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[Erin Hackett]

How long had it been since Erin had actually hung out with Lydia? She was not really certain given how the past three years seemed to pass by as if they had never actually happened. The two of them no doubt were busy with their own lives; especially Lydia, who was a cop now. Erin was busy too but not by much since her work tended to be pretty easy for someone who had been doing it since they were little. There was a challenge here and there but for the most part she didn’t really have too many difficulties with her job.

No matter what the excuse was they had both texted and found a good time to meet up to hang out with one another. That was why Erin was outside Lydia’s place now, since that was the agreed upon hangout spot. Erin didn’t really know why she felt a little nervous as she approached the door, but assumed it was the usual ‘you’re about to be around an attractive girl’ issue she still had. She might not of had her innocence anymore but that had been an event that had been a process and it had not fully gotten rid of Erin’s issue to crush on pretty much every girl and have a problem talking to them.

She was better, but still not at the level that she wanted to be. Erin gave a hard knock on the other girl’s door. “Lydia, I’m here…and super early. Finished up a match sooner than I thought I would.” Erin said, the latter words mostly mumbled to herself. She was at least ten or fifteen minutes early then the agreed upon time. She would have fooled around a bit more but didn’t want to risk getting caught up in something and being late. So here she was wondering if Lydia was even around yet.

((Tag:Lydia Faust ))

[Lydia Faust]

As the blonde turned the corner to her apartment, which was on the 5th floor of a block building, she thanked her stars that she'd decided to take a shower early, and go shopping before Erin came, instead of showering later and ordering food. If she had, she'd likely still be in the shower, and that would have been embarrassing. She was dressed in a black leather jacket, a dark blue shirt with a design and label 'Zerg energy, feel the rush!', a pair of dark skinny jeans, and black boots.

She slowly crept up behind Erin, carefully trying not to rustle the bag that was currently placed in her arms. Thoughts played through her head of how good looking Erin, still was. She used to have a monumental crush on the other girl, then awkwardness for a bit, then crushing again, then they managed to get a steady status as friends eventually. She was glad she'd taken the steps to get back into touch though. It was nice not to look at the girl at get hormonal teenage urges, or butterflies though.

"Boo." She chirped when she neared Erin's hearing. The girl had a wide grin on her face, she'd done up her make up a little bit before going out, but she didn't really do much with make up. She favoured a more practical look these days. And apparently it suited her, according to her friends and colleagues.

[Erin Hackett]

Erin was totally not really paying attention to her surrounding, which was actually pretty odd for her. She normally was pretty paranoid in new locations and had to make sure she looked around to make sure she didn’t have to worry about a group of people suddenly surrounding her. Or anything along those lines. She blamed the fact that she was a bit distracted with the fact that she was seeing a friend that she had not been able to hang out with for a while. It was not like it had been ages but it had been a while and she was honestly looking forward to hanging out.

Her only concern was that she would get all weird and nervous like she tended to do around attractive females. Erin figured by now after she lost ‘her innocence’ she would not have that problem but thus far that had not been one hundred percent true. Needless to say, due to Erin being all caught up in her thoughts she was startled by Lydia sneaking up on her and letting out a ‘boo’. No, she did not scream but she ended up flashing out of sight for a moment. It instantly gave her a small headache along with her eyes bothering her as it always did when she would flash like that.

“You scared me, Lydia.” Erin spoke up as if that had not been obvious by the fact that she jumped a little. Then again, she had vanished so she doubted Lydia saw the jump and more so just saw Erin one second, didn’t see her the next, and then Erin was back again. Erin’s eyes drifted over Lydia for a moment before she got her focus back and gave her friend a smile. “It’s nice to see you in person again after so long. You look good.” Erin said. Oh yeah, didn’t stutter at all. So smooth Erin, so smooth. Erin mentally praised herself.

[Lydia Faust]

Lydia grinned as Erin vanished. Yup, that had done it. There was something that was always super fun to Lydia about pranking people, though she was never very good at it herself, she did sometimes make people jump. The way that most people reacted was cute or amusing. Of course, it was a little different when you could not see the person's reaction in question. It had been a while, and she'd almost forgotten that Erin could do that.

