Watch the Clock -open-

[caspian]

Caspian had loved his summer road trip. The surf had been something he'd missed beyond belief and just being back in the Owen had been indescribable. Now, he was bad in oceanless territory and he wasn't exactly too depressed about it. He always tried to make the best of the situation and he was in college now and that meant he should be focusing more on the work instead of surfing anyway.

As he sat in the middle of one of his endless intro classes her stared directly ahead at the projector going through slides of which he was supposed to be taking notes. No thank you, he could copy them from a classmate later if he ever made any friends in this class.

One thing Cas was usually good at was making friends, so his blue eyes glanced around the room taking in the potentials. It was hard being taken away from your usual crowd, and thrown into a completely different environment. From Hawaii to here was probably the worlds biggest change. Course it'd been a couple years since he'd been home. Boarding school had been a way to keep him from doing what he loved, to keep his safe and it had only taken him a couple of days to charm his way into everyones hearts.

Here, was a little bit different especially considering the fact that there was ten times the amount of students here and half of them were to concerned with their classes to even care about who was sitting next to them. He wasn't really all too concerned about getting a degree. He worked hard sure, but he knew that he didn't need to and he knew that surfing was still what he wanted to do. He wanted to be signed back professionally back where he was before he was sent to this hell hole.

As he sat he drummed his pen against his notebook as he hummed quietly under his breath wearing for the clock to stirke 2:45 and the class to be over. It was his last class for the day and then he could do whatever the hell he wanted.

[KENDELL NOELLE CONNERS]

God, what the fuck was wrong with her? She couldn't believe that she had done that, she should have just left right off the bat when she realized that her name wasn't on the attendance list. But no, she had to sit there awkwardly until there was a break in the class and she just grabbed her stuff and high tailed it out of there. College was certainly a big adjustment to Kendell, not only did she seemingly have all of this free time, supposedly, but then there was also this problem of navigating the college. And that was hard, especially when some classes took twenty minutes to get to. What on earth was she thinking when she chose a state school?

Lacrosse. Lacrosse had been what she was thinking about during that whole entire time. Who would have ever thought that her love for sports would have gotten her in trouble. Well, that and not bothering trying to hunt down her classes and their whereabouts before hand unlike her roommate. Ironically enough, she had been invited to go on this class hunt too by her roommate but of course, naturally, Kendell thought she could handle it. Too busy with unpacking and settling in. Though, it wasn't like she had enough time, she hadn't even texted Ryder yet.

That was another thing, him not being around. It was really weird. The whole thing was really weird, but in the long run, Kendell knew she could deal. She took everything in stride, minus this whole missing half of her real class. Adjusting her bag a little, Kendell picked up her pace as she rushed down a hall and dodging about various students like it was nothing. Glancing over the sheet of paper in her hand, it had preoccupied her attention so much that she nearly ended up walking right past the actual room that she should have been in. Skidding to a stop, she back tracked a step or two and glanced at the room number, "Shit, this is it," she muttered to herself.

Taking a breath, she grabbed the handle of the door, twisted, and pushed it open. Walking into the room now, the professor paused and glanced over at her. Awkward, "Uh, sorry," she managed, "I got lost..." Nobody cares, Kendell, just keep on going. God, this sucked, being back on the bottom of the food chain again. She missed being a senior and ruling the school like it had been nothing, after all, classes weren't just going to be like that, she knew lacrosse practice was going to be like that as well, plus on tv. After a moment, the professor just nodded towards the seats.

Offering a smile, she turned and headed up the stadium seating now, trying to find herself an empty seat. But, as life would have it, there weren't any, not on the end at least. Spotting a seat, she started slowly trying to move past students who had been sitting peacefully until now. After a few moments of bumping into people, a couple of sorry's, and one near trip, Kendell dropped her stuff down next to a blonde boy and slid right into the chair. Pulling the swinging desk up, Kendell leaned over, rummaging through her bag to grab her stuff and grabbed a notebook and slammed it down on her desk.

She was probably the nosiest person to ever grace this classroom. Although there was a problem, she couldn't find a pen. Digging through her bag a little bit more, it became clear that some how, she managed to have left it back in the wrong classroom. Sitting up now, Kendell glanced around before eyeing the boy next to her now, "Hey, uh, do you have a pen I could borrow?" she asked in a hushed whisper, finally settling down enough to manage to be semi-quiet.

[caspian]

Girl certainly knew how to attract attention to herself that was for sure. He was trying not to laugh, not at her, after all he couldn't imagine being in that situation he just wanted to laugh at the people she was disturbing.

For some reason he was amused that the professor and other students had to deal with the disruption. Normally he probably would have stood up to help her but well, he didn't need to draw any more attention to her than she was already drawing to herself.

He did however keep a careful eye on her just in case his assistance was needed. After what seemed like forever she found a seat near him and he let his attention wander back to the lecture just for a moment before he heard a hushed whisper that seemed to be directed his way.

