4790/I am suffocating.

I am suffocating.
Date of Scene:	01 July 2018
Location:	Xavier's School
Synopsis:	Andrea and Josh hang out with Erika she sees her powers in action.
Cast of Characters:	Rage, Elixir, Souvenir, Twitch

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Rage has posed:
Sitting in the rec room is Andrea, who is currently settled on a couch with her guitar. She is strumming the instrument in a lively, upbeat tone as she hums to herself softly to find a key or two in her throat. Her foot taps along with the beat as she bobs her head back and forth. She's wearing a warm colored sun dress and a pair of tiny denim shorts with destroy along the front and back of them. She looks like she is born for the summer afternoon.

Elixir has posed:
Josh walks down the hall with a cute, short redheaded girl who looks his age. They stop near the rec room. He laughs, then she does. She touches his arm then carries on. Josh turns to go, but notices Andrea playing guitar and comes into the rec room. "Hey, how's it going?" he asks. He drops into the chair near Andrea's couch.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir has had a shower now, yay. And slathered on a heavy layer of black eyeliner and mascara, and a bit of eyeshadow, and some lip gloss, and some clothes. She doesn't exactly clean up -nicely- unless your taste runs toward emo girls, and she's not exactly endowed with much feminine curviness, but... she looks much more like herself now.

She went wandering, saw Josh at a distance and wandered that way, so shortly after, she pokes her head through the door, wiggling her fingers to get her new gloves to break in faster. She debates on what to say, then decides to go wander over to the fridge instead, open it, get a can of soda out, and drop a plastic straw into it first. She sips and listens.

Rage has posed:
Glancing over at Josh as he flops down next to her, Andrea leans in to bump her shoulder against his as her fingers continue to play along the strings. "Who's that?" She asks rather point blankly to him as she pauses in her humming. She watches the new girl head to the fridge and offers up a smile. "She's looking relatively better and slept."

Elixir has posed:
"Huh?" he says, then looks in the direction he came from and back to Andrea. "Oh, that's Sam, she's the girl I was talking about from my chemistry class," he says with a broad smile. "We just got back from going for coffee."

He looks over in Erika's direction when Andrea brings her to his attention. "Yeah, she does," he agrees with Andrea.

"Hey, Erika," he says, waving her over. "Come have a seat."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir throws an arm out. "He-ey!" She comes wandering that way, and flops into a chair lightly, sprawling a bit. "What's up? I had to wash off all that, you know, no sleeping yuck. I was smelly!" She takes a sip.

"Well, so like, I get to stay here for now.. I talked to the Professor today.. Uhm.. I googled 'Psychometry', but it didn't, you know, say all that much.. Some anyways. And I have gloves now. So that's good. So like, what'cha playing?"

Rage has posed:
"Oh? That's neat. Welcome to the school. You told your parents about it yet?" Andrea asks as she gives another glance to Josh, raising a brow upwards at the mention of 'Sam'. "I may need to check her out." She grumps slightly to him, then gives another strum of the guitar. "Oh, I was just playing some Fleetwood Mac. The Chain. One of my favorite songs."

Elixir has posed:
Josh snerks at Andrea's comment. "Careful, she's a telepath," he says with a grin.

He turns his attention to Erika. "You do look better," he says to Erika with a smile. "And I'm glad you're gonna stay for a while. It'll be good."

"Fleetwood Mac? Really?" he says to Andrea, incredulously. "I didn't expect that."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir ohs. "No... I called them earlier to tell them I was okay, but I don't know if I can answer their questions. Anyway, I told the prof that my mom would agree to anything if you gave her an autograph or something. She totally would. I'm like, so confused that she didn't make a scene as it was, she must have been super, super worried. Hey, do you have, like, a pen or something? I'm still trying to figure out, you know. What I DO." She kind of shrugs, relaxing a lot more into the chair. This is nice. This is my life now. Okay.

