Nash wasn't even done yet. She had two bags and not even half her money down the drain as she wandered into the food court. She was hungry today. Not extreme but enough that she wanted to eat. She'd be like that for a few days now. She would eat at random intervals until all her leeches were nourished and then she wouldn't eat again for a good week. So she wandered in with the full intent of eating something that she wouldn't normally have in London... or the boarding schools. She couldn't even remember the last time she had been to the mall.

In all likely hood she would remember this one too. Nash had decided on oriental cuisine food and was making her way there when the worst possible thing happened. She bumped into someone. In the correct words it would be someone bumped into the young girl and as Nash was dully informed in that instant, she was still a tad to short to be a mach for... him. That was rude but it was true so when she found herself on the floor and her bags scattered around her, she didn't say anything. When her leeches wiggled in annoyance at the rough handling and the man said "Watch it mutant scumbag." and stalked off, she said nothing. She was shocked and her only thought was: 'How rude!'

Cailyn started zoning out again and began checking out the place. She softly hummed a song when she did that. He blue eyes caught sight of a girl being bumped by a man. The girl fell to the floor and Cailyn didn't like that. No girl should get hurt by a man, she knew a thing or two about that. Without saying anything to Chris she left to check on the girl.

As she arrived to the girl she tilted her head sideways and examined her with her bright, blue eyes. She found no real physical wounds maybe a bruise or two she couldn't see. Whispers spoke to her but Cailyn gave them a deaf ear as she examined the girl by going to her knees and moving her head a bit towards her. She kept looking straight at her eyes. They where yellow and Cailyn liked yellow. She seemed mesmirized by her eyes. Suddenly she softly spoke: "I like your eyes, are you hurt?"

Chris waited until Cailyn was finished ordering and the server had given him the total of the bill. Chris looked around as Cailyn had disappeared. "Where did she go?" he asked the servers. They pointed to her. Chris looked around and saw that she was helping up a girl who'd fallen down. He smiled at her seemingly kindness towards helping other people. Chris grabbed her tray along with his and started walking towards her and the girl that she was talking to.

He didn't want to interrupt her, mainly because he didn't know how she would react but also because he thought it was rude. After it seemed that they were finished talking he said to Cailyn, "Hey Cailyn I got your tray." He didn't want to make it seem like he was ignoring the girl on the ground so he said, "Hey you alright?" He waited for their answers as he stood there.

"I like your eyes, are you hurt?"

Nash was a little startled but was able to compose herself to answer. "Uh, ta. No I'm not 'urt, I, uh,think." Nash really could only think she was fine. The only scrap had been on her elbow and her leeches had glued it closed before she'd even registered it was there. Having your own private army/back up band-aids did come in handy. She noticed the girls bright blue eyes and smiled, "You've got pretty eyes yourself."

"Hey Cailyn I got your tray."

Now she knew the name of the kind helper at her side. It was a pretty name. The bot though caused a hole nother set of questions to pop into her mind. Who was the other guy? Was he with the girl? and why was he carrying a tray. Then it hit her. They were in a food court and she was on the floor.

"Hey you alright?"

Promptly out of whatever little thought world she had visited and back into the hustle and bustle of a mall food court. Nash was getting some pretty weird stares. "Ya, ya. I'm jus' fine. Jus fine..." Her voice kinda trailed off as she stood with a rush. She was going to brush herself off but stopped to pick up her bags and the few items that had fallen out.

"You've got pretty eyes yourself."

Cailyn never gotten a compliment before and didn't know very well how to respond to it. She picked her mind about it while the whispers started telling her stuff. "Stop hitting on her, she is hitting on you." where just a few of them. She must admit that yellow was a pretty color for the pretty girl. Cailyn decided to just use her cutest smile and say:" Thank you."

"Hey Cailyn I got your tray."

Cailyn turned around and looked at the food. It wasn't quite like the picture but it looked nice. She had no idea what a tray was but then again she didn't know what money was either. She took the tray and said : " Thank you." with a bit of a high pitched voice and a smile. She smelled the food and it made her stomach growl for hunger again. She looked down and said to her stomach: "Almost there , just helping out the pretty girl."

