The unfortunate adventures of Sarah Richards

Chapter eight ~i shouldn't drag you into this~

"So already we've got tall as a connection between paler blue hued necklaces..." I muttered to myself as i opened different files and documents i'd made to keep track of what i saw today. "How about them?" Thea whispered and discretely pointed to a couple across the tracks. "Yes! Thank you!" I barely managed to contain my excitement. Directly across the train tracks from us, sat two young women holding hands. They both had, from what i could see, matching electric blue necklaces. They were tall. One had very long hair that she had evidentially dyed yellow and the other had a tidy black pixie cut. The young woman with yellow hair was a little more heavy set than the girl with black hair. I jotted this all down quickly. "Thea, can you look up Andrew Burrn and Alexander Laughlin's necklace colours?" I asked without looking up from my laptop save for stealing a glance at the strangers across the tracks. "Sure." Thea replied and pulled out her phone. Within a minute she had exactly what i was looking for. "Andrew Burrn and Alexander Laughlin both sport identical necklaces of a deep blue hue laced with lighter blue trails." She read off the leading article in her best news reporter impression. "I could just kiss you!" I laughed and then the both of us turned bright red in the face. "I won't do that. Sorry. Said the wrong thing. But seriously, thank you!" I rambled a little bit to try and cover up my mistake. "For what?" Thea sounded a little bewildered. "I've made a connection already!" I exclaimed and pulled up the file on blue necklaces to show her. "So it seems that dominantly blue necklaces seem to be appearing in people who are part of the LGBT plus community. Andrew Burrn and Alexander Laughlin, for example. Gay couple. Those two young women across the tracks from us, i'm assuming, lesbian couple. Also the majority of blue necklace babies seem to be just above average height for their age and gender." I explained. My face was stuck in a wide grin. This was great! Thea nodded slowly and trailed her fingers over her necklace again but did not take it out of her hoodie. "So what's the next step?" She asked curiously. I wiped my hand over a mouth in the manner that an older man might stroke his beard and thought for a moment. "My first instinct would be to say lets go talk to those young women across the tracks... But we aren't with the press so we don't have any excuses to be asking strangers questions." I trailed off thoughtfully. "Well, i think it's a good idea to make an article out of it all and take it to the inquirer. It's only a local newspaper but if this gets big your story will spread. So we could pull a little white lie and say we're from the Philadelphia Inquirer..." Thea suggested. "I shouldn't drag you into this-" i began but Thea cut me off and held her hand up as if she would hear no more of my talking. "I want to help. This is all so interesting!" She replied. "Fine." I laughed, pretending to be offended i dragged the 'i.' Thea grabbed my laptop bag while i held onto my laptop itself and carried it as we went back upstairs, through a rather large crowd of people then back down a different flight of stairs and onto the platform which we had spotted the two young women. "Here goes nothing." I said under my breath. "You can do it!" Thea smiled and placed her hand on my shoulder for a few seconds. "Excuse me!" I did my best to sound prim and professional as i opened my laptop and walked over to the bench the two young women were sitting on. "Yes?" The girl with black hair said cooly. Her friend only gave us a condescending stare. A rush of sudden nervousness came over me and though i opened my mouth, no words came out. "we're with the Philadelphia inquirer." Thea began suddenly when she noticed me getting anxious. "Okay?" The girl with black hair was still the only one who spoke. "I'm Thea Larkin and this is Sarah Richards. Sarah has been doing heavy research on the meaning and appearances of these necklaces," she paused and pointed to the necklaces the strangers were wearing and then to mine. "We are currently constructing an experiment in which we observe people who bear these necklaces and try to make some connections between the different dominant hues the crystals possess." Thea finished and glanced over at me, i could tell she thought i should do some talking now. I nodded slowly towards her and swallowed nervously. "We were sitting across the way and couldn't help but notice you two had matching necklaces." I said shyly and smiled. Trying to look friendly. "We do." The yellow haired girl said simply. "So we were wondering if we could ask you a few questions." Thea prompted. Obviously having noticed that i was nervous. "Can't hurt. give me all ya got." The black haired girl chuckled. "First off, what are your first and last names?" I asked and glanced over the top of my laptop screen. "My first name is Lee Anne, and my last is Xanderpole. Spelled with an 'X' not a 'z.'" The yellow haired girl spoke up first. I nodded and then cast a questioning glance towards her friend. "First name, Kyla. Last name, Reed." She said quickly. I jotted their names down then very briefly cast a nervous look in Thea's direction. "And how old are the two of you?" I asked. Trying my best to look confident. "I'm seventeen and Kyla is sixteen." Lee Anne answered. I nodded and again put this information into a document on my laptop. "Are the two of you in a relationship of any sort?" Thea asked before i had a chance to speak next. "Proud lesbian dating a demisexual biromantic girl." Kyla smirked and raised up their hands that were still clasped together. from the way i understood what she said, Kyla was the lesbian and Lee Anne the demi/bi. "Thank you," i said without looking up as i wrote this down as well. "One more question, where are each of you from?" I asked. "Pittsburgh Pennsylvania." Lee Anne piped up and raised her free hand. I nodded indicating that i'd heard her then raised one eyebrow as i looked back to Kyla. "Local Philly girl." Kyla said with a slight smirk. "Alright." I nodded and shut my laptop. "Thank you for your time." Thea said and bid them goodbye. "When is the train you'll have to catch coming in?" Thea asked me as we took the same detour back to where we had originally sat. I glanced at my watch as a train pulled in then looked up at the screens. "This'll be it, actually." I told her...