Blackbird || Ariella

[joshuafenn]

Laying the mat down on the grass and pinning it down with books of varying thickness, Joshua smiled happily as he prepared for his picnic with Ariella. It was the first Saturday since Ariella joined Northvale Academy and since Ariella was being forced to stay with the other students of Northvale in the dorms, Joshua thought that it might be nice to surprise her with a picnic and catch up with her over how Northvale was turning out to be so far. He had some pretty cool stories to tell her, too, mostly involving the pack and the shit that they'd managed to get up to in the week they'd been here, but some of the stories were about the more amusing people that he'd met in his new bookshop, Book'em.

Glancing at his (Star Trek) watch, Joshua noted the time (5 minutes till 1030, which was the time when Ariella was supposed to come to the picnic grounds according to the note that Joshua had forced kindly asked a student to pass her) and started taking out the food. Sandwiches, check. Jug of orange juice, check. Homemade apple pie, check. Paper plates, check. Plastic cups, check.... forks and spoons, check. Wonderful weather, check. Pretty scenery, check. Awesome packmate-- and that was him-- also check! Well, that was that, then; now they just had to wait patiently for Ariella to show, provided that she got the... shit.

Joshua could have smacked himself for his stupidity. What if the student had just laughed and threw the message away once Joshua turned away? What if Ariella had something on? What if the message kept being passed from student to student but no one knew who Ariella was because she was new? Craaaap. And who knew whether Ari even wanted to spend a perfectly nice Saturday morning with her ancient packmate, anyway? He was 80, for God's sake. Obviously she wouldn't want to hang out with an old fart like him. Not that he wasn't 'hip and with it' or anything-- oh God. If he was using stupid phrases like 'hip and with it', he most certainly wasn't 'hip and with it'-- but at least he was able to tell that using a phrase like 'hip and with it' was NOT 'hip and with it', right? That earned him some not-an-old-fart points, right? Oh God. He needed to stop freaking out. Ariella was going to turn up-- he was really early, anyway-- and they would have a perfectly nice breakfast as packmates because no matter whether all the packmates knew about his stupid crush on Ariella or not, Ariella definitely (like, 100%!) did NOT know that he had a crush on her and... okay.

Obviously, Joshua needed to calm down. Calm. Down. Everything was going to be okay. It was stupid and pointless for him to be freaking out, anyway. Why was he even freaking out? There was no point to freaking out. Ariella liked him and he liked Ariella, even if Ariella only liked him as a packmate, and it wasn't like Joshua was courting Ariella by asking her to come for a nice, picnic breakfast or anything, right? It was just a nice, friendly gesture between packmates because it was a nice thing for people to do, y'know, check up on their packmate who had been stuck at a stupid boarding school. Especially since it was her first week! She probably encountered so many problems. He was just being a nice, concerned packmate-- and that was going to remain true no matter what language it was said in. Oshuajay isway ustjay away icenay, oncernedcay ackmatepay. It was going to be true no matter what and Joshua really had to stop freaking out.

Maybe it would be a good idea if he went to quadruple-check that he had everything again. Orange juice, check. Apple pie, check. Sandwiches, delicious-- check. Paper plates, check... plastic cups, check. Forks and spoons, che-. Shit. Where were the forks and spoons? Joshua's eyes widened, and he dug in the bag even more deeply. Where were the forks and spoons? He knew they were there, after all, he checked them off the list three times already. But where were they now? Grasping around on the (rather messy, hm, he must have screwed up the arrangement just now while freaking out) mat, he tried to feel for anything vaguely spoon or fork-shaped. When that proved unsuccessful, he stood up and stared at the mat, trying to will the spoons and forks out of hiding with the sheer power of his stare. This, too, proved to be unsuccessful. Grumbling about how nothing ever worked with the power of the awesome stare, Joshua got down on his hands and knees to try and find the missing cutlery. He knew that he should have kept them more securely-- he'd always had a very poor history with cutlery. They always hated him, and Joshua was 90% sure that either they ran away into the nicely-trimmed grass in order to avoid him, or they ran off to some other student who was on the picnic grounds, amnday hemtay. Tupidsay utlerycay.

"Frak!" he cursed, finally locating the troublesome forks and spoons-- which were on the mat all along, just blending in with the mat or something and laying in wait to painfully stab him once Joshua made an effort to look for them. Stupid freaking cutlery. Grumbling and unnecessarily violently, Joshua grabbed the cutlery and stuffed them back into the handy little picnic bag he'd brought along. There, now they wouldn't be able to hurt him or get lost again. And then he looked back over at the mat, which was in a mess after his fork-and-spoon searching session-- great. Taking up the jug of orange juice, he moved it slightly to the left and placed the apple pie in the dead center of the mat like it was supposed to be. It was a wonderful pie, actually, pre-sliced and everything, and Joshua was sure that Ariella would love it when she came. He figured they could have a couple of slices, and then she could bring back the remainder to her dorm as a snack. And finally, the little sandwiches were on a tray, looking as adorable as ever. Ariella would love them. Small things were really cute, anyway-- okay, that sounded wrong. But tiny sandwiches were the best kind, with the fluffy white bread and nice, thin slices of ham or egg mayo or tuna or whatever. Tiny sandwiches were the best.

