restless thinking | mike

cause we got that fire and I know why, we ain’t gone die tonight

Today was one of those rare days where Karys was actually focusing on her power instead of just silently ignoring it due to her lack of control concerning the whole aspect. The second she'd rolled out a bed around noon, she's thrown on a pair of ripped up jeans and a lacy crop top before grabbing her bag and slipping out of the dorms. She was really hoping that there was a couple empty rooms in the huge training center that she'd first seen when she first arrived at Ashford. She hadn't actually gone inside yet but figured she might as well before the start of school, just so she could get an general idea of the layout. That and she wanted somewhere private where she knew no one would really bug her while she attempted to practice with her powers.

It must have been her lucky day or something, because the training center was relatively empty and Karys was able to find a secluded empty room at the end of a hallway. She slipping inside and closed the door softly, trying to not draw an attention her way. Not that she was trying to sneak around or anything just that she'd rather people not know she was here experimenting. She also didn't want to accidentally activate her powers on anyone nearby. She was still so new to everything.

Dropping her bag on the floor just inside the room, Karys flopped down onto the floor in a crossed legged position. She'd never really attempted to force her powers to activate but she needed some way of gaining some control over it. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. After focusing on releasing, or activating, or making anything happen for a few minutes with absolutely no results, Karys opened her eyes and let out a string of curses.
"How the hell am I even supposed to go about this?!" Frustrated at her lack of control again, Karys flicked at a couple large pieces of dirt and dust laying around on the floor. This was impossible. She was never going to be able to control anything and her powers were always going to come out at the worst times.

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You know I'm not one to break promises Sorry for any typos. As usual he got out of bed, ate breakfast and tried to decide what exactly he could do today without anyone around. Now that everyone was on holiday he had lots of time for himself, going home was not an option either, he didn't want to see his family so why go and visit them? There was no point in doing that, instead he could just spend his time around the academy like he always did. So after a long list of choices he finally decided on the training center, there was nothing better to do so why not go there, look around and try to use his power. He was not the best when it came to it so a little training was all he needed, at least in that moment. So without any other thoughts he throwed some jeans and a black and white t-shirt on him before taking some comfortable shoes on and getting out of his room now heading for the place, he really hoped someone was there because he was extremely bored and was in the mod for a little chat. If not..well.. He'd try to control his powers because that was the main reason for going there, right? He pushed the door open before looking around, it seemed like he waa lucky and someone was already there. But he just took the backpack from his shoulders and throwed it somewhere on the ground before he suddenly turned his attention on the place whwre the female voice came from "How the hell am I even supposed to go about this?!" Well maybe someone had a bad day or.. Was rather annoyed. So he decided to go and stop at the entrance watching the girl amused " Not working, huh?" He decided to ask while he raised an eyebrow now watching the girl with his light deep green gaze, well he didn't want to sit there and watch her like somekind of stalker so it was the best to talk. But he didn't stepped inside the room, instead just sat there his gaze fixed on her, he didn't want to disturb the girl or something. " You can try to imagine it happening. Works for me" He also said with a calm voice, one of his hands in the pocket of his jeans as he leaned against the wall, he knew how annoying some powers could be when new, actually he was one of those people new at that but he could already control them..most of the time, while the girl looked like she had no control over them. @karys 429 outfit SONG made by remi of isc

cause we got that fire and I know why, we ain’t gone die tonight

It was bad that Karys was actually looking forward to classes starting again soon mainly so that she could get help with this annoying problem. It was so aggravating seeing everyone else around campus freely using their powers and Karys was just sitting around mainly useless. She didn't even really know when she did use her powers, at least she didn't think she knew. So far she hadn't felt any sort of tingling or buzzing or anything but then again, Karys hadn't really been trying to use her powers.

She was so focused on trying to figure out her mental power block that she didn't even notice when another person appeared in the doorway. It wasn't until he spoke that she jerked around realizing she wasn't alone anymore. "Holy shit," she jumped up from her cross-legged position on the ground. Her hand had flown up to rest on her chest just over her heart, her eyes wide as she looked at the tattooed boy leaning against the doorframe. She paused for a few seconds her eyes roaming over his tattoo covered arms impressed, before she just started laughing. "You scared me half to death. I didn't think anyone was in here." She dropped her hand back down to her side and sat back down on the ground again her legs still a little shaky. 

Now that she'd calmed down a little bit she felt slightly embarrassed about the whole situation. Not only had someone caught her trying to practice her powers but she'd kinda overreacted to the whole thing. I mean not like practicing her powers was a crime or anything, just that she was super private about it. "Sorry for overreacting just now, I guess I'm a little on edge today." She sighed and ran a hand roughly through her hair. 'You can try to imagine it happening. Works for me' Karys glanced back up at the boy and frowned a bit. "That's the problem though. I can't imagine what's supposed to be happening when I don't even know what I'm supposed to be imagining. I don't know how to start it." She snapped her mouth closed, surprised she'd even mentioned anything about it. Turning her brown eyes back up to the boy she let them run over him once again now that her heart had settled into it's normal rhythm. She'd always been a huge fan of tattoos and piercings and here was someone who apparently loved them just as much as she did. He was covered in tattoos and Karys found that she couldn't keep from staring at him.

