The sea! (Open)

[Natsuki]

Fleur sat on the wooden pier and kicked her legs back and forth, watching her pale toes brush up against the water. The water felt nice and cool and she looked at the passing fishes, lightly nudging one as it swam past before scrambling away. She wondered what her cousin was doing. Max....how she longed to be with Max right now. She sighed and brushed her hair away from her face. "Stop that, you moron. It's been too many years and there isn't any sign. Just give it UP!" She shut up, not meaning to be quite so loud.

[tea]

Jing curiously approached the wooden pier where the girl sat. Classes had ended an hour or so ago, and he decided to take a stroll around the island or maybe even a swim if he felt like it. Today was a good day, especially since he was able to have a good nap in class without being disturbed and he had even recieved a rare letter from one of his friends he had met on the road. Life's going great! So after changing out of his school uniform into some loose shorts and a tank top, sans socks and shoes, (who needs shoes? Going barefoot is so free!), he started wandering around the island and ended up at the pier.

Upon seeing the girl, who he recognized as the cute French girl with the heavy accent from his Algebra and Government class, he decided to just say 'hi.' It wouldn't hurt, right?

He stopped once he stepped on to the pier, and raised an eyebrow, though you probably wouldn't see it underneath his mop of hair. "Uh, hi? Sorry, if I'm interrupting. You must be one of those students with the special mental gifts, right?"

[Natsuki]

Fleur gasped as she heard a boy and narrowed her eyes, irritated and embarresed. She brushed her hair so that it covered her face slightly, as if trying to hide her identity. "What the hell is that supposed to mean, jackass?" Some people didn't know when to keep their mouths shut. But there was something familiar in his face.... "Do I know you from somewhere?"

[tea]

Jing stared for at her for a moment, a little surprised, and then smirks. Woah, French girl's feisty! "No reason to get testy, I was just kidding. But what am I supposed to think when there's telepathic kids around here?" Jing shoves his hands into his pockets and glances away at a passing boat in the distance. "We're in the same Algebra and Government class. I'm Jing, I usually sit in the back of the class."

[Natsuki]

Fleur chuckling softly at his suprised expression. "Well I assure you I am not a telepath. I don't go to the mental gifts class." Her tone was bored and slightly embarressed, which also showed in her face since it had a slight flush (after all, who wouldn't be embarresed at having some random person hearing you talk to yourself?)

Fleur nodded a little. "I see." They had a little in common there. She sat in the far corner in the back so that no one would notice her, though her attractive figure didn't help her accomplish that.

She stretched herself out, showing off her figure in the process, brushing her hair away from her face so that he might have full view of it. No doubt he was just another one of the gawking idiots in her classes. She brought her legs, mostly bare from the shortness of the material of her casual dress, onto the deck. "So what brings you down here?"

[tea]

Jing gives the French girl's figure a casual once-over, (hey, if she was flaunting it, he's allowed to look, aren't I?), and looked looked away unimpressed. He hadn't taken much notice of her before now, aside from admiring her pretty face enough in class to recognize it now.

Frankly, Jing was a man for breasts, but the look of her legs were making him change his mind... Or maybe it's because he hasn't seen so many bare woman parts in a while! But no doubt about it, the pint-size, (compared to him), French girl is hot. She even looks short and small enough for Jing to be able to carry around on his shoulder like a sack of flour.

Jing glances back to the French girl and twists his foot behind his other ankle to scratch the back of his calf with his toes. "Just walking around, bored.. Thought I'd take a swim or something. You usually hang out here and talk to yourself? Not that there's anything wrong with it, I talk to myself sometimes, too. Everyone on this island is abnormal some way or another, so I think talking to yourself is the least of your worries." He says smiling lightly.

"Before I forget, what's your name? Faye, isn't it?"

[Natsuki]

Fleur frowned as he looked away, as if unsatisfied with her body. A first. She had gotten a few dropped jaws and wolf whistles, but she had never been looked up and down with dissatisfaction before. It was actually depressing.

