The Begining of Something Special
Catra looks up at the tall beige building with orange window frames, it didn’t look particularly stunning in any sort of way. However it was hers, and she was here, finally. A slight smile creep onto her face as she looks around. It was a beautiful fall day, the remenients of summer still lingered in the air. It was hot out but there was a cool breeze that made the weather perfect. She took another drag of her cigarette, the beautiful day ment that there were several students sprawled out throughout the quad. It honestly looked like a stereotype of any college film.
She finished the last drag of her smoke, drops it to the ground and squishes it with her foot. She grabs her two duffle bags and suitcase and made her way to the entrance of the building. She pulls out her phone and looks at the email to double check her room number, 309, and she looks for the elevator as students scramble around settling in. She saw the elevator right before it closes and managed to squeeze herself in. It was cramped, she got to the third floor and was practically thrown out. Fuck this she thought “I need another smoke” she mumbles to her self as she ran her fingers through her long, mane like hair. She walks down the hall until she found room 309 turns the handle and bumps the door with her hip as she tries to haul all of her things into the room.
“Oh my god!” The tall blonde jumps as she tried to cover herself with her shirt
“Oh shit, I’m so sorry, I thought this was my room” Catra rambles, feeling flustered. She quickly turns around and closes the door. Until she realizes she dropped one of her bags in the room. She gathers herself back to being, her typical cool, calm and collected self before knocking lightly on the door.
“Come in!” she hears from the other side of the door. Catra slowly opens the door.
“Hey, I’m sorry, I thought this was my room.” Catra said eyeing the blonde, trying to pass it off as nonchalant judgment. Rather than the fact that she was literally eyeing the blonde, as in checking her out. I mean can you blame her, Catra never could never resist a beautiful woman, and damn was this girl beautiful.
She stood there tall, with long blonde hair pulled into a ponytail with a little poof above her forehead, which Catra thought was a bit ridiculous. But what the blonde lacked in hair style, she differently made up for in muscle. She was wearing red gym shorts, and a tight white muscle tank, the kind that just drops really low under the arms. Catra realized she was staring and her mouth was hanging open ever so slightly, so she quickly closes her mouth and looks at the blonde's face. Which did not help, she has these piercing blue eyes that you could get lost in. Catra typically wasn’t impressed with eyes, since she had her own pair of striking heterochromatic eyes that she knew turned heads. But these, wow…
“Hey, no worries, I think both rooms say 309 theres another one just through the bathroom there.” The blonde points to the bathroom on the right. “You must be Catra, I’m Adora, we emailed a bit...I guess we’re roommates…or at least bathroom mates.” Adora giggles, looking a bit flustered.
“Hey, ya I'm Catra” she said, giving a light wave.
Adora grabbs Catra’s hand, “Oh my god I love your nails.” She says looking down at Catra’s long pointed holographic acrylics. Catra almost recoils from the sudden touch, but damn did this girl have a grip.
“Uh, Thanks” Catra says, as the blonde was turning her hand left and right, looking astonished by how the nails reflected in the light, until she just looks confused.
“Why are these two short?” Adora says, holding up Catra’s first two fingers.
“Because I’m a considerate lover” Catra says with a smirk and then a wink. Adora still didn’t really get it, but didn’t want to look like an idiot so she just shrugged.
Catra drops her things, and Adora closes the door behind her. “Here let me help you with that” Adora grabs all of Catra’s things like it weighed nothing.
“Thanks” Catra says, honestly she was pretty tired from hauling all her stuff across campus, so she wasn’t going to say no.
Adora carries all of Catra’s things through the bathroom and into the other room, Catra starts walking around the room, where Adora had already set up. Catra notices a decently sized poster of a majestic horse, with several photos hung up on the wall, some of a younger Adora riding horses, lots of her playing soccer, or with her soccer team, and one of her as prom queen with what catra assumes is her boyfriend/prom king.
Great, a straight, horse girl, jock as my roommate for the year. Catra thinks to herself sarcastically.
“Watcha looking at?” Adora asks, Catra turns around to see her roommate standing there with her head cocked to one side.
“So you were Prom Princess eh?”
“Prom queen actually...thank you very much”
“Whatever you say princess” Catra says with a smirk as she walks past adora into her own room.
Adora rolls her eyes, and follows Catra into her room. She sits down on the chair in front of the desk. Catra looks at her as if to say What’re you doing? .
