Library [after first period]

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia, polka dot leggings, red flamingo shirt, cowboy boots and all, walked into the library, planning to spend the day organizing things by dusting each page of People magazine individually.

...or maybe just by reading People magazine. Hush.

[OOC: The OCD fled in terror from Claudia's shirt.]

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[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie kind of hoped (prayed, really, if we're going to be technical here) that she could duck into the library to talk to Claudia without one of two things happening:

a) the loss of an eardrum to squealing, or

b) leaving covered in Claudia-created makeup or clothing.

She was hoping the latter option, at the least, was likely, considering they were in a library.

"Hi!"

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"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Claudia squealed.

Quietishly.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...so, you heard."

A quick look at the sparkly little space that was Claudia's mind told her that, anyway.

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"Is he good at it? He looks like he'd be good at it!" Claudia asked eagerly.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Claud-ia!" Sookie hissed, instantly mortified. "I'm not answering that!"

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Awww," Claudia pouted, then smiled. "Do you want to do it again?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I...dunno," she said shyly. "I mean, we're going out tonight."

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee," Claudia squealed again.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Only 'cause we weren't in our right minds this weekend!" she insisted. "It's not a big deal at all."

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"I don't believe you," Claudia singsonged. "Where are you going?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"To get ice cream," she said, playing with the end of her hair.

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"Omigod junk food!" Claudia said gleefully. "It is totes meant to be."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...it is?" Sookie echoed, staring at her. "Totes?"

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"Totes," Claudia repeated. "Oh, Lord, what are you wearing?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Um, I got this sundress that's kinda peachy-cream colored?" Sookie offered, gesturing in the way of length and cut. "And I was gonna just leave my hair down and all."

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Nothing shorter?" Claudia replied, which would have been her response if Sookie was showing up in a micromini. "But peach is totally a good color."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"We already spent a night neckin'," Sookie replied, demonstrating how much she was on the up-and-up with slang pertaining to physical acts of affection. "I'd like to leave things to the imagination where I can. 'Sides, remember, I can hear his thoughts. Zayne or not, he's a boy. I don't want to encourage him to think nothin' nasty."

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"But you also don't want him thinking 'oh, God, she thinks we're just friends," Claudia countered.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...but we're already on a date, so he should already know that?" she said, confused. "Isn't that the point?"

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Boys are kind of dense, sweetie," Claudia said. "You have to keep reinforcing what you want them to know."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"But I'm not even sure it's like that," she told her, tilting her head. "I think we're just kinda trying it out, since we're, you know, already intimately familiar with each other's mouths. I mean, he's cute and all but it's not like I've been thinking about this real hard."

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"I'm not saying you need to sit on his lap the entire time, but it's not the same as going for ice cream with me," Claudia laughed. "Have you been on a date before?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

She shook her head. "I don't as a rule. 'Cause there's no fun in being out with someone who's thinking about you the whole time, and you can hear all of it. Zayne's easier 'cause I have to work to get in his head, if I want to. It's not like, right now, where I can hear everything you're thinking unless I block you out. Which I am," she added.

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Oh, good," Claudia said, smiling. "But you're pretty and smart and have an awesome accent and great boobs. Of course he'd want to go out with you."

It's hard to imagine what she might be censoring, huh?

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...thank you." That was a lot to consider.

Like, literally, since Sookie couldn't help but look down at her chest now. No one had really said anything to her about it out loud before.

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"And keeping your hair down is good because that way you can play with it and keep drawing attention back to your face," Claudia kept babbling.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"But shouldn't he be looking there anyway?" Sookie wondered. "I mean, where else would he be looking?"

Pause.

"...other than at my, um, great boobs, but Zayne's not like that."

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"Oh, I felt so bad for him last week," Claudia said. "He was all flaily."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, how much of you did he see, anyway?" she asked curiously. "He mentioned that before we -- you know."

Kissed, Sookie. The word you are looking for is "kissed." Don't give Claudia ideas.

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"Before you what?" Claudia asked, all ready to be suitably scandalized.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...kissed," she said shyly. "In the common room. There were so many people there. I don't think I even really knew most of them -- just Zayne, and that girl Peyton who I met that night."

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia's thoughts were decidedly impolite about Peyton. "Awwwwwww," she said. "Kissing is the best as long as they aren't too tongue-y or have bad breath."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie was more interested in that stream of thought. "Wait, why don't you like Peyton?"

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"At the beginning of the semester it was like she was trying to collect all the guys that looked like Dean," Claudia groused. "And she can't have them all. Priestly is mine."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Normally, Sookie didn't much like gossip, but this was just a weird idea, she had to kind of go with it. "Priestly only barely looks like Dean, though. I mean, it's hard to look less like someone with your same face."

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"I know! But he loves music and has awesome hair and Peyton was allllll over him in the beginning. Ugh."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

She frowned. "Did she know he was yours?"

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"I didn't tattoo my name on his forehead," Claudia said, "and we were in the still talking and flirting stage, but she already had a guy."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Dean?" she asked, trying to follow along.

[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Totes," Claudia said, nodding.