You Said Milkshakes

[Tamara Sulik]

Tamara would say she had been lucky with her husband, she got one relatively young. Considering how she got him, it would have been fair to think she could land on someone easily thirty years older if not even more. A mail-order bride could not exactly be picky. He was significantly older, but not in a creepy way. And still looked good enough. He mostly had no spine to flirt with a woman and clearly needed to lose some weight. Other than that, she’d say she ended up with not too bad a choice. She never had much of a problem with age. It was more a question of how creepy it was. A fifty something should not date an early twenty unless he was ready to assume his Lolita syndrome. And expect the girl to cheat on him pretty quick. She had no problem with some grey hair but would clearly not go after someone with a foot in the grave already, not even for money. She might be a bit of an opportunist but even she had her limits.

She laughed as her friend replied to her little comment regarding milkshakes. She’d rather not have everyone around coming to get one. Then again, if someone came here only to get a drink or food or a glimpse at her breasts, Tam would send them out with a nice kick on their ass before slamming her door at their face. She was not one to let anybody use her that easily. She shrugged, giving Blake a look clearly stating she had been disappointed too when she found out Dracula’s castle wasn’t the creepy thing you see in movies. Well, at least it was real. She supposed she should give it some credits for that. “Well, it’s a castle, so of course it’s impressive. But I wouldn’t be scared to spend the night there,” she replied. Hell, they made it a touristic spot! How scary can that be? Historically nice and always great to see an actual castle, but once you do, you suddenly realise movies love to show off.

Tam laughed again but shook her head. “If you want another, there’s ice cream in the fridge, make it yourself,” she said, her hand waving towards the kitchen part of the room. The woman should consider herself lucky Tam agreed to make her one to begin with. Not like she would have denied her one, but she got it so if she wanted another, she would have to work for it. She looked at her friend as she took out a lollipop. “Did I tell you I once offended a bunch of old women eating one of those? I think they thought I was practicing my blowjob technique or something. They really looked at me like I should wear a big black censor mark over my mouth,” she said, moving her hands over her moth to illustrate it. She smiled and shrugged at the memory of it. She knew she could look a little too sexy sometimes but those women were clearly crazy. In the end, Tam believed it said more about their twisted minds than how skilled she was with her mouth.

She enjoyed watching Luke Evans. The guy was really sexy. But she didn’t mind talking to Blake at the same time. If she really wanted to enjoy Luke’s body, she just had to go on the internet later on and get pictures of him. She shrugged, her eyes still locked at the screen though getting what she was asking her about. “Not really sure. You’re not working today?” she asked in return, allowing herself a quick glance at Blake while fake-boobs Tamara in the movie got killed.

[Blake Harlow]

Blake didn't know all the details behind Tam's past, she just never asked about it, feeling like Tam had deep dark secretes. So deep and dark that if you asked Tamara would have had to kill you or something. Not that Blake thought Tam would kill her, but Tam had the looks that killed so maybe she was also capable of it. Blake was probably only thinking about that sort of thing because of the movie that they were watching. Even still, she knew that Tam had been married or perhaps still was and that she had a kid. Past that she didn't remember too much, not even the kid or the husband name and she swore she only knew about this stuff because Tam possibly talked to her about it before or had it slip out. Blake could not recall, it was all very fuzzy in general. She might have had too much sugar or alcohol back when she was told about such things, or her mind was making it up.

"Aww, well there goes my secrete dark fantasy of wanting to get lost in a castle." Blake said, but was one hundred percent kidding, because who wanted to get lost in a castle. Unless she was lost with one of her friends or a really attractive person, then she would be fine with it. After all when people were trapped and thought they were spending their last days alive they were up for doing more things and also sometimes went crazy. Maybe ending up trapped with someone would not be such a good idea, but Blake still thought about it a little bit. There was a mixture of that it would be scary and hot at the same time and sometimes scary and hot together was either really hot or just a major turn off. Oh look another person dying. This conversation combined with the movie was causing Blake to think all sorts of things now.

Blake let out something of a groan at being told to make another one herself, moving to basically crawl over to Tam and lay across her friends lap as if she was some cat. "That’s so much work Tam and only you know how to touch your blender just right to make a milkshake just for me." Blake pointed out because she and Tam did have different blenders and Blake didn't want to break Tam's. Plus she was pretty lazy and with one already in her belly she was content but if Tam did happen to make another one Blake would be even more pleased to have more. Blake sucked on her lollypop and almost chocked on it as Tam illustrated what she was talking about. Blake biting her lip and shaking her head. "Did they at least let you know if you looked really talented while doing it?" Blake asked as she got another lollypop and handed it to Tam for her to take as she put her own back in her mouth.

