Shannon shook her head. "No, no, it's just that Reece is taking a while," Shannon explained as she pushed her glasses up. She felt bad if he thought that he was boring her. Because this was really interesting, it was just her boyfriend who was late. Like always. Nine o' clock he promised. It was well after.

"Thanks." Leigh said shortly, glaring. Gah. Maybe Texas hadn't been the best distraction from James. All Texas had done was make give Leigh a chance to let off some steam. Which, admittedly, was good for her. So, thanks Tex, for that.

"Hey, Jack? What do you say we go, er, do something?" she looked over at all the others that were there, too. "Guys?" As much fun as arguing with Texas was, Leigh didn't want to do that all day.

"Well, yes, you are attractive." Might as well be honestly, right? "And so am I. Don't deny it. So, the way I see it, we're perfect together." Heh. Joking. "And yes. I do have nice hair." His hair was his pride and joy, really. Don't touch his hair. He'd spent ten minutes on his hair this morning, and it was going to stay fantastic.

"Shall we?" he asked, nodding his head to the swings.

"Oh, alright." For some reason Andre wasn't really convinced about this but he tried to smile when he felt worse and worse. Some very weird things were going through his mind, visions of him and Shannon, together. As a couple. She seemed to be worried about Reece, so she must care for him. Andre pushed this all out of his mind. "Oh, yeah, those books are very interesting." He suddenly forgot what they had been talking about. He looked around to see the rest of the group. Wow, he had been talking with Shannon for a while now.

Shannon's brows furrowed in confusion. "Is there something wrong?" she asked. He looked like he was in doubt of something. Shannon fiddled with the ends of her hair and started twirling it around her finger. "They are very interesting..." she repeated. Ugh. She sounded like an idiot. Shannon, say something smart!

Texas rolled her eyes again, and then shook her head. "You're right about me being attractive Tallan, but in no means are you right about you being attractive, nor us being perfect together. Nope. You're wrong. I'm right. Faaaaace it." Wasn't she awesome? Yes. Yes she was. "My hair's nicer." Yep. Yeahhhh.

"We shaaaallll!" Texas grinned and looked over at Brooke. "Coming?"

Jack smiled at Leigh once more, and nodded at her question. "Yeah, lets.. uh.. do something... it's gotta be fun though. Otherwise.. uh... Tex..."

Andre looked into Shannon's eyes. "No, nothing's wrong. I just have a bit of a headache. I'm good." He kept seeing the visions. He pushed them back and thought about what she just had said. "That's the answer! Dualism. That is how you explain the phrase 'I think, therefore I am'. Man, I've been trying to remember that name for a while now. I'm sorry. I forget something and can't stop thinking about it until it comes to me." He must look like an idiot right now. "Anyways..."

Shannon was confused. What did that really have to do with anything? "Oh, I see," she nodded slowly. This conversation was going quite downhill wasn't it. She really wondered why. "I'm sure dualism occurs a lot in your studies," she said, "however, let's say you think you have wings and can fly, it doesn't necessarily mean that you can fly or you will grow wings spontaneously," she rambled. Ugh. Stupid Shannon. Shut up!

"Oh, no no no no." She had it alllll wrong. "You can't say I'm not attractive and keep a straight face." It just wasn't possible. "I'm attractive. I've always been attractive. I always will be attractive." He gave his head a firm nod. "And your hair is pretty. Mine, on the other hand, is amazing." End of story. You can't argue with that kind of logic. IMpossible.

He glanced over at Brooke, raising an eyebrow in addition to Tex's question.

Forget about Texas. Leigh thought, a bit annoyed. Out loud, she said, "I think Little Miss Texas is going to do something with Brooke and Tallan." So looked over at the three people she'd just mentioned, then back to Jack. "What would you like to do?"

Following Tallan's gaze to the swingset, Brooke laughed and joined in his nodding, although hers was a little more frantic. If everyday of this summer was going to be spent on the swingsets, then she could get used to it! Well, actually, thinking about it she realised she'd get bored within a few days, but for now swings it was. Giggle.

