Sunday, 10/21/07
Who: Adora and Eli Eden When: Sunday evening, at exactly 7:00 PM Where: Eli's apartment off-campus What: Adora and Eli meet for dinner, and... he continues to confuse her. Warnings: None yet.
It wasn't often that Adora would actually admit to herself that she was nervous... or worried... or just... off-balance. In fact, after the whole mess she had gone through with Blake, she had been forcing herself to stay away from any situation that made her feel off-balance or out of her comfort zone. Last week, though, Eli hadn't really made that all that easy for her, and so Adora found herself with a vase of beautiful flowers in her apartment that had a hidden meaning that left her confused and... also trying not to think about it too much. This whole last week had been a bit of a confusing time for her, given that it felt as though her days had flew by from all of the work she had for classes. Portfolios had needed to be graded, and while they were not terribly full or substantial, she had enough students that it would take her a few days to look them over and write genuine criticism of them. Adora did take art very seriously, so she tried to give honest responses and constructive criticism to her students, which meant it took a good deal of time.
That didn't stop her from basically feeling as though she hadn't had a moment to relax, though, and it wound up being Saturday before Adora had even had a chance to sit down, breathe, and actually look at the flowers Eli had sent her. That had been weird enough on its own. She couldn't actually remember a time that she had gotten flowers from a man who one, acted quite cold to her in some ways, and two, she hadn't actually slept with.
Correction. She had slept in the same bed with Eli, but there had been no sex and now she was actually showing up at his apartment this evening. This whole thing with Eli seemed very odd. Normally, Adora was the one in control on some level. She was the one seducing the man, or she was the one letting him think that he had her under his thumb up until she'd gotten through with what she needed, but... no, it didn't work that way with Eli. He was actually, as much as Adora wouldn't admit it, in control right now. Only because she told herself she couldn't figure him out yet. Every man had a button, she just had to find it so she could push it.
Adora knocked on the door to Eli's apartment at exactly 7:00 PM, brushing back an errant strand of hair. She had an open-backed black blouse on and a pair of black, tight leather pants and a red scarf tied around her waist to serve as a belt. Taking a deep breath, she tried to kind of put her nerves aside, trying not to think of how much she really was unsure about this whole dinner and flowers thing. This was all way, way too confusing.