Room 324, Monday After Classes

[vanillajello]

There was something up with today.

Kate had been feeling antsy pretty much straight since waking up this morning, and hadn't been able to shake the feeling since. And that was weird, when Sunday had been such a good day after such a long stretch of bad days. She only tended to feel this restless when things were entirely messed up.

After her classes, she'd tried to do some of her independent course work, but had given up pretty soon after realizing her thoughts just kept straying to far more interesting things.

She was considering going downstairs to the gym and dancing, even if she hadn't been doing that for months now, because that usually helped with... whatever this was.

But before doing that, she'd happened to catch a glimpse of herself in the mirror on the wall, and so she was now staring intently into it, trying to determine what exactly it was about her appearance that seemed to make her look even better than usual.

[ooc: Open post, half open door! Oh my vain girl. ETA: And of course 'tis NWS by now.]

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[therewaslife]

Remembering the invitation from the day before, it shouldn't have been too much of a surprise when Bod appeared in Kate's door on the way back from his classes.

Seeing that she was somewhat busy (and he found that watching her was more interesting than talking right now), he leaned against the frame, hands in his pockets and waited to be noticed.

[vanillajello]

Unfortunately, the thing about mirrors was that it could take Kate a while to break herself free from their spell once she got into it.

And she'd gotten into it. By now she'd moved on from just looking, and was twirling strands of hair between her fingers and giving the mirror sultry looks and playful pouts. So, pretty much flirting with her own mirror image. But that was okay, she was pretty.

[therewaslife]

She was pretty and Bod didn't mind if it took awhile because it was quite enjoyable watching her make eyes at her image in the mirror. He smiled but kept quiet so he could keep watching.

[vanillajello]

And so Kate kept flirting with herself. She was good at it, and it was fun, and she found it was something she seemed to actually be able to focus on.

It was only once she started towards her closet (having decided to try on another top) that she realized she wasn't alone. "Oh." She stopped, then smiled at him. Almost smirked. "Hi."

[therewaslife]

"Hullo," Bod said, smiling easily. "I didn't mean to interrupt you and your...mirror image. I felt like I walked in on a private moment."

[vanillajello]

Kate waved a dismissive hand. "Oh, it was nothing. I just think I look particularly hot today." And not particularly modest, but did she ever?

[therewaslife]

"You do look very nice today," Bod agreed, still leaning against the door and smiling. "I think you always look very nice though. It doesn't differ from day to day."

[vanillajello]

"Well, not by much, obviously," Kate said as she crossed the room only to stop right in front of him. "But I think there are differences in the details."

[therewaslife]

"Of course there are differences but I still think you look amazing every day," he said quietly, watching her as she came closer. "You're beautiful."

[vanillajello]

"You look hot too." He did, and she spent a short moment just looking. Huh, maybe this was just an all around good day. "So. Did you come for the presents you don't really care all that much about?"

[therewaslife]

"I came here because I wanted to see you." He hadn't realized how much he wanted to see her until he'd actually seen her. "That's the only reason I needed."

[vanillajello]

"Well, I'm happy about that," she said, reaching for his hand, "but you're still gonna get presents too."

[therewaslife]

"All right," he said, taking her hand in his and giving it a squeeze. "I expected that anyway. I knew you were going to give me presents so I expected that."

[vanillajello]

"You're fake seventeen and a week," she replied, tugging on his hand to make him come in, while her other hand reached for the door. "Of cours there'll be presents."

[therewaslife]

"I'm sure you only turn fake seventeen once," he said, stepping into her room and laughing. "Special occasion. Thank you for thinking of me."

[vanillajello]

"I think about you a lot," she said, as she pushed the door closed behind him. "I've thought about you a lot today, too."

[therewaslife]

"Have you?" he asked, using the hand he had in hers to tug her closer to him. "What about?"

[vanillajello]

"Oh, about all kinds of things," she replied, settling her free hand on his hip. "Your voice, and your skin, and your lips..."

[therewaslife]

Bod smiled wider, reaching up with his free hand so his fingers could brush across her cheek and around her ear.

"Those sound like good things. You've been thinking about me and good things?"

[vanillajello]

"About you," she smirked at him, while her hand moved a little further up before her fingers curled into his shirt. "And very good things."

[therewaslife]

"What brought that on?" Bod asked, leaning back against the closed door and smirking. Any other day, that smirk might have been rare but today, he just felt like smirking. "What kinds of good things?"

[vanillajello]

"I don't know," Kate said innocently, shrugging a shoulder and leaning into him a little. "Just that kind of a day, I guess. We had a good day yesterday. I missed you this morning."

[therewaslife]

"I'm sorry I wasn't here," he said and shook his head at her, laughing. "You're not innocent, Kate. I know you're not. What kinds of non innocent things have you been thinking about?"

[vanillajello]

"I could be innocent," she claimed, with no particular energy put into making it sound believable. "I though about us. You and me. Things we haven't really been doing lately."

[therewaslife]

"That could be an assortment of things," he said, moving his fingers down the side of her neck and over her shoulder. "What things haven't we been doing?"