Chapter 3
Tuesday seemed to roll around quickly, Monday was Fromelles free day and she preferred to spend it completely removed from school work, it was normally the day she would spend with Matt. The three day weekend was probably every college student's dream, pidge was definitely jealous when she got her schedule.
Romelle opens the door to the art room and looks around realizing that she was early.The room smelt as if it had just been cleaned or something which made her nose crinkle up slightly, it was not a very nice smell. She went towards her desk where he partner would normally sit, she set down her huge sketchbook, got her pencil case out and stretched slightly.
Art class was the most chill, the basement of the college was all art rooms so you could have your music on and in some lessons be one of the only people in class.
Allura
Hey! Good morning, How are you
Romelle looked down at her phone and smiled slightly at the girls concern, she brushed her cheeks as they got a bit hot, she shook her head slightly and started typing something
I'm Good! How are you this early morning?
She untangled her headphones and started scrolling through her music to find something she could listen to while she was supposed to be doing her sketching. Normally she had a playlist that she would listen to in lessons but she couldn’t find it at this very moment and she sometimes had trouble motivating herself when listening to that playlist…..Today was one of those days.
Allura
I'm in serious need of coffee, whatcha up to?
FINALLY she found a good playlist on spotify,it wasn’t hers and it was only half an hour long but it was probably something she could vibe to while in lesson for a bit of time. She had her hair down today which was getting in her way slightly but she wasn't letting it bug her all too much. She didn’t really expect her teacher to show up until a bit into the class- she did have a long way to travel.
Just art class, it’s just me and clive
She looked up at the skull that had been left in the classroom and smiled slightly, skulls were something that most art students hated but kept it to themselves because heaven forbid you say that to an art teacher.
That's something she had never really understood about being in art class, why was the teacher always right.
Allura
Who's alive? Your teacher?
She had taken art so that she could have a much more freeing subject rather than being held down by the academic restrictions of the other students.
She looked up upon seeing the door open, the girl from the band thing walked in holding a big sketchbook with both arms. She seemed to be beaming with life which made no sense at this hour of the morning
She glanced over at romelle and smiled at her, romelle smiled back to avoid being rude
He’s the skull we have, previous art teacher
Ok what was the pretty girls name, the buff girl had yelled at her though she couldn’t quite place the names. She could remember xathrid somehow but this girl did NOT look like a zethrid.
“Hey uh romelle, right?” The girl asked putting her book down on a table near her, she twirled a piece of her dyed pink hair around her finger whilst leaning on the table. She was wearing the type of clothing that clearly hung off of her body- lazy art day clothing
“Yeah that’s me” she said
She must have looked confused somehow because she managed to figure out the whole situation with one glance “Im ezor, I messaged you a few days ago on instagram”
Ok It clicked
“Oh yeah now I remember” she said shrugging her hair away from her neck, she smiled up at the girl “You're the one with the amazing artwork”
Ezor looked away trying to hide a small blush “Thank you” she moved back to look at her and walked forward putting her hands on the desk where romelle was sat “Mind if sketch with you” her tone of voice dropped a few octaves when she asked that but romelle didn’t really register it as anything.
Romelle looked up at her and smiled “Sure, it doesn’t bug me”
Allura
That’s a joke right?
Actually I like both versions aha
She sat down next to romelle which gave her a smell of the perfume she was wearing, it was beautiful. She had this type of perfume that reminded her completely of summer which gave her a flood of memories of the summer before.
“Can I see some of your work? First year projects change every year and it's something fun to look at” she said, romelle looked at her before looking down at her book. She shrugged and slid it over towards ezor who flipped through it
Aha I get that, He’s just a study skull
For the next 4 and a half hours that's what they did, the two sat and did their college work, Ezor was working on some sort of tattoo design project. She really took her time with her work, in the time frame all she got done with a sketch and getting it completely outlined, apparently it would be coloured in her next class session. Honestly her work was highly impressive and made romelle think twice about her own art work.
Why had she taken so long to start talking to her?
She was a pretty fun girl and they shared common interests such as literature and collage art work. Zethrid was probably just a one off
Wait, was she falling for another girl?
“Earth to romelle”
Romelle shook her head hearing her name.
It had come from shay.
Shay was sprawled across their floor with her textbooks and notebooks all open, she was taking notes from one of them- she could not understand the need for all of them to be open at once. “Are you ok, you looked like you were in LA LA land” she said raising her eyebrow slightly at her “Got a boy on your mind?”
