Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:48 pm**

Samantha hadn't been avoiding her dorm room. Not consciously, at least, especially after the shower incident.

Regardless, if she found some time to herself in the library, what was the harm in that? Thus there she was, browsing the shelves.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:45 pm**

Really, hiding from her roommates in the library was kind of like trying to avoid getting wet by going to the pool. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to Sam when Nailah walks around the corner of one of the shelves, a book in her arm.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:49 pm**

"Oh, hey there Nailah," she said with a faint smile.

"Needed something for class?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:53 pm**

"Yeah..." she scrunches up her face. "Ms. Frost has us reading The House on Mango Street next."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:57 pm**

"I guess that kind of fits with the whole mutant thing, in a way."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:59 pm**

"I guess. So, you here for school stuff too?" she teases, looking at the shelf Sam has been browsing.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:00 pm**

"It's just kind of nice and quiet, aye?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:05 pm**

"Yeah..." she says, not sure if she should take that as a hint or not. "I can leave you alone if you want..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:06 pm**

"No, it's okay. How's your day been?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:13 pm**

"Okay, I guess. Kinda not been paying too much attention in class..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:16 pm**

"Oh? Nothing bad, I hope?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:18 pm**

"Just... trying to figure things you, you know? That whole thing with Becca..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:25 pm**

"Wish I could help you there, really."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:27 pm**

"Well I'm just not sure what to think. That kind blind-sided me too, you know?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:29 pm**

"I'm just kind of in the dark about this sort of thing. Not anything you get prepared for, aye?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:33 pm**

"It doesn't seem all that different than..." Paying a bit more attention to the expression on Sam's face she trails off. "Right. Sorry." she says quietly.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:35 pm**

"No, no, it's okay. You need to be able to talk about this stuff, and I shouldn't be an obstacle to that."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:39 pm**

"You're not an obstacle. You're just... uncomfortable with it. I understand that."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:40 pm**

"Aye, but I need to stop being uncomfortable with it."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:44 pm**

"You really wanna talk about me kissing Becca..." she asks carefully. And in bit of a hushed voice so someone just happening to pass nearby won't hear her.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:47 pm**

"I've got to get used to it somehow, Nailah."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:56 pm**

"Fine..." she says and glances around before dragging Sam over to one of the tables at the far end of the library.

"So... well... that whole thing was pretty confusing, right? I mean it's not like I really had a good grip on what was going on and then you ran away and everything was weird and... anyway, yeah, so after Becca pushed you out she tried to calm me down..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:09 pm**

"Aye, she's good at that," she said with a soft smile.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:16 pm**

"Yeah... And everything was so... I don't know. Unstable? I was, like, free-falling But she was there and I don't really know what happened but I kissed her and everything was just kind of fuzzy..."

"But it's like... was that just cause I was sad over you and, I dunno, trying to replace you or something? I mean that'd be totally unfair to her..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:22 pm**

"Are you even sure what you would have done if I'd said 'yes'?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:26 pm**

"Not really..." she admits.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:30 pm**

"Then don't second guess yourself. We're all playing this by ear."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:39 pm**

"Don't worry about it. That's the same thing she said and she didn't even believe that herself." Nailah mumbles.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:40 pm**

"How do you know she didn't?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:45 pm**

"The way she said it. It... I don't know. I just... did."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:48 pm**

"Then can you tell that I do believe it when I say that?"

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:52 pm**

"Yeah, but I'm not sure I do..."

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:55 pm**

"We're a lot alike, you know? Neither of us wants to be worried about."

"Which gets bloody silly when we try to talk to each other about stuff that matters, aye?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:02 am**

"Kinda does, yeah." she's forced to admit.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:13 am**

"So let's take it as given then that the lot of us are too worried about each other, and the prospect of hurting one another, to ever do it intentionally."

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:20 am**

"Of course! I'd never do that on purpose." she says, almost sounding a little offended that that somehow needed to be pointed out.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:22 am**

"And don't you think she knows that too?"

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:29 am**

"Of course she does. I'm not worried about her thinking I did it on purpose. I'm worried about her getting hurt!" she frowns.

She's loud enough to cause a "Shh!" from somewhere which prompts an unusual glare from the Sphinx in that general direction.

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:31 am**

"And I'm saying that we might all be worrying too much here. I know I probably am."

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:35 am**

"Yeah well 'Don't worry about it' hasn't been exactly helpful so far."

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