Lucas Smythe
April 25, 2007 12:21 PM
Feels like home sweet home [Tag Cisco] by Lucas Smythe
Since arriving back after midterm, Lucas was feeling more relaxed than he had at home. Whether it was because he really felt like he was fitting in at Sonora, or - more likely - that it was because back home in Illinois, his home had been somewhat invaded by his annoying younger cousins. His dislike for them was mutual though, he was very close to certain.Brushing his fringe from his eye, Lucas wandered into the dormitory and flopped down onto his bed with a sigh. It felt nice to be back, he had to admit. The place was... homey.
As he lay there, however, he realised it seemed a little quiet. Back home there was always something going on, and it was usually centered around Dana's infectious giggles and his father's attempts to calm her down.
'Still,' Lucas thought, 'I am happy to be back here. It kinda feels like home... In a weird way.' He just hoped that Cisco would come up to the dormitory some time soon, Lucas really did want to get to know his room mate better, plus he was sure that nothing would help him settle back in to Sonora life better than hearing about how his fellow Aladrian had spent midterm.
He propped himself up on his elbow and glanced round the dorm room before smiling to himself daftly and flopping back down onto the bed. 'Yeah...' he decided, 'It's good to be back.'
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Feels like home sweet home [Tag Cisco]
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Cisco
May 12, 2007 10:16 PM
*is alive, and sorry for not getting to this sooner* by Cisco
It was one of the great ironies of life that Cisco seemed to get along better with Leonardo Idoya III, the slightly misanthropic, twelve-year-old heir to the patriarch (and, admittedly, a rather arrogant and cold boy) than Leo's more amiable and popular twin, Gil. Most people thought it ironic because Cisco, while he was a bit of a loner, really wasn't that difficult to get along with. Cisco thought it was ironic that no one else had yet realized how perfectly logical it was.Not the least problem was Gil's inability to give up a joke (or rather, something that he found amusing, which irked Cisco to no end). At this moment that "joke" was the whole girlfriend gambit. Just because the twins, like the rest of the Idoya clan, seemed to blossom into romantic twits sooner than most of humanity, Gil appeared to think that it was permissible for him to tease Cisco about his lack of interest in the area.
Gil had just been doing that in the Cascade Hall, and Cisco, irritated, had thrown an "adios" at Leo and abandoned the twins, running up to the dorms. He liked to run, and always had. He would concentrate on how his feet hit the ground, and not the thoughts in his head. Was he strange for not being interested in girls yet? Should he be worried? Leo didn't seem to be, but neither did he stop Gil's teasing, and occasionally he asked Cisco privately if there was someone.
Dios mio! he thought as he stopped, panting, and gasped the password to the Aladren common room. I'm only eleven! Well... twelve next week. But still!
His cheeks were rather pinker than usual, and he was puffing just a little when he came into the dorm room and threw off his habitual Akubra, tossing it onto his bed before diving onto it and spreading out on his back, staring up at the ceiling.
He wasn't the only one flopped on a bed, though. He glanced over to see Lucas, and not for the first time wished that he could push the boy's bangs out of his eyes. "Hola, Lucas," he said, giving the other boy's name a bit of a Spanish inflection. Then, for lack of anything else to say, just sighed. "What do you think about girls?"
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*is alive, and sorry for not getting to this sooner*
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Lucas
May 13, 2007 4:19 AM
Better late than never =D by Lucas
Lucas hadn’t been lazing on bed for long when Cisco joined him in the common room. Lucas quirked his brow – the boy looked like he’d just been for a jog or something, he was panting a bit and pink tinged his cheeks. Perhaps that was one of his hobbies?He mentally shrugged, turning his gaze back to the ceiling. Through the corner of his eye he saw Cisco flop down onto his own bed and somewhat mimic Lucas by staring upwards also. It was silent for only a few seconds before the Hispanic boy spoke, his accent hinted toward Spanish - as always.
”Hola, Lucas.”
