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Summer Victoria Stone (summerwantsit) wrote in halcyon_halls,
@ 2008-12-26 16:04:00

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noah, summer

Week 23: Friday
Who: Summer and Noah
When: Late Afternoon
Where: A trail in the woods
What: A chance encounter

Summer had been back at Halcyon for a week now. Again, she had ended up showing up right at the end of a semester, a semester during which she had missed far too much to make it up, so she was going to have to wait a couple of weeks and start classes again after the break. But it should be easier for her now. She had a lot better control over her emotions now than she had when she had left here. Hell, she had been around quite a few people since her return, even during the stress of finals, and she had yet to have any outbursts of uncontrollable emotions. She had learned a lot while she was gone, enough to recognize that there was still a lot more for her to learn.

But for now, she was just focusing on the things that helped her to maintain her inner peace and enjoying the quiet of the island, something that she couldn't say she had experienced the last time around. The best way to enjoy it, at least for her, was to take a nice long run, work up a sweat, lose herself in the middle of the forest on a well-trodden path and inhale deeply the scents of the woods, something she had missed while on her little adventure overseas.

She had jogged perhaps five miles before she had to stop and take a breather, slowing to a walk for a bit before finding a tree to rest against while drinking deeply from her bottle of water. Voss had to be some of the best tasting water on earth. She wiped the sweat from her brow and then gave herself a bit of a stretch, rolling her shoulders and then leaning back to massage her own shoulders a bit.

Summer was just about to take off again when she noticed her shoe was untied and she bent down to tie it. Just as she did, she heard footfalls on the path behind her, someone approaching rather quickly, fast and hard. Running partner? Maybe. She started to jog in place waiting for them to get closer so she could see if they even wanted company.

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quarterback
2008-12-26 10:07 pm UTC (link)

Noah paused, one corner of his mouth curling up just slightly in a smile. "You don't? And here I thought I got my cooties from you." He surprised himself with his actual ability to say something lighthearted. Had to be something about the use of the word cootie. Reminded him of his sister, made him smile every time. His hesitation had mostly been about the gesture. Something intimate about sharing water with someone else or maybe that was just his mind going to places it didn't need to be going.

His shoulders tensed just briefly. "Yeah, it's what I do." He said shrugging to forcibly relax the muscles there. He knew he had a problem with the apologizes and well that wasn't likely to change anytime soon it seemed. "Let's go with no one interrupting eh?" He offered as a way out of the whole blame game that he'd started. "Needed a minute to break anyway, hadn't since I started." At least to stretch something, if not to get his breath back.

"I'm glad," He said with all honesty, hazel eyes watching her as she spoke about her time away from the school. "I honestly don't know how-" his hands lifted in a helpless sort of gesture, "you did it before. All that... shit," for lack of a better word. For all the awkwardness that was ripe between them there was also something normal about talking to her. Though that was a slippery slope and one that Noah was doing his damn best to keep from going down each and every second. "I don't think you were ever going to turn into a basket case," he added with a slight frown crossing his features. He didn't like hearing that coming from her mouth. "Don't say that."

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summerwantsit
2008-12-26 10:20 pm UTC (link)

Summer arched a brow slightly on that one. "Hmm.. must have happened after me, Noah, cause I'm clean." She smiled a little as she rolled her eyes. Yeah, playing nice was definitely better than yelling and screaming and crying but before it was hard not to do any, if not all, of those things.

"Mmm, same here." Summer said, taking out the bottle of water to have another drink of it while she was just standing there, giving her legs a bit more of a stretch. "That last little hill just about did me in." It was a good trail if you really wanted to break a sweat, which they both had. He always did look good sweaty. She smirked a little at the thought and then inwardly chided herself for having it. That was a road best left untraveled.. again.

Summer gave a small laugh followed by a slightly incredulous look. "And that's not what you call what I was before I left here? Cause that's what I would term it." Things had gotten exceptionally rough for her before the wedding. Especially after Kristi left. She really liked him. And he was good for her, good to talk to. "What about you? Things good?" She thought it was only polite to ask, and she wanted to know, there were just some things that she could do without hearing about, but he'd probably have enough sense to leave those details out if there were details of that nature to be had.

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quarterback
2008-12-31 05:18 pm UTC (link)

It was kind of odd, not having that instant animosity. It had become almost familiar since he's seen Summer here. But questioning why that didn't exist here and now... Noah wasn't about to do. Something about not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Noah pressed his lips together for a moment. "Well shit." Because really who had been there after him? Noah wasn't exactly big on the whole dating scene.

Noah gave a short nod of his head. "This trail's got a few of those." And Noah would know, wearing a hole in the path the way he had been the past week or so. he could practically run it blindfolded. Though he really wasn't going to try that. Talk about bad life choices. "But not really worth if it it doesn't just about do you in." In his humble opinion that was, for what it was worth.

A sheepish sort of expression crossed Noah's features. "Just a little fucked up? But you kind of had a lot to deal with." Noah attempted to phrase it better. Why? Hell if he knew, maybe he thought he had the market on self-depreciating behavior. His features though immediately shut down as Summer posed the question back at him. He really was doing his damn best to control the fact that he had his own basketcase issues when it came to his best friend at the moment. Noah shrugged his shoulders. "Getting by I guess. Things are a little fucked up, but when aren't they. Trying to figure out if I need a break from here like you did."

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summerwantsit
2009-01-01 06:10 pm UTC (link)

It was odd, even Summer could admit that. It was kind of.. difficult, almost, to be nice, but she was putting forth the effort at least. Sometimes it was easier to just go with what was familiar even if it might not be what you really felt anymore. She was still hurt, yes, still a little angry about what had happened, but really it all seemed unimportant now. Being a bitch wasn't going to change what had happened any more than being civil would, and while civility was slightly straining right now, it may prove to be more productive in the long run.

"If you didn't want to be left exhausted, why would you run, right?" It made sense to her. But then again, they were both probably running for the same reasons, or similar ones at the very least. It really had nothing at all to do with health like it did for some people.

It was nice to see him smile again, if that's what one could call the look that adorned his face as he spoke. But it was short lived, and he looked like he had just lost his best... Oh. Maybe it was best not to assume but if she had to guess, she'd probably guess that he was having issues with Natalia and that was why he suddenly looked as gloomy as ever.

"Just.. make sure if you go that you go for the right reasons and not the wrong ones." She knew all about the wrong reasons. "And, for what it's worth, if it matters at all, I'd hate to see you go." Even if there was still a part of her that had never wanted to see her again.

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