((Chase)) Awkward Conversation

[Asher]

Asher was quite comfortable under the tree. He was laying on his back, using a root for a pillow. Hair flew into his face, he left it go. He sighed and folded his hands over his stomach. He closed his eyes. He'd been thinking about things alot. Especially Chase. He was so confused, was it just a phase? Was it just loneliness, or guilt? Guilt over cheating on Tyler with Samuel and Moira. Moira especially. Brooke had helped him alot... He drifted off...

He turned to him and smiled in the semi-darkness. He could hear the others squirming about, fighting off rats, each other. The blonde boy had a glint in his eyes that made him feel excited. He'd never seen anything like that. It reminded him off when he was five and his mom had taught him to sing, and he'd seen the look in her eyes, the look of a proud mother. It reminded him of his father, patting his back as they entered the theater. Not mentioning him crying over the dying Romeo and Juliet. He'd always felt like Paris, the other guy. His first role had been as Paris. All these wonderful, thrilling memories were in the blonde boy's eyes.

He saw how he smiled at the small girl. He felt something stir inside him, jealously. Of her? But she had nothing... Nothing! What did she have that he didn't? What made the blonde boy look at her? Why?! Why wouldn't the blonde boy look at him that way? Why! Why!

Asher's eyes snapped open. Why? Was it the jolt of realization that the very person he'd been dreaming off was near him. Chase...

[Chase]

Chase walked through the park slowly. It was the day after he and met Mischief. He was thinking about what she had said about Ace. He hadn't seen Ace around. He hadn't seen her since her accident, now that he thought about it. He rubbed his eyes. He knew he looked tired. He hadn't slept that night at all. He looked around and saw two trees. They were both pretty large, but under the one, he saw a pair of feet. He started towards the other tree and sat down. He sat with his back to the trunk of the tree and he rested his head on it. He couldn't see the other tree. He drifted off and thought he heard footsteps. He was too tired to do anything about them, but he managed to stay awake. If it's some guy trying to kill me, he thought, I'm screwed.

[Asher]

Asher stumbled to a halt. Well, this was weird. Should he just leave and pretend nothing had happened, or should he clear the air? All he thought to say was, "You're not that great you know. You're nothing special." he kicked himself mentally. Why would he say such a thing? "Sorry. Don't know where that came from." He stood in front of Chase, not really wanting to move. Yes, Chase was nothing special. Just another blonde boy from Germany who got into trouble. Just like Levi. Think of him as you would Levi, he told himself.

[Chase]

Chase looked up at the figure that blocked the sun. It was Asher. Chase smiled slightly. "Hey Ash." He kept looking as Asher insulted him. He smiled again. "Yeah yer right. I ain't special and yet yer still here." Chase made a move to stand, but decided agianst it. "It's good ta see you, Asher. Wo warst du denn?" He blinked, and thought he wasn't going to be able to open his eyes again. He forced them open when Asher talked again.


Wo warst du denn- where have you been

[Asher]

Asher stiffened. He had no right to smile. No right. "It's not my fault you sleep in the park like Street." he huffed, trying not to smile back. "Don't act like I understand German. I only understand the German from Mozart plays." He crossed his arms and tried to achieve aloofness. "Good to see me..." He repeated quietly. "How come I don't believe you? Somehow, I feel like you've been avoiding me."

[Chase]

At that, Chase stood up. He was getting angry with Asher. It wasn't exactly hard to anger him, but he thought he had gotten over that. Apparently not. He glared down at Asher, there was a 4 inch difference between them. "Me? Me avoid you? Asher i thought i was your friend. I'm not one to avoid my friends. Nah i think you were avoiding meh, trying ta be alone with your boyfriend." He said boyfriend with disgust. Something showed on Asher's face and it made part of Chase feel bad, but he was too angry at the moment to care.

[Asher]

Asher snorted. "Yeah okay. I'm avoiding you. Only because you up to your neck in Ace... Oh and don't forget Mischief." he glared at Chase, looking oddly serious. "Don't bring Tyler into this. For your information, I haven't talked to him since the Mask. I've been in New Hampshire, remember? But you'd know that if you actually talked to me. But no... You found out I'm... I'm... well, you know, and you take off without letting me to explain! It wasn't my fault! Levi was going to hit you and stuff, what was I supposed to do, let you get knocked out by Levi? He's hit me before and it hurts. Look." He pointed to the remainder of the black eye he recieved when trying to talk sense into Levi about Street. "I'm not just gonna sit back and hide who I am... Especially since I don't know who I am..." He murmured the last part, his face becoming sad. He had changed. he no longer smiled all the time, he would frown more often then not and got annoyed by everything. Everything about music. And Natasha.

