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"That sounds like a lot of fun." Eolande agreed with a smile. With a happy little twist of her wrist, Eolande gently swung the cooler away from mark. She teasingly spoke. "Oh no peeking then! You will just have to wait until we get to the park! Unless you want to just have a picnic in your yard? Your house is so pretty, it almost looks like a park from the outside." Eolande swung the cooler beside her and stepped towards the door of Mark's room.

"Oooh. A hot tub..I would really love to try that Marky. I can't remember the last time I was able to enjoy a hot tub...I think it was a hotel somewhere while I was waiting for the movers to show up with my stuff." Eolande pointed over her shoulder and grinned. "So....unless you wanna picnic here, let's go!"

Eolande waited for Mark to come to the door. The slightly silly look on her face was...amusing at the very least. Still giggling softly to herself, Eolande walked the way back to her bike. Once more she secured her cooler in the side storage bag, and then passed the matching helmet over to Mark to wear while taking the silly fish one for herself. Time was ticking by far too long in her opinion. She had brought this treat to share with Mark and she wanted to get past anymore delays.

Eolande gave the house one more admiring glance. It was such a nice house...someday...she was going to live in a house like this. Inhaling deeply, she gave Mark a moment to settle down on the bike before she turned it on. As before, conversation was rather hard to have with the roar of the bike and the sound of the wind rushing around them. So until it was that they reached the park and found a place to park the bike, Eolande had nothing more to really say. When she did turn the engine off and removed her helmet, she exhaled deeply and turned to look at Mark behind her. "Do you have a favorite place in the park to go? Maybe someplace private and quiet?"

Eolande tugged her helmet off and slid off the bike. After she locked the helmets into the bag, she hooked the cooler into the crook of one arm..and held her hand out towards Mark. Smiling at her, she spoke a little shyly.

"How about we wander around until we find a place we like? We can head towards the woods...I'm sure there is some nice shady place we can sit down. Does...that sound okay to you?"

Eolande felt rather comfortable holding Mark's hand. Not that she expected anyone to take a second glance at two girls heading into the park together. Girls were friends, girls were friendly. Girls could be close and warm and nice and it was perfectly acceptable. Girls made really good friends. Eolande could never have done this with Marlon. They both would have blushed and felt awkward she was certain. Marlon was...well...like the brother she so desperatly wished she still had.

As Mark pulled her eagerly along, Eolande felt as if she were just floating on a cloud right now. She followed Mark along, though she found herself looking at her friend more then her surroundings. She looked so happy...she really liked that look. Why was it so hard to make people look like that? So relaxed and just...themselves? More importantly, why couldn't she ever feel that way? Eolande shook her head a little to clear it of the confusing thoughts turning about, and pulled upon Mark's hand.

"Marky, what about there?" She lifted the hand with the cooler and pointed through some thick bushes. A part of the foliage had thinned out, and Eolande was able to see that the bushes ringed around a tall elm tree. The gnarled roots kept the bushes from growing up against it, leaving a small open area around it's trunk.

Eolande followed Mark into the cleared area and glanced around herself. Yes. It was certainly more private here. They could imagine they were the only ones around in the entire park...or woods if they preferred to look at it this way. She picked herself out a seat next to Mark, though took a moment to brush the grass off before sitting down herself.

"I brought chocolate strawberry parfaits." She announced, now that they were finally settled down for the treat she shared the name of the dessert as she opened the cooler. However, instead of taking out a fully prepared parfait...Eolande handed Mark a bowl and began to pull out various Tupperware bowls.

"Okay. This is crumbled up brownies. This one is chopped up chocolate cheesecake. This one is diced strawberries. This one is pureed strawberries in sugar. This one is rainbow sprinkles. I have a can of whipped cream here. I brought some crushed up peanuts here, and this one is crushed up pecans. Here is the chocolate angel-food cake....Oh! And one last thing. Mini chocolate chips!" Smiling happily she started to uncap the bowls and motioned for Mark to start making her dessert.

Eolande paused in opening the containers and looked up at Mark. It was so weird... For a brief moment she felt this terrible desire to just tear up. It took her a few seconds to push the feeling away. "I...I'm really glad you like it." She spoke in a faint voice. It felt so...so good to have someone enjoying her cooking. Marlon liked it so much too...she spent so much time cooking for herself. Always cooking more exotic and elaborate foods just to eat up the time when she was alone. Eolande's lips trembled for a moment, and she wiped at her eye before she could embarrass herself by getting all weepy over a silly dessert.

"Oh...school. Just...school stuff." She replied as she tried to refocus on the dessert. Eolande took her own bowl and spooned a few chunks of angelfood cake into the bottom. "I've finished reading up all the science chapters. History isn't much interesting. I sort of find it depressing. All those wars and fighting and stuff." Eolande spooned some strawberries into her bowl and added a healthy amount of sprinkles to it. "I am having fun in English though. We have to write a non-fiction story, so much more fun then re-writing boring old facts." Glancing up, Eolande handed Mark the can of whipped cream.

"I like music a lot though. I wish I could spend more time in that class. What about you? Do you have any favorite classes?"

Eolande topped off her parfait with some of the brownie crumble, then shifted a bit to sit beside Mark. She leaned back against the tree and gently dabbed her spoon into the mix. "Not so much. I like to watch a lot of anime though, so a lot of my stories have inspirations from them." And now...from her own real life. She had fallen into a true live action anime. Eolande tilted her head back and gazed up at the tree limbs above them. Her lips parted into a faint smile as she watched the sunlight shifting through the green leaves above. "I like magical girl stories. Some...quiet girl that a stranger just comes up to and gives the most wonderful of gifts to. A magical item that completely set's her free. Allowing her to become this beautiful and cute magical person. Someone who can fight against the horrible dark things in the world around her. Making her feel whole and...and important... And she just... does it. Without knowing how or why. She can do these amazing things. People look at her and think 'Wow. She's really special.' They see her and..and they love her and she isn't alone or anything. She's not that quiet shadow in the back of the room anymore. A unattractive and unwanted thing mucking up someone else life."

Eolande blinked her eyes and dropped her gaze down from the leaves above and gave a small nervous giggle. "Sorry. Sometimes I think I watch them way way too much." When mark brought up her singing though, her face turned a dark pink. "Oh..I..d-don't really sing my music. I just..write it and hope someday someone else may sing it for me." Taking a bite of her dessert, she smiled faintly. "That sounds like a wonderful goal Marky. I hope I get to see some of your outfits. Though I completely agree with the whole eating thing." Holding up her bowl she scooped out some sprinkles covered cake. "I could never give up cooking and eating."