Chapter 10: Meet the Paren-er Friends
After sitting down, Sabrina remarked to Rion, "Oh look, Nata and Pyro found a corner to talk in. Do you think we should move there? Probably be safer." Renata looked up from her conversation with Pyro. "Hey guys! Over here. Where's everyone else?" Nik entered seeing Renata sitting in the corner. "Hey Renata, I'm here!" Krista and Leena entered bags in hand, laughing and joking around. They saw the rest of the group in the corner, so after getting waters, they wandered over to the table and sat down. "Hey guys. The duck has arrived!" Leena announced victoriously. "And so has Krista," she added. Cassie grabbed her ale from the bartender, having entered after Leena and Krista, and took a big sip. She looked around the room, skipped over the group, scanned the room again, and skipped over them again... after two more sweeps, she finally noticed the others and she stumbled over, fwa-ing down into a chair. "Everyone! You gotta try this ale! It's grrrrrrrrrr-eat!" she slurred. "OMG!" Sabrina shrieked, "Cassie what's wrong??? What happened to you???" "Ale ish a great thing little one!" she hiccuped. "You gotta try one." "In your dreams!!" Sabrina went on, "Cassie I cannot believe you just said that I mean you are only 18! Alcohol affects your nervous system as well as your judgment and you have WEAPONS!!! You could seriously hurt yourself...not to mention other people! I am seriously
shocked at your lack of judgment...Just because we are unsupervised doesn't mean we can go wild!" Pyro looked at Renata and started laughing uncontrollably. "WOW! She is so weird! She's like your paranoid mother or something!" Renata began to laugh at his comment. "I never realized that! That's great! Hahaha." "Oh loosen up little one! You need to get that rod out of your ass! Have a good time! Have a drink or two... or ten..." "I'm not her.... I never..." Sabrina started to say but gave up and stormed out of the inn. As she ran out of the building, blinking back tears he ran into something, or rather someone. Standing up, dazedly she apologized to whomever she had injured. Just as Harry opened the door for Sherry, Sabrina ran right into her causing her to lose her balance. She tried to side step out of Sabrina's way, but knocked herself into Harry instead. They both ended up toppling to the ground, leaving Sherry on top and one bewildered Sabrina. "OMG I'm sooo sorry!" Sabrina apologized dazedly...she went to help whomever she had knocked into up, but looked down to find two people lying on the ground. Sherry looked up at Sabrina, confused and rather dizzy from her fall. Then she looked down and noticed Harry grinning at her. "ACK! Oh god. I'm sorry," she hastily said as she tried to right herself. "Uhh. This klutz here is my friend, Sabrina. Uhm. Sabrina, this is Harry.
He uhh. decided to show me around town," Sherry said as she fought to hide her blush. "I am NOT a klutz!" Sabrina said as she stormed back into the inn, towards that bar. She proceeded to order herself water. As she walked back to the table she "accidentally" spilled the contents of her glass on Pyro's head. "Oops," she said smiling sweetly (as only a freshman can). "Did I do that? Sorry bout that," she said and resumed her place at the table Pyro glared at Sabrina. "SOMEONE can't take a joke at all. Sheesh." He smirked then flicked on his flame-thrower. He held a little ball of flame in his hand and kept smirking at Sabrina. Renata looked at Pyro. "Oh my god, please not here. Too many witnesses." But it was too late. Pyro formed the flame into a butterfly and it flew to Sabrina's face. Renata then screamed at Pyro "OMG YOU TOUCH HER AND YOU'LL NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT!" Pyro looked at Renata sheepishly. "Fine." Then withdrew the flame back into his hand and turned off his backpack. Renata then sighed exasperatedly. "You need to control yourself. Especially here. They'll think you're the devil or something. And you Brina, learn to take a joke will you? You threw a tantrum and that was NOT cool." Still outside: "uhm... kay. I apologize for her, uhh... freshman-ness. Err... uhh... Let's just go in now," Sherry hurriedly said. "Perfectly alright." Harry said as he held the door open for her again. They walked into the room arms linked again as Sherry scanned the room for people she knew. It wasn't hard to notice the group: Pyro, Renata, and Sabrina were all glaring at each other. Sherry walked up to the group rather confused, but whether the others noticed her presence