<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 giggled as Taro denied his meanness, and her eyes tracked his gaze in the reflection of the cafeteria in the window glass. She couldn't help but take up the bait in his words, especially when she saw that the girls and some of the guys in the room were focused on the two of them. She reached for his tea, spun the cup so the part he'd been drinking from faced her and winked at him as she said,<strong>"then we'd be cruel not to give them a 'big finish'."</strong>She lifted the cup almost the whole way to her lips then paused to breath in the scent of his cooling tea, playing the tip of her tongue over her top lip just a little. Then, with her gaze lingering on his meaningfully, she pressed the cup to her lip and took a slow sip from it. Setting the cup back down and passing it to him, she dipped her head down a little as her cheeks blushed bright red until they were hidden from his view by the way her hair shifted over her face.<br/><br/><strong>"It's ... good... "</strong>she murmured suddenly /really/ hit by what she'd just done. Shizuma had NEVER been so forward, and her heart had never beat so fast. She trembled a little, but it wasn't fear that moved her. It was a mix of excitement and surprise ... and something else she didn't quite have words for, but affected her deeply. When she looked up again, her gaze was timid and unsure like a fawn taking its first steps towards its mother. There was something like hope and something like an apology as she suddenly realized she might have taking things way too far.<br/><br/>A little sigh of relief escaped Shizuma's lips as Taro spoke of more mundane things.<strong>"I've always loved science, math and engineering,"</strong>she admitted, utterly unafraid she'd come off as too geeky and not really girlie.<strong>"One way or another, it sounds like we can make this happen. I'll have to find the Science Club later then," she replied then giggled and added, "and make it clear I'm a scientist not an experimental subject."</strong>She thought about his last question and hmmmed, then said,<strong>"I'm not sure, I might see if the newspaper needs help or something."</strong>