... yeah. Joshua sighed a bit, humming a tune to himself to hopefully calm himself down before Ariella arrived. 1028-- 2 more minutes till they were supposed to meet. This was going to be really awesome and nothing was going to go wrong and... yeah.

Yeah.

[ariella grace o'hearne]

Northvale Academy was pretty interesting, to say the least and Ariella could already see how it had earned the nickname ‘Dramavale’. Drama was cool though! She wanted to create some of her own but needed more of an idea how to go about it before she did so. Perhaps once the werewolf made some friends the rest would follow suit? Yeah, maybe. The rest of the Fenn Pack wouldn’t be too happy if she ended up being crowned the Queen of Dramavale though and the redhead had to keep that in mind, she guessed. It sucked when they got all stressy with her.

Nothing of great interest to her had occurred yet, unfortunately. But she was having a picnic with Joshua whichwastotallyacoupleythingtodo this morning. And Ariella couldn’t help but find it immensely sweet that he was going to come over to the school with a stupid little picnic and his stupid little face all for her. There was no way that she was mistaken over the crush he had to have on her. It wasn’t just wishful thinking – it couldn’t be or she’d die.

Ariella glanced at the clock and pulled an unhappy face when she saw that it was already 10:30 and she hadn’t even left her dorm yet so she’d definitely be the tiniest bit late. What a great start to their date picnic. The third year forced a final smile at her reflection before beginning to make her way to the picnic area. She wanted to hurry up but feared that she’d look way too eager if she practically ran all the way to her packmate. And everyone would laugh at her. And she’d fall over and squish the picnic and Joshy would shout at her and the world would explode. Yup, that was why walking was better.

The student waved over at her dear friend when he came into view. Ariella had to stop herself from flailing around at the site of the picnic because, gosh, this was all too cute for her to handle. She walked a bit faster now and grinned at the food and drink out on the mat (especially those tiny sandwiches because they were so adorable she didn’t know if she’d be able to handle eating them). “Joshyyy!” Ariella exclaimed before flapping her arms around, “Those sandwiches, oh my gosh!”

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She sat down as close to her packmate as she could and wrapped her arms around him for a soul-crushing hug. “This picnic’s the cutest. Seriously.” (It was probably the cutest because Joshua was here but that didn’t need mentioning in front of him.)[/color][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote]

Outfit: Clicky! ๏ Notes: :333 ๏ Tagged: Joshy~

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[joshuafenn]

Joshua died on the spot when Ariella yelled the stupidly adorable nickname that she'd come up with for him and then hugged him reaaaaally tightly. Or maybe he melted into a puddle of goop. Regardless, Joshua was dying. Merlin, what was he going to do with Ariella? One day she'd result in him getting a heart attack and he'd die just because... just because she was too cute, or something. A bright pink blush rose on his cheeks. Mahal. Hopefully Ariella wouldn't notice the humiliating flush on his cheeks, but if she did... well, that wouldn't be too surprising, either.

Trying his best to hide the fact that he was just asdfghjkling uncontrollably inside, Joshua let a stupid smile spread on his face as he hugged Ariella back... and blushed a bit more. What? It wasn't his fault, it was like his whatever that causes people to blush went into hyperdrive whenever Ariella was around. Eru, he was like a teenager with a crush. But he supposed that Ariella was a pretty good excuse for him acting like a teenager.

"Hey there, Freckles," he laughed when Ariella finally released him, their faces just being a few inches away from each other. He couldn't stop the stupid smile on his face, oh gosh, and he couldn't stop staring at Ariella's gorgeous face. Even though Joshua knew that Ariella pretty much hated her freckles, Joshua absolutely adored them. He figured that maybe it had something to do with the entire "freckles are places where angels have kissed" thing, but Joshua always wanted to kiss each and every one of Ari's freckles. And her eyes, Eru save him-- he could get lost in those pools of blueish-green (so he wasn't much of a poet, so what?). Ugh. Okay, he was being creepy again. Kissing Ariella lightly on her adorable little button nose (asdfghjkl he almost melted again oshgay ehay adhay otay topsay oingday hingstay ikelay hattay), he let another stupid smile spread over his face (not that the first one had left, but he just found it really hard to stop smiling around Ari, okay?) and properly released her, patting a spot on the mat to show her where she was supposed to sit. They couldn't possibly have a picnic with her practically on his lap anyway, right? "Glad you like the picnic. Now sit down properly, I'm starving. I feel like a hobbit who's been deprived of elevensies and tea-time!"

