There's a first time for everything [Sin]

He spoke about not graduating at the age of sixteen, something about it catching his interest but not totally. Whatever that meant, it probably had something to do with him being like super smart or whatever. Looking to Silus, he noticed a certain look, much like one that Fera would give him when he was acting….too out of control. Something about him not acting like he looked, acting too immature or whatever it was that she said. The young ethereal frowned lightly but calmed down for the most part, resting chin against the back of his hands as he looked back to Matt. There was something about teaching him a few tricks, but what type of exactly? That alone was something that caught his interest, though he was shaken out of his train of thought by Silus placing an arm around him and shaking him lightly.

’We could so do that today I guess.” Shael said with a shrug, trying to tone the enthusiasm down a little, but the whole acting cool thing was weird. ’Wait…what I am learning?”

"How am I supposed to know? You're the one who has the classes Silly." Matt said, trying to catch that last word. Thankfully he did and turned it form Silly from Stupid. It was a clutch catch, though he felt bad for almost calling the guy stupid. Just because it was probably true by his standards didn't mean it was true for all standards. He quickly finished down the notes he had on the Komodo Dragon before turning the page. That was one thing Matthew was horrible with. While he remembered EVERYTHING, he still was in the habit of taking notes to emulate the appearance of being a normal person with no form of mental assistance. Matthew reached into his messenger bag and pulled out a thing of lotion that he popped open and slathered onto his hands.

    Psychometry was a beast of burden to him some times, unfortunately for Matthew if his hands were ever too dry then his body would tend to set off his unique power very quickly and on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE he touched. He lathered the lotion onto his hands as he began to collect his things up. He cleared his throat and then looked to the littlest male at the table, and ran his knuckles on his skull of the younger male. "Don't forget, Media today. I'm gonna teach you to do that Partial Chroma-key and the Stock Film footage for the trailer. So don't start any new projects. Kay?" He said sternly, more of a reminder than anything else. Silus smiled and Matt looked back to Shael and cocked his head to the side with a sigh. "Okay and Shane...uuhhm you'll be with Blair right? Bring your class material with you and I'll see you after football. Later dudes." He said as he got up and walked over to the teacher, handing his excuse to be dismissed to go to the Media "Labs" to work on a project he was working on. He had to edit that movie as fast as he possibly could so he could keep helping the younger guys in the class out.

   "Well... that was....different." Silus sighed as his head dropped into his forearms.

Shael shrugged, admitting that he indeed was the one that had the classes, even though he did not really take the time to remember everything from his schedule, pas perhaps the first of his class. So the little male would have to look over the schedule and then try to discern where his next class would be. Running fingers through slightly spikey black hair, letting his mind flutter over something for a moment. It was the smell of lotion that caught his scent, burning his nose lightly as he seemed to recoil from it. Superhuman senses really sucked, especially with things like smell. Touch was fine, but hearing and nearly everything else sucked so much when dealing with intense sensations.

”Yeah.” He said confirming that he would be going with Silus, smirking widely about the concept that he could hang out with his uncle, it was fun, since he didn’t really get to do it when he was living with his daddy. ”I..uh yeah.” Shael noted as Fera took a seat with the other two, closing the thick hardback novel with a resounding clap as she looked over the two.

”So did I miss anything fun?” She would ask inserting herself into the conversation.

Silus looked up and nodded to Fera as she sat down. She decided to ask if she missed anything. Silus smiled slightly, one of those "secretly I'm being mischievous" smiles that looked oh so innocent. He nodded at Fera and opened his mouth to speak stating "Yup" And then left it at that before drawing random pictures in his notebook, a child like artistry in the works. He simply let the topic drop as he began to hum, anxiously awaiting Fourth Period so he could hop into the Media class. But he still had a little ways to go, by that he meant he needed to survive Gym class and History...but after that the day was rather smooth sailing.

Matthew on the other hand had twenty minutes left to finish a Credit's slide. No problem, so long as the computers didn't error out during the rendering process. Which of course it might, then again he didn't really know anything like "good luck" anymore. Especially not since coming into contact with that damn fragment of Pandora's jar that was stuck inside him. What the Hell was it doing in there? Just kinda like sitting there chillin' out in his insides? The bell rang for the next period and it he was finished with his slide. now he just had Biology and AP Clac to survive.... or in his case enjoy.

