Girls Just Wanna (closed)

[Leila Gold]

The night was still young and there was plenty of time to have lots of fun before hitting the sack. That's why Leila had made plans to meet up with her friend Yulia here. She'd gotten to the bar a bit early, though, so she ordered herself a drink and sat down to wait.

She was still dressed in her clothes from work, since she figured that business casual worked well both in a law firm and in a bar. It wasn't like she was looking to pick up dates or anything, she was just here to have a good time. So the slacks-and-blouse ensemble got to stay.

It looked like she wasn't the only one here to relax after work, either. There were a few other people resting at the bar, including a woman who looked to be about the same age as Yulia and herself. Waving, Leila smiled at the woman and turned back to the doorway. Yulia should be coming in any moment now...

"Hey there!" Leila said, standing up. "Long time no see." She smiled and greeted her friend. It had been a few weeks since the movie night they'd put together, and since then Leila hadn't had much time to get around.

"How's work been going for you?" She sat down again and took another sip of her drink, which was almost empty. Frowning at the glass, she debated whether or not she should get another.

[Ella Tate]

Happy to escape yet another night of being cooped up in the apartment with Chloe - not how it sounded like - Ella was already on her third drink. Was it possible for one person to effect another just by being around them? Because spending practically every waking moment with the blonde was making Ella...itchy.

Jake has been an amazing companion, to be sure. It has been insane the past months and Ella wouldn't have it any other way. No, she wasn't falling for the man. Although at one point, she thought she had but it was quickly killed because she wouldn't ever change their status quo. Especially not with Chloe around.

Despite those distractions, Ella became aware of another blond woman waving at her. With a raised eyebrow, Ella raised a hand and smiled before turning away only to be faced with another blonde who joined in. Good Lord, was Pilot Ridge recruiting blonds? Wait, that one blond looked familiar. Wasn't she from Hammel? Ella knew she had seen her around. Best to lie in wait. She wouldn't want to be mistaken and make a fool of herself.

[Yulia Sokolov]

Yulia had been spending a lot of time in front of the computer of late, trying to do her coursework. She was proficient with the PC but it was not her favorite thing to do. After all she had never been a huge fan of recreational technology. However this was education, and this whole online degree thing was not working out for her. On top of that Ben had been in a mood of late and Yulia could not get him to talk to her for the life of it all. As such the atmosphere was dismal at best.

That was why it had only taken one second of consideration from Yulia when Leila had called with plans. She needed to have a night about before she attempted to try to tackle this. So as soon as she finished her essay for economics and changed out of her sweatpants she was off.

Yulia made it to the bar and spotted Leile quickly enough. She waved and got herself a drink before she sat down. She knew full well that her tolerance was low. So one was probably going to be her limit. She went over to Leila and sat down. She rested her drink on the little square napkin and then wiped the moisture on her hand off on her jeans.

“Hello,” replied Yulia. “Oh it has been fine, more or less the same in all honesty. How about you? Any new cases? How is Cobalt?” She knew she had just loaded on a few questions, but it would give her a change to take a drink before she had to try to think again. She sipped at it, trying to take it as slow as she humanly could.

[Leila Gold]

Leila settled down again as she started to talk to her friend.

"Oh, you know Blue. He's cranky as always, though sometimes I think there's even more going on there that he just won't tell me about. It's driving me nuts, but it's not like I can force him to talk to me. I still get the feeling that he thinks of me like a little kid most of the time." She gave a huge sigh and pouted slightly. It didn't take long before she brightened again, though.

"We do have a new case, actually. There's this really great one, here. See, it actually involves a laundromat, and some of the difficulties with the ownership there and anyway we're helping this one woman who has the most adorable little baby. I'm serious, this kid might be the cutest thing I've ever seen. First time the mom comes in with her kid, this little girl, she's only like two, she comes running in and she twirls around in a big circle and says, 'I'm a ballerina!'" Leila threw her arms out to demonstrate, laughing and smiling.

Unfortunately for her, she hadn't realized how close she was to other people and things in the general vicinity. As she threw her hand out, she knocked over her drink, which had been resting at the bar. It was only half full, but it was still enough liquid to be worth worrying over. Quickly Leila dug around for a napkin to try to sop up the mess.

