awesome people are eating todai.

He walked out in front of the many tables with a rather bountiful tray of food in his hands. He was one of the last people to grab his dinner and had to glance around the large room to see if there was anyone he knew still left in the room. The first person he looked for was Melody, and it was made apparent to him rather quickly she wasn't there, in her dorm he tried to figure, but he wasn't sure. He then looked for Rose, didn't see her either. Any of his roommates? No, they weren't there either. The young man sighed, well damn. He then finally spotted a familiar face and a small smile appeared. woot! he found a friend! :D
Nathaniel walked over and sat down next to his newest friend, putting his tray down as well. "Hey, Teegan." he greeted, "You don't mind if I eat here with you?"

Teegan wasn't a big eater, she just snacked lightly. Maybe it was because she normally ate alone that she didn't eat much. Nevertheless today was different. The young girl was mindlessly snacking on her small sandwhich when Nate came over. The girl blushed at the unexpected guest, but said nothing to disagree with him. "Hi," She said quietly, "How are you?" She didn't look up from her meal and continued by sipping her water.

Nate noticed her blush and look away, but he easily took that as a yes and let himself get comfortable. "I'm doing alright," he answered earnestly, "I'm glad to see you're still here. It kinda sucks eating all alone." He picked a work and began to poke at his meal. Honestly, he just kinda wanted to be a bit of a pig and dig right in, but he noticed how delicate Teegan was eating in comparison and it just might have made the entire thing awkward from his point of view.

Teegan had no reason the be angry with Nate, he had no way of knowing she ate alone mostly everyday. She did however recieve a soft blush and looked at him through a side glance. "Yes, well one gets used to it after a while," She said quietly turning her attention back to her PB&J, nibbling on the crust.
The girl tried to imagine what it must be like, with an abundent number of friends. How people laughed at jokes and no one blushed at the smallest things. How it was such a terrible deed to have a quiet lunch to ones lonesome. Teegan somehow found it rewarding that she only had one a few friends. However with not having many friend meant that she would of course be going to the dance alone. Sigh. Before she could even stop herself the girl blurted out, "So.. Did you hear about the dance?" She looked down at her hands and blushed. Of course he had heard, he was popular and had much more friends than she.

Nate had taken a bite of his salad when she had first answered him. 'Oh, sh-' he thought awkwardly, beginning to choke on his food and having to pound on his own chest until he could swallow right. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean --" He coughed out, "To imply, or make fun of you or anything... It's just... Yeah. I'm going to shut up now." He quickly turned his attention to his glass of water and chugged it down, for both to keep himself from talking and to prevent himself from dying. He sighed and set the drink back down and turned back to his food, clearly a little embarrassed. "Yeah, actually. Is it coming up already?" Nathaniel asked her in wonder. Huh, he'd have to talk with Mel about it later. "I know they do have one, I don't know when it is. Are you gonna go?"

Teegan stared with wide eyes as he seemed to choke on his food. Had she really caused that? "It's fine Nathaniel." She said in a quiet voice. She was probably the only one who called him by his full name, but whatever. "Really. It's cool." She mumbled looking down at her food, that looked slightly less appetizing to her now. Is this what talking at meals did? Make you less hungry? Hm, not like she would know, right Nate? /shot
Then came him talking about the dance. This was a tender topic for the girl, social events such as these. He went into this big sentence about how he knew. Teegan blushed softly wishing she hadn't said anything. "I might, parties aren't very fun for the lonesome." She said simply, putting her sandwhich in her mouth to prevent her from saying something else she'd regret.

Well, she wasn't the only one who did, there was one other person; not that he minded in the least. "Okay, okay..." He muttered, setting his work down for a moment. Suddenly chowing down didn't seem to be the best idea. And no. xD Bad Lilac, nu loner jokes! /smack. You're gonna send him to the infirmary. It didn't occur to slow Nate's mind that if she couldn't be too social around the dinner table, then she probably wasn't going to have a better chance at a school dance. "Oh, right..." He muttered, doing a mental facepalm, "Well, umm... You're a nice, pretty girl. I'm sure we could find you someone to go with. You just need to be a little more outgoing." He tried to advise her, but knew it'd still be rather difficult to get her to do so. After all, the only reason they became friends was because he had approached her... Or walked in on her dirty dancing. Close enough.

