Monday Early Evening - #215 [NFB]

[pyramid_is_life]

Kara returns to her room after the first day of classes. Shop at 8am was going to be rough, but it was fun. She built a coffee machine. Sort of.

But now, there were other things to deal with. She leaves a brief message for Samuel and goes to hit the showers.

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[cantgetnorelief]

A little bit worried after receiving Kara's terse message, Anders comes down the hall and knocks on the door.

"Thrace, it's me. You in?"

[pyramid_is_life]

Scrubbing her hair with a towel, Kara answers the door. "Hey, Samuel," she says, keeping her voice neutral as she lets him walk through. She closes the door behind them and locks it. No need for anyone to break in on this conversation.

[cantgetnorelief]

Anders edges into the room a bit and leans against the wall, then thinks better of it and sits on the edge of a desk -- he's not sure whose -- instead.

"Got your message. What do we need to talk about?"

[pyramid_is_life]

Kara leans against the door and watches him, her jaw clenched. "Had a revealing conversation with Parker yesterday," Kara says after a moment. "Seems she knows about what happened that evening. You been flappin' your mouth around, Samuel?"

[cantgetnorelief]

"Oh, frak," mutters Anders, burying his face in his hands. "How the frak did she -- Kara, I swear, I didn't say a godsdamned word to her. Cally knows -- I owed her that much, and she won't talk about it to anybody. And, well, I told Bridge, sort of, apologizing about freaking out 'cause of him having to kiss Cally in the pageant. And Rory. But that's it, I swear."

He looks up at her, obviously freaked out. "Bridge and Rory are Peer Mediators, and I trust them not to talk, and Parker was gone on break when I talked to Rory."

[pyramid_is_life]

"Peer Mediators?" Kara shakes her head. "Whatever," she mutters. She stares at Anders, considering her options. She's inclined to believe him, but she's still not pleased. Pushing off the door, she walks over to him and says, "Look, it's done, just watch it. Things are good with me and Lee right now and I don't need that getting out and frakking it up."

[cantgetnorelief]

"You know," says Anders uneasily, "we weren't exactly on our best behavior at Parker's birthday party a few days ago. Matter of fact, we haven't exactly been on our best behavior around each other for weeks now. People coulda noticed that."

He runs his fingers through his hair and sighs. "I know what you mean. I almost frakked things up with Cally the other night 'cause of it -- wait, you mean he doesn't know?"

[pyramid_is_life]

"Frak no," Kara says, running a hand through her hair. She really didn't want to be having this conversation. Parker's words from yesterday still stung.

[cantgetnorelief]

Anders sucks in a sharp breath that whistles through his teeth. "Frak me. I thought he did. Never would've said anything to anybody, if I'd known that."

He starts twisting the drawstring of his hooded sweatshirt around his finger, untwisting it, and twisting it again. "Sorry I said anything to anyone -- well, anyone except Cally. Didn't realize it was something that . . . look, I'm sorry. But it was driving me crazy, and I couldn't talk to you about it, and . . ."

[pyramid_is_life]

Kara rests her hands on her hips and sighs. "Just.. fine.. whatever." She waves a hand in the air, letting it fall as she walks away from him. "Look, I got some stuff to do, Samuel. I'll see you later."

[cantgetnorelief]

"Yeah. Later." Anders eases himself off the edge of the desk and starts to head for the door. He pauses with his hand on the knob and turns around. "We're not gonna go back to that, are we? The fighting all the time?"

[pyramid_is_life]

"I'll see you later, Samuel," Kara repeats wearily and turns her back to the door, moving further into the room.

[cantgetnorelief]

"Right." Anders nods again, with a sigh, and quietly slips out of the room.