Never Trust a Rumor (Mia.)

[Jalen August]

Jalen didn't read the rumor blog about Hammel. One, she could care less what someone did in their spare time, especially if their sole purpose was to ruin people's reputations, and pry into business that wasn't theirs. Two, she wasn't one to judge people, and she really wouldn't believe something that was placed on a screen. It wasn't until recently that she really cared, and not because of Rumor specifically, but because of how people were reacting to something Rumor had posted.

Sitting in the library, someone sat down next to her, bearing a toothy grin that the blonde didn't like one bit. "Can I help you?" She asked sarcastically, before this boy asked her about JD. Jalen was completely confused, why was she being questioned about him again? The boy just assumed they were dating, and he was obviously trying to cause trouble in indulging her with a tidbit about the speedster that made her eyebrow tick, a tidbit that had happened before their 'date', or whatever it was.

"He slept with that midget you know, you probably shouldn't be dating such a troublemaker."

Jalen glared at the boy until he felt uncomfortable enough to leave. It was hard to study now, now that she had this statement running repeatedly through her mind. Slamming her notebook closed, she got up from the table and made her way to the co-ed dorms. She had to find out for herself if rumor was true, so she decided to go right to the source.

Knocking on the door, the blonde pushed her hair out of the way and waited for an answer, hoping it would be Mia, her notebook resting on her hip. Pranking the school was one thing, but keeping something like this, assuming it was true, and also assuming that they liked each other, she probably would want to know. If JD was the type of person to have casual sex with people, she needed to yell at him.

Maybe the speedster would have everyone mad at him yet.

[Mia Keystone]

Mia had seen Jalen heading towards her door a good thirty seconds before the blonde knocked, pulling up the facial recognition software she'd recoded to run off the school's records. Jalen August, sonic manipulation. They had chemistry together, actually.

Huh. They weren't friends, or, (and this did have the larger number) enemies. So what the hell did she want? Closing her eyes, Mia checked for any bugs or recording equipment.

Nothing. A social visit? Statistically unlikely.

The technopath quickly read through the binary screaming over her screen then pushed her chair back and pulled back the deadbolts on the door, but only opened it a crack as she looked up... and up... and up.... Giantess. Sheesh,

"What do you want?" Mia asked bluntly, looking up from under her black and green bangs.

[Jalen August]

Jalen didn’t expect Mia to be so – small. She smiled at her bluntness though, it was a good thing in the blonde’s opinion, something the two had in common. “I have some things on my mind, and I was hoping you’d be able to indulge me,” she said, not minding if the technopath didn’t let her into her room. They weren’t friends, and some people just wanted to keep their privacy, something Jalen could understand.

Her arms were crossed over her notebook containing her poetry, “I was hoping you could confirm whether or not a rumor about JD is true...” She said, her eyebrows rising at what she was getting at, wondering if the hint would be caught. If Mia wasn’t shy, which she wasn’t from what the blonde knew of her, then she would have no problem telling Jay if they had had casual sex. If it was a yes, Jay would leave. If it was a no, Jay would leave.

She just hoped no questions were asked after that.

[Mia Keystone]

"I'm not big on indulging people other than me," Mia said honestly, pulling the door open a little wider since Jalen wasn't holding a concealed weapon or magnet, "But I'll hear you out. Come in."
It wasn't her being nice, it was her dislike of her room mates hearing any of her business since Evan was still being a whiney brat about not having his sex buddy living in the same dorm. Also, she needed to feed Cable and this seemed it might take more than five minutes.

Walking into her room without looking behind her, Mia reached down into the tank and let Cable wind around her arm, then sat in her swivel chair and raised an eyebrow. "Be specific, we go to high school. There are more rumours going around then there are fiber optic cables on a NAASA motherboard." But, it being able JD narrowed it down a little. "And no, last time I checked, he is not in fact the man of steel. I brought some kryptonite to check. Turns out, that's a real thing. Who knew?"

[Jalen August]

The tall blonde followed the small brunette into her room, taking into account all the gadgets and such lying around, and pinned to the walls. This girl was serious about her power, which had also caused a lot of problems at the school a couple months ago.

Jalen's dark brown eyes smiled fondly at the snake now curling up on the girl's arm. She didn't find the thing particularly menacing, but she didn't want to touch it either. Mia probably didn't want her touching it anyways. She sighed, unsure of whether or not to sit down, so she just stood, making her larger presence known still. The blonde managed a small smile at JD being superman, but it faltered back into a serious expression. "I didn't really want to spell it out, but here goes," she said with a sigh, "someone came up to me in the library today and told me you two had slept together, I was just wondering if it was true."

There, she had said it, bluntly, simply, probably something Mia would appreciate. "I don't want to take up much of your time, a simple yes or no will do," she said, shifting uncomfortably. Jalen's curiosity wanted to know everything about everyone who was important to her. To say JD was important to her would be undermining how she thought of him, but the technopath didn't need to know that. She could assume what she wanted after this.

[Mia Keystone]

Mia scoffed, rolling her eyes. Why did people always use such weird censored language? "Pssh no, we didn't sleep together!" she laughed, her thumb ideally rubbing Cable's head. "We did have sex though."

Seriously, this girl was way too tall for her room. The technopath felt everything was dwarf sized, and rised her chair up a little to make up for it. Her feet swung beneath her like a child in a baby's chair. "You two an item or something? Don't worry, I ain't after him."

Seriously, they would have giant blond children, these two. Mr and Miss America much?

Wanting her hands free, Mia draped her pet around her neck and frowned slightly. "Was just casual," she added, trying in her own way to soften the blow. "He got all weird after, don't think it lived up to his expectations, poor baby." And yes, her lip did curl a little, because who actually pointed out how empty casual sex was? That was sort of the point. "You want a play by play or something? Want to know if he's all in proportion?"

[Jalen August]

We did have sex though. Jalen played with her fingers, a nervous habit she had in place of cracking her knuckles. Weren't sleeping together and having sex the same thing, different package? The blonde shook her head, that wasn't the point.

Feeling herself blush a bit, she shrugged. Were they an item? "I don't really know," she smiled softly, "I like him, but my personal life is shall we say, complicated." There evidently was a lot she didn't know about JD, and maybe more she didn't want to know. But her curiosity would always get the best of her. There was a lot that JD didn't know about her, like how she was interested in more than simply him, but seeing as he didn't mind having sex with someone he was interested in, her interests shouldn't bother him. That all made sense, right?

Her blush deepened and she raised her hands in protest, and then fumbled around as her notebook threatened to spill it's contents. "No! I mean uh, no thank you, yikes," she said, pushing some stray hair behind her ears. "Just casual... Just, nothing," she reiterated, nodding a couple times, as though trying to understand a concept that didn't make sense to her, because it really didn't. She looked over Mia once more once her embarrassment had subsided - just what were JD's expectations exactly? Had he really been that lonely after a stupid prank?

Jalen wasn't really sure how to feel at the moments. Mia wasn't as venomous as people seemed to think, and while the blonde didn't really judge people, she was trying to get a sense of who JD was and what he was after. In other words, where does this little casual/nothing/whatever sex experience, leave her, Jalen?

"I just wanted to know," she added, shifting again, "curious." Jay offered a small smile as her confused thoughts continued to ebb and flow through her mind. It wasn't like she wanted to know if he was good in bed, she wouldn't be able to tell anyways, having no experience herself. Maybe he was just trying to prove a point or something stupid like that. Men.

"Anyways, I think this has been strange enough, that's all I wanted to know," she said, lingering just a moment, in case Mia had anything else to add, although Jalen doubted very much so that there was.