Greetings Again And Please Don't Hate Me [Sienna]

[Terrence Mathews]

Right. Okay. Right. This was it. Wait, this was what? This was nothing... nope, nothing, just a meeting between two people who hardly knew each other, one of whom was probably the most socially inept person possible, with a tendency to say the wrong things and want to smash his own head in when doing so... and the other being Sienna. The pianist with the bright hair and who was really intelligent and pretty and Terrence knew how much he sounded and felt like a dorky sixteen year old kid with no knowledge on anything involving social custom or normality, but he couldn't help it. Maybe it was his spirit animal.

His spirit animal was a teenage boy. That... didn't seem too hard to imagine. Or agree with.

He looked at the door in front of him and then at the floor, then at the ceiling and then back at the door. He didn't really understand how most could simply knock and then greet the other people before being invited in with bright smiles and cheerful conversation. He was definitely one for being happy and friendly, but this was freaking him out more that it should have been. He sucked in a breath and knocked at the door (whether there was a doorbell or not, he didn't notice. Or care. He preferred knocking. So sue him.). After signalling his presence, he began bouncing ever so slightly on his feet, prepping himself up subconciously. It was only Sienna, and she had been really nice when they had talked. He didn't need to be scared of her.

He wasn't scared. Just to clarify. Even if he was lying.

[Sienna Reid-Estrada]

Books. Books everywhere. There were books filled with sheet music, textbooks, and recreational fiction books were scattered across her apartment and her bookshelf was completely bare. Today was the day she was reorganizing the shelf and looking through the titles to see if she could sell any to gain a bit of spending money. After all, she hadn't read some of the titles, or had the sheet music completely memorized, for quite a few months at that point. Sienna had her hair pulled back into a bun, and she wore her favorite gray sweatpants with a green tank top(vest), her glasses slipping down the bridge of her nose.

Sienna was not expecting company on that day, hence why she was cleaning out her bookshelf, so when she heard the knock at the door, Sienna's brow quirked upward. To be safe, she checked her phone for any text messages from work or a classmate. Nothing.

"One second!" Sienna called, grabbing a simple cardigan and slipping it on to cover herself. No need to open up the door looking anymore unprepared than she already did, right? She fumbled with the locks and opened up the door to a very uncomfortable looking and red-faced Terrence Mathews.

"Oh, Hey!" Sienna offered him a smile, albeit an embarrassed one, but a smile nonetheless, "What are you doing here?"

[Terrence Mathews]

Terrence heard the semi-familiar voice call out and then the panic set in. Why was he so nervous? It wasn't like Sienna was a savage velociraptor or something - in fact, she was quite the opposite. So he really had to calm down and everything.

Granted, he hadn't actually said anything before coming over. That was probably a bump in the road on his part. Woops.

The door opened and he kind of stiffened up, sending an awkward smile back to Sienna and clasping his hands together in front of himself, trying to devise actual words to say. "Hi." He paused for a moment and actually looked at her. He had... probably come at a bad time. Not that everybody walked around all made up and stuff, but... she obviously hadn't been expecting anything to be happening. He clenched his jaw, "J-just... wanted to say hi." He gave a stiff laugh and gave her an apologetic look, "I came at a bad time, d-didn't I?" Because that definitely seemed to be the case.

Terrence sighed at himself inwardly. He was such an idiot.

[Sienna Reid-Estrada]

Her apartment was absolute mess, so yes, he did come at a bad time; however, she thought, she could use his help. But even she was nervous about bringing him into such a mess...

"You're a librarian, right?" Sienna had remembered he briefly mentioned that he was Hammel's librarian, and so maybe this may have been a perfect opportunity! She was looking for a new way to organize the titles. She was thinking instead of alphabetized, by series and for those that didn't have series or trilogies, by hard and soft covers. That sounded good. "I could definitely use your help right now!"

Wow, this most definitely was working out in her favor for once! Usually, this bi-annual occurrence was hours worth of work on a single person -and a cat who very much disliked the books all over her house- and if she managed to get Terrence to help, this would probably cut it down to two hours max.

"Come in, come in. But... I warn you. I'm organizing my bookshelf... so there are books everywhere." Her face turned slightly red as she waved him in and left the door open for him to enter. "I promise it usually isn't like this," the redhead said upon his entry.

