Cool, Researchy Girl! | Janelle, Open |

She looked up from her page, which was oddly enough a good thing, considering the scary looking vampire on the page. That thing had fangs the size of shark teeth! This book was black and white, with minimal pictures and yet here Shoshana was, still getting scared from these kinds of things. It was terrible, she was hoping the more comfortable she was with it all the better she would get a grasp on it. But it was a lot to take in, and knowing that any moment a vampire could lunge and attack her was disheartening, to say the very least. She hoped Janelle would always be close by. She smiled up at her friend, who commented on how boring this was. She knew this wasn't Janelle's kind of thing, it was hers. Janelle wasn't the one who was getting high grades at school, or even put in a lot of effort. But that's what friends like Shoshana were for, right? Janelle helps keep her alive, and she will help Janelle get good grades. It balanced itself out in a, 'my life is worth as much as Janelle getting good marks,' kind of way. But she wasn't complaining, anything to keep herself from being vamp food on the next night.

She smiled softly towards Janelle, trying to not focus on the fangy vampire in the book. She decided to put the book down, for her own sake. She didn't need anymore nightmares as it was! "If you call...Uh...Looking at books with pictures of vampires with fangs the size of shark teeth, I would hate to know what is exciting for you. Actually...I won't even ask." She exhaled softly, knowing full well that Janelle would go through much more excitement, and Shoshana would probably follow. She had already been through enough excitement as it was nearly becoming some vampire's evil love mistress. Oh, that would be so terrible on all levels. She wasn't made out to be anyone's mistress at the moment, let alone some evil vampire love mistress! Luckily she would be evil and probably wouldn't be in control because that could just be so awkward. What if the vampire didn't even want her anymore? What, she would just get kicked to the side or something? Why was she even considering these things?

She gasped softly as she looked up at Janelle again, surprised. Go to the club? She did go there, but didn't think Janelle would want to go there with her. But then again, you bond in weird ways. These two bonded over Shoshana nearly getting killed by a vampire. It happens, she was sure. "Sounds great! Count me in. It will be safe right, no more vampire attacks? Would be nice to have a normal night out around here..." It was seemingly becoming something difficult to ask for it seemed. She smiled nervously towards her friend, she really wasn't sure what to say. "On my part, a lot of very awkward dancing. You know we could always just sit down and watch the people dance, or just hide in the corner somewhere, that could work too...And guys? Oh...Uh...I dunno, me and guys just lead to very awkward situations. Like 'oh Shoshana can you tutor me tomorrow' rather than 'hey Shoshana wanna grab a drink!' kind of awkward. One guy even asked why I was wearing a similar cardigan to his grandma..." She frowned softly. Maybe she had bad fashion sense, but her parents did go shopping with her and they had very firm taste on what she should be wearing. So it was either picking a whole lot of grandma clothes, or a whole lot of grandma clothes. Grandma clothes were sounding good!

Feeling defeated, she gave in. "If we really have to go, we can. Just promise me you won't run off and leave me, especially if any guys start talking. I think I preferred being attacked by a blood thirsty vampire. At least I felt wanted that way. Wanted in a 'I'm running for my life because he wants my blood' kind of way. Well it was a change to not being wanted at all she supposed.

As Janelle spoke about hot older men, she felt slightly intimidated by the whole idea. She couldn't say she was into hot older men. Well the hot part, yes, but older men, not so much. It was good in a way because they were 'experienced' and could help her out with it all, but at the same time, it was intimidating because she would feel so useless because she would be new to this whole thing and would feel like some kind of idiot. They would expect so much of her and she wouldn't even know what they are expecting!  Her type was probably some boy her age who was new at this too and they could experience this whole new thing together. She would like that, even though it might not be as good, it was the old fashioned way and she felt it made them closer because they both hadn't done anything before and therefore their first time would be with each other and they would never see anyone else. She had always dreamt of something like that, a knight in shining armour to take her off her feet, but she knew in reality it never really happened and had basically lost hope in that whole idea.

She smiled with relief as Janelle stated that there would be no vampires. She knew it was out of control whether a vampire did appear, but it was encouraging nonetheless for Janelle, a vampire slayer, to say that there would be no appearances of them. After everything that happened, she knew that it would be good to have a quiet night and just hang with Janelle, and she felt that Janelle was feeling the same way. "That's good to know, because I've had one too many vampire experiences in the last week. How do you continually do this? I can barely sit through one scary movie, let alone watch another one not long after!" She sighed softly, knowing that it was Janelle's destiny for that. She was relieved in that way of it not being her who had to be the slayer. The powers that be would've made a poor choice in making her a slayer. She would be known as the cowardly slayer and probably get killed in her first battle before she even killed a vampire. That would be her. Luckily, Janelle got the gig. Though it was unlucky too, for her friend Janelle because she didn't want to see her get hurt. But if vampires hadn't of been involved, would she have even met Janelle and bonded with her and became friends?