Elixir has posed:
Josh smiles and shoots Andrea a look. "I'm sure we can get that autograph," he assures Erika. "As for pens and stuff, we can hook you up. There's a supplies room by the classrooms. Don't know if anyone left anything lying around here," he says with a glance around the room. "Did you find the Dining Room for lunch? Sorry I wasn't around, I was out for a bit."

Rage has posed:
"I have a pen next to me. I always bring a notebook around." Andrea says with a smile as she picks it up once she puts the guitar to the side, then hands it over to Erika. "Your mom is a huge fan of mine?" She looks surprised "Not you though?" Her brows raise upwards, lips tugging back into a bit of a grin.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir ums. "Not yet? And no, no, like, SOMEBODY'S pen, not some random pen. Or whatever. Yeah, pretty much. She hates my music. I'm okay with hers, just.. you know. Not my thing. I better get the paper too, shouldn't I? I mean, I have to write on something, don't I? Okay. Is this a new pen, or? Well, maybe I am going to figure that out. I dunno."

She looks around for some paper, grabs some sunlight-faded post-its off a coffee table, holds both things in her left hand and idly pulls her right glove off. "Okay, so like, hopefully this isn't going to be a huge mistake." She makes a bit of a face of annoyance and wiggles her fingers indecisively

Elixir has posed:
Josh raises and eyebrow at Erika. He looks in Andrea's direction and shrugs, though still watches Erika out of the corner of his eye.

"Hey, so with your friend coming here, you planning on staying now?" Josh asks, curiously. "I mean, that's what you wanted, right?"

Rage has posed:
"My friend? You mean Mason?" Andrea says as she shrugs her shoulders upwards. "I'm still going to go to school with you guys. If that's what you mean. I was never going to leave the school. It's a great education and the only place I can learn to control the shit show that is inside of me."

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir grabs the pen, with about twenty times more drama than is needed. She gasps and pants a little bit, arm and eyes twitching visibly for a couple seconds. Inhale.. exhale.. okay. That's past. "..So annoying.."

She experimentally touches the pen to the notepad and scribbles out a practiced, cute and feminine signature across the note pad: "Andrea Jackson". She wordlessly peels the note off the page and hands it over, then puts the pen on the page again and pauses a moment before starting to freewrite something else.

Twitch has posed:
The Rec room attracts the attention of Tyler as he passes by it and the young man sticks his head in to see who is there. When he spies Andrea and Josh talking to someone new he makes his way into the room and lifts a hand to wave at them, "How's it going, guys?" He nods towards the new kid and tells her, "Hey, I'm Tyler."

Looking for moment he finds a spot to sit and pulls up a chair to the little group, plopping down into it, "You mind if I join you guys?"

Elixir has posed:
"Always room, man," Josh says. "Tyler, this is Erika, she came in last night. Erika, Tyler," he introduces.

Josh peeks at the signature Erika handed Andrea. "Hey, that looks a lot like yours, doesn't it?" he asks Andrea and smiles to Erika. "You got that just from touching her pen?" he asks and shakes his head.

"Never know what to expect around here," he chuckles.

Souvenir has posed:
Erika Kristasdottir sketches out a small musical staff, and starts quickly filling in notes along it at a feverish pace. "I'm Erika." She licks her lips, putting in the other symbols, and marking in 'Why don't you love me, why don't you love me, I am suf-fo-cating without - you' underneath it. She picks up the pen and uhms, offering the paper and pen back to Andrea sheepishly. "I hope this wasn't too private?"

Rage has posed:
Andrea plucks the memo up and takes a look at it. "Huh." She trails off. "That's crazy. It's like you can mimic what you touch." She lifts a hand to Tyler with a grin. "Hey dude, what's up?" She calls over, then gives a glance to the next piece of paper from Erika. Her cheeks burn and she grabs it quickly from her, shoving it into her pocket with a clear of her throat. "Uh .. just a failed song..." She says, hiking herself up as she starts to head off. "Annnnd speaking of failed songs, I gotta call my manager. I'll catch you guys later!" She calls over as she lifts a hand to wave.