Cloudgazing || DIRK

Jayden gave a loud groan and flopped stomach-first onto the unforgiving surface of the school's roof.  He had somehow managed to fly his way up here, and now, he was almost regretting it.

Almost.

Of course his wings ached and his muscles were absolutely screaming at him, but the fact was that he had made it.  A small chuckle escaped his throat.  Before long, he'd be able to keep to the skies long enough to possibly survey the entire school without growing too tired.  For now, though, he was collapsed in a heap of himself on the rooftop of the main building of the school and simply enjoying the cold concrete beneath him.  "Soon!" he said, tapping a hand against the surface.  "Soon, I'll be able to..."

It was about here that his vision cut out and everything went black.  He breathed heavily and rhythmically, falling into a deep sleep with a smile still painted on his lips.  He had done everything correctly today--he had eaten a large breakfast, practiced working with his wings for about half an hour, and then whizzed his way around until landing safely at his destination.  But he had forgotten to bring something along to munch on afterwards to replenish the massive amount of calories he had burnt off in the process, not that it mattered given his current situation.

It wasn't until a few hours later that he awoke again with tiny pebbles ingrained into his cheek that he finally wriggled himself back onto his feet and stretched, yawning quietly before realizing that the sun was much higher than before.  At first, he was shocked and started toward the door, but after a quick glance at his phone, he deflated.  "Thank everything that it's Saturday," he sighed, smirking to himself and rolling his shoulders to wake them back up.  His stomach growled loudly, and a hunger pain struck him that left him holding his midsection for a moment.  

"Geeze," he breathed, feeling down his sides for anything that he could shove into his mouth, but to no avail.  He huffed gently and started meandering a lazy path back downstairs and towards the cafeteria.  Instead of surrounding himself with the crowd, though, he chewed slowly on an apple as he headed back to the roof with lunch in hand.

He sat back down again, picking at a vegetarian burrito and a nice selection of various nuts.

Dirk started the day feeling horrible. He had sweat so much in his sleep that it felt, in the morning, that he was covered in one large, greasy pizza paper.

"Yup", he told himself, "its one of those days"

Dirk got up, took a shower and then got dressed in his usual attire. He wore his usual colored shirt (white), usual jeans (black), usual white socks, and his usual white and black jacket. After he finished dressing he stepped out the door and into the open. That's when he first saw him, or (at least) Dirk thought it was a he, as the thing flew through the sky in an almost labored fashion. 

Dirk sighed, and thought to himself about that flying.... boy, as he walked towards the school, which was on lunch break. He had missed the morning classes, which were given to him on a Saturday due to the fact that he had ditched before. He knew that if a teacher had found him they would scold him about wasting their time, at the very least, and he didn't want to deal with them at the moment so he mumbled to himself:

"Hmm where should I go....."

After moments of thinking about the best solution he looked to the sky. That's when he remembered the boy in the sky, well, not exactly the boy but he remembered that the roof was next to the sky and generally teachers would expect him to be on the roof, thus making it a great hiding spot. As a result, and with great difficulty, he scaled a wall, falling a few times before he was able to reach the top. 

As he reached the top he saw, to his surprise, the bird boy eating and looking in his general direction as he scaled the wall.

"you!"


(ooc: sorry if its a little confusing)

"Mwee?" Jayden said, startled, although his mouth was filled with cashews.  He coughed lightly on one bit that had escaped into his lungs, and he beat gently at his chest and coughed until he could chew it all and swallow properly.

After a moment, he looked back up, brown eyes wide with astonishment and interest.  "Did... did you climb all the way up here?"  There was a door just behind him, and he glanced back at it before returning his gaze to the other.  How strange... but he supposed that some people needed to exercise somehow.  He turned to his side, grabbing a bottle of water and offering it to the stranger.  "Here--you should definitely hydrate after that!  And if you don't like germs, then don't worry.  I didn't open it yet."  He extended the other hand as well which held the nuts.  "A-and if you'd like, you can munch on these.  I have some more in my room, so feel free to eat as many as you'd like!"

His smile was wide and kind as he spoke, and Jayden himself was in awe of how well the other was built.  He had to guess that the other had incredible strength (or, at least, more than Jayden himself who was most skin and hollow bone), and he absently wondered how much he would have to train in order to be able to scale a building.  Since he had only just enough lean muscle to get him by, it would probably take years at this point, and he'd have to pray that he wouldn't sustain any injuries so that he could continue being diligent in his work.

"My name's Jayden!  I'm in Lyra.  May I ask what you're doing up here?"

Dirk grabbed the whole bottle and took a birdie, leaving about half still untouched. The water was a welcome commodity after he had scaled the large-ish wall to get him to the roof. Dirk then saw the door and cursed to himself. He could have just climbed the stairs and saved the a few painful, embarrassing falls from the side of the building.

Dirk rubbed his sore butt as he plopped down next to the bird-boy and considered his question. What was he doing here, well, actually, he knew what he was doing, just didn't know a good excuse for the events that had transpired. After deliberating for a couple minutes he chose to answer truthfully, after considering the apparent kindness of the person next to him. 

"Hiding from teachers at the moment, there are a few that I'd rather not see."

Dirk then pulled up his hood to shade him from the sun, which seemed imposing to him. He didnt really appreciate that it had contributed to him sweating as he scaled the wall. This annoyance made his mood quite...... stinky. Due to his mood, he was slightly annoyed that another person had found their way up to this spot, making his most pleasurable solitariness end relatively quickly. 

"So what are you doing here?"

Dirk avoided telling Jayden his name for several reasons, first being that he generally didn't know this person and, unless they somehow became more familiar with each other he wasn't planning on providing it (though he didn't realize that the majority of the students may have already knew his name and face due to the spring tournament).