[b]Elend Carrol[/b]

The SHSL Scientist about jumped out of his skin when one of the others walked over and sat down next to him. A girl. His mind drew a blank, this time for an entiely different reason. He had no clue how to handle being around others, let alone someone of the opposite sex. What should he do, what should he do? Think! What had she said, yes, that was a good place to start, but what had she said? Hey! She'd said hey! Oh crap, she was still talking. What was she saying now? 

"-you calm down?"

What? Was she asking if he had calmed down? No, that wasn't it. Stay here and calm down? Wait, did that mean she was offering to stay with him? How would that help to calm him down!? She started taking off her clothes. What the hell was going on!? El just about passed out right them, barely pulling his brain back into his skull while at the same time shoving his heart back down his throat. Holy crap she was smoking! Elend wasn't sure if he was trapped in hell or some twisted paradise for a second. He picked up his jaw from the floor where he'd dropped it, just as soon as he'd found his eye balls and shoved them back into their rightful sockets. This wasn't how he'd expected to die. The bear had just barely left, and already the school had claimed its first victim! 

The scientist stepped off the emotional roller coaster that this girl had unwittingly set into motion. He needed to clear his head. Asprin, he needed asprin. Elend sat up a little too quickly, eyes a little too dry, voice a little too high. "U-u-u-u-mm-m n-no, I'm-m-m f-f-f-ine n-now. U-um th-tha-nk y-you th-though." Jumping to his feet and backing away from the danger slowly, Elend bolted out of the room. He ran down the hall, looking for his room, cursing the lack of locks all the way there. Alone, he needed to be alone, needed to calm down after all that crazy. The scientist's glasses reflected the light from overhead. An he needed to take off his shirt to check for samples.