Catch (open)

[lilly van allen !]

Lilly strolled into class, her short black shorts fitting snugly on her legs, and her black tank top on her torso.

The teacher was still in the office, but she saw the pile of gloves, and the pail of baseballs near the front of the room.

"Baseball?" She said to herself, sauntering over to where the equipment was. She hadn't played baseball in years. She used to be on the boys team because she hated softball. and because the girls could not pitch. She had bruises up and down her legs.

The teacher called from the office to pick a mitt and a ball. That they were pairing up, boy against girl, throwing to eachother.

Boy against girl? She thought to herself. I feel bad for the boy who gets me as a partner

She picked up a black mitt, and a worn looking ball. Both fit into her hand easily, like she had been playing all her life.
She glanced at the students entering, wondering who would choose her as a partner, or if she would have to do it herself.

[gioia hendersen]

Gym class wasn't a favorite of Gioia's. She would rather be in any other class but gym. Well math was up there with gym as well, but she dreaded gym. But at least it was time for her to look hot. She wore the small purple soffee shorts and tight fitting black t-shirt. Looking at the mitts in front of her, she shook her head. If anything Gioia loved attention. So she took this time to emerge into the spotlight of attention. "Oh damn baseball. Well at least I don't have to brake a toenail like I did in kickball."

Gioia grabbed a mitt and a ball that looked like it had seen better days. She lined up next to Lilly wanting for her partner to step up to the plate. Gioia wasn't that athletic but she did know a thing or two about sports. After all she spent a good majority of her high school on the poms squad. Which meant going to almost every sporting event cheering on the team. The mitt fit over her hand as she bounced the ball in and out of the mitt waiting for some boy to partner up with her.

[justin durden]

The old American past time of baseball. What a perfect way to meet some new people. New schools were always hard especially when you were lying about your age. Justin Durden was twenty-one but the slayers who dropped him off in New York City gave him a fake birth certificate and told him to go to school since that's where most vampires like to hide. But he knew very well that also shifters could hide in high schools. He was a shifter.

Justin walked over and picked up a mitt. His eyes looked around the gym looking for someone to be his partner. The gym teachers did say boy girl pairing. The raven hair girl he saw her try and steal the spotlight. There was one in every high school. But the blonde girl standing next to her seemed to know something about baseball. Just by the way she stood. It looked like she knew a few things about tossing the ball. He stood in front of her offering a smile. "You have a partner yet?"

[lilly van allen !]

Lilly scanned the new comers for anyone she might approach, and she may have over looked one kid, if not for his incredibly georgious bone structure, and the fact that his aura was a mass of throny tangly colors, two of them, battling against eachother. She widened her eyes for a second, she saw that aura two other times, one on the new kid Jacob, and the other on her friend Tristan. He walked up to her.

"You have a partner yet?" He asked her.

"Nope," She smiled. "you gonna fix that?" She asked, tossing the ball into the air, still. She had picked it up a few minutes earlier. she saw that he probably was going to think that she threw like a girl, when the truth was that she had been playing with the boys from her neighborhood her whole life. Playing Baseball with mailboxes as bases.

[justin durden]

Justin smiled at the blonde. She was quite the go getter. How many people would come up to him and ask him to fix it? Not many. And the fact that she was throwing the ball up in the air, she looked like she knew exactly what she was doing. "If you toss the ball, it can be."

He moved closer to her. There was something different about her scent. It wasn't one of another shifter or a vampire. But whatever it was, it wasn't human. It had to be supernatural. Maybe it was a witch or demon. He had heard about those with the slayers but hadn't come across either of them. Not yet anyway. As he stood across from her, he waited for her to throw the ball. "By the way, the name is Justin." A smile came across his face as he introduced himself.

[lilly van allen !]

"If you toss the ball, it can be."

She smiled sweetly.

"Then we have ourselves partners," She said readying tossing him the ball.

"By the way, the name is Justin." She smiled a last smile, then her face set it a serious expression.

"Lilly, nice to meet you," She said, a smile flashing on her face for a moment, then she threw the ball, high in the air, so it swooped down to where he was standing.

[justin durden]

His eyes looked up from the ball that just landed right into his mitt. The girl had skills. "Nice throw Lilly. My guess is that you have had some skill tossing the ball. Am I right?" He scooped the ball out of his mitt. With an ease, he tossed the ball back to Lilly. It felt good to feel normal for once in his life. Yes he was back in high school but things were different. His life was differet.

Notes: sorry it's soooo short.

