The College Years - Circe had the right of it

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:31 pm

"So I'm just supposed to sip it and make appreciative noises?" She chuckled.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:34 pm

"Only if you want to turn this into one of those kind of coffee shops and then I'd have to find a new one and get that one used to me again..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:36 pm

"Those kind? Am I missing something, here?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:39 pm

"The ones filled with pretentious liberal arts and... well... literature students."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:41 pm

"Ah, then don't look now, but... I think there's a literature student here right now."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:46 pm

"How do you think I know how pretentious a lot of them are. I see enough of it in class."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:47 pm

"Aye, well you haven't shown any signs of being secretly horrible."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:50 pm

"Guess there's no escaping it entirely but I do try."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:51 pm

"I'll take issue if you drag me to a poetry slam, but otherwise you should be fine."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:58 pm

"Why oh why would I want to do that to myself?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:00 pm

"Gets under your skin, and you start to have sudden urges to diagram sentences."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:02 pm

"You just volunteered to keep tabs on my mind then." she chuckles.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:04 pm

"Oh dear. I'll be ever so careful."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:10 pm

"Just keep an eye out for errant thoughts of an inflated sense of importance."

"Seriously though, what some of those people are doing to the word 'creative'..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:12 pm

"To be honest though, you maybe could use some confidence."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:15 pm

"Guess I can be a little... careful sometimes."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:17 pm

"That's one word for it. I'm not trying to be harsh here, just that stepping out of your comfort zone a bit might be good?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:25 pm

"I don't know... Probably? I mean I'm not trying to hide or anything but it's scary when everybody is already staring at you without drawing much attention to yourself..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:26 pm

"Almost seems to me that's blood in the water."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:27 pm

"What do you mean?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:29 pm

"I mean that alright, everyone's looking at you. Your reaction to that dictates what happens next."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:30 pm

"It's just hard to hold your head up high..." Harder than I thought.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:31 pm

"And you wonder why I try to tell you that you look bloody amazing."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:40 pm

"Just seems that nobody's agreeing with you. I mean I try; and sometimes it works, but some days it's hard. I don't need to be a telepath to hear the 'Look at her thinking she's better than us' in my head."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:04 pm

"Well you don't have to be better than them, aye? Just that you're not a freak either."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:14 pm

"That's what they think though and to them not being a freak is over-reaching. It just feels like a pointless uphill struggle."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:20 pm

"You'll figure out which ones matter."

"I should take my own advice sometimes, I think."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:25 pm

"Right now I'm just glad I have a space to leave all that behind. Not to mention someone who understands it."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:30 pm

"Sometimes we're in the right place," she smiled.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:36 pm

"Unlike certain prophecized people, apparently. Guess you were right and I can be wrong afterall."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:37 pm

"So you're giving up?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:41 pm

"Not going to pointlessly hold out hope..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:42 pm

"Maybe you just misinterpreted it, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:45 pm

"I just seemed so to the point..." she sighs. "Even my power is mocking me."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:58 pm

"How about I buy you a coffee?" Sam asked, putting her hand over Nailah's.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:07 pm

She lets out a somewhat desperate but genuine laugh. "Maybe, yeah... Am I at least distracting you from your troubles?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:09 pm

"Aye, so maybe we need to distract each other."

She smiled and went up to the counter to order.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:14 pm

Once Sam is out of earshot she lets out a small sigh. Why is the one amazing person I meet that seems to like me a girl?

She's a shapeshifter, you could always ask her to--

Eww! No, gah, bad Nailah!

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:18 pm

Thankfully being in a public place perhaps meant Samantha had steeled herself against unwanted contact. At any rate, if she'd heard those thoughts she didn't seem to give any indication as she returned with two cups of coffee and some doughnuts.

"I improvised a bit."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:22 pm

"No complaints here." she smiles. "Thanks."

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