Friendship Meme: Emma & Beiste
They don’t hang out terribly often outside of school. Emma doesn’t really like people coming into her house (she’s got a pretty good handle on her OCD, but everyone needs a safe place) and Shannon respects that. Plus, she’s got a pretty nice after school schedule of tutoring kids, hanging out with her non-teacher friends at the bar, and learning Chinese. What? She’s got layers.
So most of their interactions take place at school, in the break room over squeaky clean fruit and creamy pasta. Usually they talk about their kids. They trade notes, sometimes literally, and offer advice and generally commiserate about how amazing it is to be simultaneously so proud you could spit rainbows at 50 feet and also want to crack a kid’s skull for being a little smart ass.
It’s not deep or particularly meaningful conversation, except for the fact that it’s their entire lives laid across the table like so many shiny grapes. Emma wasn’t there for Cooter, and Shannon wasn’t there for the wedding, but they’re there for each other every day. They’re comrades, sisters-in-arms in the trenches of McKinley. They both know, with the kind of instinctive knowledge of a soldier, that they’d take bullets for each other.
It may not seem like a lot, half an hour a day of chatting about their students, but it’s something they look forward to every day. It’s the little things that make up a life after all.