Youth isn't so great [for dl_greenarrow]

[furtum_est_vita]

Bela paced around the cafe bathroom, one hand holding her jacket closed over her chest, the other periodically making sure her slacks didn't slip off her now much narrower hips. She paused in front of the mirror. She looked pale and frightened

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[dl_greenarrow]

It took him eight minutes to reach the cafe, which was, thankfully, just down the street from the clock tower. He didn't even glance toward the counter, instead making his way to the back hallway where the bathrooms were located.

Drawing in a breath, he paused just outside the door marked 'women's' and knocked softly. "Bela?"

[furtum_est_vita]

She almost tripped as she turned towards the door, silently scolding herself before opening it for him and peeking out. And up.

"Do you have to be so tall?"

[dl_greenarrow]

He blinked once. Then again. He opened his mouth to speak, then shut it. Then opened it again. "...you're..."

[furtum_est_vita]

She opened the door a little further to look and make sure no one was watching them and pulled her jacket tighter over her shoulders. "Fourteen."

[dl_greenarrow]

"Is this the part where we start making a list of possibilities or the part where we start calling for backup?" he asked uncertainly.

[furtum_est_vita]

Gives him a look, cracking a smile. "Now is when we get me a pair of fitting clothes. We can work on saving my possibly endangered life after we save my dignity."

[dl_greenarrow]

A short chuckle escaped him. "Right. Well, consider this your lucky day, because I think I've got some stuff that might fit you."

[furtum_est_vita]

"I hope so. You have no idea how weird this is. I've shrunk to before I ever left home, so I'm scrawny and...and... it's just so wrong." She was officially sulking now, which she had to admit wasn't exactly like her, but it was better than admitting she was scared.

[dl_greenarrow]

"Obviously," he teased back, grinning as he pulled into the Dairy Queen drive through and ordered her milkshake.

[furtum_est_vita]

After she got her milkshake, and subsequently given herself a brain freeze, she looked up at him. "So, uh...what exactly did I interrupt with my diabolical plot for your time?"

[dl_greenarrow]

"Nothing big. Just my morning yoga." He grinned.

[furtum_est_vita]

"I thought yoga was a woman's exercise?" Teasing was a fair game.

Justin happens to be one of the only men, if not -the- only man, who can actually pull off a white suit. I'm just saying.

[dl_greenarrow]

He chuckled at the indignation in her voice. "Whatever you say."

[furtum_est_vita]

After a pause that was probably longer than it should have been. "And I'm not immature, either."

[dl_greenarrow]

He was glad they were almost back to the clocktower because he had a feeling if he laughed now, he wouldn't be stopping.

[furtum_est_vita]

She made a face at him. "At least I have an excuse." She pointed out.

[dl_greenarrow]

He smiled softly at her words. "All right, here we are," he said as he parked his car in front of the clock tower and shut off the engine.

[furtum_est_vita]

She adjusted her clothes again as she got out of the car, looking up at the clock tower.

I hit a wall. :< I can't find Warrior online. On the other hand, Absolute Justice was awesome and Ollie is SO immature sometimes.