Lucas turned his head and offered a quick smile to show that he had heard the other, but Cisco was still staring at the ceiling. Lucas resumed his original position, scrunching his nose up a little as he could feel his fringe falling back into his eye since moving – it was tickling him. “Hola.” He replied to Cisco before giving in and lifting a hand to attend to his fringe.
So now would be the perfect time to ask about midterm and get to know his roommate a little better, but as Lucas was thinking what to say, Cisco sighed and spoke first, not about midterm, though. "What do you think about girls?" The boy asked, taking Lucas completely by surprise. Surely that wasn’t a normal thing to ask someone you didn’t really know too well – and Lucas didn’t have a clue what to say. He’d never really thought about it, girls were girls. They were different, more excitable and occasionally less easy to get along with than boys, and could definitely be annoying, Lucas knew this from spending (unwelcome) time with his cousins during midterm. But then again, his sister was a girl too, and Lucas liked her.
For complete loss of words, Lucas managed to reply with “Errrrr…” as he felt his cheeks redden. How was he supposed to answer a question like that? Then again, he supposed he had to try, at least. “I don’t know.” he managed, although he noticed it wasn’t exactly an answer, either. He concentrated on the ceiling so as he didn’t have to look at Cisco while he spoke, and also in hope that his blush would fade. “Girls are girls. You know?” He finally stammered out, no doubt sounding a bit weird. He was also sure that Cisco didn’t know what he was on about, so his ‘you know’ was a little unnecessary.
Lucas wondered what had made Cisco ask this odd (and slightly out of place in Lucas’ opinion) question, so tilted his head to the side to look at the other boy before asking “Why?”
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Better late than never =D
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Cisco
July 08, 2007 3:34 PM
Very, VERY late... but not never! by Cisco
Cisco turned his head to look at Lucas as he spoke, grinning a little to see the other boy pushing his fringe back from his eyes. Much to his amusement, a few moments after asking his question Lucas also seemed to be blushing. His lips curved into a wider smile, which he finally managed to shake off after a brief internal battle."Errrrr..." Apparently, Lucas had just as little insight into the world of females as he did--and perhaps as little interest. "I don't know. Girls are girls. You know?"
It sounded like the kind of answer Cisco would give if anyone asked him. Though if he was in a bad mood he'd probably say something about them spending too long in the bathroom and eating all the chocolate and spoiling his horse by feeding it sugar cubes because they all had fluff for brains. He just nodded and made a little sound of assent, and looked back up at the ceiling.
A moment later, though, Lucas spoke up again. "Why?"
Cisco turned his head towards the other boy and found his roommate already looking at him. He blushed involuntarily and quickly looked back at the ceiling, trying to act nonchalant. The other boy would probably tease him just like Leo and Gil had for not wanting a "girlfriend."
"Oh, I don't know... something my cousins said," he murmured, trying to play it cool. "Is it normal in America for a boy to have a girlfriend when he's eleven?" Cisco was American, of course, but he barely left the Idoya Ranch, which was really more of a largely self-sustaining settlement than anything else; he felt disconnected from the typical American boy.
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Very, VERY late... but not never!
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Lucas
July 11, 2007 9:47 AM
Never would be a terrible thing by Lucas
Lucas wasn't entirely sure that he was happy about Cisco grinning when he had blushed, it almost seemed like he was making Lucas feel uncomfortable on purpose. Still, Lucas wouldn't jump to any conclusion like that for two reasons, the first being that Cisco so far seemed sincere about the conversation topic - plus he had started it, and secondly, because Lucas liked Cisco, he was an alright person in Lucas' opinion. A little confusing though.After Lucas asked 'why' in relation to Cisco's question, Cisco glanced his way before turning his gaze back to the ceiling, a blush spread across his cheeks. Lucas looked at him, wondering what the other had to be embarrassed about - surely his answer to the original question couldn't be any worse than Lucas'.
