Bored (Arden Patricks)

[Riyann Servansikk]

I laughed. "Yup, but doesn't happen to me often." I said grinning. "Just felt like saying it and complaining." I said and laughed again.

[Arden Patricks]

"Okay then," I laugh, shaking my head.

[Riyann Servansikk]

I laughed and nodded slighlty. "YAY." I shouted across the silent courtyard.

[Arden Patricks]

I flinch a bit but manage to keep grinning. "You really need to not do that, you know," I say conversationally.

[Riyann Servansikk]

I laughed and decided it be fair if I stopped. "Sorry, but it was getting a little too quiet."

[Arden Patricks]

"Again with the quiet...." I say, shaking my head, not even sure if it's her that I had this conversation with. "Well, all right then," I say. "What shall we talk about so that you don't give me a heart attack anymore?"

[Riyann Servansikk]

I laughed, "Ummm, pirates."

[Arden Patricks]

My heart jumps a little painfully but I manage to smile slightly anyway. "Pirates, hmm?" I ask her half-amusedly.

[Riyann Servansikk]

I looked at her slightly, worried until she replyed. "I don't know. First thing that came to mind." I said with a light chuckle.
{{srry, im on like 4-5 other sites and being REALLY SLOW. lol]]

[Arden Patricks]

I nod, smiling very slightly. "Yeah, me too," I say, even though she couldn't possibly know what I'm talking about.

(('Tis okay. Um... hope you don't mind, but I'm now acting like Andra's dead during this conversation.))

[Riyann Servansikk]

I sighed, "What is it?" I asked, slightly worried.
[[mkay, but ima gonna pretend I don't know shes dead yet.]]

[Arden Patricks]

I shake my head. "Nothing. It's just..." I pause, looking at the ground, still smiling very slightly. "A couple of weeks ago Andra decided that we needed a name for ourselves - me, her, Laken, and Chance. Because, as she said, everybody knows who the Marauders are, but nobody's going to know us unless we have a catchy name." I shake my head, still smiling. "And so I suggested the Pirate Gang. That's all." I shrug, looking up again.

[Riyann Servansikk]

"Well," I said and paused lightly, "sounds like a blast." I finished and smiled happily. "I still feel like you aren't telling me something."

[Arden Patricks]

"Such as what?" I ask, smiling a little bemusedly and also realizing that there are a few tears in my eyes for some reason. Then the smile disappears as I look at her. "Wait... Riyann. You don't... you haven't been away for a bit, or something like that, have you?"

((I think she's been dead for at least... a week and a half or something, or else I'd be more upset....))

[Riyann Servansikk]

I see her get serious and a few tears show up, making me all the more scared. "Um, yea I was, I just got back today." I said slowly, looking at Arden cautiously. "Why, what's happened?" I asked, sitting up and being serious myself, wondering what all I had missed.

[[mkay, ill have been secretly gone for some odd reason lol.. I came on and i was like wtf a few days after it happened and yea.. lol]]

[Arden Patricks]

Oh, god.... I think, realizing that I have to be the one to tell her.
Not a very enviable job. And I apologize mentally to Chance for running off after he told me and probably making him feel worse even though it shouldn't have been possible to do so.
"I... Riyann...." I say, trying to get past the lump in my throat that has appeared suddenly at having to think about all this again. "Andra's dead," I manage bluntly, choking off a sob. "About a week ago." And I watch her carefully, through the tears, hoping she doesn't react like I did because then I won't know what to do.

((Okay... wow, actual lump in throat while I was typing. Funky.))

[Riyann Servansikk]

I sat there, not really sure what she was telling me, stuck just staring off and thinking about it. "She, she..." I started and felt my face get hot and tears come in a rush. "But she's... Andra can't be." I said, feeling so sick suddenly and overwhelmed.
How could I have missed this? I thought and felt my breathes to come by harder. Moving my hand suddenly I started to wipe away the tears feriously, making an attempt to clear my vision, not taking in anything around me, not even Arden.
This isn't supposed to happen, not to people like Andra, not to anyone. I thought and hated myself for what I had done when I was gone, I was one of those people who did things like what must've happened to Arden, I was supposed to not hold anyone this close and let it hurt me like this.

[[wow, i think that's happened to me once lol... you like get so into being that character lol..]]

[Arden Patricks]

I nod, finding it hard to speak for a moment.
"I know," I say quietly after a moment. "I know she shouldn't be."
Our fault, says the voice in my head, starting up again. It's all our fault. But I push it away to look at Riyann anxiously, trying to gauge her reaction.

((Yeah... and Andra's based after my sister... very sad. ))

[Riyann Servansikk]

I barely caught Arden's words and sat there, motionless except for wiping the tears away. She can't be, I thought, I was sitting with her just the other day. I continued on. After a while it drifted away from my mind and it was me just thinking that I'd see Andra later tonight.
[[damn, sad...]]

[Arden Patricks]

I continue looking closely at Riyann, not sure if I should interrupt her thoughts or not.
"... Riyann?" I ask after a moment. "Are you okay?"

[Riyann Servansikk]

I let out a short sob and shook my head no, it hit me again. "She won't be here anymore." I said with a small, sad chuckle. "Who will pull pranks with me and bring domination over the school with me now?" I asked, somewhat bringing myself back.

[Arden Patricks]

I feel like my heart is being stabbed again as she says that, and I shake my head, crying again silently without really realizing it. "I don't know," I say quietly, looking blindly down at my hands.
Who is going to declare herself a captain, yell 'ahoy, mateys!' for all the school to hear, and start marching off toward the tower before giving up five minutes later and turning around with a grin? Who else could possibly get us to follow her like that?

[Riyann Servansikk]

Sighing as the tears came out faster I looked over at Arden and felt myself shake. "I said the wrong thing, didn't I?" I asked, mentally slapping myself. I always say the wrong thing at the wrong time. Getting up slowly I decided Arden should be left alone.

[Arden Patricks]

I look up to see Ryann standing up, and quickly shake my head. "No, you didn't say the wrong thing. You... you said the right thing, really. The true thing. Nothing wrong with that."

[Riyann Servansikk]

I sighed heavily, wiping the tears away and wondering what I should do and sat down silently, curling my knees to my chest and burring my head between them, still crying.

[Arden Patricks]

I twist my mouth sympathetically, watching her and not knowing at all what to do, not when I feel the same way. Hesitantly I reach out to touch her shoulder or something, thinking maybe that will help, but then I drop my hand, just staring at the ground.
Nothing that anyone can do, really. Just wait for it to be over, and follow if she bolts or tries to do anything stupid like I did.

[Riyann Servansikk]

Sitting there I thought of what I could do, wondering what would be happening if Andra was still here and I cried more, letting the sobs be heard, not really caring anymore. I wanted to run from all of this, do something to myself for becoming anything like that other person. I looked up catiously. "Who did it?" I croaked suddenly.

[Arden Patricks]

I shake my head. "I don't know.... Death eaters. They were after her family for a while...." I shrug. "Nobody knows who did it."

[Riyann Servansikk]

I shuddered and got up quickly. I'm going to kill whoever did it. I thought and shook again at what I was turning into.

[Arden Patricks]

I eye her cautiously as she stands up, and get up much more slowly. Going somewhere, Riyann?