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You know I'm not one to break promises ~Short~ Her sudden reaction made him take a step behind before a laugh escaped his lips, where the truth be told that was not the reaction her waited for, maybe scream at him for disturbing but no, instead she also started laugh, well maybe she was not as bad as he thought " I am sorry.." He paused raising an eyebrow and shrugging now trying to stop laughing. When he managed to becomeserious again he of course continued his sentece " I just arrived" Michael said hands still crossed at his chest while he watched her with curiosity, scared her half to death, huh? " I don't want to kill you, really. You're the single person I saw around in the last days. And I am sick of talking to myself." He joked rolling his eyes the corners of his mouth curling into a smile. " Dont worry, it was my fault. Will knock the next time, I promise. " Mike said nodding analyzing her before she started talking again, didn't work she said? Well that was rather interesting, he took some steps closer and raised his eyebrows " Well I don't know what's your power but maybe I maybe can help you? Of course if you don't mind a stranger helping you." He said just now realising he didn't tell her his name, his gaze was now fixed on her as he opened his mouth to talk once again " I'm Mike." He spoke with a rather confident tone ignoring all the starring, he was already used to people looking at him because of his tattoos and piercings but he wasn't bothered by that, he didn;t really care about other opinion but his own. There was no point in listening to others, people were cruel and they always judged him by his appearance but his personality and everything else. And he found that extremely disturbing still he learnt to ignore them as much as possible keep reminding himself how mean could some people be. Not that he cared anyway, it was his life, his decisions @karys 345 outfit SONG made by remi of isc

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Karys pulled her gaze away from him, not wanting to look like a creep of anything by just staring at him. Instead she focused on her fingernails, absently picking at some dirt under hr thumbnail. She laughed again when he apologized and waved her hand in his direction. "Nah it's fine don't apologize. I'm just jumpy today." He mentioned just arrive and her being the first person he'd seen and Karys brightened up a bit. She was fairly new to campus as well so it was nice meeting someone else who was a newbie like her. "I know how that feels actually haha I just got here a month or so ago and know practically no one, so I've been hiding out in my dorm room watching scary movies till classes start." Which was 100% what she'd been doing with most of her time lately. She wasn't really friends with anyone so she didn't ever go out and do anything. Today was one of the rare occasions where Karys was someplace other that her dorm room.

Karys glanced back up at the boy when she noticed him take a few steps further into the room. She noticed his sightly raised eyebrows and couldn't help a smile from tugging at her mouth. "Ah yeah, I'm not really used to talking about it, it's still pretty new to me and everything. I have what they call pheromone manipulation which is pretty much some fancy words saying that I release chemicals that change the way people act around me. I guess it was really bad at my old school, I got popular super fast my sophomore year and after I was found by Ashford, they told me that I'd been using my powers to kind of suggest my classmates to like me more. Weird I know, but I didn't even realize what I was doing you know? It just came natural, but now that I'm here, I can't really call on my power whenever I want, it just happens whenever instead..." She trailed off a bit, realizing that he probably didn't care to hear about her past, all he'd asked about was her power.

Feeling a little embarrassed once more, Karys took to playing with a piece of her hair instead of running her mouth again. She could feel him watching her and she flicked her gaze across the room instead of looking at him again. The boy introduced himself as Mike and Karys offered another smile towards him before replying, "Nice to meet you.. I'm Karys. It's okay if you can't or don't want to help with my whole power situation. I'm sure the teachers will figure out some way to help once school starts."

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He suddenly started thinking about old times.. When he was just not happy most of the time and prefered not to go out and comparing it to the life here.. Well it was so different yet so nice. So nice that everyting has changed for him in just some months, such a short time..yet.. So many things happened so fast and some of them could not be forgotten so easy.. At least not him. When she started again he turned his attention on her the same cute smile across his lips as he was told that she was a little jumpy.. More like jumpy..not just a little. But he didn't comment about that because he just didn't want to sound rude, he just saw a potential friend in the girl next to him by the way she analyzed his tattoos, it was not that discusted yet scared look some had when they looked at him.. More like curiosity. And he just liked that, or maybe he was just wrong.. Attention was turned on her again as she started speaking about being a newbie, glad he had someone else around " Nice! I love scary movies so maybe we can watch one later-" But he suddenly realised how that sounded, like a date.. A date. What was he thinking anyway " As friends.. I mean a date would be cool but... I just-" He stopped again, fine, continue like this and ruin everything Mike " I will just stop until I ruin this" He said amused biting his lower lip before a laugh escaped his lips

He throwed his hands in the pockets of his jeans when she told him about her power, well that was an interesting one if you asked him. And all the influence someone to do something thing was awesome..well..a power like that would have been useful back there when he begged his mom to stop drinking and see someone or at least work for some money, lots of bills to pay, they were late with thwir rentand still.. She sat there in her armchair with a bottle of wisky in one hand and a cigarette in the other one while she watched TV like she didn't care about him or his sister at all. " No, no don't stop, that was actually a really nice story. Mine is not so pretty but will not bore you with my depressing history. And it was cute of that helps?" He at least tried..yea.. He at least tried.

