going as planned. "Pip, what a fun name. What kinds of adventures did you go on?" Mentioning Pip was a bit of a gamble on his part since she claimed to miss him/her so it might end up making her sad but he was trying to multitask his attention between her emotions and keeping himself from getting stuck in the water. It was safe to assume he was heavier than her so was more likely to sink if he didn't keep moving carefully.

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It really was annoying  sometimes when he didn't answer her questions but what was she going? If he didn't want to say it then well he wasn't and she had no ground to push him on. Well she would just have to wonder what he was trying not to laugh from for the rest of her days. Sad fact yet true. As for his reply to the running around pants less well it just made it seem like he really did. The thought if a pants less Zane wandering the halls made her giggle. "Er whatever you say," as by his tone he did not want to talk about it what do ever. Hmm but had he really gone around pants less one time or another? It seemed a little odd but then again here was a girl afraid of water up to her thys in it. That was pretty odd to right? 


The way he explained it Bridget felt a little bad for having him do it. It couldn't be fun suppressing someones fear… but happier thoughts entered her head since he wanted her out here in the first place, not to mention to play with her emotions (but she guessed a little differently than this). And it was an experiment to test his powers...  So it couldn't be all that bad right? Well Bridget at least hoped so. "Just a headache? Okay that's alright I guess I just don't want to cause you any trouble let alone pain." she said looking up at wit slightly worried eyes yet her voice still cheerful from the joy. This was weird… "If it gets to be to much  or you think the aftermath is going to be to much just stop okay?"it really didn't matter if she could stand she could blot back to the shore still if that pesky fear returned but she didn't want to harm Zane in anyway.


She really wanted her beanie all of a sudden maybe she would switched out hats when she got back to the school not the she wanted to go back anytime soon. "Yeah he was really tiny and got picked on, people called him pipsqueak. But we met may have scared off a few guys and started calling him  Pip  much more lovingly," as for the question she wasn't sure what to say and was as one would put it a bit emotion high. "Oh pranks and games and running off into the woods for hours with our other friends. Then w became partners in crime… literally." wait did she just say that? Crap she did the emotion stuff was no joke and Bridget didn't think when she got hyped like this. 


"not that I meant we ever ran into the cops. They never caught  us. That's not what I'm saying! Er I mean even if we did it was just cause of my d-" she stopped right there. Eyes squeezing shut as she let go of Zane's hand trying to calm down. She freakin gave away almost everything! Just because she wanted to prove to herself she could go into the water! Now what would Zane say? Anyone could piece together she had at least some sort of criminal  past and if not her father did. "Stupid…" she said crossing her arms. God what if Zane didn't like her anymore because of that? What if he told other people around school? All because she was relaxed and let a boy mess with her emotions her life here could be in ruins. "I'm so stupid." she repeated to herself again refusing to take notice to the drop lit of Salt water slipping down her cheek.  What it he never talks to me? she thought mentally freaking out as her body stayed still.

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There went that switching of the underlying emotion again. Sometime he'd learn what was okay to say to keep a person on one emotion, and what wasn't. Causing them to worry defiantly wasn't helpful, but he wasn't about to change to that, it was a bad and weak emotion. The constant changes might have an effect on Bridget as well, going from one extreme to the next, Joy and excitement were at least similar. "Hah, trouble, yeah right. Any trouble you cause me is worth it." Zane probably deserved a bit of trouble the way he caused trouble for other people sometimes.. especially the kitchen staff. They probably cursed his name.

They Joy was soon embraced again as the topic turned to the little pipsqueak, Pip. Who was a guy by the way, totally knew that. When she mentioned partners in crime out while out in the woods Zane thought of childish things like hiding random things in the nooks of trees or playing little pranks then running out to hide in the woods until the coast was clear. Hearing the literal part his opinion didn't really change until a few more details were added.

At the mention of Cops he had to admit, he was surprised enough to forget not to be rude and show it on his face. Bridget had mentioned getting in trouble or something like that before, but he hadn't guessed it was that kind of trouble. So instead of hiding random things in nooks it was more like expensive things and hiding until the coast was clear took on a whole new meaning as well. Then that bit about her.. dad? That was the first and only word that fit into the sentence. Dad.. The same man who made her remember such happy thoughts about simply getting a hat for a present had her out stealing for him? That... that was quite a bit of information to gather at once, leaving him speechless.