She let out a little giggle as Erin popped back up. "Sorry, I couldn't resist." She smirked as Erin complimented her. "It's great to see you, you're looking great." She paused for a second adjusting the bag that was in her arms. She tilted her head. "It's a good thing you didn't get her any earlier, or that I decided to get ready earlier than normal, or I would just be getting out of the shower." She admitted with a chuckle.

She cleared her throat and smiled again. "Well, shall we go inside?" She moved past Erin towards the door, precariously fishing her keys out of her pocket in an awkward motion while shifting around the bag. She gently turned the lock before pushing the door open gently. She'd taken the liberty of cleaning up a bit as well earlier. She wasn't really much of a slob, but there had been some clothes laid over one of the sofa's, ect.

"Home sweet home."

[Erin Hackett]

Honestly, Erin didn't like to be scared, it actually physically hurt her. When your power forced you to vanish and reappear without you actually in control of it, it tended to not feel good. It was not as bad as it was when she was dealing with a thunderstorm and that was why she didn't mind it as much. She just rubbed at her eyes a little and gave Lydia a small smile. The other girl was too beautiful to stay mad at. Was that a bad thing? Maybe, maybe not but Erin didn't care either way because it really was not that big of a deal. She should have been more alert and her inner ninja was disappointed in her.

"It's alright." Erin responded with a small nod. She then blushed just a little bit at the complement given to her. She liked to think that she looked good as well, but of course she was confident inside her mind. "T-thanks. You look really good as well. You look grown." Erin said, stuttering a little bit at the start. She wanted to say more; to like really break down how Lydia looked but that felt like it would be overkill. Erin just hoped that Lydia took her complement on 'you look older' the right way. She didn’t mean that Lydia looked old or did not age well but that she looked more like a woman now...or something along those lines.

"I mean...that would not have been a bad thing..." Erin muttered in response to Lydia commenting on how she would have been in the shower. That was supposed to be an inside thought but it came out on the outside. Erin just choose to act like she said nothing to hopefully not draw attention to it as she stepped out of the way so Lydia could let them in. As soon as the door was open and Lydia went in, Erin would follow, looking around the place, and taking it all it. It looked like a place Lydia would live in; in terms of Erin picturing Lydia living in a place like this or some kind of house. "Nice place. You live here alone?" Erin asked, just curious.

[Lydia Faust]

Lydia grinned at Erin. She was still just as cute as ever, but somehow more... confident. That made Lydia happy indeed. She had always had a soft spot for the other girl, she even attributed a lot of her early desire to get mastery over her power to the other girl.

The blonde tilted her head and giggled as she moved to set down the groceries. "That's so lovely of you to say, Erin." She stretched out for a moment after she had put the food on the counter, if anything she probably looked even more athletic than since the last time Erin had seen her, she smiled and leaned against he counter, admiring the other girl for a few seconds before unpacking the shopping.

She snickered at Erin's comment. She debated responding, but she didn't want to risk Erin running away or anything so she kept it in. "Yup I do! Though... at this point 'live' is kinda subjective. I feel like I'm hardly ever here these days. Though I do have some time off coming up, so that's nice!" She started to unpack things.

[Erin Hackett]

If Erin could read minds she would have been pleased that people did in fact notice that she was a lot more confident then she was three years ago. At least she hoped that people would notice since she had put work and effort into it. She didn't want to be the same old shy and nervous girl all of her life, she wanted to score the ladies or at least a lady for a time being. While she had done the latter, things were quickly weird with that area but at the very least she was better for it and a bit more experienced with people and just the world itself with life in the USA.

"Your welcome, just being honest and well...you know. You have a women's body." Erin added, before looking away. On the inside she was hitting herself for still talking instead of just nodding like a good girl should. She might have had more confidence and better at dealing with people in general but she still had some issues when it came to women and her mind being so deep in the gutter when she was around them. She so caught Lydia looking at her a bit longer before the other girl started to put her groceries away which had Erin wondering if she had something on her clothing that should not have been there. Of course she would not put the whole two and two together that someone would be checking her out like she was checking them out.

That about Erin still had not changed and as a result she was looking on her pants and jacket to see if she spots anything. Nothing really stood out which had her almost slipping into a deep thought but was brought out of it by Lydia's next words. "Ah...I see. Well at least you have a place to call your own and can just walk around naked in when you are not busy with work." Erin pointed out. At the point then she walked away to act like she was going to look around but really she was getting some space because she had brought up the whole naked things and just needed a moment to scold herself and refocus.

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