Re: The Story Begins Here: NYU School Campus

[Guest]

Jake stood up and he hopped on one foot to go get his other shoe, "H-h-h-hope... your tongue... b-b-breaks oo-ff." Jake's teeth chattered, he had been less layered than Evelyn in this weather, and he was soaked and freezing as he put his shoe back on.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn had fumbled in her coat pocket and found her phone. She protected it from the weather with one hand and snapped a picture of Jake Rabbit. "Aww, aren't you just so cute?" she gushed, still sprawled out in the snow. She really felt quite comfortable here. And sleepy....

[Guest]

Jake heard the little click sound from Evelyn's camera and looked down at her as he shivered, "A-a-ren't you c-c-c-old?" How was she laying in the snow like that?

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn spread her arms out in response, moving them up and down along with her legs to make a snow angel. "I don't know," she replied vaguely, turning her face upwards and blinking against the falling snow. "I think my body just numbed. And I'm tired. And kind of sleepy..."

[Guest]

Jake fumbled around in his pocket for his phone, he took it out and snapped a photo of Evelyn making a snow angel. "Its c-c-ute." He said showing her the picture, then pocketing his phone.

"If you're tired, lets go inside before you turn into a popsicle..." Jake told the snow angel.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn yawned and then sat up reluctantly. She eyed Jake reprovingly for a second. "Kneel down, idiot." She patted the ice in front of her.

[Guest]

Jake reluctantly dropped down to his knees, "Hmmm?"

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn reached up and undid her thick scarf, shifting closer and slipping it around his neck. The move brought her a little too close for her liking and her pulse instinctively quickened, as did her traitorous heartbeat, pounding wildly in her chest. She ignored it as best she could, and wrapped the dry scarf around his neck a couple times and then tucked the ends under his hoodie, trying to ignore the extreme proximity this brought their faces in. "Someone's gotta be the brains around here," she muttered, as she worked.

[Guest]

"Too bad yours are too busy freezing to the concrete." Jake snorted, her scarf warming his neck he could smell her faint scent on the scarf and it made his heart skip. He gazed at her as snowflakes got caught in her long eyelashes and he took a deep breath. "Thank you."

[Tiger-Lily]

She glanced up, accidentally met his eyes, felt her face flare red-hot and jerked backwards away from him, rebuttoning her coat up higher to make up for the lack of a scarf. "De nada," she muttered, fighting down the stupid blush irritably. "I figured I owed you a few articles of clothing," she added, looking up at him cautiously from beneath her lowered eyelashes.

[Guest]

"Yeah you know you've left me pretty much nude half this semester. Its alright though, my moms noticed and is buying me more hoodies for Christmas." Jake added grinning.

[Tiger-Lily]

"What kind of idiot wears hoodies on snow days?" Evelyn demanded logically, flopping back down in the cushiony snow. It kind of felt good to her heated cheeks. "You may as well have just pranced around in a Speedo."

[Guest]

"Evelyn where you may come from the men wear Speedos, but I certainly do not. Besides I hate coats, they're so bulky and I hate having to carry them everywhere and usually I never get cold so hoodies are more functional for me. Especially since I always feel like I'm knocking crap over with a coat." Jake informed her on his dislike for winter coats.

[Tiger-Lily]

"Because your incredible duck feet can't tell where you're blundering?" Evelyn asked, turning on her side and feeling snowflakes settle all over her. She stuck out her tongue and a few snowflakes landed on it, melting instantly.

[Guest]

Jake snapped another photo of Evelyn because she started to look like a mini snow mountain, and he realized that she was ready to fall asleep there and he knew that no one would appreciate having to melt Evelyn off a frozen sidewalk the next morning.

Jake had reached down and picked her up like he had the last time when she passed out holding her close to him so again she wouldn't get too cold although he was sure she was frozen from having laid in the snow for the last ten minutes or so, "Uh huh, we'll go with that. Come on Sleeping Beauty up to your tower we go."

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn opened her eyes, blinking snow off her lashes and Jake's face came into focus above her. "What are you doing?" she demanded. "I was in a zen moment there! I demand you put me down!"

[Guest]

"Spoken like a true diva princess, I'm not letting you sleep in the snow! You can sleep in your bed because the last thing I need is your friends coming at me like bats out of hell and accusing me for leaving you to die of hypothermia." Jake argued with her, rolling his eyes.

[Tiger-Lily]

Evelyn was still stuck on the diva princess part. "Ass," she fumed, reaching up and grabbing his nose. She twisted it. "Let go! I'll sleep where I want to!"

[Guest]

"Ow!" Jake yelled tilting his head and biting her wrist! The things he did for this girl! "You're SLEEPING INDOORS!"

[Tiger-Lily]

A wave of stubborn defiance shot through Evelyn. Simply because it was Jake TELLING her to do something, she wasn't going to do it!

And the snow felt really good.

Evelyn jerked her wrist free, goosebumps radiating down her arm from his stupid mouth. She reached up and pummeled his chest with both fists. "STOP! My bag!" she exclaimed.

They were attracting quite an audience, even with the few people out and about.

[Guest]

Jake tried dodging her attacks, the best he could but with his arms occupied by holding her it was becoming real hard to do so. He needed to go back and get her damned bag though because he knew if they went upstairs she'd probably come back down and fall asleep in the snow.

So Jacob turned back around and went to where Evelyn had dropped her bag and knelt down besides it positioning Evelyn in his lap so he could free one arm and grabbed her bag and shoved it to her, "YOUR LUGGAGE YOUR MAJESTY!"

[Tiger-Lily]

"You are a horrible prince," she informed him, wrapping her arms around her drenched bag and leaning her head against his shoulder. "Aren't you supposed to be all gallant and courteous and let me do whatever I want?"

[Guest]

Jake got up and rolled his eyes, "If I let you do what you wanted you'd be an ice princess and not even a million kisses would be able to wake you up from your damned slumber." Jake said coolly trudging through the snow with her. "Although I'd be willing to keep trying until it did work." He winked at her.

[Tiger-Lily]

This remark had Evelyn going bright red again and shut her up for the remainder of the walk to the lobby. Now that she wasn't thinking up rude comments, though, she became aware of just exactly what she was doing. And where she was.

"Wait," she muttered quietly, lifting her head. "I can walk from here."

[Guest]

"Are you sure? I don't mind. You're really light." Jake told her, which was true. He could carry her like this all the time and never get tired, truth was he liked having her close to him and he wanted to hold on just a little longer.

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