When she let go of his hand the connection also snapped, which brought him back to the present. Almost immediately he reached back out for a different emotion since Joy had broken so easily with the sudden drop of emotion. Afraid that what happened with Seth could happen to Bridget, Zane wasn't keen on using a completely opposite emotion than she was actually feeling. The closest thing would have have to be calm since it was pretty neutral. For whatever reason she was already starting to freak out again, as if afraid of something on top of her fear of water. He would let go of any mental ties completely if fear wasn't what would take over when his influence fully bled away.

"Hey no-" Normally he wouldn't touch anyone's face without permission, but he assumed the random fear came from her looking at the water so he laid a hand on each side of Bridget's face to bring it back up to look at him. He hadn't expected his hands to get wet -the reason behind the sudden cut off-.. and the water was warm, most likely salty too if he bothered to lick his hand. The calm almost ended up breaking too, but he managed to keep it intact somehow. Well damn, what had he done this time? Unsure of what to do he tried to comfort her as best he could by drawing her into an embrace. "Hope there was suppose to be some kind of sarcastic tone in there that I just missed because I don't recall you ever doing anything remotely stupid." Zane had no idea why she suddenly claimed to be stupid. Whatever she had done in the past couldn't be as bad as she thought. Unless the crime was the mass murdering of blind people, then he was likely to continuing enjoying the girl's presents. Actually he'd even be entertained to hear the stories behind the crimes. Again, unless murder was involved, then he might have to reconsider being alone with her.

"Maybe we should head back to the shore." That'd probably be best, however he didn't bother to let Bridget go yet. If she wanted to push away and head back, sure he'd let go then, but not sooner.

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He didn't seem to worried about the after effects of holding her fear at bay so she shouldn't worry about it right? Right... she guessed. But the way he worded that sentence made that damn school girl grin come back... wait. Shiz she was a school girl with a crush. Well wasn't that something to think about. For another time though as her emotions did change fairly quickly after that making the silly grin slide off of her face.

Seeing his face turn to that of surprise did not help. Of course he hadn't expected that, heck she might have been able to get away if she didn't rush into a non-help explanation that laid it out. Why had she even mentioned her dad? What if he tells someone that i stole before? What if he tells a teacher my dad's involved with crimes? What if that get's into trouble? What if he goes to jail? What if Dad finds out i slipped up and get's mad at me? What if he abandons me like mom? She didn't even realize that Zane was trying to calm her down with the emotions control thing. It wasn't working.

Then it only got worse continuing those thoughts. What if Zane doesn't tell and he just ignores me? What if he never talks to me again? My god Zane's gonna leave just like mom did. For the same reason! I'm so stupid. This is horrible! Her thoughts were literally flying around her head as she just got worse. It was bad enough for a few tears to slip by anyway and Bridget never ever cries. She had been so caught up in her own circle of thoughts she hadn't realized Zane made a move to touch her.

Flinching at his touch from pure surprise she opened her eyes and looked up at him. He stopped talking.. maybe he was rethinking this. Maybe he was thinking of just leaving her here in the water freaking out... The calm that was just settling to help her cool down a bit suddenly felt like it was leaving. Which only confirmed her silly thoughts about him leaving. Then he pulled her close leaving a confused Bridget standing in his arms. It took a moment for movements and words to register before she quickly wrapped her arms tightly around his waist.

"How do you know that?" Her voice broke on the sentence before she gulped trying to stop freaking out. "You don't know half the things i've done.. all of them stupid. Now you'll get all mad or something else and leave like mom. You wont talk to me anymore or... or-" she couldn't even finish before her voice broke again. She didn't say anymore till she heard his voice again and looked up at him arms still tight around his waist. "yeah.." She didn't want to let go for fear that he would just walk away once they got to the little bank.

She stepped back and let him go a little two quickly though. Slipping on the mud that she was standing on she fell backwards being propelled by the force of the slip and crashed into the water. Once again silver bubbles exploded around her. Thing just kept on getting better for her today. When you're in a situation like this common sense doesn't always work and well it felt the building for her. The thrashing started moments later and moving her further away from Zane and into deeper water. This day sucked.