“Well, let’s see if you hang up anything embarrassing” Adora says with a cocky grin on her face.
“I’m more of a minimalist if anything, not much for decorating, just the bare necessities.” Catra says as she pulls clothes out of her duffle bag and hangs them up.
“And 3 leather jackets is a bare necessity?” Adora says smugly
“When you look this good in leather... yes, absolute necessity.” Catra responds with just as much smugness.
Adora looks at Catra up and down, she was wearing black leather shorts, and a maroon tank top that was kinda see through, clearly without a bra, not that Adora was looking at that... it was just kinda obvious, with a black leather vest on top. Adora had never really seen anyone wear that much leather, except old bikers, and Catra did look much better than that. Hmmm… I wonder if she has a motorcycle.
“So, do you want to go to freshman orientation on the quad together?” Adora says, very perky.
“Nah.” Catra was completely disinterested in organized activities, then her phone pings. It was Scorpia.
Scorpia: Hey WildCat! You all settled in?
Catra: Don’t call me that, and yes almost done.
Scorpia: I’m on the Quad, come say hi!
Catra: Why are you at freshmeat orientation? You're not ever a freshman?
Scorpia: My friends wanted to come, something about free beer.
Catra: omw
“Actually I’m down” Catra says to Adora, putting her phone into her pocket.
“Awesome!” Adora says with a beaming smile. Catra smiles back at her, dork , she thought to herself in the most endearing way.
They walk out of the dorms together and as soon as Catra got outside she grabs a smoke from her pocket and dangles the cigarette from the side of her lips, while she grabs her lighter. She notices Adora staring at her, Why is she looking at me like that? She thought… Maybe she’s not straight… she laughs to herself.
“Do you want one?” Catra says, breaking Adora out of her haze.
“Oh, no no no” Adora responds quickly. Catra just shrugged and lit her smoke, and took a long drag.
“So...Princess, was your prom king like your highschool beard or something?” Catra asks inquisitively with one eyebrow raised.
“My what?” Adora asks, kind of annoyed by the nickname, but also secretly loving it.
“You know, the fake boyfriend or girlfriend queers use to hide that they are queer in highschool?”
“What? I mean n-no, I mean he was my real boyfriend” Adora says a little flustered “or is technically I guess…” she continues with a sigh.
“Wow.... sounds like you're really in love” Catra says sarcastically, continuing to take long drags out of her smoke.
“Well, I don’t know if I would call it love, I tried to break up with him after high school but he insisted we stay together. I mean don’t get me wrong, he’s really sweet, and kind, and he loves me a lot, like a lot a lot but…” Adora starts to blush, and nervously rub the back of her neck with her hand.
“So the sex is that bad huh?” Catra laughs a little bit, with her smoke hanging off her lips.
Adora stops walking and stares at Catra with a shocked expression on her face, Catra turns around and smiles. Typically this kind of conversation would make Adora incredibly uncomfortable, however for some reason she felt the opposite around Catra. It’s like Catra’s cool, confident demeanor was contagious.
“Honestly, I don’t know I mean it’s not like I have that much experience to compare to. But I mean it’s kind of meh.” Adora shrugs and continued to walk. Catra gave this look, where her face kind of scrunched and it practically said damn that sucks. Adora starts to feel awkward again, and decides to change the conversation away from herself. “What about you?” she asks
Catra took the last drag of her smoke and squashes it beneath her boot. “What?” she asks kinda confused “are you asking about my sex life?”
“No no no !!!” Adora responds a bit abrasively, “I mean do you have a boyfriend?... or girlfriend? I guess?”
Catra just kind of chuckles “no, I don’t. But if I did it would be a girlfriend. Kinda a total dyke if that wasn’t obvious.” Adora finally realized why her two fingers were short, and felt kind of embarrassed. “Honestly I kinda thought that you were a dyke too, you kinda give off big dyke energy.” Catra says knowing Adora looks embarrassed and wanting to tease her some more.
“What me? I m-mean. Honestly I never thought. I guess. I mean. N-no I’m not a dy-” Catra cut off Adora’s ramble with a hand.
“You should probably say lesbian, if your not. Y’know one of those only we can say it kinda things.”
