Music is the Best

[JennaBoBenna]

"Eleanor Rigby," Alyx sang, then stopped abruptly. "Dude, I have the same last name as Eleanor." She wore a look of awe and amazement. "Awesome!" She squealed. She sat so she could lean against the wall. Putting on her headphones, she closed her eyes and started listening to her Beatles CD. The CD player was just visible from inside her bag, the black plastic decorated with shiny Mickey Mouse stickers.

[•Mouse•]

" Whose that? Eleanor Rigby, I mean?" She had appeared out of nowhere, little miss Carmela. In her usual attire she stood before Alyx smiling curiously. With her blonde hair in it's pigtails and her eyes full of questions, Carmela had leaned forward a bit to look at Alyx from above. Behind her back, her hands grasped the center of the golden short-staff she kept with her. Recently, Carmela had met Ven and became a friend of his. However, her goal was someone more her age.

There was an urge, to dance away from the girl and see her use her Astral Projection. However, She stayed close, keeping Alyx in that space where all 'gifts' held no power and seemed to vanish almost completely. Not once had Carmela swayed in her odd position before the girl, but merely blinked as she normally would.

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"A woman in a Beatles song," Alyx explained, not opening her eyes. "My favorite song to be exact." She brought her knees up to her chest, tapping her foot to the beat of the music only she could hear. She hadn't met anyone yet, and she was wanting to make friends, but this was her music time.

[•Mouse•]

" Beatles? Huh." The girl shrugged, the name not exactly ringing any specific bells. But, then again, Carmela didn't learn the names of the bands who sang any of the songs she liked. Lowering her self to sit on her knees she looked over Alyx's face intently. She was curious if the girl had the feeling she was being watched or not.

" Astral Projection huh? Is it fun?" Curiosity had gotten the best of her and so Carmela asked the question she had wanted to for a while now.

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"Wait, wha?" Alyx opened her eyes and looked at Carmela suspiciously. "How'd you know that?" Her eyes were narrow, just open a bit more then slits. She turned off the music and pulled the headphones so they were resting around her neck. "Seriously, how'd you know I can do astral projection?" Alyx asked again.

[•Mouse•]

Carmela smiled, shrugged and stood up. " I can sense the powers of others!" Claimed the girl in her cheery voice. It was so obvious that she didn't think anything of it and felt it to be something far to simple than creepy. However, Carmela got to thinking. It would freak me out of someone told me what my powers were...

" Sorry if I scared you." Came her apology and the girl looked down, a bit disappointed with herself for having given Alyx a shock. Now she wouldn't want to be Carmela's friend. But, then again...Ven had liked Carmela's power-negating presence.

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"Oh," Alyx sighed in relief. "For a second there I thought you were a mind reader or something." She paused for a moment, thinking. "I knew one once. He wasn't very fun. Always cheated at chess." She shook her head, remembering all the lost chess games against him. "Was never any fun."

[•Mouse•]

" Well, that's abusing powers! I can't help using mine...they don't turn off! As you might find out, if you're within twenty feet of me your powers won't work. No ones do. I have a power negating prescence. And, well, you know the second one. But, no. No mind reading for me." She spoke in a speedy manor and yet with a very clear objective. Small talk obviously was the goal here and she seemed intent on keeping it going.

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"Ayuh," Alyx nodded. "He was. Really?" She brought her knees closer and wrapped her arms around them. "Interesting. No one's powers work?" Her brown eyes sparkled with curiousity.

[•Mouse•]

" Nobodies! Not Ven's, Not yours, nor my great uncle's or my second cousins. Nobody so far can use their powers when they're around me. It's kind of weird." Explained Carmela she seemed to be speaking absent-mindedly for the girl looked a little distracted by twirling her short-staff. But she stopped and sat herself near Alyx. A hand shot out, a friendly one who was waiting for a firm shake.

" I'm Carmela Ikaris, who might you be?" Questioned the girl, her smile never faultering.

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"I'm Alyx Rigby," she answered with a grin. She took Carmela's hand and shook it. "Who's Ven?" Asked she, putting her headphones away. A friendship might've been blooming, so she must not be distracted. 'No music until Carmela leaves!' Alyx promised herself, nodding. 'Crap. I probably look really weird now, nodding to myself.' If she'd been in an anime, her face would be half painted blue, her eyes nothing but thick, black lines.

[•Mouse•]

" Ven's my friend I met at the mall! He's really nice." Carmela explained after shaking hands with Alyx. Okay, so the friendship was well on the way. She snickered softly at the random nod, but thought nothing of it. Carmela was like that as well on some cases. But generally she just nodded when trying to make a point, Never to answer a question specificly.

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"Oh, cool." Alyx smiled, relieved Carmela didn't (or seemed to) notice her odd nod. "What's he like?" She hadn't really met anyone at this school yet. Just a kid named Byron in the woods. She was really eager to get to know people.

[•Mouse•]

" Well," Began Carmela. The girl stood holding her hand above her head to the approximate hieght of Ven. " He's about this tall, shaggy brown hair, uhm...." The list went on as Carmela began to describe her first friend from the school. She went into a great deal of detail about how he had been very kind and general was to her.

" He also helped me buy Monty!" The girl seemed very excited at the mention of the small black Chinchilla that Ven had helped her buy.

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"Monty?" Alyx replaced her bored-of-listening look with a confused one. "Who's that?"