When she introduced herself as Karys he smiled, that was actually a very.. Interesting name " Nice name. " He said and listened to her about before he rolled his eyes and continued, well it was clear that he wanted to help her " Well I think it's easy. You don't have to imagine the power. You have to concentrate and just..imagine the person near you happy..or sad. Or whatever. What abour that?" He asked and winked at her before a chuckle escaped his lips as he made her a sign it was ok " Come on, try." He said narrowing his eyes gaze still fixed on her

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cause we got that fire and I know why, we ain’t gone die tonight

She couldn't help but laugh as he stumbled a bit over his words but she attempted to hide the laugh behind the back of her hand so it didn't appear like she was laughing at* him. He was seriously cute and chasing him away by laughing was not something Karys particularly wanted to do. "There's no way you could possibly ruin this, I would love to watch a scary movie with you whether it be a friendly date or an actual date." She grinned up at him, relaxing a bit for the first time since he entered the room. Normally she wasn't so jumpy and on edge but hey practicing her powers kinda brought that out in her. Mike on the other hand really intimidated her at first, appearing all tattooed and silent in the doorway but she found that the more time they spent talking the more comfortable she became with him. He bit his lower lip and Karys found herself looking up at his mouth, unconsciously biting at her own bottom lip before she noticed what she was doing and quickly let go.

He suggested her to try focusing on making the person near her happy or sad and then encouraged her to attempt to try. Although a little unsure of herself, Karys found herself agreeing with Mike, it was worth a shot right? "Whew, okay. Here goes nothing. Tell me if you feel anything." She laughed softly, hardly expecting anything to happen. He just seemed so interested and willing to help though, that Karys felt obliged to at least try. She took a small breathe in through her nose and closed her eyes trying to concentrate on anything. At the same time, the one and only thing she could concentrate on was earlier when Mike was biting at his lower lip. Karys twisted her fingers in her lap together and squeezed them, trying to block out the image in her head. Only she couldn't quite manage to. Karys felt a strange sort of release inside of her and her eyes automatically flew open, her hands unclasping to land face down on the floor to either side of her hips.

"Whoa. I've never felt that happen before." Her gaze flew up to Mike as she looked at him, her eyes holding a mixture of questioning and slight awe. "Did you feel anything?" She asked nervously. Karys had talked a bit to the recruiter who'd first picked her up to head to Ashford, as he'd known a little bit about pheromone manipulation due to his wife possessing a similar power, and had gained a little insight into her abilities before first starting school. He'd originally said that with pheromone manipulation, attraction was the easiest to access, which is what Karys was unknowingly using back at her old school in order to get more people to like her. Therefore she was slightly nervous that the same would affect Mike. Karys considered her powers pretty much akin to cheating; people didn't like her for her, they liked her because the pheromones she released told them they should. 

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He raised his eyebrows surprised by her reaction the corners of his mouth curling into a smile as a chuckle escaped his lips, he looked at the ground for a second now trying to look serios but soon turned his attention on her once again and nodded " Oh well.." He narrowed his eyes trying not to laugh as he opened his mouth to continue " In this case I'll choose the second one" He said with a rather calm voice, he just.. Got a date without even trying. And from his point of view that was pretty great.. Or it was just him. He watched her carefully as she bit her own lip trying not to react and resting his hands near his body while he sat down in front of her , light deep green gaze analyzing her " Well let's try" He said taking a deep breath and also closing his eyes for some moments before he fixed his gaze on her now waiting.. For anything to happen. Because he had no idea how her power worked, never saw someone using it before so it was just..interesting. So he was curious of how it worked or at least how she could control a person's feelings.


" Umm..ok. I guess." He said rolling his eyes a short laugh escaping his lips this time resting his hands in his lap watching her as she closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on.. Well on what he told her to. If she could think about a person feeling a certain thing or maybe about the feeling itself.. It worked? He had no idea, not being familiar with any other powers just his was kind of.. Not annoying. Rather boring sometimes. So he sat there for several seconds until she truly started concentrating and the truth be told.. He just.. Felt the urge to bite his lower lip? " Did you just imagined me biting my lower lip? Because I just feel the urge to bite it and I have no idea why. Like.. At all" He talked with a rather amused voice this time giving in and biting his lower lip before hes tarted laughing, well that was akward.. Maybe it was just him and it didn't work? Well.. " So? What did you imagine?" He asked with curiosity.


" Well it was something. " He said checking his watch a sigh escaping his lips as he crossed his arms at his chest, it was still so early and there he was, already finished doing..well something " It's so early. I don't want to go back " Mike said chuckling as he left his bidy fall on the cold floor while he watched the ceiling before rubbing his eyes. He just couldn't understand why people left, why mot just stay there and have fun? No, instead they left for.. Trips. And of course to visit their families. Something he didn't have.

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