or not because of the previous spectacle that happened prior she wasn't sure... Renata looked up from the glaring fest she was having between Pyro and Sabrina. She then noticed that a few people were occasionally glancing over at the table. Rion was just staring openmouthed at Pyro. Renata then smirked. "So who's this Sherry? ... Oh and you coulda told us he was coming. We don't have enough chairs.... But you could sit on his lap if you want..." Cassie, seeing 6 people, instead of two, had a very interesting image of a person tower. After shaking her head, she saw two people again. "So," she hiccuped. "You got yourself a chair eh?" she looked to Harry. "As long as there aren't any cucumber incidents, sit away!" she slurred, grinned, and drank. Nik passed Sherry a drink. "Here take this it's nice and cold and you can always use it if a cucumber incident does so 'arise' so to speak." Renata then noticed a dagger in Sherry's pocket. "You uhm, use his weaponry Sherry? Looks kinda small to me." "OoOOoo Sherry...what's that?" Sabrina said pointing to a box in her hand. "That's not an engagement ring is it? Can I be the flower girl?" "Oh god. I suddenly remember why I didn't want to bring you here in the first place," Sherry mumbled only loud enough for Harry to hear as she buried her face in her hands. Harry, on the other hand was rather baffled by this exchange of words. "I have to apologize for their behavior. Uhh. Like I said, we're not from here. Heh." Sherry said trying to brush aside their comments. "Err, everyone, this is Harry. He uhh. showed me around town." "So... this guy here took you around the block a few times?" she hiccuped, then grinned at Nik. "Well, I suppose there are worse ways to spend the afternoon, right?" she smirked and drank some more ale only to find the mug empty Nik snickered at Cassie's comment then looked up to see Shane walk into the inn. "Well I wouldn't mind him taking me around the block a few times," nods to Shane. Cassie turned in her seat. She looked at the guy she thought Nik was pointing to, got confused, and smirked. "Well, I found a better option than that one. So nyah!" she stuck her tongue out at Nik. "Yes well Cass you're too drunk to see straight from this far away anyway so you're coming with me to go up and meet him." Nik grabbed Cassie by the hand and moved toward Shane at the bar. Cassie held little protest. After all, there was ALE at the bar... and that was where she was going, so she was good! "Ummm..." Rion started "Am I seeing things, or did he just shoot fire out of his hands?" Pyro looked at Rion. "What? You mean you've never seen...Ooooh never mind. Hey Sabrina, do you wanna explain or should me and NC explain ourselves?" "Well maybe we should do it individually...I don't know how close my powers resemble yours," Sabrina said. Pyro look at Renata then looked at Rion. "Well, " he began. "Like you saw, I can control fire, even the tiniest spark." Pyro looked at Renata. "Uhm, how should we explain you? I think if you showed him yourself he'd be a bit shocked." Renata shrugged and looked at Sabrina nervously. "Just show him," Sabrina said to Nata with an encouraging smile. She then proceeded to cast a silencing charm on Rion so he wouldn't yell. Renata looked at Pyro nervously. "Uhm..." she began. "It's in public. I don't think so... " "Well since we are probably going to stay here overnight...we can just rent a room now and you can show us there." Renata was really nervous now. "Uhm." she said. "Ok in private I mean uh yeah... " Pyro patted her back encouragingly and nodded at Sabrina. "Well we could always pitch in and rent a room," Sabrina said. Nicely perched on Harry, Sherry asked, "What was that guys?" since she noticed that no one was saying anything. She had been too busy staring at Harry to notice what was going on with the group. Sabrina (responsible and smart frosh that she is) got up and walked to the innkeeper. Politely, she asked, "how much is it to rent a room? For one night only please." "10 copper pieces a night please," the bartender answered. "I'll take one room please, and would it be possible for a waiter to come up and serve us there?" "Well...Ok I guess" he answered. Renata looked at Sherry. "Uhm...Sherry... Can you leave him behind? I dun think its necessary for him to see... " Sherry looked to Renata. "Uhh... yeah sure," hardly listening to a word she said. Harry and Sherry stood up. He bade her goodnight and kissed her hand. Too dizzy to find her way to their room, she hung onto Sabrina for support.