He turned his calm blue eyes back to the girl and realised she had taken the seat directly next to him and she was asking for a pen. He only had the one but he'd already decided he wasn't taking notes today anyway so this could be the best of both worlds if he played his cards right.

He took a moment to think about it twirling the pen in his fingers for a few moments wondering if it was really smart to want to borrow the girls notes after she took them, for all he knew she could be a terrible student and a terrible note taker. Course, at the end of the day it didn't matter, he still wasn't going to be taking notes. He tilted his head in thought before leaning forward to pass the pen to her. “Sure but then you gotta let me borrow your notes” he said with a smile giving the pen to her before leaning back in his chair again.

[KENDELL NOELLE CONNERS]

She knew she was drawing attention to herself, a lot of attention. Kendell wasn't even sure if it was the type of attention she even wanted. Granted, was there ever any good type of attention? She shouldn't even be asking herself that right now, she had to make it to a seat without tripping over somebody and drawing even more attention to herself. After all, it was bad enough that she just disturbed the whole class, the nerds were probably giving her death glares as she found her seat. How embarrassing still, and it was only day one of classes. Now she was just waiting to get told to shut up after whispering to the guy next to her, but so far, it hadn't happened.

Wow, he had insanely blue eyes, like Ryder. What was with all of these blonde haired, blue eyed guys popping up all of the sudden? Perhaps there was a new season added into the list where they were part of the new season equation. Kendell just stared at him, waiting for some sort of answer but it was dragging out longer than she had remotely anticipated. All what she had wanted was a pen, or maybe it had been too much of a far fetched idea that he had another pen on him. She was setting herself up for more disappointment, and now the professor was going to notice how after she arrived late, she didn't even bother taking notes for the half of the class that she was in. And then, her wild imagination just added onto the fact that in coaches kept tabs on class and what if her professor told her off to her coach, all because this boy wouldn't give her a pen.

'No Kendell, you need to stop,' she thought to herself. Where was Ryder when she needed him to balance her out? Oh wait, he was back in Minnesota doing...something. Hopefully, not moping around. Her gaze moved back down to her empty notebook for a moment and then to the professor. He wasn't staring at her, yet. Whatever disruption she may have caused, it seemed that she had been forgiven for it, or at least, everybody soon got wrapped back up into the class lecture...which she couldn't even follow. A small motion caught her attention, her neighbor twirling the pen and she almost felt like he was mocking her. She could be using that pen right now.

As if he had read her mind though, he was handing her the pen and informing her of a deal. A small laugh escaped Kendell, "Are you sure you want to trust me with that task?" she asked now, taking the pen carefully. She noticed though how he wasn't taking out another one, great, this was probably his only pen. Hopefully, none of this would backfire on her, but half of her attention was now on her neighbor, while the other half was on the power point slides, but they weren't half as interesting, "I'm Kendell by the way, Kendell Conners." Might as well try and make a new friend, branch out from the team and her roommate.

[caspian]

" I wasn't planning on taking notes anyway so your notes are better than no notes at all" He told her with a smile but she did have a point he didn't even know her she could be terrible at taking notes, or the kind of person who wrote all short hand that only they would be able to understand. Oh well, he would just have to risk that it seemed. He was pretty easy going so he wasn't going to care too much about it.

"I'm Cas Reynolds" he said introducing himself, he wasn't going to use his full name, Caspian was just... not a name to tell people about, one of those things he tended to keep to himself until he had to tell people. His grandfather always used his full name, not that he saw him anymore but he had always refused to call him 'Cas' saying it wasn't his given name, it was too common. He almost rolled his eyes at the thought and though he loved his grandfather enough, he wasn't exactly one of the biggest things he missed about Hawaii.

He wasn't sure he was meant to be a 'Reynolds' there was too much expectation, and he was just glad to have gotten away. Even at boarding school he'd been stuck with a certain type of people. Now, at College he could be anyone and they wouldn't know the difference, there were expectations sure but they had nothing to do with his name, they had to do with his intellectual abilities and he was looking forward to working on his own merit. "Get lost?" he whispered to her curiously wondering if that had been the reason she'd wandered into class late.

[KENDELL NOELLE CONNERS]

Kendell only stared at him for a moment before a grin cracked across her features, "Excellent point," she said now, already starting to scrawl what was going across the screen. Her hand writing wasn't always the neatest but she never had somebody tell her that they couldn't read something. Besides, this guy didn't seem to be one of those people who needed everything to be perfect. Well, of course he wasn't if he said that he hadn't been planning on taking notes in the first place. She was about to ask him his name, but it appeared that he had beaten her to the punch, "Cas?" Kendell repeated now, glancing back over at him rather curiously.

