in need of something

Anais twirled around the shelves once more, biting her lip and her eyebrows furrowed in frustration. She was frustrated and when that happen, her train of thought tended to go off into different tangents. She very much despised it but at the moment, she needed to at least try to think what she was at Berbatov's Shop for.

She cursed some brilliant, colorful words. The brunette was frustrated and just wanted to know what she was in need of before she ripped someone's head off. That was her. Frustration became anger.

It also meant that Anais didn't become aware of her surroundings.

It was that time of year again. Time to get school supplies. Demetri generally didn't like to go shopping for school supplies, but this year, he was oddly calm about it all. He tapped his fingers lightly against his legs as he walked up down the rows looking at the shelves of supplies. There was a list of things he needed in his pocket, but he didn't bother to pull it out.

As he walked, he started to hum to himself, but suddenly stopped when he became aware of the fact that someone had lightly bumped into him. Stumbling backwards slightly, he looked around for the culprate and when he saw a young girl, maybe a first or second year, he merely raised an eyebrow in questioning.

He didn't say anything, due to the fact that he wasn't even angry, just shocked. "Excuse me." he said lightly, continuing on as though nothing had happened.

She was bumped into to, her frazzled mind loosing balance as she stumbled back onto her bottom on the floor. It wasn't like the intruder had bumped into her at full force but her mind was too busy to actually make her body to function correctly.

"What's wrong with you!" Anais lashed, her mind quickly focusing on the intruder, "Can't you see where you are going?!"

She wasn't really angry that she was bumped into, it was the fact that what she was looking for was at the tip of her tongue and now it was gone.

"I apologize," she added after a few moments as her brain tried to track what she was looking for again, "I'm not in the right state of mind here."

Demetri raised his eyebrows as the girl fell backwards and then lashed out at him. The last he checked the girl had in fact bumped into him, not the other way around. However, he did stumble a little, which might have caused him to knock her over.

"My apologies." he said calmly, but then he chuckled lightly at her comment about seeing. "I think I can probably see better than everyone in this room." He said with a light humour in his tone, and a twinkle in his red eyes as he looked down at the girl.

Giving her a gentle smile when she apologized, he decided to ignore her attitude from before. "It's alright. It's that time of year, right?" he said with a laugh.

School was going to start soon, which usually put everyone out of their right minds.

"Oh," she didn't expect an apology but she nodded, indicating she accepted it as well, "right." She didn't catch onto his humor for a moment and when she did, she smiled a bit with a nod.

"What's with the red eyes," Anais asked abruptly after studying him a few minutes before looking back onto the shelf. "Are you a vampire or something?"

The brunette shrugged and a nod followed after, "Do you mean it's the time of year to buy stuff for school?" Her slight frazzled state finally stopped, "Because if that's what you mean, I suppose my answer would be yes. But it'll be my first year so... yes?"

"Are you in Durmstrang or some other magical school?" She asked in polite conversation tone.

Demetri smiled slightly once the girl caught on to his humour, but his smile instantly faltered when she suddenly out right asked about his eyes and what he was. Swallowing the lump in his throat, and then coughing slightly, he turned towards the shelves again.

"Er...well..." he began, but his voice seemed to fail him. No one had ever asked about what he was so abruptly before, so knowing what to say had completely left him. Sure he could flat out say 'Yes, I am half actually.' but something stopped him.

"Um, yeah, that. The fact that we have to come and buy supplies means it's closer to school, which sucks for some people." he said with a shrug, happy for the change in topic...at least that was if she didn't bring up the topic again.

Looking down at the girl in surprise, he said, "First year? Wow. I go to Durmstrang, I'm going into my fifth year, in Hrabrost."