Hiding or Stalking? [Gavin "James" White]

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh crept into the forest. There was still a good two hours until curfew but it was already going dark. The sun was setting and there were yellow and orange patterns on the floor from the light shining through the trees. She held her breath so she could hear anyone coming. She didn't hear a thing, so she swung herself up into a tree and began branch hopping, From one tree to the next, she jumped from branch to branch, leaving a mark in the ones she touched with her knife.

She wasn't dressed as usual. Her hair was about waist length. Usually it woud be braided or in a high ponytail to keep it from her eyes but she wanted some cover tonight. Her fringe swung in front of one eye and the rest moved as it wished. Her black combats let her move easily but usually she'd wear skinnies all the time. The only normal things about her appearence were her hoodie, fingerless gloves and Converses.

She continued branch hopping until she heard a noise form below, so she climbed up two branches in the tree she was in and looked down to see what the noise was.

[white]

He couldn't decided what to do, he didn't want to go to bed yet, but he also didn't want to practice his magic. So he just walked.He stopped when he came to the Forbidden Forest. I haven't been in here before.....
He stepped into the forest, deeper and deeper, he looked up just in time to see a figure up in the trees. It looked like it was wearing a cape, no that was it's hair. He stepped one more step, and a twig snapped under him. He became very still, he looked up in the trees again, the figure had become still too.
Come on dude, be a man.... "Who goes there?" He called out.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh saw a boy appear. She swung down as she heard him speak. On the branch closest to the ground, she hung her legs over it and leaned backwards, facing the boy.

"I go there." She continued to look at him in an odd way. She was sure her face was tinged slightly red as all the blood was rushing to her head and she couldn't see much because her mind was focused on trying to keep blood in the rest of her body. So she decided to swing down.

Placing her hands on the branch, she swung her legs down and turned to the boy, letting go of the branch.

"Hi. I'm Ashleigh. Have you been following me?" she looked at him with her head tilted sideways slightly, being curious around boys as usual. She had more guy friends than she did female friends. She always found boys were more similar to her style and such than girls. But oh well. She sighed at her habit of friends and Continued to look at the boy with two electric blue orbs. Her fringe swung in front of her face again as her hair settled itself from being upside down. She shook her head and it fell right again.

A cool breeze blew between the two of them and she was suddenly glad she was wearing her warmest hoodie that she usually saved for snow days.

[white]

He heard a girl voice in reply of his question. He moved back a little, and the girl jumped in front of him. He jumped back a few feet, startled.

"Hi. I'm Ashleigh. Have you been following me?"

"I'm Gavin James White, and no I haven't been following you, I was just looking for an excuse out of doing homework....." He brushed his dirty brown hair out of his eyes.
"So, what are you doing out here?" Gavin asked.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh gave the guy a lopsided smile and looked up through the branches. She didn't have much time left. She sighed and looked to the boy.

"I'll be right back. Just got to see the sunset. Come if you like."

With that she jumped onto the branch above her and then up through the rest until she reached the top. The sun was just about to start setting.

She glanced down, looking for Gavin.

[white]

Ashleigh jumped up on a branch. Jeez....How does she do that? "I'll be right back. Just got to see the sunset. Come if you like."

So Gavin stuck his wand in his back pocket, and awkwardly tried to climb the tree. Trying to catch up with Ashleigh. He finally did, and he was kind of proud of himself.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh grinned as Gavin tried to climb the tree. He finally reached her and she smiled. He got there just as the bottom end of the sun disappeared beneath the horizon. She watched it, transfixed by it. Her penknife was still in her hand and she took a twig, stripping off the bark. As the rest of the sun disappeared beneath the hills, she took out her wand and lit it.

'Lumos'

She looked at Gavin and smiled.

"Need some help getting down?"

She laughed slightly and swung down a branch. She sat on it and waited for an answer.

[white]

Darn, he had missed the sunsetting. He turned around and started to head back down to the safe ground. Ashleigh was way a head of him. "Do you want some help?"
"No, I got it." Gavin was on the last branch and he jumped down.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh smiled.

"So, Gavin, you been at Trio's long?"

She hummed and placed a cross with her penknife into the tree they'd just climbed out of. She wanted to remember this tree. It was a good place to see the sunset.

[white]

"I've been here for about a month. Yeah." Gavin nodded his head as he watched the girl carve into the tree, That's gonna kill the tree....

He looked at the knife in her hand, it gleamed in the moonlight. "So do you alway carry a knife?" Gavin flipped his hair out of his eyes.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh shrugged. "Only when I'm going to places I've never been before, or places like this, where I could get hurt."

She turned over the knife in her fingers and looked at the tree.

"When I first came to trio's, I'd always carry a knife with me. I didn't like going without one. I was scared couldn't use magic."

Sh smiled and thought of a day not long after she got the knife, in her backyard with Alex and her dad. They'd been teaching Ashleigh to throw a knife at a target. There had been a large piece of cheese on a pole in the ground and Ashleigh had to throw her knife so it went through the cheese. They spent all day doing it until Ashleigh could hit the cheese 49 times out of 50. She was pleased with the result.

Ashleigh looked back up at the tree. Then to Gavin. He looked worried. She guessed it was to do with the tree. She sighed. "It won't die you know. The cross isn't deep enough. It goes just through the bark and scratches the actual wood. It's fine."

She thought she heard a noise and stood still for a second. She was scared and stopped retracting her vampire teeth. They were visible, just outside her lip. She finally decided that something else was near them so climbed up to the third branch of the tree. Looking down, she beckoned to Gavin. If he went too slowly she'd help him. No-one was going to get hurt tonight.

[white]

Oh, she's a vampire. Mmmm, sexy.
She beckoned him to climb up the tree again, because she thought someone or something was coming. He took out his wand and said levyosa, he was soon levitating as he moved his wand so did he. He flicked himself over to the third tree branch. Gee......Why didn't I think of that the first time...