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“Oh my god!” Olivia exclaimed as she noticed the other was on the ground, she held a hand out to help the other up, realizing who it was. “Hey, yeah, I’m sorry about that, I was swerving to avoid that older lady, I didn’t even see someone was standing on the other side.” She gave the girl an apologetic smile, “I figured I’d see you in a bookstore before on the ground.”

Chase gently took the other woman’s hand and pulled herself up. “Listen, shit happens,” she said, doing her best to push a smile through the tears in her eyes. They weren’t real tears. Or at least what Chase would call real tears. Just from the stinging feeling of the concrete on her behind and the shock of being knocked onto her butt. Something she will get over in due time. “Rather me than you accidentally knocking out an elderly woman’s hip,” she mentioned with a small shrug. “Funny enough, I thought I’d run into you again at a library or something. Or if they have another geeky festival or convention here. No insult to you, but I didn’t peg you as someone to go out for runs. Not that you can’t be brainy and athletic because by all means I’m into sports. I should probably shut up before I dig this hole any deeper and insult you even more.”

“Oh I’m sure it would have complimented my completely off key soprano version of Rapunzel beautifully,” she said with a laugh, “I was very into the song, Disney always seems to just life people’s spirits doesn’t it?”

“I don’t think my voice is low enough for Flynn, but at least we should have been terribly beautiful together,” Chase matched the other woman’s laugh with her own. “Hey, belting out Disney is a good way to relieve stress and to provide a bit of entertainment if it annoys people.”

Korra smiled at her suggestion, “No Chase, I don’t think that’ll be necessary.”  The brunette looked back again and then shook her head, “Honestly, ignore me, I don’t know what’s gotten into me” Korra smiled

“You know dwelling on these feelings will only make them boil and then they will just all burst out at once. Maybe not to me, but to someone you trust, you should vent it out, you know?”

“It was just a children’s toy store! All kinds of cute stuff.”

“Weird question I’m about to ask you, so please don’t think I’m strange or something, but do they have any kind of spider plush there? Asking for my sister. She could use more, in my opinion.”

       ❝  i  was  out  grocery  shopping  earlier  after  my  teaching  my  last  yoga  class  and  i  was  looking  for  a  specific  flavor  of  cheez-it’s  but  then  got  distracted  by  that  giant  lobster  tank  by  the  seafood  department.  isn’t  it  sad  that  the  lobsters  pretty  much  hang  out  there  only  to  be  bought  and  eaten  by  people  ??  living  to  be  placed  in  a  pot  and  be  boiled  ??  anyways,  i  didn’t  get  my  cheez-it’s  but  i  ended  up  buying  all  the  lobsters  so  i’m  trying  to  figure  out  what  to  do  with  them  so  they  can  live  a  fruitful  life  out  of  grocery  stores  and  people’s  stomachs.  ❞  @vestalanding·

Chase nodded along as the man went on his tangent. Her eyes widened at every change in subject within his little story only to have her mouth drop in an O shape once he had finished his statement. She folded her brow. “Well, shit. That’s admirable, but like... Not thought out, no offense. Still pretty fucking cool of you, if you ask me, you know? Couldn’t have been cheap and you’re doing more than a lot of other animal rights activists would do. I’m not sure what to do with them, either. I assume the aquarium doesn’t take in donations especially not random seafood department lobsters. Um, you can always learn how to rear them as pets, but you don’t know which ones are boys and which are girls, so you can end up with multiple takes of lobsters... But I’m not sure if they breed like rabbits or rodents, you know? Leave two together and now you have forty in a matter of days,” Chase thought out loud. Soon, she shook her hand. “I’m talking about stuff that isn’t important since we need to figure out how to do this thing with your newly adopted lobsters. Do they have names? Also, what cheese-its? They have flavors?”

alec was sitting at a bar, beer in hand, and sulking. it was rare that he let something get to him, but for once he didn’t have his token smile on his face. “do you ever just feel so defeated that you wish you could just give up and become a hermit?” he asked the person next to him with a sigh. 

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“That’s just about me every other day. What’s got you in a rut, man?” Chase asked, setting herself next to him. She waved down bartender to get a beer herself before her attention went back towards the man next to her. “Of course,” Chase started, “you don’t have to tell me, if it’s personal or not. But, if you want an ear to listen to that isn’t going to judge you either way, I’m here. I recently cried because I walked into a lamppost and I was more embarrassed with that than anything else in recent time. So, trust me. Tears and shit is what I’m used to.”

