"Out of choice?" He made a face. How anyone could put up with James Bond's super-happy non-judgemental getting-to-know-you bull for more than half a minute without wanting to drive their fist into his face was beyond Ciaran.
But then Ciaran saw him for what he was; most people either saw the money and the blond hair.
Most people were fuckin' stupid.
"I don't think so. Why would we make someone cry?"
She gave him a shove with her shoulder and rolled her eyes. "Yes out of choice. He's sweet as pie."
Mari snorted at his next comment. As far as Emilie was concerned, she was pretty sure the senior tended to have a brighter day if someone ended up crying. "I dunno dude, she's pretty bad ass. Like, I heard once she made Professor Spencer cry. Totally legit."
"He's a dick," Ciaran spat. "He needs to grow up."
He raised a brow at her comment about Emilie. "She doesn't seem that bad to me. Just...bold." Yes, she was bold. Bold enough to steal a guy's drugs and then punch him in the face. But then he'd hardly stood by shaking his head in disapproval.
Ciaran smirked, mostly to himself. "Besides, she's hardly ever in detention. Unlike us."
"Well I like him" she said stubbornly. Jake reminded her of a kid brother or something.
"She's bad alright, she's just too smart to get caught." Mari grinned and leaned her head on the wall. "I've only had dentention for silly things, when she finally gets one it'll probably be for disembowling someone." She was only half serious.
"Dude, I am so mad I missed that fight you had. I think I was like, peeing whilst it was happening. Seriously, something interesting happens outside of my fucking window and I'm on the crapper." She leant over and tried to get a better look at his face.
Ciaran shook his head, laughing just a bit. Such a lady, wasn't she?
"My face is fine. Bridge of my nose took a hit, but I fixed it." Or rather the nurse did, but it still felt a little funny. Maybe he'd get him to look at it again.
"I wonder how hard it is to brew a love potion? One that will make him fall madly in love with me." She was only half serious, but it was something she wondered often.
She grinned and poked him a little lower. "You know, I am in prime territory to give you a major nipple twist. Surely someone as savvy as you in the art of maiming people would know that?"
"I don't think they fall in love with you, it's more like obsession."
He'd spent a good deal of time avoiding Marianne at school, but now that she wasn't throwing words a million miles a minute at his face, she was...pretty okay, apart from the nurse obsession.
Maybe it was just school that sent her a little off? After all, Mari seemed pretty chilled now.
"I do, but why would you want to?" Ciaran smirked. "Besides, your hand is going the wrong way for that."
Mari gave Ciaran a confused look before shrugging. "Obsession would be fine too, baby. I think I could totally handle a hot nurse obsessing over me."
She chucked her now smoked cigarette and turned her attention back to the older boy. Laughing she shook her head. "My hand isn't going anywhere" she said innocently and winked.
"Yeah, I think I could too...with a different nurse," he replied. Hell, they didn't even have to be a nurse as long as they wore the uniform...a very tight uniform, of course.
Ciaran looked down at her hand, then up at Marianne's face. "Maybe it should."
"Well this just isn't your lucky day because I totally dressed as a nurse for Halloween, my friend. Granted, it was a shit covered, zombified Silent Hill nurse, but who needs the details?"
Mari bit her lip thoughtfully before wrinkling her nose. Yes, it probably should, but it just seemed like a bad idea if Emilie had been...further down.
"You wish" she snorted before linking arms with Ciaran and resting her head on his shoulder. I wish she added to herself, grinning.
"Really? I wasn't here for Halloween. I guess you'll have to wear it again so that I can see you in it."
Which...he wouldn't mind at all. In his head she had more of a French Maid thing going on...but Ciaran could put up with her in a nurse's uniform. It wouldn't be the same, but it would have to do.
"Harsh." Nope, definitely not his lucky day today. What was all of that following him around and non-stop chatter and commenting all over his facebook about if she wasn't going to give it up? "I thought you liked me."
Mari sighed and squinted. It was complicated, really. She did like him, but probably not strongly enough. "I do" she said, patting his knee. "But, you know. I bet you hooked up with Emilie, right? Swapping spit with her, like, in your mouth. Or where ever else.." She looked down below his waist.
