Speak Of The Devil...[JARAD/TONY]

[LUCIA MARIE NEWMAN]

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i'm so in love that i acted insane

Did the whole “speak of the devil and the devil shall appear” thing also work with events?

Lucia wondered that very same thing as she stepped into room. Just the other day she had been talking to her best friend Tony about loosening up. It was almost common knowledge that Lucia avoided social situations. Most of them meant that lots of people would be gathered, carrying along with them their emotions. It was too much to carry without either being sick or wanting to curl in a corner and die. It wasn’t bad in classes or anything like that, because those classes were only for short periods of time. But things like parties and shopping trips? They were almost torture for her.

But it was boring being by herself. Lucia hated being by herself, and it was rather lonely. She enjoyed talking to other people, after all and hiding in her room. When she heard that AGM was hosting a Christmas party, there had been a mixture of apprehension and excitement rolling in her tummy. She wanted to go. She really did. But at the same time, she didn’t want to face everyone. Plus, certain people might be there that she really, really didn’t want to face. The blonde girl had literally sat down and made a list of reasons why she should and shouldn’t go, deliberating for more than an hour.

What finally decided her was the dress. In a rare show of affection, her father had sent her a dress. It was beautiful. The instant that she saw it, Lucia knew that she had to go. There was simply no way she couldn’t go. Lucia really wasn’t one to care much about her appearance, not normally. But today she spent time looking nice. She actually fixed her tumble of curls into a rather arm-tiring display, putting make-up on rather slow fashion. The girl felt like she was overdoing it, but when she glanced in the mirror, she found something odd.

Lucia was actually sort of pretty.

Lucia shook her head in bewilderment as she walked into the room, hesitating by the doorway. There were so many people here… She mentally prepared herself for the bombardment of emotions as she hung by the door. Lucia didn’t happen to notice the tiny green plant hanging in the doorway…

TAGGED: Jared/Tony | WORDS: 388 | CLICK! | OOC: Woot!

[JARED LIAM ROBINSON]

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[/style][style=width: 390px; height: 300px; font-size: 10px; background-color: #dadad8; padding: 5px; border: solid 15px #b9b9b9; text-align: justify; overflow: auto;]Jared admired his work in the mirror. He managed to put together a rather nice ensemble of clothing. It wasn't half bad this time. His hair, like always, was perfectly messy and his skin was a smooth and matte as ... well, his skin. He lightly poked his beauty mark placed elegantly above his lip. No one will ever know, but he secretly admires his mole there.

With a lanky strut, he made his way from his dorm to the gymnasium, careful not to step on anything that may ruin the party. He could tell that he turned heads as soon as he entered the front entrance of the school. Girls gave him the up-down glance as he walked passed. However, they didn't exactly meet his 'standard'.

As he arrived on scene, the DJ was pumping horrid music. Jared did not want to enter the gymnasium with that garbage pumping into his ears. Thankfully, he found come company by the door. Dressed in a long, white gown, beautiful blond hair pinned up, stood a pretty girl.

Jared leaned on the entrance and winced loudly. "Gah, this music is just terrible hey?" he said smoothly. He looked up at the girl, to see a horrifying scene. It was Lucia! Jared nearly jumped back in surprise. There would be no smooth talking for Lucia. No way, no how. "Oh it's you." he added.

He looked around a bit for a more interesting crowd, but instead of on people, his eyes landed on a curios green plant dangling in the air. "Oh would you look at that." he pointed toward the mistletoe above Lucia and his own head. A grin from ear to ear appeared on his face, this was perfect. Jared knew a sure-fire way of pissing Lucia off once more.

With no hesitation, Jared put his hands on her bent elbows and drew their faces closer together until their warm, soft lips met.

TAGGED: lucia/tony | OUTFIT | OOC: huzzah

[STETSON TONY GILLIAM]

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i'm sexy and i know it

Tony hasn't had much experience with dances. He never went to any of them at his old school, because he was entirely too shy to ask anyone to go with him and way too awkward to go without a date. So he had stayed home and hung out with his baby sisters instead.

