“What?” Alice tilted her head to the side a bit, her hand gripping the strap of her bag even tighter than before. Same as…did he mean-? And then he did it. Tiny bits of electricity flashed above his hand so quickly it took the girl a moment to realize what it was. In fact, even after it registered she still had a hard time believing it.

Could he have faked it? No, there’s no way. “You said you didn’t know anyone,” she whispered with a small smile, those grey-green eyes flickering from his hand up to his own gaze. Of course she hadn’t exactly been honest either. “Ah…look, if you’re not playing some game with me then could we go up to your room and do this? I just get freaked,” she sighed, looking outside before shutting the door. “If this is for real, it’s staying between us.”

Stay calm, Alice. This could potentially be a really, really great thing. Or it could go horribly bad. She just had to be careful and do everything she could to read the situation, [i]not[/i] give too much away unless she knew it was safe, and [i]not[/i] assume he’s friendly just because he’s a psychic. It didn’t mean anything…right?

It was horribly to judge like that, and Alice knew it. “Look- all I want to do right now is run out that door and play it safe. Or lie as much as I can while sticking around to see if you’re lying. But that’s not me, I don’t like having to assume you’re being deceitful,” she said, holding out the hand he’d grabbed moments before for him to take again, this time for a hand shake. “Seems like we have a thousand things to talk about, and I- I really want to. I promise I’ll try and be open if you do the same. No more lying. Deal?”