"And so you should be offended. It wasn't exactly a compliment," Brookie giggled, winking up at Tal. Of course she'd been joking, but in truth it hadn't neen a compliment. In truth, falling out of one's window was stupid, and therefore that was what Tallan was. "Betcha can't wait 'till you get an apparating license, eh? Then you won't hit bushes so often." She smirked. Ah, she couldn't wait for hers, and it would make Tallan's antics of sneaking past his parents easier. And a lot less scratchy.

Smiling, Brookie jumped at the prospect of twisting on the swings. She had expected Tal to come up with a better reason for Tex to stay, but laughed nonetheless. And it seemed Texas was happy with that plan. "Hallo," she said sumbly as she released the fellow blonde from the hug and looked up at her. Damn those heels making her taller. If only Brooke didn't wobble around in them.

"Why're you sorry?" she asked as she stood near to Jack. "He was only joking Jacky. You ain't done nothing wrong." Pouting, she patted his arm a little and glared at James. Stupid boy. Teehee, silly little Jack had nothing to be sorry about. But he was soo cute when he went all mumble-y.

Looking between Texas and Tallan's flirting match, Brooke giggled. "He is pretty good-lucking Texas, you have to give him that. Although I'm always scared your hair is going to cut me, or something. It's just so... spiky," she said with a shudder, thinking of the gash it might cause her is she happened to brush against one of his spikes. And Brookie didn't do well with blood. Nuh uh.

"To the swings?" she asked hesitantly. "Of course I'm coming! Swings are my favourite thing in the whooole wide worrrrlld!" Okay, so maybe she was still a little dizzy. And still a little hyper. But she was going to teach Tal and Tex how to twist on ze swings before noon. YES!

Taking one last glance back at the others before beginning to hop over to the swing set, Brookie was a bit put-out that Jack didn't want to join them at the swings. And Leigh, of course. Hrrmff.

"'Course you do," James muttered to Texas as she watched her start talking to Tallan and Brooke. "Look Jack, I'm only messin'. But you shouldn't let Tex put you down so often." Seriously, Jack was a really great guy. You just couldn't see that when Texas kept dominating over him.

Watching Brooke, Texas and Tal start to go over to the swings, James shook his head and smiled at Leigh. Gripping Annies hand with one of his, he put the other arm aound her shoulders just as she was asking Jack what he wanted to do. "Fancy going to get some ice cream or something?" he asked. The others were more than welcome to come along, of course, although he had a feeling they might remain in the park seeing as Reece hadn't turned up yet. He felt a little mean on Shannon, she didn't really know anyone, but she seemed to be getting along great with Andre. He shrugged; leave them to talk about books and stuff.

"I know," Tal confirmed, "That would be why I was offended." Heh. Tal liked Brooke, she was funny. "That license is going to make everything so much easier. My life will be better when I can apparate on my own free will." He could go anywhere he wanted, any time he wanted. And...then there was the fact that he wouldn't have to fall into dumb bushes. Yup - his life would be better.

"Thank you!" he said a bit loudly, actually grinning when Brooke said he was good looking. HA! Take that, Texxy. Brooke was smart, she could tell what was good looking or not. When she started banging on his hair, he rolled his eyes. He patted the top of his own head deliberately, hoping it hadn't messed up his - yes, very - spiky hair. "It's not deadly, I promise. Wanna touch it?" Again, heh. Tal was enjoying himself.

And Brooke had already gone off to the swings. So Tallan extended his arm to Tex, and followed Brooke. Reaching the swing set, he plopped down on the swing next to Brookie.

"Ice cream!" Leigh exclaimed, her eyes lighting up at the thought. She loooved ice cream, it was the best. And James probably knew that, too. He was awesome.

She didn't even care that James was holding Annie's hand. With ice cream on her brain and James' arm around her shoulder, Leigh was now in a very good mood. "Wanna come, Jack?" she asked, reaching a hand out to him. "Live a little." She winked and wiggled her fingers at him.