After sitting down, Sabrina remarked to Rion, "Oh look, Nata and Pyro found a corner to talk in. Do you think we should move there? Probably be safer." Renata looked up from her conversation with Pyro. "Hey guys! Over here. Where's everyone else?" Nik entered seeing Renata sitting in the corner. "Hey Renata, I'm here!" Krista and Leena entered bags in hand, laughing and joking around. They saw the rest of the group in the corner, so after getting waters, they wandered over to the table and sat down. "Hey guys. The duck has arrived!" Leena announced victoriously. "And so has Krista," she added. Cassie grabbed her ale from the bartender, having entered after Leena and Krista, and took a big sip. She looked around the room, skipped over the group, scanned the room again, and skipped over them again... after two more sweeps, she finally noticed the others and she stumbled over, fwa-ing down into a chair. "Everyone! You gotta try this ale! It's grrrrrrrrrr-eat!" she slurred. "OMG!" Sabrina shrieked, "Cassie what's wrong??? What happened to you???" "Ale ish a great thing little one!" she hiccuped. "You gotta try one." "In your dreams!!" Sabrina went on, "Cassie I cannot believe you just said that I mean you are only 18! Alcohol affects your nervous system as well as your judgment and you have WEAPONS!!! You could seriously hurt yourself...not to mention other people! I am seriously
shocked at your lack of judgment...Just because we are unsupervised doesn't mean we can go wild!" Pyro looked at Renata and started laughing uncontrollably. "WOW! She is so weird! She's like your paranoid mother or something!" Renata began to laugh at his comment. "I never realized that! That's great! Hahaha." "Oh loosen up little one! You need to get that rod out of your ass! Have a good time! Have a drink or two... or ten..." "I'm not her.... I never..." Sabrina started to say but gave up and stormed out of the inn. As she ran out of the building, blinking back tears he ran into something, or rather someone. Standing up, dazedly she apologized to whomever she had injured. Just as Harry opened the door for Sherry, Sabrina ran right into her causing her to lose her balance. She tried to side step out of Sabrina's way, but knocked herself into Harry instead. They both ended up toppling to the ground, leaving Sherry on top and one bewildered Sabrina. "OMG I'm sooo sorry!" Sabrina apologized dazedly...she went to help whomever she had knocked into up, but looked down to find two people lying on the ground. Sherry looked up at Sabrina, confused and rather dizzy from her fall. Then she looked down and noticed Harry grinning at her. "ACK! Oh god. I'm sorry," she hastily said as she tried to right herself. "Uhh. This klutz here is my friend, Sabrina. Uhm. Sabrina, this is Harry.
He uhh. decided to show me around town," Sherry said as she fought to hide her blush. "I am NOT a klutz!" Sabrina said as she stormed back into the inn, towards that bar. She proceeded to order herself water. As she walked back to the table she "accidentally" spilled the contents of her glass on Pyro's head. "Oops," she said smiling sweetly (as only a freshman can). "Did I do that? Sorry bout that," she said and resumed her place at the table Pyro glared at Sabrina. "SOMEONE can't take a joke at all. Sheesh." He smirked then flicked on his flame-thrower. He held a little ball of flame in his hand and kept smirking at Sabrina. Renata looked at Pyro. "Oh my god, please not here. Too many witnesses." But it was too late. Pyro formed the flame into a butterfly and it flew to Sabrina's face. Renata then screamed at Pyro "OMG YOU TOUCH HER AND YOU'LL NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT!" Pyro looked at Renata sheepishly. "Fine." Then withdrew the flame back into his hand and turned off his backpack. Renata then sighed exasperatedly. "You need to control yourself. Especially here. They'll think you're the devil or something. And you Brina, learn to take a joke will you? You threw a tantrum and that was NOT cool." Still outside: "uhm... kay. I apologize for her, uhh... freshman-ness. Err... uhh... Let's just go in now," Sherry hurriedly said. "Perfectly alright." Harry said as he held the door open for her again. They walked into the room arms linked again as Sherry scanned the room for people she knew. It wasn't hard to notice the group: Pyro, Renata, and Sabrina were all glaring at each other. Sherry walked up to the group rather confused, but whether the others noticed her presence or not because of