Karolina Dean (
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Guidance Counselor's Office, Tuesday
In the end, Karolina had had most of extra flowers from Friday carted to a women's center on the mainland. But, she'd also taken some home, and she'd Googled for how to dry roses, too, so now she had a box in her office filled with silica desiccant and some roses she wasn't supposed to open for a few weeks. She realy wanted to peek in and see how they were doing, but she didn't know if that would disturb the process, so... A few hours into her work day today, she went ahead and moved the box from her desk to on top of one of the filing cabinets, where it wasn't constantly in her line of sight.
There were also a few flowers still in a vase on her desk. Starting to wilt, sure, but not too badly. They were okay enough that she didn't think they'd give her office an unwelcoming air or anything.
The door to the office was open, and the guidance counselor was in and doing some paperwork.
[ooc: Open, with bouts of slowness until I get home tonight!]
There were also a few flowers still in a vase on her desk. Starting to wilt, sure, but not too badly. They were okay enough that she didn't think they'd give her office an unwelcoming air or anything.
The door to the office was open, and the guidance counselor was in and doing some paperwork.
[ooc: Open, with bouts of slowness until I get home tonight!]
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"Good," she decided. "I think I like surprising you." It had worked wonderfully for her so far, at least. "So... what else have you been up to? Except bringing coffee. Which was a good surprise too!"
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"Work, bugging Fjord, the usual mostly," she said, shrugging. "Kinda got press-ganged into the radio station by a bunch of squirrels last week, though, so that was nice and embarrassing." Mostly on account of being called out on the dorky grin that no one would have known about otherwise, so thanks for that. Keyleth.
"You can surprise me all you want," she added. "I'm totally good with it. Gonna have to come up with some new ones myself, though, since you'll be expecting the coffee . . . I mean, I'll still bring you some, but I might have to spice things up a bit."
Not like that. Well, not just like that.
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She was probably going to dig up the podcast now, though.
And her expression brightened up again. "Also, food is always a great surprise because I like never remember to bring any good snacks here." Well, not unless she was trying to lure students to come visit her. (Not creepy.)
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You were going to end up getting so many snacks, Karolina. So many.
And okay, that cute little pout had only lasted a moment or two, but Beau had the unprompted impulse to lean down for a quick kiss anyway, as if she had to make up for causing it in the first place. Why? She didn't know, but it seemed to make sense.
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That was a lie, you never got used to the squirrels, not really. They were tiny rodent journalists who could be bought off with rum, there was no getting used to that.
And, anyway. The quick kiss had Karolina reaching upwards a little and discarding any thoughts about squirrels for a second.
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She could at least be somewhat resigned to the squirrels as long as they shared the rum.
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Okay, not really, because she could also have initiated a little kiss herself, but... It didn't seem to be much of a misstep to let Beau know it was appreciated?
"It's nice to see you."
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. . . she hoped it wasn't too obvious that she was leaning into Karolina's hand a bit; it was kind of sad, really, how novel little gestures like these were to her.
"I've been wanting to see you," Beau admitted, her eyes half shut and a dopey little smile on her face. "It might have been turning into like a withdrawal situation a little bit there."
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"Really?" she teased. "Goodness, good thing you showed up before it became a problem."
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"We could do something later, maybe? Like after you're off work."
What was so hard about just saying you'd missed her, Beauregard?
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"Yeah," she agreed, with a smile that was all too soft and pleased for someone who'd been trying to play things cool over the last few weeks. (Of course, Karolina and 'playing it cool' were kind of a doomed match to begin with.) "Dinner, maybe? Or we could just... hang out."
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"Taste of Thai does good vegan, at least?" she offered.
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Then blinked. "So . . . is this like a date then, I guess? Am I doing this right?"
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Look, 'date' was more official, it threw her off and put butterflies in her stomach.
She blushed a little.
"Umm... Yes."
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That did sound really official, now that Beau thought about it. Which was . . . so not her usual thing, and while she was wondering how she'd gotten into this situation she wasn't looking to get out of it either.
"It doesn't have to be, if you don't want it to," she offered finally. "We can just, you know. Hang out. I mean, unless you're sure . . ."
She was so bad at this. Help.
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She probably could've made her point without reaching up with her until-now-free hand to cup Beau's face from both sides but, eh. She went with the impulse, as usual.
"I want it to be a date," she murmured. "I really want it to be a date."
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Karolina wasn't the only one having a butterflies situation here, either; in between that tone of voice and the warmth of her hands against Beau's face Beau was . . . forgetting how to breathe, just a little bit.
She nodded, though, looking relieved and very, very pleased. "Okay then," she said, her voice a little huskier than usual because she was all over the place emotionally right now. "Okay, cool. Date, check. You and me, tonight. Dinner and then . . . maybe other stuff afterward?"
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That little quip was about as close to innuendo as Karolina was going to get, under the circumstances, but she still looked kind of pleased with herself for it.
Like a dork, yes.
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As it was, she burst out laughing before replying with a sly grin, "I'm not gonna say I wasn't looking forward to that part, 'cause I definitely was."
Surprising no one, most likely.
"The rest of it too, though. Really." Even if she did look a little bit nervous because holy crap official date.
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Okay, maybe that was more for her own benefit, too.
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"So wait, does that mean we've -- kind of -- been doing that already, and we didn't realize it?"
Which would honestly be pretty on brand for their disaster selves.
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It was only a question because Karolina wasn't willing to straight-up admit that was exactly what it was.
"But uh, I mean, I don't think there are rules," she added, stumbling over her words a little just because the kiss against her palm, as light as ot was, both tickled and thrilled her. "You know, anything super fixed that says what qualifies as a date. I think we can just do it our own way."
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Guess who else wasn't prepared to admit to that either!
"Besides, that way I don't have to admit that I have no idea what I'm doing, except I kind of already did?" She snorted a quiet laugh, aware that she wouldn't have even said that out loud if she didn't already feel comfortable enough around Karolina. "Gods, I'm a mess. Sorry."
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Maybe both.
Probably both.
She'd get to words again in a second.
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