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Not expecting anyone to drop by Anna took it upon herself to enjoy a glass of wine, which turned into two, which turned into her cleaning and singing as she cleaned and drank it was honestly and endless cycle. Mid way through her rendition of ‘I See the Light’ from Tangled she noticed the other standing there. “Can we just pretend you didn't’ see that?”

“I was going to come in with a poor Baritone as Flynn Ryder, but you turned before I could,” Chase laughed with a large smile on her lips. “If you prefer to keep this between us, that’s completely fine. You seem to be feeling yourself there and there’s no shame in getting lost in it.”

“Hi, can you please pretend that your talking to me right now?”

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“Sure, I don’t mind. I could also go punch whoever did this to you, if you don’t mind and if it would make you smile just a bit. Probably something amusing about my short ass self taking on someone.”

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While out for her run Olivia had managed to avoid running into another walking on the street with a swift turn, unfortunately her turn lead her crashing into another. “Wow, something is telling me I was not supposed to go on this run,” she mumbled mostly to herself as she took a few steps back from the other.

Chase hadn’t been fully paying attention to whatever was going on around her. Her mind was deep into her audiobook as she took her stroll around the park. Suddenly, she was snapped back into reality as someone ran into her and knocked her on her behind. Her eyes stung a little as she held back her tears. Slowly, Chase pulled herself off the ground and dusted off the butt of her pants. Her glance went towards the girl she remembered from the Faire. “Not exactly how I hoped we’d run into each other,” Chase joked, blinking away the wateriness in her eyes. “You alright, yourself?”

“So I was at the cutest little shop downtown when I found this little guy! It’s a little Pikachu! Pretty cute, right?”

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“That’s a nice quality one, actually. Better than what they have at Wal-Mart and Target. Do you remember the shop you got it? Is it all like Anime stuff or is there other plushies?”

“I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at the girls in my high school classes that went on and on about how romantic it was and how much they wanted to find their Romeo. They clearly didn’t read it, like you said, the whole thing is one big comment on how irrational and compulsive teenagers can be. Well, if they don’t understand what you’re saying then they’re not worth being impressed by you. Oh no, I mean, I love literature of all kinds but I haven’t studied it much since undergrad. As for acting I tried, but I was never good at it, how about yourself?”

“Romeo is easily one of the most annoying protagonists in Shakespeare as well as him just being a self-centered asshole. Doesn’t help that they only do his tragedies for schools and they wonder why kids find him boring. His comedies are great. I mean, that’s true, but being complimented by someone pretty is what I’m usually going for when I quote Shakespeare at them. What was your degree? If you don’t mind me asking something so personal. Obviously you don’t have to answer. And no. God, no. I have very bad stage fright and I feel like I’m gonna puke when I’m on stage. Um, I’m just studying Philosophy. Hoping to eventually get a PHD in it. In general I love poetry.”

       ❝  that’s  because  most  people  aren’t  as  invested  into  literature  like  we  are.  poetry  is  complex  with  structures  and  some  people  are  just  lazy.  i  don’t  know  —  seems  like  a  lot  going  on  all  at  once  and  can  get  overwhelming.  yeah,  i  stopped  by  for  some  friends  and  was  mainly  tempted  by  the  turkey  legs  but  those  proved  to  be  a  bust.  ❞

“I... I don’t get overwhelmed like that, Salem. If anything is overwhelming me it is you asking me if all of this is too much for me when you dumped me pretty harshly and then you act like you care so much. I can take care of myself without you, Salem. I’m a big girl. Npt that you aren’t a good person, but I don’t need help. I’m okay.”

Quinn was quick to ignore the fact that this idiot was asking for a name - like she owes her some kinda proof to Niji’s existence…but the reason she ignored all of that was ‘cause her anger rose up over the fact that Chase was indirectly calling Niji a bitch as well. She got in the other girl’s space, asking more abrasively, “What’d you just call her?”

“I didn’t call her anything, did I?” Chase noted, looking up Quinn up and down as the other woman got in her face. “Suddenly you care so much for someone who isn’t you?”

“When they baby me... Or act like what I’m feeling or doing is ridiculous. Touch my notebooks and mess with my bookshelf.”

“Ha ha ha, so original. Googles your friend fi you need to know how much you have to cry to dehydrate.”

“I don’t have any! If anything, I just wish I could control my feelings more.”