Rainbow in the Dark

She stared at the group chat on her phone. Jesus, the unfortunately named demon, was thinking of doing what Luca did and becoming a Risen Demon. Chloe had to lay down the law to make sure nobody gave him trouble. Just because he wanted to practice a particular religion didn't mean he was any less of a demon, or that he had any less of a place in the DSU.

As she typed in her comments, she noticed a rainbow streak in her peripheral vision. Before she could react she was stumbling backwards. The first thing to hit the concrete was that sensitive spot at the base of her tail. She yelped. Her tail felt weak, and her backpack was heavy. She would have some trouble getting up.

Now rainbow skater girl was poking her. Chloe wondered if the getup was a gay pride thing - she had seen this girl in one of her classes. Rainbow girl didn't talk much, but most people didn't in lecture halls. Though they weren't in a lecture hall now. Chloe stared at the hand that poked her for a moment, then looked up at rainbow girl.

"Ah, sorry I bumped into you," she said. "I was looking at my phone -" speaking of which, she took a look at it and sighed with relief. "It's not broken."

Chloe wished she would say something, instead of quizzically poking at her.

Chloe would take Roxy's hand, assuming it was extended like that to help her up. She would appreciate the help right then.

Roxy was several symbols into her name before Chloe realized that this was sign language. The rainbow haired girl wasn't talking because she couldn't speak. "I, ah, don't understand sign language," she said with an awkward chuckle. "I'm Chloe, though. If you can understand me."

She tried to think of a way that they could communicate. "Um, do you have a phone? We could use texts." She would pull her phone out of her pocket and point to it.

Chloe had just finished putting Roxy's number into her phone when she saw her second message. It made Chloe laugh with surprise. Of course rainbow-girl would ask her out. She had been sending some serious signals to Chloe's gaydar even before they met.

She stood and considered it for a moment, grinning, amused. "Oh, why not?" She tapped at her phone's screen, and Roxy would receive a text message from an unfamiliar number in the next several seconds: "Sure. What did you have in mind?"

Chloe kept smiling. "I'd love to," she said. A group of students walked past them, on their way to class. Chloe had a few hours until her next one, so she was content to stand and keep talking to Roxy for a while. "I hear there's actually a movie coming out that's a live action version of an anime I used to watch. I don't know if it will be good but I have to see it for myself. Want to give it a try with me?"

She noticed the way Roxy had gotten all flustered, and it delighted her. She might not have done anything like this before.

Chloe watched her phone, reading the messages as Roxy sent them. She began to think about how she could take advantage of this situation - to keep her craving under control, to stop being dependant on her father's club and deceiving strangers. It would be so easy to just hold her hand during the movie or something to take what she needed. And it's not like she would be hurting her, either.

"No allergies," she said, "Let's eat after. And I'm going to hole myself up in the library until late this afternoon, so, I guess, just tell me when we need to leave to see the movie and that would be great."

Dinner after would be better, because Chloe was convinced she wasn't great at small talk. The movie gave them an easy conversation topic.