“Ahhh yes right! Sorry!” Adora says “I’m not a lesbian, is what I meant”
“Well -”
“WILDCAT!” Catra turns to see Scorpia waving her down from next to a tree, with a couple of what Catra assumes to be hippies hanging out.
“There’s my friend, wanna go hang out?” She turns to Adora
“Sure thing, wildcat” Adora says with a smug look on her face.
“Don't,” Catra says, rolling her eyes.
They made their way to the small group of people. As they got closer the much taller, incredibly buff, woman with short grey hair scoops Catra up in the tightest hug. “Awww wild cat! I’m soooo glad you’re here!!”
“Put me down Scorpia !!! Jesus !” but honestly Catra doesn't look that annoyed. “It’s nice to see you too” she smiles. Scorpia looks over Catra’s shoulder at Adora
“And whose this?!” Scorpia says like she was implying something
“Oh this is my roommate, Adora. Adora, Scorpia, Scorpia, Adora.” Catra says gesturing to the both of them.
“Nice to me-” Then Adora was also scooped up into a tight hug, and she looks down at Scorpia’s muscles and blushes a little. I mean Adora liked to work out so, she appreciates the other woman's strength.
“Sorrrrrry!! I’m a hugger!” Scorpia says, putting Adora down.
“Ahh no worries.” Adora smiles back
Catra glances at the other three people sitting by the tree. There was a tall, skinny blonde girl, with long blonde hair, in a pink dress with a flower crown sitting on her head. Another person with cut off shorts and a white tank top, short dirty blonde hair who was lightly strumming a guitar. And another dude who kinda looked like white jesus and honestly Catra didn’t even bother to look at him that long. “Whose that?” Catra says gesturing to the hippies.
“Oh ! This is perfuma!” Scorpia says gesturing to the tall blonde. “And her friends, hazel” the one with the guitar. “And tulip” the Jesus looking one. They all wave at her.
“Hey I’m Adora!” Adora chimes in, awkwardly shaking all of their hands.
“Welcome ! come join us ! the grass is so grounding! And I was just about to light up a jay.” Perfuma says in a soft gentle voice.
“Sweet!” Catra says joining the circle and sitting crossed legged, she turns to look at Adora. Adora just shrugs and sits down next to Catra. With one leg stretched out and the other one bent and hugged to her chest. “Where’s the free beer I was promised?” Catra asks Scorpia.
“Oh they ran out pretty quickly, but I snagged a couple extra if you want one.” Scorpia reaches under her jacket and hands Catra a beer. “Do you want one too?” she asks Adora.
“Oh no thanks, isn’t it a bit early to be drinking?”
“Well, the school wouldn’t be giving it out for free if it was.” Catra says cracking open her beer. “Yumm… luke warm PBR” Catra says sarcastically. But honestly she didn’t mind too much, in her opinion all beer kinda tastes like piss. And she doesn’t really drink it for the taste.
Perfuma pulls out a fairly big joint, and sparks it up while taking a few puffs to get it going.
“Uhh… are we allowed to do that on campus?” Adora asks shyly
“Actually ya, what’s the rules around that? I’m not trying to get in trouble on my first day here.” Catra surprisingly agrees.
Perfuma takes a long puff and holds it, before blowing it out and coughing a little “honestly, it’s pot, no one really cares, plus this side of college is mostly liberal arts, and fine arts and all those students are stoners.”
“It’s true, I’ve smoked weed with campus security before, no one cares.” Scorpia says in agreement
“Sweet, good to know.” Catra says.
Perfuma takes another puff, and then gently strokes Scorpia’s arm to get her attention. “Here you go gorgeous.” she says passing the joint to Scorpia
“Thanks” Scorpia responds while blushing. Scorpia takes a small puff before passing it to Catra. Catra takes a long inhale, cause boy did she need this.
“Damn… this is good. Do you get this weed from someone on campus. And can I have their number?”
“Ya it’s actually Tulip, his parents grow it on their farm not too far from here. Scorpia can give you his number.” Perfuma says, and the Jesus looking man just throws up a peace sign. Catra nods and takes another long inhale, before passing it to Adora.
Adora looks at it for a second, and then looks up at Catra. Wow those eyes, I’ve never met someone with heterochromia, they are beautiful. One of Catra’s eyes is like a teal blue, and the other like a golden yellow. Both with little specks of brown in them. Honestly they are striking. Adora snaps out of her daze, as Catra was waving the joint at her.
