Up In The Clouds

Upon hearing the girl’s hobby, the young man’s own interest was fired up. 

- Alexander nods gently at her. He was worried she would kick him out first. He shifts in his spot on the floor, his large form barely fitting in the small space of the corner. He leans back, squares his shoulders and sighs. ”I..was sort of afraid..you would kick me out too.." He whispers in a child like manner and fiddles with his thumbs. 

« εїз »→;  "I'm sure you're not bothering anyone." Just from what she had witnessed of him, he seemed incapable of bothering anyone. Reina briefly wondered if he was on some long journey or something like that. Why else would he enter a random apartment building?

— Lightly, the ghost’s eyes open. Talking. Someone was speaking to him. 

- ”N-No..I don’t live here.." He answers quietly, his voice a hush in the air that smells of clean laundry and the night outside. He gently glances towards her, his jade green optics contrasting with the light. He felt the creep of shyness and nervousness poke at his gut, the familiarity of it making his hands slightly clench. 

« εїз »→; As awkward as she was with social interaction, it didn't exactly make her nervous. It was large crowds of people that bothered her. But, with just the two of them here, it didn't bother her much at all to talk to him.

"Is that so?" She sighed in slight relief. "I don't either. I was half afraid you'd have me kicked out." Really, she was. But now that she knew she was safe here for the time being she allowed herself to calm  down.

— The dark scares him. 

— Alexander doesn’t know why. He’s 19 years old (at least he has been since 18something) and the dark shouldn’t scare him anymore. The dark scares children. He was not a child. But he was childish. And that is all the excuse Alex should need. 

— Alex doesn’t really have a place he calls home. Being a ghost gave him the ability to fade, to hide himself from the world and allowed him to sneak in somewhere for the night. He made sure not to do anything drastic. He just laid somewhere warm and slept till morning. That certainly cold and dark night, the ghost stumbled his way into a large apartment complex. 

— His heart was racing, fast and quick and made his lungs burn with fear. It was just the dark, only the dark. Nothing will get you, Alexander. You’ll be okay, he kept telling himself. He easily brushes past a few oblivious humans around him, before exhaling and allowing himself to sit down in a snug corner of the lobby. He slightly becomes a little less transparent and shuts his eyes closed, the warmth of the complex comforting him. 

« εїз »→; Having such a low perception of danger, it was only natural that Reina was not afraid of the dark. She enjoyed it, in fact. Whenever it was dark there tended to be less people around. Social interaction wasn't on the list of things she particularly favored and so she was quite often a night owl. A curious little night owl that tended to wander when the sun had set.

That was how she had ended up in this apartment building; wandering. She simply walked right in. The brunette did this often into all sorts of buildings. Her theory was that if she wasn't supposed to enter then the door would be locked.

Deciding to take a slight break from her aimless walking she sat down on a bench in the lobby, soon noticing the other sitting in the corner. Somehow she felt obligated to talk to him. What if he lived here and called someone to drag her out of the building? She wouldn't like that at all.

Xander smiled. So the female had chosen him to interact with? That’d be nice. He enjoyed learning, after all. He learned that she had a stutter already. Much like him.

« εїз »→; Reina tended to stutter when she was nervous or unsure of what to say. Even so she was polite as can be, curiously tilting her head at the other. "If I may ask, why were you staring at me?"