OPEN (please Faith needs to meet more people, limited doesn't begin to describe her social circle)

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((Backdated to the day BEFORE Valentine's Day, because RL just decided to chill out now instead of yesterday. Feel free to interrupt. Faith won't stab you, I promise.))

Valentine's Day?

Thud.

Valentine's Day.

Snap.

Valentine's Day!

Faith's hair fell into her face and there was an angry smile on her face... but anyone that either knew her or was perceptive enough could see the tears in her eyes. She slashed and spun with her knife, cutting angry hunks out of the unlucky tree that had drawn her attentione. Her knife was growing sticky with sap and she didn't care.

Tomorrow was Valentine's Day. The day of lovers and sweetness and cookie-faces and all of that bullshit. And Faith was not in a mood. She wanted to keep attacking this poor tree until all of her humanity was hacked away along with the wood. She couldn't handle the turmoil in her mind. She couldn't handle her conflicting emotions or the fire inside of her. She was supposed to be reformed. She was, wasn't she? She was all better. No more bad. So why... Why had she...

With a scream more animal than human, Faith slammed her knife into the tree. Hard. With all of her slayer strength even. The sharpened blade slid into the wood easily all the way up to the hilt... and stuck there. Tears were now bubbling up more noticibly in her eyes but she just blinked to drop them down. She sword loudly and set to work getting her knife out.

Fucking Valentine's Day.

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Ellie turned back around. She wasn't prepared for this. She didn't not want to start her semester with MORE drama, and more catfights. She's left that all back home - at Degrassi. She was determined to get a fresh start. Ellie didn't need another Manny.. especially here.

"Um.. look. I don't want to fight with you. I've had a good first day here, and I really don't feel like running it.. alright? Thanks."

She turned back around. She didn't need to wait for an anwser. She just needed to get out of there.

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"Why do broads like you always assume I'm here to pick a fight?" Faith called after her, heat rising inside of her. She sighed and rubbed one hand across her face. Not a good way to start off dear.

"Ellie, wait!" Faith trotted after her, rolling her eyes at the lack of dignity in all of it. She went to grab the girl's arm but the memories that flooded her mind made her recoil as if burned.

No.

"Ellie, I wanted to apologize."

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Faith wanted to apologize? No way. This was unexpected. But, Ellie did think it was possible. Maybe, Faith'd just been having a bad day, or something. Ellie didn't think it was a trick. Most people didn't sink that low. Or, she hoped they didn't.

Ellie sighed. Alright, she'd give her a chance.

"Whatever... you don't need to apologize. Really, it's fine."

She slowly turned her face towards her.

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"If it's fine then why did you take off?" Faith shoved her hands in her pocket defensively. "I don't do this sorry shit, so take it or leave it, okay?" She bit the inside of her lip uncomfortably as she fidgeted and then raised her eyes, squaring her shoulders a bit in defiance.

"So... Yeah..." Faith's dark eyes sparkled, the closest thing she ever did to blushing. Why was she apologizing to this waif again?

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Ellie felt bad. She didn't like to hurt people's feelings.

"Umm.. Yeah."

She looked down. She really had nothing to say.

"What are you... doing?"

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"Taking out my frustrations on an inanimate object... What are YOU doing out and about?" Faith crossed her arms and looked at the red head. She was very annoyed at the entire situation. Why couldn't anything just go smoothly.

Like the shit with Dean, for instance? Or seeing Ginny? Or even beating the shit out of the tree?

She sighed inwardly, shaking her head slightly.

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She was still staring at her shoes. She was marveling at the shoe lace, and all it's glory. She should really, pick her head back up.

"I'm just walking around the grounds. It helps to clear my head. I'm not into.. stabbing trees."

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"Hey, don't knock it til you've tried it." Faith laughed lightly. So the girl wasn't so bad. Kind of like Mark... actually. Wow. "Hey Lee, want to go have some fun? Get out of this boring ass place for a few hours?"

Lee. She liked it. Ellie seemed too... ew. Faith would never be friends, or even acquaintances with an 'Ellie'. 'Ellie' sounded like a five year old with a lollipop and skirts... which maybe this girl was...

Well, Faith could fix that.

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Ellie gave her a strange look. 'Lee'...? No one had ever called her that. It was a strange nickname.

"I don't know. Are we allowed to, like, leave?"

She was a little edgy. She wasn't too good at being a bad kid.

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"If I said no would it stop you?" Faith grinned a challenge to the red head. "C'mon Lee, stop being such a good girl for once. Drop the cutesy journalist thing and go do something crazy for once. What's stopping you?" The charm in her eyes was undeniable. She smiled at Ellie and her smile seemed to say 'What could possibly go wrong, you've got me along.'

Yes, it was a bit of a pompous smile... but it almost promised lots of adventures if Ellie agreed to come along for the ride.

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Ellie just started at her face. Faith looked promising. And, she was sort of sick of being the innocent one. But, she really wasn't that bad. She wasn't sure if she could pull if off, even for one night. She had a good heart, she couldn't deny it.

But.. maybe, she could just leave if things got bad?

Her heart started to pound, she felt a little dizzy. She couldn't believe she was going to do this.

"Alright..."

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"Follow me, Lee." Faith turned to head back into the school and then paused. "Wait." She trotted back to the tree and gripped the hilt and pulled with all of her strength. After a few seconds the blade loosed and was free. She shoved it in her belt and walked back twoards Ellie.

"Ready to go on a great adventure?" Faith asked, walking backwards so that she could face Ellie as she walked away from her."Loose some of that good girl mojo?"

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"Err.. sure," Ellie said sacrastically.

Maybe, this wouldn't be as rough as she imagined.

She followed Faith, wondering where it might go.