Library Period {Open/Sven&Matthew}

[Faye]

Leaving the cloudy skies aside, it was quite a nice day. The sun was peeping through the gaps in the clouds, creating an odd looking ring shape as the light hit the dust particles in the air. Silence filled every inch of the library as it was class time and it was Library period for Sven Carlisle's journalism class. They were required to research famous journalists etc as part of an assignment. Sven, however, was using this time to secretly drink a cup of hot coffee and watch the clouds through the large glass windows near the back of the library.

To keep the teacher from coming over he made sure it was clear he was reading something. He already had a few books at home on what he wished to do for the assignment and was just in here to be in there. In one ear was a small white coloured ear phone, he was listening to his iPod. He was listening to Radiance. Which was a German band he had discovered and quite liked their type of music.

He took a small sip of his coffee and continued gazing out at the clouds and the little dances the light made from the sun. Also in the library was an Eighth Grade class and a few of the girls were staring at him, which Sven ignored, looking as if he had no idea.

[Nicolette]

The eleventh grade English class was doing an project that required the students to roam the campus in search of things to write about. The teacher was quite odd, but it was nice that he often wanted his students to roam about to write rather than be trapped in a classroom all class period long.

The library was somewhere he liked to be. It was a quiet place to work and it was what he needed to get the job done. A black ear bud was placed in his ear, hidden by black locks, and traveled down inside his uniform shirt where the iPod was tucked away in his pocket, hidden from view. In his ear played a gentle melody of the guitar; Fritz and Nymph had sent him a few songs through email and he was going to get back to them after he listened to them in order to give feedback.

There were little flaws, though he felt no power in the music, so he pressed onto the next song, hearing a powerful keyboard solo start up. Kai had been getting better. He pressed the button again as he entered the library and one of Radiance's solo albums, Rain, started to play. He could hardly recognize the voice that had once been his...

With a sigh, he pushed open the library door and snuck inside. A few classes were inside and he didn't want to disturb them. He slipped past and moved into the inner area. He found a quiet place in the maze of bookshelves and sat himself down, careful not to rest his back too heavily against the bookshelf behind him. He thought it would be alright, though, since he was small and he was pretty sure the bookshelves were sturdy.

He opened a notebook and brought his knees up, placing the notebook on the slope his legs made. He clicked his pen and brought it to the paper, but paused.

What to write about....

[Faye]

Finishing his cup of coffee, Sven rose from his seat near the window and closed his book. He may as well put it back and find another one to save the teacher coming around and being all suspicious about him only getting through one book over the course of one period, it was completely unlike Sven at all.

Calmly, he began walking down one of the many aisle of the library, without a care in the world. Before he got another book to pretend to read he was going to head for the rubbish bin to put his cup away instead of leaving it lying around. The librarian peered up from her computer and glanced at Sven, a disappointed expression laid out on her face. "Sven, you know better than that," She said, knowing his name. Sven grinned, "I do, and that wasn't mine, I found it," Accepting his lie, she went back to her work.

Sven made his way back to his seat but took a different path this time, he took the aisle of books beside the one he came down. Of course he wasn't watching where he was going and then he kind of.. tripped over something. Before he could fall, he grabbed onto the shelf and regained some of balance. Heart pounding from the surprise, he looked back to see he had tripped over his room mate. "Ah, Matthew... I'm sorry, I didn't see you there."

[Nicolette]

Matthew had been lost in thought and, therefore, did not notice someone was coming down the aisle he was sitting in.. So he let out a squeak of surprise when he felt someone trip over him. He braced himself against the bookshelf, though he fell sideways a little, and his legs fell to the side, one leg on top of the other, while his notebook fell to the ground next to him, his pen rolling away as he had loosened his grip when he'd moved.

