Rose received the confirmation text that Kei would tutor her and immediately felt her stomach leap into her heart. She told herself that she was reacting this way because she was still embarrassed over the Twitter snafu. Realistically that was probably ninety percent of her anxiety. The last ten percent was a mixture of the social awkwardness that arose out of reconnecting with an old friend who had become attractive...oh, and a vampire.
>> alrighty! see you later
She sent back the calmly cheerful text while she frantically applied a full face of make-up and sprayed her hair full of dry shampoo. At some point Rose stopped in her efforts and stared at herself in the eyes in the mirror. She asymmetrical because she could not get her eyeliner to cooperate.
Fuck it.
She salvaged it and headed off to the library with her hair in a messy braid and her heart pounding. She sort of regretting not taking a couple shots of liquid courage from her roomie’s stash of liquor. That would not have been conducive to studying.
There was a coffee shop on the first floor of the library, so she stopped and bought two lattes. An offering of thanks? Apology? An offering of something.
Instead of texting him to ask where he was, she walked around the entire five floor library until she found him. She had waited until it was 6 o’clock to even leave her dorm. It was now a quarter past. She had done it intentionally. Almost to set a time limit on their interaction -based on his 7 o’clock parameter- just in case it was too awkward to bear.
She came to a stop in front of the table where he sat with books and laptop and papers spread out. “Hi.” Her voice was barely a squeak partly because she was trying to stay quiet out of respect for the other patrons. “I brought you some coffee --” she held up one of the lattes and wiggled it.
Sitting in the seat next to him, Rose was careful not to disturb whatever work he laid out. She took her backpack off and placed it at her feet. “How’s it been?” She asked to make conversation as if she hadn’t been making a concerted effort to avoid him.
She unzipped the bag and pulled out a folder and notebook labeled French. Rose had realistically spent more time on the elaborate doodling and illustrations that decorated the cover of her folder and notebook than she had ever spent studying the subject. She produced that shameful test and held it up so that it covered the bottom of her face.
“Meanwhile, I’ve been busy bombing French tests.”
>> alrighty! see you later
She sent back the calmly cheerful text while she frantically applied a full face of make-up and sprayed her hair full of dry shampoo. At some point Rose stopped in her efforts and stared at herself in the eyes in the mirror. She asymmetrical because she could not get her eyeliner to cooperate.
Fuck it.
She salvaged it and headed off to the library with her hair in a messy braid and her heart pounding. She sort of regretting not taking a couple shots of liquid courage from her roomie’s stash of liquor. That would not have been conducive to studying.
There was a coffee shop on the first floor of the library, so she stopped and bought two lattes. An offering of thanks? Apology? An offering of something.
Instead of texting him to ask where he was, she walked around the entire five floor library until she found him. She had waited until it was 6 o’clock to even leave her dorm. It was now a quarter past. She had done it intentionally. Almost to set a time limit on their interaction -based on his 7 o’clock parameter- just in case it was too awkward to bear.
She came to a stop in front of the table where he sat with books and laptop and papers spread out. “Hi.” Her voice was barely a squeak partly because she was trying to stay quiet out of respect for the other patrons. “I brought you some coffee --” she held up one of the lattes and wiggled it.
Sitting in the seat next to him, Rose was careful not to disturb whatever work he laid out. She took her backpack off and placed it at her feet. “How’s it been?” She asked to make conversation as if she hadn’t been making a concerted effort to avoid him.
She unzipped the bag and pulled out a folder and notebook labeled French. Rose had realistically spent more time on the elaborate doodling and illustrations that decorated the cover of her folder and notebook than she had ever spent studying the subject. She produced that shameful test and held it up so that it covered the bottom of her face.
“Meanwhile, I’ve been busy bombing French tests.”
Bitch, I'm limited edition.
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