"Yes, that would be absurd. Anyways, do you want to go talk with some of the others? Come." Andre walked over to James. "Hey, where are you guys going?" He noticed that they had been getting ready to go somewhere. He looked back at Shannon and waved her to come.

Shannon followed him. Because there really wasn't anyone else she really knew. But still, it was just weird because none of these people were really her friends. They were all Reece's. She wondered where he could be... Shannon stood near Andre. She did what she did best, stay silent.

Brooke liked Tal. He got her. He knew what she was on about, and knew when she was joking. Which was always good, always very good. Hehe. "Good. Now at least I know you haven't lost your mind completely," she giggle. Because some of it had to be missing, right? He wasn't completely normal - that would be boring.

"Pleasure," Brooke almost sang, winking up at the boy. This was too funny. Tallan was good-looking, very good-looking, and Brooke could tell Texas knew that. She was just to stubborn to admit it. "Noooo!"
she said quickly, backing away as Tal tilted his head towards her. There was no way she was touching those spikes. It was like a bloody hedgehog! Only nice, of course. Very much nicer.

Sitting down as she reached the swings, Brooke began to twist. 'Round and 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round and 'ro- yeah. Like that. And then she stopped, lifted her feet off the floor and spun back to her starting position quickly. "See, tis funny!" she laughed rather giddily.

How did James know Leigh loved ice cream that much? They were best friends, that was how, and he thought that suggesting something she loved would stop her from being so weird with him. And it did have that effect. Smiling down at her, he squezzed Annie's hand. "You're coming, right?" he said softly to her.

He never had gotten over how Annie made him feel. Pulling himself out of thought, he looked up as Leigh asked Jack if he was coming. "Yeah, c'mon," he said to him, smiling and blinking his hair out of his eyes.

"I am not crazy." Tallan said indignately, while smirking yet again. He liked doing that. "Really? Are you sure? They're soft, actually. I have very soft hair." He ran his hand over his hair again, laughing. Okay, they were slightly pokey. He looked down at his hand. No puncture wounds. See? His hair was perfectly safe to touch.

Laughing lightly at Brooke, Tal watched as she spun herself, and spun herself, and spun herself some more. He looked up at the top of the swing set, then back at Brooke. "You're not gonna like, kick me when you start spinning, are you?" he looked down at her legs, which he was pretty sure could reach him if she held them straight out.

Iiiice cream. Remember the iiiice cream! "You guys come on too!" she called, a bit loudly, to Shannon and Andre. "We're gonna go get ice cream!!" Happy happy. Everyone should come get ice cream...but Tallan, Brooke, and Tex (thank goodness) seemed to be doing their own thing.

Smiling as Andre and Shannon joined them, James pointed up the road, at the ice cream place. "We're gonna go get some ice cream, fancy coming?" he asked, dropping his arm back around Leigh's shoulders. "It's only up the road, and I know Reece isn't here yet, but Brooke'll always tell him were we are..." he trailed off, glancing over at Tal and Tex and Brooke on the swings. James could understand if Shannon didn't want to come without Reece, but he grinned at her nonetheless, to show she was more than welcome.

"You are!" Brooke replied stubbornly. "Otherwise we wouldn't be friends. I don't like boring people. And people who aren't crazy equal BOR-ING!" Fact. It was even in the 'Big Big Book of Big Brookie Facts'. And yes, she had written it herself. Because she was so uber cool like that. "I'm very sure Tallan! Because I can't trust you. 'Cause even though CRAY-ZY people are fun, they can not be trusted. Nuh-uh." Another FACT. Another very important fact, too.

Nooooo I'm not," Brookie giggled as she started to spin, tucking her legs in under the swing. She would probably kick Tal or Tex if she straightened them, and she didn't want that to happen, because then they'd probably get mad at her. Tex especially. "C'mon Tal! Its FUNNN!" Hehe.

Looking over to the others on the swings, James raised his voice slightly. "We're gonna go get ice cream. Tell Reece if he comes, yeah?" he called, before looking back at the people immediately in front of him again.