Now there were no baby sisters and he was a senior. He was less awkward and much less shy, and he knew for a fact that a certain blonde would be there. Lucia was the real attraction, honestly. As earnestly and constantly as Tony denied it, he maybe had a little bit of a thing for her. Just a tad. But after all, Lucia was Tony's best female friend. Wasn't it inevitable that they would fall in love? It happens in all the cliche movies, right?

Well, Tony is not one to live his life by a cliche movie. So he decided that he would go to this dance and talk to Lucia like normal, and then, when the opportunity presented itself, he would make a move and see how it went from there.

Okay, so that wasn't really his plan. Tony isn't the make-a-move sort. His plan was to go to the dance and hang out with Lucia and have a load of fun. The thing was, he had had a problem with his shoes, and now he was late. The problem was their nonexistence. He suspected his roommate, but he didn't have time to really think about it, so he slipped on some blue tennis shoes instead. At least he wasn't going in socks. That would have been bad.

So Tony walked to the gym with his hands in his pockets, wishing it wasn't so cold. Tony hates the cold with passion.

Oh, so incredibly ready to have fun and party was Tony, searching the entire room for Lucia. And when he found her! She looked so amazing, in that beautiful white dress, her hair all done up, wrapped in the arms of some boy who wasn't Tony.

Whoa. Hold op. Who was that she was kissing? Tony edged forward into the dance until he could get a clear view. Jared! Tony's moods flashed from confusion to anger, then back again twice. They settled on a boiling, raging fury. Which, for Tony, is really just a simmer for most people.

Regardless, Tony charged over to the couple and (rather violently) pulled Jared away from Lucia. "Hey, bro. What the hell are you doing?" Tony had to bite back the next flow of words that sprang to his tongue, because they included the word girlfriend and that was not a road he wanted to go down. Neither of the people here were his girlfriend. Especially not Lucia. Or especially not Jared, however you choose to see it.


Tony suddenly had the urge to hit something; something with a face that had recently been very close to Lucia's and something whose name was Jared. And because Tony figured that he made a large enough fool of himself already that it didn't matter, he pulled his arm back, ready to fire . . .

And nothing. Tony did not hit Jared in the face like he had wanted to. Instead he dropped his fist and frowned. "That is so not cool, man." Tony realized, suddenly, that he had no right to be barging in here and breaking up a kiss.

Then, to -possibly- save his own butt, he turned to Lucia. "I think Freshy is way too young for you guys to be kissing and stuff."

Hm. No. That probably made things worse. More embarrassing.

Dances are just not Tony's thing.

OUTFIT | OOC: Swag.

[LUCIA MARIE NEWMAN]

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i'm so in love that i acted insane

It sort of reminded her of Christmases at home, Lucia observed with a touch of amusement. Christmas was one of the few times her family could actually exist without wanting to kill each other. Her father loved the holidays – he spent hours decorating the tree and the house. She had always enjoyed the festivities, here as well. Lucia normally despised spending money, but this was a special time. She went all out, getting gifts for the people she cared about. Lucia spent a lot of time thinking over the gifts, trying to make them meaningful. After all, useless gifts were, well, useless.

Lucia was especially proud of her gift for a certain brunette boy. Lucia had bought tickets to a soccer game he had mentioned in passing, and Lucia really hoped that he would like them. Lucia was an empath, and she was use to others emotions. But her own? Not so much. So it was excusable that she was a tad bit dense when it came to her own. Okay, she did realize that maybe her feelings towards her best friend wasn’t exactly simply friend-like; she wasn’t that stupid. But what was she supposed to do with said emotions? Lucia couldn’t tell him – what if he didn’t like her back? It’d ruin their friendship, and Lucia was unwilling to even think about that. Tony meant the world to her, and if it meant keeping silent, so be it.

