would you please come back, help me out
From underneath her blanket, Kara awoke, swinging her legs off the couch to groggily get ready, feeling the imprint of her sweater against her face. Glancing at the clock she realized it was already 11.24. Crap, I'm gonna be late, she thought before remembering the reason she awoke in her sister's apartment. "How can I keep forgetting I got fired," she mumbled to herself, yawning. As she walked over to the kitchen she thought back to the portraits she still had in her car, making a mental note to bring them inside at a later point in the day.
After starting to brew some coffee, Kara sat down at the couch and put on The Real Housewives of New York to wait for Alex to wake up as it was a Sunday and neither her nor Maggie had work that day. Aside from the general pettiness each housewife was guilty of, Kara genuinely enjoyed watching the show as it offered her a different perspective into the lives of other humans. Although she had lived half of her life on Earth, it still fascinated her to see the more or less daily lives of people other than the Danvers.
Soft footsteps padding down the hallway shook her from her thoughts and as she looked up she saw a very messy haired Maggie making her way to the kitchen. "Good morning Maggie," she smiled at the girl. "Morning," Maggie returned, stretching, "I still don't understand how you can like that show."
"It's not that bad," Kara shrugged, getting up and walking over to the coffee machine, urging herself mentally not to drink directly from the coffee pot as she was accustomed to doing. As she got two mugs out from the cupboard her thoughts wandered to her artworks still in her car and figured that as she pretty much had time to kill she'd she to it to find a place for them. "Hey, um, Maggie," she stuttered out, immediately feeling nervous as she spoke, and even more so when Maggie raised an eyebrow at her, "Would i-it be alright if I kept a few paintings here in the meantime, y'know until I find another place to keep them?"
Although Kara had heard lots about Maggie from Alex and had actually met Maggie prior to Kara moving in, she still felt rather nervous around her. Especially now that she was staying with them after losing her crappy job due to a hiccup in alternating between being Supergirl, an artist, and working a minimum wage job.
"Of course you can, do you want some help bringing them up?" Maggie offered, pouring coffee into both hers and Kara's mugs. "Oh no it's fine, thank you though," Kara smiled, taking a sip from her coffee. As soon as she finished hers, Kara put the mug in the sink and exited the apartment, descending down the winding stairs.
Kara's paintings were always on the larger side, making it difficult to grab several of them at a time, but of course, she managed, albeit awkwardly. As she begins to walk up the stairs again, a woman is walking down, which complicates things because for one, the paintings really are of a considerable size and leave little room in the staircase for other people, even on their side. Meeting the woman's gaze, Kara's hands begin to slip as she gapes at her; she's beautiful. Her eyes are a deep green but hold a certain tenderness as Kara unabashedly stares at her, but as she walks, the portraits slip from her grasp, all but tumbling down the stairs. Torn from her thoughts, Kara nearly stumbles as she retrieves the fallen canvases.
"Oh my goodness, let me help you with that," the woman hurriedly reaches for the paintings, handling them as best she could given their size, and hands them to Kara. "Thanks," she nervously laughed, "I guess I was zoning out." The woman chuckled and gave a look of disbelief of sorts, "It's no problem.." she left the sentence to hang in the air, asking for her name.
"Oh! Kara, my name's Kara, Kara Danvers," she rushed, extending one hand while battling with the portraits in the other. "Kara.." she said thoughtfully, shaking her hand firmly, "Lena, it's nice to meet you," Almost in incredulity, Kara gazed at her, "Lena Luthor, Lex's sister?" Kara didn't fail to notice how Lena almost winced at her words, yet nodded, giving a dry smile, "Yeah, that's me." They stood in awkward silence for a moment or two before Kara hesitantly spoke, "So um, I'll see you around? I'm gonna be staying in apartment 4C for a while if you ever need anything! Thanks a lot for helping me out and stuff." Lena found Kara's nervousness endearing, if not downright adorable, allowing a small smile to grace her lips, "I'll look forward to it."