Leonor De Matteo
August 21, 2020 10:28 PM
Hey. [Jeremy.] by Leonor De Matteo
Leonor often walked with Jeremy after he'd been working out or training at the pitch. She would go and watch - ugh - and then she would walk back with him and they would chat. Their "relationship" had been feeling like an actual relationship (no quotes) in that they spent time together and stuff, but that was about it. Leonor still had no idea what the point of any of this was if it was a status thing for them both and basically just something to kill time. At the same time, Jeremy could be funny when he wanted to be and he wasn't bad to look at (thank goodness that hadn't worn off) and it was someone to keep her company. Mara seemed very distant somehow, Jessica was older, Mab was Mab, and Theo was . . . well Theo was Theo. Leonor's housemates were their own brand of humanity.Tonight was all filled up with the sort of air that reminded you summer was on its way and then a breeze would pick up to remind you that summer wasn't here yet. Leonor had put on a simple cardigan over her dress but she was still a bit chilly after sitting outside for the past while. She had a simple bag with her with some notes she was meant to be studying for managing Los Jardines de Plata and she thought that was terrible. When her choices were to watch Jeremy train or to read over contracts, she would alternate between the two with about as much excitement. Well, maybe Jeremy was a little more exciting.
They had been chatting but were now walking in silence and Leonor was having none of it. Life was either a mess or boring and she'd prefer neither of those things. She was a Pecari and if anyone knew how to make life a little more interesting, it was a Pecari. Of course, she was hoping a Crotalus would play a role in this particular adventure.
"Hey," she decided, slowing to a stop to face him; she figured he'd stop if she did so she didn't bother to tug on his sleeve or anything. "Do you want to kiss me?" she asked. "I think we should do that."
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Jeremy Mordue
August 25, 2020 6:54 PM
Yeah? by Jeremy Mordue
(CW homophobia)Jeremy hadn't really questioned what the deal was with his little follower. He assumed it was natural that people should want to tag around after him and he was enjoying finally getting that recognition. He was also pretty sure it annoyed Felipe, and given Leonor's statements about her brother, he suspected they both enjoyed that fact. Well....cool. It was good to have stuff in common and whatever. Even if talking about his performance at practice was obviously a much better subject.
Felipe wasn't doing much new to complain about anyway. There had been an evening earlier in the term where he hadn't made it back by curfew and Jeremy had been so looking forward to him getting busted. But then it had turned out he was sick. Jeremy had been annoyed at the sudden loss of the possibility that Felipe was about to get detention. Once the absence amounted to several days, he managed to dredge up some concern, but only for himself, hoping that if Felipe had something that serious, he hadn't passed it on to the rest of them. As it had been right after the holidays, he'd tried to steer clear of Leonor for a couple of days just to be on the safe side. As they were in different classes and houses, that had been pretty easy to do without being obvious. He had given in the first time she sought him out, figuring that was probably enough caution and that it was worth the risk to go back to annoying Felipe (and not worth it to risk annoying Leonor by saying 'no, you might be diseased' which even he could recognise lacked the tact and finesse expevted of a gentleman). Felipe was back, and he looked...whatever. He was a pretty pathetic lump of a human most of the time anyway. Was Jeremy meant to be able to spot the difference?
Now he and Leonor were walking together. It hadn't been the most thrilling practise, and even he was struggling to make that much of it. He was thinking about dinner. Leonor was sort of fine when she was holding his attention, but if she had nothing to say, his mind wandered. However, she seemed to have other ideas, as they were drawing to a stop and she was asking him... Huh. He had thought quite a lot about kissing girls. He had, at the ball last year, suddenly understood the appeal of dancing if it meant you were allowed to have a girl press up against you. He had not particularly thought about doing that with Leonor cos she was a beginner. Still, she wasn't ugly, and no girls his own age were offering. Plus he was pretty sure it was gonna sound super gay to say 'no' to that, and that was the last thing he wanted anyone to think about him.
"Okay," he agreed.
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Leonor De Matteo
August 25, 2020 7:10 PM
Solo se vive una vez. by Leonor De Matteo
Leonor hadn't ever intended a romantic life for herself - really, she couldn't be bothered with such things - but she had expected a little effort at least. Still, apathy was better than rejection. Jeremy wasn't the brightest charm in the spellbook but he wasn't completely stupid and rejecting her probably didn't even cross his mind."Good," Leonor replied. She wasn't really sure whether that meant he wanted to make out, but whether it went that far or not, the path seemed like the wrong spot to begin. She took his hand and led him a few feet off the path, nearer some bushes. Climbing around through the bushes was not on her to-do list for the night, but privacy was nice. She took a quick moment to consider her options here and decide what boundary she was feeling like setting for the evening. Since she still wasn't sure what Jeremy's were, that was a bit hard, but she basically just ruled out the Big Things and otherwise didn't care. The point was to zap all the boredom and numbness that had built up in her head and there wasn't a lot else that mattered at this point.
Javier had been much more suave and Leonor now felt like she owed him a bit more admiration than she'd given him at the time for it. She wasn't really sure whether she should just reach up and kiss Jeremy or if he wanted to do the properly masculine thing and take care of it himself. Since it was her idea, she supposed it was her responsibility. The first step was to get close to him probably. She wasn't trying to 'get him in the mood' because that usually meant something else, but she was sort of trying to get him in the mood. In is mood at least. It was weird being that close to him but that was fine because it was also sort of exciting. She put her arms up over his shoulders, letting the rest of her be up against him because she was pretty sure that's how this worked. Also because how else was she supposed to reach his face?
"Ready then?" she asked quietly, prepared herself to either accept him coming down to meet her or else stretch up to meet him.