" Thank you." Cailyn said as Chris handed her the tray. He watched the girl stand up and grab her things from off the floor. Once again Cailyn started talking to her stomach. Chris didn't find it weird but other people seemed to think that the three of them were making some big fuss or causing a lot of commotion. They seemed to be getting lots of stares from people all around the food court, including servers, random passersby, and people at tables eating.

Chris ignored their stares and waited for Cailyn to be ready to sit down somewhere and start eating. His stomach started making growling noises as well. The smell of his food wafted up to his nose while the look of it made him even hungrier.

" Thank you."

Nash was used to and not used to being thanked. It could have been a mocking thank you, which was what Nash often got after being pushed and bullied into something but this wasn't. It was a thank you followed by a very nice smile and Nash couldn't help but smile back. With her things back in her possession and bundled neatly on her arms she stood straight up. She noticed that she stood quiet a bit shorter then the boy and girl but didn't let it bother her. Not as much as she let the stairs bother her. She nervously brushed at her pants and listened as the other girl talked to her stomach. She talked to her leeches all of the time and technically her leeched were a part of her, so why couldn't the girls talk to her stomach.

"My names Nash, by the way." She patted at her pants and sighed when her money was still there. She was relieved because she was still quite hungry. It wasn't the smells that wafted around the room that made her so though. Nash was very much unaffected by the smells because she didn't breathe through her nose. One had to breathe through there nose to smell things so Nash could normally choose to smell something or not. The hunger was from her leeches who demanded some form of food to tide them over. It was only the beginning of a hunger strike that would last a few days at most. Her leeches wiggled in agreement.

"My body is telling me that I am hungry." She stated it and rubbed her wiggling tummy. That only annoyed the leeches more.

"My names Nash, by the way."

Cailyn looked a bit around like she saw a fly buzzing around but there wasn't a fly anywhere. She shook it of by shaking her head ones and said : "Hi Nash, they call me Cailyn." She looked at her tray with food and had no idea how to eat it. She tilted her head and looked at it pondering what to do with it. She quickly looked around to see if anybody else was eating this so she would know what to do but found out everybody stared at them. She slowly moved behind Nash as if she was scared of the people.

"My body is telling me that I am hungry."

By the time she said that she stood behind Nash with her tray of food. She moved her head a bit forward and whispered to Nash: " People don't like me." with a bit of fear in her voice. She picked up some info from the whispers that people looked at her and where angry with her or pissed of. She didn't like that one bit and her experience with the guards in the asylum made her very cautious for these kind of situations. All she wanted now is to walk away and go and eat in a silent corner where she would be left alone. " We don't want to be here." she softly said to Nash and Chris.

Chris listened to them for a little bit. He was more interested in eating his food than with having a conversation at the moment. However, the stares they were getting were not the best kind of stares. After a while the girl on the floor introduced herself. Her name was Nash. Something easy for him to remember. Not to many people I know named Nash. So I shouldn't have to worry about forgetting her name. "Hi Nash. I'm Chris. I'd shake your hand but mine are a little full at the moment."

He noticed that for some odd reason Cailyn had retreated to hiding behind Nash. A puzzled look came over him for a second before he continued to look around the food court. It seemed like things had quieted down and wasn't it's normal rowdy mall food court. People seemed more intent on what the three of them were doing than the people they were eating with or even their food in front of them. He then heard Cailyn pipe up.

We don't want to be here."

That seemed like an odd comment to Chris but it made sense considering he still thought she could read minds. "I'm not sure where else we can go. I don't think were allowed to take food out of the area." Chris said simply. It's not that he didn't want to leave, or that he wanted to cause any trouble for anyone, it was just that in other food courts that he had been to they frown on taking food outside the food court area. However, he was willing to give it a shot here. "Ya know what? let's go somewhere else." He said after a few seconds of thinking. Lead the way Cailyn. Oh Nash your welcome to join us if you'd like." He said, once again it felt like he was being rude and ignoring the other person standing right in front of him.