It had to be short for something, there was no way that his parents had named him that voluntarily. Or maybe they did, hell, her parents gave her Kendell and that was typically a guy's name. The only 'Cas's she had ever heard of were for girls, either that or she just didn't get out a whole lot. Well, let's be honest here, she was from Windom, and the town wasn't exactly out of the ordinary. Unless one counted all the strange things that were happening right when she was getting ready to leave, "I knew a Cas once. It was short for Casanova and he was a horse," she commented now, "But that can't be you're name...unless it is." The thought made her muse a little as Kendell glanced back down to her notebook now, "If it is, you totally just knocked my boyfriend off the list of interesting names."

Wow, she just could not shut up right now. Kendell didn't know why, maybe she was still going off the craziness of clearly getting lost her first day and made a stupid freshmen mistake. That had to be it, usually she was cooler than this. Wait, did that even just cross her mind? It didn't matter though, Kendell didn't really have much time to dwell on it when Cas inquired as to why she had been late, and he had clearly been right on the mark. She laughed a little bit, keeping it low as she kept on writing down her notes, "Yeah. I thought I was in the right classroom, but I wasn't. But I was too embarrassed to get up and leave, so I had to wait for a break in the class, and I kinda just...sprinted out of there."

Hopefully, she hadn't been that blatantly obvious about it, but subtly wasn't exactly her strong point sometimes, that or she overlooked things way too easily. Out of the corner of her eye, she looked back at Cas in some high interest, "So....don't take this the wrong way, but you're incredibly tan for this area...where are you from originally?" Wait, maybe that was a little creeperish, "I'm from Minnesota myself," she added on quickly with a grin, glancing over at him now, "Swear to god I'm not planning on doing anything to you."

[caspian]

"Not quite..." he said with a laugh thinking at the idea of how ridiculous the possibility was that his name was Casanova. "It's short for Caspian" he confessed "Like the sea" he didn't know why he felt the need to explain himself, it wasn't like he'd picked his name, that was all on his mother. "How's that one fair on your interesting name list?" he asked not bothered by the boyfriend comment, it was pretty safe to assume that most of the girls around the school were taken, and he wasn't one who really cared, he had more important things to worry about.

He laughed at her story about walking into the wrong class. " It took me a good ten minutes to realise I was sitting in an anthropology class and not English" he admitted. " I think it's sort of one of those right of passage things that everyone has to do in their first year" he assured her. It was nothing to be embarrassed about at all. He grinned at the tanned comment because honestly, he wasn't as tanned as he was used to, and what little tan he may have had left was from his summer trip to California, the nearest place to home with a similar surf, similar being a very generous word because it really hadn't been the same.

"I'm not really sure how I could take that the wrong way..." he really wasn't sure, then again maybe he was just more easy going than most people "I'm from Hawaii" he told her "but I haven't been home in ages" he admitted " I spent the summer in California, so that's probably what you're seeing" he admitted. Not quite the same scalding humid weather that he was used to, it had been a drag to be away from home, it was going to keep him from surfing, his grandfather should have known that but he wasn't going to argue the fact it just wasn't worth it sometimes.

[KENDELL NOELLE CONNERS]

Kendell could not help but to feel slightly disappointed to learn that his name was not Casanova. She didn't know why it would be interesting, nothing could quite possibly beat that. But they he said his name, and her interest skyrocketed again. Her eyebrow arched a little as she glanced back over, "Caspian?" she repeated, funny, the sea wasn't the first thing that came up when she heard the name. A grin came across her face though as she leaned in a little bit closer, "Wait, so, do people ask you where to find Narnia then? You'd totally be a prince there," she said, nodding her head matter-o-factly. But of course now she had to think, "Hmmm, I don't know. Caspian, Ryder...it's pretty close. It might be tied."

She was really beginning to think that Casanova might be the only one to outrank either one of them. That or a completely strange name that she had never heard of before. Kendell didn't really know, since, well, these two guys were technically the only ones with odd names that she knew of. She supposed her brother could count with a name like Cyrus though, that was pretty old fashioned. A new slide flashed up and quickly, Kendell started scrawling again as she heard her new neighbor laugh at her situation with the going into the wrong class room. At least he was telling her his own story and she cringed at the topic, "Wow, that sounds painful...hey, are you a freshman?" It felt silly to ask, but Kendell realized that most of the time now, her classes were going to be mixed as far as year went.

Laughter escaped her, "I don't know, you're not a girl so I guess you couldn't," she replied now. When he said he was from Hawaii though, she glanced over at him curiously, "Hawaii? You're a far ways from home...why the hell did you come to Michigan of all places? You must like, turn into an icicle during the winter time." It was funny though how he had just spent his time in California though, instead of going home. She couldn't help but to wonder if there were any problems, but of course, it wasn't her place to ask or anything, "Oh, well, if you need to go any where for holidays, you can always stop by my place. I'm only thirteen hours away. Oh, and sorry I'm like way talkative. I think college is getting to me, not used to being a freshman all over again."