God, it sounded like a bad romance movie, huh?

The blonde girl was brought out of her thoughts by the – unfortunately unfamiliar – voice of a guy. She glanced at Jared, giving him a very flat look. ”Yes, it’s me. Don’t you have anyone else to go and bother, Robert Patterson look alike?” Lucia asked him scathingly, crossing her arms over her chest. To say that she disliked Jared would be saying that Hitler had something against the Jews. He was arrogant, pompous, and made the normally non-violent girl want to punch things. Specifically him. Lucia opened her mouth to insult him some more, when he mentioned looking at something and, to her horror, turned around and kissed her.

For a moment, her mind went blank with shock. Then she was horrified and angry. Lucia had never been kissed before. EVER. And the person who stole her first kiss was this… this… this thing! Yep, Jared was no reduced to dirt. Lucia brought her hands up to shove him away, pushing against his chest, when all of a sudden, another familiar voice rumbled and Jared was pretty much thrown away from her. Lucia looked in horror at the boy who was standing there. Oh, yes, Tony was angry. Very angry indeed.
Lucia pretty much wanted the earth to open up and swallow her right there.

”Tony, I… He just… I don’t….” Lucia couldn’t even manage a coherent sentence at this point. Tears of fury, embarrassment and sadness welled up. The guy she liked had just seen her be kissed by someone else! She burst into tears, something quite unlike her. She didn’t even run away or anything, just stood there, crying. Lucia was humiliated, and definitely regretted going to this dance.

TAGGED: Jared/Tony | WORDS: 524 | CLICK! | OOC: D'awwwwww.

[JARED LIAM ROBINSON]

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[/style][style=width: 390px; height: 300px; font-size: 10px; background-color: #dadad8; padding: 5px; border: solid 15px #b9b9b9; text-align: justify; overflow: auto;]To say that Lucia and Jared didn't get along well was truly an understatement. The two would ring each other's necks if they had the opportunity to. Jared just couldn't stand her whole good girl fiasco. She was just so dang cheerful and stubborn. Ick. It just gave Jared the creeps and the two just don't get along. Something about his attitude that irritated Lucia, but he didn't know what it was...

As he felt their lips pressed together, Jared couldn't and help but smile in sweet satisfaction. He had truly caused something terrible. In his hands, he could feel Lucia's shock to the whole thing, but before he can pull away from her, he felt a force on his chest prying him away from her and then he heard a familiar voice. Ah, it was his friend Tony! Oh... but he is an angry Tony. Look at him, all angry and stuff.All red in the face. Ew, he did not look good like this. And what was that noise? Is Lucia crying? Oops, had Jared done that? Probably.

However, Jared was quick to react to Tony's question. He put his hands up to Tony and with a grin on his face replied, "Yo ,bro, I don't mean anything by it." he explained himself with rather arrogant tone. The playful mood was still swirling around his goofy head while his friend and enemy stood before him, hurt and betrayed.

When Tony explained how it was uncool, Jared put his hands down, fully realizing the damage of his actions. He gestured lightly toward Lucia with an open hand, "I just did it to piss her off..." his voice trailed and he resembled a child being told off by his mother. Jared inspected the damage briefly. He had done a fine job, messing things up. However the feeling of guilt was now sinking in. In front of him stood one of his best friends, angry and hurt...and behind him stood a beautiful young girl traumatized by his actions. Jared felt a lurch in his stomach. "S-Sorry. I just thought it would be funny." he apologized with the smile wiped off his face.

Jared wasn't really good at apologizing. He rarely found the need to apologize for his own actions. But alas, in this case, it was Jared's fault. He only hoped that the two would forgive him. To be frank, Jared did not expect Tony to show up. But now that he thought about it, the two of them had been building a relationship and Jared was too caught up in all the hate to see it.

