cadnis oneshots so i can get some f*cking sleep

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22 cadnis "i've seen the way you look at me when you think i don't notice."

"What are you looking at?" Cady murmurs quietly, not looking up from her math textbook. Janis jolts and drops her pencil, quickly snapping her gaze away from where it had been roving over Cady's face. Anywhere else.

"Nothing, sorry. You, uh... have a fuzz in your hair," she lies quickly, desperately trying to remember where she left off in her chemistry notes. The ones she's supposed to be studying, instead of studying the little strawberry blonde next to her.

Cady chuckles breathlessly to herself, a quick thing, and grins down at a graph.

"What?" Janis asks.

"You're a horrible liar," Cady replies quietly as she scratches something down in her notebook and flips to the next page in her text.

"I'm not lying!" Janis insists.

"Janis," Cady says, putting her pencil down and looking up at her. "You are. I've seen the way you look at me when you think I don't notice. You've done it since before Spring Fling."

"And what way is that?" Janis asks defensively.

"Like you're in love with me or something," Cady responds with one of those gentle smiles that got Janis into this mess in the first place. Janis can't help but crack a smile too.

"Plastic habits die hard, eh?" she jokes. Cady's lips twitch and her smile falls.

"I didn't mean it like that."

"Then how did you mean it?" Janis asks quietly.

Cady turns away just a little, like she's looking for any way out of this situation she can find. "I meant it like it wouldn't be a bad thing if you were."

Janis frowns in confusion. "It was a few months ago."

"And people can change in a few months, Janis," Cady replies with a delicately frustrated huff. "Realizations can be made. Boyfriends can be broken up with."

"Realizations?"

"I'm gay, Janis!" Cady huffs, slamming her hands on the table and standing so quickly Janis' chair tips backwards and she's sprawled on the ground before she even knows how to respond. "Shit, sorry."

Cady carefully helps her up and waits for her to settle again. Janis looks at her expectantly.

"I'm... bi. I like girls too," she whispers. She's known Janis is a lesbian for months, but she still cowers like she's afraid Janis will kick her for daring to come out. Like she's encroaching on her territory.

"Okay," Janis murmurs, gently coaxing Cady to sit down again. "That's cool. I'm glad you told me."

Cady holds herself tightly as she stares blankly down at her textbook, pencil still lying forgotten on the page. "I guess I don't like... girls. I like girl."

"Singular?"

Cady nods.

"Who is it?" Janis asks. Cady slams her head into the table. "What?"

"I'm questioning it now," Cady replies into the white wood. "But it's you."

"Me?"

"Were you in space for this entire conversation?" Cady huffs, but she's smiling as she sits up. "Yes, you, dummy."

"Oh," Janis squeaks in reply.

"Yeah. So no, not a bad thing if you happen to be in love with me," Cady replies, suddenly back to holding herself in that painfully insecure way.