"It might be the fact that you are overly sexy as well. You just look so good in everything that you do that they assumed it had to be such an act. In other words you made their minds go there, they thought about it. If that’s not a form of turning someone one, then I don't know what it." Blake added after crushing into her lollypop with a chuckle. Blake then moved to make herself a little more comfortable on Tam's lap if she had not been stopped or pushed off by now. Darn bombs getting in the way. "Nope. I think I scare all the kids and they sign up with the other trainers. I don't have anyone to train today." Blake said crushing on her lollypop until it was no more with a content sound leaving her lips as she watched the TV.

[Tamara Sulik]

Tamara was rather secretive about her life. She’d give out some bits of information here and there, like that she came from Serbia, or studied at St. Cadou in Romania. If you knew her a little more than you might know she was married or, more like to know, that she had a son. You might then also know about some odd jobs she did. Those were minor details for her. They would allow you to draw the outline of who she was but not know her really. She couldn’t even remember how much she told to Blake. She bet that with the right level of alcohol, she could have shared her whole life, from the boys she threw dirt at when she was a kid to the latest actor she was casting in her dreams, preferably naked. The amount of what she said to Blake, she was not sure. Not that she minded telling those things again however, given the right circumstances.

Tam laughed as Blake joked about castles. “Maybe you should go to England then. I heard there’s like a castle every ten miles or so,” she said. She was exaggerating, or at least hoped so, but there did seem to be a hell a lot of castles there, or in Scotland or Wales which were both England to Tam. Same island, same queen to rule them, same country. Not to add she figured those would be so much more glamorous. Dracula’s castle was old, built in the ancient style, it was not exactly the Louvres. Not the kind of place she’d like to get lost in for sure.

Tam raised her arms while Blake came over her. It was not that she minded the move at all, in fact she was giving the woman more space, although Tam did wonder why she was doing that. She laughed softly as it proved to be only an attempt to get more milkshake from her. Her excuse did sound pretty lame. She was just being her lazy ass self, no doubt about it. “Why do you have to make me act like the adult here and tell you no?” she replied. She did try to have her tone sound like she was whining here but she found it too funny for it to be really believable.

The lollipop provided a nice diversion and she chuckled as Blake nearly choked on what she said. “Oh, so I’m a natural porn star, is that it?” she asked with a hint of tease in her tone as she took the lollipop Blake gave her. Was she asking for a demonstration? “I think it’s the fact I just lick and never bite? I do the same with ice cream... Or maybe they were just a bunch of perverted old ladies,” she said with a shrug. It was a bit weird to have Blake on her lap but she did not remove her from there. Unless she needed to get up for a reason, she didn't mind.

She explained she had no training session schedule for today. Well, that was a good thing. They could have some fun together. It wasn’t always easy, to have more than a quick chat now and then, with their work and everything going on. “And here I thought I could get you on a sugar rush and send you for someone else to deal with,” she let out, a smile on her face. She of course never meant to do such a thing. “We should plan something then. We can’t get stuck in that room all day, two pretty things like us, it’s criminal,” she added afterwards.

[Blake Harlow]

Yes, Blake only knew bits and pieces about Tamara, and even then she was not sure what was all fact and what have just been drunken talk. Either way that did not make Blake's trust for the other woman go away or anything. If anything that bit of mystery about the other woman just made Blake think that Tamara was even hotter and it kept her curious to find out more about the other woman. It was always good to have a little bit of mystery in your life. While people believed having secretes between people you cared about, sometimes it was not all that bad to have some. Plus it was not like you could actually ever know everything about someone. If you did, well chances were you could end up bored with them. Not that Blake felt like she would be getting bored with Tam any time soon. Tam was laughing either way about Blake's comments about castle and pointed out that she probably should go to England then.

"Oh that would be interesting. We have a school over there too. Would you go with me if I did?" Blake asked, figuring if she was not going to go somewhere for work, then it would be for fun. If it was for fun, then she didn't want to go alone and Tamara had suggested it, so who better to drag along? Tam had even lifted up her arms and Blake made her way over to the other woman and more or less made herself comfortable across Tam's lap as if she was some kind of cat. Blake could sort of be compared to a cat with how lazy she was and how she pretty much did her own thing. But her dog tags pretty much gave away that she had many personalities to her. Well so long as you knew that he dog tags represented certain aspects of her very broad and easily changing personality. "How about because you are older than me, I respect you enough to listen to what you tell me to do, and because well I'm lazy soooo." Blake said with a small chuckle as she remained comfy on Tam's lap.