“Oh no thanks, I’m on the soccer team actually and I’m pretty sure they drug test us.”
“Oh my god! Me too!!” Perfuma squeeks. “Honestly, the drug tests are no big deal, they don’t happen often, plus i’ve always passed, and have always smoked weed. I’m pretty sure they are just looking for steroids or something.”
“Like this one needs steroids” Catra scoffs, pointing a thumb at Adora. “Honestly, she looks like she was chiseled out of stone.” Adora laughs, was she high already?. Adora takes the joint.
“You know you don’t have to, if it’s not your thing.” Catra says. It wasn’t judgemental at all, honestly it was kind of reassuring. So adora picks up the joint and takes an inhale, and immediately starts coughing. After she catches her breath, she tries again and this time it goes down much more smoothly and was actually quite enjoyable. It’s not that Adora hasn’t smoked weed before, she just hasn’t done it often. She has enjoyed it the few times that she has, it helps her relax, which is surprising because Adora does not know how to relax. She unbends her leg and puts her arms behind her back. She looks up at the sky, then to Catra and thinks. Beautiful.
“So you're on the soccer team? What position do you play?” Perfuma asks, Adora looks to perfuma realizing that she was talking to her.
“Center midfielder, but I’m not sure where the coach is going to put me here… Actually I think I remember playing you last year at regionals.” Adora says
“Oh my god! I knew I recognized you from somewhere! You’re Adora “She-ra” Grayskull, leading the first ever community college to regionals. You’re amazing on the field, I can’t wait to have you on the team!” Perfuma says with the largest smile on her face. Adora rubs the back of her neck and blushes.
“Wow… I knew you were a jock but that’s impressive.” Catra says
“Thanks, ya I really love playing soccer, plus I never would have been able to come to Etheria U if it wasn’t for the sports scholarship so it’s really important to me.” Adora realizes that the joint has already made it back to her. She doesn’t feel very high yet so she decides to take another two puffs before passing it along.
“A bunch of us on the team are getting together to play at little scrimmage tonight after sunset, you should come. We reserved the field in the middle of campus, it’s nice and cool at night and it’s fun to play under the stadium lights.” Perfuma smiles, in the softest way.
“Ya sure that sounds great!”
Catra looks at Scorpia, who was doughy eyed staring at Perfuma. She nudges her, “Hey where’s Entrapta by the way?”
“Huh? Oh! She said something about re-wiring the electrical in her building because she wasn’t getting enough power in her room for her super computer.”
“Sounds about right” Catra nods, as Scorpia passes her the joint. Wow I feel like this thing is burning forever . They all continue smoking and chatting, and at some point hazel starts playing the guitar, they were actually pretty good. When the joint is finally finished, Perfuma get’s up.
“Thank you all for your lovely energy, but I must go tend to my flowers. Did you still want to come check out the new greenhouse Scorpia?” Perfuma asks with blush on her face.
“Yes!” Scorpia responds, a little too quickly. “Uh I mean ya, sure, coolio, for sure!” Perfuma holds out her hand in an attempt to pull Scorpia up. But that woman is all muscle, and almost pulls her down, before deciding to get up herself. “Catcha later Wildcat!! So glad you're finally here!” Scorpia says, smile beaming towards Catra.
Adora is cracking up laughing “Pfftt… WildC-”
“-Nope, nuh uh, no way Princess” Catra says putting a hand in Adora’s face. Adora just sprawls out on the grass.
“Ohhhhh myyyy goooodddd… I. Am. So. Hungry.” Adora says dramatically, Catra just starts laughing.
“And incredibly stoned apparently” Catra says through her laughter.
“Yeeeaaaahhh… are you not?”
“Kinda, but not that much, probably my tolerance. It sucks.” Adora’s stomach lets out a loud grumble.
“Wow, okay. Come on let’s get you some food.” Catra holds out a hand to pull Adora up.
“Yesss !!” The two wave goodbye to Hazel, and Tulip and begin walking towards the University dining hall.
“So how do you know Scorpia?” Adora asks trying to make small talk
“We went to highschool together, and we dated for a bit, but now we're just really good friends.”
Adora nods. “Do you think her and Perfuma?”
“Right?! I’m so glad someone else noticed! Honestly, I thought it was just me”
“No, the energy was incredibly flirtatious. Is that weird for you?”