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Zane could feel his own heartbeat picking up from the panic Bridget was feeling. If only he could tell what in the world was causing her to freak out so much, that'd be so much more helpful. Sometimes being able to feel but not know the reason behind those feelings was fairly frustrating. There wasn't a way for him to keep her emotions from effect him while connect and it seemed that the calm was simply too weak, or whatever was running through her head causing too much panic. The only thing he could really do now was suppress the fear as much as possible around the panic. It was likely that some would get through, but the effect would be diminished a little. Who knows, maybe the panic was stronger than the fear and would help some? Not like he would increase the panic though.. That'd be just stupid.

He tried not to let that flinch bother him, 'it was from surprise, that's all, not pain.' Zane told himself, that was true but flinching and pain were still considered to be hand in hand for him. For a moment at least, the surprise was pure and erased everything else so there was a brief reprieve for him, the surprise didn't give back into panic either. Confusion dominated when he took her into his arms.

Her response came a little delayed and he wondered if he'd done the right thing but was relieved when he felt Bridget wrapped her arms around his waist. About time something went right for once. Although he probably wouldn't have extended the same embrace to anyone else- he was a cuddler but usually only to cats- he was okay with it. Little more than okay, but admitting to anything more would break the frail denial he had for himself.

"I don't. In fact I bet you've done tons of stupid things, but I haven't seen any yet so any others don't matter." He spoke in a low voice, the ending half sounding a bit more affectionate. There was nothing anyone could do about what already happened, all anyone could do was to not let the same mistakes be made again. She was trying to keep down the panic, his own heart still thudded with her effect, but less so.

She thought he would get mad.. and.. not.. talk.. Zane couldn't help tightening his hold on Bridget as he shook with contained laughter. Yes, he knew next to nothing about her past, but so what? If her mother had left her just because of some past mistakes than he felt sorry for her mom, missing out on the company of such an amazing person. Leaning down a little to take advantage of one of these rare moments when she didn't have a hat, Zane muffled his words while grinning into the soft hair. "You're so strange, is that why you were panicking earlier? Obviously neither of us knows much about the other or you'd know there's nothing you could say that would keep me away." Silly girl's and their weird thinking process.

The grin fell away some when she quickly back-peddled, but he let her do as she pleased. Something.. changed though.. something went wrong and the sound of splashing followed by thrashing was all the motive he needed to jump forward after the girl. It wasn't hard telling where Bridget was by all the noise she was making, the problem was she kept moving away. Telling her to calm the hell down probably wouldn't be any good so he chased the sounds of her struggles until he could get to her and bring her out of the thing she seemed to fear so much. With things like this happening he couldn't exactly blame her.

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Being in his arms it helped suppress the panic, the craziness inside of her. Just a bit but she felt a tiny bit better. Still it was a bit and it didn't stop her constant flow of thoughts. His tone made her stop for a moment and think. That tone.. the way he ended it... it didn't matter? The past was the past. That's what he was saying right? But he didn't know! He didn't he was freakin criminal. Her dad was crime boss. Those things you just do not take lightly. So Bridget just couldn't understand his way of thinking. He couldn't know... he didn't know... he wouldn't say that if he did know. "I've already gotten a detention for those stupid things," She muttered burying her face in his chest.

Feeling his arms tighten around her she didn't know what to think. Everything didn't make sense from the past with the people she loved leaving (or being sent away) to now when all she could think was 'he's going to leave, he's going to leave...' The thought swirled around her mind as her own arms tightened in responds. He leaned down and she wondered what he was doing as she felt his face in her hair. Okay the panic was dying down... bit by bit... Bridget only made out half of the words he said as they were muffled. Okay she could see the point of his face in her hair. But what was he saying that he didn't want her to know?

Gah now that was frustrating. Not knowing what he was saying. Well he didn't know what she was thinking as she didn't voice all her panicked thoughts. That would be a little long to say. And the panic had in fact died down. Feeling better about the whole thing getting confirmation from Zane that he wouldn't leave or ignore her or some other stupid thing she thought. (even though there was still those thoughts floating in the back of her mind...) Okay at that moment she thought she was calm enough -even though the feelings were still floating around- to walk at least to the bank.