Cisco mumbled his reply in an 'off-hand' kind of fashion, and not to the greatest amount of detail either, "something my cousins said." Lucas raised his brow a little - how vague.
The other boy continued, however, with a question that Lucas deemed to be quite interesting - and one he had asked himself before. "Is it normal in America for a boy to have a girlfriend when he's eleven?"
Lucas had pondered this himself from time to time, knowing of 'cases' in which eleven year old boys did have girlfriends, but whether it was 'normal' or not, Lucas was unsure. He sat up on his bed, legs crossed, hands clasped together with one index finger resting on his lips - his concentration pose. He didn't even push his fringe away from his eye.
He knew that lots of boys his - their - age did have girlfriends, but Lucas himself? He couldn't really say he was interested. He had noticed girls for sure, he had noticed that Hyana was pretty, for example, but he didn't want her to be his girlfriend. That would just be weird. On the other hand, he had noticed that certain boys had nice features too, he thought Cisco was very cute, which he couldn't deny was a little perplexing.
Lucas glanced at the Hispanic boy before returning to his concentration pose with a sigh of frustration - how could he answer that question when he probably had as little a clue as Cisco did? Still, he could try.
"It happens," he began slowly, thinking what he would say, "but I wouldn't say it's 'normal' exactly. It's..." Lucas decided carefully how to phrase the next part, tapping his index finger against his lip, glancing toward Cisco again as he spoke. "It's a personal choice thing. Some people do aaaand... well, some don't."
Lucas was proud of himself - he had managed an entire answer without tripping over his words or sounding like a moron. "Right?" he added to the end, deciding that some sort of feedback should be encouraged... he was enjoying getting to know the other boy.
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Never would be a terrible thing
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Cisco
July 11, 2007 10:00 PM
Never say never! (You might jinx me.) by Cisco
Cisco rolled onto his side, propping his head up on the knuckles of one callused but deceptively delicate hand as he watched Lucas. The other boy seemed to be contemplating the question, and the look on his face made Cisco wonder whether or not he had been right to ask it in the first place. He peered at the one eye that he could see, and inwardly thanked Merlin that he could distract himself by admiring the way the boy's fringe fell across his face (while still wishing to push it away, or, better yet, cut it off entirely). Still, a Lucas without his fringe would be no Lucas at all, to paraphrase someone Leo had once quoted to him.But Lucas was talking now. Cisco looked away from his fringe, his cheeks brightening almost imperceptibly at the thought of getting caught staring (or supposedly staring, anyway, since any idiot could see that he was just looking). "Personal choice," he repeated thoughtfully, nodding in a way that his cousin Natanael did sometimes when their aunt, who taught the Idoya children, caught him daydreaming.
"Well, I suppose that makes sense," he said, chewing on the inside of one lip, the action slightly obscuring his words. "Mi padre wants me to be an American boy, like some of his sister's children," he went on to explain, wondering if Lucas would be able to grasp the incredible complexities behind the familial heirarchies of two of Mexico's most influential families. "With sneakers instead of boots and Boygames and all that stuff. My mami, though, and my grandfather--he's sort of in charge of the whole family, we call him el patriarca--want me to be like the Idoyas.
"They marry young," he explained after a moment, realizing that there was no logical reason that Lucas would be privy to this information. "Sometimes at seventeen. So courtship--dating, I guess--starts really ridiculously early."
He frowned then, and chewed on his bottom lip again. "I don't like it. I think I want to be an American boy and not an Idoya. I don't even like girls," he added, making a face.
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Never say never! (You might jinx me.)
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Lucas
July 13, 2007 4:20 AM
And I'd hate to jinx you! by Lucas
Lucas tried hard to take in all this new information about his room mate, nodding along while the boy spoke to show he was listening, but it was the last bit that caught his attention the most."I don't like it. I think I want to be an American boy and not an Idoya. I don't even like girls."