As he was looking away she shifted the top of her dress so that it went a little off her shoulder and exposed the top of her top breast. Her breasts were decent for a girl her height. She wasn't interested in the boy in the least but she liked being acknowlaged as attractive. She was sometimes more a succubus than a werewolf.

She smiled a little at his comment (more at the fact that he had taken notice of her legs. At least there was something that pleased him.) "I don't normally talk to myself. It was more out of irritation that anything else. You know that feeling where you feel so fustrated with a hopeless situation that you feel like screaming?" She frowned a little. Yes. Her situation was hopeless. Others noticing her was nothing unless the one that really mattered noticed her.

She looked off at the water. "The water always helps me think more clearly. It helps me sort out my feelings and calm me."

She smiled a little and shook her head. "No. My name is Fleur. Fleur Desmarais."

[tea]

When Jing looked back to her, he had immediately taken notice of her partially exposed chest, and then looked to her face in an instant with a closed expression. He had been taught long ago that it's rude to stare at a woman's chest and he isn't going to make the same mistake now, despite how he wants to look... He pushes the thought of whether Asami's breasts are bigger than Fleur's to the back of his mind. "Hey, your strap fell off your shoulder. Boys are going to stare at you."

Jing was a a little happy that he managed to get her to smile a bit after how he started the conversation. He knew it was rude, but he didn't care, it was how he started conversations. He had only meant to embarrass her a little and make her laugh. Jing took a moment to think about her question. "I guess... But I wouldn't ever call anything hopeless. If you can lose hope in what you want, then can you say that you really want it?"

"Oh sorry," Jing found her smile infectious, and smiled himself. "Fleur, sounds like an ethnic name. You must be Chinese, right?"

[Natsuki]

She smiled a little more at his comment. " What? Too much for you to handle?" You could say she was really flirting now, what with her now mischiveous smile and the fact she wasn't pulling up her strap back up.

She looked down a little. Maybe... "Maybe....But it's sometimes something that's so far out of reach that, even though you want that more than anything else you can't reach it, so it is hopeless."

She smiled that flirtatious smile again. "Je suis français et si vous estimez votre virginité alors vous pourriez vouloir marcher loin."

[tea]

Jing chuckles. "I wouldn't say that. I guess your boyfriend doesn't mind you showing so much skin then?"

He was curious as to whether she had a boyfriend, (or girlfriend for all he knew), but he didn't doubt it. From what he's seen, girls with tended to dress a little hotter than girls without. On the other hand, it almost seemed like she wanted him to look at her... Maybe she was having a fight with her boyfriend who's making her feel so hopeless? That made sense.

Instead of continuing to stand there with his hands shoved in his pockets, Jing walks further onto the pier and takes a seat on the edge. "Hey, nothing's out of reach.. Unless it's on the moon. If you really want this guy, then keep trying." Jing looks over his shoulder, and gives Fleur another once-over, but this time letting the attraction show on his face. He smiles slyly. "He'd have to be blind not to want you. C'mon, if you keep trying to reach, then someday you'll get him for sure."

Jing paused at her sudden use of French. He just started studying French in this semester, could only translate half the words in her sentence and then guess the rest. ".. Virginity? Fleur, are you coming on to me? We only just met. I should at least buy you dinner first, and then... Somewhere other then here, unless you're into being watched, but we could get splinters."

[Natsuki]

Fleur smiled some more. "I suppose he would if I had one. But I don't." She felt a little pleased that he though that she did have one though.

Fleur looked up at him, before lowering her eyes again. " It's not that simple. It's...more complicated than you know....and sometimes I feel like I want to give up...but he knows me better than anyone else and...it's hard when I've already lost so much that's been important to me....but..." She flushed a little. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be saying anything."

