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 Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 6:44 pm
Ernani! Ernani! Gretchen longed to become beautiful Elvira who scorned all men but Ernani! The bandit king! She sighed and pressed her head to the glass of the cafe window. She closed her eyes. If only a wonderful bandit king would take her away from this suffering. Exams and social pressure and never the right cheese on sale. Never never. She simply wanted to relax and lounge about on her chocolate couch--perhaps read British literature and sip honey-chamomile tea. Yes, that seemed perfect, but alas, there she worked in the splendid twilight on her analysis of women's roles in the French Revolution. She forced herself out of the apartment lest she wouldn't finish the essay.
Her eyes slowly shut. The slow, quiet voice from last night's trance video soothed her. Would she really fall asleep there? With her head to the glass? Her laptop open and her coffee steaming?
Yes. Yes she would.
"Nooo--" She sunk deeper into her chair. "Noooo..."
Sleep! How dare thee drag Gretchen into your gentle hands? A cruel fate for a busy student.Orangeish Sherbert Heyyy <3 Lemme know if this works. =D
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:11 pm
Raven had snuck out of her apartment, craving a bit of coffee. School was actually causing her to pull an all nighter or something and she needed some serious caffeine to help her pull through the night.
When she got to the café that was near campus, she ordered a quick double shot espresso and waited for it to arrive, glancing around the place and stifling a huge yawn.
As her teal eyes slid around, they landed on a girl who looked like she was losing the battle to sleep. Well.
Just well. Raven hesitated as they called her name. She reached over and took the drink, still contemplating the nearly sleeping girl. She could help. Oh boy could she help. This was no place to sleep. This was a place to stay awake.
Slowly the blonde crept over to the brunette, moving as quietly as possible. When she reached the chair that the other student was slumping in, a grin began spreading across her face as she leaned in closer, finally half shouting. “Wake up!”
There. That would help.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:35 pm
"WAT." Gretchen shot up. Her heart raced. Her face flushed. Glasses fell off-kilter. "OH MY GOD. WHO IS--" She looked at the blonde and sunk against the window. "Ohh--" She covered her mouth. "'m sorry..." She fixed her glasses and rubbed her eyes. "Thank you for waking me. I am so sorry. So sorry." She ran her fingers through her hair. "Please don't hate me forever." Her coffee steamed.
Groaning, she sprawled over the table, covering her head with her hands. The cursor blinked. She hadn't even finished her opening paragraph. Ugh, painful. Terrible. Fifteen pages to go.
Thank God this beautiful angel lady saved her from slumbering through the rest of her essay. Thank God. She wouldn't finish otherwise. Now she could concentrate. Yes. Very good. Yes yes.
She couldn't lift her head, though. She felt too afraid of making eye contact with the wonderful lady. What if she glared at her? Oh that would feel far too harsh. It would break her.
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:09 am
Raven snickered. That had been almost too perfect. She wasn’t often a mean person…but sometimes you just couldn’t help but get that…urge to startle someone. And well. Now that her urge was fulfilled. “Do you mind if I sit with you? My name’s Raven. Hard at work on some awful paper too, hm? What’s yours about?”
She was being friendly, hell. She might even go and get the girl a pastry if she needed that to make her calm down or what have you. She didn’t want this girl to go into any sort of shock or anything…or turn out to be a total b***h.
Truth be told, she had been inching closer and closer to sleep…so maybe some interaction would really help her out on this front. “You know, just on an unrelated note, if you do think you’re going to sleep you might want to just pack up and head home. You don’t want anyone stealing your stuff, after all. That would suck.”
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:24 am
"Yes please." Gretchen flailed at the other chair, blushing from embarrassment. "Please sit with me." May the chair seem cozy and warm to ease the scary beautiful lady with radiant blonde hair. Gretchen leaned into her seat and sighed. The red fading from her face. "It's about the sexual autonomy of women in the 1800s." Gretchen brushed back her hair. "I'm sorry, I'm just--" Could she tell Raven of her shyness? Was she even shy? What was shy? Shy shy shy. She smiled at Raven. Shy shy shy. Nervous. Terrified. What if you hurt her, Raven? She didn't want you to hurt her. She would prefer her professors or angsty teenagers hurt her, so at least it wouldn't be personal, but Raven was a colleague, and to be hurt by a colleague would have sucked.
