Room 232, Tuesday Evening

[mrs_tate]

Back in her room after classes Jessica doesn’t have all that much to do really. She finishes some homework, tidies up the room, and finds herself seated at her desk with a cup of tea. She reaches and turns on her radio, and although Jessica had never heard the song that comes on before, she finds herself swaying back and forth in her chair and

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[suzotchka]

Ivanova paused on the landing, her knee starting to throb, when she heard the loud and off-key singing and if someone was getting drunk she wanted in on it. So she limped down the hall to see the sedate little Jessica bouncing around like a slamdancer.

So Ivanova was off by a few decades on her slang.

"I'm tired of dancin' here all by myself," she continued, just as off-key. "Tonight I wanna dance with someone else!"

[mrs_tate]

Jessica quickly whirls around, a little startled, but not at all embarrassed. She claps approvingly and laughs. "Bravo! You seem to know the words much better than I do dear," says Jessica, a little out of breath.

[suzotchka]

Ivanova smiled. "It was playing today in the music store I was in. I've never heard before. Don't ask me why I remembered it." Her smile became a grin. "You seemed to be enjoying yourself."

[mrs_tate]

Jessica laughs. "Must be quite the popular tune to be playing all over the place, no? I like it" she says with a wide smile. "Yes, actually, enjoying myself quite a bit I suppose" she says with a nod. "Care to join?" she asks politely, turning the radio up a bit and going back to dancing, which was, for her, a cross between a graceful waltz and the hustle, with some random jumps thrown in there for good measure.