The best (?) part of waking up...

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:10 am

It was easy to tell when Becca was dreaming. When she was dreaming, she'd be visible. Or else, her skin would take on the camoflage of whatever she was blending into in her dreams. This could lead one to see all kinds of amusing scenes that might be going on around her in her dreams, really. But then, that also was only when she was dreaming. Come morning... inevitably, she was white again as the end of sleep approached.

And this morning, she was white and sleeping and cuddled up with a very cute sphinx-girl.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:21 am

Who was awake already and has no idea how to handle this situation. It only took her a moment to remember why there was a pale girl in her bed. Or why she was still fully clothed. (Not that the implications of that ever reach her mind to begin with.) But she's still kind of helplessly looking at the mess of hair spread out over her shoulder.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:25 am

"If you're trying to figure out how to tell me that I have morning breath, just save it," Victoria murmured sleepily, though there was a hint of tease to her voice.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:29 am

"No... I mean... I don't know if you do. I'm just... trying to wrap my head around everything, you know?"

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:33 am

"Best way to do it is slowly," Becca yawned. "Is the world going to implode if things aren't figured out right away? Not really." She huddled in a little, never a morning person. "Important thing," she said, yawning again, "Is you're my friend. The rest is details. Might be... important details, but just details..." She seemed to be dozing here and there, but seemed lucid enough that she wasn't at risk of not remembering the conversation or anything.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:38 am

"But yesterday... I mean... what if I just latched on to the next best person? That's not fair to you but I don't want to hurt you and make an even bigger mess of things and I don't know if you just felt bad for me or what is going on anymore..." she rambles, pretty much wide awake thanks to this.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:41 am

"I don't know if you did either, and I don't know if I was just lonely and let you, and... really, does it matter? It felt nice, and it feels nice, and if it was a one-time thing, then it was a nice one-time thing." She yawned again, waking up by degrees and rolling over. She regarded Nailah for a minute, smiling tiredly. "You mad at me? Or feeling the sudden need to run away and keep away from me?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:14 am

"No but... How do you do that? Look at things like there's nothing to it? Like it's gonna be just fine either way?"

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:41 am

Becca smiled, her eyes fluttering a little, then blinking wider again. "Selective optimism?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:17 am

"And how am I supposed to know what this is? God, why does everything have to be so complicated..."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:25 am

"Here's something to live by," Victoria said with a tired little laugh. "Don't make anything more complicated than it is. Everything that gets thrown at us outside our dorm? Complicated. Usually. This?" She shrugged. "I'm not asking you to figure anything out. I sure haven't figured it out. Why worry? Something happens or something doesn't. I sure don't want you worrying because of me. So don't. I'm fine, so you don't have to worry about that. You seem fine, so don't worry about that." She stretched a little. "If we got to rewind last night a little, would you have wanted me to leave?" she asked, innocent eyes finding Nailah's.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:42 am

"No..." she admits, glancing down after holding Becca's gaze for a moment. Piercing yellow eyes or not, there's a lot of vulnerability and insecurity in them she can't hide. Not that she's really trying to.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:48 am

"Then there's nothing wrong with it," Becca said simply. "Now... After classes, are you still going to want to go eat lunch in the corner of the cafeteria and grumble with me about how insufferable Ms. Frost is in your English class and listen to me complain about gym class this afternoon?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:08 am

"Duh... It's Thursday." she says, cracking a small smile.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:10 am

"Well," Becca said, cracking a smile, too. "Seems to me that we just go about things like usual, and we just figure it out as we go along. Does that sound so hard?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:24 am

"No, it doesn't. But..." she says, glancing at the door.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:41 am

Becca sighed. "Worried about Sam?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:49 am

"Yeah... Just a little..."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:59 am

"Don't," Becca said, simply. "Sam's problem is that she can't make anything simple. Which is why she... Shall we say 'didn't handle that well?' Just be normal, and let me do the rest, okay?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:06 am

"I don't know if I did much better, but I'll try."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:22 am

"Maybe not, but as long as you're both trying, it'll work eventually. Just remember that she's the same Sam who woke up yesterday morning, and she's going to want to come down and whine about Mr. Summers' class just like usual, and will be pretending that we don't know the crowd in the cafeteria is still bothering her just like usual... Just grab onto something normal and go from there. Change happens, all we can do is grab onto something as normal as we can and remember that nothing has to be bad."

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:36 am

"I... well... I'm more worried about what she's gonna say when she sees you coming out of my room..." she says a bit sheepishly. "But I don't wanna, like, make you sneak out or anything either cause that's not fair to you at all."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:47 am

Becca grinned a little. "You mean after she sees me coming out of my friend's room after staying with her when she was having a very bad night?" she asked with a somewhat un-Becca-ish impish smile. "When you get down to it... did anything other than that happen?" She considered it. "Although sneaking out might not be a bad idea this time," she admitted thoughtfully.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:56 am

"I just don't think trying to hide is gonna help with figuring this out, you know?"

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:01 am

Becca shrugged. "Good point," she said. "On the other hand, do you think Sam's really going to jump to some bad conclusion anyway?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:27 am

Samantha at that point was muzzily stepping out of her room in a bathrobe, with her shower supplies.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:01 am

"With how weird she was about this whole thing? I really don't know..."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:44 am

Becca sighed. "One thing at a time, right?" she said, stretching as she stood up.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:01 am

"Right, yeah." she says and slides out of bed. Aside from looking kind of crumpled from sleeping in her clothes one of her wings looks a little worse for wear and is just kind of dangling off to the side instead of folded on her back. "Aww man, I thought I had gotten the hang of not doing that..." she mumbles to herself when she notices that it had fallen asleep during the night.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:13 pm

Becca winced as she headed for the door. "Does that hurt?" she asked.

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:24 pm

"Well it's like when it happens to your leg. It just kinda... stings and tingles and eee!" The wing kind of tenses up as blood gets pumped through it again, causing her to make a bunch of high-pitched squealing noises as she tries to flex it a little to make it go away faster, at the same time kinda making it worse too though. "Gaaah! Make it stooop!"

It's probably safe to say that you can hear her through the door.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:31 pm

Blinking in surprise, Samantha went over and knocked.

"...are you okay in there, Nailah?"

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:34 pm

"How am I supposed to make it stop!?" Becca answered helplessly, before jerking her head around at the door. Oops...

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:37 pm

Nailah just stares at the door, forgetting about her wing for a moment. Pleasedon'tcomein,pleasedon'tcomein,pleasedon't come in...

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:38 pm

After not hearing an answer, Samantha knocked again.

"Nailah?"

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:42 pm

"Owwww!" she just whines as the twitching wing reminds her of it's presences.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:43 pm

Becca winced, stepping over and tentatively trying to rub it to help the circulation get going again.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:43 pm

Not knowing quite what was going on, Samantha hurriedly flung the door open!

...and blinked in confusion.

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:46 pm

Oh god, oh god, roll with it, roll with it... "I... think her wing's asleep," Becca said, still hesitantly trying to rub the wing. Nonononononono don't turn invisible...

by **Nailah** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:48 pm

It's not too hard to roll with the truth.

"Sam! Y-yeah, dunno how that happened..." she winces. Totally wasn't because a certain albino girl was lieing on it all night.

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