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 Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:59 pm
Evie strolled out of class and checked her cellphone. She didn't know why, considering she had absolutely shunned her own teammates and quit that senshi'ing thing a while back. She nearly smashed Annie's face in for intruding on her civilian life. So what was there to check for? To see if her social life was flatlining any further?
She convinced herself a small part of her was hoping to hear from Dana. She hadn't spoken to her sister since their father shipped her off to St. Magdelena's at the beginning of the school year and they hadn't parted on pleasant terms.
Either way, the action was fruitless and she slid it back into her sweater pocket and glanced around. Normally this time of year was her favorite, especially fashion-wise because she lived for funky scarves and kitschy sweaters, and she was trying to focus on little things that she knew used to make her happy before all this senshi junk and family drama got in her way.
That was usually scarves and cranberry cookies and hot babes.
So obviously she couldn't resist approaching a purple haired girl wandering the campus. "You know, I guess you could say I'm a fan of the braids and pony hairstyle," She joked, sidling up and diving right into conversation. "Even though it puts me in kind of an awkward position. If I say you look adorable, does it sound like I'm complimenting my own tastes? Hi!" She smirked and held out a hand to shake, clearly thinking she was smooth. So smooth, Evelyn. "I'm Evie. You a freshman?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 11:42 pm
Keren was sort of... mildly pissed to have arrived back in the States so close to the end of college application season. Her year abroad would certainly make her a promising applicant, but she had so much to catch up on! She needed to take the SAT, and the ACT, and look at schools, and write essays, and there was just so much to do! She couldn't even enjoy Halloween properly - not that she wanted to. No one in Destiny City with any sense would go out after dark, never mind that many did. She was multi-tasking to make up for lost time. While larger schools would have to wait for her to grace them with her presence, Keren could easily check out local schools on her own time after classes at Horizon were finished for the day. Between her height and walking like she owned the place, no one was about to pester Keren about whether she belonged there. She put on her prettiest smile for the approaching girl. "High school senior, actually," she demurred. "I'm looking around trying to decide if I want to come here next year or not." Giving her curls a fluff, Keren added, "Thanks so much! I like your hair, too." She makes a note to try to copy the style later. "My name's Keren." And she accepted the shake, because she was the smoothest of operators, oh yes.
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 12:38 pm
"Oooh," Evie said with a drawn out, slow nod, but it was a nod that was something close to a big note to self, do not attempt to bang. High school senior could mean eighteen, but it could very likely mean not, and it was a little hard to work in 'hey, are you legal?' into the conversation.
Not that she wasn't still friendly enough to keep talking, it was just usually more exciting with underlying possibilities. Keren was still cute regardless.
"Well it's an okay school, I guess! I mean if you're looking to stay local," For some god forsaken reason. Evie had often pondered whether or not she would've escaped Destiny City wholesale if her dad and her sister weren't so rooted here.
Over thoughts like this, she was smiling, though, trying to superficially keep the conversation light. "What are you going to major in? If anything there's a least a lot of options here, so it's not so bad!"
She sounded chipper but her brain was going a mile a minute to keep the bitterness at bay.
Do not make a sarcastic comment about terrorist attacks. Do not make a sarcastic comment about terrorist attacks.
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 1:59 pm
Keren shrugged in response to the question about staying local. "I'm applying here as a safety, honestly," she said. Her goal was to go somewhere big and northern and prestigious - but then, she'd only just gotten back into town and wasn't ready to go dashing off somewhere else just yet - she needed to get over the jet lag first. "I want to do pre-med," she added, hoping to impress the older girl with such a rigorous course of planned study. If there was one thing Keren had realized in her year and a half abroad, it was that girls her own age were silly and frivolous. She desperately wanted older, cooler friends. Maybe Evie could be the first of those! "Just okay?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. She'd heard that the best way to find out about a school was to ask the people who went there how they felt about it - if an actual student at DCU wasn't enthusiastic about it, then Keren wasn't sure that boded well for her. "You don't love it? Or was there somewhere else you wanted to go?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:35 pm
Evie's smile became tight and tense as her inner mantra to keep from letting her bitterness about senshi life creep into the conversation was given a fantastic opening and resistance became a million times harder.
She latched on to something different to focus on, which made her seem more interested n Keren's pre-med track dreams than she meant to come off as and suddenly worried she seemed incredibly creepy. "Really? That's fantastic! A lot of my friends are pre-med. I'm actually pre-law, this is my third year working on my bachelor's." And god it had better get over soon because even after eliminating responsibilities to the Asteroids from her busy schedule, she still felt like she was going to keel over and die any minute. And it was only November.
"Oh well, the school is a good school," Evie adjusted her button laden messenger bag. "Destiny City has it's problems, though. I was originally hoping to avoid staying local-- this was my safety too-- but... s**t happens."