The younger ethereal leaned over and began to watch his uncle do whatever kind of doodles that he was working on. Fera however huffed lightly at the whole yup comment, yet was expecting it from the young looking uncle, even if she did not have much inter action with her family beyond Michael and Shael. ”Well, okay then.” Fera muttered delving back into her copy of Blood and Gold, a rather interesting novel written by a human whose works that she had read more of. While they may have been the weaker of species, humans had an interesting little quirk that allowed her to ignore such a thing and that was creativity. Books in general were something that interested her, how stories were held within the bindings of pages, words crafting great adventures.

The class after this did not last very long, as the sound of the bell reverberated through the room and Shael perked up, still grimacing from the sound itself. What was his next class though? Shael reached into his bookbag and looked over the schedule with an intense expression.

Silus and Shael had the next class together, which ended up being Gym. Silus took Shael into the boys locker room where he changed out of his usual hoodie and into a black wife-beater and really baggy shiny blue shorts with black and white straps down the side. He walked out into the normal Gym and there was already the "American Gladiator" arena set up, and it made Silus smile. Of all the physical activity he hated, he Looooved this one. Silus moved as quickly as possible and being rather agile too. Being a child at this rate was actually useful, not to mention that he MAY have cheated slightly using Aether, Nether and connecting to Yggdrasil, making him peak-human in speed and reaction time as an eleven year old boy. Of Course when it was Shael's turn Silus was the "guy to beat" and Silus was sure to use his telepathy to reach out to his feral-nephew. I don't care if you beat me but remember. No animals and you gotta ACT human. I know it sucks but keep it within human range, 'kay?

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After Gym, Silus made his way to the remainders of his class, thankful his enchantment countered the very stench that he SHOULD have produced and allowed him to hold off on taking a shower until he got back to the safe-house that night, but he would have to bid his nephew goodbye for a good while, wandering off for the next two periods. Though third period was boring, Silus got to see Matt fourth Period, which was cool. Though while Matt was showing him how to maximize the effectiveness of Chroma-key he also learned how to make things far less grainy and sloppy. It was near half-way done when they were both sitting at the Digitizing computers, waiting for things to finish up when he brought Shael up. "Matt...you don't like...Hate Shane do you?"

"No. I don't hate anybody. He just makes weird faces and it amuses me." He said very matter of factly as he licked his lip, glaring at the computer screen, intent and focused. After all, Media was his hobby and passion, when not delving into the occult.

"He might not act normal at first...but...you'll still help him right?" Silus asked, almost pitifully adorable in his delivery, sounding so concerned for his nephew or "friend" as Matthew knew him as. Matt looked form the computer screen to Silus and nodded, pressing his lips together and curling them in slightly, having that "grandpa" look as he nodded. Silus smiled and hugged Matt who's arms flew up, not hugging the child back due to the awkwardness of physical contact. He didn't like it at all...well..sorta... but not very much.

"Silus....don't touch me....please?" He said, turning it to be more of an asking thing than anything else. Normally a person would be shoved off and told firmly not to touch him...but this was Silus.... it was different. The bell rang and Silus hopped up smiling as he waltzed off to lunch, excited to see Shael again...maybe even Fera. He wondered if he could convince Matt away from his friends to eat with him.

So it seemed that they would be having gym next, which Shael was not too familiar with and yet Fera seemed to have a small amount of knowledge towards, if only because  she seemed to research everything that caught her interest within the schedule. The idea of gym within itself was something that Shael loved, because that meant that they could do something fun instead of the usual boring class stuff, which was composed of too much boring learning. The fact that it was going to be with Silus made the young ethereal even more excited, though that did not quite slake the sadness he felt when thinking about his father. So his sister came prepared, packing clothing into his backpack so that Shael could be ready for this fun gym time or whatever. Dressing in simple black gym shorts and a white t-shirt, Shael would join in whatever game they were playing. While it was hard not to use all of his strength, Shael did pretty well in the game and managed to beat Silus actually, which impressed a few people.
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After gym class Shael smelled….vile if that word fit him and Fera could smell him as soon as he ran up to his twin sister, eyes narrowing down upon the little ethereal male. ”You smell bad.” She grumbled reaching into her bag and assaulting him with a cloud of Axe, until the male began to cough and his nose burnt. ”Put some deodorant on next time.” She muttered to her coughing brother as they walked to their next classes, Shael following close behind his sister rubbing the back of his hands along his eyes. He couldn’t begrudge Fera on that either, as she was likely just trying to make sure that Shael got some friends, and smelling bad would likely not get that.

The classes themselves seemed to drag on for a while until finally the lunch bell rang, and Shael shot up from his seat. The twins walked through the front door of the cafeteria, Shael’s nose instantly picking up on the smell of the food wafting through the air, Shael’s mouth beginning to salivate.