He didn't fully understand Cisco wanting to be an American boy - Lucas was sure he'd love to have something more interesting about himself like Cisco did with the Hispanic background, rather than being just the average Illinois kid that he was - but if that's what Cisco wanted, Lucas was happy to 'cheer him on', so to speak. However, it was the very last sentence that made Lucas' eyebrow twitch upward. "I don't even like girls." It appeared that they were on the same wavelength: Lucas liked girls, but he didn't like them! However, he thought that pushing this idea away from his mind would be better for his concentration.
Lucas took this opportunity to flop back down onto his bed, lying there for a minute or two, pondering Cisco's words, trying to formulate some sort of reply. Lucas wriggled to get comfy before sitting back up and resuming his former 'concentration' pose with a slight sigh. He wanted to say 'Then be an American boy if that's what you want, and if you don't like girls, then don't date them!' but he figured that Cisco's mother and grandfather might just have something to say about that.
The fact that he was being very silent came to his attention, knowing he really ought say something back now - if only he could connect his brain to his mouth, things would be so much easier. He glanced at Cisco from the corner of his eye, not realising the other boy was still facing him - he hoped Cisco hadn't noticed him looking. Lucas bowed his head a little and cleared his throat for dignity purposes, even though he could feel his cheeks reddening. Lucas wasn't even one hundred percent sure what he was blushing about, it never bothered him just to look at another human being before, which Lucas supposed was a good thing, since it could make life a little problematic.
Speech! Lucas remembered that's what he was aiming for: to give some form of reply to the other boy. He knew what he wanted to say, something about Cisco doing whatever made him feel comfortable and buying sneakers and not dating and stuff. Lucas closed his eyes for a second to let his brain get to grips with the idea of yet more fluent speech. He turned himself round on his bed to face Cisco, knowing that his cheeks were still tinged with pink and may get darker once again. He smiled awkwardly and pushed his fringe back from his face - twice, since it fell back forward the first time.
"I don't like girls either," Lucas practically spewed, laughing nervously when he realised that wasn't what he had meant to say out loud to Cisco. That was not the reply he had thought about. He blushed again, bringing his knees up to his face and hiding behind them. "If being an American boy will make you happy then that's what you should do," he mumbled out from behind his legs, not wishing to show his face just yet as it was most likely still a deep pink. "And whatever your cousins said," he lifted his head just enough so that his rainforest green eyes were visible and looked Cisco in the eye, "can probably be ignored."
He then averted his gaze to the common room door, and then the wall, and then his bedspread, and practically anywhere that wasn't Cisco - it was easier that way.
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And I'd hate to jinx you!
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Cisco
July 13, 2007 3:50 PM
And I'd hate to be jinxed! ^^ by Cisco
Cisco brightened visibly. Really, the more he talked to Lucas the more he liked him. Sure, the other boy was a bit odd, what with his on-and-off blushing (though Cisco, primarily used to the company of people with complexions as dark or darker than his, was fascinated by the way Lucas' cheeks turned so visibly pink) and distracted silences, but as far as Cisco could see Lucas made more sense at eleven than his grandfather did at eighty-odd years of age. He grinned infectiously at the other boy, a faint dimple forming in one of his cheeks."Lo tengo!" he said. "You know, you're right. I will be an American boy!" His grin widened a little. "Soy Americano, si?" he laughed, then, amused by the irony of stating that he would be a normal American boy with his thick Spanish accent.
He began to ramble a bit about his plans for accomplishing this--sending to his father for a little money so he could purchase sneakers to replace his dragon-skin boots, and tees and jeans instead of his traditional robes and garb, etc--but his mind was really only half on it. The rest of him was busy studying his new friend--his best friend here, really, though he didn't know if Lucas would agree with that or even approve. Cisco really did like the other boy tremendously, especially with the revelation that Lucas, too, saw no point in the constant courtship games that seemed to rule the lives of all his male cousins and siblings over the age of nine. Finally a boy with something more than girls on his mind!