That was before her was surrounded by water again. It was like before except worse since she didn't have Zane's arm around her protectively around her. She had no one and she didn't know how to swim. Which caused the panic to spike, arms thrashing, and eyes open looking for something to give her a clue to where she should go. 'I'm going to die...' She thought body stopping for a moment. 'I going to die...I can't...' But she couldn't hold the little breath she had left and an few silver bubbles floated up towards.. the surface with her hair now loose and hanging in her face she barely noticed something breaking the water to come and get her.

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Finally the thrashing sounds that echoed through the water ceased. Not really a good sign, but at least Bridget wouldn't be getting further away from him. Able to catch up to her downward decent Zane kept his hand out ahead in his own state of panic until he touched something soft. Without a second thought he gave one more downward stroke to wrap an arm around her waist then headed back to the surface.

"Darn you woman. Freaken, thrashing away. Water phobia. Can't even swim. Gah." He wasn't really sure if it was her panic he was feeling or his own as mumbled to himself. It wasn't that he actually meant what he was saying. Each word he said was laced with the panic he was feeling both from and for Bridget. Why'd he even let her go? Sure there was such a thing called free will and all that but the very least he could have done was keep hold of her hand. His only job had been to keep this from happening, what had he been thinking?

There wasn't anything he could do while they were still in the water so like before he carried the girl back to shore where it was dry. They should have stayed here, but no, Zane had to go and try to make Bridget overcome her fear of water. Well.. that had actually been her idea, but he could only see himself to blame for what happened. Laying her on the ground he begged urgently, "Bridget, hey, please tell me your okay or say something, anything. If she didn't answer back right away he wasn't sure what he would do. Before in the lounge he hadn't thought anything of that mouth-to-mouth resuscitation actually being applied in a dire circumstance. Damn you Karma.

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So dying by drowning... yea seemed her fear didn't seem so unreasonable now huh? Oh well as her throat to burn with the sudden in take of water she felt something touch her. Then loop around her waist bring her to the surface. It was the second time today she broke the surface of water in his arms. But this time it was only worse. She did cough a bit at the surface and was able to take a deep breath. Her throat burning slightly from the sudden intake of water when she was under. She moved closer to Zane when he started to carry her.

Placing her down she didn't like it. Nope not one bit. She wanted to be closer to him, she felt safer that way and was sure if she hadn't let go like the little idiot she was then this wouldn't have happened. But finally the tickle in the back of her throat made her cough the water. She propped herself up on her elbows spitting it to the side before taking three long breaths. Turning to him she shook her head. "No I'm perfectly perfect because i totally didn't almost drown." She said sarcasm entering her slightly horsed voice before she coughed. Again. She just focused on breathing for a few moments. Ah the feeling of air in the lungs and not water was a wonderful thing.

Running a hand through her now soaked hair she took another deep breath and looked up at Zane. "God damn-it Zane! No more water!" She yelled before sitting up and wrapping her arms around his neck pulling closer to him. "Don't you ever let me go okay?" She muttered while giving him a hug, more for her sake then his. After about a minute she let go and sat back a bit rubbing her eyes. "Actually no, I think I might die from a loss of air without your help," She said smirking a bit. That was close enough to what he said before right? Ironic that it almost happened it time around no?

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Never in all his life did Zane ever think he'd be so glad to hear so much sarcasm and be yelled at. She was okay, as okay as someone who almost drowned could get that is. Thinking back on it that probably was a pretty stupid think for him to ask of her to say, but he was sort of freaking out at the time. It was good that she drew him out of his neutrality, but did he have to feel every emotion? Fear, panic, loss, regret, jealousy, couldn't he do without having to feel those? Then again.. the upsides outweighed those. The enjoyment of throwing and receiving sarcastic lines, returning what could only be idiotic, but happy, grins, she'd even made him laugh legit- he couldn't even remember the last time that had happened. Even more recently, at the moment, he couldn't put words to how glad he was to hear that sarcasm.