"Nooo, you are naturally hot so people think that you have to be some kind of star." Blake said, but yes she could see Tam as being a porn star, maybe not really since she did not think Tam would be up for just being with anyone at any moment for the sake of people's entertainment, but she was good looking. As to Blake giving her a lollypop, no she was not wanting a demonstration because that would be too big of a tease in her head and she might end up staring, but maybe a small part of her wanted to see, just a very tiny part...right? Blake could not help but to snicker at Tam saying that she always licked and never bit. "My mind is so not behaving right now." Blake said with more chuckles slipping out as Tam pointed out that it was probably that the old women were perverts to which Blake was nodding in agreement too. "They probably were. Jealous and perverted." Blake said with a nod and then did go to remove herself from Tam's lap because of where her mind was and in general she was not sure if Tam was fully okay with it and just putting up with it because this was Blake being lazy cat Blake.

Blake shook her head no and gave something of an evil grin for a moment as Tamara pointed out that she was more or less going to be stuck with a sugar rushed Blake. Yes, this was very true, but thankfully for her Blake didn't end up bouncing off the walls when she was going through a sugar rush. If anything she got what she called 'sugar drunk', where she behaved more like her drunk self when she had too much candy. She was still a ways form getting to that state however. "We should, cause if I'm stuck in a room with you too long, who knows what I might do. Any ideas?" Blake asked, already trying to think up some ideas of her own.

[Tamara Sulik]

Blake might not know that much about Tamara but the other way around was also true. They knew bits about each other but not the whole story. Tamara didn't mind of course. Trust had to be built and even when you had it, it was natural to keep certain things private. She knew enough of Blake, at least personality wise, to like and trust the woman. Everything else, it was just stories that may or may not come in due time. It was not about keeping secrets, it was about telling them when you felt ready. If Blake wanted to talk of her childhood but keep the first boy she fell in love with to herself, Tamara was fine with it.

“That would more depend on what the administration say than what I want. We always have kids to watch around here,” she pointed out. Of course, she could also point out that besides the few days off given to her (because she was not working 24/7), Tamara never took even one day of vacation. She didn’t see the point. She had no family around to visit for several days and could not afford tickets to Serbia. And travelling alone, when she had spent a few years on the road for work, it wasn’t so great. She preferred to stay here then.

She let Blake place herself over her lap. The comparison with a cat seemed pretty accurate, at least at this right moment. Because Blake could act differently at a moment’s notice and then the comparison would no longer work. “Thanks for reminding me,” she said as Blake mentioned she was older. She was not upset by it however. It was a fact and Tam was the first to use the age advantage when it suited her. Unless it was insulting, which it was not for now, she didn’t mind.

Tam never appeared in a porn movie. And she had no intention of doing one. She may like company but she would never let some man point a camera at her and tell her what to do with some man, or men. The little amateur stripping she did before was as far as she was ready to go, and she hated it. It just happened to pay her enough to get out and find something else, something better. She laughed with Blake as they kept talking of lollipops. Well, if someone asked them, that would be what Tamara shall say. “See, you just hear and it already gives you ideas. I just ooze sex innuendos,” she replied, still laughing a bit as she shook her head. She was being more careful now. The fact she barely ever ate lollipops, popsicle or even ice cream cone helped greatly. But when she was, she always tried to tone it down, when she could remember it. “I bet you caused several people to be jealous and perverted as well,” she commented. Blake was a beautiful woman, she could not believe no one ever tried to have a taste at her.

Tamara didn’t think Blake was that serious when she claimed she might do all sorts of things being stuck here on a sugar rush with Tam near. It was only jesting. “Let’s hit the town if we’re both free. I’m sure we can find something to do, even if it’s just window shopping,” she suggested, getting on her feet to take the DVD out of the player and back in its box. “We might even stop for more milkshake,” she said with some teasing in her voice. She sounded like a mother promising ice cream to her kid if they behaved.

[Blake Harlow]

"Ah, very true. Guess I'll just have to kidnap you then." Blake said as if it was no big deal to just kidnap a friend for the sake of getting them to go leave the country with you for a little while. There were other staff here and with SPECTRE gone it was not like they had to worry about anyone dying like at the drop of the hat. At least Blake was not worried about it and a little one on one time with Tamara outside of the USA sounded fun. Maybe they could even end up doing a European tour of sorts and could visit where Tam had gone to school and maybe her home. Blake had the money saved up or at least could get ahold of some. She was not a wealthy girl and nor did she come from a wealthy family, but she did have two jobs with the school. As for vacation days, again Blake was pretty sure if Tam asked anything in a certain tone she could get anything that she wanted. Blake knew that she probably end up doing anything for Tam with or without that certain tone of voice.

