Thread: Mermaid & Postman Who: Arla Lawrence & David de Souza When: Evening, Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Where: Xavier's School, guidance office What: Arla goes to see David because he makes her feel like a person. And because he's right across the hall. So she goes.
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Arla was done with the school year. Summer should have meant that she was taking breaks, should have meant she was free to get out more. However, she saw it as a chance to be alone. Be alone, curl up, work on proving her impossible proofs. That was just what she did. She solved the unsolvable----or, she made a hobby of trying to do it. She'd never actually solved the unsolvable.
But she could only do that for so long. Even she got restless and liquor couldn't help that, so she was traipsing across the hallway to David's guidance office, dressed in a short skirt and t-shirt with a long knit duster that covered most of her up. Sometimes she just grabbed whatever she could out of her closet and threw it on regardless if it matched.
She walked in and took up space, plopping down in an unladylike, slouchy position in an armchair across from David's desk.