Off in his own little happy world of joy and relief not even Bridget's yelling couldn't make him feel depressed at allowing her to get away. Since she'd yelled at him though Zane actually thought that would continue for a little longer, he wasn't expecting her to fling herself around his neck. The surprise almost made him jump up out of his skin, but he was soon hugging her back fiercely, "Heh, sure thing, won't ever let go again. I'll have to drag you to my room tonight though since your hats are all over in yours and mines probably cleaner." He was only joking with her, but Zane said it as if he were serious to see if she could see through his ruse or take him seriously and freak out or something. In a way it was a little revenge for scaring him like that. True to his word for the time being, however, he took Bridget's hand in his when she broke away. She wouldn't be getting away from him that easily again.

Ah hah, he caught the similarity of his words to her just before their last departure. Narrowing his eyes he wasn't too sure whether or not Bridget was taunting him to repeat her part or simply enjoying the irony of the whole thing. Unconsciously running his free hand through his hair again he sighed and grinned back at her happily, but a little regret fringed the edges, "You know, you're lucky I'm more reserved than a certain someone and play it safe." If he would have been certain that she was taunting him Zane probably would have taken up the challenge of was he were bold enough to kiss her. It didn't feel like she was taunting him though. He wasn't sure what it felt like, but he didn't get a challenging sort of vibe.

Really he wasn't very bold, he just refused to run away from things. It'd been such a long time ago when he'd made that decision to stop running from his tormentors, but he'd decided that and kept it, applying it into his life. Was that why he didn't shy away from her criminal past? ... No, that was because of something else.

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She hadn't exactly meant to yell at him harshly or anything. Just really yell for volume and effect. Also to get out the last of that panic still in her system from the water... Luckily he didn't seem effected at all and in fact he was just radiating happiness and joy as he was still caught up in her being alive and not dead... which did in fact call for happiness and joy. Glad he's so happy, She thought smiling slightly. But the smile turned into a grin when she hugged him. Guessing that he would surprised it was fairly entertaining but she had expected a flinch or something but not nearly jumping out of his skin.

Oh Zane.. She thought before he wrapped her up in his arms. Bridget giggled in responds to being dragged to his room. "Hmm you're more of a rule breaker then i thought," She joked. His tone suggested he was serious and she was half believing him and half not. Actually she didn't mind the thought of curling up to Zane to fall asleep, in her own dorm it was too quiet with no one else around. She was used to noise as she always heard it at her own home. Though still thinking on that it made her blush a bit. "Hmm i might just have to see your room. Clean you say? It's unthinkable, teenage boy having a clean room." She grinned despite her sore throat.

When she did pull back she was glad to see that Zane kept their hands together this time. Looking up though he had narrowed his eyes at her. Tilting her head she had mischievous smile on her face. It would seem he didn't know if she was taunting him on or not. Hmm she hadn't been but she wouldn't mind if he really thought so. "Am i really? I don't think so.." She trailed off meaning for the sentence to come out jokingly but once again there was that underline seriousness. Groaning playfully she rolled her eyes, "Aw that's no fun! Safe is boring. And who could you possibly be referring too?" This time she pulled of the playful joking tone with out the seriousness. Yet it was true safe at times could be very boring.
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[kytazy]

That's right, it was against the rules but since he didn't really have any plans to litterally never let go there wouldn't be any rules broken. For her sleeping with him that is... uuuh, that sentence was.. that totally wasn't what he meant! Bah, well it was in his head now. Zane considered himself above the sterio-typical male hormones though and gave his head a quick shake to rid himself of the thought. Preferably he truly wouldn't mind simply curling up with her close by, the gentle pull of her emotions were starting to become familar to him so he could relax around her. "what can I say? Braking rules just sounds more fun when you're involved" there might not be a single rule he wouldn't break if she were there. Things just seemed to get more interesting with Bridget around. Maybe she was some kind of trouble magnet.

So typical. His room could be clean, in fact it was clean! "phft, you and you judgements. I should let you know that I keep my room spotless, you'd be amazed I'm sure. it wasn't actually spotless, there were a few books scattered here and there but those were minor details. He couldn't use an excuse like tripping over things as the reason for a clean room because Zane didn't even do that when his room had been a mess. It had been an organized mess, or at least a mess where he had memorized what to avoid. That's wasn't really shocking, he still did that with making his way around the school, avoiding certain 'messes' of students.

