[b]"Mochavine sounds wonderful."[/b]

[color=f7941d][i]She's awfully willing to head somewhere with a stranger. Maybe her brief interaction with Matsuoka was unrelated and she was really sent by someone else who told her plenty of things about me? No. That couldn't be it. There's not a single person in this city who knows plenty of things about me to tell and even so they wouldn't have known that I was at that spot. It must've been Matsuoka, but what could he have told her to get her to do this?[/i][/color]

[b]"How old are you?"[/b] Molly asks, breaking James' jumbled thoughts, [b]"I'm nineteen, and I go to the Academy."[/b] [color=f7941d][i]Oh. It all makes sense now. Matsuoka is probably a familiar face to her and she might have seen me at the Academy so he probably wouldn't have needed to say much. Agreeing to Mochavine makes sense, too. I think that's how normal students interact with one another, anyway.[/i][/color]

[color=f26522]"I'm 21 and I'm a student there as well,"[/color] James responds while getting a better look at her face. [color=f7941d][i]Odd. I don't remember seeing her at the Academy and I'm absolutely sure I would remember a face like hers. I haven't been looking around at people much recently, though, and considering her age she probably hasn't attended for long.[/i][/color] [color=f26522]"I'm majoring in Computer Science. How about you?"[/color] [color=f7941d][i]I think this is the first time I've spoken with a female student, or any student, really, outside of group projects or class discussions. It's nice, but it would be much nicer if I wasn't nervous enough to be shaking a little -- or maybe that's the cold?[/i][/color] James touches his hands to the back of his neck for a moment to warm them before he puts them into his hoodie pockets. Molly pulls a leaf from a shrub. [color=f7941d][i]I guess I'm not the only one who's nervous.[/i][/color] He continues to watch her as she rips it apart. It's kind of cute, odd as it to use that word to describe someone plucking off part of a living organism and systematically tearing it to pieces. [color=f7941d][i]I'll need to thank Matsuoka later... somehow.[/i][/color]

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