Dorm Discovery by Yin Hayashi

(Continued thread from Cafeteria.....)

Still not accustomed to being close to someone made her tensed at the sudden feeling of Connor's arm around her, but she soon relaxed and leaned a bit into his touch. Though, Kinji -being the protective dog he is- quickly growl softly at him but with a soft pat to the head from Yin, he quickly stopped and relaxed. Another chuckle escaping her lips at his answer, her head shacking a bit. "I bet you guys argue like brothers, all the time..." Yin said before detaching herself from Connor, as soon as she noticed that they where close to the dorms of her House.

Connor walked with her to the door of her dorm, thinking of what she said to him. "Well we argue here and there, but seeing as we can't try to use playful force to get agreement from the other, you could say we argue like roommates" he said smiling slightly at her before kissing her cheek. "But it seems you got the basic idea of the two of us."

Giggling softly, she sent a warm smile his way. "I'm glad, I have both of you figured out." She said in a playful tone, obviously knowing that there was more to learn about them. Dropping the subject, she turned towards the door that marked the entrance to -what she should start calling- her home. Shifting her gaze back to him, she smiled again before softly placing Kinji on the floor and dropping into slight curtsey. "Well, we arrived to our destination." Chuckling, she looked back at Connor, a grin placed upon her lips. "This is what, I call my refuge, while others just call it a dorm room." Grabbing his hand, she opened the door and pulled him inside.

The room didn't look like a 5-star hotel room, but it was decent. Since Yin didn't brought much from her home, she had just a few thing scattered around in her bed, though, most of the object where dog toys for Kinji. The only thing that stood out as important was, a small frame with a picture of Yin, when she was younger, posing along side her parents. Yin's roommate was nowhere to be seen, and that made her exhale a sigh of relief. She wasn't prepared to give an explanation. "I know it doesn't look like an expensive suite, but for me it's comfortable enough...What do you think?" She looked back at Connor, waiting for his opinion.

Connor looked around the room, his eyes falling on the picture for a moment before he brought them to her face. "It looks as comfortable as my dorm, but mine has posters by my bed and a little bit more stuff." He said. He moved to her bed, picking up the photograph carefully, looking back at her. "You mind?" He asked as he held it up slightly. He didn't want to make her feel like he was invading.

Shaking her head she joined him on the bed. "Nah, make yourself at home." Looking at the picture in his hands, she couldn't help the small smile that appear on her face. "I remember that day like it was yesterday. We where going to a dinner with some distant family members. I remember that I was upset with my mother because she forced me to wear one of those silly dresses, that mothers make their daughters wear. After she finished getting me dressed, she sent me to play in the garden but warned me to stay away from the fountain. As usual, I didn't listen and went to play with the fishes at the fountain, since it was my favorite place to go. After a while, I tried touching one of the pretty fishes but, being the clumsy girl I am, I slipped inside the fountain and got myself all wet. At that time I was starting to find out about my powers and went I got out of the water, I had frozen all the drops of water onto my dress. When my mother saw me, she was mad at first but then she decided to throw me a picture with her and my father. When she saw the picture, she smiled and said I looked like a true princess because my dress looked like it had small diamond crystals encrusted on it, due to the frozen water drops...It was one of the happiest days of my life and that's why I bring that picture with me, wherever I go." Yin finished telling the story, the smile on her face bigger than before. During the story, she had grabbed Connor's hand with her's and she failed to notice that she still had it clutched in her grasp. "It's very special to me."

Connor rubbed her hand softly. "You were a cute kid" he noted smiling at her story, he set it aside and grinning at her. He leaned over and kissed her once on the lips. "I don't think I have any thing like that, not with my power"

Blushing, she thanked him for the compliment. The feeling of having butterflies in her stomach returning once again. Giving him a smile, she kissed him back, softly on the lips. "You may not have something physical to call special, but you certainly must have a special memory of someone or something, right?" While snaking her arms around his neck, the movement bringing them closer together, she raised an eyebrow at him a questioning expression on her face.

Connor felt her put her arms around his neck, pulling them closer, the movement made him smile. He pulled her closer, with one arm, his lips tapping against her cheek. "I don't know really" he said simply. "The most interesting memory I have, would be when I found out about my power" he said shrugging slightly.

Feeling his lips against her cheek made a smile appear on her face. "I would like to know how you found out about your powers, that is if you want to tell me." She looked at him with a caring gaze to let him know that she wasn't trying push him into telling her. She didn't want him to think, she was being nosy.

He shrugged, shifting back slightly as he recalled the event. "Well, it happened really fast, it was back in my old school, and it was during this school event, I think it was a game day...yeah, it was an event with games and food and stuff. I was moving around from game to game to see what peeked my interest, only one did. It was like dodge ball but it was me against a team, one on five." He paused to shake his head, a ghost of a smile cracking across his face. "And while they were winging balls at me and I was struggling to narrowly avoid them until the time ran out, the team throws some at once, I think I'm screwed but I hear this voice tell me to jump off the back wall if I wanted to win. It was Beckett Ofcourse. I didn't know if I could do it, I've never did it, but I wanted to make it to the end, I followed my order and ran for the wall and back flipped off of it. I didn't get hit but I couldn't right myself in time, I thought I was going to fall on my face. But then everything slowed down, I shifted just right and landed on my feet. Then time righted itself as another ball went flying at my face, I jerked back and time slowed again, the ball slowed to a crawl, according to the people who saw it, it looked like I was in the matrix" he said with a chuckle. "The ball cleared my body and the timer rang, I got a giant stuffed panda, and everybody thought I was a mutant"

"Well, at least they told something right in the movie...Mutants do walk among us!" Yin tried to say this while pretending to be shocked but at the same time serious. However, trying to contain the chuckles about to burst from her lips proved to be more difficult than she expected. As soon as the chuckles escaped her mouth, she quickly tried to covered them by hiding her face on Connor's neck. She didn't want him to think, she was laughing at him. On the contrary, she was laughing at how people didn't believed in the things they see in movies, although, they should; since sometimes they do say show the truth. "The irony", she thought to herself.

Connor rubbed the back of her head slowly smiling a widely "x-men?" He asked with a small grin forming. "You and I certainly will have a long and happy relationship"

"You've seen them too? I love those movies!" Yin said, looking up from her hiding spot. Hearing his next words, made a small blush appear on her cheeks and she sent a warm smile on his direction. "I certainly believe we will...Though, I'm starting to think you enjoy making me blush, a lot."

Connor shrugged. "I do, I think it's cute, but it seems to be your reaction to all the sweet things I say" he said said smirking at her.

"It's just that, I'm not accustomed to hear sweet things directed at me. I was mostly scolded, due to my tricks and mischievous behavior. Although, I'll have to make something clear; I am not sorry for any of them. I knew they were harmless and besides, they were funny." She said this smirking back at him, before chuckling softly at the memories.