Alexis

@oforxcle​  from meme“it’s just a fact.” he shrugged as he ate his meal. Alexis didn’t annoy the life out him, so he didn’t mind making small talk. Not this time anyway. “Nothing is really as black and white as people make it out to be. Good on you for recognizing that.” he asnwered. 

     “Fair enough” she held her hands up gently. She could rub people the wrong way without meaning to a lot of the time, so Alexis could understand him feeling the need to say it, and at least he owned up to the fact that he wasn’t the nicest guy. “Kind of hard to think that the world is when you’ve seen some of the things I have”

Drake raised his eyebrows as she spoke to him, shrugging his shoulders and sitting down on the bench beside her. “I don’t think there are actually that many heartless people out there,” he said. “Some people just prefer to be on their own, some people have walls up or whatever. Heartless is a pretty big word to throw around and I doubt you deserve that.” He shrugged. “Yeah, I guess it would,” he said. “Loneliness seems like the price you’d have to pay for keeping yourself from getting attached. If you think that’s worth it, you might just have to deal with it at times. Or find someone who understands the whole no strings thing.”

     She was honestly expecting him to keep walking, and when he sat beside her she couldn’t help but sigh, realizing she kind of owed it to this random stranger to at least have a conversation about it now. “Guarded, then” she amended her previous statement. “I think it can come across as extremely cold and heartless to some people, however...I don’t really care what they think” A lie. “But I’m very aware that some hold that opinion, if that makes sense” she explained with another soft sigh. “No strings never actually means no strings...it’s just something that people naively choose to believe until it gets messy” 

𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥​:

Arabella had just been taking a walk, trying to clear her head…it was too muddled when she tried to focus on any one of her on-going projects. Of course she’d get lost in her head and wing up lost. Approaching the first person she saw, she was shocked to be met with such apathy. “Oh, um, I’m sorry…” she said, feeling nervous now. “I only meant to ask which way the support lab might be.”

     There was a flash of regret in her eyes as she realized that the poor girl only needed some directions, but Alexis wasn’t really the apology type unless it was something big. Maybe not even then. “The support lab is over that way...When you hit the fountain, keep left and you’ll find it pretty quickly” she explained, about to turn to keep walking before she sighed. “I could, uh, show you, if you wanted”

She was doing pretty well to hide the fact that she was pretty bummed out about the fact that another valentine’s day had passed and she was still single, if pretty well meant shredding some of the rose petals that hadn’t been cleared away yet with her dagger, that is, only pausing when she felt a presence behind her. “Everybody thinks that I’m some heartless bitch, you know, but there’s a reason I can’t love” she huffed, putting the knife away. She wasn’t about to disclose that reason, of course, but her point still stood. “Pushing people away before I can get attached to them works, but it’s lonely, you know?” she explained, not concerned about venting to this random stranger. She’d probably never see him again so she didn’t care much if he thought less of her because of her vulnerability. 

“I’m not looking to make any friends so before you open your mouth with whatever it was you were about to say, save yourself the breath” she sighed, only looking over at the other when she was finished speaking. “There’s a reason I wander alone and it’s worked out pretty well for me so far, I’m not really looking to change that up anytime soon, so..”

“Is that supposed to be your official warning label or something?” Alexis asked, scoffing gently. “I don’t really believe in good and bad, mostly I just think everybody has different motives” she offered a weak shrug. “Besides, you weren’t so horrible to me at that party, so, maybe you’re not as bad as you think” she shrugged again. She wasn’t inviting him to prove otherwise, however, but it was easier to see the glimpses of good in some people with her quirk that others might miss.