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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:49 am
Not much had changed since they'd kissed at the carnival and gone back to Marnie's place.
Marmar didn't mind, because that was the best part of stuff like this, getting to keep the totally rad friendship and add a bit of smooching on top of it. It was nice, getting to kiss her best friend and snuggle with her. Like, they'd always snuggled before because good friends totally cuddled, but it was different because now if Marnie wanted to like kiss Bea's neck, she could.
Sorta.
They were still navigating everything since the pale haired girl had never done any of this, not really, before.
Marnie didn't have much experience either, but she had more. She'd kissed plenty of people and done more than that too, with boys and girls but this was different. She didn't want to just make out with Bea.
[Text to BaeBea: Come over and watch movies with me?]
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:31 pm
Bea was still in the Twilight Zone when it came to relationships.
She knew she liked Marnie - of course she liked Marnie - but now the pastel goth was making her stomach do little flips and flops by just merely looking at her. Clammy palms and nervous jitters overtook her for the first few minutes every time they'd hung out since that Day At the Carnival, Fred the snowman still chilling (get it? Chilling??) on her bed and making her think of that fateful moment every time she curled up against him (because quite frankly, he was the best body pillow a girl could ask for out of a snowman).
The text was returned with a quick "duh" for a response, Bea taking longer than usual to get dressed for the hangout. Normally she just threw whatever she had available, be it the top of the laundry basket (still in need of sorting) or something buried deep in her drawers as everything else was dirty. She put actual effort into picking out the oversized sweater and jeans, feeling the need to actually look more than a lazy slob around her best friend.
Was this what it felt like, to be in a relationship?
Bea didn't know, her experience was zilch and books on relationships weren't nearly as interesting as books on ghost hunting, so she'd never bothered to look into them.
Nevertheless, it took approximately 35 minutes before she was knocking on the other girl's door, hands soon shoved into pockets as she rocked back and forth on the balls of her feet. Twin pigtails swayed with the motion and Bea regretted not bothering to swipe some of the cookies her mom had just baked so she didn't show up empty-handed. Again.
Oh well.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:56 pm
In the time it took for Bea to arrive at her place, Marnie had changed her outfit three times and reapplied her lipstick six times. In the end, she'd settled on one of her over-sized sweaters and her leggings with the purple bones on them. It seemed casual enough to say she wasn't trying to hard but nice enough that she still looked good.
In fact, she was touching up her eye makeup when she heard the knocking.
With a squeak, she hurried to finish and scampered over to the door, smoothing out her sweater and fluffing her hair before she tugged the door open. Bea would find herself greeted with a big, beaming smile.
"Hey B," she said, pressing her lips together before she reached for an empty hand. "You look really cute," Marnie complimented before tugging her inside.
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:03 am
While her choice seemed to be savvy when it came to oversized sweater (it was like they were twinkies!), Marnie had taken it up an extra notch by choosing leggings and makeup.
Bea tried makeup a few times... most of her best work was when she was trying to do monstrous things, like stage makeup-makeup. Zombie? Vampire? Zombie vampire? She had those down pat but when it came to actual makeup, like lipstick and eyeliner and looking like a normal, pretty young adult...
...well, Bea definitely had no idea what she was doing.
But MarMar was a master at it and the younger girl had a healthy appreciation for the talent she never bothered mastering herself.
Her hand was yanked free of her jeans pocket and Bea found herself being yanked inside the cozy apartment. Rasputin was nowhere to be seen (also not surprising, the cat was a grade-A jerk) but Bea was too focused on the compliment --- definitely a charity one, since it was coming from the makeup goth goddess herself and Bea knew she looked like some girl next door, pigtails and all.
"Got nothing on you, Marzipan," she shrugged, offering a grin as she glanced around the living room area. "What movie didja have in mind? We doing snacks this time too or...?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 4:42 pm
"Hush," Marnie responded, wrinkling her nose at the idea that her bestie wasn't as cute as she was. Marnie was friends with cute people, that's just how it worked, and Bea was the cutest of all her friends.
She was definitely, one-hundred-percent not biased. (She was, 100% biased.)
"You look cute. Really cute, Bee." Marnie leaned forward to kiss the girls nose before she tugged her over to the couch. "We can watch whatever you want. Maybe that birdbox movie? I've been meaning to but haven't wanted to watch it alone."
She shrugged, licking her lips and trying very hard not to stare at Bea's.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 5:49 pm
The kiss on her nose was unexpected, blossoming color on her cheeks as she tried to recover with too much enthusiasm for the Netflix suggestion.
"OH MAN, is that the one where they were the blindfolds?? I think I read the wiki on that - it's brutal." Hand clutched tightly to MarMar's as she made her way to the cozy, oversized couch in her friend's apartment. Her place always felt like home to her in a sense - a home away from home - but now that things were different between her and Marnie, she felt less like she could sprawl across the furniture and more like she had to actually sit and be... adultish and stuff.
Was that part of all of this too? Giving up her casual fun..ness?
Her hand still refused to let go of the older girl's, though, dark eyes moving up to stare at her bestie. "S-So... uh..."
Could she broach the subject? Did they really need to talk about what happened before?
".... you wanna know why it's called bird box or d'you wanna be surprised? I won't spoil if you don't wanna be spoiled."
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:30 pm
"Yeah, it was all over tumblr, before that stupid ban took everything fun from it," Marnie huffed, flopping onto the couch with flourish. Her long hair fanned itself across the cushions and she blinked pale blue eyes at her companion. The one that looked uncomfortable despite the couch being the same couch they hung out on at least twice a week since they'd become friends. It made her wrinkle her nose and a question sit on the tip of her tongue.
Bea seemed like she had something she wanted to say and then she backed out. Marnie shrugged.
