Skitt13s & R@in60ws

[Erin Hackett]

Erin was not a sports person; that was obvious, but the girl she was currently working on 'wooing' and was also still close friends with was into sport. Erin didn't fully understand why someone would like such a thing but Alex did so Erin had done what she needed to do in order to understand the game...sort of. She mainly just found out what teams Alex liked and kept track of how they were doing so she could bring it up in conversation and show that she did care about the other girl's interest that did not align with her own.

The guide books said that it was important to be able to relate to someone outside your own likes. "Hmmm...one of her teams got destroyed in tonight game. Like slaughtered. she had to be feeling torn up about it." Erin said out loud to herself when she got the notification on her computer that the game was over and it allowed her to see the score. Yes, Erin really had made an effort with all of this and even had it so her various systems would give her alerts and updates. She had been in the middle of replaying Life Is Strange, but this was far more important. She looked to her phone, expecting to maybe get invited to come comfort or something.

Then again...Alex did have a boyfriend so probably he was there comforting her. No wait, he would be out about this time. Perfect! Erin was quick to staff her bag that slung across her chest and hung off to the side of her hip. She made sure to load it with the essentials; meaning that of course that there were skittles in the bag since she knew that Alex really liked them. Then she was heading out, going to her friend’s room and knocking on the door, thankfully being let in by one of Alex's roommates and proceeding to knock on Alex's door. "Hey, Alex. I-its Erin. You want to hang?" Erin asked before face-palming.

You want to hang? She is probably upset. Shit, you didn't text her before you left! Now it’s going to be like super out of the blue and random. Erin thought to herself as she let out a heavy sigh. Just great, perfect start to her next phase of her plan and that was one hundred perfect sarcasm.

((Tag:Alexandra Lawson))

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex was, beyond the shadow of a doubt, as sports person. She stayed active in cheer and track to keep in shape and to force herself to get outside once in a while (on top of actually enjoying the athletic endeavors) and never missed a single game of her beloved San Francisco 49ers if she could help it. She poured her heart and soul into every snap the football team played more and more with every year that passed she was unable to sit and watch the games with her dad like she had before coming to the Academy. Alex wasn't a tomboy by any means, but she loved her football. Football to her felt like a three hour period where she could easily transplant herself back home with her family. To Alex, watching her favorite sports team wasn't just about the game, it was much more personal.

This made losses particularly tough to handle.

Unfortunately for Alex, after the latest Sunday afternoon destruction of her team, she was left to her own devices. The rest of her roommates were out, including Ezra (much to her chagrin) and she had been forced to flail around in an impotent rage once the final whistle and sounded, mercifully ending the lopsided contest. With no one in arms' reach to bother, Alex ended up flopping ruefully onto her bed and staring at the ceiling. The light filtering through the window was too bright so she closed the blinds. Still to bright. She pulled her blankets up and over her head but that always felt stuffy and suffocating. With a grumble and a huff she slipped off her bed determined to figure out this problem.

By the time the knock came at her door Alex was nowhere to be seen in her room. She'd almost nodded off, spending the last hour or two (she really didn't know what time it was) in a half doze curled up under her bed where she had crawled to escape the light. "No!" Came the muffled reply from behind the door. "I'm on strike!" Alex exclaimed defiantly. "I'm boycotting, uh, everything!"

[Erin Hackett]

Erin did enjoy when Alex was in her cheer uniform and certainty when she was able to watch Alex run around. A part of it made her want to try and be psychically active but then she would laugh at that own personal joke. She was good for running short distance, she had always passed that in gym class but past that no such luck. Maybe she would work on it, but that was something she would consider later on since she was perfectly fine watching Alex be active. The other redhead looked so good when she was in motions; okay, Erin was quick to get her mind out of the gutter as she waited.

A muffled reply came that voice just how upset Alex was about this lost. Man, she is really taking this hard. Time to bust out the treats and be super comforting Erin. Okay, you got this. Erin thought to herself as she took a deep breath to gather her nerves. It helped that there was a door between her and Alex and that she could not see the girl. "Boycotting everything? Come on, there is still hope for your team." Erin spoke up as she tried the door that was hopefully unlocked. Erin could not recall too many times where the other girl would lock her door so proceeded to try and go inside, likely to not find Alex right away.

"I even brought skittles to share with you. You sure you want to boycott everything?" Erin asked as she pulled out the little bag and shook it around. She had her bait, now it was just time to see if she was going to have any success with it. It was Alex and it was skittles, so Erin felt pretty confident about her odds at the moment.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Nope. Alex wasn't coming out. Not for anything in the world. She wanted nothing more than to shut everything off and hide in her little hole. She wasn't wholly depressed, it was just a football game after all, but she'd found under her bed to be a lot more comfortable than she'd expected. It probably had something to do with the blankets she kept to put on her bed during the winter that had months ago been stripped off and shoved underneath that helped her make a nice, comfortable nest in the quiet darkness. Few things felt better than a nice nap on a lazy Sunday after watching your favorite football team get massacred.

Eyes from beneath the bed narrowed. They knew that sound. The sound of shelled candies being rattled around in their plastic bag was one Alex knew all too well. She tried to keep strong but felt her willpower wavering. Skittles was fighting dirty. "That's not fair." She called from her spot on the floor. "You're cheating!"

