<div class="floatleft">(http://oi67.tinypic.com/30rp8i0.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Shizuma Nori (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12729551#msg12729551)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Cafeteria<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, a little after 7am<br/><strong>With:</strong>Taro + Open<br/><hr/><br/>Shizuma gave Taro a warmly mischievous look as she bowed her head in thanks for his permission to indulge her impulse. She settled her hand lightly upon his head then rubbed it through his hair quickly, drawing her fingers up through it then leaning back in her chair to admire her handiwork. Her mouth then formed a perfect O as his hair took on more of the look of someone tussled and roughed up. "I would never have thought..." she whispered softly, speaking her thoughts without realizing it. Her smile changed to something more kindly and caring if a tad whistful. Then she sat up straighter and forced herself to the present and the conversation that they'd been having.<br/><br/>"I went there too," Shizuma admitted easily then chuckled self-deprecatingly. "You probably never noticed me, I was very much a wallflower... still am, really, it's just that a Red Card kind of kills your ability to fade into the crowd," she said with a wry tilt to her lips. She sighed and popped a section of the orange into her mouth and peeled two more sections off it. Again, she offered one to Taro before picking up one for herself.<br/><br/>"I remember you had a hard time of things, the other boys picked on you a lot. I got worried when you disappeared," she admitted easily and earnestly, her tone betraying the affection she'd felt for him as whipping boy to bullies. Then that part of her mind that listens to what she says and judges it all kicked in and she flushed deep, blood red, as her words sounded to her like an admission of a crush or something. Especially as her memories teased her of all the things she'd done from the shadows to help him out in the little ways she could. Her embarrassment silenced her, putting a pause to the conversation that threatened to become something awkward.