Football, Hockey, and Girlish Consultations

Who: Alexis and Drea
When: between classes
Where: school

Drea could not wait for the school day to be over. The weather outside was oppressive, and it was making her want to curl up under her desk and nap. All the heat and the droning teachers weren't helping that any, either. Not to mention the fact that she was kind of looking forward to going shopping with Dean after it. If he showed up, and didn't bail on her. Not that he would, but you couldn't ever really bank on shy guys to do what you expected them to. If he did, she'd just ... find something else to do. Maybe try and find Lily, who was cool. The bell interrupted her thoughts and she jumped up along with everyone else to file out of the room into the bustling hallway and beat a path toward her locker.

In deciding she was going to work her way up the social hierarchy, Alexis realized that this also meant talking to people. Actually working to be social. Generally, she just sat back and let it ride, but she wasn't meeting people very fast in this fashion. Making the dance team would help, should that actually happen, but she probably needed to cultivate the friendships she'd barely just touched on. She knew how things went if she didn't, and she knew that wouldn't get her very far. So when she spotted Drea in the halls, whom she hadn't seen since helping her pick out a homecoming dress, she walked up beside her to say hello. "How was homecoming?" she asked with a smile, hoping Drea would remember her at least.

Drea looked slightly startled to be talked to all of the sudden, but then Alexis' scent caught up to her and recognition really kicked in. It only took a second. "Hi!" she said, a grin breaking out on her face. "Alexis, right? It was okay. I mean good, it was good. Scary as hell, but good and kinda fun, how are you?" She tucked her thumbs into her backpack straps, looking pleased that the girl had remembered her enough to come and say hi. She wasn't making huge gobs of friends very quickly here, and it weirdly seemed that girls were gravitating to her for some reason. Not that she was complaining, it was just interesting. They were all pretty and smelled nice, so yeah.

"Alexis," she nodded. "Drea? Why was it scary? Did the dress work out?" she laughed. She remembered that Drea had been going with a friend and had been uncomfortable about having to wear a dress. Hopefully the dress wasn't the problem. "I'm good. Thinking about trying out for the dance team after school today. So kind of nervous too. Hopefully I'll make the team." She wasn't so sure she would, but that was partially because she didn't know the process or what he competition looked like. She'd been asking around though, and everyone had been encouraging enough.

"Oh yeah, the dress was a huge hit, everybody said it looked great," Drea assured her with a warm grin. 'Everyone' had been Eben and Lily, mostly, but hey. That was two more than she probably would've gotten if she'd done the picking-out herself. "I really owe you one. I just forgot about shoes? So I had to wear my knock-off Doc Martens, but that seemed to work too, and at least my feet weren't murdering me by the time I got home. Dance team, huh? That's awesome! Good luck and everything. I can't dance for crap, so I hope it works out for you." She stopped her own rambling and just smiled. She wondered if there were any girl-sports she could get into here, she needed some extra-curricular.

"Shoes!" Alexis said, having not thought of them at all. If she'd been in Drea's place there would have been a huge panic and a last minute rush to the store. Hearing the girl had worn her Doc Martens instead earned a laugh and a shake of her head. "You know, I think you could pull it off. And you're right, your feet wouldn't be killing you when the night was through. You're probably the only girl that went that could say that." She knew if it had been her, she'd have just spent half the dance barefoot, rather than deal with hurting feet. "You'll have to come see us if I make it. I've heard they perform at the sporting events-- football and hockey. Course I'm a bit confused as to where they perform at hockey, since it couldn't be on the ice."

Drea laughed. She probably was the only girl who's feet had survived the night intact and comfortable. But that was just their loss, whatever. "I dunno, maybe they roll out a carpet or something?" she suggested, wrinkling her nose up a bit. She hadn't ever seen a dance team perform at a hockey game, but at her old school, there'd been plenty of other sports to shake their asses at. Marquette High seemed to be lacking a bit in the athletics department. Maybe because they were up in BFE Nowhere and it was hard to get anyplace for games. She shrugged. "But I totally will come see you guys. This other girl I met, Lily? She said she dances too, maybe she'll be on it."