TAGGED: lucia/tony | OUTFIT | OOC: ahaha

[STETSON TONY GILLIAM]

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i'm sexy and i know it

Tony thought his head had popped right off and was spinning on the ground like a top for a moment. His anger was making it difficult for him to comprehend what was going on. He wasn't used to this feeling, for Tony rarely got very angry. Normally, if something upsetting happened, he brushed it off and removed himself from the situation before he could really get unhinged. But this? This hit him like an angry gorilla's poop-fling.

But when he finally regained his head, Tony didn't know what to make of everything that happened next. First, Jared was apologizing, and, despite his blinding fury, Tony felt bad for being so upset. After all, Jared is his number one bro.

But then, and this was the deciding factor of Tony's Big Horrible Act, he noticed that Lucia was crying. That just wasn't acceptable! Happy, bubbly, adorable Lucia didn't cry. And, oh God, not because some other boy had kissed her. Or, was it, could it be, because of Tony's reaction. Really, why was Lucia crying?

Well, Tony didn't much care, because just then, his anger all came rushing back into him and his cheeks flushed with fury. "She's crying." He had meant to scream it. To declare it like an angry, er, declaration. But instead, it came out as a fierce whisper-sound.

Where the period in that sentence should have been, there was a sudden force of movement in the corner of Tony's eye, and then there was fist where Jared's face should be. It all happened way before Tony could comprehend what was really going on. He had punched Jared. Tony had punched his Bestest Bro in the face. And it felt . . . good?

Tony decided not to think about that, and turned to look at Lucia and figure out if she was okay. She was still crying. Tony seemed to shrink two sizes. "Luce? A-are you . . . Are you okay?" As Tony wasn't sure if he was the cause for her tears, he was not sure if this was the acceptable thing to say. He sure hoped so. All he wanted to do was make her feel better. Okay, so, maybe he felt bad for punching Jared (he felt a lot bad) but what did the Brolden Trio do, if not punch each other? It sure seemed to Tony that it happened often enough that it shouldn't be a big deal this one time.

Hopefully. He couldn't stand to upset Lucia and lose a bro all in the same hour. Where was the integrity in that?

OUTFIT | OOC: onose (heh geddit nose?).

[LUCIA MARIE NEWMAN]

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i'm so in love that i acted insane

Lucia wanted the earth to open up and swallow her. Why couldn’t she have the power of earth instead of empathy? It’d be more useful, after all. Lucia just wanted to disappear. People were staring at them, and she could feel their curiosity. She honestly contemplated on fleeing the scene, but she had a feeling that would just cause more of a commotion. And Lucia would rather die than cause more people to watch them. She honestly tried to stop crying, she really did. After all, it was just one stupid kiss. It wasn’t like Jared had thrown her outside in the mud, or anything like that. He probably kissed girls all the time. It really wasn’t that big of a deal.

Except it had been her first real kiss. Which meant that it meant so much more. Lucia angrily wiped at her eyes, trying to stop the blubbering. Crying in front of one’s enemy was not acceptable, after all. She couldn’t look weak. But, hold on. What was happening? Jared was apologizing to her? The blonde girl goggled at him. Wait. Wait wait wait waiiiiiiiiiit a minute. Who was this man, and what had he done with Jared? The Jared she knew would never apologize to anyone, especially her. Lucia was too busy staring at Jared as if he had grown a second head to notice what Tony was doing. She felt the rush of anger and then all of a sudden BAM. Tony’s fist was in Jared’s face.

Has the whole world gone crazy all of a sudden!? Lucia wondered as she looked from Tony to Jared, the shock making her stop crying. She knew that Tony really liked Jared – why the heck would he sock him in the face? It just didn’t make any sense! And then he was asking her if she was okay, being her sweet, worried Tony. The blonde girl had to swallow a few times before she could speak. ”It’s just… He…. I… I wanted to kiss you, not him!” She pretty much wailed, flailing around a little bit. ”And then he kisses me in front of the guy I like and I…” And then Lucia’s brain caught up with her mouth, which she shut with a snap. A horrified look crossed her face – had she just admitted she liked Tony?! In front of him?! Her face slowly turned a rather rosy red, and she covered her mouth with one hand.

