The Other Real World (open)

[Annabelle Hennessy]

Annabelle didn't need him to say anything, as soon as he clicked the box, she got a little popup notification telling her he'd accepted. She felt a little weird, like it would be stalkerish to imediately scour his page with him sitting right there, so she went to her Vampire App and sent him the clan request like she'd said she would. It would be better to get him distracted figuring out the game before she started exploring.

She wondered if he'd go into the app right away, or if he was busy doing something else, or if perhaps he was checking out her page as she wanted to do to his. She knew he wouldn't find any deep dark secrets, she kept those far away from Facebook. She had considered having a second account for her friends on her blog that constantly inquired why they couldn't find her anywhere else, but was too afraid of them getting mixed up or her family becoming aware and having access to the rest of her life. He'd find the normal comments from friends, Apps, all the crazy things she'd 'liked' and the countless photos that were up, somewhat outdated, but nothing to sound any alarms.

[Indigo Noble]

Indigo's account, at least to those who had access, was quite a bit different than the one his family could see. He'd heard "it's always the quiet ones" so many times that it didn't seem even mildly clever anymore. Maybe he'd partied, and maybe there were quite a few pictures of said partying, and maybe he was quiet, but one had nothing to do with the other.

He tried not to think too much about the account as he accepted one of the app invites waiting around. He wasn't about to look at her page when there was any chance she might see him. He knew how into things he could get, and if he didn't notice her standing up or moving around, he didn't want to be staring at some random picture of her. He fully intended to do it, just when she was busy elsewhere.

"So is the whole game timed like this?" he asked, leaving his music low for now. He typed in his Vampire name, Drowning in Blüd, and got started right away on the initiation.

[Annabelle Hennessy]

"Oh yeah. I almost forgot about the initiation bit. There are special quest type things that they come out with occasionally for a limited time. But no, the whole game isn't like that." She glanced over, seeing that he was busy and clicked the tab in the background to the account she didn't have access to. She looked at the picture again, then pulled up his account and opened the photos tab, wanting to find one where she could see more of his face to compare them. She would have just looked at him, but it would totally be obvious that she was staring at him.

She clicked his profile pictures folder, thinking that it would have the most close-up pictures. It really did look like him, now that she'd gotten to really look at it, but she didn't know him well, maybe he had a distant cousin and Indigo was a family name or something? She closed the window, not cancelling the friend request and wondered if she'd get any sort of reply or if it'd just get denied. To cover up what she'd just quickly done, she asked, "Need me to send you anything?"

[Indigo Noble]

It took Indigo a moment to answer. He made a few last clicks before thinking, then shaking his head. "Not really. I mean, if there are any of those quest things going on, I'll return your gift and everything." He glanced over at her, then back to the initiation, which he was already a third of the way done with. If he was going to play the app, he may as well get the beginning stuff over with. Why wait three days to finish when he could power-level a bit?

[Annabelle Hennessy]

"Okay, feel free to send me any requests if you come across anything." Annabelle quickly sent him a few gifts anyway along with a request for what she needed for her wings. She felt obligated to look at his avatar and when it was just the default she couldn't resist lightly commenting. She thought she was just being friendly and didn't realize she was flirting, although it came out as such. "Nice Avatar, it looks just like you."

[Indigo Noble]

Indigo blinked. There were avatars? He hadn't even thought to look, he'd been so busy getting through fights and missions. "Uh, thanks," he said. How was he supposed to take that? He abandoned what he'd been doing to find his avatar, which was set to default. His brows drew together slightly, but he forced a chuckle as he tried to figure out what she meant by that. Was it an emo crack? The thing looked nothing like him, except for the pale skin, but even he wasn't grey. He changed the hair to one he liked better, then tried to think of a clever retort as he returned to his missions. He failed at speaking.