Spinning slowly to a stop, Brooke just caught what James was saying. "Guyses," she said to Tallan. "'Member that, 'kay? 'Cause I wont. We have to tell Reece, he looks like ice cream." Now why on earth would James want to tell him that? Wasn't that a little.... stupid? Because Reece didn't look like ice cream. It was a stupid way of describing him. Stooo-pid James.

Shannon bit down on her lower lip. Going for ice cream sounded great, she loved ice cream... but Reece wasn't here yet and he might wonder. Nevertheless Shannon just gave them a small smile. "Alright, ice cream sounds great," she said. But she really wasn't sure if she should go. But it was good though, meeting new people, so what the heck?

"Sounds good." Andre followed the group, happy he was going to do something. He did like ice cream...

Texas rolled her eyes agai, this time over at Leigh and Jack and sighed. Why one EARTH was her twin over there stir here, with her; like he should be? She was so telling their mother. AHA.

She rolled her eyes again as she listened to Tallan and Brooke go on about him being attractive and loosely giving in, she nodded. "Yeah.. sure.. Good looking Tall. Sure... Yeah." Ew, what a brain fail. But still, JACK TAMWORTH was being the worst twin in HISTORY. And he needed to sort his brain out.

-- Hang on. Had Tallan JUST said HIS hair was nicer than hers? No way. "For your information, Tally, MY hair is so much better than yours, I mean.. It's MY hair. Property of Texas Bianca Tamworth. So therefore, it is better. Brookles, back me up here?" Lordy. How could the world think someone elses hair was better than Texas'? Then again ... Tallan's hair was nice.... and pointy.

She laughed along with Brooke when she went on about the pointyness of his hair, and nodded. "Could take an eye out with that hair of yours..." Not her best, not her worst comment, but still... lame. Gosh. Jack, why are you such a loser?

Shooting a glance over at her brother, she sighed once more as she watched him get ready to tottle off with the others. "...Looks like they're all tottering off elsewhere." She shrugged, turning back to hoist herself up to sit on bar near the swingset.

Jack nodded. NODDED. AND HE NODDED.

He was going. And Texas was going to hate it. But he didn't CARE. In your FACE Texas. Oh. Wait... -- did twins have telewelapthy? That meant she could hear him. Oh crap. [i]Oh.. Tex, I'm sorry.. I didn't mean that. Really I didn't, I just.. Am I allowed to go for an ice cream, please? I can get you one if you want? Or just a drink? A fruit juice or something. I know you don't like unhealthy stuff...[/.i] Jack waited for just a few seconds and then started to chew at his lip again, as he got no answer.

And decided to go. Texas could get her own fruit juice. Even though he probably would get her one, anyway. "Sure.. Let's go.. See you in a -- Tex?" He gave up, and gave Leigh a weeeeetle smile.

OOC: Yeah, I'm here (finally ) It's kinda short, but... yeah.

Ice cream! Annie loved ice cream. She slipped her small hand into James' larger one, and they went over to the truck. 'Buy me an ice cream, James?' she asked quietly, giving him a kiss on the cheek. She'd forgotten her bag, which had her purse in it. Great. She smiled at Shannon happily. She liked Shannon, she was really nice. She seemed to be getting along well with Andre. That was nice - Shannon needed some more friends. Annie knew she felt like she wasn't really part of their group yet. Andre too, they were both nice. Texas, on the other hand.... blech. Annie was glad she wasn't coming to get ice cream.

"We wouldn't be friends if I wasn't crazy?" Tallan repeated, looking at Brooke with big, grey puppy-dog eyes. Hmph. "Well, then. I'm glad I'm crazy." He was pouting, now. He didn't like losing disagreements, and he was NOT crazy, no matter what Brooke said. He could be slightly different, yes, but not crazy. She was the crazy one.

Aha. And back to the hair again. His hair was just that wonderful, wasn't it? Yes. "That means I can't trust you either, Brookie." he told her, shaking his head. "'Cause you're crazy too." Just to get that out there; she needed to know the truth. "And Tex," he continued, turning his gaze to the other girl, "Your hair might be property of Texas Bianca Tamworth, but my hair is property of Tallan Heights." So. There. His was better, end of story, no competition. "And I couldn't take an eye out," he defended, "...That'd be awkward to put my head in someone's eye." Hmph. Again.

