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Re-L Lanzer
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The school gymnastics area was usually deserted in the lateness of night and the earliness of the morning. Normally gymnist were very punctual with their practice sessions practicing only with their coaches and then, resting when there wasn't a coach around, with all the high flying acrobatics and joint bending movements, one wants to make sure that there is always someone around in case of emergency. But sometimes a few gymnast would come in after hours and work on floor routines and other "easy" stuff, but Re-L wasn't interested in that, her reason for coming to the gym this this morning at 4 A.M was not to work on safe floor routines, it was so that she could work on her performance on the uneven bars, in practice Re-L's work on the bars were perfect, she had perfect bar transitions her posture was straight, her giant swings were flawless, she easily mounted the bars with both her feet, and her dismounts were rarely anything but picture perfect.......in practice. Before transition to college, Re-L was a champion, she always performed well in every event she attended, even taking gold at the junior Olympics. But after coming to college, her success instantly ceased to exist, aforementioned she was flawless in practice but in competition, she has yet to do a routine without mistakes, always ending a routine with at least two marks against her. They were always rookie mistakes, losing momentum on swings, bumping her legs on the bars and even taking a knee on some of her dismounts. Everyone of her teammates and the fans from the school felt that she couldn't handle the pressure and even a few sports commentators have been taking shots at her "rookie performances" and although the coaches stayed very supportive, Re-L knew that she was disappointing them every time messed up. But whatever the case maybe Re-L couldn't give up, gymnastics was the only thing keeping her off the streets. Re-L was in school on a scholarship that payed for her housing, food and education. So she had to keep practicing and force herself to get better, or she was screwed.

Right now Re-L was coming to the end of one of her routines, transitioning from low bad to high bar off of a stand and swinging herself into three consecutive giant swings before releasing herself into a double layout dismount, she stuck the landing with barely a wobble and held her hands up. Before letting out a low sigh, and hanging her head a bit. She use to get a thrill out of her practices, but seeing as how now they never payed off for her they always felt like a waste of time.

Shaking her head as she walked towards the shower unwrapping the gauze that encased her wrist and fingers, another sign of her poverty most of her teammates had wrist braces and adhesive finger tape, but Re-L didn't have money to waste so gauze would have to work for her. Not that she minded it however, it was all she knew. Throwing the used gauze in the trash can, Re-L shed her leotard and stepped into the shower to freshen up, she had class in a few hours.

Re-L Lanzer
↶Freedom isn't free. !
Lay down ↘ ↘ and start up ↗ ↗
↳Get to work Life isn't easy !

Re-L had to stop by her room before she could go to class. She had left her bag in her room, which wasn't surprising seeing as her morning events were spontaneous at best. She was surprised she had been in the proper state of mind to bring extra clothes, which she was wearing now. A short sleeved white hoodie, and tight fitting black spandex leggings, she had a sports bra on, and it was visible by the way her jacket was slightly unzipped but she was not one to easily embarrassed but if someone mentioned it to her she would probably zip her jacket up just on principle.

As she entered her room, she found it surprisingly empty, a quick check of the clock told her she still had a bit of time before classes started, but even still her roommate must have headed out a bit early. At the thought of her roommate Re-L had to force away images from her head that seemed to want to wonder in front of her eyes. Her first encounter with her roommate hadn't been very....normal to say the least. She had walked in on the girl with a boy, wearing nothing but a towel. Yea the girl had apologized to Re-L but the damage was done and Re-L had to live with a rather disturbing mental image every time she thought about the girl. She didn't even get a chance to catch the girls name and already she had seen more of the girl then she would have liked to. Thought then again, it wasn't as if Re-L didn't appreciate the sight, yea Re-L was gay. A closet lesbian if you wanna be quite specific, but whether she liked what she saw or not it would be wise for Re-L to just let it ago, clearly her roommate was straight, and therefore wouldn't reciprocate Re-L's interest and the last thing Re-L needed was to chase after a straight girl. With a small sigh Re-L picked up her book bag, and swung it over her shoulder, shaking her head to dislodge the lewd thoughts that still swam around in her head as she exited her room and headed to her first class of the day English,
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Re-L made it to her class with much time to spare, her teacher was still preparing for his lesson, scribbling away at things in a note book, and marking words on the board. Re-L at herself in a seat near the middle of the classroom, taking her English book and notebook out of her bag and placing them on the desk, and waited for class to begin.

