Mikki's face started to turn slightly red as she heard some students whispering rumors about her and Durge, but her skin was a slightly dark, bronze skin tone so it was harder to see than on someone with a very fair skin tone, such as Durge. Her golden eyes were kind of glued onto him for a bit, trying to swallow that this really was her childhood friend. It wasn't only the fact that he had changed greatly in looks, but even more so that this was her friend, or least that is what she thought he was, that she hadn't seen in six years. He was the only one she ever got close to that was around her age, and the only other person she ever got close to even was her dad, who she didn't even know if she could trust anymore. She started to see Durge almost with the impression her father left on her, a man who made her feel safe for a bit and thought she could trust, but then just abandoned her. Durge had mentioned some stories about dragon training in the past, but gave her no warning left without telling her anything and simply poofed out of her life completely. It was bad enough that she basically had to go search out relatives of his just to know he was still<em>alive</em>since he had not left her a note or any form of contacting him. She worried a lot over him at first, but then later her emotions got very mixed, but after six years, and her already having issues trusting people, couldn't really blame her.<em>"Why am I worried about what happened to him...? He left for years and never once sent a letter or checked if I was still alive.... So why should I worry about him? I never abandoned anyone I got close to... they always abandon me... Shouldn't even let anyone close anymore, then I won't have to worry about being hurt...</em>Her ability to trust others only grew worse and worse after that. She became a loner that kept to herself without speaking much and didn't make any friends after that other than maybe her pet Cubone.<br/><br/>Even with how angry and hurt she was by Durge she kept thinking about him throughout the years, and every now and then even get a bit worried and hoped he was okay since Dragon Training sounded kind of dangerous to her. Once before she tried to tell herself if he got hurt he deserved for hurting her so much, but as hurt as she was she could never actually mean that thought as much as she wanted to hide the fact that a part of her still cared for the only friend she ever managed to make in the past. All she really could do was use the anger from her pain to conceal some of her feelings and cover up the hole left in her heart. When Durge left it was more than just a first love never told being lost, but felt like she lost a part of herself.<br/><br/>She saw Durge giving his speech. She listened closely but still was pretty emotional and maybe slightly annoyed by how he was keeping his calm even since Mikki, as much as she tried to not care and walk around with a don't bug me, I don't care look, she was pretty sensitive. She was half staring at him in curiosity about how he had changed, but at the same time her observant look started to turn into a glare too as she squinted her eyes a bit frustrated. Half way through his speech turned away from Durge and looked pretty upset. Seemed like they all had to give speeches, so right after he finished his she stood up for hers. She hated speaking aloud in front of others but thought it would be smarter to get it over faster before she actually did get emotional.<br/><br/>"Hello... my name is Mikki Zephra. I'm a first year here... really don't know much about this school but least it has to do with pokemon and just wanted to do something related to pokemon since from my experience they seem more reliable than humans..." Her voice sound normal at first, but then it began to trail off oddly, maybe with a bit of anger it as she eyed over Durge for a moment but then looked around the room with a slightly cold glare. Her cubone seemed kind of flattered by comment though and perked up a bit forgetting about his missing and made a little noise and as she looked at her pokemon forced a smile, even if it clearly was a forced one. "Oh... and this is my pokemon... It's a cubone. A pretty young one, haven't even really named him yet. He gets annoyed and headbutts me when I suggested a few so I guess I'll name him later when I can find one he likes" as she said 'headbutt' it somehow reminded the cubone of his stolen bone and glared at Durge again. However, even if he was still somewhat a baby he kind of understood stuff that was going around him pretty well so tried his best to control himself since Mikki was giving her introduction to the class. "Umm.... dunno if there's anything else I should say... I'm from Blackthorn City... My family, I don't like to talk about them so just don't ask. On that note, I'm not that good with people... Generally just try not to make me angry and should be good, I can have a temper... That's it" She ended it with that not really sure what else to say and her thoughts were trailing off. She had that I don't care look on her face a bit again, but this time mixed with a slightly angry don't mess with me look too. She was still sitting to Durge but had no idea what to say and even started to unconsciously claw at her chair arm rest. She had kind of long nails and really was ripping up at the chair without meaning to. Once she noticed it she seemed startled and got up then sneaked off to one of the backseats while someone on the other side did their intro so too much attention wouldn't be drawn to her. She was pretty upset and didn't even know was she would say next to Durge and really did not want to make a scene seeing she noticed others were already taking a notice to her and Durge. She actually was a bit of a problem student in her old school from her really bad socializing skilled mixed with being bullied. She wasn't scared of teachers getting mad at her, but more scared of her scaring a teacher by exploding on them with how emotional she was at the moment. She was doing her best to hide it but as she moved back to the seat away from students her eyes were slightly getting teary. Though maybe that was half why she grew her hair out so long, she used to it to hide her face at times and that's exactly what she did, brushed her long silky hair in her face to hide her emotion.<br/><br/>"Cuuuu...Bone-bone...bone!" whimpered the frustrated little pokemon, now actually meaning the<em>bone</em>sound it just normally said. He started to whine about wanting his bone back now that Mikki finished her speech, but he felt uncomfortable around these people without Mikki there with him. He hesitated for a bit staring at Durge annoyed, and he even managed to headbutt Durge's leg once before scurrying back over to Mikki. Normally he would try to bounce on her lap when she seated but she had her arms crossed and did not look happy in the least. Cubone didn't know this guy, but he just took his bone and now his master seemed very upset after comforting him so all that went through the little pokemon's head was<em>'bad guy! bad guy!'</em>The cubone was a lot like Mikki, it was a loner that tried to hide emotion, but secretly could be a rather caring, and even though Mikki was probably one of the odder humans he met, he did care about his master. He wasn't one of those cuddly loving pokemon that openly jumps and hugs people, but as Cubone hid behind Mikki's leg, he started to slightly nuzzled her leg as a small way to perhaps comfort her. Mikki honestly just wanted this homeroom to be over so she could leave and get some air to think about what to do since at the moment inside she was panicking with upset feelings from the past showing up on her covered face a little.<br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Mikki Zephra<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Homeroom<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Durge, full class, now trying to get away from attention