Suddenly Cisco became aware of how long he'd been talking, and realized he had almost no idea what was coming out of his mouth; such rambles were incredibly unusual for the usually quiet Hispanic boy, who felt himself blushing and thought that, no matter how dark his skin was, his current blush must be at least as visible as Lucas' were.
"Sorry," he laughed sheepishly, tugging a little bit at a strand of longish hair above his left eye. "I've talked enough. What's your family like, Lucas? Are they crazy too?" He grinned companionably.
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And I'd hate to be jinxed! ^^
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July 17, 2007 9:37 AM
Then it's a good job you aren't! by Lucas
After Lucas had finished talking and gazing around a bit, Cisco grinned (causing Lucas' blush to faintly reappear for a few seconds) and then the boy spoke - incessantly. He claimed that Lucas was right, and that he would be an American boy, and talked about asking his father for money to buy things, and... well, Lucas stopped listening after that. He wasn't ignoring Cisco, far from it in fact - he hadn't even stopped listening on purpose, his mind just couldn't concentrate on listening as it seemed to be too busy studying the other boy.Lucas really enjoyed Cisco's company, especially the fact that he didn't seem at all bothered by Lucas' so-called weirdness and his inability to form sentences without thinking about it really hard before hand. Or, if it did bother Cisco, he was doing a very good job of not showing it. Lucas couldn't help it though; he may be quite academically intelligent and a very quick learner when it came to spells and other magical theories, but his human interaction skills were a little lacking. He was fine until he joined Sonora and figured that he actually had to interact with new people rather than spending all his time with his family. It was practically certain that no one would have guessed Lucas to be shy before he showed up at the school.
Lucas then noticed it had gone silent and Cisco turned a dark shade of pink. Lucas had to stop himself from chuckling, he didn't know it was physically possible for somebody with a darker complexion like Cisco's to turn that colour. The boy apologised for 'talking too much', which Lucas would have argued had he been listening enough to tell Cisco that he was interested to hear more. However, Cisco continued to ask Lucas about his own family, "Are they crazy too?" - a question which Lucas couldn't help but grin at, somewhat mimicking Cisco's facial expression.
"We-ell," Lucas chuckled, "you could say that." He pushed his fringe from his eye and wetted his lips before continuing. "My family are -" Lucas knew there really was only one way to put it, "- posh." he smirked, thinking what his parents might say if they had heard him say that - they always preferred to insist that they were simply 'well-mannered and of higher social class', but a lot of people Lucas knew read that to be 'pretentious'. However, Lucas didn't like people saying that (no matter if it were true or not), they were his family after all.
"My parents always like things to be neat and tidy and proper - you know? Same with my aunts and uncles and their families. My cousins are awful." Lucas pulled the sort of face that a person would if they'd just seen their cat be sick on their best couch - partly horrified and partly disgusted. "Cecily and Amelia. Cecily's the worst." He shook his head as if to remove the thought of his cousins from his mind. "My sister's really nice though." He told Cisco in a fond voice, nodding toward the picture he kept on his bedside table of a young girl with long blondey-brown hair worn in bunches and the same striking green eyes as Lucas. "Her name's Dana, she'll be coming here too in a couple of years."
He continued to speak about his family and 'their ways', like how children must have a bath or shower before every evening meal so that they're presentable and how all curtains in the house must be drawn at dusk, and how Lucas wasn't allowed his own pet (even the puffskein request had been denied), and various other strange traditions within his household. He looked at Cisco with a hint of embarrassment, "So yeah, my family are most definitely crazy." he blushed, and his expression became a little more serious. "My parents were kinda disappointed when I was sorted into Aladren..." he shrugged, "they wanted me to be in Crotalus." He grinned brightly, "but I'm glad I was put in Aladren, or I might not have made friends with you!"
He offered a cheesy thumbs-up to Cisco alongside an equally cheesy grin. "And that would have sucked."
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Then it's a good job you aren't!
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