Location; Brenna's Dorm → The Party
Interacting With; Eachother
@Smarty0114@FacePunch@BeastofDestinyMood; Happy →Scheming → Sinister → Excited
Mood; Awkward → Unsure → Reassured → Terrified
Mood; Ecstatic → Curious → Feeling Sorry → Daring
Brenna's day had gone from great to amazing when Gia's text came in on her phone. She'd spent the rest of the day after Gia's departure shopping in Town Square, with James and her new "friend" Kayla. To find out that there was a party to crash, well, that made everything that much more fun. Luckily, she'd bought a new dress. Fate had a funny way of having things work out like that.
Currently, she was in the dorm that she shared with Carmen, although instead of the feisty hero, James and Kayla were there instead. She turned to her companions, a look of mischievous delight on her face.
"Kayla, it looks like your hero friends are throwing a bash, but they don't want any Delphina's showing up? Seems a bit discriminatory to me. Think you can help me and Jamesy here get in?" she said, smiling at Kayla.
Today had been an overwhelming success for James. The Delphina freshman had gotten to spend an entire day following his crush around Town Square. Sure, shopping was probably the least interesting activity on the planet. But Spider-Boy knew how to entertain in even the most boring situation. The day had been made even better when Spinne learned that Gia wouldn't be coming with them.
Ah man, can this day get any better? He'd wondered. Oh, but it could. It definitely could get better; because it totally did. When the trifecta arrived back on campus, Brenna had gotten a text from her mentor. Apparently the Mayweathers were holding a heroes only party that night. And Delphina was planning to crash it. Lancaster was busy convincing Kayla to smuggle her and James into the party. She was likely well aware that Spinne could rather easily get them all up on the roof. His powers were sort of perfect for this kind of thing. But getting the hero to do was oh so much more fun. He chose not to speak
quite yet; he wanted to see Kayla's reaction to the request before he worked his magic.
Kayla's day was a little different from the others. While she did have a fairly good time shopping with Brenna and James, she felt that everything had progressed from a series of awkward state to awkward state. First she could begin by the awkward and uncomfortable feeling she felt when that girl had bumped straight into Gia earlier. Second would have been when she completely failed to notice James' initial presence, she felt so blind and stupid; she must have apologized at least a hundred times throughout their day and interactions afterwards. Third would have been James' presence while shopping, she tried on plenty of cute outfits, outfits she thought looked really nice on her, but she felt embarrassed having to show them to another guy; though to be fair she felt embarrassed showing them off to Brenna too. Despite all of this, she felt happy, happy to be with people, even if she felt she was a wet blanket at times. It was nice to have powered friends. She even bought herself a nice dress, a little shorter than she normally would have gone for, but Brenna made it clear just how good it looked on her, and for once, Kayla's confidence skyrocketed.
That was when she found out about the heroes only party, 'No Delphinas allowed' and Brenna asked if there was some way
she could get them in. Kayla didn't know what to say, she felt frozen. She wanted to be cool, to tell them
'Sure, I can get you in that party, I know everybody at this school,' but what actually came out of her mouth was...
"I...I don't know if I can...I'm not exactly part of the...in crowd with the students here..." She felt like a loser, what if they thought she was a loser? She felt uncomfortable, unsure of what their reactions would be to this discovery, its not like she had made herself out to be cool, but she never defined herself as uncool either.
Brenna smiled sweetly at Kayla's response. Of course she wasn't part of the in crowd, if she was then she wouldn't have been hanging out with her and James. For a moment, deep down, Brenna felt just a pang of guilt, for turning this girl into their unwitting informant. She knew what it was like to be an outcast, of course she did. Growing up with powers in the middle of New York hadn't been a fairy tale, so she could only imagine what it was like, going to a school surrounded by extraordinary people, only to be decidedly ordinary.
However, the guilt was quickly pushed down, far into the reaches of her mind, into the place where she put all unnecessary things.
"Honey, this is a party being thrown by Avalon Middleton and Samantha Youngblood, some of the most anti-Delphina people here, but also some of the most pro-Mayweather. It doesn't matter if you're not popular, those girls will let you in just because you enrolled at the right school," she replied, still smiling.
Not even waiting for another response she reached into one of the many shopping bags from the day at Town Square and pulled out a short black dress. Tilting her head to one side, she looked at her two companions, and with a sultry smile, stated,
"I think I'll wear this,""You...really think so?" A small smile crept up on Kayla's lips before retreating into a questioning frown,
"Even so, that only means I can get in, how will you two get into the party?"Kayla's response was as expected. James felt sorry for the poor girl. Here she was with barely any friends and the only people to come along and give a damn abou her are a pair of manipulative assholes. This was one of the suckier parts of the villain gig; for Spinne, it was right up there with hurting innocent people, a thing he utterly loathed. But it was necessary. At least, everyone he cared about said it was necessary, so he believed them and went along wiht it. He was determined to do this differently, though. He wasn't going to use Kayla and toss her aside once she had done what Gianna needed. He'd cultivate a genuine relationship with the girl. Sure, there wasn't a chance they'd ever be 'real' friends; but staying in touch was the least Arachnid could do after all of this was over with. James sat on the wall, his feet glued to it under him to keep from falling, all the while listening to Brenna as she worked her magic.