He followed her gaze down below his waist and back up again. "I've washed since New Year," Ciaran said, throwing Marianne a funny look.
"And...I don't see how it's any grosser than me having hooked up with girls before Emilie and swapping spit with them. New Year was two weeks ago; it's not like it just happened."
Showered? Since New Years? Mari smirked. "Doubtful" she teased him before sitting up, cross legged and fished for another cigarette.
The flickering of her lighter illuminated them briefly, where it had got pretty dark for the time they had been out here. "You totally admit you hooked up with her!" Mari gasped and then passed the cigarette to Ciaran. "Besides, it's just weird that you know, she's my friend. I guess? Besides, saliva stays in your mouth for fifteen days." Mari was a little tickled she had shared this fact with Amber just before break.
"Hey, I have. It's not my fault you're used to dirty Russians."
He took a drag off Mari's cigarette and then handed it back, blowing the smoke out of his nose. It still felt funny; maybe he could shorten his next DADA lesson by takng a trip to the nurse. Definitely worth considering...
He smirked a bit over her gasp. Was it really that shocking? "Yeah. The morning after wasn't so hot though. I think her dad wanted to put me in the hospital." Or a hearse. Whichever he could've managed before the police cuffed him and dragged him away.
"Most of my friends at Denver Prep hooked up or dated each other so..." Ciaran shrugged. "I guess I'm used to it."
He couldn't not laugh at the fifteen days theory. "So you don't want to taste your friend's spit in my mouth? How will you know which is hers?"
Mari feigned annoyance at his remark and bristled slightly, though her grin was still as wide as ever. "I totally haven't ever touched any Russians. Yet. And they better not be dirty!"
She started full on laughing, trying to smoke to stop the noise as he explained the morning after the night before. "I'm pretty sure he was right in doing so, you were praying on his lovely Emilie." She winked and managed to reduce her laughing to the odd chuckle. "I heard he's really hot though. Is he? It doesn't make you gay to tell me." She winked. "I can keep a secret."
At his next comment she gave him a withering look. "This is Emilie we're talking about. She probably tastes like the blood of her enemies. And bubblegum. I could totally tell!"
"You vomited on one," Ciaran replied. "And that Kaz kid looks pretty grubby to me. Maybe you should wait until he finds the shower."
His lovely Emilie? "If he thought I was preying on her then he doesn't know his daughter at all." She'd left claw marks all over his back and a kind of teeth mark hickey thing on his collarbone; not really the actions of a naive little wallflower in need of daddy's protection.
Clearly Emilie's father didn't see her that way... "Not really. He's...he's just psycho, I think."
The less he thought about Emilie's dad though, the better. Emilie on the other hand...hmm...
"Actually...that pretty much is how she tastes," he said with a smile. "I think it's her snakebites, plus whatever she has on her lips. I don't think you'd taste it in my mouth anymore though."
She cackled and passed him the cigarette again. "But I don't remember puking on him. So it totally doesn't count!".
Mari made a mental note to try and get invited to Emilie's house. However that would happen. She had to see Mr Devlin for herself, she didn't really trust Ciaran's opinion of him.
Mari smiled when he did and studied him carefully. "Maybe I just sucked some freshman dick, you might be able to taste that."
"You admitted to it, so it counts." He took the cigarette from her hand and took another drag. Well, people were generous with their cigarettes; that was one thing the school had going for it.
Ciaran blew the smoke out of his mouth and quirked his brow at Marianne. She was definitely a little crazy. He tipped some of the ash onto the ground and inhaled again.
"Or maybe I'd just taste this," Ciaran said, handing back her cigarette. "The freshmen at this school look...tame. I'd be surprised if they knew what to do."
It was true, the freshmen here were utterly hopeless. But then, who wasn't at that age? "Can you remember being that teeny tiny and being that...annoying?"
"I was 5'10 when I was fourteen," he replied. "And I had a girlfriend so...I couldn't have been that annoying. What about you?" Ciaran threw a smirk at Marianne. "Have you grown since you were fourteen?"