It's Just A Little Snow (Celia)

[Anjali Kedar]

Getting to know someone sounded innocent enough.  She didn't mind getting to know Celia, she seemed fascinating and lord knew someone with that amount of confidence might do her good to be around.  A friendship would be welcome wholeheartedly, but what Celia was suggesting was more than a friendship, at least in Anjali's eyes.

At the mention of kissing and fucking, her jaw actually went a little slack.  No one had ever spoken to her in that manner before.  This was out of a movie, she felt like she was simply watching from the outside looking in.  She never expected herself to be in a position where she was invited to just 'fuck' random, beautiful women.  

"Friendship." She repeated, though her voice cracked a bit, feeling dry and raw.  She cleared it and nodded.  Did the friendship part include the kissing and.. Anjali didn't understand these sorts of relationships.  she knew it was about time that she got out there, though.  Some kissing and.. and touching might do her some good.  How else would she learn? And Celia seemed well versed in this business.  Maybe they could teach each other? In the end they would be teaching each other different ways to relax.  

Relaxing..  Her eyes widened when Celia said she could aid in that, quickly backtracking probably when she saw the look Anjali offered in return.  Oh, what would her brother tell her to do? She knew immediately he would tell her to take advantage.  For once in her life to live on the edge and be spontaneous and not worry so much about doing what was right.  Everything would work out in the end, and if it didn't he'd be there to hold her hand through the worst of it.  He was right.. she didn't have to have a talk to know what he'd say and to know his advice was worth taking.

That didn't make any of this easier to digest.

She nodded, still so clearly unsure of herself, but maybe a hug might help.  Feeling the warmth of Celia embracing her, letting her know this would be fine.  Whatever happened.. friendship, kissing, et cetera..  


"That might help.."

[Celia Gaines]

She knew it would have, even if she said it didn't. Hugs helped with everyone, still it was a good thing that Anjali agreed to be hugged, how odd that sounded put aside, and she confirmed for Celia she wasn't backing off or anything. She'd met people before who were very nervous when telling those things and would mostly leave after having said that, like it was a bad thing. It wasn't. Same with Anjali, it wasn't a bad thing. In fact, firsts where a good thing.

That got her thinking though, was she new to the whole women thing or new to relationships? Because if she had meant she was new to the whole relationship thing it meant she really was interested, a point in the favor of the blue haired one.

''Yes. Friendship.'' She replied as the other girl repeated her word. ''It is when people like each other platonically.'' She joked as she saw her face. ''The sexual stuff comes later, if at all. You do know there's no obligation, right?'' For all she cared she could come right ovrer after the class, as she said, who cared if they got snowed in? Could be fun. Getting to know each other, maybe do some yoga.. tell stories, drnk tea. Pretty much what they could think of they could do.

Celia then got up to her feet and stuck her hand out for Anjali to take. ''Hugging feels better when you stand up.'' She joked once more. ''Trust me, I'm a master hugger.''

[Anjali Kedar]

Anjali nipped at her lower lip.  Friendship.  She knew what friendship was, she just wasn't used to a friendship that had certain, say, benefits attached.  She'd never been a promiscuous person, it wasn't her style, but would doing sexual things with a friend be considered promiscuous? No one had to know but herself.  Heck, she might not even tell Nikhil.. though she did want his input on the situation.

"I know what friendship is." She snapped back, narrowing her eyes playfully.  Not really upset. But the playfulness ebbed away at the mention of the sexual stuff again.  Just knowing it was coming made her feel awkward and excited and unsure.  She would be constantly expecting it, unsure what to do or how to act.  Natural? Did one just act natural in a situation where your friend wants to maybe kiss you? Or you kiss your friend? Did she want to kiss Celia? Was that what Celia even wanted?!

She was getting herself worked up again and had to push herself to simply breathe.  No obligation.  Celia said no obligation, but everything she'd been saying.. and doing..  Anjali gulped, not knowing what to think or what to do.  She'd never had a friend like this.  She brushed it all off, or at least as much as she mentally could, and allowed Celia to pull her to her feet.  How was she supposed to hug her? She pushed a smile on and opened her arms, leaning in and wrapping them around the other girls neck in a friendly embrace, or what she hoped seemed like a friendly embrace.

[Celia Gaines]

''Just to clarify, I have no intentions other than just coming over and getting to know you.'' She hoped Anjali knew the teasing from before was just that, teasing. She'd done plenty of that before but nine out of ten times she wasn't as bad as she was being now. Maybe she was overcompensating or something. After all, it had been quite a while since she had anyone interested in her. From the female sex at least, and she didn't do men. At all. Something they had to learn the hard way, something she liked to do after teasing them all the way up there before dropping the bomb. ''I'm interested, sure,'' She continued. ''but not in the sense of just wanting sex. I want someone to be there when I need to talk, same as I want to be there when someone else does.''