Bridget seemed to be enjoying messing with him. The way she sounded gave him absolutly nothing to go on, there were joking and serious tones, and the only thing he could feel was her enjoyment which also told him nothing. Well fine, she wanted to mess with him, he'd make her reap what she sowed. "oh, you don't?" taking the hand he still held Zane pinned it against the ground and leaned towards Bridget until he could feel their breath mingling, "I suppose if you want I'll kiss you this time." shifting as if to really go through with the statement Zane came within a milimeter of pressing his lips to hers before drawing back. "Actually, I think I'll stay in denial a little longer if that's okay with you."

Safe may not always be fun, but it kept you in tact for a bit longer than usual at times. Admittedly it could indeed be boring and risks were entertaining. It was all just a matter of deciding if the risk would be worth the reward he supposed.

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There was a slight feeling of curiosity when he randomly shook his head. As if clearing his thought… Bridget wondered what he was thinking about to make him do that. But she shrugged it off and ended with a grin at his statement. "Of course it does," the smile widening, "Why wouldn't it? Rule breaking plus me equals a very interesting story by the end of the day." it was true too. She would never break a rule just by well breaking by a small or iffy margin. After all if you were already breaking them why not have a little fun with it? Just so long as you didnt get caught while doing it.

It really was fun to irritate him. Yeah she knew not allll teenage guys(or girls for that matter) had to have messy rooms."hmm I find that very hard to believe." she said tapping her chin thoughtfully, "but I'll tell you that I wouldn't be amazed I'd be speechless." she smile with the sarcasm sneaking its way into making what she said very hard to believe. Still fun to patronize him mine the less. But she did wonder what his room was like. Meaning how it was decorated as such with his lack of vision. Bridget had different posters on the walls, hats everywhere, and a jewelry box on her by the foot of her bed. It was how she expressed herself in this school and something they couldn't mess with. 

"Nope," she answer making a popping noise on the 'p'. but that was before he pressed her hand to the ground trapping it there. Eyes looked at their hands before flashing back up to his silver eyes. She didn't flinch or even really move as Zane leaned closer to her. Her only signs of a reaction was her eyes widening, heart fluttering, and how her breath increased slightly. But she didn't answer him, didnt try to stall or inch away like Zane had. In fact she leaned in slightly and closed her eyes. That last kiss didn't only stay with Zane... But he pulled away and she felt… not sad but maybe disappointed was a better word. "You shouldn't-" she was going to finish that with tease someone like that. but another word caught her ears. 

denial? what was he denying? He couldn't mean denial that he liked her right? That was just her being too hopeful… but with pulling back from the kiss it would make sense... No she was just being silly right? Wrong... But still she could decide of she was putting the facts together correctly or not so she settled on something in between. "Denial you say? You're very silly Zane." part of her said to give him a kiss anyway, the other obviously against. So with another compromise she kissed him on the cheek. Pulling away she was smiling softly, "Its kinda cut. she then leaned back behind her (refusing to let go of his hand yet)  and snatched her hat from where she throw it. Placing it on her wet head she grinned, 'much better. 

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'What modesty she possesses' he thought sarcastically. That, or she was just the bolder of the two to take claim of her awesomeness, which he could totally believe. Somehow, Zane got the impression that Bridget never simply bent the rules, either it was intact or completely shattered with her. It only compelled his curiosity about what she might have done in the past. Hot-wiring cars, flying down the streets at over 100 miles per hour, having the cops on your tail but narrowly escaping through small allies. For a boy who'd always grown up under the supervision of others, whether it was his grandma, sister, or currently the government, Bridget's past was mysterious and exciting. Not to mention even when he got out of here Zane still would never be able to drive so he was especially curious about her ever being in a high-speed chase.

Speechless? It couldn't possibly be that shocking if his room were actually organized... Which it was! Except for those few books mentioned earlier.. "As long as you're shocked by my astounding cleaning skills you can be as speechless as you want." He'd pick those up tonight though just out of spite. That was pretty much all that gave his room any 'color' however, so maybe he'd just leave them. Knowing himself pretty well Zane figured if he did move the books he would end up forgetting he did then freak out once he reached for them and they weren't there. Anyway, the few books that were placed around the room, the bed, nightstand, and the recorder his sister had sent were the only things contained in the four walled space. It was plain, but being blind and all on top of not having a roommate there just didn't seem to be any point in decorating. No one had ever really came into his room before.

