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A Dorm Room at Voorhees Hall, Columbia University, New York, Sunday
Xanthippe was officially Stressed Out.
It was all over an essay, which wasn't even due until next Friday, but it was important and she had to get it perfect, because what if she didn't? What if she didn't, and she flunked out of the class, and she flunked right out of college, and her father would disown her and her mother would disown her and then she would have to move in with Kimmy and deal with that whole freak show and she would lose all status and purpose in life and probably, like, end up becoming BFFs with Kimmy's extra-weirdo landlady and getting matching tattoos in a crack den and --
Anyway, yeah, she was currently doing what any self-respecting college student would do in her situation: screaming into a pillow.
Thank Christ her roommates weren't home right now.
[ooc: NFB but open for texts/calls/surprise visits!]
It was all over an essay, which wasn't even due until next Friday, but it was important and she had to get it perfect, because what if she didn't? What if she didn't, and she flunked out of the class, and she flunked right out of college, and her father would disown her and her mother would disown her and then she would have to move in with Kimmy and deal with that whole freak show and she would lose all status and purpose in life and probably, like, end up becoming BFFs with Kimmy's extra-weirdo landlady and getting matching tattoos in a crack den and --
Anyway, yeah, she was currently doing what any self-respecting college student would do in her situation: screaming into a pillow.
Thank Christ her roommates weren't home right now.
[ooc: NFB but open for texts/calls/surprise visits!]
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She'd seen his shaky legs, though. She was going to treasure that memory, too.
She was kind of beaming, honestly. "Good," she decided. "I mean... I want you to think of me, like that."
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He hummed quietly, wrapped an arm around her. "I think 'twas your taste I shall remember the best," he added softly.
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Oh, no. Nothing existed right now apart from the warmth of his skin against hers and the softness of his voice. "Yeah?" she asked, quietly. "Because... you like it so much?"
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"I think I got like a pretty good understanding before, too, though," she added. "I mean... You think I'm ever gonna be able to look at the toy again without seeing it disappearing into your mouth?"
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He brushed her hair back from her temple with a gentle hand. "I'd hoped that would be as good for you as 'twas me," he admitted.
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And then, there was a knock on the door.
Xanthippe groaned.
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Yes, all their previous clothes were still strewn around the couch in the next room over, despite her earlier thoughts about doing the smart thing and bringing them over.
"Maybe I can get away with like, a hoodie."
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There was another knock.
"I'm coming!"
She grabbed the bathrobe that was hanging by her closet door, and pulled it on as she disappeared back into the main room. The Uber Eats guy tried to flirt with her, but she was having none of it right now. So a moment or few later, she returned to Hya with her treasures: two takeaway bags with the IHOP logo on them.
"I should probably grab our clothes from the living room, too."
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"I shall set up our meal," he offered. "And when you return to the room with our clothing, your food will be ready for you and you needn't leave again."
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Then she disappeared out the door again.
How many items of clothing did two people even wear?
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Hya set about emptying the bags and arranging their food in a charming little semi-circle. He did it without thinking; in Terre D'ange, even the act of arranging food or setting a table was considered an art and thus, care was taken to make sure it was done pleasingly, even by Didikani bastards in Night's Doorstep.
Anything worth doing was worth doing prettily.
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She closed the door behind her when she came back. Dumped the mixed bundle of clothes on the chair and the condom and the wrapper in the trash.
"Think I got it all."
And that was when she looked at what he'd done. And she smiled. "Oh, wow."
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It was usually a whole lot of eating hunched up over her laptop, for one thing.
"Did they get everything?" she asked, surveying the spread. "Looks like they got everything."
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"I mean, if I get a dehydration headache, that's on you."
Which would still be a change from all the ones she'd gotten before from studying in a panic and forgetting to drink!
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With no ability to follow through on that, at lease not for awhile.
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