Talia Andromeda Portman (my_stars) wrote in btvsal, @ 2011-01-13 20:04:00 |
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Current mood: | depressed |
Entry tags: | abigail mcconnell, talia portman |
Making a New Friend
Who: Abbi and Talia
Where: Regan High – Computer Lab
When: Thursday, January 13
Talia... hadn't been in the best place emotionally lately. Her father had been spending time with his girlfriend more often than not (or so it seemed to her), and while he'd certainly made more time for Talia in the last few months than he had in the years previous to that, she couldn't help it but think that she was losing him. That, coupled with the fact that whenever she hung out with Bette lately, Talia was an argumentative bitch... Yeah. She was NOT happy. She was glad, however, that she had a free period today, as that meant that she could get lost in the computer lab for an hour or so, which was why she was in there now, dressed in tight jeans and a Wonder Woman t-shirt, slumped at a computer, lost in her thoughts.
"Ohhh.... this SUCKS!" Abbi muttered, literally slapping the keyboard, as if that would make the damn computer work better. "I hate this! Mr. Crawford?" She asked, a hilariously pouty tone to her voice. "Do I haaave to do this? I mean... I'm a cheerleader for a reason. I'm not really cut out for learning this stuff." Well. At least she had no problem admitting her shortcomings, hm?
Talia looked up at the sound of Abbi's voice and sighed audibly, but, being a techhead, she had to ask: "What's the trouble?"
Abbi gave Talia an adorable pout and crossed her arms over her breasts. She wore a designer blouse that clung to every curve, and a pleated pink mini-skirt that showed off just enough thigh to NOT be skanky. "Honestly? I just STINK at computer stuff. I think... I just repel this stuff."
"Some people aren't really born with it, I guess," Talia murmured, before shuffling over to see what the problem with Abbi's computer was, typing like a pro. "...You've somehow managed to give the computer... the equivalent of a brain aneurysm. How the hell...?" She giggled.
"Oh gawwwwwwwwwwd..." Abbi blushed, looking at the floor. "I told you! I'm horrible. I totally rock with history, and literature, and even some math. But I get near a computer? EPIC FAIL." Well, at least Abbi wasn't the stereotypical cheerleader... she actually WAS quite bright about most things.
"That's okay," Talia laughed and rolled her eyes, realizing that it had been a while since she'd done that. Odd. Anyway... "Look, I can fix it for you... buuuut I think you might need a tutor for computer stuff. At least until you stop breaking things..."
"Any chance you could help me? I'll warn you though... it'll PROBABLY entail having to hang out with me. Because I get clingy. And you seem like the type who gets annoyed with cheerleaders."
"I get annoyed by a lot of things," Talia replied. Well, that wasn't a denial of Abbi's point, was it? "But, I can help. It'd be cool to have something take my mind off of things."
"If it helps?" Hey, why not address the elephant in the room, right? "I hate that Payton and the others tend to pick on... well... the smart girls. Like you."
"Eh," Talia waved it off. "That stuff doesn't bother me anymore." Having a super-hot girlfriend who scared most people tended to help in that regard.
"Good. Because... I kinda can't stand that girl. Payton, I mean. It kills me that she's the head cheerleader. if I knew SHE was gonna get it, I wouldn't have moved to begin with." She rolled her eyes, sighing. "Wow... I totally don't mean this in a 'hitting on you' way, but up close? You have AMAZING eyes."
Talia didn't take it like that... then again, she hardly noticed when people DID hit on her, since she still didn't think of herself as beautiful. "Thanks," she muttered, before getting back to work on Abbi's computer.
"Wow... you're like... a natural at that. I'm somewhere between envious and impressed." Abbi said with a light giggle, a big grin breaking out on her face. "You know... if you want, since you're gonna help me? I can get you SWEET concert tickets. I don't know what kinda music you like, but my... uncle..." She hated lying but HELL... like she'd blurt this shit out? "is actually the singer for Broken Sunrise, and I'm really close to a couple members of Suicide Messiah too..."
Talia blinked, hearing that. "Oh. That's okay. I'm not exactly expecting anything in return. It's not like I'm doing much, anyway."
"Still... I believe in giving back when someone is nice to me. I'd love to say it's how my mother raised me... but LUCKILY I grew up very different from my mother." She giggled, as she loved Patience but was her polar opposite.
Sadly, Talia's thoughts darkened then. Although she quickly banished them. "Honestly, it's fine. I don't really ... do things for personal gain, or anything."
"Well... you're a good person then. At LEAST let me take you out a few times? Trust me... it serves me too. Contrary to popular belief, I don't have a ton of friends here yet." Somehow, despite how robotic Talia seemed, Abbi LIKED her. She just... sensed a tortured soul there, and longed to help 'fix' her.
"That's surprising," Talia murmured, still typing away. "I would have thought that you'd have your pick of friends here."
"Maybe?" She said, honestly realizing just then that most people probably WOULD want to hang out with her. "I guess I just... distance myself. I have a lot of baggage, I guess. I'm tired of losing people I care about."
Talia stopped typing briefly and looked to Abbi then. It seemed that that was one thing that they had in common. Of course, Talia still being Talia, didn't bring anything up and instead hit the 'enter' key. "There. ...Should work now."
Not exactly thinking, she quickly leaned over, almost shoving her cleavage in poor Talia's face in the excitement. "Really? Ohmygod. ThankyouthankyouTHANKyou. Now... I just gotta hope I don't find a way to make it crap the bed again."
Talia arched an eyebrow and just... leaned back slightly when Abbi invaded her personal little bubble. "I'm sure that you'll do fine," she said with the barest hint of a smirk, "just watch what you're doing with your fingers."
"I will totally, TOTALLY try." She held up a finger in excitement. "But remember! We're totally hanging out. Soon. And... when would be a good time to start the tutoring?"
"Whenever you're free," Talia told her, as really, she was so far ahead of her course work she could be in the hospital for two months and still be ahead of everyone else. "I've got nothing but time."
"You sure it's no big?" She found Talia's standoffish nature a little... off-putting, yet fascinating all the same. "I just don't want to be a bother..."
"It's no bother," Talia assured her. "I could use something new to do with my time, I think."
"Ok. I just... ok, I have issues with thinking I'm bothering people and sometimes I kinda freak over it and I swear I don't mean to sound like a total sociopath." She said, hanging her head comically.
That actually made Talia giggle, funnily enough. "If you were bothering me, I'd let you know. I can be... frank sometimes." Did anyone else find it interesting that Talia seemed less robotic around Bette? The poor girl needed to learn how to SOCIALIZE, stat.
And oddly? Maybe that's WHY these two were fated to meet. Perhaps the tutoring would be two-way... Talia could teach Abbi how to use computers... and Abbi could teach Talia how to be HUMAN.