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it's you and me
moving at the speed of light
into eternity, yeah
tonight is the night
you'll join me in the rythym of ecstacy

Lucie frowned at her pen, wondering why it had stopped working. She'd only bought it yesterday, and for five dollars as well, so why it had decided to break on her she'd never know. Rolling her eyes, Lucie shoved her work into her bag, trying to ignore the fact that she was skiving a two hour lesson of RS right now. At least she was doing work, and not skipping around, painting the town red, right?

Rolling her eyes, Lucie stalked out of the library, shivering slightly as she left the warm room. Why this school had to be so cold she'd never know, and why she had to stay put and not be allowed to leave was another thing that bugged her. Why she couldn't go back home to France was something beyond her comprehension. She knew it was a precaution they were taking, after the whole Todd Manning thing, but by God they weren't half paranoid.

Hearing her stomach growl at her, she punched it lightly and made a detour towards the canteen, mentally counting her change and wondering whether she had enough for an apple. Pushing her black hair out of her face, Lucie frowned when she realised that she had forgotten to do half of her homework. First bloody week back and they had already been given so much homework that they could almost swim in it. Lucie tried to remember how much she had left, and what she'd done. She was fairly certain she'd done her English essay the other day - probably full of mistakes thanks to her being French and the teacher not allowing her to write the essay in French - and she could have sworn that she'd done her maths equations.

Shaking her head, Lucie carried on towards the canteen, knowing now that, yes, she did have enough for an apple but, no, it didn't look like she was going to eat it. Was there much point in buying one at all? How about a bottle of water? It's only a dollar, and Lucie could distinctly remember putting a dollar bill in her back pocket that morning. Whether she'd used it, she couldn't remember.

Turning away from the canteen at the last minute, Lucie walked into the courtyard, deciding to eat later and sunbathe now. God knows how long it would be until she got to go back to France, so she figured that if she tried to tan now - which was a bit stupid, since after spending the last year in America she'd gone so white she'd rival a snowball - she wouldn't have to do it later.

Looking around, Lucie chewed her lip and threw her bag onto the ground, wondering if she could go and interrupt someone's day and talk to them.

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[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Sitting under a large tree in the courtyard with absolutely no care that she was covering her clean pants in dirt, Roxanne Lorenzo, sat for once in her life quietly as she read quickly through the thick paperback book resting on her knees. Normally Roxie had a difficult time sitting down and doing nothing but reading but a friend had recommended this book and ever since she'd started to read it she had had a difficult time putting it down.

She was sure that anyone who knew her and saw her being so quiet and intent on reading a book without the distraction of other people would think it was way too strange to really be here. They'd think it was some kind of trick or something of the sort but in reality Roxie was just really into the book. And how could she not be with such an epic novel as 'Lord of the Rings. Sure she was only onto the first book of the six book series but so far it was incredibly interesting for her.

Luckily for Roxie she was safe from detention since it was a free period for her, otherwise she wouldn't be where she was now. Whenever Roxie decided to skip class she would always make sure to leave campus in her car and not come back for the rest of the day, making it an all day trip until she came back to sometimes get busted for it. It was difficult to not get caught skipping class when you lived in a boarding school which for Roxie was pretty pointless since her family home was in New York. But her parents had convinced themselves that what they were doing for her was for the best and that she would get a better education if she lived at the school. Roxie just thought they wanted to escape the problems and energy involved in parenthood.

[{ lilly coeur]

it's you and me
moving at the speed of light
into eternity, yeah
tonight is the night
you'll join me in the rythym of ecstacy

Lucie chewed her lip, and pulled her phone out of her pocket. As a leaving present - well, a making up present, really ; all over the holidays, all Lucie and her father had done was argue - her father had bought Lucie a new mobile phone, and told her to at least try and be a bit more courteous to her sister, at which point Lucie had grabbed the phone and given her father a look as if to say, 'Are you mad?'. Lucie and her sister weren't exactly the best of friends, and Lucie just plain couldn't stand her. Tallie was just . . . everything Lucie wasn't, everything Lucie hated in a person.

Shaking her hair so that her newly died black hair hit her in the face, Lucie plugged her headphones into it, pressing play and smiling when her favourite Chris Brown song started to play. Thankfully, her phone was a new Sony Ericsson phone, and Lucie had already installed the software to transfer music when Alix - the pop sensation that was sweeping the nation! - had stayed there two summers earlier. Lucie hadn't deleted the programme because, well, she hadn't exactly had the chance, had she?

