Run In {Open}

[Jez Steele]

Jez grabbed her favorite soda and a bag of raspberries, something she couldn't get at home before sitting down in an empty arm chair by the window. Jez pulled a book open onto her lap and got lost in her own little world. At some point in time she spun sideways in her chair and swung her legs across the arm rest, crossing them and swinging them slightly. Unknowingly her skirt had ridden up a bit with her change of position. Suddenly she felt someone hit her legs and she looked up, still kind of coming back from her fantasy world. "I'm sorry, were my legs in the way?"

[Calliope Gallo]

"Sorry, did I get in your way?" Her voice was a little louder than someone might expect, but the reason was sound. Literally. Her ears were covered by headphones, disjointed music loud enough to hear statically but not so loud that the artists or song would be recognisable. Callie kept her blue eyes down for a second or so, standing nearby and looking to the pair of legs that she had accidentally knocked into.

A swing with her hand and she pulled the headphones down, resting them around her neck. She repeated the motion, this time pushing through her blonde hair with her fingers to dispel any mess she had made the first time. Both hands then swung behind her back, meeting together to idly hold onto the book she had brought with her.

She frowned, her forehead crinkling slightly with her own confusion. "Did I just yell at you? I didn't mean to yell at you." She explained, pointing to the device around her neck as the explanation to her poorly constructed apology.

[Jez Steele]

Jez blinked slightly when the girl yelled at her. It was obvious she had her headphones on but still.... When the girl apologized to her Jez smiled slightly, "That's okay I just have to get the use of my hearing back, " with the grin she gave with her recognition it would've been obvious to her friends that she was teasing but she didn't always remember that a lot of people didn't really know that she meant no harm by her comments.

Jez pulled her legs into the chair with her, curling up in a little ball, well as much as she could while still having bones in her body. She put her finger as a bookmark in her book and closed it for a moment before holding out her other hand with a smile, "My name's Jez, what's yours?"

[Calliope Gallo]

Her hearing back? For the slightest moment Callie's frown overtook her. It was a little awkward that it had happened, but that was a feeling that she would surely dig herself out of as soon as she saw the grin on her face. "I could always keep yelling until you do." After all, once she caught on she could play along too.

As she drew her legs up, Callie took the chance to move past her with a few quick steps, bow her head slightly with a wide smile as if to thank her for allowing passage. She looked down then to see the hand extended to her. Callie reciprocated it with one of her own, offering a small shake as a sign of greeting. "Callie. Good to meet you... Even with the impending threat of deafness."

With a small lean inward, her hand broke the contact with Jez and tapped the book she held twice. "Interesting?" She asked, turning her eyes up through her hair towards her again.

[Jez Steele]

Jez laughed slightly as the girl sat down. "Well it is bad to leave something half done. So what kind of music are you listening to? Is it any good?"

She looked down at her book cover, it was 'The Night Circus', "I'm not sure yet. It's a little confusing but I'm still hopeful. What about your book? Should I read it at all?"

Originally Jez had wanted some alone time but now that she had someone to talk to she was rather happy that she had someone to talk to. Jez held out her bag of raspberries, "Would you like some? I don't want to hord them all to myself."

[Calliope Gallo]

"In that case, I'd work to talk your ear off instead." Oh! For a second there Callie had completely forgotten there was music playing through the headphones still around her neck. She retrieved the device quickly from her back pocket and turned it off, not wanting to waste the battery. "Jack's Mannequin. Good mix, good moves." The small shuffle of her foot against the floor; nothing special for a dancer, but the thought was still there.

The swing of her hand brought the book behind her back to view, titled High Fidelity. "Something my brother suggested. I only really just started trying to read it. If I get far enough to get an opinion, maybe I'll share it with you." A small joke that held some truth to it. Focus was not always her strong suit.