“Don’t mention it. I hope I look as good as you at that age.” Bake teased and even if Tam was older then Blake it was not by like a lot. Blake’s birthday was more or less around the corner so she would be aging up and that much closer to Tamara’s age. While Tam would always be technically older, Blake would make sure to not let Tam forget that she was not that much older than Blake and that she was still smocking hot. Plus when you hit like late fifties or sixty was when you were like actually old in Blake’s mind and they still had a few good years left before then. Blake knew for sure that Tam had never appeared in a porn movie, because if she had, then Blake would have had a copy of it. Not that anyone would know that because Blake would have kept that on the hush-hush. She was pretty sure that Tam had been a stripper at one point, but she was not sure. What I would pay for a lap dance from her. Focus Blake. Blake thought to herself and scratched at her head and made herself a little more comfortable.

Tam was still teasing, with a comment that Blake feeling like someone had turned up the heat in the room. Fanning herself with a chuckle and a flirtatious smirk appearing on her face. She had a feeling like she was going to have to end up changing what dog tag she was currently wearing at this rate. “Tamara please. I’m trying to get my mind out of the gutter and you are keeping it there.” Blake half pleased with a teasing tone since she was partially enjoying this. Maybe a little too much. Tam was pointing out something then, something that was more than likely true, but it was not what Blake’s mind was one. “Perhaps and I did catch a guy having his fun with a picture of me in the boys bathroom.” Blake pointed out, leaving out why she had been in the boy’s bathroom in the first place. She would tell Tam if she asked, but it was nothing super cool or exciting. The girl’s bathroom had just been full of people using the bathroom and being all gossipy and Blake really had to pee so she went in to use the guy’s bathroom and well it was an interesting interaction to say the least.

Tam was half right to think that what Blake was saying was just in all jests, that was what Blake wanted her friends to think about the things she said after all. She worked pretty hard to make sure they just thought she was messing around to prevent well anything that could kill a friendship if she was not careful. Tam then suggested that they hit the town and do some window shopping that sounded like a good idea. “Mmm…but I’m so lazy.” Blake said as she started to slouch on the couch until Tam pointed out that word that always had Blake freezing for a moment. “Did I say lazy? I meant so full of energy that I’m already ready.” Blake said as she smiled and rose to her feet, fixing her clothing and more or less being ready to go since she always had cash on her, unless she was like in pjs or something.

[Tamara Sulik]

She supposed joking about kidnapping after what happen would be deemed inappropriate. But Tamara found it funny nonetheless. It was not the same kind of kidnapping after all, Blake would not torture her or starve her. The only torture might be to their feet with all the castle exploring they would be doing although Tam guessed she would endure more. Perhaps she thought it only because Blake could be so lazy at times but Tam never really bothered wondering why she thought things, she simply did. Where was the world going if you had to censor even your thoughts?

Tam shoved Blake playfully when the woman teased her about her age. She knew she was older but at their age the difference was rather small. When you were a teenager, a year or two might make all the difference but now, for them, it was nothing. Anyway, Tam didn’t need Blake to know she looked good. The way she could turn heads when she wanted to was enough proof of it. She laughed again as Blake nearly begged her to change the subject. “That is so romantic,” she commented about the guy in the bathroom. Of course, she was being ironic there. If Tam liked the idea she might have brought a man to that extent, she preferred not to see. Especially if she didn’t want to join in. Tam focused more on the guy and his little business than the fact Blake went to the boys’ room. Not like Tam had not been there herself, either because the women’ was full or taking her son there when he was a kid. Didn’t need to involve some floor scrubbing to get there anyway.

Tam shook her head when the magic word just sent Blake on her feet and ready to hit town. Sometimes, she wondered if Blake was not exaggerating on purpose, for comical relief. But that spiced up her otherwise dull day so whatever reason why Blake acted that way didn't really matter to her. “Just let me get my bag and shoes,” she said. When not working and staying in her room, Tam never really bothered with shoes. The whole thing took her less than a minute and she was back next to Blake. “You’ve got some place you want to go in particular? I know I’ll need to make a stop at a jeweller, see if they can fix a necklace of mine but other than that I’m open to suggestions,” she said. It bummed her that the clasp on her silver pendant refused to open. Inside, she had a picture of her boy and even if she could easily buy a new pendant and put a new picture, she liked this one and wanted to see if anything could be done.