Throwing herself onto the ground next to her bag, Lucie pulled Twilight from her bag and started to read, wishing that there was someone around that she could bug. All her friends had either left or graduated - to be honest she was pretty cut up about not seeing Adrian ever again ; she knew she shouldn't have told him that she liked him - and now Lucie was, once again, left on her own. She'd have to make new friends, and Lucie didn't usually make friends all that easily.

Turning the page, Lucie started to get into the story. She'd always loved Twilight ; Edward Cullen was the most perfect character she'd ever heard of and if she was honest, she quite fancied him herself. Not that she'd ever admit it ; admitting that you fancied a fictional character was just about as mad as donning a cap that said 'I am mad!', even if Lucie did wear a cap like that all the time. It was just invisible.

Looking up from her book three chapters later, Lucie spotted Roxie across her in the courtyard. Roxie had been her old roommate, along with Adrian - Lucie bit her lip as she remembered how awkward she used to be around him - and she hadn't seen her in . . . ooh, God knows how long. Smiling, she waved at her old . . . friend? Aquaintance? She'd never gotten to know Roxie more than to be able to ask for a magazine or five whenever she got back from France, and even then Roxie could hardly understand her. Whenever Lucie got back from France, it usually took her a couple of weeks to lose her accent, and then even longer for her to start speaking English again.

"Roxie!" Lucie shouted, turning her book over so that she wouldn't lose her page. As she did so, she caught her little finger on the badge that now proclaimed her as a member of the Student Council. Lucie had no idea how she'd managed to bag that job ; Lucie usually hated responsibility with a passion, along with orders and authority and everything else that marked her out as a rebel. She had the lovely job of organising pep rallies, whatever the hell they were, and showing the Freshmen around the school on their first day. The fact that Lucie barely knew where she was going half the time obviously didn't matter. Lucie hadn't met the other member, though she knew he was a boy called Jake.

"Hey! Roxie!" she repeated, waving like the loon she was.

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[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Being so heavily engrossed in her book it took until the second yelling of her name for her to look up and notice not far away was Lucie Coeur, her old roommate. She and Lucie had shared a room for the previous year and Roxie had found that she liked the girl but hadn't really talked to her as much as she should have. Lucie was obviously French and had a heavy accent at times but that hadn't really bothered Roxie, sure she had trouble understanding her some times but that was okay with Roxie, she just loved the fact that Lucie came from a different country.

Roxie herself had lived in America all her life and had spent the majority of her years travelling around the country and at the moment she had decided that she had seen enough of America and it was time to go somewhere else. The first place she had decided would be Australia with all it's beaches and a giant rock in the middle of the desert. It sounded like a fun place to go to Roxie, even after she'd watched Rogue

Getting up from her seat and walking over to the other girl with a big grin on her face Roxie made sure that her bookmark (which consisted of a picture of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn) was firmly in place so as not to lose her page, "Hey Lucie, how's going?" she asked cheerfully sitting down on the ground next to the girl. Roxie had always found Lucie to be good company when she took the time to actually sit down and talk to her which had unfortunately not happened very often, but maybe it would now, who knew?

[{ lilly coeur]

it's you and me
moving at the speed of light
into eternity, yeah
tonight is the night
you'll join me in the rythym of ecstacy

Lucie tapped her nails on the back of her book as she watched Roxie finally look up and notice her. She smiled and waved again, making sure that her phone was still beside her and, no, it hadn't been stolen. Lucie was very paranoid about things like that. She didn't even dare bring her laptop to school the first semester because she was so scared that it would get stolen, not that there was anything important on there, except Alix's songs that were currently being written. Lucie chewed her lip as she remembered Alix asking her to write a song for her. Sure, Lucie could write, but not very well . . . she wasn't much of a songwriter, more of a fiction girl.

Lucie smiled as she heard a soft thump next to her, and turned her attention back to Roxie. She hadn't seen her in so long, she'd almost forgotten what she looked like, but she hadn't changed one bit. Same crazy blonde hair, still quite short, but not as short as Lucie . . . she was surprised at how much she'd missed her ; it wasn't as if they were best friends or anything.

"Hey Lucie, how's going?"