Contact-brown eyes turned to gaze up at the person he had tripped and his eyes widened a little as a small pink blush formed on his cheeks. He had known the guy for a month since they'd been room mates and met a few times in the living room on the way to classes. Though Matt often kept to himself and stayed in his bedroom, he had exchanged a few words with the male in front of him and he found that he felt like another one of the male's fans that he'd seen frequently around school...

Yes, Matt had a bit of a crush on his room mate... But so did the rest of the school! It was probably some power of his or something. The dark haired student swallowed hard and brushed some bangs from his face as he pulled his notebook back too him, reaching for his pen as well.

"It's my fault... I shouldn't have been sitting in the middle of the aisle." He commented, sitting up and putting his notebook on his sloped legs again.

[Faye]

Using the shelf to push himself up right, Sven brushed himself off, although there was nothing to really brush off, it was just something he liked to do whenever he tripped. Not that he did it often. His lips slightly curved into a small smile but just barely as Matthew put the blame on himself for Sven tripping. "Both our faults, then, I wasn't watching where I was going," He replied, sitting next to Matthew on the floor in the aisle.

They barely spoke to each other when they were in the dorm, even when they ate dinner it was always taking the plate to their own room or just not talking. They did exchange words sometimes but it was slim. "So, what are you doing in here?" Gave him something to do instead of watching clouds and also put his mind off getting more coffee.

Now that he was talking to another person, he pulled out his little iPod and held down the play button (giving Matthew a glimpse of what he was listening to) to switch it off. With a gentle tug on the white cord, the small earphone fell down to his lap.

[Nicolette]

Matt's blush deepened just a little as he watched the male sit next to him. This was definitely different... Pulling one of the buds from his ear, Matt reached into his pocket and pressed a button (which he found by feel, as he did this often in class to keep himself from getting caught with it). His eyes wandered as he pulled his hand out of his pocket and he noted the band name and the song he was listening to.

"'Moments' was one of their earlier songs." He spoke casually. "Part of their second album, 'Eclipse'. It's a pretty good song." He brought his eyes to look up at Sven's face, trying to keep himself from blushing as he looked at the older man.

[Faye]

Sven blinked. He knew the band, too, huh? That was different, then again, he did look like he was from Germany, maybe he had found them there. He mentally shrugged, he had no idea. They barely spoke. "Ah, I see you like them too, eh?" he looked down at this switched off iPod and flicked it back on and moved back a menu to show his line of Radiance songs. He had a lot of their music, nearly all of it.

"Yeah, I like a lot of their music... Eclipse is a good song," He agreed, scrolling down the list to place the highlighted bit on the song Eclipse.

Seeing his teacher walk passed the aisle he was sitting in with Matthew he leaned forward and grabbed a random book sitting on the shelf. He opened it and laid it flat on a random page in front of him. He glanced down at what he was reading. It was a novel. Fiction. Okay... like his teacher will look anyway.

[Nicolette]

Matt couldn't help but let a tiny smile slip on his lips as he saw all the Radiance songs on there. He wondered how the male would feel if he knew he was sitting next to one of the lead singers of the old band... It had been so long since he'd been in the recording studio, sitting next to Zane with the earphones over his ears, pouring his heart into his voice.

Those days were over...

He noted Sven's odd actions and spotted a teacher approaching nearby. The ex-idol quickly turned back to his notebook and brought his pen to the page, scribbling a few notes down for an idea. The assignment had been to write a short story with a 7,000 word minimum. It was due by the end of the following week; Matt would finish by the weekend... If he could get an idea...

[Faye]

Continuing their little conversation about Radiance, Sven asked a question, "Who's your favourite member of the band? Mine's Anima~" He said, a slight bit of cheerfulness seeping in through his voice, different from his normal monotone, calm voice he always used for secret reasons.

A small hmm escaped from his lips as he read the page of the book open in front of him. How descriptive... and slightly disturbing. He happened to have picked up a novel on a teenage pregnancy that was in first person text. Yuck. He didn't want to know that right now.