[Blake Harlow]

Yeah, jokes about kidnapping might have been on the bad timing side of things, but it was not like Blake was saying it to one of the kids that had gone through that. Nope, she was talking to Tamara and she was joking and nowhere near planning on doing anything to her friend that was done to the children. The only way it would be seen as torture would be if Tam really didn't feel like putting up with Blake. Not that Blake thought she was hard to deal with or anything, heck she thought she was pretty easy to please. Just give her some candy and let her hang around you and she was pretty much a happy person. Kind of like a cat. She did as she pleased and if what she wanted was met then she was happy. Okay, so she was a lot easier to please then some cats were, maybe referring to herself as a plant would have been better. All you had to do was give it the right amount of water and sunlight and pretty much that was it.

There was the playful shove that made Blake chuckle a little, always liking the playful banter and actions of others. Still her mind did wonder off for just a small second, wondering what it would be like if Tam shoved her for other reason. Man was she happy Tam could not read her thoughts and that Blake herself had a pretty good amount of self-control of her desires and the way her mind worked. She purely blamed it on the fact that with close friends you had to have some sort of attraction to them, Blake's just turned a little, but she never ever let it get in the way. She felt like it would be wrong to risk the loss of a friendship over wanting more and being selfish. Blake did chuckle a bit at Tam's words about how it was romantic with the whole Blake catching a guy having fun with himself to a picture of her.

"It was flattering, but in a bathroom, really?" Blake asked, but was more so just point that bit out to just run home the point that again it was done in the bathroom. Like that kind of thing happened, heck Blake was guilty of it to, but that was for the privacy of your bedroom or your own bathroom, not the shared ones. Blake nodded and waited for Tam to go get her bag and shoes. It was such a girlish thing to feel the need to carry around a purse. Blake was a tomboy deep down still so more often just put everything in her pockets, granted if she had been planning going out shopping before then yes she for sure would of had her purse on her. It didn’t take long until Tam was back and ready to go, asking if there was anywhere that Blake needed to go. Tam needed to go to the jeweler to get a necklace fixed, but that was pretty much it. "I'll just get some earrings at the jewelers and probably pick up some candy." Blake said as she headed for the door. Candy was pretty much always going to be on Blake's list when she would go out shopping.

"Are we taking my car, your car, or a cab?" Blake asked and sure they could walk there, but there was something about stepping out of a car and then flipping your hair that always appealed to Blake. It was just like walking into a room or something, anything that involved doors and then a hair flip. It was just hot. Blake a pickup truck so was not sure if Tamara would be up for that sort of ride, but if she was well Blake had her keys.

[Tamara Sulik]

Tamara shrugged at that guy’s behavior. “He really needed to express his feelings for you,” she replied. Tam couldn’t imagine herself doing that in a bathroom. Hers, with the door of her room locked, maybe. But not somewhere anyone can just walk in on her, even if she locked herself in one of the stalls. Like she said, he really couldn’t wait any longer. Unless men were not as prude as women regarding this. No, the guy was just too horny to wait until he went back home.

Tam needed a bag to carry around. There was more than just her money and keys in there. It seemed to be a black hole sometimes, or Mary Poppins’ bag, with everything she can pull out of it. Hand cleanser and hand cream, some emergency makeup just in case, lip balm, gum, tampons, some aspirin, a map of the town in case her phone died on her and she needed to locate herself, some old bills she stuffed in there after the cashier handed it to her and she forgot to toss away later on... and of course, the wallet and set of keys. And that was just the normal stuff, for sometimes she could end up with weird things in there, that she just threw in and forgot about.

She nodded when Blake said she’d check the earrings. “At least we need to go to the same places... pretty much,” she said since Tam had no need to go to a candy store. But Blake always needed some sugar close at hand and Tam saw no reason not to oblige her. Ha her son lived here with her, she’d probably have to go there anyway. Tam chased away all thoughts of Mikael however. She didn’t need to think of him today, she was doing that enough already. She looked up at Blake when she asked which car they should take. She shrugged first as only answer. “Yours, unless you don’t want to drive. I really don’t mind,” she said. She didn’t mind. Tam had a relatively smart car. They didn’t mean to buy a lot of stuff so it was enough for their purpose but, like she said, she couldn’t care less who was driving as long as they got there. Since both cars would be parked at the same place, was there really any other logical spot to park a car, Tam left her room and made her way to the parking lot. If they had not decided by then, she figured she’d just walk towards the closest vehicle and that would be it.

