((Here's where I last posted for Lyric:
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=583781&start=520 This post looks so intimidating and long ^ ^' but it's just because I used spacing in between paragraphs

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Lyric
"Lyric..." The red-eyed boy said soundly as he recomposed himself. Apparently, I wasn't the only one being struck with the sense of familiarity.
"You...you're..." I was finding it difficult to summon the right words.
But the castle-like school had already swallowed the kid up before I even fully processed that he had helped me to my feet again.
In reality, I simply stood there for mere, fleeting heartbeats, as if I were caught in a photograph. However, the amount of thoughts and memories bombarding my brain totaled up to hours, spanned years, and transported me to a place very, very far from the ground in which I was planted. Again and again, he filled my every glimpse, all the glances I risked to look at that boy from the alleyway. Everyone else had despised him--no, they hadn't even
noticed. But
I did while others looked on, consumed in their own lives.
I was the one who spotted that boy in the alleyway.
And he never left me really, even after all this time had escaped us. It had always struck me how fortunate and blissful and oblivious my rich (ex-) friends and I were, while this boy didn't have much more than rats in that stygian alleyway for company (or for food--gross!). Where I probably would have grown up to the equivalent of the spoiled Veruca Salt from
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory otherwise, I was humbled into gratefulness for all that I had. I was an only child who was showered with gifts from the courtesy of Fasionista Mom and Doctor Dad. And it just didn't seem fair that while I relaxed in my luxurious abode,
he didn't even have an "abode" to live in!
Ever since I saw that boy, that boy with hair that was darker than the dank dump he had lived in, I had wanted to do something to help him. But I never did. To be able to stand up for a single stranger in need required courage that I did not have. I was such a coward, afraid that I would be outcasted from my "friends" if I had offered the boy a hand (look where
that logic got me).
Instead of aiding him in getting back on his feet, I had pushed him to the ground--literally.
That's it! My conscience snapped.
You need to stop being so obsessed with what everyone thinks and apologize to him! Yes! My eyes narrowed, not with the appearance of an angry Aeryn, but the determination of a strong, capable woman. I demanded,
Go tell him you're sorry! And that was what it took.
I had barely escaped the maze of my mind when I spotted a silhouette soaring against the sun and sky--a silhouette in the shape of a
dragon. My tiger blood curdled at its scent alone, desiring nothing more than to devour it to its last scale. I suppressed this terrifying urge by sprinting promptly into the haven of school.
* * * *
Caught in the middle of the class-change crowd, I failed in finding that boy. Of course, I just
blamed the fact that I lost him on the magnitude of students. With nothing but my fading courage, I had really chickened out. I know, so lame, but that's the truth.
Besides, I attempted to save face.
I really can't be late for my next class, which is... I glanced at my schedule.
...Algebra 2!Hmm. Well, math wasn't exactly the most exciting subject out there, nor my strongest suit for that matter (I shuddered at the memory of barely scrapping by in geometry), but it
was just algebra, so it couldn't be that bad, right?
As wrestled through the throng of people, trying to decide whether I would meet certain death or not in this "algebra 2", a certain flyer on the wall caught my eye. And this wasn't just any ol' flyer. It was a flyer descended from Heaven (at least in my eyes it was)! For it read:
Are you having trouble adjusting to this school? Do you want to get your feet wet at Marigold? Or are you ready for more? Then meet us by the pool Friday, September 3, and you might just get a little more than your feet wet! It's not too late to be a part of Marigold's swim team!
And that was all it said, at least in English. With the help of colossal paper and microscopic print, there read (what I'm guessing was) the news replicated in French, Spanish, various Asian languages (I could read a pinch of the Chinese and Japanese there from bargaining in China Town and watching too much anime and Vocaloid videos), and numerous others I couldn't put a finger on. There were a few even that I was positively sure I had
never seen before, which probably meant they weren't from a country or a group of people known most of the human population.
Brushing this mystifying and totally weird observation aside, I pressed onward to my third period class. I hummed in content as I envisioned pwning some landlubbers tomorrow! Sure, I had been disappointed, maybe even a bit depressed when I found I had been arrived at Marigold High too late to try out for the cheerleading team. However, swimming was
my domain! I was practically an aquatic creature back in New York, even when the plummeted temperatures put me in a shivering fit.
They haven't seen anything until the moment I dive into that pool!My vigorous zeal was only briefly intervened by music reverberating in the air, despite how faraway it must have been.
Hadn’t
he loved music too?
((Please excuse the atrocious writing DX I’m still trying to get back in the groove for roleplaying Lyric. However, I meant to write kind of erratically for her, since that’s how she thinks; she can be sad one moment and totally happy the next (as demonstrated in this post)
I’ll post for Spec and Steven later (I actually have a good idea for Steven!!

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