Closing it again he reached forward for another one, this one was more tamed and was about samurai warriors in ancient times. Interesting, it might even get that one out.

[Nicolette]

Matt's heart thudded hard in his chest. Had Sven really liked Anima...? It filled him with a bit of joy, though he did his bext to hide the information from the other considering that no one was to know Matt's secret. He kept a calm expression, though he smiled a little.

"Anima's pretty cool. My favorite, though, is a tie between Anime and Zane." He brought his hand to brush over his bangs again, though they fell right back into place almost in his eyes. "What makes you like Anima, if you don't mind me asking?"

[Faye]

He closed the book in front of him and turned it up side down so he could read the little blurb on the back so he would know at least something about the book. It in intrigued him... he was definitely going to get it out later on.

Matthew's question made him think a bit, there was so many reasons behind why Anima was his favourite member of the band... Let's see... "Well... First, she has an amazing singing voice... and she's pretty, too, I dunno, she just has something about her~" He mused, trailing off a bit in his own thoughts. He didn't really know a proper reason for liking her so much... Probably because she showed feeling in her singing and wasn't just singing it for the sake of singing and making money.

"Why do you like her and Zane?" He asked, returning the same question.

[Nicolette]

Someone thought Katherine was pretty... Though there were some differences in the way Kat and Anime dressed and wore their make up, they generally looked the same. It caused Matt to smile a small smile as he looked at his notebook. However, the question caught him a little off-guard. How could he tell the older man about his personal reasons for liking Anima and Zane.

"Well... Anima has a bright personality that flows freely. She pours her heart into her voice, as if she's willing to give it her all to relay her message, whatever it may be. And as for Zane... Though his voice isn't as powerful, he provides strength for Anima and Anima makes up for what he lacks. I would find it impossible for Radiance to have one without the other."

[Faye]

Sven nodded, agreeing completely with what Matt had just said. The two completed each other when it came to singing and Radiance itself. Radiance wouldn't be Radiance if one of them wasn't there. "Yeah, I agree," He said simply as he finally slipped his iPod back into his pocket after switching it off again.

He went back to his first conversation starter. "Oh um, you never answered.. but what are you doing in here?" It was asked casually, not as if he was growling him like most teacher's would if you weren't assigned to the library that day or something. Got a little complicated. He was curious though, he had seen Matthew jot down a few notes before when the teacher walked passed the aisle, an assignment of some kind, perhaps?

[Nicolette]

Matt doodled a little at the top of his page, unsure of really what to do. He couldn't think of a subject to write on, which was really odd since English was his strong point. He couldn't possibly be getting rusty at it. He frowned a little but sighed and listened to the question he was asked.

"Ah? Oh, I'm here mainly just to work on my English assignment. The eleventh grade English teacher's really weird... He usually sends us off to work elsewhere during class and once a week, we'll work in the classroom for him to check our work to see if we've actually been getting anything done. And, of course, he's available for help when we need it."

The idol brought a pale hand up to run through his dyed-black locks, frustration hitting his eyes for a moment as he tangled his fingers in his hair in attempts to think of a topic to write about. It was supposed to be a story, so it shouldn't be that hard to do... Just make something up off the top of your head.

With a sigh, he let his hand fall to his side and picked up the pen again, twirling it in his left hand. He always found it odd how he was left handed...

[Faye]

Sven laughed a bit, he remembered that teacher from last year, he was always a bit of a weird one. But, his classes were enjoyable and it was easier and more free in that class when they were able to roam around to do their own thing as long as they got something done. The school's garden and other things usually gave him inspiration when he came to writing blocks.

"Haha, sounds like fun, I'm also in here for an English project... But I have all the books I need at our dormitory so I'm just pretending to read and trying not to think about coffee," Dammit! now he wanted a coffee. He sensed that he was getting frustrated and quickly started breathing steadily, in and out. Just calm down... He said to himself within his mind. He was definitely not going to turn into a cat right now.