Library; Wednesday [ 10/10 ]

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

When Adah limped into the library today, she was paying especial attention to the solidity of everything around her; if something looked even minutely temporal, she was encouraged to take the dragging steps (left...behind, left...behind) toward it, to touch it, feel it, prod at it to make sure it was real. It was just that she was wondering about certain things that seemed fuzzy in her head, moments that really couldn't possibly have actually have happened and had to have just been some sort of trick of her brain, something in the air here, the water, lucid dreams of unexpressed wants manifesting in imagination. They felt like they had existed, but they were too unfeasible to have actually happened.

She spent about five minutes before opening the library just assuring herself that the desk itself was real.

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Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

"Maybe unfamiliar?" Adah's expression, however, said more than her words, even with the underlining emphasis. A light, crooked smirk and a quirk of her eyebrow. Maybe hardly seemed the appropriate word at all.

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

He laughed quietly and shrugged one shoulder. "Exploration's a good way to wipe out an unfamiliar situation, you know."

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah's grin sharpened a little, but the pink on her cheeks seemed to increase a little.

"Why, Eel, you're not sitting there suggesting something that's going to be too much for my delicate Southern sensitivities, are you?"

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

He had to cover his outburst of laughter with his hand because library and all.

"I don't think I am," he said and rubbed his now red cheeks with his hand. "Not intentionally, at least. I still have to learn about delicate Southern sensitivities, I think. You say it's not familiar. I say, if you want to, make it familiar."

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

And her a preacher's daughter, too. Shameless, really, although Adah took another increase to her grin at remember who it was kissing who in the dark corner at homecoming.

"Unfortunately," she brought herself around to admitting, "you won't learn a thing about them from me. I'm impudent, profligate. What I'm not sure if I am or not, though, is ready."

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

He half smiled at her words, looking up at her after he'd finished reading and turning that half smile into a full smile.

"There's nothing wrong with that," he said quietly. "It's a lot. There's time and I'm not planning on disappearing."

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah's eyes shifted away for a moment. Words that, of course, would mean she wouldn't be surprised if he was gone tomorrow, poof, burned away like the midnight oil. You couldn't plan things like that. But she wasn't about to express any of that. Not that the moment. She wrote just one word, and underlined it, twice, for emphasis.

"Good."

Re: Fifth Period -- 10/10

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Okay," he said and fell quiet. Really, anything else he'd say would just be a repeat of things he'd already said. So, he fell quiet, enjoyed the silence and hung around the desk for a little longer. There was time, after all.