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 Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:33 pm
Kess had pretty much forced Uuni [silently] after the brunette had made the decision to follow after Avery, even tailing the girl until they reached the candidate's quarters. Just before Avery's room she stopped, to give Uuni a meaningful, borderline threatening stare. "Go," she mouthed, before turning and walking away.
She didn't especially need to watch their reunion, after all. Uuni would find someway back to Kesslan if things went really badly.
If Avery heard Uuni, one wouldn't know it by the way she continued to flick through papers, making marks on a piece of parchment or two. It took her several seconds to finally sigh and sit back from the desk, removing her reading glasses and dropping them quietly on her work space.
"Mmmn," An elbow was propped on the desk, and shortly thereafter her chin on that arm's fist. "... Why are you here?" Apparently, she wasn't going to be making things easy tonight. There was way too much tension between them, what with them avoiding each other and not really talking about the changes in their not-relationship.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:51 pm
The silence was eerie. Uuni hated the quiet, how long will you wait for me? moments that they sometimes shared.
She winced at the sound of dropping glasses and sighed, leaning against the wall of Avery's room. It was either the alcohol or the awkwardness, but Uuni's mind was spinning. There weren't words.
Why was she here. It was a good question. It would be easier just to run like hell and hope Avery forgot all about it.
A hand went up to her neck and she released the tension in the muscles there before dropping it back down to her side and continuing. "Oh come on, Avery. You know why I'm here."
She wrinkled her lips up and rolled her eyes, fixing the girl again instead of staring at the ground. "You left in a huff, and it's probably my fault, and . . ." she dropped the subject there, deciding her loose tongue was running away from her again.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:02 pm
Moving slowly, her body relaxed in a way that suggested deceptive tension, like a predator luring prey into a trap, Avery flattened her palms on the desk. Pressing down, she got to her feet, continuing the pushing motion to lift herself and turn, shifting to sit on the desk, legs crossed at the knee.
Hazel eyes moved over Uuni in an almost distant manner before meeting her blue gaze. "Actually," The first part of her sentence was drawling, a constrast to the clipped, sharp ending. "I really don't."
She stared at the pale girl for another moment, equally displeased with their long, frequent moments of shared, words-held-back silence and felt that sad note begin to creep into her voice. "If I'm," She stopped, clearly irritated with her self and brushed a hand through her curls.
"Why are you here?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:06 pm
Silence was all Uuni had for her now.
Running out the door really would have been the better idea. Women. So damn temperamental. Ugh.
"Come here," she finally decided, leaning farther against the wall and smoothing out the clothes she'd worn to the dinner. They might even have been after Avery's taste.
"I can't apologize when you look at me like I've knifed you."
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:13 pm
Avery was downright suspicious. Bright eyes narrowed and she seemed torn, her hands gripping down a bit harder on the edge of the desk as she tried to gauge Uuni's intentions. White, straight teeth briefly worried a full bottom lip and her brow creased as she pushed off of the desk, taking her time in moving toward the less athletic girl.
"I am not," she asserted, before clarifying, "Looking at you that way." She resisted the urge to fidget. Apologize? Uuni? Hah. Hazel eyes briefly flicked down over Uuni's clothes. They had been nicely chosen [for Uuni], if a bit mussed from the long hours spent in them. Avery didn't say so, though, but she certainly didn't wrinkle her nose like usual.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:35 pm
Uuni almost wished that Avery had stayed seated, that they'd got into another argument, and she'd gotten the chance to leave. That was certainly something she could deal with.
With her hands free, she brushed her hair back behind her neck and waited quietly for Avery to close the distance. At least in that, she could be patient.
Maybe.
Avery sure took her swee ttime. But when she finally got there, she reached out and took the woman's face between her palms. It was with a deep breath, that she finally managed to speak up, clearly serious and clearly having trouble forming the words.
"I'm sorry," she insisted, tucking one of the dark strand's behind Avery's ear before she let her hands drop again. "It was rude. And you're pretty all the time. Not just when I'm drunk."
She raised both her eyebrows and grinned, looking for some sort of acceptance in the situation. It was rare she was this nervous, but it was obvious in how close to the wall she'd placed her back.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:45 pm
Avery was finding it really, really hard to meet Uuni's gaze, her own dropping repeatedly as the brunette looked at her before beginning to speak. She probably didn't breath, either. It was weird for them to be so close to each other without some excuse. It felt... Avery could hear her heartbeat in her ears, the blood rushing there at a brush from Uuni's fingertips. It almost hurt, the thud against her chest and the ache was the only reason she remembered that she needed oxygen.
One short, shallow breath in through her mouth and the gap between Uuni's back and the wall was closed as the space between their bodies was equally shortened. It wasn't hard, the press of her tan body and full mouth, soft and warm, but it was firm.
Squeezing her eyes shut, Avery begged her stupid mind to shut up.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:55 pm
Uuni was going to refuse. She was going to turn away. She really was. All it would take was ducking down and leaving. Stumbling back out in the hall and looking like an idiot wouldn't be so bad, would it?
Uuni never got to finish thinking about all the ways she was going to get away. She was far too busy wrapping her hands up in Avery's hair and pulling her in closer.
Whatever excuses had been left were now gone, tossed away with the rest of her mind. It was replaced with want and the wish that the moment wouldn't end because that would mean facing reality all over again.
When she reached one hand over to close the door that separated hall from room, she decided that tonight she didn't have to.
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