Met walked after her, standing on the other side of it and watching her start to climb the tree. "So we're gonna be climbing it?" He asked as he looked up at the connected, dry branches. They might as well, but he couldn't climb too well. He was too lanky and even though he was light and skinny, he couldn't lift himself.
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"Yeah! Or at least sit on one of the lower branches if you're scared of heights?"
She says sitting down on a five-foot-high branch, she was only a tad bit taller than him. Smiling at him, she looked up at the higher branches.
"I usually go up to the very top, but that's a little high for someone who usually doesn't club trees.
"Hmm I think this is fine," He said as he gazed down at her still, grinning. "I would climb the tree but I'm not quite strong enough." He'd try anyway, though. He glanced around for a couple of footholds and hoisted himself up by the branches, settling himself in the part where all the branches came out. It was a nice, protected place on the tree.
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Looking up at him now, he got up there rather easily, she didn't really believe he wasn't strong enough.
"You like it?"
She asks swinging her legs like a cute little kid, humming a little song.
Met snuggled up onto the tree like an owl, peering down at her even more owlishly with his big eyes and his dark hair framing his face. "I guess? It's much drier up here. Say, I never got your name," He suddenly realized, smiling. She had given him her number but not her name. He did the same, too, but still.
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"Oh! Seo-Hyeon Youn, but you can call me CC. And sorry my English isn't very good"
She says to him, although her English was outstanding. She didn't even have an accent. She's been learning English all of her life, she moved to America about 5 years ago.
"Your English is spectacular. I didn't even notice you weren't from here." He smiled and leaned on a branch. "I'm Met. A lot of people know me because my twin, so that's a thing. It's a pleasure to meet and get to know you, CC."
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"Well, most people can because of just how I looked"
She says, her happy tone lowering, she pointed to her face, which was obvious she was Korean, or at least Asian.
"The pleasures all mine, Met"
She says smiling, reaching her hand out to shake his.
Met stretched to accept her handshake, his hand completely obscuring hers as he shook it. "People think my twin and I came from Britian or something because of how pale we are. Not as intense as your situation but I do understand," He hummed, smiling. He quite liked the way she looked, but he wasn't going to say that in case he sounded creepy.
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"Really? Yeah you are pale, i am to though so it's fine."
She says losing her balance but quickly regaining it.
"So you have a twin?"
Met reached to try and help her regain her balance with a small jump, but realized she was fine and smiled. "Yeah. I have a twin. He's Neo, I'd honestly be surprised if you didn't know him. We're identical twins."
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"Identical?"
She says kind of amazed.
"I've never met an identical twin before! Me and my brother look a lot alike, but he's a little grumpy pants!"
She crosses her arms, making a mean mimicking face puffing out her cheeks dramatically.
"Yeah, surely you've seen us together at some point. Well, maybe not. He doesn't really hang out with me." He stretched his legs and hung them off of the tree, listening to her talk and laughing at her expression. "Yeah, we're rare and stuff. Apparently we're the only pair of twins in the neighborhood, which kind of sucks."
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"That's fun though! Do you like being a twin?"
She asks him, genuinely curious.
Met sighed and glanced away. "Not really. I guess he just shows me what I can be. He's super smart and talented, it's hard to like him."
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"That was an ironic sentence, but that's what the other kids say about me….."
She says referring to what the teachers say. They say its because she was smart and pretty and super nice. Apparently they didn't like that.
"Oh, really?" He looked down at her, his eyebrows raised. "Sorry, then. It's just hard to see it come so naturally to people, let alone my own twin." He sighed and rubbed his face, trying to put a smile back on his face but failing.
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"What? You don't have to be sorry! I'm used to it!"
She says smiling. Standing up, she sits in front if him on a closer branch.
"So, I'm guessing he's really nice?"
Met watched her climb closer, smiling meekly. "I don't think so. He's not really nice to me. He just lets me live there yet makes me pay rent." He sighed softly. He was working a paid internship most of his nights. This week just happened to be an exception.
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"Aw that's sad…"
She says then grabbing his cheeks, pulling them.
"Smile! It's cuter when you smile"
She says happily, smiling at him.
Met mumbled his agreement, only to gasp as he was grabbed. He smiled with her fingers at her happy expression, his cheeks reddening when he realized how close they were. "Ye-thank you, thank you a lot," He stuttered. "I think you look nice when you smile too!"
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Pulling her hands away, slowly, her face turned red, not quite knowing what to do,
"Oh, he can smile!!"
She says trying to ignore his compliment. Now swinging back and forth like a little girl, she hums to herself, her cloudy white, speckled eyes looking up at the leaves. It started to rain a little, but she didn't mind, there were so many trees and branches covering them, it seemed as if the raindrops were ever so lightly kissing their faces.
Met's smile became a bit more uncomfortable at her comment but he didn't drop it. Neo always said that type of thing, but more bitter and sarcastic. Neo was pretty rude at times but… that was okay. He shook the thoughts out of his head and watched her pretty face get speckled in rain, smiling a little.
"You-you're very pretty, CC," He murmured, not really intending to be heard over the noise of the rain on the leaves.
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Barely hearing his words, she jumped,
"Wha-"
She was interrupted by losing her balance, falling out of the tree.
"Oh golly goodness, that was unexpected"
She says to him laughing a little, laying on the now soaked muddy ground, looking up at him.
It was kind of really painful, but she ignored it, she was to caught up in her new friend and how much fun she was having.
Met peeked out after her after gasping really loud to warn her, about to jump out of the tree. He did actually drop from the tree to help her up.
"Are you okay?" He asked her as he helped her up. He took off his sweater in a flurry of stupidity and gave it to her to wear over her muddy clothes. He literally lived in it for a couple of days, so it smelled much like him.
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"Yeah, I'm fine, my head hurts a little, but I'm fine"
She says, taking his sweater, she was obviously very dizzy.
Putting the shirt to her face, in hopes of hiding it, she was so embarrassed. But she was a little overwhelmed by a nice smell. It wasn't anything like vanilla or cotton candy, which is what she normally smelled like, but it was a subtle scent. It smelled so nice.
"Oh i dint want to get to wet and muddy!"
She says looking then at her hand that was in his from him helping her up.
Met still held onto her hand and he was still holding out his shirt. He was somewhat taken aback when she was just smelling it.
"Don't worry about getting it muddy or dirty. It's better than showing the school your whole muddy outfit." He went to help her put it on, smiling a little. He didn't seem to realize or care that their hands were curled together.
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"You smell nice"
She mumbled to herself as he helped her slip the shirt on. It was more than big on her, even covering up her skirt, she laughed a little raising her one hand, which the sleeve was way to long.
"Wow"
Met put his arms to his sides as she slipped it on, smiling. "Yeah, I'm kind of tall. You can keep that if you'd like, it's kind of getting small on me." He laughed a little and covered his arms. Underneath the sweater he was wearing an anime t-shirt and he didn't want her to see it. He was sort of a dork.
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(Oh CCS secretly super dorky)
Laughing a bit, flapping her oversized arm sleeves around now, she looks up at him, still an amazing amount.
"This shall be mine now!"
She says happily, putting on hand to the sky, then one hand on her hips.
"I feel like a wizard, do you have a staff?"
She says giggling a bit. The rain falling down on her hair, drizzling down her face and neck, flattening her white hair, which was still purely unlike many people's hair when they get wet, which usually would be darker. Her irises looked almost grey though, unlike cloudy almost blue, still ringed with a dark grey, but not quite black ring around it.