Uh
She was joking right
“You know I’m a lesbian right” she replied moving her hair back, shay shrugged and went back to doing her school work “Stranger things have happened”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” she asked raising her eyebrow slightly once again, she had completely neglected her schoolwork to actually figure out what was being said
“Oh nothing just matt randomly switching to being gay after dating you” she shrugged not really paying attention to the person she was talking to “This isn’t really going anywhere, It was just a thought”
Shay didn’t look up from her work while speaking to her, Romelle decided to just shrug it off. She sighed and went back to doing her art work, she had been working on this portrait for 2 weeks straight and she was finally nearly done with it. It was the colour of the background that was the only thing she needed to finish and she would be done.
Pidge spun around in her chair and looked over at romelle “So have you seen allura lately” she asked resting her chin on her hands, shay didn’t really seem to care or maybe she had earphones in.
Romelle fumbled around with the pencil she was holding for a second or two before looking up to actually answer the question, she wasn’t really sure how she was supposed to answer that question without sounding weird or creepy
“Well we have been texting back and forth over the weekend- we met up for coffee but that’s about it” she answered playing with the back of her hair, she seemed to like twirling it around her finger
Pidge nodded and gave her somewhat of a knowing smirk before turning back to her computer. Romelle looked at her before shaking her head and going to actually finish her artwork
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“Hey ro wait up” she turned, hearing her name get called, and Ezor was standing in the doorway with her hair down and wearing some sort of huge poofy skirt. She smiled at romelle and quickly walked over to her. “You have class?”
“Yeah, well I’m supposed to” she replied as they turned the corner towards where romelles class normally was. Even from far away she could see the note on the door but thanks to her tired eyes she couldn’t quite see it.
‘Sorry class I won’t be coming in- I do expect your portraits done by tuesday. Some studies would be nice’ - miss p
“So You’re free” ezor said putting her hands on fromelles shoulders and getting close to her ear, it made her jump slightly before laughing slightly
“Yes I do, what are you going to invite me to?” she asked turning slightly to look at the girl, she seemed to beam and went under romelles arm. She took a hold of the girls hands and smiled
“Coffeeeeeeeeeeee”
“I cannot argue with that logic” Ezor was smiling at that and practically dragged the girl out of the basement towards the door.
Turns out that Ezor had a really good taste in coffee shops, the same one that romelle often frequented. “So you like this place” Romelle said as they sat down holding their hot cups of coffee.
The girl laughed before nodding, she took a sip off her coffee before moving her hair behind her shoulder. She looked over at romelle as she took her bag off of her shoulder “Guessing you come here often, you called the barista by name”
Romelle had to look up and push her own hair behind her ear before nodding “Im uh kinda shy so I like it here” she zipped up her bag and pushed it off to the side and rested her arms on the table “So tell me about yourself, Why art?”
“Uh thats a hard one really” she replied taking a piece of her hair a twirling it around her finger for a second while looking off to the side, she looked back at romelle “I just wanted to do something that made me happy at college,I didn’t want to get really depressed”
Romelle nodded at her taking a sip from her coffee, she smiled slightly.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see someone with white hair, she had to shake her head a few times before she realised that it was real.
It was allura.
She was smiling and sitting comfortably, moving her hair behind her ear and sipping from her coffee without a care in the world
She was with this blonde girl who had both of her hands on alluras, from what romelle could see they were having a pleasant conversation...,.up until the girl went to kiss allura and allura didn’t push back.
“Hey romelle are you there”
Ezor was waving her hand in romelles face, she had a really cute smile on her face trying to gage what was going on
“Yeah sorry” she replied laughing slightly, she pushed her own hair behind her ear before looking up, once over at allura before looking back at ezor. “Random thought, lets get drunk”
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She still didn’t know how she had been so forward with Ezor, even now as she was styling her hair into something that wouldn’t get in her way. The messy bun was basically what she always went with and tonight was no different.
She looked at herself in the mirror while clutching the sides of her denim jacket, it was mainly for later on when it got colder, her main outfit was a flowy crop top and maxi skirt. She thought she looked ok, it wasn’t like anything was going to happen tonight
Lancey_lou
You sure about me and lotor tagging along with this mystery girl
Romelle sighed walking over to her cabinet, her phone was warm in her hand thanks to her leaving her music on for a prolonged period of time.
Yeh ur mainly to make sure I don’t do something stupud
Stupid I meant, promise im not drunk
She looked over herself once more before going to take a quick photo of herself, it was a cute outfit anyway so she could put it on something social media related later on. She looked through the photos for a second or two before going towards the door
Lancey_lou
Ok! We’ll meet you at campus entry
She smiled down at her phone and was on her way.
