She Keeps the Disguise going

She chooses to keep her disguise up, just in case he is insecure and turns her down. *not that I will let that stop me in the first place* Iphisnixii thinks smugly to herself. She looks in the mirror and is just amused at her power, she commended herself on making her look lesser than what she truly was. As she got up she watched him closer and thought to herself *I only want him to see my disguise for now*.

Whitney POV:

Whitney is just sitting in his usual spot, reading his usual book and suddenly his phone vibrates. He checks it and its a message from Lucas asking if he is ok, and is worried since he hasn't heard from Whitney since his birthday. Whitney smiles, something he rarely does these days and reply -I'm good man, just getting a bite to eat and relaxing with a good book before I take it down the for the night you know how I get down.- Lucas responds with -I know man but you are my brother from another mother and I worry about you.- Whitney laughs to himself and says: -You are retired SSG, and I'm not your Joe anymore lol.- Lucas ends the chain with: -You were never really my Joe, more like my little brother and for your information I will ALWAYS worry about you. You should have fun tonight, try and find someone to take home. You never know your soulmate could be there tonight.- Whitney reads the message and shakes his head laughing out loud. As he does that a beautiful woman walks up to him and starts to talk to him.

Iphisnixii /Whitney POV:

Iphisnixii walks up to Whitney and asks "Hi, I noticed you were sitting by yourself and you are a vet. (playing off of most men's vanity) Can I join you and buy you a drink?"

Whitney, looks at her with the expression of indifference and says: " I'm just relaxing enjoying this book, I don't know how much fun I'll be but sure have a seat." as he motions to have her join him in the other booth.

Iphisnixii sits down and takes a moment to drink in what is sitting before her. She has never been so enthralled with a human as much as she is with him and with him standing at 6'5 and 275 of impressive size to her he is literally a mountain of a man. Iphisnixii thought quickly to establish a physical connection with Whitney: "Hey I see you are wearing those plastic cancer support bands, what others do you have on your arm?" Iphisnixii asks trying to play coy and relaxed to match Whitney's attitude.

Whitney: "here why don't you take a look for yourself." Thinking nothing of it you reach your hand out so Iphisnixii can look at your bands. "by the way my name is Whitney what is yours?"

Iphisnixii sees Whitney reach his hand out and she starts to sweat and get nervous(a new emotion for her) she looks at Whitney as she softly grazes his hand with her fingers: "oh what, my name is Hope" Iphisnixii thought on the spot *That's a decent name, if any.*Hope/Iphisnixii takes his hand with the intent of looking at his bands and notices the rough callouses on his palms, she smells traces of gun powder and baby powder. She sees the fine details of his hand and forearms. As she looks at his bands finally she sees they say "care for veterans", "action for autism(something that she would later look up)" something called a "balance band" and finally a band that was gold and had markings of cancer support and "team shawn" on it. As she touched his had she felt his memories of battling cancer as a child and playing football in support of a child with cancer, she also saw and felt all the pain he has experienced over the years and when looking at his face she saw that majority of that pain was hidden under a mask of indifference and relaxation.

Whitney: as she touched your had you noticed that she was studying you like you study for exams and it made you uncomfortable but you held your tounge. This was the first time anyone has touched you in almost a year and it felt amazing. Her touch literally set your body on fire, you could feel your little buddy waking up for the first time. Having medical experience you knew what the reactions of arousal were. Dilation of pupils, increase in heart rate, flushing in the skin, the works. You wanted more but your mind reverted to the times you were hurt and you became afraid. Unknown to you Iphisnixii/Hope could feel your emotions and read your mind and bound/determined to take you home that night.