The disappointment as Zane pulled away was.. unexpected to say the least. Not only that but she had leaned in slightly, closing the distance quicker. Had he not been paying attention the faint would have actually happened. The action didn't really match up to her words though as he misunderstood when she said he shouldn't. He guessed the ending would have been 'you shouldn't kiss me' Not that he had a depressing view on life and thought nothing good ever happened, he was just use to getting half or one of the shorter sticks in life. Having his first crush like him back would be considered a full one so, him thinking that as the end of the sentence he basically considered himself rejected.

Silly... he was silly? That had never been a word to describe him before but oh well, what'd it matter now? With him thinking she'd rejected him Zane's view of life did sort of take a turn for the worst now. He wouldn't show it, but his heart ached at the words he filled the sentence in with. The kiss he felt brush his cheek was probably the only touch he was familiar with, and didn't even flinch from it. He was use to that form of greeting and though he thought it odd of her to be greeting him now, he didn't give it a second thought. She might consider denial to be something cute, but obviously not enough to want him to kiss her.

Feeling another tug on his hand as Bridget leaned back to replace her discarded hat, Zane instinctively copied the motion going forward. This time he caught the movement though and leaned back to his original position. His muscle memory was pretty silly so maybe the word did fit him some. Ah well. At times when faking an emotion was necessary, he was glad for his Empathetic powers. With a broken heart underneath Zane played copy cat and covered the hole with Bridget's happier emotions over his own in order to grin back without it looking forced. "Thanks I think. Better watch that hat though, certain people might end up taking it for ransom in order to get a certain sandwich." He wasn't really sure what to make of their continuously joined hands, but was leaning towards the thought that she only held on because he was; if he let go so would she. It would have been best to for him just relax his grip and see but... he couldn't bring himself to do it.

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After her rule breaking system he seemed to start thinking about something. For a brief moment she wondered if it was his own rule breaking moments but that didn't last long. Then it turned to her own. Which well she didn't think of for long either. After all she did not want a repeat of what happened earlier... defiantly not the crying. That had been... to much even for her to think about. Never crying but when it came to Zane him leaving... it made those ducts open right up. And in front of him too! Gah... she never even did that in front of Pip.. her best friend. If that didn't show how much she cared for him than nothing did. Then again he also didn't know that, if anything she supposed he could guess that she wasn't a girl to cry often. If he did want to know what kinds of things she did well he'd probably have to have her pretty relaxed before hand for her to answer any of his questions.

She laughed at his comment. "Hmm i'm sure it's an astounding site and the silence will be filled with respect." Okay so it was really just to bug him but she had some(very few) doubts about his room being clean. But then again if he was running into things on the floor that would be no fun. So she could understand why he kept it clean.. Bridget was just to lazy to clean up all her hats plus she tried on about fifteen before walking out her door in the morning... Anyway this wasn't really about her room right? At least not till he came over. "Well at least you don't have to clean up when i randomly pop over to see your super duper spotless room."

It was silly she knew that.. feeling disappointed for him not fallowing through with the kiss. There was always so much confusion when it came to their lips meeting. Last time... there was long in his voice afterwards right? So why hadn't he kissed her this time when he had the chance? Then there had been the whole denial thing.. what was that about? Then with the kiss on the cheek he showed no responds. She had gotten used to a flinch or something when she touched him unexpectedly. So that was odd. Since she had forgotten that it was a greeting for him it added to that unsure felling and confusion grew in her. "What are you thinking about?" She asked quietly looking up at his face though it held no sign if anything was the matter.

She noticed he leaned forward a bit when she tugged on his hand, he did it before too when they were in the water. "Why do you do that? Move when someone tugs on your hand?" She questioned squeezing his hand gently but not tugging it as she asked the question. At his almost threat about her hat she lifted her free hand up and placed it over. "Hey no fair, my hat." She only moved her hand to brim fingering it lightly. "Don't steal my hat again..." she pouted slightly.