the previous spectacle that happened prior she wasn't sure... Renata looked up from the glaring fest she was having between Pyro and Sabrina. She then noticed that a few people were occasionally glancing over at the table. Rion was just staring openmouthed at Pyro. Renata then smirked. "So who's this Sherry? ... Oh and you coulda told us he was coming. We don't have enough chairs.... But you could sit on his lap if you want..." Cassie, seeing 6 people, instead of two, had a very interesting image of a person tower. After shaking her head, she saw two people again. "So," she hiccuped. "You got yourself a chair eh?" she looked to Harry. "As long as there aren't any cucumber incidents, sit away!" she slurred, grinned, and drank. Nik passed Sherry a drink. "Here take this it's nice and cold and you can always use it if a cucumber incident does so 'arise' so to speak." Renata then noticed a dagger in Sherry's pocket. "You uhm, use his weaponry Sherry? Looks kinda small to me." "OoOOoo Sherry...what's that?" Sabrina said pointing to a box in her hand. "That's not an engagement ring is it? Can I be the flower girl?" "Oh god. I suddenly remember why I didn't want to bring you here in the first place," Sherry mumbled only loud enough for Harry to hear as she buried her face in her hands. Harry, on the other hand was rather baffled by this exchange of words. "I have to apologize for their behavior. Uhh. Like I said, we're not from here. Heh." Sherry said trying to brush aside their comments. "Err, everyone, this is Harry. He uhh. showed me around town." "So... this guy here took you around the block a few times?" she hiccuped, then grinned at Nik. "Well, I suppose there are worse ways to spend the afternoon, right?" she smirked and drank some more ale only to find the mug empty Nik snickered at Cassie's comment then looked up to see Shane walk into the inn. "Well I wouldn't mind him taking me around the block a few times," nods to Shane. Cassie turned in her seat. She looked at the guy she thought Nik was pointing to, got confused, and smirked. "Well, I found a better option than that one. So nyah!" she stuck her tongue out at Nik. "Yes well Cass you're too drunk to see straight from this far away anyway so you're coming with me to go up and meet him." Nik grabbed Cassie by the hand and moved toward Shane at the bar. Cassie held little protest. After all, there was ALE at the bar... and that was where she was going, so she was good! "Ummm..." Rion started "Am I seeing things, or did he just shoot fire out of his hands?" Pyro looked at Rion. "What? You mean you've never seen...Ooooh never mind. Hey Sabrina, do you wanna explain or should me and NC explain ourselves?" "Well maybe we should do it individually...I don't know how close my powers resemble yours," Sabrina said. Pyro look at Renata then looked at Rion. "Well, " he began. "Like you saw, I can control fire, even the tiniest spark." Pyro looked at Renata. "Uhm, how should we explain you? I think if you showed him yourself he'd be a bit shocked." Renata shrugged and looked at Sabrina nervously. "Just show him," Sabrina said to Nata with an encouraging smile. She then proceeded to cast a silencing charm on Rion so he wouldn't yell. Renata looked at Pyro nervously. "Uhm..." she began. "It's in public. I don't think so... " "Well since we are probably going to stay here overnight...we can just rent a room now and you can show us there." Renata was really nervous now. "Uhm." she said. "Ok in private I mean uh yeah... " Pyro patted her back encouragingly and nodded at Sabrina. "Well we could always pitch in and rent a room," Sabrina said. Nicely perched on Harry, Sherry asked, "What was that guys?" since she noticed that no one was saying anything. She had been too busy staring at Harry to notice what was going on with the group. Sabrina (responsible and smart frosh that she is) got up and walked to the innkeeper. Politely, she asked, "how much is it to rent a room? For one night only please." "10 copper pieces a night please," the bartender answered. "I'll take one room please, and would it be possible for a waiter to come up and serve us there?" "Well...Ok I guess" he answered. Renata looked at Sherry. "Uhm...Sherry... Can you leave him behind? I dun think its necessary for him to see... " Sherry looked to Renata. "Uhh... yeah sure," hardly listening to a word she said. Harry and Sherry stood up. He bade her goodnight and kissed her hand. Too dizzy to find her way to their room, she hung onto Sabrina for support.