"I'm so sorry!" she said, still looking around. When she couldn't find a napkin right away and she saw the liquid about to fall, she surreptitiously tried to send a small breeze to blow in order that it would stay on the counter and not fall on anyone's lap. Small enough that it hopefully wasn't noticeable, big enough that it would actually do the job. Finally the bartender managed to wipe up the mess and Leila sat down at the bar again.

"Another drink for me, please. I think a beer--that should be harder to spill. And I really am sorry about that, would you like me to get you anything?" Leila asked the woman next to her, who had been the most threatened by the accident.

The night was still young. There was plenty of time to make up for her mistake...and plenty of time to make it far, far worse.

[Ella Tate]

When the blond who waved at her stood up and started twirling, Ella hid a laugh behind a hand before signaling the bartender for another shot of whiskey. The little antic had apparently caused a flurry...and more. When the blond used her power, Ella got her telltale shivers, almost suppressing the power immediately. But even she knew no danger was coming out of that incident. And that blond just didn't seem threatening enough.

Or so she thought.

Ella downed her glass and decided to join the two blondes, if only to be polite and introduce herself to the one who looked really familiar. Grabbing her coat, she sauntered over to the bar, a little lightheaded but nothing too jarring and sat beside the familiar girl. "I'm sorry, you look awfully familiar. You're not from Hammel, are you?" And now up close, the other blond looked rather familiar too. Did they all go to the same college?

[Yulia Sokolov]

Yulia sat down for what one might consider the usual formalities, but that was not exactly the case here. After all Leila happened to be pretty much perpetually entertaining. Blue certainly didn’t make things miserable either. Well, not for her at least. Then again she wasn’t going to bring up Ben now if she could help it. She loved him and she was glad that she had pushed him out of bed but she knew when to leave well enough alone in this case.

“Hmm, I wonder why that is.” She didn’t want to voice what she knew at the moment. She thought that this particular fight was not any business of her’s or Leila’s. However there was another subject to be moved onto right away.

Yulia’s days remained more or less the same, and even so she didn’t really talk about Hammel. Instead she listened to Leila and laughed. Goodness, if only her job was half that entertaining. She let out a hearty and much needed laugh until Leila knocked over the glass. Yulia moved to help but then it seemed like Leila had it under control. Then she felt the aftermath of the little wind and shivered herself. It always felt so strange to her when people used their abilities in a more casual setting. Then again what Leila could do was far less damaging than Yulia’s arsenal.

However while Yulia was watching Leila another person approached. Yulia turned her head to see a girl that she recognized vaguely from work. She gave a tentative smile as she was spoken to.

“Yes, I do, I am a trainer there.” She extended a hand. “I’m Yulia, and you are?”

[Leila Gold]

"Yeah, I'm from Hammel," Leila said to the other woman. "Though that was a while ago. Yules here teaches up at the institute now, though."

She extended her hand in turn and introduced herself. "I'm Leila Gold. I work in town, just came back to Pilot Ridge recently. Looks like I need to get up to the school more often, though, since apparently that's where all the other people my age hang out." She rolled her eyes. "Most of the people in town are a good fifteen years older than me. They're fun, but not so good to go clubbing with."

Sitting down again, this time careful not to spill anything else, she smiled. "I actually haven't gone out with a group of friends in...wow, it has to be months now! I can't tell if that's because I'm getting old or if it's just because Pilot Ridge is so dull."

Glancing around the joint she commented, "Looks like there's not a lot of other people out, either. Maybe I wasn't really missing much after all."

Turning back she asked, "So is there any big news from you? Anything exciting going on?"

[Ella Tate]

"Right. You're the psi...you're the one with the..." Ella gestured with her hand and grinned at how ridiculous she must look. Having power suppression helped her detect what type of power a meta has, not their names.

"Oh, yeah I'm Ella. I'm a recruiter. And...you're," Ella racked her brain for the other blonde's name and coming up blank. "You have air...manipulation. I know I've seen you before." The recruiter laughed and rubbed her forehead. Snapping her fingers at the introduction, Ella nodded. "Yes! Leila! We had Chem and English together! Or was it Math? I forgot but seriously. We had a class together!" She nodded with a grin, glad she finally put two and two together.

"I hope I'm not interrupting." Ella voiced out as she waved down a bartender to fill up her glass. She let Yulia answer Leila's question, positive that she was indeed talking to the other blond.