“No not at all, we dated so long ago, plus I’m kinda glad. I kinda felt like Scorpia kept a crush on me for a while after we broke up. I’m glad she’s moving on.” Catra shrugs.
“Ya she seems happy.” Adora smiles, and it’s so genuine that it makes Catra smile too. “Oh my god ! We’ve been walking forever!! This campus is huge.”
“Honestly it’s been like 10 mins, you're just high. But ya it’s pretty big. At least I can be late for the first few classes and blame it on getting lost.” Catra chuckles
“What are you studying, by the way?”
“I’m a Fine Arts major.”
“Damn, doesn’t Etheria U have one of the most prestigious Fine Arts programs in the country?”
Catra shrugs “Ya honestly, I didn’t think I would get in. My grades aren't the best, but luckily they are mostly judging based off portfolio”
“Can I see your art?”
“Absolutely not.” Adora frowns dramatically “maybe one day, my work not up to the standard I want so I don’t feel comfortable really showing anyone”
“Okay! One day!” Adora beams
“What about you?”
“Honestly, I’m not really sure. I’m currently undecided, and just taking a bunch of courses I think might be interesting. Like history, film studies, environmental science etc. hopefully one of them is interesting enough that I’ll turn it into a major. I’m mostly here to play soccer though, that’s where my passion is.”
“I’ve never really been into sports, but maybe i’ll come to one of your games. See what all this hype about Adora “She-ra” Grayskull is all about.”
“I’d really like that” Adora smiles and turns her head slightly to the side. “And i’ll come to your art shows!”
“Freshman don’t really get art shows, but if it happens I’ll let you know.” Catra stops in front of a large glass building. “I think this is it”
“Finally I’m starving!!!” Adora practically drags Catra into the building. They both grab trays and make their way to the different food stations, luckily it’s a weird time just before dinner and it isn’t very busy. Catra grabs two slices of pizza, a salad, a soda, and some chips for later, and maybe some candy too, I mean ya she was kinda high. Then she looked over at Adora who was piling up food like it was about to topple over her tray.
“Okay, I know you’re high, but there is no way you're going to eat all that.”
“Honestly, I eat about like 60% of this on a regular basis, plus i’m high so add 50%. I work out a lot. I need to eat a lot.”
“Wow your really working the dumb jock stereotype aren't you.” Catra teases, Adora just shoves her in the shoulder playfully. They walk up to the cashier and use their meal points. It’s starting to get busier, with the dinner rush coming in.
“I hate being around a lot of people when I’m high”
“I have the perfect place we can go,” Catra says while asking the cashier for some take out containers. They put all their food in boxes, and Catra laughs watching adora shove a bunch of different food that probably shouldn’t be all mixed together in one box, while trying to cram the lid on. They leave the building and Catra looks at Adora, holding her gaze for a moment before speaking. “Wanna race?”
“Oh your on!” And Adora starts bolting down the path a box of food in both her hands
“Wow cheater! You don’t even know where we’re going!” Catra starts running immediately too. She may not exercise but she’s always been fast. And she’s quickly gaining on Adora. They’re running right next to each other and Catra makes a left. Adora almost runs past.
“Hey!” Adora quickly follows, but can’t catch up until Catra suddenly stops and Adora almost crashes into her. Adora has her hands behind her head trying to open her airways and catch her breath. Catra is breathing heavy too but she’s trying to make it look like shes not.
“Isn’t running supposed to be your thing as a soccer superstar?”
“Well, I would have totally beat you if you didn’t suddenly turn”
“Sure thing princess”
“Where are we anyways?” Adora looks up at the tall building, it’s really quite beautiful it looks like a mix of a modern and heritage building. With beautiful brick and stone work contrasting with newer metal and glass.
“Philosophy building”
“Why?”
“You’ll see, come on.” Catra leads them into the building and into the elevator. They take the elevator to the top floor and exit. Then Catra opens the stairwell, and they walk up a flight of stairs until they reach a ladder. “Here, pass up the food when I get up there” Catra hands adora her food. She climbs up the ladder, she reaches the top and pushes up a hatchet. Adora hands her all of their food and Catra put it on the side before climbing over. Adora follows suit, stumbling as she climbs off the latter onto the roof. When she looks up she is awestruck, you could see almost all of Etheria from up here. Not just the university, but most of the city skyline. Adora is frozen for a moment while she takes it all in. Then she notices Catra sitting with all their food near the edge of the building.
