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Fandom Library, Wednesday, September 11th

The library was up to nothing??? weird today??? Arden kept expecting something, but apparently it just...wasn't? No gremlins, no creepy whispers, no books doing anything other than...sitting there, unmoving, the way books were supposed to.

She didn't trust this even a little bit, but it didn't matter how often she tried to surprise check up anything, it just stayed...normal.

This was weird and she didn't like it. She had her eye on you, library.

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"Well, she's wrong, you shouldn't be more like me," Arden said. "You're strong and brave and fearless in so many ways that I'm not...I wanna be more like you, honestly." She leaned over and gave Kamala a hug. "I'm a suck up to parents for fucked up defense mechanism reasons that you never had to develop and that's good, actually."

She started to drape the dupatta over her shoulders. "Wanna show me how to wear this?"

It took a moment for Kamala to recover from the hug and the feelings of this moment. She hugged Arden tightly before they pulled back. "Oh, stop it. You're just as brave if not more than me. I don't know if I could ever be as independent as you are. You've shown me I can stand on my own two feet and trust me, that's a great gift."

She immediately started fussing with the draping of it over Arden. "There's over a dozen ways you could wear it," she said trying not to focus on the joy she felt just now. "Really there's not a wrong way as long as you don't trip over it. Over the shoulder, drape it, wear it as a cowl... Really just wear it how you feel comfortable."

"And I can wear it anytime, right?" she checked. "It's not for fancy, special occasions? Because, honestly, I think this would look really cool over a pair of skinny jeans and a shirt." She bet the internet would have a bunch of ways to style one over Western dress.

"Of course, I wear mine whenever," Kamala said with a shrug. "Though usually my nerd t-shirts come first in my fashion choices. And next time you wear it we'll send that picture to my mom and she'll be thrilled."

"We'll have to get a picture of all of us, too. So she can frame it and put it up on a wall somewhere," Arden laughed. "Also, so like...how are you? Smoothies? What happened? When did that start? Are you sure you're feeling okay?"

"I'm fine," Kamala said leaning on the counter with a sigh and her nose wrinkling a bit. "I'm just trying to be better. So I'm cutting back on my daily intake of red dye #5 for something naturally green from the oh-so-tasty raw spinach and kale they put in the smoothies."

Along with pineapple and banana but still... she swore she could taste the color green.

"Are there no other smoothies they have?" Arden asked. "Ones without spinach or kale? Just fruit ones, maybe?" She nudged her. "Do you want a smoothie buddy, so you're not suffering alone?"

Maybe she'd volunteer Cal.

"And you just cut back, right? Not cut off entirely?"

"Well, there are other smoothies but since it has kale I think it's just healthier? So, yeah. Trying to cut back and have more healthier thing going on," Kamala said now just full out lying on the desk now in smoothie sadness. "But I'm down to one Squishy a day. But if you want to be my smoothie buddy, I'm okay with that."

Don't put Cal on the green smoothie train! Share Kamala's pain!

Okay but this way, Kamala could have a smoothie buddy and it wouldn't have to be Arden! Besides, Cal was a soldier! Healthy things were important to him or something!

"Bruno's never gonna believe this," she said, shaking her head. "He's gonna think we replaced you with a smoothie-drinking pod person."

"No doubt he'll have blood tests for me to do just so I can earn his trust back," Kamala said now with a melodramatic pose as the situation humorously demanded it. "Our friendship will be on the rocks all because I drank a green smoothie."

Her melodrama only lasted two seconds longer before she dissolved into laughter.

A much better reason for being on the rocks than because he couldn't handle her romantic choices!

Arden laughed along with her. "Dear Bruno, please advise..." she giggled. "And then he--oh! Do you know when he's gonna have the, uh. Results? Of his tests?"

"You know I asked him about that last week? And he gave some really long answer that really didn't make sense to me. So I told him to start again and all he said was 'I found something and I need another week'," Kamala said now pursing her lips in thought. "Which I would say is weird but getting him out of nerd to normal mode is an effort for him. If you want I can get a call set up for Friday. Would that work for you?"

"I'm heading to California with Gray sometime Friday, but if it's in the morning, it'll probably be fine," Arden said. "He's taking me to a club!"

A sex club, but Arden was still blissfully unaware of that very pertinent detail.

Nothing will go wrong with that at all. Nope. Everything will be just fine!

"Oh, well then maybe I'll have him call us next week so you can have fun," Kamala said cheerfully. "It'll give him a few more days to nerd out the details."

Totally! Zero possible things!

"Does that mean I can tap you for opinions on dresses still?" Arden asked.

“When would I ever say no to that?” Kamala said now just hoisting herself up on the counter and letting her feet dangle.

Look the librarian deals with devils and demons. A girl sitting on the desk was no big deal.

“Show me your options.”

"Well, I haven't had a chance to try either of them on, but..." She pulled out her phone and paged over to the store where she'd bought them. Then hesitated. "Okay, so, these are a little...um, a lot, I guess. But it matches what Gray said the vibe was?"

And then after that warning, she showed Kamala the daring first one, the sparkly , or the more 'conservative' third, in case she chickened out on both of the first two.

“Okay, let’s see,” Kamala said looking over the options and her eyes almost popping out of her head seeing the first one. “Damn girl! Okay, the black number is okay but I don’t think it’s you. The first one is incredible? But I kind of like the sparkly one. All the gold? Reminds me of when your eyes do that thing.”

"Yeah, I got the black one in case I got cold feet," Arden admitted. "And the first one in kind of a...like, whole night of new experiences, maybe I should wear something I normally wouldn't, either."

But then the gold...

"You don't think it's weird when my eyes do that?"

“I make big globs of purple hard light appear from another dimension,” Kamala teased. “So your eyes going gold isn’t that. I actually think it looks pretty cool.”

"It's not a thing that I acknowledge a lot," Arden said, a bit flustered. She stuck her tongue out at Kamala. "So I don't know. And nobody else's do, so maybe it was weird!"

"...Thanks, Kams."

"I think this is the one place in all realities where you don't have to worry about who you are," Kamala said trying to put a hand on Arden's forearm. "You have gone through so much but you're still one of the best people I know. Other people might have caved or given up with everything that's happened to you."

She then moved her hands up and started to style the dupatta around Arden a bit to give it a little flourish. "I think you're beautiful. Inside and out."

Even if Cal doesn't see it. The cad!

Maybe even a scoundrel!

"Yeah, but I'm going off the island," Arden pointed out. "So a little more aware of stuff than normal. Not that anybody should be seeing my eyes flip anyway..."

"Even then, it's still your color and sparkly. Just imagine the lighting and the music," Kamala said, now doing a little dance shimmy from the waist up, throwing her hands up in the air and waving them to an imaginary beat. "And you got the dress reflecting the light. Total winner."

Even a scoundrel like Cal might take notice!

Maybe if she was holding French fries...

"Well, I'll come home and we'll have a slumber party and I'll tell you all about it," Arden promised.

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