Room 528, Wednesday Afternoon/Evening

[icecoldfrost]

Wednesdays were Emma's slow day. No classes, no homework, and she typically did all her Special Classes on Thursday before going to film studies.

She'd already talked to Jack and was bored again. So since Triela would be out part of the afternoon at Gun Club, she had the door open and her music up, and was reading a completely trashy magazine.

What? She knew what her roommate had been up to last night when she'd been out. Any teasing from certain other parties would result in teasing and potential blackmail. Unfortunately for Triela, telepaths either made the best or worst roommates ever, depending on their mood.

[Open door, open post, looking for two in particular.]

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[icecoldfrost]

"You shouldn't be walking up them in the first place!" Emma called back. "Door's open, darling."

[glacial_queen]

"Well, I wouldn't dare issue a summons to my room," Karla said, coming inside and flinging herself on the foot of Emma's bed. "You'd laugh at me."

[icecoldfrost]

"I would," Emma agreed. "Then you'd sulk, and it would be adorable."

...and there went her brain-to-mouth filter again. Dammit.

[glacial_queen]

"You think I'm adorable?" Karla sounded far too pleased by that prospect. "If you'd like, I can pout right now for you. Show off my rosy pink lips and everything."

[icecoldfrost]

"Try it, and I might try tickling you just to wipe the smug look off your face," Emma threatened. "I won't let you guilt me into anything by pouting today, I'm still mildly miffed at you for getting in so much trouble, except not really."

...God, she hated today. She wanted to muzzle herself.

[glacial_queen]

"You're not really mad?" Karla gave Emma a bright smile. "That actually makes me feel lots better. When you're upset with me, it's like a shadow goes over the sun." Then she groaned and reached for a pillow to smother herself with.

Awesome. Honest and tritely poetic.

[icecoldfrost]

"So now I'm the sun?" Sorry, Karla, Emma was going to try and take that pillow away from you so she can tease you. "Oh no you don't, no hiding!"

[glacial_queen]

It wasn't really a fight, either. Not with Karla as spindly as she was. "Give that back! I'll go back to pouting, I really will!"

[icecoldfrost]

"And then I'll be upset with you for cheating, and your sun will go away," Emma threatened, perfectly willing to bop Karla on the head with the pillow. "Then you'd really be sad."

[glacial_queen]

"You are going to use that against me forever, aren't you?" Karla groaned. "It isn't fair."

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes," she admitted. "The same way you're going to pout at me every time you want your own way, so it's completely fair."

[glacial_queen]

"I am totally going to do that, yes," Karla said, even though she'd meant to say 'Absolutely not, Emma, I swear.'

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was feeling oddly playful, so she leaned over to tap a finger against Karla's lips. "Those should not be used as weapons, darling," she teased. "Well, not against me, anyway."

[glacial_queen]

Which just meant Karla had to nip at it. Because the island was stupid and hateful and yet oddly awesome.

"They aren't weapons if they don't work," she retorted.

[icecoldfrost]

"They seem to work just fine," Emma retorted, inspecting her nipped finger. "You bit me, you know how to pout, and you're being sassy. Therefore, they work just fine for lips."

[glacial_queen]

"Hmph," Karla said, trying to tug the pillow back. "Not what I meant."

Though if Emma was a good friend, she wouldn't ask what Karla meant with all this pesky honesty going around.

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was a great friend! Which is why she was going to ask for clarification!

"Why? What did you mean?"

[glacial_queen]

"They don't work on you."

And now Karla was just going to bury herself in Emma's blankets instead. Take that, Emma.

[icecoldfrost]

"Karla!" No, no hiding under blankets, Karla. "What do you mean by that?"

[glacial_queen]

"What do you think it means?" Karla asked in lieu of answering. Or coming out from under the blankets.

[icecoldfrost]

"You want to kiss me, don't you?" Emma wasn't completely unaware of Karla's crush, no. "Karla, come out, I'm not going to tease you."

"...much."

[glacial_queen]

"Of course you are," Karla said, peeking out from the blankets. "And Mother Night yes. For ever now. You're beautiful, Em. And smart and sassy and dangerous. So much of what I've always wanted to be. But I don't want to mess up our friendship, either, because no matter how much I want to kiss you, I want to stay friends more."

Apparently Karla saw six more weeks of winter (or six more sentences of non-stop babbling) and dove back under.

[icecoldfrost]

"Karla!" There she went diving under the blankets again, so Emma sighed and laid down next to her, curling up and putting an arm over what she thought was Karla's waist. "Don't be stupid, darling. I know you don't want to ruin anything, I'm not upset, I promise. I'm very flattered, really."

"Besides, if I can stay friends with Jack after everything and despite part of me being stupidly in love with him, I think I could survive if you kissed me. Not that, you know, I kiss girls regularly. Except that thing with Rose which I wasn't myself for, and I did like Val, I think, but I'm not sure..."

FUCK. Where the hell had any of that come from? She most certainly did not love Jack Priest. It was ridiculous.

"...oh get out from under there. It's my turn to hide."

[glacial_queen]

"You can use the pillow you stole," Karla retorted, but peeked back out from her blankets anyway. "You're in love with Jack? I knew it! Then why don't you just say so. He'd come running in a minute if you just snapped your fingers."

Unless he was feeling stupidly prideful at the moment. Which, with him, was always a possibility.

[icecoldfrost]

"I don't! Or I didn't know that I did! I mean I don't but-!" Emma covered her face with the pillow before she could keep talking.