Re-L Lanzer
↶Freedom isn't free. !
Lay down ↘ ↘ and start up ↗ ↗
↳Get to work Life isn't easy !

Re-L was flipping idly through her English book, reading over the text that was was beginning to fade into the crumpled pages of her used book. Re-L was surprised that the book wasn't in worse condition seeing as it like many of her other books had been given to her for free by graduating students. Yes she had a book scholarship as well, but the money from that could carry over for personal use so she had decided to try and scrape by with used books and it had paid off for her, even if she had to deal with hand me downs. The extra money would be good for her, maybe she could get some decent clothes for once in her life. Yea.. she entertained the thought of clothes, but deep down she knew any money she spent would probably be for gymnastics, she could use some better wrist wraps...

Re-L was still thinking about all the things that she could do now that she was privileged enough to have a little bit of extra money in her pockets, when she heard a familiar voice speak up beside her, Re-L snapped herself to attention to her head quickly her sky blue eyes meeting the emerald eyes of her roommate. Re-L felt a bit of heat raising to her face, the sight of her roommate bringing up memories of the day before, but she quickly banished those thoughts to the fiery pits of Hades. "Uh no it's not taken" Re-L managed in her low husky voice. She really didn't feel that she needed to answer Shobiei's question however as the girl was already taking a seat. Re-L turned her head back towards the front of the class nervously shooting a few glances at her roommate before planting her blue eyes back on the board in front of the class. This was going to be a very long period, Re-L thought to herself miserably, very tempted to put her head down, put before she could slump Shobei spoke up again breaking the silence by offering to walk with Re-L to class in the morning, and adding that she wouldn't intrude on Re-L's gym time if their schedule's were conflicting. Re-L was surprised that the girl remembered what little Re-L had revealed about herself in their conversation the day before. Yea Re-L had told her about the scholarship and that she was a gymnast but she didn't mention anything about where she had come from, or that she had been homeless that wasn't something you just told people. "I don't usually go to the gym in the morning, today was just...." Was it mentioned before that Re-L had a speech impediment? Re-L never seemed to intake enough air when she was speaking and sentences that were above five or six words she would have to break in between to take a breath before finishing. It was strange, this problem never came up when she was working out or anything of that nature, she only experienced shortness of breath while talking. -inhale- "just an impromptu thing" Re-L finished feeling a bit uncomfortable with her shortcoming. "But we can walk together -inhale- if you want" she finished her statement and looked away from Shobei now feeling a bit more awkward than she had just a minute ago. Silence wasn't really Re-L's best friend and she didn't feel comfortable enough talking around Shobei yet to try and break that silence, but seeing how she just answered the woman's question, maybe Shobei would pick up the slack for her.

Re-L Lanzer
↶Freedom isn't free. !
Lay down ↘ ↘ and start up ↗ ↗
↳Get to work Life isn't easy !

Re-L tried not to watch as Shobei began to pull supplies out of her rather expensive bag, Re-L was sure, without a shadow of a doubt that Shoebi's bag alone was worth more than Re-L's entire wardrobe. Re-L didn't even want to guess how much all of that jewelry that the girl was wearing must of cost and while Re-L wasn't big on name brand clothing. She was pretty sure that the fitted clothes that Shobei wore were definitely running for top dollar. Shobei came from money, it became instantly obvious by just taking a single glance at the girl. Re-L tried not to be jealous but envy was one virus that always seemed to invade her poor immune system. But could you blame her, Re-L had been sleeping in an old abandon pickup truck doing her best to raise enough money to eat and stay strong enough to workout and here was this girl who's family just had money to burn. It made Re-L feel sick to her stomach.

