Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:13 pmGetting home from her date with Nailah, Janice shuts the door behind her and leans against it, sliding down with a long breath.
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:13 pmRe: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:27 pm"Good or bad," Laura asks, glancing up from a tablet to look at Janice.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:28 pm"...some of each?" She says, looking to Laura.
"Weird, weird night."
"Weird, weird night."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:33 pm"Just tell me my clothes survived intact," she says, taking a closer look as she sits up on her bed.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:37 pm"Yes. I wasn't dropped and... well, there was sort of a fight but it wasn't a fight fight?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:41 pmLaura raises an eyebrow, "You had a fight on the first date? What did you do?!"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:42 pm"It wasn't a fight with her."
"Okay, she was in the fight but she was on my side."
"Okay, she was in the fight but she was on my side."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:46 pmLaura sets the tablet aside, "Maybe you should start from the beginning?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:50 pm"It was going pretty well! We got to the restaurant, we started eating..."
"...and then a crazy marching band nerd-slash-thief burst in and..."
"...she might be my nemesis."
"...and then a crazy marching band nerd-slash-thief burst in and..."
"...she might be my nemesis."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:21 pm"A nemesis? You've got a nemesis?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:24 pm"I guess?"
She throws her hands up in frustration.
She throws her hands up in frustration.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:31 pm"Must have been the outfit," she teases, "So the date was good otherwise?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:34 pm"I mean... yes?"
"Like, aside from some nutter threatening my life if I don't get her fifty thousand quid, sure."
"And Nailah might be more into nailing the baddie than actual girlfriend stuff."
"Like, aside from some nutter threatening my life if I don't get her fifty thousand quid, sure."
"And Nailah might be more into nailing the baddie than actual girlfriend stuff."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:42 am"She did seem kind of committed to the hero thing. Are you sure you're good with that?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:49 am"I'm probably going to the wrong school to not be good with it, aren't I?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:07 am"True, but it'd also be totally up to you and understandable if you *weren't*."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:04 am"I mean it's... kind of attractive at times."
"And other times it's an impenetrable barrier to all flirting."
"And other times it's an impenetrable barrier to all flirting."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:17 am"Maybe you should incorporate it into the flirting? I mean, I'm not much for the hero stuff myself, so I can't even begin to say how that would work."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:24 am"This was part of that," she gestures to her outfit.
"Worked... well enough. Better than expected at spots."
"Worked... well enough. Better than expected at spots."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:19 am"So I'm hearing I should take you shopping for a proper one?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:28 pm"Oh god, is this... is this my lifestyle now?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:03 pm"Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, if that's what someone's into. I'm certainly not going to judge," she smirks.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:41 pm"She's... ah..."
"She really likes it. You should've seen her face."
"She really likes it. You should've seen her face."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:53 pm"And you like that she likes it," Laura laughs.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 9:00 pm"Well isn't that always the way? Like when you find the thing that blows past someone who's otherwise a little oblivious?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:04 pm"Assuming it doesn't melt their brain completely in the process. Unless that's what you're going for."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:22 am"I mean, a little brain melting is fun sometimes."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:37 am"Good thing neither of us are telepaths then, I guess," she smirks.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:58 pm"Yeah, no literal brain melting."
"Anyway, how was your evening? You didn't have a climactic battle with your nemesis or anything, did you?"
"Anyway, how was your evening? You didn't have a climactic battle with your nemesis or anything, did you?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:11 pm"Nope. Read some school assignments, worked ahead a bit. Just stayed boring old me."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:12 pm"Yes, the girl with purple hair and wings who can look like anybody is boring," she deadpans.
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:29 pm"Only as a day job. Being exciting doesn't always pay the bills."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:37 pm"Oh. So the leather is... a hobby?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:59 pm"The leather... is complicated," she says, "But yes, a hobby."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:17 pm"I mean, I'd never caught you in full-on leather mode, so I don't know what Laura in particular that is."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:47 pm"Well," she says carefully, "It's the sort of thing that requires a lot of trust. And I don't... I haven't been here long enough to find another... hobbyist."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:50 pm"...this is a situation in which an enthusiastic quest to set you up with someone would be wildly inappropriate, wouldn't it?"
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 pm"I'm... really picky? So probably." She adds quickly, "Not that I'm ashamed of my hobby, mind you."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:59 pm"There was a guy whose eyes got big as saucers when I came down the hall in this getup, then ran into a room like his trousers were on fire."
"But that might not be the most scientific of sampling."
"But that might not be the most scientific of sampling."
Re: Missed a beat.
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:23 am"Probably not. And you were looking pretty smashing, so that probably had something to do with the reaction."