Wednesday And Enid

softie

(Wednesday POV)

I wake up next to Enid, school was starting the next day. It had definitely been a memorable couple of weeks off. For the past few days, the group has been hanging out more.
I watch her sleep, it was so quiet that I  could hear her soft breathing. I sit there for a while, I don't know what to do until she wakes up.
Just as I think about it she opens her eyes.
"Morning." I say to her, she goes to kiss me.
I stop her.
"No kisses until we've brushed our teeth." I say.
"Aw man." She says, she rests her head on my shoulder.

"Come on." I say. We both get up and go into the girls bathroom outside the dorms. I bring my toothbrush and Enid brings hers. I go to a sink and she goes to one next to me.
I turn on the sink, I put some toothpaste on my toothbrush and brush my teeth
My hip brushes against hers, she notices this. She slightly nudges me with hers. I look at her. I nudge her.
"Oh so it's like that is it?" She says, her toothbrush in her mouth.
She nudges me harder. I nudge her harder, she laughs. "Let's stop before one of us gets hurt or something." She says.
"Coward." I say, my toothbrush in my mouth also.
We're silent for a few minutes, leaving me to think. I haven't tried to stab anything in a while, my brother isn't around so I don't really have anything to experiment on.
"You ok?" She asks, putting her toothbrush under the water.
I spot out the tooth paste and wipe my mouth.
"Yes, just thinking." I say.
"About what?" She asks.
"Stabbing." I say, truthfully.
"That doesn't surprise me." She says.
"That's not the only thing." I say.
"Oh? What is the other thing?" She asks.
"You." I say, grinning.
She laughs.
"That's so cheesy." She says, smiling.

She puts her arms around my neck, resting them on my shoulders. I put mine around her waist. "Softie." She says. I rest my head on her shoulder and come closer. I kiss her neck.
She's shocked by this, but she doesn't tell me to stop.
I hear someone come in and I stop, quickly stepping away from Enid.
They go into a stall, I look at Enid. She looks hurt.
"I'm sorry I just... didn't want them to come in and... it to be awkward." I say.
"No I understand." She says.
"Don't get it the wrong way i-"
"It's ok! Just make sure we're not in a public space next time." She says, smiling comfortingly.
I look at her, quickly noticing the purple on her neck.
I feel my eyes widen slightly.
"Uh, Enid..." Is say.
"What?" She asks.
"Look in the mirror." I say.
She looks at her reflection, examining.
"What I don't see-" her eyebrows rise.
"Oh." She says.
"I'm Sorry" I say.
"But you didn't do it that hard-" she says.
"I know." I say.
"you're going to need your snood." I say.
"I have makeup it's ok." She says.
"Are you sure?" I say.
"Yes! It's ok! We should probably get back to the dorm." She says

I take her hand and we walk to the dorm. We get there and Enid goes through her drawers.
I sit on my bed and watch her.
"Shit." She says.
"What?" I ask.
"Guess I'm going to have to use my snood." She says.
"I might have something." I say.
"Wednesday all you have is black lipstick." She says.
"Touche, why don't you ask a friend or something?" I ask.
"They'll ask questions!" She says.
"I thought you'd tell her about it anyway." I say.
She gives me a disapproving look.
"I'll just wear my snood." She says.
She looks around for that too.
"How do you manage to be this unfortunate." I say.
"I don't know, i should really learn to not lose my stuff." She says.
"I agree." I say.
She sits on her bed.
"You can borrow mine, or I should have a scarf or something that I never use." I say.
"Why would you have a scarf that you never use?" She asks
"Well when you like cold weather and someone gifts you something to warm you, it just becomes useless." I say.
"Who does that?" She says.
"You. Otherwise I wouldn't have a snood to offer you right now." I say.
"Oh. I'm glad you do though." She says.
I find my snood and give it to her.
"I can wash it after if you want me to." She says.
"Don't bother." I say.
She smiles.
"I'll wear it tomorrow for class." She says.
"Ok." I say, I go to my typewriter and start writing.

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It seemed like only a few minutes that I had been writing for. Enid taps my shoulder. I turn to her.
"What?" I ask.
"You want to get something to eat, you've been writing all day and you weren't answering me." She says.
"Didn't we eat breakfast 2 minutes ago?" I ask, I check the time. It was 5pm.
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"I'm not hungry." I say.
"But you haven't eaten all day and it's dinner time! You need to eat something! Or at least drink something." She says.
"I'm fine, you go eat something. I'm writing." I say.
"I'll bring you something up." She says.
She leaves before I can say anything back, she takes the snood with her too, god damn it Enid.

"Hey softie, I got you a couple of chicken nuggets." Enid says, coming back a while later.
"That is not going to be my nickname." I say.
"It's more of a couple's pet name." She says.
"Either way you are not using it."
"Try me." She says, smiling somewhat evilly. I love it.
I think, but I can't think of anything.
"I would try but your evil smile caught me off guard." I say truthfully.
"Just eat your nuggets." She says.
I do so.

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Enid and I lay in my bed. I'm by the wall tonight. I face it, Enid's arm over me. Enid won't let me sleep tonight.
"Do you think dinosaurs actually looked like they looked in the Jurassic park movies?" She asks.
"No, they had feathers. Can you go to sleep now?" I ask.
"They had feathers?" She asks.
"How else would they evolve into birds?" I ask.
"Wait but I thought an asteroid killed them all?" She asks.
"Theres a theory that could be correct that the ice caps were melting back then and most dinosaurs died of lithium poisoning due to traces of it in the ice. Leave some of the population to evolve into what we have today. Please just go to sleep." I say.
"How-"
"GO TO SLEEP!"
"Okay!!! Goodnight."
"I LOVE YOU GOODNIGHT."
she laughs a little.
"ENID!"
"OK OK! I love you..."

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