"People don't like me."

That was understandable. People didn't like Nash either. She didn't think she had ever had anyone hide behind her before. She wasn't that big a person so of course one would have hid behind a lamp post better. Nash of course was more defended then a lamp post could ever hope to be. She didn't bother to speak any of the other two points out loud, simply because that would be very rude. Instead she smiled at Cailyn in what she hoped was a warm matter.

"Hi Nash. I'm Chris. I'd shake your hand but mine are a little full at the moment."

She nodded her head so that he would understand that she had both heard him and understood. So she had met Chris and Cailyn. This was one of those 'I hope I didn't just meet a serial killer' moments but Nash brushed it off. Another rude comment not worth stating. She blamed it on the hunger. It was making her aggravated. She was distracted by Caiylin's next comment.

"We don't want to be here."

"Same." Nash didn't want to be here either. She wanted to click her sneakers together and chant 'there's no place like home' over and over until she was home. She didn't like being a spectacle for others. All the stares were another factor in her growing aggravation to take into account. She never liked being hungry and aggravated. Luckily they were two thinks she rarely was.

"Ya know what? let's go somewhere else. Lead the way Cailyn. Oh Nash your welcome to join us if you'd like."

"A', sure. Lead the way." Nash felt ignored. Normally Nash wouldn't much mind being ignored and would simply smile and pretend she wasn't feeling ignored. Right at this moment in her hungry aggravated state Nash did not like feeling ignored or brushed off. It caused her to think all sorts of rude and sarcastic things in Chris's general direction but non of which she spoke out loud. She didn't want to snap at anyone. She was more controlled then that.

"Ya know what? let's go somewhere else. Lead the way Cailyn. Oh Nash your welcome to join us if you'd like."

"A', sure. Lead the way."

They pretended like Cailyn knew the way of this place but she didn't. this was the first time at the mall and she was technicly already lost. She looked around to see if she saw somewhere to leave. Then she noted that the bench where she sat for a while would be a good choice. She walked away towards the place where the bench is supposed to be and hope the rest followed her. She looked back a couple of times to check if that was happening.

Chris was glad that Nash decided to join them. He didn't want to leave her behind because she didn't seem to have a very good way with people. At least not that Chris could see. Cailyn then started to walk back off to a spot that she deemed fit. He recognized the area that they were going to because t was where they had just come from. He noticed that Cailyn was heading back to the bench that he'd originally found her sitting on. Ah a nice comfortable place to sit and eat. Chris thought as they got closer to the bench.

Nash followed them simply because they seemed to know where they were going. That was good enough for her. At least where ever they were going was away from the food court. Wait, she'd come to the food court for food. She was still quit hungry. Oh well then she would just have to wait tell they got to where they were going, excuse herself and sneak back into the food court. It was at this moment she realized that they were heading in the direction of some benches. Made sense. One could easily sit and eat on a bench. On the other hand Nash always seemed to find herself sitting on benches.

The group seemed to follow her as she went to the benches. As they arrived there, Cailyn sat down with her tray on her lap looking at the noodles. They looked very hot and the steam got into her face. She never had this kind of food before so she picked up her plastic fork and poked it. It didn't seem to stick on the fork as she only got one tiny piece of noodle. She tried again and failed until she noticed she had a spoon too. She took the spoon and fork and turned it into a clamp and picked up the noodles and stuck it in her mouth and started chewing. It tasted very good to her, perhaps because she was hungry and everything tasted better then nutcase food. She swallowed her food and nodded saying: "This is yummy."

Chris followed Cailyn to the bench and sat down once she did. He watched her for a second as she figured out how to eat the noodles. He suppressed a smirk, picked up his fork and started eating. He had to blow on the food before he ate it because it was so hot. It was delicious. You can never go wrong with Asian food. Chris thought as he ate more of the food on his tray. Chris agreed, "It is." as he continued to eat. He hadn't thought of what they might do as they passed the time, but he thought it best to let one of them decide.