Silus waved down Fera and Shael, though he wasn't sure if they saw him or not. The Cafeteria was pretty reasonably priced, a good  range and diversity when it came to the food itself, and it wasn't the worst thing in the world to eat. Silus enjoyed it sometimes, but he would much rather have Zell's cooking. Before he knew it he jumped up and when through the lunch line, Silus making sure to avoid any and all "Big-kids" as he found Matt walking through as well, a rectangular dark green trey with a slice of that stuffed-crust Pizza on it with a water. He proceeded to the checkout when Silus popped up with his own lunch, which consisted of an apple, French fries and a small thing of chocolate milk. He tugged on Matt's sleeve as the male was attempting to drat a dollar twenty-five from his wallet.

    "Huh-oh. Hey, what's up?" Matthew asked as he handed a five dollar bill to the woman at the register. She took it and began to count the change. Silus smiled with that annoyingly adorable smile and asked.

   "Since your friends aren't here on Mondays or Wednesdays, do you wanna eat with us?" He asked. Matthew was slightly taken back by the suggestion, or the offer rather. But he needed to fight the urge to do the normal jackass response of "No" and slimly walking away to sit by himself. Well it was only for today, because stupid AP physics kids like the twins, Tony and Stephen had B lunch on Monday's and Wednesdays. When Matt Nodded Silus' eyes lit up and he quickly paid for his own mean and trotted along, leading Matt to a table that seemed to be mixed form all ages. Matt sat down, and Silus next to him as Sius attempted to find Fera and Shael, motioning them to take the other two seats.

Fera was the first to notice Silus, a single fiery brow arching upwards as she patted Shael on the shoulder and directed him toward the sight of their uncle. He would have rushed over to the ethereal but Fersa pointed out one thing, they were here to eat, and not to socialize, not yet atleast. So she would lead the ethereal towards the line and they would wait it out, until they reached the part with the food, and Shael got whatever looked the tastiest and some chocolate milk, all on a dark green tray and Fera chose the same. Fera drew a ten from her wallet to the woman as payment and then both would find themselves a place to sit, of course Shael wanting to sit with Silus, not that they had anyone else to sit with.

This time Shael found Silus first, his nose picking up the scent of women’s body spray. With a smirk the young looking male picked a seat right next to Silus, a pleased grin still plastered on his face as his sister took a seat next to him. She looked to the strange male for a moment before turning back to her food, picking a large red pepperoni from the greasy pizza slice before plopping it into her mouth. ”So Blair, who is your friend?” She would ask simply before taking a large bite out from the pizza.

"It's Matt!" Silus said as he poked the older and larger Male, who was sitting there silently eating his lunch. That was of course until he looked back to Silus who had just poked him inexplicably. Silus then pointed to a red-headed young woman, about the same age as the Shane kid sitting next to Silus. "Matt, this is my Cousin. Well, Shane is my cousin too but this is-" Silus said, as he looked over for Fera to take it away, like a proper lady. Something he didn't expect form Michaels children, but he DID expect her to realize he wouldn't know who the hell she was by alias.

    "Nice to meet you." Matthew said the second he didn't have food in his mouth. With the clearing of his throat he took a sip form his water-bottle and suddenly felt Silus poke him again. Matthew REALLY hated being touched, his brother's annoying ass fiends never seemed ot understand that concept. Granted he tended to make a special case for Silus because he was till at that "touchy-feely" age.... well... the "Touchy Feely" age that didn't involve anyone's rear or their chest or something. "What?" Matt asked, it was really harsh too, moreso than he intended, though he covered it up well by repeating himself again, and again becoming quieter and more "raspy" each time, playing of as an odd joke. Silus enjoyed it slightly though, arching his eyebrow and shaking his head with a grin.

    "You're so weird... But uh-yeah. So do we're going to the field right?" Silus quizzed, before turning to Fera to explain. "By the way! I got Matt to tutor Shae-N so I can work with you, we're gonna make a contest out of it." Silus said very happy and chipper.

    "We are?"
    "We are."
    "We are." Matt said with a sigh as he took another large bite out of his slice of pizza. Silus just smiled and nodded to Fera in affirmation. Matt simply kept to himself at the moment, not that he hated Fera but he had a rather...slight dislike for red-haired people. Which means her and his brother were up on the list. But save for kill his family, there wasn't anything Fera could really do to pass his brother in his dislikes.