Lucie shrugged. "Ca va, je pense. Je voudrais- Oh, je suis désolée," Lucie laughed as she realised that she'd lapsed into French without even noticing. She did that quite a lot, and most of her friends were annoyed about it, mainly because they couldn't speak French themselves. "Things are going fine, thank you," Lucie said, still tapping her fingers on her book. "I got that Student Council membership, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. It means that I'm going to have to actually listen to people with authority, now," she grinned, covering her fingers with her other hand so that she'd stop tapping. She got the feeling it was quite annoying. "Et to- Sorry. And you?"

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[Ana Silva]

Lost. Ana could barely believe it, but it was her first day and already she was lost.

She'd left her bags in some dark corner near the entrance hall and had gone outside, to try and find someone who could help her. The school was, apparently, deserted, and she had yet to find anyone.

From what she saw, she had ended up in some sort of .. courtyard? Was that what they called it in English?

Suddenly she felt very small, her big English vocabulary not really being enough for her to survive in the academy for so long. She wished her parents hadn't thought about the idea of her moving to Brooklyn. She had been fine in Portugal, really.

Walking a bit more, she spotted two girls talking, but felt shy to just go and talk to them. My initial shyness was always problematic to me, she reflected.

However, she decided that if she didn't ask for help, she wouldn't be getting any soon, so she might as well lose her fear and go talk to two girls.

Walking towards them decidedly, she stopped near them. She cleared her throat before speaking. 'Er .. hello? I was wondering if someone could help me', she started. 'I'm sort of lost.'[/b][/size]

[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Roxie laughed when Lucie started speaking in French again, something she did a lot more than Roxie knew she liked. Personally though Roxie thought it was great, she would have loved to have had the opportunaties that Lucie had from moving to France and back every year. Sure she didn't understand why, I mean Cresent Hill Academy was meant to be a really good school but still it was a bit far to go just for school, or at least thats what Roxie thought but she wasn't going to say anything. The past two weeks of reading had appeared to quieten her down a little bit.

"I got that Student Council membership, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. It means that I'm going to have to actually listen to people with authority, now," she said and Roxie raised her eyebrows in astonishment, "Student Council? Whoa I better watch my back now" she laughed jokingly, she knew that Lucie wasn't an unfair person and she never really did anything she shouldn't, and if she did she made sure not to get caught by anyone including other students. Besides wasn't it supposed to be students against teachers anyway? "You'll do fine dude, just think you now have the power to make freshman do whatever you like" she was of course joking but sometimes it was difficult to tell with Roxanne, sometimes she would joke and sound serious and sometimes she would he serious and sound like she was joking, she was just an unpredicable person that was all.

Before she could answer how she was another girl came up to them. She looked to be a little bit younger than Roxanne with blonde hair and a nervous look on her face, as if talking them them was the most terrifying thing she'd done in a while, "Er .. hello? I was wondering if someone could help me''I'm sort of lost." she asked and Roxie smiled at her cheerfully, "That's cool, I'm Roxie, this is Lucie, so your new where are you from?" she said very fast with the same happy grin on her face. She was sometimes an overly happy person but she couldn't help it, if she was happy then she acted like it and that was the way things went.

[Ana Silva]

The blonde girl was the fastest to reply, being quick to introduce herself and the other girl. "That's cool, I'm Roxie, this is Lucie, so your new where are you from?" Blinking, Ana smiled lightly before replying. "I'm Ana, and .. I'm from Portugal. Which is a lot different from here", she finished with a slight laugh. "And where are the two of you from?". She suddenly felt more brave, more confident to talk to them - it was always like that, if she thought about it.

[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Roxie was glad that the girl was a friendly one, too often at a high school all the girls were the biggest bitches feeling that was how they needed to act in order for people to like them, it didn't make sense to Roxie since no one really did like a bitch but hey to each his own, or something like that.

"I'm from Manhatten" Roxie answered her question nochalently. She'd spent her whole life in New York now, although she had travelled the rest of America in that time, mostly on her own though. But she'd always loved it when people said that they came from different countries, Lucie was a prime example of this, "Portugal though? Wow that would have been awesome" she couldn't manage to keep the awe out of her voice.

[Ana Silva]

"I'd love to visit Manhattan one day," she said, smiling. "I bet it's great." She laughed when Roxie talked about Portugal. "Things were a bit different there, that's true," Ana admitted, "but I'm not there anymore, and I just have to accept it, I suppose. But Portugal .. can be charming in its own way."

[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Roxie laughed when Ana said that she wanted to visit Manhatten one day, "I'll take you around to all the good spots if you like?" she offered happily. Despite how she dressed sometimes Roxie really was a friendly, chatty, excitable and approachable girl but the way she saw it the only ones worth talking to were the ones who made the effort to talk to her, she didn't expect it any other way so why should they?