And then he skewered a tiny sandwich with one of the forks-- peanut butter and apple, her absolute favourite kind of sandwich ever (no, it wasn’t weird that he knew her favourite sandwich flavour, he was just being a nice packmate who was involved in the lives of the other members of the Fenn pack. He knew Lysander’s favourite sandwich, so it wasn’t weird)-- and brought it close to Ariella's mouth. "Say aaaaaaah," he sang, preparing to feed her (and screw anyone who said that it was coupley, because it was a perfectly acceptable thing for packmates to do!).

[ariella grace o'hearne]

Joshua’s face shouldn’t be allowed because he was blushing and smiling and generally being a heart-crushingly adorable piece of shit that Ariella shouldn’t be in love with at all apart from how she really, really was. But… faces shouldn’t be that perfect. Joshua shouldn’t be that perfect because it was causing her some slight problems due to how he was an idiot that refused to admit that he had a crush on her too. Ariella was 99.9% sure that she wasn’t imagining this whole crush thing because, c’mon, it was pretty obvious. She had to smile back at him; despite the nickname she’d been called. Yeah, knowing that she had caused to colouring in his cheeks made her smile. Why wouldn’t it?

By calling her ‘Freckles’, Ariella still hadn’t figured out whether that meant Joshua was simply poking fun at them or if he liked them. She doubted it was the latter though because, god, they weren’t nice-looking at all. She wasn’t one of those pretty celebrities with clear, tanned skin. No. The werewolf was just pale and freckly and disgusting. Even her Joshy had better skin than her without even trying!

This was so so so coupley. He’d kissed her (on the nose, but whatever)! Ariella thought that had maybe caused her to blush too. She hadn’t said anything about Joshua blushing so he shouldn’t say anything to her because it would be really horrible and unfair for him to do such a thing. Anyway, now she was being told to sit farther away from him… which was sad, but probably necessary if they wanted to eat. As for the ‘hobbit’ thing her packmate had said, Ariella could only roll her eyes at that before plopping down on the picnic mat.

Ariella grinned when one of the tiny sandwiches was held in front of her mouth. She smelt that it was peanut butter and apple, her favourite – she was unaware that Joshua had ever known that, but he was usually full of surprises like that. Maybe it was a weird coincidence? Giggling, she opened her mouth. “Aaahhh~” Not coupley. Nope.

Outfit: Clicky! ๏ Notes: :333 ๏ Tagged: Joshy~

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[joshuafenn]

Ugh, it felt like it was Ariella's mission to kill him with... with cuteness, or something. Her laugh was unfairly adorable and her 'aaaahhh~' was just-- asdfghjkl. Joshua began to move the sandwich towards her mouth, but just before it reached, he changed his mind and popped it into his own mouth instead. "Mmmmm," letting out an exaggerated noise of appreciation for the sandwich, he grinned at his packmate. "That was really good. You should try one."

It was kind of fun, teasing Ariella like that. It wasn't that he was being mean or anything (he wasn't actually the type of guy to pull the pigtails of the girl he liked-- he grew out of that ages ago), but a spot of good-natured teasing was fine. It was like him calling Ari "Freckles"! He knew perfectly well that she didn't like her freckles, but he personally adored them (every single one) and wanted to make her feel better about them, which is why he kept bringing them up. Plus, "Freckles" was kind of a cute nickname, and Joshua didn't really mind if people heard it and mistook them for a couple. He didn't actually want Ariella to go out with any other guy, although he figured that-- well, if the other guy truly made Ariella happy, he'd be okay with it. Upset, but... okay with it. And, well, Ariella deserved someone who would completely understand and love her forever and ever. If Ariella didn't think he was that guy, he would be okay with it.

Merlin, he was talking like he was already dating her. No, he wasn't. He had to get that into his head. He wasn't dating Ariella or anything no matter how much he would love to and, heck, he hadn't even confessed to her or anything like that. And while Joshua knew that Ariella liked him, he didn't know if she like-liked him and ugh, why were relationship things so confusing, anyway?

Shaking his head to bring himself out of his thoughts, Joshua redirected his attention to the beautiful girl sitting next to him. "So, how's school?" he started, munching on another of the glorious tiny sandwiches. "I know you've only been in Northvale for about a week, but you can't blame me for being concerned. Not that I'm the only one that's concerned, of course! Because the rest of the pack's concerned too, and that's the only reason why I'm asking. But that doesn't mean that I'm not concerned, either, and-- oh, Mahal, I'm making a right arse of myself again, aren't I?"

Frankly, Joshua wasn't sure why being near Ariella always got him so flustered. It wasn't as if he asked to be so flustered and asdfghjkl around her, but she just had this way of... getting under his skin? Even though she wasn't saying anything? And making him unbelievably nervous, which was so stupid. Ugh. He just wanted to have a nice, normal conversation with Ariella without stumbling or stuttering or embarrassing himself for once. Was that so much to ask?