”Nice to meet you too.” Fera said cleanly with a nod of her head, a few strands of red hair falling over the forehead. Silus poking the male, and a small change within his expression that seemed to show a certain hesitance towards being touched, much like she felt towards that. ”The name’s Sarah.” She would introduce herself simply before biting into a slice of pizza once again, the taste slightly bland upon her tongue but otherwise fine considering that it was only school food. If anything said about school food was half correct, then she was expecting something worse. It was perhaps the harsh tone within his voice that caused Fera to flinch slightly, glaring at the male before averting her eyes towards her food. Shael did not seem to really react to the change within tone, but that was all fine really, not that he would have cared anyway.

”Oh you did? Interesting.” She said with thickly veiled sarcasm, taking a deep gulp of chocolate milk, remembering why she loved flavored milk. The idea of a contest caught Shael’s attention, nodding in agreement as he looked to Fera. ”So what exactly did I get dragged into?”

"I'm gonna make sure you don't fail, and Matt is gonna make sure Shane doesn't fail." Silus stated plainly. He thought the explanation in it's own right was enough. Though he wasn't entirely sure why Fera seemed to be so against the idea. He noticed that Matt was finished and looking over his phone quickly, as students from B lunch came in. Cody and Braden with them. Matt groaned to himself, near silently as Braden seemed to light up and made his way, sitting right next to Matt, grinning like an idiot. This was one such person that Matt could live without, though the incessant annoyances were quelled simply because he was Matt's little brother's best friend. The whole "crushing on my friend's big brother" thing was... interesting at first, but after a couple years you would have thought the kid would have let up, or taken the hint. But nope, here we was leaning back and trying to act cool. Matt didn't even acknowledge the kid.

     "Hey boyo." He said. Matt just kept looking at his phone, ignoring the kid as he always did. From the corner of his eye he could see the boy's eyebrow arch as he pressed his forehead into Matt's shoulder, his hat falling off onto the lunch table. Matt's eyes ignited, if it were physically possible for eyes to catch fire it would have happened. He clearly took a couple deep breaths before looking down at the kid.

    "Don't touch me." He said, kindly but firmly. The boy backed off slightly, but had that devlish grin, it bothered Matthew to no end. While A lunch was fabulous, B lunch obviously stood for BITCH lunch. He up and took his tray to walk off and empty them by the trash-cans and the took them up to the tray window.
 
    "He doesn't like you like that...and trying to do it just makes him not like you in general." Silus said, warranting a "yeah right" dismissive look from the boy before Cody sat down where his brother once sat. He rolled his eyes as the other boy ran of for his own food, leaving his hat behind on the table. He looked to Silus and rolled his eyes, laughing with the younger child.

   "It's all I can do to keep him form humping him when he walks into the same room as him." He said, earning a strange look form Silus, not processing the fact the younger kid didn't exactly know the meaning of it. After the explanation of the "meaning" and the desires behind the meaning of the word, Silus felt some of his innocence die as he thought about it. He was happy he had mind erasure enchantments or else he'd been scarred for life. "I swear he goes in heat. Anyway, whose these?" He asked cocking his head slightly, red hair messing up slightly.

"Shane and Sarah. cousins." Silus said innocently enough. He looked to Fera and Shael and introduced him as Matt's brother. Cody then embarrassed himself with looking to Sarah and asking (politely) if it was the same Sarah Matt had dated not that long ago. Silus' eyes shot open and his pupils constricted.... oh dear... Please behave Fera.

Fera could not help but snort lightly, the idea that she would fail. If one thing good came of an advanced mind, it was the photographic memory, and that was something that Shael did not have, so he was more likely to fail. Green eyes narrowed upon her uncle as if a great blasphemy were spoken before returning to the sly expression that was constantly moving about them. It was the appearance of a few others that also caught the female ethereals interest, one male…interesting comparative to the rest. Perhaps it was his familiar posture with the other or the fact that it seemed he would have mounted him if something were not stopping him. The red haired female smirked, red lips forming a curve as she rested chin upon the back of her hands.

Shael raised a brow as a familiar scent radiated from the male, one that reminded him off his father in a way, well perhaps when he was speaking about someone else at any rate. The feral male smiled as he bit into the pizza. It was the mention of humping that caused Shael to descend into childish giggling as milk shot out his mouth back into the carton, a few dark drops dribbling down his chin, quickly wiped up as soon as they appeared. Fera had a more contained reaction, but that did not mean that she did not laugh any less as she seemed to enjoy the younger males already. If anything they were interesting and at the very least vocal. ”Hi.” Shael greeted the newcomer with a wide smirk, teeth flashing in a large white smile.

