Routine'd -Reggie-

[Ann Hudgins]

Ann was pretty used to College, now. Class had started a week and a few days ago. She had classes only two days a week, though she had five classes each day. Today, she didn't have class, but she was on the way to the library to work for a few of her classes. She would just do the work in her dorm room, but her floor was full of loud girls being loud.

She didn't have to work today, and her stress levels were all but none existent. She was so happy with her life. She had Alex. She was getting her education. Her parents were proud of her, and her best friend lived not five minutes away. She could see him pretty much whenever she wanted to. She had a job that she didn't hate doing and she made good money, for the hours she was working a week. There wasn't a single thing she would--

Okay, so she would trade roommates for someone who didn't get so badly on her NERVES, but that was something she just had to get used to.

She hummed faintly as she walked down the sidewalk, her eyes in front of her, but they might as well be closed for all of the paying attention she was doing. She ran right smack into someone who had paused for some reason or another on the sidewalk. Ann backed up, an apology already escaping.

"Sorry! I didn't see you there," because I was imagining my roommate up and moving to Oregon, or somewhere far away.


(aaaaah, totally a lame post. Sorry!)

[Reggie Earle]

[OOC: You wanna see lame? I present to you...]

It had been a light drizzle but Reggie was glad she had brought her umbrella with her. As it turned out, there was a kitten shivering in the rain and Reggie was definitely happy she brought her umbrella with her.

It was a pretty silly sight, a young woman with a high ponytail in a blazer and boots, crouching on the ground so a shoddy looking kitten could have a minute of no rain. The clouds were clearing up and the sun was peeking so Reggie didn't need to open her umbrella anymore. The kitten was looking up at her, pawing at the air.

"I've got some napkins here you can use, kay? Hold on." She rummaged through her bag but didn't have time to take one out as she almost tumbled down to the ground. But managed to stop from falling by bracing one hand on the ground before jumping up. "Whoops!" Reggie breathed and smiled up at the person she almost knocked over.

"No apologies necessary." She shook her head with a smile. "I'm sorry I was even crouching down there but the kitten was shivering and I didn't want it to get any wetter. Oh poop, speaking of." She held up one finger to the girl and took out the napkins she had in her bag and made a makeshift towel and bent down to wrap the kitten. "There you go. Come snugglybud." Reggie stood back up with the kitten cradled in her arm while the other extended to the girl.

"I'm Reggie." She introduced herself with a big grin.

[Ann Hudgins]

[Not lame! <3]

Ann had been zone out so well from her walking, that she hadn't even noticed the drizzle. She spotted the droplets on her arms though and cursed herself for being so silly. If Alex found out she had been walking in the rain, he'd get flustered and tell her to be more considerate with her health. Ann smiled at the thought (though she knew she wouldn't necessarily enjoy the conversation).

She felt like an idiot for running into the girl, though. At least she caught herself and Ann hadn't made the girl face plant. Then she...well she didn't even know. "Aww...poor Kitty..." Ann wasn't a HUGE animal fan, but only a heartless person could ignore a soggy kitten like that. If Ann had seen the poor thing in the rain, she probably would have done something about it--the chances of her noticing it were slim, but it was the though that counted?

"I'm really sorry for running into you. I really should have been paying attention--I kinda zoned out." Ann was very aware that the girl had said that Ann didn't need to apologize, but she still felt like a total toolbox for doing it anyway. Ann smiled faintly when the girl dried the kitten off with the napkins (smart) and picked it up. Ann was about to reach out to pet the poor thing when the girl held out her hand for a shake.

Without hesitation (though her pulse still quickened a little at the thought of making skin contact) she shook the girl's hand, "nice to meet you, Reggie. I'm Ann." She smiled a little. She had gotten a lot better about being shy, but she knew she still had a ways to go. Ann's eyes cut sideways, to the nearest building. It was a campus cafe, in door, but there were tables outside that had a large awning jutting out from the building, so they were safe from the rain.

"Think the kitten needs some milk? And let me get you a coffee, for bumping into you like that--it was so rude of me." Ann smiled and tipped her head towards the cafe. "Please?"

[Reggie Earle]

When the girl apologised once more, Reggie lifted one shoulder in a shrug with a smile. If the girl insisted on apologising, who was Reggie to deny her that want?

"Ann. I've seen you about, I think. We've got the same break on Tuesdays." Reggie grinned and followed Ann's line of sight. Registering the suggestion, Reggie nodded and smiled. "That sounds wonderful and...sure. Why not?" The girl patted the kitten and started walking towards the cafe.

"So Ann, where are you from?" Reggie asked, tilting her head to indicate she was listening.

[OOC: Soooo super sorry for the shortness and the lameness and the awfulness of this post. I STILL LOVE YOU]

[Ann Hudgins]

Another college student who remembered seeing Ann around. She bit her lip a little. Maybe she had seen the girl around? Maybe. Ann glanced sideways at her, but she couldn't really place the girl's face if she had seen her anywhere before. The girl was perhaps right, however. As the two made their way towards the cafe, Ann tried to remember seeing her before. "Perhaps we have, but I'm just terrible with remembering faces. Sorry." Ann really did need to work on that.