Sadly that wasn't all that common in the band she was in.. maybe after they'd gotten their contract or something. She was still hopeful as there had been someone from a record company around as of late, it was all so very exciting. First with the idea of getting signed and now with Anjali.. karma was throwing her a bone it seemed. And quite the pleasing one at that. ''Working with men tends to work against what I want.'' With time that'd change though. She hoped. All the sex, all the time. She was getting sick of it.

''Good that you know what friendship is.'' She smiled with a stuck out tongue, unable to help but wonder why she seemed so hesitant even though she knew what a friendship entailed. It involved two people listening to each other, and if one of the two didn't want something that'd be it. In Celia's case at least. Sometimes it'd be a lot easier if everyone was like Celia when it concerned friendships.

To some people what they did then would have been a bit odd as Anjali rose to her feet and leaned in for a hug. Truth be told, it was the slightest bit exciting to have someone else initiate a hug for once. ''Eager, are we?'' She laughed as she leaned in also, feeling the arms around her neck as she wrapped her arms around the back of the other girl, planting her opened hands on her shoulders before pressing her close. She smiled silently.

''Helping yet?''

[Anjali Kedar]

Celia's tune seemed to be changing now that she'd gone and riled Anjali up.  She was still tense from being flirted with, not sure how much of what was said was truth and how much was actual teasing.  It seemed Celia really did just want a friend, that she was interested in that friend being Anjali, and maybe some things might happen.  That didn't seem like any friendship she'd ever had, though.  Yeah, having someone to chit chat with was always nice, but Anj had plenty of friends to do that with.  Not that she objected to any more friends, but she certainly didn't know how to mentally deal with the possibility of this new one with Celia.

Anjali snorted, "It was your idea." She reminded, but she had to admit the hug was a nice one.  She was still buzzing from the conversation they'd had just before, but she would be lying if she didn't say it felt nice to be held.  While hugging the other girl she caught a glance of the clock.  Eight minutes.  She would normally begin wrapping up her class at this point, but she supposed there wasn't much to wrap up.  what she needed to do was figure out what the hell to do with Celia.  The snow was coming down hard outside, and the gym was probably going to be closed.  Everything would close up if the storm was as bad as the weatherman predicted.  She was done once her class was, though, and she was already finished classes for the day.  So did she let the other girl come over and risk her being snowed in with her, or just push the meeting off until the weekend. It was a tough call.

"Helping." She offered in a somewhat playful voice.  Anjali pulled back and grinned up at Celia before pulling her arms back and sliding them onto her hips.  She didn't realize how incredibly blue the girls eyes were, like a slightly overcast sky.  They were beautiful.  

"Anyway.." She bit her bottom lip, her teeth scraping against the soft flesh.  "Class is supposed to end in a few minutes and.. snow.." She gulped and then cleared her throat.  "I think maybe hanging out this weekend would be better. Give me a chance to chill out." She smiled, teasing herself now a little.  "But.. I uhh.. if you wanted my number, we could, like, trade? Then maybe you could text me sometime.  Or I could text you! If you wanted.."

[Celia Gaines]

Hope. Celia hoped Anjali wouldn't just dismiss her despite what she did. She'd understand but be slightly disappointed if that were to come to pass. It would have been selfish, but right now Celia wished she had some kind of mind control power so she could make the answer be something positive, everyone including herself knew she had the proverbial balls for it, though for some reason she wanted this to go normal. Normal..? Organic? On its own. She wanted Anjali to want to get to know her instead of being forced to do so, so maybe waiting out the storm like she had said was the best thing after all. Nothing like a storm to force interaction, which she had just voted on not happening. Besides, she could force people without powers and she knew that. But to experience that she would have to wait a while. If it happened at all.

''Helping in what way though?'' She teased as the hug flew over a bit too fast. She enjoyed the embrace, though that could have been because she didn't have that many women hugging her. Time would change that though, and really it all depended on Anjali how she would repond to those. She then noticed her eyes and was sure she was looking at hers, they fit her, she realized. Nice and dark, not too different of the entire person around them.

She chose her words carefully next, or didn't know exactly what to say and just paused a lot to cover it up. The gist that Celia got was that she preferred waiting with her coming over until the weekend, which she didn't mind in the slightest, and offered up her number. On the condition they traded though. Celia had something better as she suddenly coughed to get the attention of the other girl.

''I'll make it easier for you.'' She smiled at her and moved her hands to her hips. ''I'm going to give you my number and I'll wait for you to text me, so you don't have to give your number to a random student right away.'' She was handing out a major choice, did she want to talk to Celia or not? ''And I do hope you text me.''

[Anjali Kedar]

Teasing.  More teasing that Anjali didn't know what to do with.  How did she reply? How could she?  She wished she was better able to handle it all, but she simply wasn't in the mental state to come up with anything witty.

