hell in heels

“A new place? Did you transfer here? Nice to meet you. I’m Ellie.”

“Yes, I transferred from the UK. Are you from this part of the coast?”

“Yep. It was a good time– I didn’t spend as much time studying as I should have, but I’ve been hitting the books more this year.” Ellie said sheepishly. She had spent far too much of her freshman year partying and not enough actually going to class.

“I totally understand, I found it hard to focus last year as well, especially in a new place. Well anyways, I’m Assia, what’s your name?”

“Uh, only if you consider sophomores new. I’m not a transfer or anything, if that’s what you’re asking.”

“Gotcha, so you went here last year? How was your first year?”

“I’ve missed you, too, darling. What’s kept you so busy?”

“Work, to be honest! People just can’t stop themselves from getting hurt on campus. Especially the E-Blitzs team! Sometime I see the same guy like twice a week for no reason.”

“No worries, don’t really plan on it. I don’t really like getting hurt anymore than anyone else does.”

“Well that’s good to know...Are you new here?”

“Is that even possible?” Isaac wondered outloud as he nodded to an offer of an M&M. 

“Why don’t you let me get a book and we can find out,” she winked at him before taking a seat at the table next to him and beginning to take books out of her bag. “Which one?”

“Oh...well I’ve made this sufficiently awkward! Still, don’t get hurt!”

“You’re quite literally the best. Goodness, this is good.”

“Only the best for the best, you know! I miss you. I miss having Hope in my life!

“Depends, where do you plan on going, Lolo?”

“Did I? Why else would I come to you with this extra-large cheese and mushroom goodness!?”

“I swear, if I get hit in the face during practice one more time, I might just start a frigging blizzard.”

“Haha, can we refrain from hurting other people? We don’t need more patients in the healer’s center!”

“Good, I’d hate to smother you with a book. Do you want an m&m?”

“Stop. You’re going to make me cry too.” Teasing Assia with a smile, she hugged Assia tightly. Squeezing the girl once more before letting go of her. “Oh wow. That’s big. What did they say? Did they take seeing you well?”

“Please don’t, you’re not a pretty crier!” she teased. She sighed, preparing herself for a summary of her story. “Well I wasn’t sure how to approach them, so I figured just going to the house and getting it over with would be the best option. Of course, I knock on the door crying and my mom answers it, literally staring at me for 5 minutes, not saying anything, until Nicolas comes to the door, dinner in hand and drops the plate, which was a great metaphor for shattering the tension because then we all were crying on the doorstep and-and...Fuck,” she felt herself tearing up again and beginning to sniffle.

“I’m double majoring in Illusionism and Technomagic so the full load is definitely necessary otherwise, I’m going to be at RIAP until I’m 30. And that’s just not something I want to do.” She shook her head. She already felt like the oldest junior ever, she didn’t want to be here longer than she had to. “I’m captain this year. I was a flyer for two years, and now I’m leading the team, which makes me nervous, but I think I’m doing well in leading.”  She looked over at Assia when she said sometimes she came here to cry. “Cry? Why? I don’t mean to pry, and if I am you can tell me to pump my brakes on the prying. Yeah, sounds like it. Did you do anything really exciting or fun?” 

“Hmm, true, but make sure you don’t overwork yourself, or else you’ll burn out way too fast, Zoey. Oh, my gosh, stop, you’re not going to be here forever, okay?” She laughed before adjusting herself on the grass. Her eyes raised as Zoey’s new job. “Captain? Wow, that’s amazing! Oh, you’ll totally be great, you just have to believe it! As for my crying, I get overwhelmed easily sometimes is all. This summer was hard because I saw some family I haven’t seen in a long tiem and I didn’t realize how much they missed me or thought about me, so it was hard seeing them again at first, you know? But after that initial period, we had a lot of fun.”

“Well i think I know you pretty well by now,” she nudged at his shoulder. She nuzzled her head against his to get comfortable, but was jolted when we moved back up. “Oh my god, you ruined the moment...Fine, you want them? Be my guest,” she raised her brows at him,smiling, as she took off her heels and handed them to him.