Teegan stared at Nate with very large, very wide eyes. Her cheeks were a furious red and she choked on the water she had been sipping a moment earlier. Had the girl heard him right? Did he say she was a "nice, pretty girl", unstead of "pretty nice, girl"? The two were completely different, in one he was implying he thought she was pretty and nice, while the other he was calling her pretty nice. To a girl who had never once gotten a compliment in her life this was crazy. It didn't even matter that he probably only said it to boost her confidence, Teegan had recieved her first boost of confidence and well, quite honestly, she wasn't sure how she should feel about it.

She felt weird almost, a little violated too. She didn't even bother to listen to the rest of what Nate was saying. She just sat there with wide eyes, now not even daring to look at him at all. It was a shame the girl wasn't listen to Nate too, because if she had heard the part about being more out going she might have even laughed a little bit, but of course life wasn't that nice. "Uhh..." Was all she was able to say with all this embarressment on her shoulders.

Nathaniel stared back at her for a moment, confused with her reaction. Uh... Was it something he said? D: "Teegan-," he laughed a little, feeling her bad as she choked. He thought about patting her on the back or something to help the water go down the right way, but he honestly was unsure with how she'd handle that. He knew the girl was sensitive, so a little blush was expected, yeah... but not this. He set his silverwear down, peeking over the table a bit to catch a better look of her face, just to see if she was still breathing. "Are you alright?" Oh god, he killed her...

Well what was Nathaniel expecting her to do? Just smile and take the compliment? Hello, this was Teegan we were talking about here! She was awkward and shy, she wasn't like the other people her must have hung out with. In fact she was the total opposite, like that Rose girl, she was talk-ative and spirited, Teegan was... not.
With a quite gasp for air, Teegan forced herself try not to faint. She could see him trying to see her face, but the poor girl just couldn't meet his gaze. This was too embarressing for her to handle. She could barely answer his question and her "I'm fine" became "i'mfine,neverbetter." And even that was sevreal pitches higher than her normal squeaky tones. She had to get out of here before he said something else that actually made her pass out. Of course she would never be rude to her only friend and stayed put, burried alive under her humiliation.

Well, actually yeah. D8 Like it was put, he was simply trying to give her a boost in her confidence. He figured a little compliment wouldn't do her much harm, sending her half-way to heaven was the last thing he expected. Nathaniel remembered that girl dancing carelessly by herself in the courtyard that night. There was a spirited Teegan in there somewhere, they just had to find it.
Clearly, though, he had taken the wrong approach. Nate watched her blankly for a few moments longer before he drew back, holding back a small laugh. "Yeah. We'll just have to narrow the choices down a little..." he muttered, allowing himself a bit of time to dig into his food again as she settled down. "At least someone who can dance." Not like he knew anyone who could besides her. He hardly knew how to himself without tripping over his own feet. Nate didn't want to try to force her to talk again, sitting there and hoping she wouldn't say something to cause him to choke.

Teegan decided not even to answer his questions. She sat there sipping her water and letting those words burn into her mind. He must not know she only danced when no one was looking, or when she thought she was alone. The girl shot a glance at Nate,knowing that he wasn't paying attention to her right now. Her cheeks were still glowing, but she decided to push what he said behind her, or try anyway.
This party seemed much more bothersome now that she thought about it. Giving out a sigh she looked up at Nate again. "Why are you trying to help me Nate," She mumbled softly. "No one is going to go with me anyway." SHe said getting louder, her skin red with a slight anger, not blush. However to the untrained eye it was easy mistaken as a blush. "I... I shouldn't even go." She finished finally, her heart beating so loud she wondered if Nate could hear it. It's not even worth it, she thought bitterly, shifting in her seat. I'm not even worth it. It was the sad truth, Teegan had learned to accept it, as she was reminded everyday by her brother.

Luckily for him, his power allowed him to tell the difference between a flush of embarrassment and a flush of anger. "Well," he drew back, starting carefully. "For one thing, you're my friend. I'm just tryin' to be a pal." He started to shift around a little in his seat uncomfortably, feeling the tension practically rolling off of her. "And I think you think a little too lowly of yourself." Nathaniel stayed quiet a little bit longer, not answering her last sstatement, wanting to wait until he could think of somethimg good say to convimce her otherwise.