As soon as Celia started talking Anjali felt herself tense a little, not sure what would come out of the other girls mouth.  Make it easier how?  Something dirty had to follow that, she was sure of it.  She was more surprised than anything else when it wasn't a taunt, but a choice.  She could text her when she was good and ready instead of wondering when the other girl was going to.  Basically, the ball was in her court, and she was more than happy with that arrangement.  Maybe she would text later, maybe she wouldn't, it was entirely up to her.  Of course she knew she would.  Maybe not right away, but sometime in the evening it was bound to happen. Texting.. that would give her more time to come up with answers and stop freaking out so much.  At least her answers wouldn't be so spaz-tastic

"I think that sounds fair." Anjali offered with a nod.  She turned and went to her bag and leaned down, pushing through it until she found her phone.  She pulled up her contacts and started typing in Celia's name.  "Alright, shoot."

[Celia Gaines]

Celia followed her moevements then as she turned and went to her bag, leaning down to her bag to reach for what she thought was her phone. What else could she have in there? Teabags she could take home? She wouldn't say no but.. what was the point in taking teabags with you? Maybe she would say no, actually, keep the tea-tasting for some other moment when she was at her place. Yeah, that could be an excuse to come over.

To say she didn't enjoy the view of a bent down Anjali was a bit of a lie, really. The view was great and the shape.. Celia bit her lower lip while leaning back a slight bit. She wouldn't share her with anyone just yet, but damn, she thought she had a winner. She just wondered if anything would ever happen between the two despite what she had done earlier. She srugged, oh, they had both said they were interested, right? Even if Anjali just saw that as being interested in being friends she could turn it around and say that was not quite what she meant.

Genius.

As a joke she made a pistol with her hand and pretended to shoot her. ''Bang.'' She hoped Anjali saw it as a joke, anyway. Would be quite the bad thing if she didn't. Anyway, she gave her number and watched her type it in, only a matter of time now before she texted Celia and she would also have her number. That would mean more to her than she realized. ''You can also call. Or text me to call you so it doesn't cost you as much.'' She shrugged. Money wasn't really an object at this point. Yes, she was unemployed technically, but that didn't mean she wasn't getting money.

Celia smiled. ''I suppose my phone is my life for the next few hours.'' She teased as she stuck out her tongue. ''..what else is new?''

[Anjali Kedar]

She smirked a bit at the bang Celia made.  She got it.. silly joke that it was,  She punched the number in as it was read off to her and then saved it, still buzzing from the conversation and unsure what it all meant for them.  For her, mostly..  

"I have an everything plan." She insisted, though she thought it was sweet for Celia to offer.  But giving so many options reminded Anjali that the other girl really wanted to hear from him.  It excited her and confused her both at the same time.  She felt the heat in her cheeks again as the blue haired girl toyed that she would be waiting to hear from her.  It turned it into sort of an obligation, but one she was already intending to fill.

"Nothing, just.. I don't know, you I guess." She laughed.  Her eyes wandered to the clock before back to Celia.  "What're you going to do the rest of the day? We're going to get, like, a foot or something.  Or maybe not that much.. or more.. I don't have bread.  I should get bread.." She was rambling to herself more than anything now, her brows furrowed.  Maybe Kate thought to get bread.  She ought to text her.  Then again they wouldn't need bread.  Vermont was good at digging people out, things would be somewhat back to normal by tomorrow and she would likely still have classes to attend and a class to teach.

"Anyway." She rolled her eyes and smiled, "We should start rolling up our mats."  She smiled, knowing she needed to go shut her music off.  Definitely didn't want to leave that all behind..

[Celia Gaines]

So now that she had her number it was nothing but a matter of time. Speaking of time, Celia wondered how the lesson was going since they hadn't really done much yoga, most of it consisted of her teasing and getting an invitation, but she didn't complain. Who needed public lessons when private ones were around the corner? Probably with more touching. Oh, the touching, or just the thought of it did something for her. Did she text yet? No? Crap.

Anyway, as she looked at the clock she saw they didn't have much time left, and she figured there would be another class to replace theirs. Maybe it'd be slightly odd to see two girls leaving a giant room like that.. maybe Celia would hand them a mop to make everyone feel awkward or something, it'd be a pretty good joke.

Thinking about leaving stuff on the ground, and Anjali mentioning their mats meant that she was remembered of the one she was sitting on mere minutes ago. She breached her private space, didn't she? Awesome. Did she text yet? Hm, she seemed to be pretty hung up on it. So much for patience. She had no idea why but she liked the idea of needing to wait for Anjali to text her, normally she didn't have to wait for anything, yet this time.. she wasn't in charge.

''Already asking me what I'm gonna do?'' She jokingly asked. ''Are you sure you don't want me to come over then?'' She teased. What? She was pretty much asking for it again! She shook her head then though. ''I'm probably just going to.. I have no idea actually. Maybe some singing? Workout my voice? I don't know.'' She tilted her head and smiled at the other girl then. ''You look cute when you ramble.''

''Yeah, mats.'' She shook herself out of it and moved over to her mat, deliberately bending over in an exaggerated manner. ''But.. seeing as I have my mat right here and we didn't do much yoga..'' She began as she got up with her rolled up mat in her bag, looking at Ajali and biting her lower lip. ''maybe.. I don't know, we could finish up at your place.''

Who cared about snow, really?