[center][color=ed1c24][h1]Decky Boaz - 2006[/h1][/color][/center]
Decky looked down at Mr. Beau's admonishment, cheeks burning in both shame and anger. [i]He[/i] hadn't started [i]anything[/i] with Rivers. The douche had just shown up and shoved him! All Decky had been doing was helping Kaitlin up, which you'd think the taller boy would have noticed.

Decky tilted his head enough to give Rivers a sideways glare at the boy's last comment and waited until Kaitlin walked away to step up to him again.

"First off, I didn't attack your friend. My girlfriend did, and I was just trying to help her up. Second, Beau ain't my guardian so get the idea of getting me in trouble with him out your head real quick." The Boaz brothers' family situation wasn't exactly a well hidden secret, despite how hard Decky tried to keep it as such; nor was the fact that from March of last school year up to one month ago, the boy's had been living with the man. Still, it was supposed to be known amongst faculty only for legal reasons, so it rankled Decky's nerves that Rivers had commented on the situation as though he knew that Beau had been their temporary guardian. "Finally," he ground out, not giving the paler boy a chance to comment on the first two points yet. "Lanie doesn't need me on a leash because the whole point of a good relationship is that you aren't so unsatisfied that you have to go looking for warmth in someone else's bed. Maybe if you and O'Conner respected each other as much as you [i]claimed[/i] to, you wouldn't have been bed hopping the past couple'a-"

"Decky?"

The voice was soft, and Decky, face-to-face with Rivers, let his angry look drop so fast it probably made the other boy's head spin. He turned around, face soft as he looked at his younger brother, answering in a soothing tone.

"Hey Danny, how's your first day been?" It was a simple question, but the boy for once ignored his brother in order to stare past him and at Logan, a confused and worried frown on his face as though he knew exactly what had been happening before he walked up.
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[color=007236][center][h1]Aisik Shomer[/h1][/center][/color]
Aisik smiled slightly in surprise at Emilia's hug, touching the small of her back for a second after she let go as a way to show her the hug was appreciated. They spoke to the fan's for a few minutes, by the end of which he was almost pleasantly blinded by the amount of camera flashes. Pleasantly because, at least this way he would have to see everyone throwing him heart eyes and some of the older girls sending lustful gazes his way.

He was less pleasantly surprised by Nick Donavan's overexcited entrance, the man's arm over his shoulder jostling him and causing his smile to slip before a camera flash reminded him of the fans, causing him to quickly bring it back into place.

"It has been a while, Nick," Aisik answered, his smile a little strained as he subtly ducked out of the man's hold, seeing Emilia do the same almost in sync with him. He nodded to Vincent and fiddled with his wedding ring in a nervous habit. "Vincent, nice to see you've come back also. I saw Ashley earlier but I wasn't sure if-" A small cough cut him off, and he turned slighty, a genuine smile splitting his face at the woman fidgeting before them. There were more camera flashes at that, some of the girls almost crying over seeing him smile so wide. Mentally, Aisik realized that it probably wasn't healthy that such a thing was rare enough on him that fans frenzied over it, but he pushed that thought aside for another day. 

He set a hand on either shoulder and gave the woman a small kiss on the cheek, trying not to cringe at the fans' squeals. He was well aware of the small following that wanted to see Decky and Maddy together, despite only having had half a season of scenes before the shooting. When they were teens it used to freak him out, given that he saw the young girl as a pseudo sister, mother-henning her when certain scheduling for scenes had him away from Gavriel long enough to make him feel lost.

"It's so good to see you, Brinlee," He said honestly. "You look well."

Vincent chose that moment to bring up something about a groupchat and dinner with Bella, so Aisik assumed that his currently silenced phone had the same message, along with everyone else present since Emilia slipped away to get to the hotel and change for the evening. He smiled softly to the young woman in front of him.

"As long as it's not like some of the cast parties they used to throw, yeah?" he joked. Those used to be hectic; with a bunch of rowdy teenagers who had been cooped up on set all day, it was to be expected. 

Aisik usually found himself leaving those quite early and making his way home to Gavriel, tucking him in and cleaning up his mother's liqour bottles from where they had fallen after she passed out on her bed. It was nights like those, and the other nights when she was actually home and things got physical, that he wish emancipation was as easy as it had been for Decky in the show. As it was, he and his brother were only in The States because of his mother's job; for all he knew, getting emancipated would get him and Gavriel sent back to Israel as they wouldn't have their mother's job to protect their precarious citizenship.

Aisik tried not to dwell on it, given that he had willingly returned to Israel when he was still a minor himself. His mother had not followed, and he had gotten notification of her passing- alchohol poisoning, go figure- only a few months into him having left.

So no, Aisik did his best not to dwell. In light of this, he realized he had zoned out for a minute and quickly turned his attention back to Brinlee, Nick, and Vincent, hoping none of them had noticed his minor lapse in attention.