Room 324, Friday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Kate was a mess. A little bit. In a vague, numb way. Not that she would be showing that to people.

It had been a pretty long week; filled with thinking she was insane, and Christmas shopping, and talking about ballet, and theater, and people unexplainably falling madly in love, and sleeping with several blankets and wearing many many layers because her roommate was making their room cold.

Despite having made two separate trips to the mainland within a week, a part of her wanted to just follow Jack’s lead and get the hell off the island for the weekend. But it was only a week until she’d go back to Kansas for Christmas. Might as well stick it out on the island until then. There was a party on Sunday and everything.

And now she’d found a bunch of photos she’d forgotten about on her computer. They were from the spring, and featured a lot of people she hadn't seen or talked to in a while. Her girlfriends back in Kansas (and such awesome friends they were, having lost contact with her pretty much straight after she moved to Fandom), people from school, Gene, Benjamin. Seemed like half a lifetime away.

She looked at the pictures, comparing her life then to her life now. Deciding which was better wasn't an easy thing to do.


[ooc: Open door, open post!]

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[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Is that how you meant it?" he asked her.

[vanillajello]

"Maybe."

The truth was that she didn't even know. But that hesitation was all on the inside. On the outside there was only a smirk with a teasing edge to it.

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

That teasing smirk was all the encouragement he needed. With a sly wink, he hooked his thumb through a belt loop of his jeans and rocked back on his heels a bit.

"You want me. I know ya do, Kate. It's jest a matter of time. And I'll tell ya the truth, it'll be the best sex you ever had." Enough girls had told him so that his ego was nice and fat.

[vanillajello]

Kate looked a little amused at that. "Sure. I'll believe it when I s-- well, feel it."

Oh, it was so totally just a matter of time.

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

He smiled and allowed himself a moment to totally check her out. Not that he didn't know what she looked like, but that his gaze was hot and maybe she'd notice.

"You'll believe it, Kate. Trust me." The sooner the better, he was thinking too.

"I'll head out now, unless ya want me to stay?"

[vanillajello]

She noticed. And yeah, maybe it did something to her, but she had self-control, and she could wait, and she could make him wait, too.

Still, she wasn't explicitly going to say anything about not wanting him to stay. Lying was rude. "I'm kinda busy, so yeah, you better go. Thanks for stopping by." She flashed him a faux-apologetic smile. The sweetness in it was real, though.

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

Okay, the smile turned to disappointment in a heartbeat. He expected to be stripping in 2.5 and instead felt his shoulders drop a bit.

"Well alright then. Guess I'll see ya when I see ya. If ya change your mind, then you know where to find me."

[vanillajello]

Oh, look at his adorable disappointed little face. He was breaking her heart. No, really.

Well, okay, actually she was feeling more flattered. "Mmhmm," she agreed vaguely, waving mostly with her fingers. "See you around."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

He lifted his own hand in a semblance of a wave, wondering what he was doing wrong as he turned and sauntered off down the hallway.

Kate was perplexing. Girls flocked to him without him ever having to say a word.

Hmm. This would require some thought.

Goddammit. He just didn't like to have to think.