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]

Bod hadn't expected all of this at all so knowing the last gift was something she'd taken time to make for him made him extra grateful. He took the CD and looked it over, flipping it and reading the track listing and the songs and not even noticing that his smile was growing each time he read a new song.

"Kate, you made me..." He was smiling at when he glanced over. "You gave me songs. You gave me songs that you picked. You gave me music."

[AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! <33333]

[vanillajello]

And Kate was smiling dopily again. "Yeah, I did," she said, intelligently. "It's mostly just a bunch of songs I like, plus a couple that make me think of you."

[<3 I'm a music dork with too much time in my hands. And I must crash. Good night!]

[therewaslife]

"I'll have to see if I can decipher which is what," he said, reading the song titles again and trying to see if he could guess what they might sound like.

"I love it," he said sincerely, holding it carefully and reverently. It wasn't like people made things for him all that often. "I love all the gifts you got me."

[Good night!]

[vanillajello]

"Well, I love you," she replied, shrugging a shoulder and smiling as she stuck the bag in one of the drawers of her bedside table. "See why I kept going on and on about your presents?"

[therewaslife]

"I love you too," he said, reaching to clasp her wrist so he could tug her closer to him. He wanted to kiss her and thank her with more than just words.

[vanillajello]

That could be arranged. She promptly crawled closer to him, because the idea of being close to him was a particularly sweet one today. "Do you?" she murmured. "I love you."

[therewaslife]

"I do. I love you," he said and leaned closer to kiss her sweetly and gently. "I love you and thank you for thinking me like this. You're the first who ever has."

[vanillajello]

"I said I wanted all your firsts, didn't I?" she said quietly, after another kiss. "That includes thoughtful gift giving."

[therewaslife]

"You've got all of my firsts so far," he assured her, smiling. "You're going to take them all."

[vanillajello]

"Mmm." By now she'd pretty much crawled all over him. Which was just perfect for kissing. "I would like that."

[therewaslife]

"You can have them," he said, laying back comfortably and smiling up at her again. "I want you to have them. I want you to have everything you want."

[vanillajello]

"Everything I want, hmm?" she wondered, with a lazy smirk and a raised eyebrow, looking down at him. "Funny, I think that's you."

[therewaslife]

"You have me. You've already had me," he laughed, snickering. "On the desk."

[vanillajello]

Kate couldn't help snickering too. "Technically, I think you had me on the desk," she mused. "But I might wanna have you in my bed."

[therewaslife]

"I'm in your bed," he pointed out, gesturing to his sprawled position and her similar position. "So, you already have me in your bed. Mission accomplished?"

[vanillajello]

"Mm, not quite what I meant," she smirked, ducking down to briefly kiss him while reaching to pull a blanket over them both. "But this works for right now."

[therewaslife]

"Are you going to tell me what you meant?" Bod asked, stretching out a little more while she got them warm.

[vanillajello]

"You can't figure it out?" Kate wondered as she settled to sprawl half on top of him, half off, all cuddled up and close. "Or is this one of those things where you just want to hear me say it because it's hotter that way?"

[therewaslife]

"The second one," he admitted with a shy laugh. "You don't have to say it if you'd rather not. I know what you mean."

[vanillajello]

Kate laughed. "And lose the chance for a potential blush? Come on, Bod. As if I'd rather not say something like that." Amused, she nuzzled his neck. "I meant having you in my bed like having you pushing your hips up and moaning under me in my bed. 'Cause I think you did most of the work on the desk, so I think I should repay you. That's what I meant."

[therewaslife]

The potential blush became an actual blush as soon as those words started leaving her mouth. He couldn't help it. And his body, so recently taxed so nicely, even reacted a little.

This day was enjoyably strange.

"Oh." He kept blushed. "All right. We should do that. In your bed."

[vanillajello]

"In my bed," she agreed, half sighing the words against his neck. "We can make sure the tenseness doesn't come back."

Far better than most strange days they had, yes.

[therewaslife]

"I'll stay as long as I can," he said and hoped Bobby was busy for most of the evening. "And we can keep doing that until it's gone for good."

[vanillajello]

"Sounds like a plan," Kate replied, snickering, because apparently it was one of those days where she just did not like the idea of letting him oout of her sight and touching range. And she thought that was completely natural. "And then I can come walk you home."

[therewaslife]

"You can," he agreed, liking the sound of that. "If Jacob's still gone, you could even stay the night with me, if you'd like."