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It's the Saturday before classes start. Ellie has been driving all day, but it's worth it for an entire three months out of the house. And she even drew a single in the dorm lottery, so there's that. It's tiny, but she doesn't have to share.
Suitcases on the bed, she starts unpacking into the dresser that lives underneath. Tops here, pants there, hanging things in the closet. Computer can go on the desk, and then notebooks into the drawers.
Shoulder bump. "You're great, and I love you, and I super don't care if even the people I like decide to get worried or that they disapprove or whatever. I am an adult. And - my family-ish knows that, even if they sometimes think I'm an adult who makes baffling choices."
"Foster dad might try to give you the shovel talk, though. I think he thinks it's funny."
"Yeah, I've told him, though I don't usually date other wielders. So his usual is 'if you break her heart, I'll help her hide the body.'"
"Mostly it was prearranged endings to flings. Five night stands, and all that. A lot safer to date someone who's moving across the world in a month."
She giggles uncontrollably for a bit.
"Noooooo. You're my Ellie. Hold onto you forever."
Snugs!
Ruby's in the mood to get a bit of noisiness out of her system. Screaming under someone else's roof is probably rude or something, after all...
Mmmmm yes.
And, the next morning: winter break! Ruby has at some point acquired a somewhat twee suitcase with stickers from assorted places she's touristed with Ellie, which sets a weird contrast with her red miniskirt, black leather jacket, and collar. She's outside of Ellie's door almost as soon as Ellie wakes up, grinning and bouncing.
Kiss. "I can try to tone down the cheeriness in the face of the dreaded morning. Wanna hit a breakfast place on our way?"
Pancakes it is, then! And coffee, of course, for a good start to the day, and only really settling in to travel once Ellie feels more awake.
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