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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 10, 2008 20:19:41 GMT -5
Lyra was so furious after her second encounter with Lani. She now knew that Rystain had asked someone besides her to the Yule Ball, and worst of all it was that Leilani girl. And to top it off, he supposedly said that Lyra was obnoxious. She wouldn't stand for that, he was going to hear it.
She left Lani's dorm and stormed down the stairs, making sure any "storming" was done after Lani's door was shut so she couldn't see just how furious she was. She was going into the common room, planning to the take the stairwell down to the boys' dorms, but there was no need. She found Rystain in the common room.
"I can't believe you!" she screamed at him. She didn't care who was around or if she was interrupting any conversations.
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 10, 2008 20:29:29 GMT -5
Oh Merlin... what the hell had he done now?? He mentally ticked off recent things in his head that he could have possibly done wrong as soon as he saw Lyra come storming at him in the room. For the life of him he couldn't imagine what he'd done to her.
"um... believe what?" He gave her a skeptical scowl but he didn't move from his chair. He looked tired.
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Post by Dorian Knight on Oct 10, 2008 20:31:54 GMT -5
Ryan looked up from a little ways across the room. He and Ethan were playing a game of Wizard's Chest when he heard her, and he glanced at Rystain.
"No good can come of this," he murmured, pausing the game to watch for a moment.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 10, 2008 20:43:15 GMT -5
"You think I'm obnoxious?!" Her voice was shaking with anger, as were her fists which were clenched and held tightly at her sides. How could he say something like that about her? Did he really not consider her a friend? Was he just playing her all these years? "You're telling people I'm obnoxious?!"
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 10, 2008 20:50:48 GMT -5
"Now why the hell would I call you obnoxious, you're my friend Lyra." He was a mask of calmness and just gave her a look that said she should know him better than that, along with disappointed eyes. What the hell was she talking about? he'd never called her obnoxious... talented, yes.. but obnoxious? never.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 10, 2008 21:45:35 GMT -5
"I don't know why you'd say that. But Lani told me you did, you can supply the why." Her voice was cracking now. She looked into his eyes, that disappointed look pulsing doubt throughout her. But she wasn't really yelling at him because of Lani's lie. She wanted to scream at him, and cry because he wasn't taking her to the dance. She held back the tears that threatened spill out from her eyes.
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 10, 2008 21:51:09 GMT -5
"Well I didn't say that to anyone, especially not to Lani. I don't talk about her to you, just like I don't talk about you to her. Or any other girl I may or may not be seeing for that matter. But if you really think I would talk about you to anyone, then you're sadly mistaken about me Lyra. I thought you knew me better than that." He noticed the eyes on them and he didn't normally like to talk about his sex life in the open air like this but she'd started it.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 10, 2008 22:03:10 GMT -5
Merlin she was being irrational. She knew better than to believe Lani after their fight, but she had been starting to wonder why Rystain would continue to see Lani when he had Lyra. The doubt was already there, Lani just encouraged it with her lie. "She lied? I knew she lied I just-" The tears began to fall and her fists released but still were firm against her sides.
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 10, 2008 22:08:59 GMT -5
ah merlin, a crying female... why me? Rystain gave a resigned look and stood up. He was not happy with Lyra or Lani at this particular moment. And he seriously considered calling Lani down here just to get it all over with.
"Lyra what's going on between you two? I'm obviously not privey to whatever it is that is going on here or why you're crying or she's lying or you're believing that stuff..." His face was scowling now.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 10, 2008 22:32:23 GMT -5
She violently wiped the tears from her face, mad that she couldn't hold them back and mad that Rystain had seen them. She tried to always keep a strong appearance, and was moritified with herself that she couldn't keep it together at this moment. And of course she just had to do this in the middle of the common room, where the whole house had front row seats to her humility. She was glad Sam wasn't there to witness this. She would need some kind of sympathetic friend after this all, and knew she only had herself to blame for this emotional display.
She didn't answer his questions, because she couldn't answer it without admitting fault. But she had her own question to ask. "Did she lie about you taking her to the Yule Ball too?" She unconsciously held her breath in anticipation.
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 10, 2008 22:54:27 GMT -5
Rystain hesitated, still scowling. "No, she didn't lie about that," he said very quietly. Why did Lyra care who he was taking to the dance? All she'd ever wanted was friends with benefits, hadn't she? Hadn't he seen her only a day before he'd asked Lani to the dance, sleeping with Rabastan? She obviously had other men who would likely take her in heart beat. And they were only friends after all.. who happened to both enjoy sex. So what was her problem? He'd never said he was dating her. Why did girls always have to get all emotional on a guy?
His fingers raked through his hair in frustration. "I asked her the night after I saw you wi.. " He trailed off not really wanting to tell the whole room her business.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 10, 2008 23:20:23 GMT -5
She knew this was coming out of left field for him. She had only recently, very recently, come to realize that she felt for Rystain as more than a friend. So his frustrated look was completely understandable and at the same time heart breaking. He had never thought of her as anything more than a friend, even when they were f*cking around. The tears began again, and she sunk onto the chair that Rystain had previously occupied. She buried her face in her hands. "Would you have asked me then? If you hadn't seen me with him..."