"Kyle mentioned her too," Alexis said, thinking back to her conversation with her lab partner. "Hopefully I'll meet her this afternoon. I still feel like there's so many people I just don't know." Of course, school had been closed for a while when the vampires had come through town-- and her father had taken her out of town to wait that out. This year seemed to be chaotic, but it wasn't anything too out of the ordinary, at least for her life. "Have you found anything to join yet?" she asked, even if that might not be Drea's thing.

She didn't know who Kyle was, but then again, she didn't know who most people were in this school. Drea made a face. "Eh, not really. Haven't been looking too hard, though. I mean, there's a girl's basketball team, but that's not really my sport, y'know? I'd lovelovelove to join the hockey team, and this dude Gabe said that if I beat him again he might put a good word in for me, but I kinda doubt that'll fly. Sexism runs rampant on the ice," she said with an eyeroll. "So I dunno yet. I'm not really ... good at anything else."

"Well, that's kind of a sport where they're rough, you know? Joining the football team might give you the same kind of problems," Alexis said. Maybe she was wrong, but Drea looked like she was small enough to absolutely get pounded in a game of hockey or football. Then again, she'd heard of it being done, but that was always in bigger cities where someone made a stink about women's rights. "I'm sure there's something," Alexis said, though it didn't feel helpful. "Track and field, maybe? Are you a runner?"

"I am, yeah. Or well, not really-really, but I can run, let's put it that way. I dunno, it's just not enough ... contact for my tastes," she said, and flashed a bit of a savage grin. When Drea played, she liked to play rough, and just running alongside other people didn't really cover that. She shrugged her shoulders and rolled her eyes a bit. "But you know how it goes. Probably have to start my own powder-puff football team or somethin'. Which way are you going?" she asked, arching an eyebrow and nodding down the hallway. Since they didn't have all day to stand around and talk, unfortunately.

"Oh, down that way," Alexis said, pointing towards her next class. "Maybe you could start a girl's lacrosse team or something like that. Is that enough contact?" She'd never been all that sporty herself, so it was hard figuring out what would fit Drea. It sounded like she'd love to play with the boys, if the school would let her. "If not, maybe you could talk to the coach, see what they'd allow. You're right-- I don't think they'll put you on the football team, but maybe hockey. Then again, I don't know how rough that can get."

"Oh it can get pretty rough," Drea assured her with a laugh, starting to walk in the direction that Alexis was going. It happened to be on her vague way as well. Or she thought so, anyway. "Never played lacrosse, so I dunno. It might be!" She shrugged and grinned easily enough, not really looking for a solution right away. There probably wasn't one that wouldn't take fighting for. Or her accepting it just wasn't going to happen. "I'd just think that the guys would take it easier on me 'cause I'm a girl. At least until I knocked 'em around a bit. But hey, that's life, I'm not cryin' over it. I'll grab some play here and there, no worries."

"Your own team might take it easier on you, but I wouldn't count on the opposing team," Alexis laughed. "Good luck on that, though. You'll have to let me know if you figure anything out. I'd offer to play with you from time to time, but I don't play rough and I don't play football." She really didn't have the slightest idea how the game was played. "But I will always be there if you need another dress consultation," she grinned. "Or anything else categorized as girly." There were a few things that didn't quite fit that category, but Alexis wasn't about to offer to go to the shooting range with a friend.

Drea laughed, and elbowed Alexis gently. She didn't play really rough with other girls. Until they proved that they could take it, at least, which exactly none of them had ever done. "Well I appreciate that, I'll totally need girly consultation sometimes, I'm sure," she told her, dimpling brightly. When that would ever come up again, she wasn't sure, but it might! Who knew. She paused as they came up on her locker. "This is me, though. I'll see you later sometime?"

"Definitely," Alexis smiled brightly. Though she was never going to be sporty, at least she knew how to play her strengths. "I'll see you later, Drea!" she waved and headed off towards class.