MCA #7, Friday Afternoon

[solarhippie]

Karolina'd had her hands kind of full with groceries, so she hadn't really looked at the pile of mail she'd picked up on her way in. However, right as she was at the door, the corner of one of the envelopes caught her attention.

It had the Pomona College logo on it. As in, Pomona, California.

As in, where she'd applied to for a transfer. Half on a whim.

"Babe?" she called as soon as she was actually in the apartment. She set the bag of groceries on the floor to get at the letter - and in the process, managed to spill the rest of the mail onto the floor, too.

Including an envelope that was adressed to Beauregard Lionett. And the logo of another Californian college. on it.

"Babe!"

[ooc: For the girlfriend! And much, much SP.
And yes, Team Disaster Lesbians will be moving across the country in the near future, so start getting your thread requests in now if you have them!]

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[notallbluemonks]

Yeah, Beau was 100% the type of person to readily go along with any type of impulse or whim her girlfriend decided to have (up to and including, purely theoretically, fucking around in a room charged with electricity) so when Karolina decided to apply to Pomona College, she'd gone ahead and applied to the literally right next door Pitzer College herself. There was no point at all any more in trying to pretend she wasn't a giant nerd, anyway, and doing this because she wanted to was a totally different thing from being shipped off to the Cobalt Soul without a say in the matter.

She'd been doing pull-ups in the doorway to the bedroom when she heard Karolina calling her, so it wasn't long at all before she was bounding across the living room with Nugget at her heels.

"'sup, babe?" she asked as she immediately crouched down to pick up the spilled mail. And saw the envelope with her name and the Pitzer logo on it. "Oh, holy shit, is this ... Nugget, do not even think about going for that bag ... did we ... "

She was already starting to tear the envelope open by the time she stood back up again.

"You too, Kar?"

[solarhippie]

Karolina waved her envelope around demonstratively in response to that question, because using words was overrated, and she was busy trying to tear the damn thing open even as she was waving it about.

And then she got it open, and pulled the papers out. Looked at them.

Her eyes were big when she looked up again.

"... I got in."

[notallbluemonks]

Beau completely forgot about trying to keep Nugget away from the groceries as she extracted the contents of her own envelope, the envelope itself fluttering to the floor while she looked over the papers.

The application might have been partly a whim, but she hadn't realized exactly how nervous she'd been about the whole situation until the wave of relief hit her.

"Yeah," she breathed, looking up to meet Karolina's eyes with a wide-eyed expression of her own. "So did I."

All the implications of this hadn't quite sunk in yet, but give it a second.

[solarhippie]

They hadn't with Karolina, either.

But she made a high-pitched noise and kind of launched herself at Beau, because the ohmyGod achievement part of it all had already sunk in.

[notallbluemonks]

And there went all the mail scattering onto the floor again, because of course Beau had to have both arms free to catch Karolina and -- well, she could certainly try to pick her up and swing her in a circle. Which wasn't happening, but the effort was there! Anyway, this was the sort of moment that called for hugs.

"I fucking told you you could do it," she said exultantly, though her face was kind of buried in Karolina's chest and so the words were muffled. "Proud of you, babe."

It was probably a good thing that Nugget hadn't smelled anything appealing to his fey-canine sensibilities in the groceries. Instead he barked and thumped his tail on the floor, just to get in on the apparent celebration.

"You did it, Kar. We did it." Because oh yeah, that was kind of an accomplishment on Beau's part too, huh?

[solarhippie]

"We did it!"

And guess who could actually pick up her partner and swing her a little? Karolina! Who did exactly that, then laughed in a way that was just ever so slightly dazed.

"Oh my God, babe."

[notallbluemonks]

Guess who was swooning for real, just a bit, at being picked up like that? The answer was obvious, really. Beau was more than a little bit flushed as she grinned up at Karolina.

"We have so much to do," she said, already making lists in her head. "Pick out classes, figure out where we're going to live..."

Oh, look, now it hit her, and she just looked at Karolina with her mouth slightly open.

"Oh. Shit."

[solarhippie]

Karolina was now staring back at her.

"... We're gonna have to move."

Like, actually move. Not the 'ha ha, oh then we'll have to move to California if they let us in' kind of theoretical thing, actually moving.

"Oh, wow."

[notallbluemonks]

"Like... all the way across the continent," Beau added. "I feel like we maybe didn't take that part fully into account."

Making jokes about it didn't count, okay?

"This is... kinda huge."

Understatement.

[solarhippie]

"This is super huge," Karolina agreed, finally realizing she should probably set Beau back down onto her feet (look, she'd kind of just... stopped for a moment, there), though she didn't let go. "That's gonna be... a lot."

[notallbluemonks]

Beau hadn't been complaining, but it was nice to have her feet on the ground too.

"Are you sure you're okay with this?" she asked, not letting go of Karolina either. "Moving back to your world? I know you were kind of conflicted about it before."

[solarhippie]

"I mean," Karolina said, chewing on the inside of her bottom lip for a second there, "I'm the one who started talking about Pomona in the first place."

And it wasn't like they were moving directly into the lap of her old friends, or anything. (Right?)

"Are... you? Okay, I mean?"

[notallbluemonks]

Well, Pomona was about as far as you could get from Karolina's old stomping grounds without leaving the county, so... theoretically? Theoretically.

"Yeah," Beau said without hesitation. "I really like this place, but... you know I've been kind of over the whole small town thing for a while."

They'd never really had any big arguments in their relationship, but Beau's occasional bouts of restless irritability over the last several months might very well have started a few.

"Besides," she added, slowly beginning to pull away from Karolina so she could pick up the scattered mail, "I go where you go. That's... kind of the deal."

[solarhippie]

Karolina was a little reluctant to actually let her go, but... She should probably pick up the groceries again too, huh?

She shook her head as she went to do just that. "It's... gonna be so weird."

[notallbluemonks]

Beau, still crouched like she was in the middle of doing squats, picked up the last of the mail (making a face at some mass mailed ad for muscle building smoothie powder or whatever) and looked up at her.

"Just, like, being back home again or what?" she asked, with a gentleness that wouldn't have seemed right for her a couple of years ago.

For her, going home would have stirred up a whole bunch of issues (a gross understatement), so while this was hardly the same set of circumstances... she could be excused for wanting to make extra sure Karolina was going to be okay with this. Right?