Bobbing Along

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Oh. Well.... Mei's face dropped upon hearing that. "It's okay..." she said, a little sad. Of course, she should have expected it. There weren't many out there as into horror as she was. But...at least they still had a shared interest in science fiction, right? She hoped that would be enough to keep....them friends? They could be friends, probably. Mei hoped. If the girl wanted to.

The girl.

Mei blushed as she realized that she didn't even know the girl's name. While she could have probably picked it up easily if she really wanted to, well...her telepathy didn't actually work like that. How many people actively thought of their own name, after all?

"Um....name...?" she asked stupidly. Mei shook her head, forcing herself to construct that into a more proper sentence. "I mean...what's your name...?"

[Madison Andrews]

A smile bloomed on Maddy's face. The girl still wanted to talk to her! Of course, the girl was also asking her name which made Maddy freeze as she realized how rude she'd been behaving by not introducing herself immediately. The question was how to do it? The usual lines or a more direct approach? She ran her fingers through her hair as she considered it and then decided to go with the usual lines. After all, just because the girl was probably telepathic didn't mean she had to be robbed of all of Maddy's eccentricities.

"Oh! Right!" she said in embarrassment, "My name's Madison, but people call me Maddy. Some people say that's fitting, but I have no idea why... what's your name?"

Maddy let out a nervous laugh and looked at the girl in curiosity.

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This girl wasn’t so bad, not nearly as bad as Mei initially thought. No, Mei was the bad one there, but the girl had so quickly forgiven her and sought her out to make amends. That…that was a rare quality in people, Mei knew. Especially against people who could be as unreasonable as Mei.

They still had something to connect with, and that made Mei happy. She wouldn’t mind seeing this girl again to talk about books…or anything else. It was possible they had other shared interests that they just didn’t know about yet. Mei wasn’t going to probe her for that information. Not purposefully anyway. It was….she found it much more personal to share these things out loud.

Hence, why she was glad that Maddy chose to go with her usual lines for introducing herself. Just because Mei could see through it, didn’t mean she didn’t want to hear it, when it was from…a friend. Mei giggled, covering her mouth like the lady she was. “I can see why,” she commented. Maddy. That really was fitting, in a way, though probably not the negative way that Maddy was implying. “I’m Mei,” she said, her eye squinting up as her smile spread. "It's nice to meet you," she added. Despite how it started, it really was.