“How did you know about this place?” Adora says joining Catra on the floor
“Scorpia and Entrapta brought me here when I came to visit the University, I think they were trying to sway me into applying here”
“I guess it worked”
“Guess so, but don’t go telling other people about this place or else they are going to close it off”
“I promise, your secret is safe with me” Adora zips her lips and locks it
“God, you're such a dork” Catra hands adora her boxes of food. And Adora immediately starts stuffing her face. Catra starts laughing, almost choking on her pizza. “Slow down, it’s not a race”
“Sorry” Adora looks embarrassed “I have a really bad habit of practically inhaling my food” She tries to slow down. It helps that they are chatting back and forth while they are eating. Adora finds out that Catra grew up in Etheria, and Catra learns that Adora grew up in a small town called Thaymor a couple hours north. Catra’s never really heard of it, but honestly she’s never really left the city. The conversation flows very naturally, Catra feels incredibly comfortable which is new, she doesn’t typically feel that way around people. But something about Adora is so magnetic, she’s just so humble, honest, and good it’s hard not to trust her. They finished eating a while ago, and the sun is starting to set. They both turn around, sitting next to one another and watch as the sun slowly begins descending onto the horizon.
“Do you ever just feel like everything in the universe and all the people in your life are just guiding you. Y’know like trying to mold you into something, and you just want to break out and say F it.” Adora says staring at the pinks, and oranges starting to consume the sky
Catra turns to Adora and lifts an eyebrow “You mean fuck it? Honestly that’s my life model, I’ve never really been one for boxes. Lifes too short to not do what you want... What do you want, Adora?"
Adora looks surprised, like no one has ever asked her that before. She thinks for a while before responding. “Honestly, I don’t know. Never really thought about it, ever since I was a kid my parents told me I was destined for greatness whatever that meant. And after they realized I had a natural talent for sports, they put me in every club and team. I mean don’t get me wrong I am super grateful and I love playing soccer. I just wonder what else I would love, if I was given the chance to try. I just hate how everything is planned out in my life, and I feel like I just have to live it.”
“Honestly, I don’t believe in destiny”
“Really?! You don’t ever get that strange feeling that everything happens for a reason?”
“I’ve seen enough tragic shit to know that’s bullshit, nothing happens for a reason, we give reason to everything that happens. It makes it all just a little bit more bearable.” Adora looks at Catra like she just said the wisest thing in the world. “If you want to say fuck it, Adora, then do it, you deserve to want things in life, and do things just for yourself” Adora is still staring at Catra and smiling, the way the light is hitting her face makes it look like she’s glowing.
Adora takes a breath and then mumbles “fuck it”
“What?”
“I said fuck it”
“Sorry what? I couldn’t quite hear you” Catra teases
“Fuck it!” Adora says a little louder
“WHAT ADORA I CAN’T HEAR YOU IT’S TOO LOUD UP HERE!” Catra screams
“FUUCCCCKKKK IIITTTTT !!!!” Adora screams towards the sunset, as it finally dips into darkness.
“That’s more like it” Catra says with a smirk
“Wow… that felt really good” Adora sighs and lays on to her back to look at the stars, and Catra joins her. “Oh shit, I almost forgot about the soccer game. I should probably get going. Do you want to come?”
“Nah, I think I’m going to smoke another joint and stare at the stars a bit longer”
“Alright, I’ll see you at home then” Adora says getting up and walks back towards the ladder.
“See you at home, Princess”
Adora leaves the building and jogs across campus to get to the field, she thinks she’s running late, plus it’s a good warm up too. When she arrives she sees a group of people hanging out by the bleachers and notices Perfuma waving her down. She runs up to the group “Hey, I’m sorry I’m late kinda lost track of time”
“No worries at all, everyone just got here” Perfuma says with a smiles “this is a majority of the team” She gestures to the group “everyone, this is the legendary Adora “She-Ra” Grayskull”
“Damn! Well, coach has been talking you up, so excited to see what you’ve got. I’m Lonnie”
“I’m Glimmer!!”
“Mermista” she says, nonchalantly while flipping her long blue braid over her shoulder
“I’m Bee”
“And I’m Hunatara”
Adora tries to make a mental note of everyone's names.