He watched, an actual, teeth-showing smile coming to his face as Brooke started spinning away on the swing. He looked away as James called to them, shouting "Yeah, We'll tell him!" back to the big group going for ice cream. Hmm. Tal wanted ice cream, too. He looked from the big group back to his little group, weighing his options. He decided to stay with the swings, and the two girls he got to be alone with. So much better than ice cream.

"We're supposed to tell him that they went for ice cream, not that he looks like ice cream." he corrected Brooke absentmindedly, starting to twist his own swing up. "How far do you twist?" he questioned, looking up at the chains on his swing.

Leigh smiled to Shannon and Andre, glad they were coming. Then she grabbed Jack's hand, tugging on it a little when he didn't come. He was probably waiting for permission from Texas - permission he wasn't going to get. Why did he let his sister push him around like that.

When Annie asked James to buy her an ice cream, Leigh discretely let go of Jack's hand so she could check the pocket on her shorts. Good; she had money. If James was going to pay for his girlfriend's ice cream, he wouldn't have to pay for his best friend's, too. That wasn't fair.

ANYWAY. She felt kind of...skippy, now. She wanted to skip. She glanced up at James, trying to decide if she wanted to stay under his arm, or if she wanted to go skip ahead of everyone. Because she had a feeling that he wouldn't want to skip with her. Sigh. She'd just have to skip some other time, when James didn't have his arm around her. "Where are we going for ice cream?" she asked, her voice chirpy.

Texas laughed, as she fidgetted on the bar she was sitting on, and flicked off her heels ontot the floor, feeling the breeze run through her toes. YAYYYY toe wind. Looking over at Brooke and Tallan she giggled. "Tallan Heights... Texas Tamworth. Double T. I beat youuuuu! And I'm prettier. So, again, I win. Faaaaace it, loser." She grinned, deciding to twiddle with her hair. It was so soft and soft, and it smelled of blueberries. YUMMY.

Ice cream? Jack would get her some. She KNEW that much. Because he was like that.

Jack finally pulled his eyes away from Texas and smiled as Leigh pulled at his hand, and soon dropped it, but still... They were going somewhere, away from his manipulative, evil sister. WOOHOOO.

[Smiling softly as Shannon and Andre agreed to come for ice cream, he started off at a slow walk, one arm still around Leighs shoulders, the other hand still clutching Annies. "We've told the others to tell Reece where to come to, so he'll be fine," James reassured her with a smile. It was Reece, after all, and he was always good at looking after himself. Knowing him, he was still probably asleep, or something like that.

"Leave Tex," James muttered under his breath to Jack. Why did he always let her control him? No matter how many times he'd told Jack to not let her walk all over him... "Summer's about fun, and you ain't gonna have fun shadowed by her all the time." He added pointedly. Wasn't that obvious?

Smiling down at Annie, he laughed and slipped his hand out of hers, not before guiding her away from the truck. Rummaging in his hand for his pocket, he didn't realise how weird it would look, that he'd left his arm around Leigh's shoulders, and let go of his girlfriends hand. Still oblivious as how this would look to the girls, and everyone else there, he shoook his head and pulled money out of his pocket.

"'Course I'll buy you one, shouldn't need to ask," he smiled, but then it vanished quickly. "But not here, we'll go to the nice place at the end of the road." Yup, they had nicer ice creams there, and more flavours. Wooopeee, and that answered Leigh's question too.


Back Texas up? About what? Dizzy!Brookie didn't have a clue what was going on, but she guessed, as Texy was still running her hands through her hair, that she and Tal where still arguing about who's hair was nicer. "Well, yours is nicer," she agreed, flashing an apologetic look at Tallan. "I mean, it ca hurt you, can it?" Running a hand through her own hiar, she glared enviously at Texas'. Why wasn't she pretty like her friend? Why didn't she have nice hair?