"--completely exhausted."
She laughed. Well it wasn't false.
"Maybe you're right. Home is good. I like home." She smiled. "I have brie and walnuts and cashews and no one will hurt me." She nodded. "A-are you a student too or...?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:02 am
Raven gave a smile, sitting in the other chair for a moment, before drawing her legs up, half curling in the very comfortable place. “Well, that sounds a lot more exciting than the paper I have to do. It’s for my Philosophy class and it’s a ten page analysis of Descartes’ ‘I think therefore I am’ conclusion, and seriously. I just. I don’t like that class. I don’t know why I took that class, but let me tell you, it is not the easy ‘A’ that I was hoping it was going to be.”
She slumped a little and sighed, taking a large gulp of her coffee. “I get the exhausted bit too, don’t even worry. And walnuts and cashews and brie sound delicious, I hope you go and enjoy them, also.” The blonde shook her head. “If you didn’t guess, yes. I am a student. And I think I’m the worst kind, to be perfectly blunt.”
Glancing over to the girl, Raven flashed another smile. “What did you say your name was?” Clearly she knew that the other hadn’t given a name…but hopefully…she would. Maybe.
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:29 pm
Raven smiled the glistening, beautiful grin of someone who could never hurt and only love, and Gretchen giggled and fixed her glasses. "Ah--humm--Are there ever easy A's?" She crossed her arms under her chin and glanced up at the lady. "I don't think sooo, but maybe! I don't know." She inched toward the window, leaned against it. She chuckled, burrowing into her arms. "My name is Gretchen, and you can, uh--" She blushed and watched her reflection. "--huh humm, you can, umm--" Coffee steamed. "--always join me for food if you want. I'm pretty shy so--" She didn't get out often. People terrified her. Whenever she reached for company, she felt like a weirdo. "Um~" Topic change! Fast!
"What's your name?" She smiled and studied the lovely lady.
Was this how people met each other? It seemed so...easy.
Except for the screaming part. That didn't seem so easy.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:25 am
Raven nodded. If there were easy A’s, she would have taken them all by now, she was sure. “It’s wonderful to meet you, Gretchen. That’s a really cute name, if you don’t mind me saying.” When the offer to join in for more eating shenanigans came up, the girl grinned. “Yeah? I think I would really like that, thank you. We could be…study buddies or something like that if you want? Paper pals? Essay…uh. People. Essay people. Maybe that one doesn’t work as well as the other two, but you get where I’m going, right?”
She laughed. Oh jeeze, this girl was more tired than she thought! “I said a few minutes ago that my name was Raven, but you might have still been mostly asleep. I am sorry for scaring you like that, I really just couldn’t resist.”
After a moment, the blonde downed the rest of her coffee, making a face at the taste and slumping down in her chair. “I really don’t even want to go home. It’s not worth it. Papers suck.”
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:41 am
"Bwuh." Gretchen sat up and then pressed against the window, staring into her reflection. Could you trade places reflection? Maybe you would like it out there, seated before Beautiful Raven, and she would live inside the glass where no one would hurt her. "Thank youuu." She blushed. Ohh she felt stupid. "Socializing is hard..." She collapsed against her seat and sighed. "No! Thank you for waking me."
She glanced at her laptop.
"I don't know how I would finish this otherwise." Then quietly: "You saved my essay yaaay~"
Gretchen frowned.
"Why don't you want to go home?" Was it dangerous or sad or boring? Would Raven be okay?
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:17 am
She shook her head, chuckling. This girl was absolutely precious. Kind of like Mary, but cuter. Not as…loud. “Socializing isn’t that hard…only if you make it hard, Gretch.”
Raven gave an almighty yawn and then frowned. Why wasn’t that coffee working like it was supposed to? How rude. “I don’t want to go home, since that’s where my laptop is…and that’s where my paper sits, unfinished and beckoning. I just want to sit here, and talk to you, and maybe take a nap in one of these chairs. They are very comfortable. Though, I do hope this coffee starts working soon. I’m not sure I have enough money saved to get a second one. And I’m also quite afraid that if I get the second one…well. That could just be a bad thing, couldn’t it?”
She would have the jitters and shakes and just be a mess all night. A huge mess.