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Jeremy Mordue
August 26, 2020 3:55 AM
Whatever by Jeremy Mordue
The offer of a kiss was obviously an easy enough thing to accept. Jeremy had really seen no other optipn that made sense. However, there was enough of a gap between talking about it to actually doing it, that he had time to wonder whether this was a trap. You were supposed to be careful with girls in case they were trying to entrap you into marriage. He wasn't totally clear what all the steps in that process were, which made it hard to figure out whether it was happening right now. Not knowing what it might look like felt like a frustrating and surprising oversight on the part of the people who had tried to impress on him not to get himself into a particular situation. He suspected everyone else's take on it would have been not to go making out in the bushes unless you were planning to get married, or at least to be prepared to deal with that as a consequence. None of that had really prepared him for the fact that saying 'no' was challenging, both because it would have felt like losing face and because kissing sounded pretty intriguing. You couldn't just ask if you were being trapped though. So he had to just hope/assume he wasn't. His understanding was that people would talk worse crap about Leonor if they disapporoved, so this was a pretty stupid trap if that was what it was.He followed as they moved to a less public bit of garden. It was slightly weird as Leonor put her arms around him. He wasn't really sure he wanted to do this, but he was also pretty sure he didn't want to refuse to do it. He wondered if everyone's first kiss was horrible, the way that a spell was often a bit rough until you got it more firmly in your repetoire. Or was kissing just basic and easy? Or was it a talent and some people were better at it? He was pretty sure he'd be good at it because why wouldn't he be? And then obviously that was a good thing. But if for some reason he wasn't then he could pass that off as a good thing, because people his age weren't supposed to have done a whole lot of making out. That was diplomacy or negotiation or whatever - passing off whatever you did as the right and correct way to be. This was fine.
She was clearly challenging him. That, more than the proximity of her body or any other factor, made him want to kiss her. He leant in decisively, pressing his lips briefly but firmly against hers and wondering what was supposed to happen next.
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Leonor De Matteo
August 26, 2020 9:44 AM
You're welcome. by Leonor De Matteo
Jeremy kissed her and it was . . . not magical. But it wasn't bad either. Leonor supposed Javier had probably kissed a lot of people before, and also it had been her first kiss. Jeremy mostly just seemed like he wasn't sure what he was doing, which was fair because Leonor also didn't. However, her approach to not knowing what she was doing was to just go for it and own it. That was the Pecari in her. Jeremy, for his part, responded well to the challenge though. He hadn't really reacted to her being close to him, but the call to action seemed to do it for him. She also knew him to be someone who did not handle humiliation or mockery well, though, and there was probably a limit to how much she could challenge him without making him lash out. She wasn't particularly concerned about him doing anything especially harmful but she was also aware that he was bigger than her and even if he just pushed her it would be worse for her than him.She sort of wanted to shake him. Make this exciting! Loosen up! I'm so bored! Can't you see how bored I am? Wake me up! That seemed rude so she settled for pulling herself closer to him as much as was really possible. She didn't want to like . . . rub herself on him. For all that she liked to think she was in charge here, she did find that she rather liked his decisiveness too. She just wasn't sure what to do with it.
"Don't stop," she told him in a low voice, hoping to land in the safe zone between I'm into you and oh, don't tell me that's all you can do. She pushed herself up onto her tiptoes and kissed him again, doing her best to make it last longer than the first one and opening her mouth enough to give him a shot at going from kissing to making out if he wanted.
It didn't mean anything. It couldn't mean anything. It was just kissing. Just two people with their bodies close to each other in a dark garden with no plans of getting married. She wasn't even old enough to think too many things about most of that. It didn't mean anything. But . . . well, she wasn't bored, and she really rather hoped Jeremy would keep making her not bored.
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Leonor De Matteo
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Jeremy Mordue
August 30, 2020 6:06 AM
So are you by Jeremy Mordue
Okay. So.. they had kissed. It was sort of nice. It was new and he liked that someone wanted to kiss him. He wasn't sure whether there was meant to be more to it, either to the movement itself or to what it made them feel. He thought from what other people said that there was, but he wondered whether it was just another case of adults exaggerating about everything. He wasn’t really sure what else to do. Did they just do that a bunch of times?Leonor seemed to think so. It was encouraging that she wanted to kiss him more. Clearly he wasn’t disappointing (he had never doubted himself - fear was for the weak). She leant up, kissing him more slowly. That was… interesting. It made it last longer, and it stopped them being like two little birds just peck, peck, pecking. If they were going to kiss a bunch, then he guessed it made sense for the kisses to be more like that. And they were sort of like… well… It wasn’t how you kissed your mother, or your aunt. Which was definitely a good thing. He would rather there was very much a separate category of kissing for the…. romantic(?) kind. Only not literally romantic, cos that was slushy and crap and it was just kissing.
He did what Leonor was doing (cos it was just the obvious thing to do right now, not because he needed help or was copying or following her lead or anything). He closed his eyes, cos it was sort of feeling weird seeing her giant close up forehead, and also maybe if he stopped looking at her, he could pretend she was someone else instead. It was starting to feel like being on a racing broom. He couldn’t have explained what was good about that if someone else asked, only that going fast did something to your body. It made your nerves tingle, and you felt the world around you like it was actually real instead of just some mindless experience that you just had to get through. Classes were the latter - just a thing that happened to you, whilst your brain wanted to be elsewhere. Almost everything felt that way. He wanted the moments where you actually knew you were alive instead of just being forced to live. Kissing was new. He wasn’t sure whether it was purely the novelty that put it on the good list, or whether it was the feeling of pressing up against someone else, but right now he was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
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