You could take an eye out with it? Yup, that was definately a valid point about Tallan's hair. Brooke nodded madly, repeatedly in agreement with Texas again. She giggled. "It's soo... sharp." Even though it pribably wasn't; she was probably over exaggerating. Looking at her own hair again, she twilled the ends 'round her finger. Why didn't she have nice hair like Texxy? Not fair!

"Nope, we wouldn't be," Brookie confirmed, shaking her head and ignoring Tallan's puppy-dog look. It was a fact though. But, there again, Brook liked most people, as long as they didn't mind her crazy, hyper, rather childish attitude, and not everyone was crazy. Not that she was going to be admitting that in front of Tallan any time soon. Hehee.

Tell him they went for ice cream? Nahh, Brooke was pretty sure James said he looked like ice cream.... but Tallan's way was more logical. Hrmppf. "Fuhine. But him looking like ice cream is funnier. We should say that too him, see what he thinks!" That was something Brooke was going to do, when he turned up, anyways!

Beginning to twist absent mindedly on the swing again, she giggled. "As far as you want. The higher, the fasttttttterr you spin!" Teehee, and Brooke liked spinning fast.

"Well of course you're prettier!" Tallan scoffed, still looking up at the top of his swing as he spun himself up, and up. "I'm not pretty. Girls are pretty." He shook his head - this was supposed to be common knowledge! "I'm incredibly good-looking, though. Not pretty; good looking. Incredibly." There. That totally explained it.

Okay. Now, he was up far enough. He took a deep breath, readying himself, then lifted his feet up and let go. And he spuuuuun. Around, and around, and around. He kept his eyes wide open as he unwound, finally putting his feet back on the ground when the swing stopped moving. He leaned a bit forward, watching the ground underneath him spin as he tried to get his balance back. "Whoo!" he exclaimed, grinning, swaying a bit.

Ahem...anyway. "You don't stick up for me?" He asked Brookie, frowning from her to Tex. Meh. Fine. Sure, Tex was extremely pretty, and her hair was admittedly really great. But Tallan, for a guy, had AMAZING hair. There was just no looking past it. No matter how sharp and pointy it might be. That just meant he had skill. SKILL. Be jealous.

"You can tell him he looks like ice cream... I don't know how he'll respond to that." It'll probably amusing, though. Tal wondered how he himself would respond to being told he looked like ice cream. Hmm...depends on the flavor.

Yay! A nice ice cream place! They could sit and talk and stuff and it would be happy. Awesome. Leigh fell silent as they walked down the street, fully aware that James' arm was still around her. She sneakily tried to look over at his other hand, and was shocked to see that he was no longer holding Annie's hand. She was going to say something, but decided against it. There was nothing wrong with just wanting to enjoy the moment for a little longer...

But then they got to the ice cream place, and Leigh knew James was going to walk away from her at some point. Sigh. It was nice while it lasted.

OOC: Sorry, I'm so late, been real busy but I'm here now to play Reece

bio:


Name: Reece Liffinger

Age: 16?

Bio: Reece is an athletic sort of guy and often that sort of his life takes presedense over all other parts. Though being an athlete in no way makes him a jock in the shallow way. He chooses who he likes and who he is freinds with by personality and merit. Not on looks. In fact his girlfreind is not the most popular girl in the world but he loves her just the same for who she is.


Reece, was late. So late. He woke up late after having worked himself too hard working out. He looked at his watch as he gudgingly made his way over to see Shannon, 30 minutes late, she was o not gonna kill him. He loved her but he never liked getting up early which was part of his problems with her but in his heart he knew the pros out weighed the cons ten fold having a girlfreind like Shannon. It was not long before he was at the location to meet Shannon and saw her walking off with his freinds. He quickly followd them and when he caught to Shannon he walked over to her and said, "Did you miss me baby", and gave her quick kiss.

Shannon saw Reece and smiled. "Reece!" she said as she blushed a bit when he kissed her and hugged him. "You're late," she chided. It didn't matter how angry she was at him for being late by half an hour, he was here now and that made it all the better.