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 11, 2008 0:11:50 GMT -5
merlin she's crying again... why me? he asked for the second time in his head. "Lyra.. Lyra look at me... what's going on? I don't know if i would have or not... I thought about it but I hadn't made a decision until the next day. So.. I don't know.. really. But then you could date any guy you want." He was frustrated that she was crying, and frustrated that he just didn't understand women's emotions sometimes... especially when he didn't know what the hell was going on. "Listen.. I never lied to you... or to Lani.. or to anyone else for that matter. If you can't handle me being with Lani... I don't try to broadcast who I'm with and I try to be discrete so no one is hurt. Although I guess right now the whole damn house is going to know about this. But I haven't lied to either of you, you knew the terms when you choose to share my bed, and that never auto-included a date for the dance.. for either of you."
He didn't know what else to say.. he still didn't know why she was so upset... obviously she was upset he'd chosen to go with Lani.. but he didn't understand why she was upset at him.. he'd never made any claims or promises. And she had been sleeping with Rab too after all.
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 11, 2008 0:29:06 GMT -5
"Do you really not get it Rystain? Are you going to make me say it? Fine! I fancy you. I don't want you with anyone else. I want you to myself and I hate her because she's receiving the attention I want from you. I see how you look at her. Why can't you look at me like that? What's wrong with me?" She tried again to halt her tears, knowing he didn't like it. She was irrational at the moment, but she did know him very. He was probably thinking she didn't know him at all.
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Samantha Montgomery
 
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Post by Samantha Montgomery on Oct 11, 2008 0:29:14 GMT -5
Sam instead chose that moment to walk in just far enough to hear Rystain's little speech and Lyra's confession. She sighed. This had been coming and he had to have known this would happen. Most women didn't have casual sex. Sex could never be casual to her, an action that required so much trust to begin with and even the thought that she could "share" the same man who had "shared" so much with her, well it made her skin crawl.
She would never be able to get the images of that man kissing another girl, touching another girl, loving another girl out of her head. Wondering if he did things the same, was he just as tender with whoever else, did he whisper the same sweet nothings? Did he hold the other girl afterward?
It made her more than just a little sick for Lyra, and for Lani for that matter at what Rystain was doing, and yet she couldn't blame him for it either. He tried to keep his affairs private, he didn't want to hurt anyone, and while she believed he thought of it as more than just sex the same haunting images of either of his girls being with someone else didn't necessarily haunt him, he wasn't possessive. His heart was safe while the girls' were open and breaking on the floor.
She glanced to the side where Ryan and Ethan were at and raised an eyebrow, "Need any popcorn gentlemen?" there was a thin level of ice in her tone, something protective had lashed out when she saw Lyra crying and she was surprised at it in herself but she held her steel tone. Lyra was her friend, and she was breaking down at the moment, she didn't need a million witnesses, she didn't even need three.
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Post by Dorian Knight on Oct 11, 2008 0:35:18 GMT -5
"I'm not leaving, Sam," Ryan said, still watching. He knew Lani well, mostly because she was in his year, and they had peaceable conversations from time to time. But Rystain was a friend... a friend he knew very well and he knew how to deal with very well. If Lyra got a friend to stay, then so did Rystain. This wasn't ust about Lyra, after all.
"Sam... you might want to get Lani, actually," he said. Technically, this concerned her too. "She should know..."
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Post by Ethan Drake on Oct 11, 2008 0:36:36 GMT -5
Ethan just shrugged. "That's all I need to hear," he said, Sam's icy tone forcing him to look up. "I'm out of here."
He didn't deal well with crying girls... he had a soft spot for them, and the less he had to deal with, the better. He got up and discreetly left.
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Post by Samantha Montgomery on Oct 11, 2008 0:37:28 GMT -5
She should know what? Sam thought. Bloody hell they should all just leave so that way the two of them could work this out on their own, bringing Lani down would just further complicate matters, or rather that would be fine if the rest of them left. Still she didn't want to leave Lyra and so she understood Dorian's point and turned her fiery eyes towards Ethan instead her arms crossing over her chest as if to ask what his excuse was.
But he picked up his things and left and she sighed softening a little her expression as she glanced back towards Lyra, she really thought that the two of them should have been alone. Merlin knew she wouldn'tve wanted an audience.
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Post by Rystain Quandry on Oct 11, 2008 0:39:08 GMT -5
"Someone get Lani down here damnit... I want to know what the hell I missed, because obviously something is going on here that I am the subject of but have been until now completely unaware of. And apparently Lani has something to do with this." He walked over to the entrance of the girls dorms and yelled her name at the top of his lungs and it was not a happy yell. "LANI GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE NOW!"
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Post by Lyra Newbury on Oct 11, 2008 0:44:46 GMT -5
"Rystain please don't-" But he had already yelled for Lani and so she wiped her tears quickly and forced herself to stop crying.
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