The Library [Thursday, January 29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia, in celebration of the lights being back on in the library, was wearing one of her brightest outfits: pink (pinkpinkpinkpink) tights under a green plaid miniskirt, a turquoise button-down shirt over a tan cropped tank top. Her boots were shiny and black, and her hair was tucked up under a bright orange beret. On anyone else, the outfit would make the baby Jesus cry. On Claudia, it looked great.

She dropped three bags of Twizzlers onto the top of the counter before settling down with a fashion magazine.

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Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...the books?" she asked for clarification, peering at her. "I mean, this place is weird, yeah."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"I got warned by the hot old guy that runs the place," Claudia said, nodding.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Hot old guy?" she wondered.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Professor Jones," Claudia said, sighing dreamily. "He has nice eyes."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"How much older are we talking?" Sookie asked.

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Way old," Claudia said. "At least forty."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Ew," Sookie said, wrinkling her nose.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"He's pretty hot for an old guy, though," Claudia admitted. "So are a lot of the teachers."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I hadn't really looked," she admitted. She'd be looking now, though.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"What classes do you have?" Claudia asked.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"History, Ethics, and...um, Sex Ed," Sookie admitted with a blush.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia smiled. "I took health last semester," she said. "Have they gotten to the icky videos of births yet?"

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Nope, mostly he seems to be concentrating on stuff we could catch from each other," she said, making a little face.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Ew," Claudia said with feeling. "That's what condoms are for. And having standards."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"People keep trying to get me to date. I just don't know what to tell them when they ask why I don't," Sookie said dryly.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"There are a couple of options," Claudia told her. "You can say you're super religious. You can make up a fake boyfriend at home who's a Marine and totally the jealous type. Or you can tell them it's none of their business."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Or she could tell the truth, but Sookie suspected that Claudia might not deal well with that. So she decided to feel her out a little, lowering her mental shields so she could get a better feel for what she was working with. "Yeah. And I could tell them something totally crazy, too, right? Because this place is so weird."

See, she could be sneaky.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"You totally could," Claudia said, her mind a completely harmless mix of advice she'd picked up from Cosmo and Oprah. "I've met two people our age who are already engaged! It's insane!"

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" Okay, that was really weird, but still. And being around Claudia was kind of like being around Toby or JB. Very relaxing. "I mean, I keep meeting people from, you know, space and stuff. Nothing here's too weird to use an excuse."

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia nodded wisely. "My roommate--do you know Zayne?--says he's from space." Claudia totally thought he was still on drugs. Drugs from space, but drugs.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Probably is," Sookie said gently, shrugging. "Lots of people here can do weird stuff, and are from weird places. He isn't on drugs."

And now she'd wait and see if Claudia noticed she'd picked that out of her head.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Are you sure? Because he was lifting stuff with his mind, or so he said and I figured that he was so high that I must be hallucinating too," Claudia babbled along before pausing. "Did I say the drug thing out loud?"

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Um. No," Sookie said slowly, and bit her lip. "I'm not on drugs either. I can read your mind."

Since Claudia seemed to be in the minority, as far as thinking this was abnormal, Sookie was a little bit worried about telling her. But she'd probably find out soon, anyway.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

No way, Claudia thought.

"No way!" she said aloud. "You can hear everything?"

Not that most of Claudia's thoughts weren't immediately verbalized.

Re: Third period [1/29]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Unless I try not to," she admitted. "And it's not like most people's thoughts are coherent sentences. Um, a lot of people think in pictures." She smiled. "Yours are very colorful."