"All this Mayweather versus Delphina stuff is stupid." James chimed in.
"It doesn't accomplish much of anything other than stress everybody out. I mean, what's the point in fighting over nothing?" He finished with a shrug, not exactly sure what his own point was.
"Annnyyway. Party. Getting in. I assume plan A is to talk our way in? 'Cause I know I'm plan B." James tried his best to explain;
Brenna is way better at this strategery stuff...Is that how you say it? Strategery...Strat..egery.. The Spider-boy's mind snapped back to reality as Lancaster pulled out one of the dresses she had bought while they were at Town Square.
"You'll look great in it. Well, you'd look great in anything. But whatever." Or without anything. Heheheh- NO. Bad brain! Stop it! "Speaking of clothes, I'd better go get changed. I'll meet you girls back here? Yes? Okay." James manuevered over to the window, pushing it open. He gave the two a wave and allowed himself to fall out.
"WOOOOHOOOO- Where am I going? My dorm room is down stairs!" Spinne's shouted, his voice growing distant as he swung around to the other side of the building.
Kayla was unsure of what to make of James. He seemed funny, but very...unusual, almost out of place. Were all Dephinas like this? Despite his personality though, she had to agree with him, this feud between the Mayweathers and Delphinas was stupid. Why couldn't everyone just get along?
"He seems...nice." Her attention returned to Brenna, holding the black dress up to herself.
"I- I think it'll look great on you," she smiled softly before reaching into her own bag, pulling out the
dress Brenna had suggested for her.
"Do you think this will be okay to wear? It seems a little...revealing..." It wasn't that she doubted her new friend's judgement, but Kayla was feeling somewhat hesitant to wear the dress in front of her classmates, especially other boys.
Brenna smiled as James exited the room, biting her lip lightly. Turning to Kayla as the blonde mentioned James, Brenna chuckled.
"He's something alright," she said wistfully, before snapping herself back to the task at hand. There was a party to crash, and a Mayweather informant to gain. This wasn't the time to dwell on James.
When Kayla pulled out the dress, one of the ones that Brenna had recommended when they were out shopping, Brenna grinned and clapped her hands together.
"Trust me! It'll look phenomenal on you! I promise. Would I lie to you?" she said, smirking as she posed her rhetorical question.
With that settled, Brenna began to get ready. She changed into her dress for the party without even bothering to go somewhere more private. It was a show of confidence, aided by the Ice Queen's complete lack of inhibitions. She was showing off what she knew she had to Kayla, Brenna's way of showing her dominance. Once she'd changed into the dress, she flashed Kayla a smile and went to work, fixing her dark hair, and touching up her makeup. She grinned at her face in the mirror, thouroughly impressed with how great she looked.
Satisfied that she looked great, she slipped into a pair of black heels, then focused on Kayla.
"Okay Kayla. Let's make sure nobody forgets you tonight," she said, pulling the girl in front of the mirror, and standing behind her, a wicked grin on her face.
"Tonight, you're Cinderella, and I am your extremely well dressed fairy godmother, who's going to make you look great. But first, change into that dress. No dilly dallying, I've got a lot of dancing to do tonight.""No I suppose you haven't..." Kayla said timidly. If Brenna had no doubts to the dress Kayla wore, then why should she? Her mind contemplated the decision briefly before it snapped to attention as Brenna began to disrobe herself, putting on her own dress. Kayla blushed heavily, looking away in embarassment as her new friend confidently dressed herself. In a way, Kayla felt like a tiny bunny in this lioness' den. She clutched her white dress tightly to her chest before being pulled in front of Brenna's mirror, once again stripped from her mind.
"W-w-wait, you want me to change here? Now?!" 'Oh boy...'
Kayla walked alongside Brenna, following the girl to the heroes only party. Two thoughts ran through her head, one, that Brenna had actually done a really good job applying the makeup, she actually felt...really pretty. The second, how in the heck were the two of them going to get inside the
heroes only party. Kayla knew she wouldn't have any issues, but Brenna on the other hand...no she couldn't think like that, she didn't want to disappoint her new friend. She walked as confidently as she could, but as much confidence as she could muster was clutching her arm nervously, anxiously awaiting the encounter with the bouncers, the Dewey Brothes, that lead to the rooftop of the old east buillding.
As the two of them entered the building and headed upstairs, Kayla was surprised to find that there was nobody waiting for them. Not only that, but the door was propped open. Confused, she turned to Brenna asking,
"Where is everyone?"Brenna was as confused as Kayla was. Her head was cocked to the side as she surveyed the empty path up to the party.
"It seems like the bouncers have abandoned their posts," she said. She looked at Kayla with a smirk before whipping out her phone.
"Lemme just tell Jamesy we're here so he can come meet us. Then we can make our debut," she said, fingers already tapping away at her phone.
To:Spinne
Hey, we're going in now. Hurry up ;)
After sending the text, Brenna hooked her arm around Kayla's and walked into the party, grinning as she saw the mess of people. She spotted Gia dancing with that telekinetic, Will, and Sam looked ready to explode. The Deweys were there, practically assaulting the atmokinetic and her little lap dog, Avalon. Turning to Kayla with a grin, Brenna dragged her to the dance floor, with just two words.
"Let's dance!'But I don't know how! Kayla screamed in her mind as she was dragged off to the dance floor.