Were there raspberries on offer? The generosity surprised her a little, but in a good way. "Appreciate it." She offered a smile with that casual gratitude, reaching over to take a small handful of raspberries before falling back into her seat again. She took a very short moment to look over at her new acquaintance. She was beautiful; there was no denying that and hey, Calliope could appreciate it. Especially at this distance. She would mentally shrug the thought away. "At first he said to read Fifty Shades of Grey. I sort of hope he was joking."

[Jez Steele]

Jez's grin turned to a small teasing grin, "You haven't read Fifty Shades yet?"

As she continued her sentence her grin got bigger, she loved watching people read that series, just to see their reactions. "Oh well that is something you simply must read."

Her eyes were bright and glittering with her teasing ways. Jez munched on a few raspberries of her own, she loved them, beyond a doubt, always had at least one case in her fridge.

[Calliope Gallo]

Callie reacted to the hint of her grin with slight confusion. Hmm... So she must have read it. She shook her head at the question. It was still not a book she had gone for. But Jez went on to say that she really should read it. It brought out some kind of intrigue for Callie.

"I take it you have then." She paused for a moment, wondering how daring she could be with someone she'd just met. Still, the air was ripe with teasing... She could join that. "What did you learn?"

[Jez Steele]

Jez nodded her head, when Callie asked what Jez had learned she was silent for a moment, thinking about it, "Don't fall for a guy that has anger issues... and billions of dollars, it doesn't end well."

She munched on some of her raspberries, thinking back on the series, "The first book is the best, but the second two aren't too bad after that."

[Calliope Gallo]

"Well put. I'll keep the advice in mind." Callie responded brightly, impressed with the way she handled such an open question. Sometimes even Callie didn't realise the possible deeper suggestions behind her words. Never mind.

"Do you like to read a lot, Jez?" She sounded curious, laughing slightly as a thought popped into her head. "You'd probably have better suggestions than my brother."

[Jez Steele]

Jez laughed slightly when Callie responded, she really was fun to play with as it were. Unlike some other people she didn't really take Jez's teasing seriously. "If I had to chose between books and music I'd pick music, and if I had to pick music over my bo staff I'd chose my bo staff."

She moved around in her chair to get comfortable for a moment before she looked back at Callie, "What about you? What's your favorite past time as it were?"

[Calliope Gallo]

A bo staff? Callie had heard of such a thing but she wasn't really sure on the specifics. However, she could venture to guess that it was a difficult thing to work with. And so despite her lack of knowledge, she still found it impressive.

"If I had to chose between books and music... I'd pick music. Unfortunately I don't have a bo staff or really know what it is, so music probably takes the win there." Callie mimicked the words intentionally, laughing before her teeth sunk into her bottom lip. "But if I had to choose, dancing beats music."

[Jez Steele]

Jez laughed slightly at her and shrugged, "I've never been a big fan of dancing, of course everyone says i dance like a walrus on land."

She pulled out the paper she was using as a bookmark and the pencil holding in her hair before she leaned forward and quickly drew a sketch of her bo staff, "That's a bo staff, people who've mastered karate use it as a weapon of sorts, think of it as a giant lead pipe pretty much."

[Calliope Gallo]

"If she was enjoying herself, I'd gladly dance with a walrus on land." Callie replied, smiling in her own amusement. She watched for a while as Jez started do draw something. That's what she assumed she was doing, anyway.

Calliope leaned over slightly when she was finished, listening to the explanation of what a bo staff was. It was something new to learn for the day. Idly, she fiddled with raspberry between her thumb and index finger. "I've never met anyone into that kind of thing, so I think it's awesome. Is karate and bo staff-type work as intense as I'm guessing it is?"

[Jez Steele]

Jez nodded her head, "There's one move that I've been working on for years and just barely got recently where I have to do a hand stand, on top of the staff, while balancing the staff on the ground and the bottom is about the size of a half dollar."

She grinned and flexed her muscles, "Just look at these bad boys," they weren't exactly grotesquely huge but there was some definite definition to them.