Welcome to Gaia! ::

She made a small sound of agreement as she finished her bite. "If I had any qualms I'd have already walked out. Well not before demanding we never speak of it again. Girls gotta do it that flashy dramatic prime time tv sort of way you know, else it's just not legit." She smiled, Israfel confessing she would need to explain what had just occured to him later. Humans had such queer views of their actions, Solia not that much, but the siren didn't see why 6 years mattered. It wasn't like they were 16 and several hundred.

As Lex told her about his life Solia listened, trying to soak it all in.Club manager, las vegas- to her it actually sounded pretty nice. "I'm kinda of jealous. I wish I could have had something like that. I mean, comapred to the school thing, I mean s**t, Vegas is Vegas. It might not seem like much to you I guess but I never left the cities I was in much. I went to conventions but... Those were in the city. If I traveled it as to summer school or to another cram study camp. Just a bunch of rich kids who really didn't know anything, kids who were so smart that no matter how hard you studied it seemed like you'd just be a step behind. Then you had ones like me who just... Couldn't go home so we'd just keep going to school."

A shrug. "It was... Boring really. I made friends and we all kept in touch online, but that was just it was for me. School and... School."

"Beats staying in a school full of people all aiming to be senators or better yet senator's wives. I s**t you not, some girls were legit there to try an hook up with a rich boy. It's like... We were in HIGH school the ******** they doing? Waste of time, money, and effort that's what. But mmm still I think from an outside view it's an interesting city. I mean I could say the same sort of thing about New York or Boston, but others love the city?" She leaned back, pancakes half done.

He did ask about cons.. A smile smile, she figured it would be okay to tease him. "And porn conventions."

Said the 18 year old.

Solia shrugged, finishing off the last few bites of her pancakes. The almost wanted to ask lex if he had anymore. But no, it was all she need, no second plate fulls. She'd make herself sick with over eating. Plate set down she leaned forward, half curled over the side of the bed. "Technically I was one of the rich kids. But... When you can see stuff, and you're kind of known for being 'that girl' you don't really hang with the ones wanting to go and make it onto the fortune 500 list. I had my circle, were were just... A bunch of glorofied nerds really."

She smiled at the back rub. At least this time she was pretty sure he didn't have some intent hidden behind it. "But you win. I did anime, game, and fantasy. Some comic book cons? Never got into sci fi. They were fun. Broke up the days spent studying." She sighed at the mention of her family.

"And to be honest, I don't know s**t about my folks. When I say I was in school? I mean year round. The last time I saw my mom and dad was when I was 16 and got into a fight at a con. They had to fly in to talk with my principal. I just... Dunno Lex. I creeped them out. They left me alone, so after a while, I just left them alone." A heavy sigh. "They aren't bad people. They just didn't know what to do with me."

Lex was just 2spooky. But then so was Solia. And everyone on the island. "Charming in not Big Bang Theory ways? That show pained me. At least How I Met Your Mother had Neil Patrick Harris. Augh, perfect being." She was going into melt mode.

"You get to see favorite shows, meet creators, voice actors- see what's coming up. Buy stuff. Get swag. Booth babes shove their tits in your face even if you are a girl. If you're the booth babe you get your photo taken a lot and have guys try to cop a feel. I would guess in theory, like, at it's core, the cons would kind of be alike. You just got s**t bout cars. I got s**t about vamps."

A bit of red. "I went through a twilight phase until I was actually smart enough to realize how god awful they were." Ah, the days before tumblr.

Of course Lex would be familiar with booth babes. They had boobies after all. Solia still blushed at the reminder of the first conversation they had, gathering that he'd been trying to make the moves on her even then. And she'd just thought he was a harmless flirt. Well, no, he was pretty harmless thus far, she'd give him the benefit of the doubt. "You could have just told me to shut up. No need kiss me. And I hate to say it but you could- aaaaAAAAHHHHHHH!" Her ears.

Her ears. Why did he touch her ears oh god. Solia might have been blushing and relaxing until that point, but ears touched had her jumping and scrambling away from him. "Oh my god, don't do that." Pure embarrassment was clear and her hands were over her ears.
Israfel was suddenly very much alarmed.
OH JACK SOLIA ARE YOU OKAY? DID HE HURT YOU? JACK HE BETTER NOT HAVE OMJOMJOMJ

Curling up a bit in a very poor attempt to hide her embarrassment Solia shook her head. "No, no. I'm sorry, I didn't expect it just- Please don't. Please, please don't." She rubbed her ears, trying to affirm herself they were fine and Lex wasn't touching them.
"Oh god now Isra is being-"
Solia, please, tell me what happened? Did her hurt you? ARE YOU OKAY?
No! My ears just-
What is wrong? Are they hurt? Solia? SOLIA? SWEAT PEA?
"Israfellllll." She whined, the siren toning down his ever rising voice.
"Just. Freaks me out." Slow breaths she calmed herself, giving Lex the most apologetic look she could muster. "I didn't tell you and it's my own fault. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for that." Is this the part where she could just roll up in a ball and die?

He left, and it helped. It embarassed the hell out of her, but it helped. Israfel cooed in her head, fretting that he'd hurt her somehow. But it was hardly the case. She didn't like her ears touched and it had been an unexpected move. She didn't think about that sort of thing. She never had to.

It was just awkward.

He was going to wash the dishes. If no one had picked up on what had happened thus far Solia would consider it 'good'. Not having shame was one thing, but it was another for giving first impressions. Which nevermind she kind of shot herself in the foot with the whole age deal. Jury was out on who would get more flack for that, him or her. Hopefully neither but social norms...

Still, sitting curled up on his bed was pretty pathetic. Sighing, giving herself a look to make she she didn't appear too terrible, she peeked out the door and down the hall. Coast was clear. It didn't take long for her to run down and grab fresh bed sheets. Once grabbed she began the simple task of changing them out. Force of habit, and it made her feel slightly less guilty for freaking out on him.

When he got back she was smiling. When he left again, her smile fell into a sad frown. She'd freaked him out. On accident. Upset him. Something. Shoulders slumped, Solia gathered the dirty sheets and set to take them to laundry. It was the least she could do. Later she'd apologize.

And hopefully feel less awkward for her freak out.