“Let’s play a little 3-3 with Huntara in the goal?” Glimmer says, and everyone nods in agreement. “So… me, Adora and Bee, versus Perfuma, Mermista and Lonnie”
“Alright, newbie why don’t you start” Lonnie throws Adora the soccer ball. They all walk onto the field, Adora puts the ball in the center circle, and she’s off. Everything falls into place, like it always does when Adora is on the field, she’s dribbling the ball and Mermista runs up to her to try and take it. She quickly fakes out Mermista spinning around her, and she notices Glimmer is open and passes to her. Glimmer and Adora pass back and forth quickly for a while, while Huntara keeps turning her head between the two of them, not sure who's going to shoot. Then adora sees an opening and quickly kicks the ball into the top right corner of the goal just past Huntara’s fingers.
“WHOOO HOOO!! YAAAA” Adora turns her head to see two men sitting on the bleachers and cheering them on.
The game goes on for a while, no one is really keeping score, it's just for fun. Adora and Glimmer have this energy and they work really well together. Adora was surprised how a girl with pink hair, purple clothes and such a bubbly attitude could be so vicious on the field, it’s honestly impressive. It’s getting late and everyone is starting to get tired, so they all walk off the field to grab water.
“Oh damn, I forgot to bring a water bottle” Adora remembers
“Here have some of mine” Glimmer hands her the bottle
“Wow you two have crazy energy on the field, it’s like you're telepathically connected” one of the two men who were watching says, as they make their way towards them.
“Thanks!” Glimmer says blushing slightly, “Ya, you’re like really good Adora, I’m excited to have you on the team”
“Thank you too!”
“Glimmer are you blushing” Glimmer punches him in the shoulder, then when he makes a sad face she kisses him on the cheek.
“This is my boyfriend Bow, Bow this is Adora” She says, Bow takes Adora’s hand and shakes it quickly. The man next to bow with purple hair and very full mustache coughs, and strikes a pose with his hands on his hips, one foot on the bench and his head tilted towards the sky. “And this is Bow’s boyfriend Seahawk, who is also Mermista’s boyfriend.” Adora nods, That seems like a lot of work Adora thinks, not that she’s judging or anything.
“Not boyfriend! He’s just my ride home.” Mermista shouts from the other side of the bench, Seahawk quickly runs over to her, picks her up and spins her around.
“Ya, your ride back to the house that you live at together…” Glimmer says rolling her eyes
“Whatever” Mermista says in the most neutral tone. Everyone packs up their things, and starts heading out.
“Do you live on Campus?” Glimmer asks Adora
“Ya, in the North building”
“Sweet were headed that way too” Glimmer, Bow and Adora start walking away from the field. They make small talk about what they're studying, where Adora’s from, both Bow and Glimmer grew up in the city. Bow and Glimmer are incredibly kind, and Adora really enjoys their company.
“Hey! What’re you doing tomorrow night?” Bow asks
“Oh my god! Yes, that is such a good idea!” Glimmer says practically buzzing
“Uhh, what? Uhm nothing, I don’t really know anyone here besides my roommate, who I just met, so no plans why?”
“You have to come to The Heart of Etheria with us!!!” Glimmer pauses and stares directly at Adora, her and Bow both look so excited.
“What’s that?”
“It’s this epic queer afterhours party”
“With amazing DJs, drag queens, go go dancers, and tons of hotties” Bow chimes in
“Oh… uhm...am I allowed to” Adora asks shyly. Bow and Glimmer look confused. “You know… because I’m not…” Adora doesn’t know if she’s suppose to say the word queer.
“Wait… you're straight?!?” Glimmer asks shocked, Bow looks equally surprised
“Ya I guess…”
“Really?!? Cause you give off big dyke energy” Bow nods in agreement to Glimmers statement
“Why does everyone keep saying that?”
“I mean…” Glimmer gestures up and down at Adora. “Plus you go to Etheria U, it’s safe to presume everyone here is queer until proven straight”
“That wasn’t in the brochure” Adora says awkwardly rubbing the back of her neck. Glimmer and Bow both laugh.
“Honestly, it’s totally fine. The Heart is a very welcoming space, everyone’s allowed to come as long as you’re not an asshole” Bow says, putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
“Alright sure! Why not!” Adora says hesitantly, she’s never really been into parties, but she really wants to be friends with Bow and Glimmer. And well Fuck it She thinks to herself and smiles.