The differences between Re-L and her roommate were very outstanding. Re-L was a small girl, very thin even for a gymnist, her overall physical presence was very unimposing, she was really quiet and tried to avoid interaction if possible. Shobei on the other hand seemed very confident, she knew who she was in the world, and had no problem proving it. Re-L could see that she got along famously with others, and even though the girl was think like Re-L she was a healthy size with very healthy curves there was just no comparing the too

Re-L decided it would be best to stop putting herself down before she got to far into slandering herself, she had promised herself that she would stop doing that but breaking hard habits is pretty hard.

Shobei didn't seem to notice Re-L self deprecation because she continued on with with a joking giggle and a smile. It appeared that now Re-L and Shobei would be going to class in the morning together. That was no problem but the wording Shobei had used had Re-L a bit flustered. "Dates..." Re-L tested the word softly almost in a whisper wondering what it would sound like if she said it. She knew that Shobei hadn't meant to use it in a romantic sort of context but Re-L had liked the way it sounded when she said it.

"Are you thinking about joining a sorority by the way?"

"Huh?"

Re-L managed cut out of her daze by Shobei speaking up again, Re-L hadn't even realized she had zoned out a bit "Oh uh, I never put any thought into.-inhale- joining -smaller breath- a sorority. I don't think I'd fit in." Re-L admitted honestly.

Before Shobei could have the chance to respond the teacher called attention to his class. It was time to begin the lesson, and time for Re-L to start her first class as a college student.

Re-L Lanzer
↶Freedom isn't free. !
Lay down ↘ ↘ and start up ↗ ↗
↳Get to work Life isn't easy !

Re-L was a little surprised at how forward Shobei was being, she supposed there was nothing for Shobei to p***y foot around with but after yesterday she had expected the girl to feel comfortable talking with her; Re-L for sure knew that she wasn't completely comfortable yet, but it wasn't all bad. In all actuality Re-L was enjoying this conversation she was having with her roommate and was glad that they could reach some common ground, she was also glad that their first introduction wasn't going to completely soil any future relation that they could have. Shobei was slowly turning into someone that Re-L could look to as a friend at this school. She had hoped that her first friends with be her teammates but those girls were like vipers, once she started screwing up in summer events they struck belittling her skills she didn't need bitches like that in her life.

Re-L looked over at Shobei through the corner of her eye felt like the hundredth time, it was probably unhealthy to be thinking about this girl so much, so early into their meeting. It was also unhealthy to feel happy that her roommate wanting to spend their morning together on little stints that would be referred to as dates. But then maybe Re-L would just be unhealthy, if it made her feel better with her position in life then what was wrong with it.
Nothing at all she decided.

As the teacher droned on and the class push forward Re-L sat with a small grin on her face, maybe college life wouldn't be all bad.

(didn't want to just time skip through class just in case you had wanted to add something lol.)

Re-L Lanzer
↶Freedom isn't free. !
Lay down ↘ ↘ and start up ↗ ↗
↳Get to work Life isn't easy !

Re-L somehow managed to pay attention during class though the task seemed impossible, the teacher voice was such a monotone drone that it could turn the most severe insomniac into an narcoleptic. It didn't help that Re-L had a very huge distraction sitting besides her either. Though Re-L wasn't to sure if Shobei was distracting her from class or if class was distracting her from Shobei it was a good question and one that Re-L wished she could answer. Well she knew what she wished the answer was, she wanted to be able to say that Shobei was just pulling her mind away from where it needed to be. But what if Shobei was where her mind wanted to wonder? Was that so bad? Yes, yes it was she had to stay focused she couldn't let some irresponsible crush mess up things for her, with her mind made up Re-L glued her eyes forward following everything the teacher had to say as if he were the most important....boring teacher she had ever had.....ugh this was going to be a long day.