[Erin Hackett]

Erin was already looking around the room once inside to try and find where her friend was. There were only so many places to hide and since Alex didn't have Erin's power, that lessened the amount of places to hide. Erin started to think if she were an upset Alex, where would she be? Curled up against someone and holding them tight. Erin thought to herself but since it was just her and Alex in the room, that was not a possibility at the moment. Or else she would have felt that warm embrace by now. That meant the next place had to be...under the bed.

Erin was already kneeling down to get a look and sure enough there were a collection of blankets that were too shapely to be normal blankets. She is just too damn cute. Want her so bad. Erin thought to herself as she tucked some of her hair behind her ear. Then it was time for the trap, the trap that had sort of worked by Alex's protest from under the bed. She was too damn cute for her own good. "It is so fair. How is it not fair to bring something you love to try and cheer you up?" Erin asked as she chuckled a little. It was easy to be relaxed like this with how Alex was behaving.

"Not treating, just playing dirty. If you don't eat them, I guess I'll have to eat them all by myself." Erin said as she started to open the bag. She made sure to be as loud as possible with it as well before she held out a piece and waved it around as best as you could wave something so small around. "It's a red oneeeee." Erin had sang...sort of.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex almost winced at the use of the 'L' word. She reminded herself it was perfectly normal and healthy to love someone in a wholly non-romantic way and it didn't have to mean anything. The last thing she wanted was to give off the wrong vibe and find her way into the trap she'd let herself get into that ended up hurting Erin.

A low 'goddammit' came from the darkness beneath the bed. Alex peered out from behind a tangled mess of blankets as Erin's face poked into view. Erin wasn't wrong, she really could use a handful of the sweet, fruity candies she was being tempted with. Slowly but steadily Alex extracted herself from the blankets and slid more toward the edge of the bed. A small, slender hand jutted out, palm up. "Skittle me and we'll open negotiations."

[Erin Hackett]

Erin didn't really think about the L word in this situation, at least not when relating it back to herself. She would never forget what Alex had told her but it was what Alex had said that did always play into Erin's hope for something more, one day. Was it wrong to hope? It was what actually got her motivated to do things when she would wake up in the morning. There had to be something still there, all of it had felt too real to not be there but Erin was not trying to get it now. Right now she was just trying to lure her friend out of hiding and try to cheer her up because that was what a good friend would do and also someone who wanted to be more then friends would do.

She chuckled a little in victory at the mumbled said she heard that was followed by some movement under the bed. Yes, victory was so hers right now. She waited, watching closely as her friend made her way out from under the bed, but not fully. Just mostly enough for Erin to be able to see that beautiful face and the extended hand. "Deal. I'll even give you two skittles to sweeten the deal." Erin said as she moved to place to skittles into the other girl's hand. It felt so good to be able to touch the other girl again. To feel that soft and warm skin against her owns. Even if it was for a short moment in the exchange of the shelled candy, it was enough to make Erin get a little excited.

[Alexandra Lawson]

Alex figured she was being at least a little melodramatic at this point. She'd long forgotten the football game that had driven her under the bed and the moment she'd slunk back into the darkness of the bed with her precious, shelled candies in hand it was about time she reluctantly rejoined the land of the living. She popped the Skittles into her mouth and took in the sweet, fruity flavor. "Alright, alright. You win." She sighed from beneath the bed and set about climbing out from her dark cocoon.

She slipped out of the bed on the opposite side to where Erin was and stood up. Her long, bright red hair was mussed from the time spent tangled in a mass of tangled blankets. It fell about her face and shoulder in a crimson cascade. Pursing her lips she blew at a stray bit through the corner of her mouth though it did little save for causing the hair to puff out before settling right back against her cheek. She let out a low sigh and brushed the hair from her face, running her fingers through it in hopes of at least getting it to settle down for the time being. "So." She said, her eyes finally settling upon Erin and lighting up. "What's up?"

[Erin Hackett]

Erin did think this was a bit much in terms of being upset over a football game, but she could not really talk or complain. She had been much worse when she would lose at a video game and that was not even in real life. In a video game you could at least try again and improve from what had happened before but in real life you got no repeats. Alex's team had scored how they did and there was nothing they could do to go back and change how that game went. So in that way, Erin understood why Alex was upset and it just made her want to cheer up her friend all the more.

"Yes! How much experience did I get?" Erin asked as she chuckled a little. Alex said that she won, so how much did she wins and did she get any loot with that win? Well, she knew her one loot was that Alex was working on coming out from under her bed and into full view. While Alex did end up crawling out from the opposite side, Erin had seen been able to enjoy the view. And boy did she enjoy that view from how messy the other girl's hair was and just the smile on her face when she looked at Erin. Did Alex not understand what she did to Erin just by breathing and being the person that she was?

"I just wanted to check up on you. See how you were doing. Hang out. Tempt you with candy and maybe...sneak out late tonight to show you something." Erin said, losing her confidence bit by bit with being able to see Alex before her and just feeling those butterflies in her stomach coming to life again. She wanted to tell Alex that she was also going to work for Alex's affection again, but that seemed like a bad idea.