The sky was fading from a pink colour to the inky blue often seen at night but the breeze was still showing that summer was ligering. She hadn’t often been at the campus’ entrance at night, only when she had been drunk so she couldn’t really appreciate how the building looked, she would definitely have to come out some time to get some sketches of it
“Hey ro ro”
She looked up to see who was calling her, she half expected it to be lance as he had called her ro ro since middle school and nothing else. Instead she looked up and saw Ezor wearing a pair of shorts and matching midriff, hoop earrings and a big smile on her face.
“Hey, you look good,” she said standing up to meet her.
Ezor smiled and tucked a piece of romelles hair away,her hand grazed romelles face for a second or two before she put her hands down to her sides. She was smiling at the blonde girl as if nothing had happened
“Thanks, you look pretty good yourself” she replied walking past her,once again brushing against her side causing romelle to actually go red this time “So where are your friends?” she was standing looking at the gate with her back to romelle
This was a blessing in disguise because now romelle could compose herself and roll her shoulders back “They’ll be on their way” She responded walking to the girls side “Lance is bad at time keeping but Lotor keeps him on his feet”
“Lotor” ezor said, raising her eyebrow slightly “As in Lotor dribazal?”
“Uh yeah, why”
“Oh nothing” she shuffled around slightly looking off to the side
“No, it’s something”
She sighed and looked up at the sky “My friend Axca and him have a history” she said not looking away from the sky “He was part of our clique for a while until he just changed one day” she looked over at romelle, she was playing with a lip piercing that romelle hadn’t noticed since now “Our friend Narti fell out with him and we took sides- except axca, she knew he wasn’t into her but” she looked away again sighing “It was a really long time ago but he said some horrible things to her”
“Is that the same axca who’s dating Veronica?” romelle asked rubbing her arm looking at her awkwardly
“Mclain?”
She nodded “Uh veronica and I are like sisters, our mums were friends”
“I'm just happy axca managed to work through it” ezor said rolling her shoulders back slightly “It was not a fun time dealing with her”
“Ro ro”
They both jumped and turned to the right where lance was running at them, he seemed dressed up for once. Lotor was trailing behind him shaking his head slightly
“Hey lou lou” romelle called back walking towards him, he ran into her and wrapped his arms around her snuggling his head into her
“Guilty” lotor said putting his hands in the air “It was me texting, he’s too much of a light weight”
Romelle nodded slowly at Lotor, going to rub lance's head “I think it’s coke for you tonight!” she said as Ezor walked up to them “Oh uh lance this is mystery girl”
“You’re looking well lotor” Ezor said stiffly, romelle wasn’t paying attention to what she was doing being more focused on trying to get lance detached from her as best she could
“As are you, how is axca”
“Moved college so we don’t get the chance to talk as often”
“How about we get going” romelle said walking lance over to lotor before walking back to Ezor “Please”
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The lights were intense and the music was blaring, romelle was sure that she would be leaving here with a headache but it wasn’t a problem to her right now. Three drinks down and she was dancing with Ezor
“I love this song” she shouted to romelle as they both jumped and thrashed around, they had lost the boys hours ago so really it was just them.
“Same”
Ezor put her hands on romelles hips and pulled her closer, parts of the night blacked out of her memory but she could remember leaving with Ezor
“Here's your coffee” Ezor said gigging slightly when she put the cup down, her hair had fallen out of the style she had put it in by now
Romelle stood up, influenced by the many bottles she had that night, deciding she might as well take a chance. She broke the space between her and Ezor, taking a hold of her face and kissing her. There was no push back instead Ezor was all for it, grabbing at Romelles shirt practically dragging her back towards her bed.
They stopped getting to the edge “No regrets” Ezor whispered before the space was broken between them, she shook her head so her hair wasn’t in her way
“No regrets” Romelle responded, with that Ezor was back all over her. She ran her hands up romelles sides under her shirt feeling around for her bra, once she found it she made quick work to have it undone.
Romelle let it fall before pulling her shirt off of her body and throwing it to the floor, at the same time Ezor was making work of her own shirt throwing it to the same place where romelle had thrown hers.
Ezor put her hand in Romelles and pulled her closer again so that their bare chests were touching, sending chills up both of their spines. Ezor breathed down her neck while trying to get her jeans properly undone, the belt seemed to cause her an issue but it was a small issue.
Once again Ezor was running her hands up romelles sides before pulling her backwards onto her bed
No regrets