A Series of Extremely Questionable Decisions

James Scores and Zane Enters the Chat

"AHHHHH!"

"AHHHHH!"

Chazz and James screamed in unison, both of them having been startled by the other. After a few seconds of screaming, James glared fiercely at Chazz.

"You know, there's this new thing! It's called knocking!", James exclaimed with annoyance. Chazz blushed in embarrassment,and he felt his brain short circuit when he caught sight of James's bare breasts. James smirked when she saw this.

"Oh? Like what you see?", she asked. Chazz choked on his saliva and averted his eyes. He was about to leave before things got any more weird, only to stop when he remembered that this was his bathroom.

"What the hell are you doing in bathroom?!", Chazz yelled as he returned his gaze to James. James placed her hands on her hips and gave him an annoyed look.

"Taking a shower, what does it look like?", the black haired girl responded. Chazz glared at her.

"Well why aren't you taking a shower in your own bathroom?!", Chazz demanded to know. James went back to glaring at him.

"Because my bathroom's water pressure is shit and the communal baths are closed until next week! It was either break into your room or ask Bastion to use his shower, and I refuse to run all the way across the island to the Ra dorm and run all the way back here for the welcome dinner again! Ain't no way in hell!", James explained with frustration in her voice. Chazz's glare toned down a bit when he heard that.

"And you didn't just ask to use my shower why... ?", Chazz questioned, unable to stay mad at the girl he liked (especially when she looked rather amazing wearing nothing at all). James grinned at him.

"Because breaking and entering is fun! Also I couldn't find you and I have no idea how to send messages on that damn PDA.", James replied in a perky voice, as if she was talking about a fun day out and not committing a crime. Chazz sighed tiredly. Given that the first thing James ever said to him was 'hey kid, wanna buy some drugs?', the fact that she was more than willing to commit casual crimes wasn't all that surprising.

"Whatever. But next time you want to use my shower, just wait until you can find me and ask. I would have given you permission if you had done that. Also, please tell me you didn't break any of my locks. I don't want to have to explain to Crowler why he needs to send maintenance up here on the first day to fix locks that were working perfectly fine this morning.", Chazz pleaded. James scoffed at his words.

"Of course I didn't! What do you take me for, an amateur? I picked the lock to your front door using a bobby pin, a gum wrapper and the power of screwing the rules. It left no traces. And besides, if I had broken your lock, wouldn't you have noticed when you came up here?", James asked him with a raised eyebrow. Chazz nodded in acknowledgement of her points.

"Yeah, that's fair.", he admitted. James sighed at his words, as if she was frustrated he hadn't admitted that sooner.

"Thank you! Now, are you going to get out so I can finish taking my shower, or are you going to stay for the show?", James purred teasingly, and Chazz turned bright red yet again as he remembered oh shit, James was naked. Chazz sprinted out of the bathroom as fast as he could, and James laughed at his shyness. She hadn't minded that he had been blatantly staring at her boobs; in fact, she found it flattering.

'Now, to finally bite the bullet and ask pretty boy out on a date... ', James thought as she resumed washing her hair. She chuckled to herself. Knowing Chazz, he would make something as simple as asking a person if they wanted to hang out non-platonically way more interesting to do than it normally was. James found herself looking forward to the challenge.