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Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:58 pm
Keren frowned. She was hoping to get out of town because s**t happened in Destiny City, too. The kind of s**t that if you tried to talk about it, it got you packed away to the other side of the world for a year and a half because your parents thought you'd been spending too much time on the internet. "Do you think any of them would want to speak to me?" she asked. "I have some questions about the program's rigorousness and the admissions office isn't answering my questions as thoroughly as I want them to..." Although her father had assured her that where you did your undergraduate degree didn't matter as much as where you went to med school, Keren didn't want to put any stumbling blocks between herself and success. She leaned, trying to be inconspicuous but sort of failing, to look at Evie's messenger bag. "That's a ton of buttons," observed Keren. "You must be into a lot of stuff!" Her own bag still had a flurry of Homestuck pins on it, even though Keren was So Totally Over ever getting caught up on it. She wanted a little rainbow button, because it was So Hard to figure out which girls in her class were DTF... although part of that might have been because she hadn't seen anyone since the end of sophomore year. Being out of the loop completely sucked. Keren glanced slyly at Evie and figured she was probably too young for a fancy junior-year pre-law student to have any interest in at all. She pointed to a random button. "What's this one from?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:15 pm
"Oh, well," Evie tapped her chin and pondered which friends she had that were actually friends and not just note sharing acquaintances. She had more of those than actual, close friends, because Evie was kind of a rial to put up with long term if you were also a high strung, Type A control freak. "Actually Candace is pre-med but she's working on her major at HITS so she is probably not going to be any help consulting you on DCU. Personally my own program might not be pre-med, but I do okay here. It's enough of a challenge to not enough push me overboard."
She brushed back a few stray wavy strands from her ponytail. "But I was also a scholarship girl at Crystal, so I'm used to working hard."
Sneaking a little boast in there? No.
"Oh, these," She said with a small laugh as she looked over her buttons. There was definitely one or two pride buttons, a few social justice buttons besides that. But the other interests displayed ranged from Bioshock to World of Warcraft to Star Wars. But she was pretty sure the little Rebel Alliance button came from either her cousin or sister because she wasn't as in to the franchise as the one button in an ocean suggested.
"I don't know, it's like you say, 'hey, buttons are cool' and they're small and cheap and suddenly everyone helps you accumulate them. This is from a game, and I think my little sister got me this in a pack..."
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:27 pm
Keren pulled a face. "I'm already at HITS," she said, which might not have been apparent since she'd eschewed her uniform today. "Their labs are fantastic, but that's an associate degree program and I want a bachelors. I went to Crystal before HITS... not on a scholarship, but I was still a lot smarter than most of the girls there. HITS is more my speed in practically everything except for the total lack of a basketball team." Or sports of any kind. Alas. She nodded appreciatively at the buttons. "Makes sense," she says. "Tell people you're mildly interested in something and suddenly it's your defining trait." Looking around, Keren tried to see if she could spy any banners or signs about upcoming campus events. No dice. "Hey, so, what's the student life like around here? Are there good parties? Or is this place totally dead on weekends?" She knew that most of the student body was local, but that didn't necessarily mean anything - right?
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:17 am
"Yeah, well," Evie gave a mild shrug of disinterest. She didn't know what Candace's plans were and had always assumed she probably intended to transfer at some point. Honestly, the majority reason she had even approached the girl was she liked bookish blondes and finding out she was pre-med had been a side effect.
The question about parties managed to get a slight flush out of her, since it caught her off guard and she really didn't know how to answer. Evie didn't really go to parties or socialize too much at the end of the day.
She mostly just went home, or went to work, or cleaned the house or caught up with her dad if she was lucky, and that was with a lack of senshi duties.
"U-um... I don't really... I don't know."
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:37 pm
So she'd found a homebody, it would seem. "Oh," Keren nodded, trying not to sound too disappointed. It wasn't like she was much of a party animal, but she did want a total college experience, and not just a school where everyone disappeared on Friday night and didn't come back until Monday morning. "I guess we can't all be raging frat boys." "You've been a really big help otherwise," she added, hoping to assure Evie that she didn't think she was wasting her time. "Do you think... maybe I could get your phone number, and then I'll text you if I think of any other questions?" Which she thought was a smooth way to say, I think you're older and cooler than all of my friends who ditched me anyway so let's hang out because I desperately just want to be an adult, okay? Not that she'd ever admit to having basically zero friends in Destiny City - because that would just be pathetic. And she sure did not want to look pathetic. No siree.
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:21 pm
"I'm pretty busy," Evie said wit ha sigh and a hair flip in an attempt to cover up the fact she was actually a humorless workaholic. "And when I have free time I prefer one on one time to the crowd experience," She added with a side eyed wink in Keren's direction.
She grabbed a piece of scratch paper from her pocket. Just a wrinkled corner torn off a notebook page to keep track of some minor notes for a class she'd already converted to her computer, and scribbled a phone number on the cleaner side.
"I gotta get to another class. But text me sometime, even if you don't have questions," She grinned, intentionally brushing her fingers along Keren's hand as she deposited the slip of paper before she ran off.
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Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:52 pm
Keren grinned, feeling a little thrill run up her spine when Evie's fingers brushed hers. "I'll be sure to," she said, clutching the number tight. The older girl had winked at her - that meant something, right? At least I want to be friends. Maybe even I want to be more than friends. And even though Keren was probably a little bit too young to be dating college girls - who was counting, really? She was so eager to be grown up, it wasn't fair that she wasn't yet. As she watched Evie slip away through the crowd, Keren pulled out her cell phone and entered the number for safe keeping. She typed a message - This is Keren. It was great meeting you! - and then, feeling particularly bold, added a (; before hitting send. Being back in Destiny City was looking up.
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