Re: Venus Envy: Jess & Hannah
Hannah laughed at the returned stage whisper, and it was a quiet but husky thing of a laugh. Her eyes were cornflower bright with interest, and she returned in her own whisper: "Oh, good. I like crazy people. They're really a lot more interesting than the sane ones," she said, and it was true, even if it was said in tease, tease and playfulness. "It's a really different kind of weird than New York or Florida, but I like it. I've met the most interesting people here, and they come right out and tell you their strange and deck it out in their best clothing. I like that. Sunday best is usually really kind of boring." Hannah said what she thought always, and she was blunt as the edges of dull blades, but it was true that she loved the oddities this town tangled all up within its branches. "I'm glad you're here. It's nice to know someone from before I crossed the county line," she admitted.
"It's so boring," she said of her work. "I mainly take care of the scientists, and they spend all their time in their labs doing amazing things. I make coffee." She crinkled her nose and smoothed down her purple at the belly. "But I need to buy something wonderful now that you're here, and you should tell me about growing up here. You know I'm really, really nosy. I can't help it." She couldn't. Hannah wanted to soak everything up. She was a sponge that could always seem to take on more and more water.