[lilly van allen !]

"Yes, you are," She said, tossing the ball back to him. "Playing baseball with the boys all my life," She stood there, stance wide, and mitt at the ready. There was something about this boy, she could see by looking at his aura. he was different, yes, but not only that, he was dealing with an inner conflict. She couldn't see what, but hse could see it was tearing him up.

This guy is a pretty good actor she thought, shifting her feet slightly.

"So, Justin, where are you from, and how do you like New York?" her smile returned as she stood there, already comfertable in the tossing game they were playing.

[justin durden]

Justin let out a small laugh. Obiviously she wasn't a tomboy but at least she knew her way around with a baseball. It was nice a refreshing since most girls he knew didn't know how to throw a ball or would scream when something came hurdling towards them. "I can tell. You grew up with older brothers?"

The question everyone asked. One he liked to aviod as often as he could but he couldn't help it. "I'm from Denver, Denver Colorado, ever been there?" How did he like New York? Well besides just being dropped off and knowing absolutely no one at all, it wasn't all that bad. Minus the fact he was hiding who he use to be to become what he needed to be to survive, it could have been worse. But he didn't need to trouble this girl with the troubles of his life. "Denver is like a mini New York so there isn't really that much difference. Just here it's an island and there it's mountains."

Enough talking about himself, he hated that. As he threw the ball back to her he figured she would like to talk about herself. "You live here your whole life?"

[lilly van allen !]

She laughed. "Ah, no, I don't have older brothers, just allot of guys where I used to live," She smiled, and listened to him talk about how he lived in denver.

"Really?" She asked, never having been to to Denver. "And no," she said, taking a breath, wiping hte hair out of her face. "I did not grow up here, Alaskan grown pally," She said, smiling at what she said. She decided to tell him why she thought it was so funny. "You see, in alaska, we have a bunch of merch that says 'Alaskan grown' on it, and since we have potatoes with that on it, its kind of what we wear up there from time to time, sweaters and tee shirts and what not," she smiled then. She had missed alaska at first, but getting out of there, ahd been wonderful. No more stupid boys who tried to get into her pants...well, that wasn't exactly true, but whatever. She was tired of all the drinking, and after the drinking, mainly crappy beer, people would go and ride their four wheelers, got drive up to big lake in their trucks, and go mudding, or hop on their snow machines in the winter, and all that ended up doing was either killing them, maiming them, getting them in trouble, or nothing. She was just sick of that, and all teh crappy people up there, like her ex best friend, who completely stabbed her in the back over a boy. She still winced at those memories, but they no longer got to her like they did back when she was new here. She had found new friendships, and new...everything. "I really like it here though, this is home now," She said, smiling at him and waiting for him to pass her the ball.

[justin durden]

Justin couldn't believe it. This girl had traveled a lot. Alaska to New York City, that was a bigger move than the one he did. Justin had gone 2, 000 miles but she must have gone a lot further than that. He listened to her talk about Alaska. That was one place he had never been. Every time he thought about Alaska that movie with Josh Hartnet came to mind, where the vampires looked like zombies. He smiled at her. "Sounds like I'm going end up liking New York if you moved from Alaska and are learning to call it home." Maybe there was hope for him too. Maybe just maybe he would find the peace he was looking for. But with the two sides to him, it was worse. Everyday he was fighting with himself. It was a good thing that Lilly couldn't read his mind since he was pretty sure that it was battling this very minute like it always was.

He tossed the ball back to her. "Where you lived in Alaska was there 30 days of night like that movie that came out a few years ago with the zombie looking vampires? I've never traveled that far yet."

[lilly van allen !]

Lilly Smiled. "This place..." She gestured, in general to New York. "Is different than any place you have ever been," She said, a double meaning to her words.

He tossed her the ball, and asked her if it was like 30 Days Of Night. She caught the ball, and then doubled over laughing. Her bell like laugh echoed off of the gym walls, people glanced over, to see what was so funny.

"No, well, not where I'm from, Im from Anchorage, it's just like seattle, but a lot smaller in size," She said, tossing him the ball back. "But Barrow is like the 30 days of night, no vampires there, just the whole sun thing, there are places where the sun stays up for three months straight. It's beautiful," She remembered the good tings about Alaska. The hiking, and the camping. "Not many would peg me for an outdoorsy type of girl, but up there, I went camping, hiking, fishing, four-wheeling, and snow machining in the winter, it's really fun," She stood there, her hands folded in front of her, waiting for him to toss the ball back.