[Blake Harlow]

"Sadly I had to be the one to walk in on it. Could not talk or even look at him the rest of my high school life. Wonder what he is doing now." Blake said with a small shake of her head and then actually pondering for a moment what the guy could be doing now with his life. She actually didn't know much about him, but she was never going to be able to forget his face or well his 'boyhood' after that say. In fact it had been so engrained in her head that she was pretty sure if she saw either of them she would be able to point it out that it was him in a heartbeat. Thankfully, again she didn't really know anything about the guy and she only recalled this sort of thing when conversation surrounding it had been sort of brought up like they had been now. Blake didn't know what the reason was why he could not wait, and while she might have been able to understand the urgent need, she would not understand his lack of self-control.

Blake did give Tam a certain look for a moment, wondering if Tamara did such things still or did that desire go away when you had kids? Blake really didn't know, she was very naive to things pass when you had a child and it was likely she was going to never know until someone would outright tell her about it. Tam must have had a lot in her bag and Blake was thankful to travel with other girls just for this reason. She never really had to carry all those kind of things around when she had friends that pretty much had everything you could need in their bags. All she knew was she been in a few women’s bag and was pretty sure she got lost a few times or ended up losing something that she had on her hand. It was like those things had come to life and consumed all that was put into them. Like women could not help with what ended up in them because the purses would just gobble them up. No more sci-fi movies for Blake for a little while.

"Pretty much, I'll even hold your bags for you." Blake said and sort of gave a little skip out of Tam's room and pretty much all the way to the parking lot. She was pretty darn happy after all. She had gotten a milkshake from Tamara and now they were going out to do some shopping. Part of that shopping involving candy, so yes Blake was super happy and that was why she was skipping. Only sort of skipping, and by that it meant skipping a few times before walking a bit before doing it again. Tam picked Blake's car, and that meant it was settled. Blake reaching into her pocket and clicking her keys to already start up her truck, because yes she had one that started up itself because that was so cool. "Mine it is. If you end up buying anything big, the bed of the truck has a ton of room." Blake said, mostly joking since she didn't think Tam would buy something so large after listing what she needed from the store in the first place. They would reach the car in no time and Blake would climb right in and buckle up, weighting for Tam to get in before she drive for the store.

[Tamara Sulik]

Blake wondered what that boy was doing now. “He’s probably married with a kid or two and hoping you don’t remember this if you two are ever to meet again,” she pointed out. She was kind of surprised it happened a school. All the more a reason not to go in the boys’ room. She had yet caught a teenager with their pants down. Well, to be exact, she did catch a few teenagers in the middle of a make out session, trying to go further. But she never caught one masturbating in a corner. She hoped to never do that, especially not with her picture somewhere near. Teenagers, sometimes. Worst than animals.

Sometimes, Tamara was surprised of all the thing she can stuff in that bag of hers. The purse was not small, of course, but it was still impressive. She supposed it was a woman’s talent although she knew a few men who also possessed such skill. She’d need to clean it up a little though. She was starting to lose things in there and she hated that. It would have to wait though. Right now, she had something much more interesting to do.

She gave an amused smile to Blake. “My, if you keep going like this, I’ll think you have something to be forgiven or something,” she replied on a teasing tone. She said nothing to Blake’s bouncing strut although she did notice it. If Blake wanted her hair to flip around her while she was skipping about, it was her choice. Tam had a strong walk and a relatively fast pace. She was in no hurry, it was just the way she walked.

“See, your car’s the perfect choice,” she said even though she doubted she would fill the back of her truck with shopping bags. But in case they decided to make a few more stops along the way, hers would definitely allow them more space. “Let’s go to the jeweler first, so it’s done,” she told Blake as she arrived by her friend’s car. She was tempted to add before they find something else and spend the day out completely forgetting why they went to town in the first place but she did not. Better not suggest it, they might actually end up doing just that.

[Blake Harlow]

"Then he better hope we don't meet again, because there is no way I will ever forget that." Blake admitted and yes she was one hundred percent sure she would never forget unless she copied the power off of someone who was good at making memories go away or be forgotten and used it on herself. Or just asked said person she was copying the powers from to do it for her. The last option was probably for the best, since if she was new to the power then she was more than likely less skilled at using it then a person who would of possibly had years of using it. Unless it was one of her students that she trained, then she probably would be better off doing it herself. Blake did wonder if Tam and her current job if she had come across something like that or worse. Room checkups had to not be so fun when a boy would have a girl over and in his room when the staff had to go around checking to make sure that everything was legal and what not in the rooms. This may have been a school for mutants but it still did have to follow by the standard school rules across the USA.