”I… Erm... You okay, Jared?” Lucia asked, trying not to look at Tony and failing. Oh, God, what had she done? This was just a huge mess. What was Tony going to say to that? What if he didn’t want to be friends with her? Oh, this was just all messed up!

CLICK! | OOC: OMG. SO MUCH WIN.

[JARED LIAM ROBINSON]

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[/style][style=width: 390px; height: 300px; font-size: 10px; background-color: #dadad8; padding: 5px; border: solid 15px #b9b9b9; text-align: justify; overflow: auto;]The two were frantic. Literally, in hysterics. Lucia was crying, and Tony looked so angry that he could hit him. And to no surprise, Jared felt a familiar impact hit him straight in the nose before he was able to react. The punch came from literally no where, if Jared was concerned. He grunted loudly and felt his head being hurtled. Jared put his hand on his nose, to check for bleeding.

"The FUCK bro?!" he exclaimed, before thinking. Jared felt something warm, and wet reach his finger tips. "Ah, shit!" he cursed before pinching his nose. He felt the side, to feel a small bump that stung when he touched it. Great, he would need to realign his nose.

Jared took a deep breath, looked away for a moment and shoved his nose back into place, sounds included. The bleeding had essentially stopped, but his face and neck had marks of blood, where he had wiped it. .He dropped his hands and stretched his shoulders.

He knew that he had interrupted the two and their little fest. "What? You need to put your nose back, or else you can't breathe," he began, but he could tell the two weren't catching on. Before they could protest, he continued, "I've had to do it plenty of times in rugby ... and football." Jared shrugged.

"Anyway..." he said with a face that was clearly judging the two, "I'm really sorry." he looked and Lucia and then back at Tony, with earnest eyes. Then, he stuck out his fist, "We cool, Tonybro?" he smiled softly, hoping that it wasn't too early for apologies.

TAGGED: lucia/tony | OUTFIT | OOC: bad :c

[STETSON TONY GILLIAM]

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i'm sexy and i know it

Tony was absolutely positively sure that his jaw was gone. It had dropped so far that it had disappeared. He moved it around a few times to make sure he did, indeed, still have one and was able to talk. But when he tried, nothing came out.

Because Lucia liked him. He, Stetson Tony Gilliam and not Jared, not his poor bro with the broken nose. Yeah, Tony knew how bad that hurt. And he had the crooked bridge to prove it. In the faaaar back of his mind, a little bit of guilt registered, because, after all, Jared is his bestest bro and bestest bros don't punch each other (at least not at a dance), but come on. Lucia liked him! He felt like Rapunzel getting out of her castle for the first time when she was swinging around the tree. Except, he was the badass thief and Lucia could be the cute blonde.

Tony's first instinct was to kiss her, but he's too socially awkward for that, so he said, "Aw, Baby, that's cute. I knew you couldn't resist my swag." He put on his biggest goofy grin, even though he knew damn well that joking about it was going to blow up in his face. He really, really, really wanted to kiss Lucia right now.

But then he heard a crunching sound and turned to look at poor bloodied up Jared and gave him an apologetic smirk. "Damn. At least it isn't crooked. Still got that fine ass face in tact." He casually brofisted with Jared, and everything was starting to look more normal.

Except, Lucia LIKED him. She really did and she had just admitted and oh GOD what was he supposed to do now? Should he ask her out or should he tell her that he liked her back or should he kiss her like he wanted to? He had no idea what he was supposed to do and if she wasn't standing right there, he would have asked Jared, who is basically the opposite of poor Clueless Tony when it came to women. He just hoped that their Bro Telepathy would work and Jared would help him out. If not, he regretted hitting him a little less.

