Elyse E. C. Banner's Story

Elyse walked down the hallway, her nose buried in a book. As usual, she was reading a thick book on psychology, deeply immersed in the tiny words printed on the page. Her father encouraged this kind of reading, though amazingly, her eyesight was still as good as ever.

Since Elyse was preoccupied with the book, she wasn't watching where she was going. She accidentally walked into a girl, and stumbled back immediately. "Oh my gosh, are you okay? I'm so sorry, it was an accident, I wasn't watching where I was walking. I swear, it wasn't on purpose? Are you okay?" Elyse was vaguely aware of herself rambling on and on, but she tended to react like that. She was sincerely worried that the other girl was hurt, and didn't want it to be her fault.

Finally, Elyse got enough control to shut her mouth and stop it from saying something she would regret. She looked up at the student and recognised her vaguely as someone she'd seen a couple of times in school before. She stepped back and watched the girl carefully.

Astrid had only taken a few steps when someone crashed right into her, of course Astrid being very solid and rarely fazed by such a collision stood firm where she was. Afraid that she might have hurt the girl she reached out to her as the girl profusely apologized for not paying attention to where she was going.

"Hey it's okay frankly I'm more worried about hurting you then me" she said with a smile.

The girl was slightly familiar Astrid thought, but she was sure she had only really seen her in passing period, it was at this point that Astrid noticed the locked side door just adjacent to her pop open and a guy slip in. She blinked watching this guy wondering where the hell he came from, she then shook her head and turned back to the girl.

"Sorry about that today is one weird day, first the thing with the PA system, one random guy comes busting in the front doors like he owns the place" she turns back to the other guy that slipped in. "And another comes in like he's James Bond or something" she sighed and turned back to the girl. "My names Astrid by the way" she put out her hand to shake the girls.

"Hey, it's okay. Frankly, I'm more worried about hurting you than me." Elyse shook her head. "Oh no. Of course not. I mean, I'm kind of used to it, I'm insanely clumsy and I never do learn my lesson. You see, I love to read, and I'm always walking around with my head in a book..."

She trailed off, realising she'd been prattling nonsense again. It always happened, she would have to learn to control her mouth.

"My name's Astrid, by the way." Elyse thought, Astrid. Taking a close look at the girl, she decided it wouldn't hurt to share this bit of knowledge with Astrid. "That's a nice name. Astrid comes from the old Norse elements 'god' and 'beautiful'. I think that suits you, you're rather pretty." Elyse reached out and shook her hand, then introduced herself. "I'm Elyse, Elyse Banner."

"That's a nice name. Astrid comes from the old Norse elements 'god' and 'beautiful'. I think that suits you, you're rather pretty."

Astrid blinked she didn't think of herself as attractive in anyway, she was taller then most other girls and guys were intimidated by her. She hadn't ever anyone say that she was... "pretty".

"Yeah sure my moms really into Norse Mythology...so am I, it's where she got my name" she said as the girl shook her hand.

"I'm Elyse, Elyse Banner."

Banner now Astrid was sure she had heard that somewhere before but she wasn't sure wear.

"Nice to meet you" she said with a smile "Well I got to get going I got to get to my next class" she started go on down the hall and turned into an art room. While she sat working on a project the teacher handed a paper to her telling her she need to meet in the cafeteria after school. Astrid blinked and the stuck the paper in her notebook. What was it this time she hadn't gotten in trouble this week what was cause for her to have to meet somewhere after school she just sighed and reserved herself for whatever punishment she was sure to get.

Unknown to Astrid this same note was sent to four other students.

((OOC everyone has received a similar not asking them to meet in the cafeteria after school))

Elyse watched Astrid turn and leave, feeling a little lonely. Without warning, a boy running from behind crashed into her, both falling to the ground. Second time in a day, Elyse thought with a sigh. She stood up and offered the boy her hand, pulling him up.

He apologized hurriedly, then proceeded to ask her, "Do you know where I could find Elyse Banner?" Elyse blinked. "I'm Elyse Banner." The boy laughed sheepishly, then thrust a piece of paper at her. Before Elyse could ask him anything, he'd run off again.

Curious, Elyse unfolded the paper. It told her to meet in the cafeteria at 3pm. Elyse checked her watch. 2.45pm. I'd better get going then.

He noticed a tall strikingly beautiful and thin girl standing off to the side of the hall follow him with her eyes. She had flaxen blonde hair and seemed to be having a conversation with the shorter dark haired girl across from her who was equally as beautiful.

He heard the last snippets of the conversation between the two as he approached "...like he's James Bond or something," his swagger dropped off as he drew nearer to the two girls. He shook his head slightly at the comparison to James Bond.

"Pardon me miss, but would you be so kind as to point me in the direction of the administrative office?" he said,tapping the brown haired girl on the shoulder lightly, the slightest hint of a tremor in his voice.

"I do apologize for the interruption. It was my intention to slip in unnoticed, but, alas my plan backfired," He said to the blonde haired girl, flashing a lopsided smile. following their thoughts he moved around the girls, farther into the building.

"Down this hall then?" he asked brusquely and rhetorically,

"My name is Bryce Barton by the way. But, please call me B.J." he said as he made his way down the hall towards the office.

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The lady at the desk was nice, if a bit clipped and strangely he had no idea what she was thinking. It was as if there was a wall between there minds much like the ones Professor X and Jane had used to help him gain a stronger control over his powers.

She handed him a welcome packet and pointed to a shelf with a stack of books and handout packets placed neatly in a pyramid. Unzipping the duffel he had been carrying he gently moved his folded re-curve bow out of the way and pulled his empty backpack from the top of his clothes. immediately he zipped the bag back up and opened the empty bag placing the books inside neatly, then he placed the welcome packet in the front pocket.

He suddenly noticed a small white piece of paper paper-clipped to the side of the packet. he removed it and zipped the bag up, slinging it onto his shoulders. unfolding the paper he found that he was to meet in the cafeteria around 3 pm after school.

"Well that is odd," he muttered to himself under his breath. folding the paper and shoving it into his back pocket he lifted the schedule the admin had printed off the counter and scanned to the class he had during the current period. He was surprised that by late the man who had dropped him off had meant that the last period of the day was more than half way finished.

Before he knew it the last 30 minutes of the day had come and gone and it was time for him to make his way towards the cafeteria. With a little hesitation he moved against the flow of students, back towards the cafeteria, waiting at the door to see if other people were going to show up.