"Originally I am from North Carolina, but I've lived in Vermont the past couple of years." Those years were spent in seclusion at Hammel, but Ann didn't really brood over her past any more. She had better things to do with her time. "What about you?" Ann asked as they arrived to the place. Ann didn't really know if they would allow cats inside the establishment so with a short not, Ann slid inside and got the two of them some coffee, and a small cup of milk and a plate, for the kitten.

She managed to elbow the door open with all of the things balanced in her arms and smiled at Reggie. "There we go. there is creamer and stuff inside if you'd like to put anything in it..." Ann liked a little coffee with her sugar, thanks to Alex's and Kali's influence. Before them, Ann wasn't really a coffee drinker, at all. She then set the plate on the ground and poured a little bit of milk onto it for the kitten.

(Hope that is okay, darling...)

[Reggie Earle]

[Absolutely fine, honeybeah ^^]

Reggie laughed and waved a dismissive hand at Ann's apology. "No need to apologise. I should have come over and said hi if I wanted you to recognise me." She replied cheerily. "But now that we're all introduced, there's no need for us to be strangers anymore!"

"Brooklyn. My whole family is still there. I've also lived in Vermont the past few years. You...wouldn't by any chance have been in Hammel, have you?" Reggie asked, her eyes wide with curiosity.

When Ann disappeared into the cafe and got out with her arms full of things, Reggie felt bad that she hadn't followed the girl in and helped. But with the kitten on her lap still shivering, she couldn't move. So she thanked Ann as much as possible. "Thank you!" She exclaimed as she rubbed the kitten one more time before putting it down and letting it drink the milk.

It approached the saucer cautiously before gingerly taking a lick. Once it got into really drinking, Reggie sat back up at the table and poured to sachets of sugar into her coffee. She didn't drink much coffee but it was piping hot in a slightly cold weather. She would take anything.

"Thank you so much for the coffee and the milk. So how are you settling in? Your first year, right?"

[Ann Hudgins]

Ann felt completely benign and sincere things from this girl. Reggie was just so nice. Ann wasn't particularly used to it. She didn't want to offend her by not being nice back, but Ann's own spectrum of conversation and outward emotions didn't exactly cover that. The insecure part of her wanted her to just excuse herself and go hide in the library with her books and study like she had planned to do initially.

The other part of her...that part that was slowly growing. That social part of her that wanted her out and doing things, and talking to people, was insistent that she should remain there and enjoy the girl's company, and just relax. Ann would've liked for that to be as easy as it sounded, but she was still an anxious creature by nature. Once they were seated and she could focus down on the kitten, it wasn't so bad.

"Vermont is the only other state I've ever lived in." She's barely even had 'vacations.' All the traveling she did as a kid was because of taekwondo tournaments and the farthest she ever went from those was to Tennessee and Georgia. "Is Brooklyn nice?" She asked, she really didn't know. Her grasp of cities are a bit skewd from television, which gives the impression that if you live in a city you will be killed in a gang fight, and from her own experiences from living in Jacksonville, which was a military city. Ann liked Pilot Ridge very much. It was small, and there weren't any gangs (that she was aware of) or military bases nearby.

"You're welcome." She smiled politely as she handed the girl her coffee and sipped hers gingerly. It was pretty hot and she didn't want to scald her tongue too bad so she just warmed her hands with it. "No need to thank me." Ann smiled again at the girl and then began to nod her head.

"It was a weird adjustment at first, but I've lived in a dorm for the past couple of years anyway, just not with a roommate in the same room." Ug. Ann disliked her roommate. "But, yes, it is my first semester here. I'm guessing your years aren't quite as wet as mine?"

[Reggie Earle]

"Brooklyn has its moments." Reggie grinned graciously at Ann. The girl had never been disillusioned of her city's flaws but it was where she had grown up. That was enough of a reason to love it, in her humble opinion.

"Oh but I insist." The older girl nodded decisively when Ann refused to be thanked. This was reiterated by her grabbing her purse and taking out a five dollar note to pay for coffee and the saucer of milk, sliding it over to Ann's hand.

Adding two and two together, without Ann's answer of Reggie's original question, the Hispanic gathered that Ann had indeed been to Hammel, judging by the dorm mention. Vermont did not have any other boarding schools to speak of, as far as Reggie was concerned.

Ann's choice of word to describe her starting year made Reggie snort in amusement. "I don't think wet would be the word I would use." She beamed at the girl opposite her. "The most exciting thing to happen to me here is...well, this kitten." She reached down to pat the kitten in question with a grin.

"You'll have to meet my boyfriend. We're all from the same school it seems." The chromokinetic smiled sweetly.