Blake was pretty confident that she could probably stuff like a whole baby into Tamara's purse. Why a baby? It was the first thing that came to Blake's mind, but there would be no way she would be putting a baby into Tam's purse. She could not even pick up a kid without feeling really uncomfortable. Nope, no kids. Blake smiled at Tam's words after Blake offered to carry her bags for her. "Hmm...I wonder. I don't think I did anything bad per say, but I might have thought it." Blake said simply with a small chuckle at the fact that it was sort of true. She thought a lot of things that were not always good to think about with your friends. Still it was because Tamara was Blake's friend that she was willing to help out with the bags and just in general help out Tam in any way she needed it.

Blake was not in a super hurry either, she was just pleased and not really thinking too much about the half skipping as she pulled out another lollypop and popped it into her mouth. "My truck you mean. It's like a car for me, so I always slip up and call it one." Blake admitted with a small chuckle, at the thought of how her dad would have been very stern and given a whole speech about the difference between a nabby pabby car and a full blooded truck. The words he would use and everything. It just went to show that you could take a girl out of that way of life, but she would still have parts of it around her; the truck being one example. They were all in the car and Blake gave a nod as she drove the truck to the jewelers, thankfully knowing her way around by now; that and GPS.

"What would you say was the weirdest or awkwardness scene you walked in on while working as a dorm monitor?" Blake asked the question that had been sitting in her mind for a while. Just for conversation for the drive that would not really end up that long in Blake's large truck. Finding parking was easy enough as well, but Blake did park a little bit away from the entrance since she didn't want her truck to get all scratched up by those who parked near the front all extra tight. Making sure she had everything before she would get out, lock up, and follow Tam into the store.

[Tamara Sulik]

“You’ll remember his face? I figured, since the main focus was a little lower, that his facial features might have erased from your mind. It’s awful when it does not,” she commented. She doubted that, if she met with the women she mentioned to Blake, that she would remember them. Of course, she had seen them for about five minutes max, while Blake went to school with that boy. He aged however and that might save him, if he didn’t look too much like who he was at school. If not... well she hoped not to be there when Blake would meet him again. She could just imagine it, if he had kids who turned out gifted also, Blake visiting the family to pick the child and freaking out as she recognized the man. It would be funny, if it was a tv show. In real life, it would be embarrassing.

She looked at her friend with a smirk as she said she might have thought something bad. She didn’t much of it. Tam did not have the ability to read people’s mind nor was she a lie detector who could tell that Blake was actually serious with that comment. If Tam was aware of her own beauty, she didn't think Blake was affected by it. Of if she was, it must be some envy at times. Tam apparently brought that feeling a lot to women who were quieter and less confident with themselves than Tam was.

Blake corrected her, reminding her she owned a truck. “Right. Not like it really matters. I’m not a car expert and as long as it can take us from point A to point B, I don’t really care,” she admitted. Tam sure was not the woman to talk to if you wanted to know about cars. She had a very basic knowledge in them and was not really interested in learning more. She knew her parents owned an old truck. Then again, almost everyone in her village did, over a car. Because she lived on the countryside and they were more useful there than a little Mini Cooper or whatever. She also learned to drive first with it.

Blake questioned her as they drove to town and Tam had to think about it. “You know how powers can be like, especially when you don’t control it too well. Add to that hormones and you just ask for crazy shit to happen,” she said as she tried to think of one that would stand out in comparison. “I remember this girl who just found nose bleeds so could she’d purposefully punch students to see them. I don’t know, I think she watched too many anime. Does that qualify as weird? Or I must go more towards the hormonal?” she asked. “Besides, I bet you’ve got a lot more stories to tell about weird and awkward, both as a trainer and a recruiter,” she pointed out. Tam felt she mostly dealt with fights and tears. If Blake was the first person they’d meet after their power appeared, she must have more stories than Tam could ever think about.

Tam didn’t mind the distance. Her feet were meant to carry her, not only to show off amazing boots and shoes. As they walked into the store, Tam left her friend so she could look at the jewelry there and went directly to the man working there to talk about her pendant.

[Blake Harlow]

"Trust me; first thing I saw was a little lower, but then his face. The look on his face. Then I just left." Blake admitted, taking a deep breath and just doing away with that thought for now. No more, she was going to just die there of self-loathing from remembering such a thing she wanted to forget. She might have stared for a moment, but the look on the guys face; that surprise, she just could not process all what was going on there and just left. Thinking about it as she walked away, but she was a teenager at the time and while the thought of telling someone did cross her mind. She was pretty sure only Lordan found out because it had been on Blake's mind that whole day and Lordan could hear her thoughts. What Tamara was thinking would be hilarious if it happened on TV, but yes if it happened to Blake it would just be awkward on so many levels. She would be in 'get the kid' mode so it would at least not be super bad.