Everything was a mess. “Maybe I should just pay someone to do my paper for me. You think that would work?”
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:03 am
"But it is so scary." It exposed her vulnerabilities, shook her, brought her into corners and shadows where no one could see. She just wanted someone to like her--protect her. Could Raven do that? She didn't know. Raven, though kind and beautiful, made her nervous. "How do you know if someone likes you?"
Raven didn't have enough money for a laptop? The notion surprised Gretchen, in a way, because laptops seemed necessary, and money, well, money was a material good for spending, so why not spend it all on necessities? That only made the most sense, right? That's why she spent on wine and perfume when she could save for college funds. Surely Raven understood.
"Buy the laptop," she said softly, nodding. "It is so worth it to buy nice things Raven. They make me so happy."
It almost felt as nice as friendship.
She smiled. "I can get you more coffee! And help with your essay!" She grabbed Raven's cup. "What do you like to drink?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:11 am
Raven blinked. “How do you know if someone likes you?” She thought for a moment, then shrugged. “I don’t know. I mean, I think you’re a cool person, I want to be friends, if that helps you out any. I think if someone likes you they’ll want to be friends, you know?”
The blonde frowned slightly when Gretchen told her to buy a laptop. What? “I have a laptop…it’s just at home. And If I go to it, I’ll have to do my essay…Though if I broke my laptop to get out of doing the essay…that would mean I’d have to get a new one…” She gave a slow nod. For some reason, that sounded fantastic right now. Just go home and smash it. Whoops. No more essay.
“Oh, yeah? That would be wonderful! I had a double shot of espresso…if you could get me one of those, that would just…I would appreciate that a lot, and don’t even worry about the essay, I’m just whining , that’s all. It won’t be that much of a problem once I actually get to work on it, you know?”
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:18 am
Oh no. Oh no. Raven frowned. Why did Raven frown? Did Gretchen make a social error? She sunk into her chair. Nooo. "Thanks for being my friend," she muttered, brushing her fingers through her hair. "But...But two laptops...is better...than one?" She searched Raven's eyes for understanding? OGodOGodOGod. Did Raven think she was crazy? Raven thought she was crazy. What could she do to resolve the situation? She could...She could buy her books instead! Yes! Everyone loved books. EVERYONE.
She laughed nervously.
The coffee cup!
THE COFFEE CUP WOULD SAVE HER.
"OKAY." She smiled HUGEEE at the chance to appease Raven and zipped to the counter and placed the order. As she waited, she slouched over, and then slid back to face Raven. "I just want to give you things." She spoke so softly, she wondered if Raven would hear. "So you won't leave me."
Sad, but true. Maybe Raven could accept it?
Or maybe Gretchen dug her own grave.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:37 am
Raven tilted her head to the side, not really liking the way the girl seemed to just wilt before her. That…that just wasn’t a normal reaction…
“Of course two are better than one. One could be for me to throw out the window…and the other I could use to actually do work on, right?” She laughed, though blinked rapidly when Gretchen just jumped up to get her more coffee. Oh. Oh she hadn’t expected her to actually get her one, that was…kind of adorable.
Or at least it was until she heard just what Gretchen had to say. To be honest, it was kind of heart breaking. “Why would I leave you, Gretchen? We’re friends now, and I think you’re completely adorable, and you should give me your phone number so we can hang out sometime. That would be great. I would really like that, to be honest.” And they could hang out, and gab over school, and do fun things together and just…have a normal friendship. It would be perfect.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:50 am
Gretchen gasped. Raven thought-- "You think I--" Violets bloomed. Rainbows glisten. Kittens purred. "--I'm--" They slid the coffee to her. She brought it to chest. She laughed and GRINNED SO HUGE OMG RAVEN IT ALMOST COVERED HER ENTIRE FACE. "--ADORABLE?!"
Whee! Wheeeee! She laughed and brought the coffee table and Raven into a giant hug. "Oh my God, thank you, Raven." She pulled away, nodding. "Thank you! Thank you for lighting me up! Thank you thank you thank you!"
This could change everything. This could make her confident.
"Here!" She drew a pen from her bag and tore out a sheet of paper from her notebook. "Take!" She jotted down her number, using little hearts instead of dashes.
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