[Terrence Mathews]

Terrence nodded a few times, "Yeah?" Librarian, reading addict, book nerd, they were all the same. Of course, he had heard some pretty derogatory versions of those descriptions, which had been twisted in order to make him feel bad about his passion, but he never could look down on the fact that he liked reading. That was one of the small things he would never dislike about himself. Anyway, he was getting distracted - he looked at her in minor shock, "Oh! Um, okay." His help? He was curious.

The librarian stepped inside as he was invited to do so and looked around quickly. "I could never complain about seeing books." He said, smiling. He closed the door behind him and looked over the multiple titles spread across the floor, feeling his hand twitch and fiddle as he looked over the mess, itching to fix it. It was in his his nature, he honestly couldn't help it. He chuckled, "And I promise I don't usually turn up on people's doorsteps with no warning." He joked, feeling awkward having said what he had aloud. He paused for a moment, hovering, "So... h-how can I help?"

[Sienna Reid-Estrada]

"I'm almost done with sifting through my books to see which ones I can sell, but I need to reorganize them on the shelf," Sienna stepped over a large stack of books and headed off towards the kitchen counter where her 5 month old kitten lay sleeping on the stack of books. Sienna immediately grabbed the kitten despite it's mewling protests and held it in her arms.

"Sorry, I also have a cat, so I really hope you're not allergic. This is Holly, my 5 month old Scottish Fold kitten who needs to go into the bathroom for now so she doesn't tear up or get cat hair all over my books." The redhead offered an apologetic smile and allowed Terrence to pet the kitten should he want to. After that, the young lady went into the bathroom with her litterbox and a few toys to keep her company for the time being.

"But I want to try and organize my books by series and trilogies hardcovers, then individual hardcovers, soft cover series and trilogies, and then individual soft covered books, all in alphabetical order if that makes any sense." Really, it made absolutely perfect sense in her head, but Sienna had realized that not everyone could understand her thought process, and so if she would have to explain again, she was very prepared to do so.

Sienna skipped over a few other book piles over past the taller man, and to the bookshelves that were found on the very end of her apartment. Her hand pointed to each bookshelf as she addressed them, "I want hardcovers here, and softcovers here."

[Terrence Mathews]

Terrence nodded slightly to himself, his eyes running over all the books in front of him. This was his comfort zone, with books and such, he could do this without embarrassing himself, definitely. "Okay."

And there was a cat? Yep, this was good. Cats were good. "No, its perfectly fine - I love cats." He said, without any lack of confidence in his voice. He had his own cat at home, Felix (he was aware of how cliche the name was but he liked it). He stroked the kitten for a moment, holding in the cooing that he almost let out (and thanking himself for restraining from baby talking in from of Sienna), and then turned back to the books as she sorted her cat out.

He smiled, "Makes total sense." He said, fully understanding what she was on about. "Alphabetical by author or title?" Yep, Terrence was really quite comfortable now. Some might think it was sad, how he seemed to be most confident around books, or cats, or whatever... he thought it seemed pretty sad himself, but he was happy with just letting himself savour in his actual confidence for once.

He nodded as she pointed from one bookshelf to the other, "Alrighty then." He internally cringed from the use of that phrase, but said nothing. He looked at one of the books nearest him and summoned it, one moment it being on top of the stack, and the next, it had seemingly jumped a couple of metres straight into his hand. So casual.

[Sienna Reid-Estrada]

Holly shifted in her arms as Terrence pet her, and she mewed in protest. Sienna looked down at the kitten in her arms and crinkled her nose, "Don't be such a sour puss, Holly. This man is helping me get rid of all the piles of books." While he may have been avoiding the baby talk, Sienna had no issues with speaking it outloud - after all, this was her home, and she doubted he would comment.

After Holly was placed in her rightful place, she was hoping Terrence wouldn't get confused, which he didn't; the man was proving himself to be a wonderful librarian; Sienna knew how to pick them, most definitely. "By author. I don't usually like organizing by title." The redhead had no clue why she felt the way she did, but the idea of having a bookshelf organized by title was almost... frightening?