[Chase]

Chase laughed without humor. "In case ya haven't realized this, Asher. I'm a big boy, i can take care of myself. I've done it my whole life, i can keep doing it. And i can take care of Levi by my self." He said myself slowly. His heart hurt when Asher mentioned Ace, and his head hurt when he mentioned Mischief. "How'd you-" Chase shook his head. "If you want to explain, be my guest. I didn't listen then because i had to take care of Ace. You might have forgotten, but she was attacked by Killer at one point, and that night at the Mask she would've gotten hurt again. I had to take care of her, Asher. I had to. It's what i do." He said, his voice getting softer.

[Asher]

Asher shook his head. "I know people. Doesn't matter how I find stuff out." He turned slightly, watching a little girl running ahead of her mother. "You know, I always wanted to be like that. To have a mother who loved me enough to never let me go. But my mother went off and is on an island with my father. I haven't seen her in years. So now, I hold on to whatever I cannot have to replace my parents, and to some extent my sister. She's left so many times. To get work, to go on adventures. I want adventure too, so I pick exciting people to lust after. And I make sure that I can never have them and they hurt me. I'm a masochist, aren't I?" He looked at Chase, explaining everything with those few sentences. Chase was adventure, everything about him was exciting, and he was someone Asher could never ever have. Maybe that's why he didn't go after girls, because they always came to him and would give him whatever he wanted. Maybe that's why Tyler bored him slightly, because he'd been so willing. They'd kissed after only ten minutes of meeting... And Natasha, well, she was to naive to notice anything, so she was exciting in that way too.

[Chase]

Chase's eyes softened a bit. "I'm sorry you lost your parents. I haven't seen mine in well i've never seen mine. I can't even remember my father." He coughed a laugh. "Yeah ya are a masochist. But better a masochist than a loner." He stepped away from Asher and took a deep breath to calm himself. He had always tried to keep peace, and only fight when nessecary. He looked at Asher. "We good?" Chase had enjoyed Asher's company before, and he wanted his old friend back.

[Asher]

Asher looked him over. "I'm not like... in love with you or anything. Like I said, you're nothing special." He tried to remain gruff, but failed. "But yeah, we're good. Anyway... I uh, met this girl at the train station and she was quite interesting. Natasha Larson mean anything to you?" He asked, Chase knew a lot of people, maybe he knew her and could explain her to Asher, because Asher was very confused by Natasha.

[Chase]

Chase smiled. "Good. And like i told you, i know i ain't special. Natasha Larson." Chase's voice trailed off. "Nah, it don't mean nothing to me. You mean that girl that was at the station the other day? Nah, i could find out for ya." Chase smiled. "SHe's all yer's though. I'll keep meh distance. Promise." He thought more about what he could tell of her. "She seemed quite opptomistic. But, she's hiding something. I can tell." He nodded slowly. There was definately something about her, something he couldn't quite put his finger on.

[Asher]

Asher looked at him seriously. "We're all hiding something. Oh and... Stay away from de Lion. He's after every girl he can get. Watch out for A-ace." Asher cursed silently, why did he have to falter in front of Chase. But he felt better, the best he'd felt in a good while. Like closure. "So... how are you and Ace doin'? You too looked real cozy to me." He said this without a hint of anger or jealously. "But seriously, stay away from Henri. He was all over Abby the other day, he got caught with Moira, he's charmed Miss Sugar (a good friend of mine, by the way), and he won't back off from Brooke. At least, that's what I've been hearing."

[Chase]

Chase nodded. "I'll do my best to keep them out of trouble. If ya need help with Brooke, ya know where to find me." Chase somewhat remembered this guy Asher spoke of. He could have sworn he was at the station, but he kept his distance. From Chase at least. He thought back to Natasha. "You watch Natasha, too. But seriously she's hidin' something. I couldn't tell what, but when she looked at us the look in her eyes. She had a bad past." Chase shrugged. "So where you headed? Maybe i could tag a long?" He asked. He needed to get moving, before he passed out.

[Asher]

Asher nodded. "I'll do that. Um... I was actually gonna go sleep." he laughed uncomfortably. "I've been having a lot of sleepness nights lately, practicing for this new musical we're putting on at Irving Hall. Medda wrote it, and frankly, I think it's a trainwreck, but you know... I wanna keep my job." Asher rubbed the back of his neck. "A lot of things have been going on and I've been getting harrassed at the Lodging House, Tyler and Samuel too 'cause they were involved with me..."