[Annabelle Hennessy]

"You should have seen mine before I changed it. I was a, blonde." Annabelle smiled, hoping he knew that she'd only been messing with him. But really it didn't look a thing like him so she didn't see how he would take it any other way. She finished with her game and closed that window, leaving the one with his profile pics up. It felt wrong for some reason, but she couldn't resist going back to his albums and seeing what else he had on there.

[Indigo Noble]

"I could see you as a blonde," Indigo said, only catching himself once the words were out. He looked up like a deer in the headlights, though he flickered just the briefest glance toward Annabelle before returning his gaze purposefully to his computer screen. "I mean, you'd look good as a blonde. Not that you don't..." The rest of the sentence melted into incoherent mumbling as he struggled to distract himself.

[Annabelle Hennessy]

Annabelle let out a light laugh and wrinkled her nose. "Really? I've never even thought of dying my hair, I couldn't imagine going blonde. I don't think I have the personality for it." She was much too serious to be a blonde, not that she thought all blondes were carefree airheads or anything, she just couldn't picture it. "Although, I take that back, I used to have a white streak in my hair. Not from dying it though, gotta love magikal accidents." Anna had reached up while she talked and grabbed the chunk of hair that would have been her bangs if she'd had any, indicating the section of hair before smoothing it out again.

[Indigo Noble]

"I didn't mean like, personality-wise," Indigo corrected, afraid despite her laughter that she was offended, or that she'd think he thought she was dumb or easy or something, or even that he might like girls who were dumb or easy. He was nearly finished with their three-day initiation thing. He tried to concentrate on that.

[Annabelle Hennessy]

"Oh, right. Um, thanks then." Annabelle managed to say, having not taken it personally in the first place. She looked up at him, but he was busy looking at his computer so she did the same. She'd opened up a couple of the picture albums, filled with faces of people she didn't know and parties like she'd never been to, but she closed those out in favor of his info tab after only a short while. This was interesting. "You like..." She'd been about to comment on one of the movies he'd liked, when she realized how bad that would make her out to be stalkerish, after all she'd only met him that day. She tried to think of something else to say, quickly. "Um, dye your hair though right? I mean, I've never seen anyone with it that dark that didn't dye it. What color is it naturally?"

[Indigo Noble]

"Um, I don't really remember," Indigo said. "I've been dying it forever now. I just... I like it like this." He reached up and ruffled his hair a bit, unconsciously pushing it back into place half over one eye. He always expected that question to be followed by some comment about it, or something about how girly it looked. There were enough people who'd gone out of their way to make trouble that he anticipated it ahead of time, whether it happened or not.

[Annabelle Hennessy]

"I think it looks good on you. It kind of reminded me of Dare's hair at first. Errr, Professor Blackwood's that is. Expect his isn't all black, it has streaks, but I'm sure you've seen it." Annabelle hadn't meant to put him on the defensive and felt bad. She hoped that he wouldn't take it the wrong way that she'd just compared him with a professor either. "Now that I think about it, I don't know that I've met any Americans here that don't dye their hair. I think my mum would have lost her mind if I'd come home a blonde, or even a redhead."

[Indigo Noble]

"You know Professor Blackwood?" Indigo asked, glancing up at Annabelle again. "I mean, like... besides in class?" There weren't many other reasons she'd be calling him by name. Dare. That was kickass. He wondered if he could steal it for another online name, and started idly pairing it with other words to see how it fit.

[Annabelle Hennessy]

"Yeah I had a couple of classes with him when we were both students....the year before last I guess. He has a brother thats still in Ravenclaw, Silver. And he used to go to SWIM with my friend Markise, they're friends. And well, cause of Michael, he was a student with us too. Err, I guess you'd know him as the other Professor Blackwood-Hardt, the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor." Annabelle knew she'd really met Dare and knew him because of the last, but she could have possibly met him through any of the connections she'd listed if things had fallen differently. She'd hesitated at the last, not knowing if he knew the connection, but with the same hyphenated name, it's not like it was a secret.