[@BoyMom69035] [Center] [hr][hr][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/1322245d-52b5-45b8-bb92-874eff759c71.jpg[/img][hr][hr] [url=https://fontmeme.com/food-wars-font/][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180925/be15b386fc03c1e18f2b9ae1f6a3058f.png[/img][/url][hr][hr] [h3]Api At The Mall[/h3][hr][/center] Api listened to Sally say [color=hotpink][b]”I've really enjoyed your company, and thank you so much for getting my mind off of things. You have no idea how much you helped.”[/b][/color] He had accomplished his goal and that made him happy so he smiled as much because of the friendly parting kiss to his cheek and from what he understood of psychology that meant she considered him a close friend perhaps an intimate but it was too early to jump to conclusions and make half assed assessment. He’d know she was restless now that her mind no longer lived in the once was, a wonderful and terrible, unchanging and unchangeable. [color=steelblue][b]”Don’t be so analytical”[/b][/color] chuckles that part of him he knows as Huginndottir who speaks in his mother’s voice. So applying his own logic he looked at himself and discovered he liked being around so many people but understood the strange peer structures of teams; never rush ahead if you have time to think you only rush headlong into a mistake. He needed them to grow comfortable with the familiar then they could more easily accept him an outsider. But he too needed to expand socially so he decided to make a solo observation of the Local Mall that he was sure after reading the contained square feet it held had more floor space than the homes of his home town. So lacking any transport outside of his new found ability threw on a pair of his best workout clothes, chalk bag, halfhand seal skin gloves, Capezios (Brand of men’s gymnastics shoes), Daypack with water, first aid kit extra shoes and a medium towel with his old school crest on it. Then he popped by the offices and said he was going to the Mall and that he would be there no longer than 3 hours and return. He gave a card with his name and cell phone number, and E-mail then headed out the gates at a jog. He was headed to what he’d seen was a bus stop 2.7 kilometers from the school arriving 22.18 minutes later to wait 19 minutes not the 12 the schedule had suggested he could expect to wait. He found the most common type of person who used the bus here seemed to be workmen, cleaning and service staff and three girls about 15 to 16 years old who were from the upper class in the enclave near the school. All these observations he entered into his electronic journal on his pad as the bus worked its route. The girls were the most talkative passengers and their conversation an enlightening look into their ethos which he knew by the time the bus stopped was Vegetarian, Green recyclers, what he labeled love crazy a condition he had begun to see in the girls at school; they wanted to love. There was nothing wrong with their wanting to find love, and romance but they rushed towards it without a thought. He’d come to a collusion as he’d ridden on the bus; Living in such concentrations people were lonely. The girls tried to flirt with their eyes and gestures on the bus but Api knew a response would have meant they would have made his little research mission more about the teen dance of positioning and lust. He wrote a note about what he’d learned from the girls and that was that they were observant and one had correctly identified him as a gymnast; she was the one most interested in him so he’d given her his card telling her he’d enjoy communicating with her. He walked through the rotating door and stepped out in the atrium of the entrance of the mall and stopped as the sound of a multitude of voices and the sounds of people and machines in motion assailed his senses. [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Auburn_Mall%2C_Auburn_MA.jpg/1200px-Auburn_Mall%2C_Auburn_MA.jpg[/img][/center] It was as wide as the street before his old home and paved in 12” gleaming tile from storefront to storefront and stretched perhaps 75 meters or more channeling the people that entered towards the center of a building that covered an inside park complete with plants, trees, and fountains. It was there he stood looking up at a roofed area that was like a narrow stadium. Then with a smile on his face he found the map and located a sports store and when in search of a bicycle.