Blake was very much affected by Tamara's beauty and her personality. There was just so much that was attractive about the other women. They said that you tended to pick your friends based upon some level of attraction to them, but Blake being Pansexual and all and having been around her friends long enough, she always ended up developing crushes on all of them. Crushes that even now still lingered and made Blake think things that she had to remind herself that she didn't want to mess up a friendship. "True. My dad would just end up giving a whole speech if he heard either one of us say car instead of truck." Blake admitted, not even sure why she was thinking about her father now, but she was...just a little bit. Still, there was driving and places to go so talk about trucks was not really important. There were other things to talk about that would be or at least could be far more enjoyable. Like the whole question Blake ended up bringing up as she drove them to their destination.

Blake listened as Tamara described an event, and yes Blake understood since she worked with the students as well. Her jobs were more so picking them up from home, taking them to the school, and then getting them to learn control over their power. Tam had to deal with them when they had free time, when they were hanging around the dorms or in their rooms. A girl that caused people blood noses was pretty weird, and Blake was thankful that her teachings involved one-on-one so she didn't really get to deal with students dealing with other students. "What did you end up doing with that girl?" Blake asked, wondering how Tam ended up dealing with that. "If you have one that’s more hormonal, that would be entertaining to hear...maybe." Blake said, not sure if she really wanted to hear one of the tales involving hormones that Tam had to deal with. She did nod when Tam pointed out that she probably had some interesting tales herself to tell, and Blake did. She had to think what would have been the widest pickup experience she had to deal with.

"I'll tell you a pretty awkward one when we are not in the store." Blake sort of whispered to Tam as they entered. Tam going off to do her own thing and Blake going over to look at and hopefully find a nice pair of earrings, feeling her more girlish side coming out.

[Tamara Sulik]

Tam tried to think what she’d do if she were to find someone in as embarrassing a situation as the guy Blake told her about. Now, she’ll probably embarrass them further, telling loud and clear they should get their hands of their pants or something. But then? She knew some guys at school thought she was horny, based only on the way she looked. She accepted to act like this, to a limit. She probably would have frozen and backed away, hoping to erase that image from her memory. Kind of what Blake did. Even if you liked the attention, even if you were much into sex, there was a limit how much one could take. Tam never went that far.

She remembered where she came from. A small town, lots of farmlands, couple of houses. And lots of trucks, a lot more than cars. It was stronger built, could take more, could carry more too. She smiled as Blake mentioned her father, as Tam more or less thought the same about hers. “Mine too, probably. And then I’d probably just say vehicle,” she replied. Hopefully, the time when she fought with her parents over everything on principle was long gone. She was no teenage girl who thought her town was too small for her and all.

Tam knew she saw a few surprising things in the past five years being here. And even more when you think about the rest of her life. But she was not sure exactly the kind of stuff Blake wanted her to talk about. Powers could cause all sorts of rather funny and sometimes embarrassing moments. Especially when you did not control it too well. But Blake should know, she was training them so they could control their ability. So she picked something that had nothing to do with power. She shrugged as her friend questioned what she did. “Not much. I told her to stop, warned that it was inacceptable and the staff will know. She calmed down after that. Well, I didn’t hear much about it anymore. I don’t see what’s cute in a nose bleed though. You get that?” she asked, turning her head towards Blake as she asked her this.

She chuckled when Blake said hormonal could be fun too. “Well I did have to reassure some guys that getting a boner at the worst moment wasn’t all that weird. And one arguing that I should let his girlfriend stay in his dorm to have sex with her because they were responsible and not doing it everywhere in the school and used condoms,” she said, shaking her head a bit at the thought. The fact they were having sex was not the point of course, more the fact she had to go back to her dorm. She’d give him right on one thing, being careful was to their credit, and Tam was not one to try and prevent them from doing anything. But she had a job to do.

She smiled and gave Blake a brief nod when she told her she would share some stories once they’d be out of here. It was true that this kind of story might not be suitable in a public area where so many could hear. Well, not like there was a huge crowd in the shop, but still, the main point was they would not talk of it in the shop.

Tam waited at the counter at first but since it might take a moment for the jeweler to fix the clasp, she joined Blake. “Anything interesting you?” she asked on a low tone as she looked around at what there was in store.