Her attention was captured by the sight of Terrence without a book in his hand, and then suddenly there was a book in it. "Oh my god!" Sienna jumped, her voice raising as an indication of her surprise. "Terrence, what was that?!"

Sienna was aware he was a meta, but there was absolutely no warning that he was going to use his... meta-power thing or whatever it was. "Is that your power? You can make books appear in your hand? No wonder you're a librarian..." Sienna attempted making a joke at the end, but she was still thoroughly freaked out about what she just witnessed. It wasn't like she didn't know other Meta's, but that was just uncalled for.

[Terrence Mathews]

Terrence frowned a little as the kitty moved, but said nothing. And silently commented at how cute Sienna made baby talking. He smiled and tried not to think about it too much.

"Me neither." He didn't have a huge problem arranging by title, but then the authors were all over the place and... ehh, it wasn't good. He was fine with it, but he generally avoided doing so.

Terrence, being the timid, quiet, you might even say sensitive person that he was, was obviously easily shocked. Sienna's exclamation made him jump, drop the book he was holding, make a weird noise and knock over a nearby stack of books, almost falling over himself but managing somehow to stay upright. His chest heaved from the shocked as he looked at the redhead for a moment in embarrassment, and then crouched down to pile the books back up again, "Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry," He muttered continuously. Such an idiot.

He glanced over at Sienna and laughed awkwardly, still feeling really bad for scaring her like that and stuff. He gave her an awkward look as he straightened up again, the pile he had made having all the books as perfectly aligned as possibly, "Not exactly... I-I can summon things. I'm a summoner. You know, like," He spotted the TV remote and looked it over for a second, before summoning it. And then realizing that that may or may not have been a blundering. "Agh, sorry!" He sent it back to its exact original positioning, grimacing slightly and trying to keep himself normal so he didn't summon something above his head and hurt himself or something. Because he had done so before.

[Sienna Reid-Estrada]

At least he understood her when she said she didn't enjoy alphabetizing by title. It became confusing, especially if you didn't remember the name of the book and only knew the author. It got unnecessarily confusing, and she really wanted this to be as easy and convenient as she could.

She was only further startled by Terrence when he reacted to her exclamation, knocking over an entire stack of books and falling on the floor, apologizing profusely for scaring her. "It's fine!" She tried not to laugh, because his reaction was so unexpected, but entirely expected at the same time.

Sienna was not one to allow people to be alone in their pain, she kicked a pile of books to the ground, and sitting down beside Terrence with an apologetic smile. "I think it's really cool... That was just really sudden. But seriously, don't worry about it. It's fine."

[Terrence Mathews]

Having a mutual understanding when it came to organization was good. And cool. And Terrence was certain he had more words in his vocabulary that meant 'good' and 'cool' which weren't actually the words good and cool.

He couldn't help but apologize for himself - it was just what he did. His insecurity lead him to believe that the possibility of him getting something wrong was higher than average, so he apologized any time he might have done anything minorly wrong to cover for it. It was just how it was. He would have understood if she laughed though.

Terrence blinked (and jumped again, but only a little) as Sienna attacked another stack of books. Why... it didn't fully make sense to him, but it made him smile and feel less tense, so he didn't question her motives.

Oh, of course, until she sat down. Then he reversed and became tense and awkward again. "...t-thanks." He had had some pretty bad reactions to his ability in the past, so he was glad Sienna wouldn't be the same on that front.

[Sienna Reid-Estrada]

Sienna saw his smile shift when she sat beside him, not really sure what she had done to do that, but most obviously he didn't enjoy or rather, couldn't handle, being directly beside her. So instead, she shifted toward the stack she knocked over and crawled over to grab a single book from the fallen books.

"I've always wondered what it would be like as a meta, you know with some fancy power, but then I realize my opportunities may have been hindered because I would have had to go to Hammel instead of the full time Dual-enrollment program I was in." That entire program had been the reason she was so advanced, and why she was in for such a bright future. She wouldn't change it, even if she wasn't able to like... control water or whatever.

The book that she had picked up was a textbook, and she crinkled her nose. "This could seriously make me some money. I think I paid $120 for this alone..." The redhead trailed off, turning to show him. "The American education system at its finest, don't you think?"

Sienna laughed at herself, placing the book on the floor and staring at the book as it sat in her lap.