"I kinda know already. Everyone is so terrible at tagging spoilers." Like her, she only tagged the stuff she really wanted to get attention-- like her charms and potions and the spells she sold from time to time. If it was her regular fandom blog, well Marnie was a we die like men--not doing what we should type of blogger.
"You're acting weird. Since when do you sit like that on my couch?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:23 pm
Since things got weird between them.
But she couldn't exactly phrase things like that, not without making herself look like the biggest weirdo and probably hurting her bestie's feelings.
Bea shifted uncomfortably on the couch some more, this time kicking off her shoes and moving both legs up on the furniture, as if trying to make it appear like she was trying to lounge a little more casually and failing.
"Dunno," she admitted, eyes finding the top of her knees and staring holes into the denim. "Guess I'm still thinking about the other day, y'know. When you... got me the snowman?"
Dark eyes lifted and she finally dared to meet the pretty ones of Marnie Rogers, best friend extraordinaire.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:10 pm
Marnie wasn't good at reading people, not really, but she liked to think that she was okay at reading her best friend and the way the white-haired girl was behaving was not even close to normal.
And once she mentioned the incident with the snowman she felt dread drop into her stomach. Sitting up, Marnie schooched forward while chewing on her lip. "Did I-- did you not like it?"
The teen had been convinced that it'd been mutual and that Beatrice liked her back but now she was wondering if she'd had it all wrong.
"Like, I'm really sorry Bea, I didn't mean to make things weird I just-- I like you, more than a friend, and I thought that we would date but now I'm not so sure and it's probably all in my head isn't it? You liking me back. We can go back to being just best friends. Really, that's okay with me if that's what you want."
Marnie knew she was rambling but she couldn't stop.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:28 pm
Marnie started to freak out on her and do her mile-a-minute chatter and Bea hadn't been prepared for a reaction in time. She probably should have been, with MarMar looking as anxious and as worried as she did - did she really think Bea would drop her like some sort of hot potato if she hadn't liked it?
The tea had been the weird cause of feelings being blurted out before but now there was no tea (well, not that kind of tea), there were just raw feelings and emotions being put out there, the pastel goth girl wearing her heart on her sleeve as she looked about as worried as the one time Bea saw her when Rasputin had been under the weather and hiding from the girls.
"Mar -- it's okay, MAR!!"
She wasn't sure why she felt the need to hush the girl and she certainly didn't know what came over her when she leaned forward and smashed her mouth against the other girl's, silencing the prattle with a less-than-romantic-but-still-Bea-was-trying kind of kiss.
Leaning back, pale cheeks were flushed as Beatrice moved to sit on her knees.
"Mar, I've just never done this dating thing before, that's all. You gotta help me out - I'm a newb about this sort of thing."
Pause. Then, a little quieter:
"So... does this make us like... girlfriends, now?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:28 am
Once Beatrice said her name loud enough, Marnie was about to clamp her mouth shut and cover it with both hands but she was surprised when soft lips pressed against hers. Words were caught between mouths and Marnie's eyes closed, her fluttering heart settling at the gentle kiss.
She'd always thought those kisses to shut people up in movies were stupid and unrealistic, but now that it'd happened to her, she got it. It was nice. It was maybe her favorite way to stop talking ever.
"So..." she mumbled, her own cheeks flushed even as she grinned. No longer was the goth girl sitting inches away. Instead, she moved until their knees touched and she could brush hair out of Bea's face.
She bit her lip while she looked at her best friend. "Yeah. I mean-- Please? I'd really like to be your girlfriend." Now that she said it out loud, Marnie leaned in to kiss the girl again.
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 2:39 pm
Marnie confirmed her inquiry out loud before kissing her again. Hers was a softer, gentler kiss -- the kiss of an experienced girl, as opposed to a total greenhorn like Bea knew she was.
"Yeah, I'd like that."
As soon as it was finished, fingers reached up to lace with the other girl's fingers, squeezing them together as she offered a grin. Her face was lit up and red but she didn't care, not when the butterflies in her stomach had her thinking about happy things --- well, happier things than the morbid statistics she read online, on the daily.
"Didja know that while there's been over a dozen deaths at Disney World, none of them happened on the Haunted Mansion? I woulda thought at least one would have been about ghosts, y'know?"
She didn't know why she was blurting things out -- too wired up, too excited, too... her, she guessed. Marnie, cool Marnie was looking at her like she was the cutest stuffed animal ever and it was making her feel all jittery and excited.
"Though if you wanna read some with me, I've still got the wiki pulled up on my phone..."
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:28 pm
"Then you're my girlfriend," Marnie declared, basically beaming at her new cute girlfriend.
"I did know that, but it's cute when you tell me facts like that," she said before plucking the girl's phone from her hand and shoving it into her bra. "We can read facts later, kay? Right now I'm more interested in kissing my cute girlfriend until she is confident enough to initiate kisses back."
Marnie didn't mind that she had to take the lead with Bea, she was the one with the experience after all despite being home schooled.
She placed a hand on the other girl's waist, running a thumb across her jawline. "We'll watch a move or whatever in a lil okay?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:13 am
Wide eyes watched as her phone disappeared in the other girl's shirt, out of sight but very much not out of mind now. She had no earthly idea how she was going to get it back but she had a feeling that even thinking about touching it after where it'd gone would make her blush almost as bad as she was blushing now.
"Y-Yeah, okay," she murmured, feeling her body relax against the hands holding on to her. It felt weird and nice, in the kind of way you were enjoying an experience for the first time but weren't really sure what you were experiencing. The butterflies in her stomach were running rampant but every kiss from Marnie had them fluttering in all of the good kind of ways.
Maybe this dating thing wasn't as complicated as it seemed, after all.
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