”Hello.” Fera would note taking a sip of the flavored dairy. The question about her dating his brother caused Fera to break out in a chuckle, one hand pressing over her mouth as she thought this over. ” No no, I don’t remember dating him. Besides, he’s not my type.” She said with a dismissive wave of her hand. ”So, who are you?”

. "Yeah, dorky and secluded tends to get that answer from most people." Cody said with a chuckle. Silus rolled his eyes and continued to munch on his apple before hearing the bell ring. He was glad that was over with Braden popped back up to steal Silus' seat. He clicked his tongue and winked at Shael, and while he was only doing his usual greeting, it may have been misconstrued. If Silus knew Shael any though...he would just think the boy was either really nice or treating him like a dog. Silus said bye to Fera and Shael before taking off on his own, to hopefully stop by his locker before- and the bell rings.... go figure. He took off as fast as he could, careful to duck around the corner and head straight for his next class. His locker would need to wait.

   Shael and Fera would need to go through their classed on their own for a little bit, but there was always eighth and ninth period. Meanwhile Matthew had managed to blow through the government and Econ test with little problem, drawing a little comic about stick figures fighting to the death. With that done he went to AP Calculus and soaked up the knowledge. After a great thirty minutes in Calc, he found himself in Spanish. Shocked when he took his seat only to find "Blair's cousin" showed up, all he could to was be shocked.

    "Hola Mateo, take your seat." The teacher said, doing a double take, seeing Matt and then looking back to Shane, as if she couldn't believe herself. "Ah Mateo, your brother is joining us?" She asked. Senora Koler knew of Cody, but she didn't know that he had the Irish look in the family. Matt shook his head seemingly stoic as he sighed. She looked as if she had just found the Holy Grail...but someone told her it was just a coffee mug that said "Jesus" on it. Frankly she was shocked, claiming they looked alike. Matt didn't see it though.

Fera found herself chuckling. ”Oh really? Even more reason why I wouldn’t date him.” She noted raising an eyebrow, perhaps cataloguing everything that was being said in her mind, for later use if it ever needed to be used. Shael noticed a slightly familiar scent as the male from only a few minutes ago materialized, making a strange sound with his tongue and then winking at the feral boy, who having not in the least any knowledge of well…anything just smiled at him like he would anyone that wasn’t openly hostile. Fera however nearly choked on her food. Luckily her twin was enjoying himself, even though their daddy had said that people were bad, so far humans seemed kinda cool even if they were really weak.

With their lunch done, Fera would bid the kids farewell as well as Shael who was having fun for his first day of school, though they would be going their separate ways from here.  Fera would lead the child to his classes and then move on to their own, so he was not left completely on his own. Next was biology, a class that Shael was not really looking forward to having but it seemed that he made a friend there. The kid was named Jordan, had long brown hair and the weirdest looking blue eyes. By the end of the period, Shael felt as if he had already made a best friend. ”So, what class ya got next period?” The young male would ask the wild child with a toothy smirk, cocking his head to the side.

”Um Spanish I think.” Shael noted looking over his schedule, much to the disappointment to the other male, though his smirk quickly started back up.

”And history after that.” He added.

”Awesome!” Shael said with a small fist pump as he said goodbye to the male, walking to his next class. He did not really expect to see that Matt guy again, yet here he was in all his…glory. She said something about Matt’s brother and Shael took a double take, as if looking for this brother, and yet all he saw was nothing, unless she was referring to him. Not that he really minded being compared, Shael liked his sister and preferred Fera, not that he knew enough about this stranger to feel differently. ”Hiya Matt.” He said to the stoic male choosing a seat next to him as he leaned on arms crossed over each other.

"Hey. What's new?" Matt asked, hoping to limit conversation. He tolerated the child for now but he wasn't trusted by any stretch of the imagination. Matthew found the kid interesting enough though that he'd need to get to know him in order to tutor him. After all, the ability to teach one is the ability to identify with another and offer up ways to associate thought processes with necessary information. Though it was times like this Matthew didn't focus on his senses too much, because the child to the left of him was going a little over-kill on the Axe or something. Matt chuckled as he shifted, now that he smelled it, he couldn't NOT smell it, which was god awful. "You may be trying too hard there for h-whomever you're using the spray for" Matt said as he coughed a little because of it.

"Hola, Buenos Dias chica's." Senora said. The class responded with a bunch of Buenos Dias crap, Matt included. He said it with a lameness about his voice as he listened, but continued to do stick-figure comics and he even added a change of scenery. He was being careful to listen to Shane as he answered questions. The Teacher introduced him and asked him to stand up. "Well Senor Shane, tell us a little about you." Matthew cringed. God he hated that question so much...