En regardant l'expression d'Ione quand il se tourna et regarda Henrietta, il put dire qu'elle ne la favorisait pas autant. Étaient-ils ennemis? Si je n'aime pas Henrietta à cet égard, il vaut peut-être mieux l'éviter comme je l'ai fait et simplement la suivre hors de la bibliothèque. Malheureusement, il a trouvé cela assez difficile. Il y avait quelque chose qui tournait dans son esprit qui lui faisait penser à Henrietta plus. Ses yeux ne pouvaient pas modifier leur direction dans laquelle la blonde existait. Quelqu'un dirait peut-être que Saoji était obsédé par sa façon de regarder. Il a presque fait un pas en avant dans sa direction, mais dans une autre partie de son esprit, il a résisté. Il ne pouvait pas nier qu'au fond, il voulait aller la voir et lui poser un million de questions.
Enfin, il secoua la tête, effaçant les pensées de cette tentation. Il y avait quelque chose d'étrange chez elle. Ce qui était encore plus étrange, c'est à quel point il était attiré par elle. C'était son apparence? Sa personnalité? Il y avait juste... quelque chose. En regardant autour de lui, il a vu d'autres étudiants qui semblaient être attirés par elle comme il était, la regardant de loin comme des chiots brouillants. Il y avait quelque chose qui ne va pas ici. Saoji s'est alors rendu compte que personne ne prêtait à peine attention à Ione. Il a pensé, pourquoi quelqu'un voudrait être avec elle, quand il y a un million de gars là-bas qui ont braqué sur elle. Celui qui était son amant devait combattre un nombre infini de garçons et de filles. Ce serait complètement malsain pour son être.
Au lieu d'être pris dans une toile pleine de désir et de luxure, il a décidé de se concentrer à nouveau sur Ione. Il lui resserra les yeux pendant qu'elle partait, la suivant de derrière. Une fois qu'il l'a rattrapée, il a souri et s'est cogné la tête en regardant le film qu'elle a regardé. Il a dû admettre qu'il n'avait jamais vu ce film... puis quelque chose l'a frappé... Il allait dans sa chambre! Où étaient ses affaires personnelles... où elle dormait... où elle fait... d'autres choses! Il a glissé assez fort pour qu'elle entende comme une seule goutte de sueur est tombée du côté droit de son front. Mais pourquoi était-il nerveux? C'est juste une amie après tout, n'est-ce pas? Il a essayé de s'en convaincre, mais le fait est... qu'il allait dans une chambre privée de secrets de GIRL.
Il voulait dire quelque chose pour essayer de soulager sa propre humeur, mais rien ne m'est venu à l'esprit. Il était trop timide... et son visage a tout montré. Ses joues ont presque rougi de sang... mais il a dû dire quelque chose pour briser le silence maladroit... il a juste dû... Alors avec un commentaire maladroit il a dit...
**"Wow! C'est un bel après-midi!"** a-t-il dit, souriant à nouveau nerveusement.
Au fond de lui, il a lâché, sachant que ça ne s'est pas vraiment bien passé. J'ai probablement pensé que c'était un idiot... et peut-être... qu'il l'était. Il soupirait et se demandait ce qu'il faisait... était-il en train de faire un avenir prometteur avec un grand ami? ou se mettre en place pour une destruction complète et totale? Il ne voulait pas que les choses aillent si loin... il voulait juste que quelqu'un soit là puisqu'il n'a pas vraiment rencontré quelqu'un ici depuis son arrivée. Ione était le seul qui lui a donné l'heure de la journée, ce qui l'a fait coller à ses côtés encore plus. En même temps... il ne pouvait pas ébranler le fait qu'elle était aussi un peu comme lui dans une certaine mesure. Il a tenté de se faire paraître plus confiant en concentrant ses pensées sur quelque chose de différent.
_Il doit y avoir quelque chose de plus profondément enraciné dans cet endroit... Quelque chose ne se sent pas juste_ il pensait.
Ou peut-être que c'est juste moi...? Par rapport à mon frère et ma sœur, je n'ai pas vraiment quitté la maison comme ils l'ont fait. Ils ont pu expérimenter le monde... pas moi... Peut-être que c'est moi qui exagère... Calme-toi Saoji... tout ira bien..._
**Name:** Ione (Juliet) Barnett & Paige
**Picture/Description:**
This one is Ione!
