Arcadia

nick sits on his bed twirling his knife. he sighs and picks up his bass then starts strumming remembering his dead best friend and how they were in a band together. his eyes star to water and fights back the tears. he stops playing finally starts to cry.

Willow walked through the corridor, and stopped outside a door. She heard someone playing bass. They were good. Maybe they would play for the band..? She frowned as she heard the erson stop, and start to cry. what the hell? She took a deep, breath, then knocked three times on the door, and waited for a reply.

Class was over, and as predicted, she didn't have the guts to talk to Isabella, or anyone, for that matter. After spending about an hour grazing in the grounds of the school, she decided that school wouldn't be much fun by herself, however nervous she was of talking to new people. she wished she was back at home with her herd. Yes, thats right, her herd. A few blocks from her house was a field of 5-8 horses, depending on whether the owners kept them in or out that day.

She leant back on her hind legs and reminisced. The short walk to the field, taking advantage of her human legs to quietly spring the fence, stroking the necks of her friends if anyone was watching and then morphing once nobody was looking. The herd she mingled with was a mixture of gelded males and females who were more like her family. She missed playing with her cousins Reflection and Stardom, being teased by Grandpa Oakley and Uncle Gambler and being cared for by her mother Moonlight. She wished she could speak with her Auntie's Starlight, Moonbright and Midnight, they would know what to do and say in situations like this. She wanted nothing more than to nudge necks with them, laugh and play.

The school seemed rather quiet, not much movement around, nobody to even notice her, nevermind talk to her. She transformed herself back into her human form and began to walk the perimeter of the school, hoping to find someone, anyone, who might talk to her.

nick answered the door. he saw willow and he weakly smiled at her. "umm...hi?" nick looked at the ground letting his hair cover his eyes.

"Umm, hi." Willow said in reply. She saw a few tear tracks on the boys cheeks. She shifted her weight nertvously mfrom one foot to the other. "Umm... I know i shouldn't have been eavesdropping, but i just heard you playing, and I was wondering if you wanted to swing by my dorm later tonight, and hang out? You don't have to." she added hurriedly.

Nick looked up and smiled. "sure." he felt his face flush. he moved his hair out of his eyes and looked at willow with his soft crystal blue eyes.

She smiled nervously back at him, watching him with her vivid green eyes. "Ummm, about 10 would be good. my bandmates are coming over then. Umm, bye." she finished lamely, and started walking back to her room.

'bye" he smiled and watched and she walked down the hall and returned to his room. he picked up his bass and put it inside his case and went to go change.