Admiring the Light

Ep 6

"All... that... all... that..." Alexandra tried repeating "all that" very slowly as requested, but the joke really didn't land for the exhausted Natalie. "Alright, funny girl... please get me some agua."

"Oh, oh we're gonna use Spanish are we? Puedo hablar pinche español, tarada." She grumbled, but got a satisfied smile from her patient as she went to get the water anyway. "Tarada is the best she could come up with, apparently." Lola elbowed Natalie gently with a teasing smile back. "A tomar por culo... maldita... lesbiana? I don't fucking know, insults are a foreign language."

"SALT IS MY NATIVE LANGUAGE, BITCH! English fucked me in the ass though. English sexually assaulted me, I didn't want to learn this." That got laughs out of everyone. "I hope English gets the Boba Fett in the Sarlacc treatment. I think I'm gonna be Booba Fett for Halloween, rule 34 Boba Fett."

"Girl, I don't think you need a costume for that." Natalie observed, putting the bottle to her lips as the other two girls howled with laughter. "NATALIE! You can't just say stuff like that!" She got another elbow to her face.

"I'm just as fat as she is and we know it! I think I can make jokes about our boob sizes. And who really cares? She knows it's not sexual." She looked over at Alexandra. "Yeah, no thank you to the sex department. If a partner ever asked why I wouldn't fuck them, I'd throw the Bible in their face and yell Never Gonna Give You Up in Spanish until they went away."

"Genius, 10,000 IQ tactical play by Alex. Don't you have work you could be doing instead of trying to be funny?" Lola scoffed, and Natalie noticed that she was cuffing her shirt sleeves just so her arms weren't awkwardly hanging. "Hey, hey there, y'all are here to help me, right? Could y'all at least get along until my mom gets home? Or I'll get Sport to come down here and make you play Wii bowling." She tried to gently work her hand around her girlfriend as she spoke, but that shut both of them up.

"That girl scares me, mostly consistent perfect games on bowling? The fact that it's something that she can get often is fucking insane." Alexandra glanced over at the stairs, but Natalie wondered if it was to avoid Lola, not just for emphasis. "PLEASE KEEP THE LANGUAGE DOWN! I'LL PLAY WII IF YOU WANT AFTER I FINISH MY BIOLOGY HOMEWORK!"

"Will do, Sport! I'll play later once my punk friends leave." She laughed. "ALEX, do you have that Monster you said you were bringing? I'm still waiting for the Monster x College Board partnership."

"Yesss ma'am, it's out in the car, I willl- get that for you when we leave!" She pushed her streaked hair from her face with an overhead stretch, heading upstairs to use the bathroom, Natalie assumed. "Is this romantic tension or something? She's interested in a girl already, dingus." She gently rubbed her fist into Lola's head.

"No! Nonono this has nothing to do with that, crazy! I'm sorry for being mildly angry towards her, but my class rank is on the line!" She chuckled, but Natalie could hear the sadness and desperation in her voice over this. She knew Lola cared about grades and physical things, but she didn't understand how that mattered.

"If you're just going to be a farmer, Lola, why is being valedictorian important? Get a good grade in AP bio, APES, just all those sciences! And your AP micro because that's business related." She advised. "Stats AP I can't help you with, obviously, is Alex in your period?"

"Nah, she's in the other class, the one with the four period 3 rejects that couldn't fit." She laughed. "Period 3 is fucking full, 15 of us. And it's not a class entirely of lesbians like AP bio, a lot of geeky dudes and a few gals."

"You took biology AP to be with me, Lola Obrero, don't lie." Natalie joked. "What does class rank matter to you?" She questioned her again, her first time hearing about this in their years of knowing each other. "Girl, my mind is too ridden with the tism to get anything but. I will be class valedictorian just for the fucking overachiever in me."