She knew Janelle was right with what she was saying, but it was still hard. She had a comfort zone. Vampires with big fangs trying to kill her...Way way outside of this comfort zone! "Well...Living in fear knowing I won't have vampire fangs in my neck sounds pretty good to me. Other than the alternative, of well...Being killed by a vampire. Fear is good, yes. Fear me up! I need to work on this fear thing when I'm around vampires, I think the screaming only makes it worse..." She sighed feeling defeated. She hoped in time she would be more used to this and be able to cope with the whole vampire thing and be some kickass sidekick to Janelle. That would be cool. Though that would mean she would have to fight vampires, and that could be bad. She was the one who felt the emotions and sensed danger. She could tell Janelle if there was danger, and then run away and hide, yeah? That was using her powers for good, she was liking this idea!

She raised an eyebrow at Janelle's comment of encouragement about guys liking her for more than her brain. "There are guys like that?" She asked curiously, but being serious. She hadn't seen any so far. Sure, she had a best friend who liked her for more than her brains, but they were friend zoned. She hadn't actually had a guy be romantically attracted to her because of something other than her brain. Definitely not her 'grandma cardigans,' as they were referred to. As Janelle mentioned lending her some of her own clothes, her eyes lit up, and looked over at her friend again. "You would do that? Oh, that would be great! Just not something too...Showing, okay? I would probably be grounded for a week if my parents saw me going out in something like that. They are strict on the whole...Clothes to skin ratio. That's with skin being just...Well, the head." They were bad like that, but they were only looking out for her best interests, she supposed. Maybe they should've implemented a rule about staying clear of vampires! That one definitely would've helped, even though she had little choice in the matter.

She smiled nervously about Janelle's suggestion of breaking guy's faces if they were mean to her. "You don't have to do that, really. I can handle it. After all, you get used of all the comments after, you know, twenty times of hearing them." She did smile though at Janelle's encouragement that it would be them two all night. "That's okay Janelle. I don't want to stop you from having fun by being all boring and all. If you want to go and talk to a guy, I can just sit at the table and entertain myself. I'm used to doing that, anyway. Even just having you hang with me a little bit is nice." She really didn't have any girlfriends, so it was nice that Janelle was so interested in hanging with her and going out. It made her feel wanted in that way, if only more people felt that way. But she always believed that having one or two best friends was better than having a lot of people who weren't really friends, at least not that close. And she really did believe this was the truth.

She nodded on when Janelle spoke about not really having much choice in continuing on with this, and she felt rather stupid because she should have realized that Janelle didn't really have much of a choice in all of this, which must be really hard on her. Sure, she could walk away and be like, "good, you can fight evil yourselves!" In a less cheesy way, of course. But then the problem would arise of innocents dying and she knew Janelle probably wouldn't be able to live with something like that. She felt the same. She had the choice to scream like a little girl and run and hide and not want any part in this. But she chose to have a part in this, because she believed that was why she had the gifts she was given. In many ways, she was meant for this just as Janelle was. Though in a less physical role, preferably away from vampires or scary dead/undead things. And none of this choosing to take part in this was going to change the fact that she would still scream like a little girl and go run and hide. But, she was being proactive and was helping! Helping was always good. Even if it wasn't much, she hoped it would still be enough for Janelle in any case. That's what friends are for, right?

She smiled excitedly as Janelle mentioned getting a cape. "Hey! Now Theres an idea! We could get capes custom made just for us, with like a picture of holy water on the back and then we can say 'vampires beware' and all those cool things superheros say in the movies..." She continued to smile cheery, before frowning softly, not sure how Janelle would take her suggestion of the capes. "I've been watching too many black and white superhero movies again, haven't I?" She asked softly as she looked on at Janelle. Well, they were still good in this day and age, for her at least! Or we can just have normal capes and I can just be researchy girl, that works too." She was excited about having a cape though, but assumed that it would probably be a bit overboard and Janelle really wasn't taking the whole cape thing seriously. Well a girl could dream!

She cringed softly at Janelle's rather in-depth description of vampires and killing them. "I'm more of a silver girl myself. Then again, its not everyday you can score yourself a pair of vampire fangs, fresh from the market! Or mouth...Whichever works. I think I will stick with the silver though, just the thought of having those teeth so close to my neck...My earrings will be giving me nightmares. And not the chased around the park by evil clown type nightmares either..." And they were scary in their own right! She did smile though at Janelle's reassurance that nothing would be happening to her. "Aww. And here I was thinking friends were just for hanging with and support. I've got a friend who rips fangs from vampire's gums and makes them into jewellery! You know, most people usually start out on simple things like...Beads. Not things that are so...Sharp, and icky." She smiled faintly. She did like Janelle's choice of descriptions though, as frightening as they may be at times because Janelle could actually be serious about the whole thing.

She chuckled softly as Janelle spoke about her apparent 'hotness.' "Oh, but its usually me tripping...Right in front of guys, and then I get laughed at. Definitely no guy tripping over my way!" She did feel slightly scared at Janelle's remark about removing some of the cleavage. She wasn't sure, and especially since her parents wouldn't know about it, it was like lying to them wasn't it? She would feel so bad! What if she got caught? "I dunno..." She spoke softly, looking around. But she knew she wouldn't have much say in the matter because she could feel how determined Janelle was about this, and just decided she would at least give it a go. She still felt bad about hiding it from her parents. "There is fun outside of sitting alone at a table?" She asked, though she did realize there was in many ways. Of course there was! There had to be. There was a reason she was usually caught frowning alone, while everyone else was having fun and enjoying themselves.