`hunger strikes [open]

[francis cohn]

Ravenous. Positively ravenous. It was difficult for Francis to concentrate, the hunger was so intense. It was the early morning nibbles he had. It was eight o’clock in the morning – imagine being up at that time! And Francis had practically crawled to the dining hall for his breakfast. The hunger he felt in the mornings was almost crippling. He bit his bottom lip as he made his way through the door; he made a bee-line for the queue. Three wheetabix should do, he thought to himself, then added a generous helping of Shreddies on top of his wheetabix. As he was adding the milk he realised he was falling forward. The hunger put his balance off. He dragged himself to a table and started eating his cereal, he didn’t look up, he didn’t care who was nearby. All that mattered at that moment was food.

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[Nadia Donovan]

Nadia watched as Francis came into the dining hall. She had risen early, hoping to avoid the crowds. She had but it also meant that she couldn''t avoid Francis. Of course, she didn't know that Francis was an early riser, she hadn't seen him in the mornings.
He didn't really seem to be paying much attention to his surroundings, his gaze was bent on the food. Maybe he was just hungry.
He filled a bowl with a mixture of cereals and came and sat down quite near to Nadia. He hadn't seemed to notice her though. But he would unless she started acting normally again. She'd stopped eating to watch Francis. She didn't want to talk to him. She had been trying to avoid him. Naturally.
Nadia took a spoonful of whatever it was that she was eating and put it in her mouth. After chewing a while, she tried to swallow. That failed. She started to choke, her throat had decided that her food was air... great.

[francis cohn]

Francis was completely transfixed by his cereal. Somehow the task of eating it took most of his brain power, but as he spooned up the mushy substance and as he began to gain energy from his eating he became more alert and less of a zombie. Almost immediately he began to notice things around him – the first of which was Nadia Donovan coughing up her lung. His situation with Nadia probably wasn’t great; he knew that she resented him from the whole first day fiasco.

As far as Francis was concerned it wasn’t his fault, he didn’t know that the two of them were seeing each other, it was them and their raging hormones that were to blame. Perhaps if he wasn’t so much of an optimist he’d see why they were so upset with him, but in his mind this just gave him the opportunity to make a move on them without them saying no on the grounds of seeing someone else.

Sliding down the bench, dragging his cereal bowl with him, Francis made his way over to Nadia. “Are you in need of CPR?” he asked her, raising an eyebrow and somehow making it seem as if he’d asked something else.

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[Nadia Donovan]

“Are you in need of CPR?” could he not catch a hint? Ugh... Francis now disgusted Nadia. It seemed that every single thought running through his brain was sex-orientated.
"No-" cough "I'm fine-" cough "Just leave me alone Francis." Cough. Now people were beginning to stare. Ok, they were already staring but Nadia had only just noticed. Nadia grabbed her glass of water and took a sip but it only made things worse. She coughed again, spraying Francis with a water and saliva mix.
Oops.

[francis cohn]

It was clear from the coughing and the choking that Nadia was not fine, so the fact that she said that she was fine implied that she was in fact not fine and angry with Francis. Said boy found it difficult to comprehend on what grounds she could possibly be angry enough to refuse his help. He tried not to let it get to him, after all he had sort of destroyed Nadia and Ienzo’s relationship. “No help needed? That’s why you’re chocking to death?” Everyone was watching them now. Francis was beginning to consider leaving her alone but then she coughed all over him, her saliva flung all over him and clinging to him in little droplets. Now he couldn’t leave. Something had to be done.

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[Nadia Donovan]

Nadia could see that Nadia was going to do something. But she really coudln't bear him to touch her again... it wasn't him... ok it was him... but still... Nadia got up from her seatand gave Francis a look which she hoped said "Stay away". She had just about managed to stop coughing when she decided to try to speak. She opened her mouth and proceeded to cough again. Crap. Nadia looked glaringly at Francis warning him not to follow her. She went out of the dining hall and preoceeded to stop choking. Ironic.