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This is Paige! (She's a ghost. :P)
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**Age:** 17
**Gender:** Female
**Personality:** One way (Maybe the only way) to describe Ione is as odd. She is aloof, absent and some times, she seems to be looking more through you than at you. All of this combined with the fact that she talks a bit too much about ghosts and spirits make her seem crazy more often than not. You see, Ione has two personas inside her, but of course, this isn't a Multiple Personality Disorder, it is just her playing around, and also, a way to hide her bashfulness when talking to others, after all, who would be able to talk about ghosts, spirits, demons and such without feeling if even a little bit embarrassed? Her first persona is Juliet, a cold, sharp tongued girl who tries to scare others with her stories about ghosts (Yep, she named it). The second one is her real self that often peeks out when she is acting as her Juliet persona and someone shows some kind of interest in what she is talking about, the real Ione that is more of a ditzy, naive and a bit playful girl.
While it may seem that her ghost ramblings are nothing but nonsense, Ione does indeed have a talent for contacting the occult. Such talent allows her to speak with ghosts and even see them, and, given her lack of friends because of her odd personality, she spends a lot of time talking with her ghost friends. Given that she is one of the few people who can actually do that, she is often seen talking alone or with some imaginary friend, as they guess, though the reality is actually more spooky than that. Ione also has an unwavering love for Horror movies, though she often comments on the many discrepancies between the movies and actual ghosts.
Regarding her constant companion, the ghost Paige, she is a bit of a pervert that is deeply attached to Ione, and would do whatever Ione wants as long as it is reasonable. Regardless of her appearance and due to the fact that she's been dead for a long time, Paige is more mature than she lets others know, and also someone with very strict morals. She likes playing pranks, but she would never abide to do something that would put others in danger and will also pressure Ione to do the right thing sometimes. The two of the get along really well and are almost like sisters, so Paige is very prone to feel jealous when someone else interacts with Ione.
**Talent:** Mediumship, Ione is able to communicate with and see ghosts, to a really frightening extent, as she claims that, sometimes, she can even touch the ghosts without the use of her ability, though it is a limited and scarce number of ghosts she can actually touch. The reason as to why she can touch those ghosts is still unknown, but she thinks it is because of some kind of grudge they hold.
**Ability:** Poltergeist, Ione has the ability to secrete ectoplasm from her body, a substance invisible to those without her talents of mediumship. Through the secretion of ectoplasm, she can give a ghost the ability to touch things in the mortal realm, from objects to humans, giving the illusion that she has telekinesis instead. With enough extoplasm, a ghost can become visible to the naked eye of any passerby. Though her ability is useful, it does not give her the ability to control ghosts, so there are few ghosts who actually listen to her, though, luckily, she has one she is very good friends with. A ghost covered in her ectoplasm can also posses someone, however, the subject must be unconscious for it to succeed. It seems she can also use the ectoplasm for battle, but given that she barely knows how to fight, she doesn't know how.
**Bio:** Always the odd one out, Ione at first cursed her talent for seeing ghosts, since it caused nothing but troubles. In the past, she was always bullied, because of how she tried to include her invisible friends into conversations with others. Unable to see what Ione was talking about, the other kids merely tried to tell her that there was nothing there, and that she was crazy. At some point, and tired of being called crazy for believing in her ghostly friends, she distanced herself from them. She pretended as if they didn't exist, as if she couldn't hear them. She saw how they detached their own heads and things of the like in comic ways in an effort to make her laugh, but she choked down her laughs and put up a poker face.
She lived a normal life for a while but, to be honest, she found it boring. After being able to talk with ghosts that had been decapitated or had died young, well, she just found everything else boring. She had seen gory scenes before, but she didn't seem to really mind, in fact, that helped her develop one of her greatest interests in life, her love for horror movies. After a while, she finally realized that her fun days were because of her ethereal friends and decided to go back to them, instead of trying to be someone she wasn't with the other kids.
She apologized time and time again and the ghosts that were her friends eventually forgave her, with the sole condition that she wouldn't turn their back on them ever again. After agreeing to it, she was then introduced to the newest additions of the gang. Juliet and Paige, a pair of sisters that strayed all the way to where they were. Ione grew close to both sisters in a short time, but one day, Juliet, the bigger of the sisters, disappeared. Juliet always talked about how it would be great to finally pass on and let go of all her regrets and things left undone, though there was still something holding her down. Ione soon connected the dots and figured that she couldn't pass on because of her little sister Paige, but after Paige grew close to Ione, maybe Juliet knew that her little sister would be able to pass away eventually too, and left this world. Ione was now resolved, knowing that Juliet must now be able to be born again, and she decided to help all the other ghosts pass away and thus, her Juliet persona was born. She helped every and each one of her friends pass away, except for one. Paige was the only one that remained there and, though Ione didn't knew why, she decided she would think about it as it went, given that Paige never left her side.
**Other:** She likes to wear gothic lolita fashion. She is quite good at sewing and handicraft of the like, though she is terrible at cooking.