[center][h1][color=f26522]Alexander Furst[/color][/h1]
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[color=f26522][i]"Art, velvet, acting, art, archery, butterflies..."[/i][/color]

Ugh, what was with these thoughts and these dreams? Grinding his teeth, Alex held a hand up to his forehead, appearing as if he wanted to scrap someones head across the pavement. It was like this for a while, but they just became amplified, even more so today with them just invading his thoughts to the point of drowning out his main objective! But still... he was too focused on the facets that constantly persisted to be alerted that shrine maiden.

It was only when hearing someones voice did he snap from his trance of underlying irritation and thoughts swamped with dreams of masks and velvet. Turning his head up, he saw an upper-classmate holler out to... wait, when did that shrine maiden get here?!

Alex was a bit stunned to see... uhm, what's her face? Alex swore he heard her name before as he was certain she was a regular at Sacred Grounds. While it did allow him to center his thoughts and diminish the ones over the sounds of velvet, he did eye them both with utmost suspicion as his eyes appeared to be nearly squeezed shut. As ridiculous as he looked with his mouth forming into a closed frown, Alex did mnage to catch her gaze for a fleeting moment as she responded back.

... huh? Was Alex doing something wrong? She just called him by his first name... somewhat. He shifted gears to pick up the pace to catch up to move into synchronization with the blonde. Was he tricked as an elaborate hoax for all these few years here? Alex always thought the Japanese were on a last name basis, never first? These jumbled up thoughts had to be set straight... though he was unsure? Would she lie to him or tell the truth and demand some offerings to be bequeathed to the shrine she served at as compensation?

What did he know about the shrine maiden other than that she received coffee at a particular place?

[color=f26522]"It's Alexander,"[/color] Alex spat out coldly as he refused to make eye contact with either of the other two, thought his lip... he stared at the ground, eyes intensely burrowing into the concrete. What was he... ah yes, there it was! Now he got her name!

[color=f26522]"Maito-san?"[/color] Alex finished his statement as he continuously averted all eye contact with the older lady, lest he would receive venom if her name was incorrect. Trudging along, he just kept to himself, but not long before the musings of velvet and myriads of other peculiar instances began overwhelming him. Seriously, what was up with this?! He was going to get a splitting headache if this continued...

[color=f26522]"So, what are you two here for,"[/color] Alex spoke again, hissing through the slits of his teeth like a lizard. This would probably get his head off of velvet for now...

... and he just thought of it again; why did this have to begin picking up out of all days?[/center]