OUTFIT | OOC: LOLOLOL

[LUCIA MARIE NEWMAN]

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i'm so in love that i acted insane

Lucia didn’t understand how guys could make up that fast. One minute, Tony was punching Jared in the face, breaking his nose, and Jared was screaming profanities. The next, the two of them were all buddy-buddy. How the heck did they do that? She was positive that if she did that to a girl, there would be hell to pay for the next several years, if not decades. It’d be World War III, and the devastation would be a terrible sight to behold. Not that Lucia planned on hitting anyone, besides maybe herself for being stupid. But that was definitely beside the point. The point was that Lucia felt like her world turned upside down, like poor Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Only, she didn’t have a white rabbit to guide her.

The fact of the matter was, Lucia had just admitted that she held feelings of her best friend not only in front of him, but her enemy too. Who was being really apologetic and not like him at all. It was actually sort of freaking her out, she wasn’t going to lie. Lucia preferred him being all sarcastic and rude and stuff. At least she knew how to react to that. But Jared was totally sincere about it to, which was just plain weird. Lucia actually felt bad about making him freak out about this, a very uncomfortable feeling indeed. She liked how they were before, and this was just… just not okay with her. A little part in Lucia’s brain noted that she’d better get Jared something nice as an apology for making him freak out. And, you know, because she was the cause of him getting a broken nose. Which, by the way, sounded really, really really gross. She wasn’t sure how Jared managed to do that, sheesh. ”Erm, maybe you should have Danny look at it? Just in case?” Lucia heard herself suggest.

Why wasn’t she paying attention? Oh, and then there was the fact that Tony hadn’t moved since she had professed to him. It was rather unnerving, she wasn’t going to lie. Lucia could feel the surprise roll off of him, mixed with the ruefulness (probably from the whole hitting-and-breaking-Jared’s-nose-thing). Lucia couldn’t help but roll her eyes at his words, though they, and the goofy grin, did nothing to set her at ease. Now he was probably going to make fun of her, and never let her forget it! This was just terrible! Without another word, Lucia turned to flee – but it seemed like life had it out for her, because she tripped, the ground rushing at her face all of a sudden.

Oh, God. Just kill me now.

CLICK! | OOC: DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN

[JARED LIAM ROBINSON]

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[/style][style=width: 390px; height: 300px; font-size: 10px; background-color: #dadad8; padding: 5px; border: solid 15px #b9b9b9; text-align: justify; overflow: auto;]Jared rubbed the bridge of his nose and wiped away the blood that persisted in leaking from his nose. No doubt he'd have a little blood on his neck and face. Perhaps the girls around him will think he's been in a fight or something and will feel compassion. Jared smiled at the thought. He finished the fist bump with Tony and nodded. "Sorry, I honestly didn't think there was anything between ... you guys." He looked at Tony and then at Lucia and then back again. It was clear that the two of them liked each other, and he seemed to be ignorant of the two. He stood their awkwardly, pinching his nose and shifting his weight between either foot. The pair actually looked good together. They reminded him of Barbie and Ken, believe it or not.

The fact that the two were so easily forgiving really showed how much they cared for each other. It was a bromance like no other, Jared had to admit. He could go to Tony for anything without judgment or hesitation. The duo were loyal to each other and Jared felt like they could connect on different levels. He was grateful for a friend that was so tolerant, since he didn't have too many of those... Lucia, for example.

"Anyway..." Jared began, but voice trailed off into a silent whisper. He decided not to stand there like an idiot, clearly being the third wheel. People might see him and think that he was crashing a party... or worse, cock-blocking. "I think I'll go and see Daniel about ... this." Jared motioned around his face and now swollen nose.

"I'll leave you two to be alone ..." he sighed, before undoing his tie and walking away in search for one of his healer friends.

TAGGED: lucia/tony | OUTFIT | OOC: short and late Dx