The hands of the clock somehow reached the appropriate ticks and despite the feeling that the class would never come to it's much awaited end, it well....ended. Students instantly stood as if they couldn't escape any faster and Re-L couldn't blame them, she wanted to get out of the classroom as well. But something about her scampering away while her roommate was still there felt like it would be interpreted the wrong way. Re-L turned to Shobei for the first time since before the beginning of class, and her eyes thanked her for doing so. Was it possible for Shobei to have become more stunning since the last time Re-L laid eyes on her? It must be so, it had to be so because if not Re-L must be going crazy. Re-L had completely lost her train of thought now, she had only intended to give a quick farewell and head to her next class, but now her brain had just turned to mush and all she could do was stare a idiotic murmur of an "um" escaping her slightly parted lips.

Shobei seemed to be a lot more focused as she quite easily got her farewell to Re-L out without a moments hesitation the only extra fluff to her words were an offhand comment about the teacher and for all the words that Shobei spoke Re-L only heard the "See you around". She was leaving! Well going to her other classes yea but still she was walking away and Re-L really didn't want to see her go. "wait!" Re-L called, and instantly cringed at how shrill her voice had sounded, her face must have been tomato read for how hot her cheeks felt. She angled her eyes to the floor now afraid to meet Shobei's emerald gaze. "I mean -inhale- I mean, we might have class in the same -inhale- building so maybe -slightly panicked breath- we could walk -deep nervous breath- Together." Re-L was flirting very closely with an anxiety attack and her nervousness wasn't helping her speech at all, she was surprised she wasn't wheezing by this point. She risked a timid glance back unto Shobei's face, but immediately shrunk away when she met the girls eyes again to nervous to hold her gaze. "I-if you want too -gasp- we may not even -wild gasp- have class in the same place, and -gulping breath- you might have other friends to walk with and...-rapid breaths-" 'shut up shut up SHUT UP!!' Re-L's mind was screeching at her, she took her own advice and swallowed her tongue. In the silenced, (well almost silence, she could still be heard breathing slightly) She began to wonder, just when had she became so clingy?

Re-L Lanzer
↶Freedom isn't free. !
Lay down ↘ ↘ and start up ↗ ↗
↳Get to work Life isn't easy !

Re-L's panicked breathing probably would have continued to get worse and she would have probably went on to continue sputtering foolishly searching for something coherent to say if it weren't for Shobei calmly reaching into her purse and pulling out a battle; holding it out to Re-L. Taking the bottle in her small hand Re-L managed to mumble a weak thanks after she heard Shobei's explanation to what was inside the bottle. The bottle just like everything else that Shobei owned seemed to be very expensive. Re-L could feel the coolness of the liquid inside but the bottle wasn't wet with desperation showing that the bottle is made of very fine material. Re-L down at the bottle for a few moments, before taking a small sip the sweetness of the tea awakening her taste buds; after swallowing Re-L took a very deep breath calming herself enough so that she could finally meet Shobei's gaze. Instantly Re-l was mesmerized by the concern that was painted across her face and cemented in her beautiful emerald eyes. Those eyes made Re-L's heart skip a beat and her breath catch as she began to struggle with words again "I..uh. Thanks, I don't know what happened -inhale- It's never gotten that bad -inhale- before." Re-L said a bit ashamed at herself for reacting so extremely to a situation that didn't call for it. But she was calm now, or calmer her heart was still beating too fast for her liking but she couldn't help that. She just had to ignore it and focus on something else.

Something like the words that were flowing from Shobei's mouth, apparently Shobei had come to college alone, which was a shocker to Re-L, the richer girl seemed like she would be majorly popular in high school and would have friends who were willing to follow her into college but apparently that wasn't the case at all. "oh" Re-L said not having anything else to comment on as she gathered her items in her bag and fell into step along side Shobei as they began walking down the crowded hallways. Re-L had already committed her class schedule to memory but maybe Shobei hadn't because the girl was pulling out her schedule and reading the name of the class and building that she would be reporting to next. Re-L let out a easy breath, clearly relieved, they had different classes yes, but Re-L's next class was also in the Rose building. "My next class is also -inhale- in that building. Intro to 3D animation" Re-L said with a bit of a blush, she felt that her major was a bit nerdy and always feared scorn when ever she mentioned it to others. "So you want to be an accountant?" Re-L asked turning her head to look at Shobei.