She flushed a little more at seeing him look her over, seeing attraction in his face. That made her happy. At least she seemed attractive to someone. "Maybe...maybe one day...If not...then I suppose I'll just have to move on."

She opened her eyes as he understood part of it. Darn. She hadn't know he understood some French. She had better keep face. She couldn't afford any embarresment. "Maybe I am. Or maybe I'm just teaseing you."

She giggled a little at the last part of his sentence. "Oh yes. This place is completely unsutable for making love. So hard and uncomfortable. I wouldn't want any splinters. And I wouldn't want you to get any either. Wouldn't want to maul that sexy skin of yours." She gave him a flirtatious smile and winked. Now she was definately kicking things up a notch.

[tea]

"It's ok, I think it's better if you just let it out." Jing withheld and shook his head slightly. He didn't even know this guy, and he was starting to annoy the hell out of him. If this guy was constantly bothering Fleur like this, then she should just move on and find someone else who won't depress her. But he wasn't going to tell her that; it was none of his business.. Or maybe he should?

"Fleur, if this guy knows you better than anyone else, then wouldn't he want you to live your life, be happy and not angst over him? Cheer up. If he deserves you, and if he's man enough, he'll come to you himself. Until then, do what makes you happy." Jing glances down to the water, then back to Fleur, and took notice of her expression.

So she did enjoy being looked at that way. From the start of the conversation, he'd been trying to pin her down (figuratively). A troubled, hot girl with an unrequitted(?) love who likes to flirt and is the type to dangle fresh meat in front of hungry animals with no intention to deliver by the way she's talking about this guy that she wishes she had a chance with. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Jing turns to face her and smirks. "Teasing me, huh? Fleur, just because I'm a guy doesn't mean I automatically want you. You might fool a lot of others guys, but you can't fool me."

"You got any suggestions? I bet the old equipment shed near the gym is empty this time of day, or have you ever tried it in water? That's my favorite place." Jing smiles, hiding his slight surprise. Did she just say 'making love?' Just how much did it take to embarrass her? How many other guys have she become so 'come-hither' with and didn't have any interest in delivering? Jing wondered to himself.

[Natsuki]

Fleur sighed a little before smileing again(the cute one that usually got guys really going after her). "Thank you. You're very kind." She turned back to the sea, watching the waves come togeather and back away, touching the shore and moving back. There was something romantic about that.

She turned back, her eyes watering a bit. "What could you possibly mean by that? I-I...I thought you did like me..." She was really offendid by what he said, though the tears were fake.

She smiled a little at his response. "Hmm...I think it would be taken by now....But the water does sound nice." Her face was perfectly serious, though the smile was cracking through just a bit.

[tea]

He watched her for moment, wondering if she had taken his words to heart. Probably not, but she does have a very pretty smile, Jing noticed. He looked away towards the beach and starting strumming his fingers on the wooden floor of the pier. "What type of gentleman would I be if I just ignored a girl in distress?"

Jing looks to Fleur, startled by her sudden tears, and then replied carefully. "Uh.. I don't know. You seem like a very nice girl, but we just met.. And what I meant was, you just seem a little shallow. I didn't mean to hurt you by saying that, sorry." Jing pulls his legs up onto the deck to sit indian-style. "Yeah, I love the water. It's so relaxing.

[Natsuki]

Fleur smiled a little bit more. "You are very much the gentleman. Ah, if only there were more guys like you." Her voice was teaseing but her expression was serious.

Her eyes narrowed and she gave a low growl. "Peu profond ? Je ne pense pas que vous avez de l'idée ce que « peu profond » est. Vous pourriez savoir mieux, jugeant seulement une fille par ses regards. ‹ Qui a eu la plus grande étagère › ? « Qui regarde le plus chaud ? ‹ ? Cela est quelles questions à tout vous hommes ! Cela est tout n'importe quel d'eux pense à ! " She took in a breath and looked down. " You don't know the meaning of shallow."