"Yeah, honestly, I'll be fine."

"Okay," she says uncertainly, then remembers what she was saying and recovers her stride: "Did you do the Geography homework?"

She blinks a few times. "What, the one for Monday? Nah, I'm gonna do it tomorrow. It's the rivers thing, right?"

"Right, but there's the Bronze tonight and a party tomorrow and I won't have tiiime for that," she whines.

"You won't have time to–" she starts, frowns, then continues, "I mean, yeah, the teacher's terrible, how dare they."

It's kinda half-hearted.

Brittany accepts this and praters on.

And Willow returns to Sadde and Theo's table.

Eva continues to try to pay attention to the conversation, inputting what she thinks when it's clearly appropriate, but she's not really as active a participant as usual.

"Hey Eva, are you coming to the party tomorrow?" Brittany asks.

"Uh…" she says, looking a bit blank, then snaps her fingers and says, "Yeah, I am."

"Wicked, we gotta pick matching outfits, then!"

"Sure," Eva responds, smiling again. "I'll text you about it tonight?"

When she's hopefully less tired? And hopefully doesn't want to just claw everyone for talking?

(She tries not to grimace. That would be unbecoming.)

"Great! I know just the thing," she says, and launches into a tirade about clothing, requiring little more than nods and appreciative noises, although Verity and Janet both interject to give suggestions, Janet not managing to hide her annoyance whenever Verity opens her mouth.

Ugh. She had almost managed to forget about their disagreement.

Fortunately, Erik's staying away right now. Right?

Because she glared daggers at him earlier, when he tried to bug her.

Didn't she.

Yes. Yes she did.

The clothing tirade is fun, though. Eva manages to pay attention to it pretty well.

At one point, Sadde will stand up and kiss Theo very publicly and passionately, and Brittany will notice. "Ugh, can you believe those two?"

Verity also seems a bit disgusted.

Eva looks over at the scene and then turns back to Brittany, smiling kinda sadly. "Yeah, it is a bit too much PDA, but I think it's kinda cute really."

She's not 100% sure why she's sad, but she is. It just seems... so... temperamental? Inflexible? ... Like it's going to snap in the wind? 

She's been wrong about this sort of thing before, but... she's not sure she's wrong this time.

And then they break off.

"Cute? They were practically eating each other. Ew."

Eva rolls her eyes. "They're not that bad," she says, smirking a bit.

"Uh, yeah?" She eyes Eva. "Eva, are you into boys kissing?"

"What's not to like?" she asks blithely.

She's also a bit of a tease.

"Well, it's—" She pauses and looks at the boys again and tilts her head a bit.

"It's...?" prompts Eva, smiling innocently.

She shakes her head. "Weird," she declares.

"Whatever you say," she says, smirking again.

She returns to her favored topics and they talk some more until lunch ends.