[Ana Silva]

Ana laughed when Roxanne offered to tour her around Manhattan. "I'd love it," she accepted happily. Suddenly she didn't know what to say anymore. It was depressing, really, how she sometimes didn't know what to say in a conversation. That often happened when she was texting someone. "You say you're from Manhattan, but did you live your whole life there?" she asked, attempting to keep the conversation somehow alive.

[Roxanne Lorenzo]

"Yep all my life, it's driving me nuts" Roxie said laughing and shaking her blonde and black hair out of her face, the wind was blowing outside but it was still a really nice day with the sun out shining on them and warming everything up and the wind floating in stopping anyone from getting overheated in the suns glare, it was the perfect day to be outside, "Hey I'll show you around New York and one day you can show me around Portugal, I've always wanted to see that side of the world, so far I've only seen the inside of America and Australia"

Over the past holidays Roxie had spent her time in Australia visiting all the famous beaches and avoiding getting a tan, not that it was hard all she ever did was burn anyway. She'd gone to Bondi Beach in Sydney and then visited the Oprah House and Sydney Harbour Bridge and discovered they had a wonderful flee market called Patty's Market right near their version of China Town. She'd also gone down the coast and visited the famed Hunter Valley where Australia's best wine was made, while she didn't drink it herself she hadn't regretted visiting it for the beautiful scenery and couldn't wait to visit Australia again one day soon.

[Ana Silva]

Luci laughed as Roxanne said she'd lived in Manhattan her whole life. "I'm sure it can't be that bad," she commented. As Roxie shook her hair, Lucie looked up into the sky and yawned. The sun always made her either energetic or sleepy. Then Roxie said she'd show her around New York, in exchange for her showing her around Portugal. "It's a deal," Luci agreed laughing. "Portugal isn't very big, anyway," she said, shrugging.

"Hey, hold on, you've been to Australia?" she asked, amazed. "I wish I could go there someday. My parents originally wanted to move there, but ended up coming here. And I had to come here, of course. But wow .. Australia!" She was sure she had some maniac look on her face of wonder and amazement, but she could care less.

[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Roxie grinned her ordinary goofy grin and nodded at Ana's excitement, as far as she was concerned it was warrented, it was the same reaction that Roxie had given everytime she heard that someone had been overseas somewhere, long before she'd managed to do the same thing and even now she thought it was amazing. Travelling was an all time interest of Roxie's. She had started with travelling around America seeing the country she was born in and now she had decided it was time to see the world, starting with Australia, "It's an amazing country, beautiful beaches and the bushland is...just amazing. But I be Portugal is too"

[Ana Silva]

"Eh, Portugal isn't that amazing as people make it out to be. Okay, I've never been to the North region and I can't talk a lot about it, but I lived in Algarve, which is the South region of the country and yeah, okay, it had really great beaches, but please, it's nothing compared to certain places of the world!" she said. "Like Australia," she finished, nodding convincingly.

[Roxanne Lorenzo]

Roxie laughed as Ana finished up talking and shook her head again letting her hair fly about around her, "That's what some Australian's said when I was there" she grinned leaning back on her hands casually, she was an ordinarily relaxed kind of girl and was rarely ever riled up, "And that's what I always say about Manhatten, nothings ever as good when you know it"

[Ana Silva]

OOC: Gah . Sorry >.< Rough weekend .

"Yes," Ana agreed. "People are always that way, never giving enough value to their own country." She remained silent for a while. "I'm like that too," she admitted. "Oh, true," Ana agreed, nodding vigorously. "Nothing's ever as good when you know it. That's for sure."

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[[*is grounded*]]

Lucie looked up from her book, feeling dazed. She always managed to feel dazed and confused when she pulled herself out of a book, especially if it was one of her favourites and she threw herself head first into it. She smiled up at Ana - who was from Portugal - and nodded at her. Lucie recognised her from Music class. Lucie pretty much loved anyone who came from a different country and whose first language wasn't English.

"Portugal sounds amazing," Lucie said, pushing herself up onto her knees and flicking her newly dyed black hair out of her face. "I've only ever been to Cyprus, Ibiza and the UK, with occasional stays in Spain and the Canary Islands with my grandparents. But I get what you mean. I don't think Toulouse is all that great, but everyone else does,"

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