Oh, You Again... (Nora)

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Ugh, why was he doing this....

Kodi wasn't sure how he'd ended up in this section of the library.  He usually stuck to the sort of war/history/violent sections of the nonfiction section; today he'd been wandering, and had somehow managed to get himself stuck in, what else, the cookbook section.  Maybe it was his growling stomach that had driven him there, but now he was hooked, staring at the various pictures of perfect-looking food on those glossy pages rather than actually reading the instructions.  Well, he read them a little bit, but there was no way in hell he would ever actually be able to cook, so he didn't bother to memorize anything.  He vaguely wondered if Gryphon could cook...

Hmm... Maybe he'd have to ask the next time he saw the winged boy.  Which would likely be later in the day - Kodi rarely went a day without seeing Gryph at some point during it.  He flipped the book that he was looking at closed and stuffed it (carefully) back on the shelf, scanning the titles of the books around it before picking out another one on Asian cuisine.  Well, he'd grown up in the south, so he hadn't experienced much of the stuff, and he was curious...

[Nora Graves]

Nora walked carefully and quietly through the library, the worn soles of her old black converse padding along the carpeted floor. She was on a mission for new recipes to cook, new foods to try her skills at and see if they turned out how they were supposed to. Cooking was trial and error in Nora's opinion and she didn't always follow the recipes, but she liked to have some framework and ideas to work off of. From there, she made the dish her own. The only thing was, when you isolated yourself like she did, there wasn't anybody to really share the food with when she was done cooking it.

Baking was different. She left plates of cookies and brownies in classrooms and the common room, but it wasn't as if she could leave a plate of pasta out with several forks. She didn't cook for others anyway, that wasn't why she did it. She cooked to get a release, because if she didn't, who knows what else she would do. She just needed somewhere to put all of the food and people came in handy for that, because they devoured it like they hadn't eaten in days.

She wasn't too worried. She was in home ec and if someone asked why she was there she could just say it was for an assignment. And so she moved towards the cooking section and started scanning the shelves, catching a glimpse of bleach blonde hair from her peripheral. "I thought you'd still be passed out," she muttered.

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Kodi had his nose buried deep in the beef section of a very interesting and picture-filled book, stomach grumbling at all the delicious-looking, meaty recipes within. Mmmm... He hadn't realized how hungry he was until then. He was gonna have to go and grab some lunch here in a momen-

Huh? Was someone talking to him? Why would...?

The dentokinetic slowly lifted his gaze, squinting at the girl that had dared interact with him. Wait, was that the chick from that one party? The one that had bit him? Aw, she was alright. "Yeah, well, surprise," he snorted, quickly shoving the book back on the shelf, as though he could hide what he'd been doing. Fuck, he really needed to be more careful about this reading shit, his reputation was going to get ruined eventually. "I don't remember half the shit that happened that night. Mostly just that cute little love bite." Kodi smirked and crossed his arms over his chest, voice thick with sarcasm. "I still got marks from that," he added, holding out his arm to show the two little puncture wounds. "You got some balls, bitch."

[Nora Graves]

Nora grinned at him as he turned to her, pushing the book back onto the shelf as if he'd never been holding it. "I remember a lot more than you then," she declared. "Like the fact that you like to read." She couldn't help but smirk. "So don't act like you're in the library by mistake."

When he mentioned the 'love bite,' her smirk grew wider. When he held out his arm, she moved forward quickly like she was going to bite him again, miming the action. "Well, isn't that sexy," she commented. "I would have thought you'd be into that. The whole biting thing, leaving marks. I mean, you're practically a vampire." She grinned at his comment. "Possibly more balls than you."

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Shit… Had Kodi said something about that at the party? He didn’t remember, but it was obvious he wasn’t hiding anything from Nora now, so he sighed and rubbed a finger against his temple, already tired from this interaction. “Don’t tell anyone, or I’ll be the one doin’ the bitin’ next,” he grumbled, wishing he had something to hit. Something told him picking a fight with this chick would be the wrong idea, though; and he really had nothing against her, other than the fact that she was a girl talking to him. She was actually alright, as far as the opposite gender went.

He didn’t flinch as Nora came in to ‘bite’ him again; instead, Kodi gave a dry chuckle, holding his arm out further as if to encourage her. “Oh, trust me, I’m totally into it,” he assured her, grinning widely. “Just not into boobs an’ vags. Sorry, darlin’.” He fluttered his kohl-lined eyes, then snorted, and finally drew his arm away. “We’ll have t’see ‘bout that,” he retorted. “What’s your deal, anyway? Why’re you such a pissy person?” Not that he could say anything about it. He was one of the pissiest people he knew.