Money owns this town (PRIVATE FOR REDKITE AND SCARSMATE)

[Scars Mate]

River shot Xavier an icy glance as she slid into the room, Giovanni at her heel. She relaxed as the door shut, her eyes wandering. Giovanni was handsome too- be quiet. She snapped at herself. She didn't need anymore heartbreak- what heartbreak? She asked herself. There was none. She didn't care about Xavier. So she said.

'I -ah- apologise if I made any problem between you and Hatari,' she said abruptly.

[RedKite]

'Oh...err... don't worry about him, he's just...A little precious about certain things...' He sighs, relieved.

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It would be so easy, to jump. Lana thinks, peering over the edge of the window to the garden below.

[Scars Mate]

River nodded.

'I hope there are no hard feelings,' she apologised, reaching out her hand for a handshake.

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Xavier glared at the floor. Did she hate him now? Well, duh. He'd been in the wrong end of many fights between girls, so he knew she definitely did. And now she was with Giovanni. Did she like him? Great. Now everything was screwed up.

[RedKite]

(LOL)

Giovanni accepted the handshake and looked around the room.

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Lana figured that maybe she shouldn't jump, so she shrank down in the corner of the room again.

[Scars Mate]

River was silent. Now what? She didn't have to apologise to Giovanni in private, she just didn't want to see Xavier's face. It would have been so smug- she would have slapped him into tomorrow. Stop it, she chided herself. She decided she should say something.

'What exactly is Hatari? I don't think you really answered my question.'

[RedKite]

'Errr....I don't actually know....' He admits, 'some sort of shape-shifter?'

[Scars Mate]

River chuckled, a smile curving her lips.

'Well, I suppose that's something. How do you know him?'

[RedKite]

'It goes a long way back, actually...' He smiles, 'I can't actually remember when I didn't know him.....'

[Scars Mate]

River grinned.

'I guess I know the feeling. There hasn't been a point in my life where dragons haven't interfered... Not that I'm complaining!' She added, aware she was complaining.

[RedKite]

He raises an eyebrow.

'I think I know complaining when I hear it....'