Room 306, Sunday Morning

[princessarcasm]

Amy was finally down to only a handful of things left to unpack, and one of those things was the baggie of glow-in-the-dark stars Karma had given her when they were little.

Here in a shared bedroom, she had less space to work with (she didn't want to cover more than her fair share of the room's surface area, after all), but it felt weird not having them up.

So Amy found herself standing on her bed on top of a messy stack of pillows and rolled-up hoodies, trying to get high up enough to reach the ceiling. Unfortunately, the pillow stack kept tipping over and forcing her to rapidly move out of the way if she didn't want to fall all of the way off the bed.

She wasn't having an easy time with it.

"Fuck! Fucking fuck. How did I ever get these up at home in the first place?"

{halfway open door, open post!}

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[tigerundercover]

Raven shrugged. "Mostly they'd find out when I lost control and shifted accidentally. Sometimes they'd get suspicious because I'd get the details of who I was pretending to be wrong. And sometimes . . . I just got tired of hiding. People still get afraid of people who are different in worlds where there are no shapeshifters, huh?"

[princessarcasm]

"God, that sucks."

As much as Amy had resented Shane at first for spilling her secret before she even knew it existed, at least she had never had to actively juggle a lie that was so important to her.

"Yeah, I think freaking out in the face of other types of people is just a gross human thing across the board," she answered. "Like, um -- my mom found out I was sort of dating a girl a few weeks ago. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but it still wasn't great. And now I keep obsessing over whether it would have been better if I had stopped her from finding out, or told her a different way, or something."

[tigerundercover]

Raven nodded thoughtfully. "Sometimes there's no right way to do it," she said. "I got lucky -- when my brother found me I didn't have to explain anything. He just knew. It got easier hiding, when I had someone who knew who I really was." And she still couldn't imagine telling him she liked girls, too. "Your mom -- that's not why you're here, is it?"

[princessarcasm]

"Oh, no, she didn't kick me out or anything," Amy said. "But I wanted to get away after that. And there was a lot of other weird stuff that happened," she added vaguely.

"I had a friend like your brother who helped me out, too. He sort of... came up to me at a party and told me I was gay. Best resource ever, right?"

[tigerundercover]

"Sounds like it." Raven smiled. "There's something nice about having people who know you for who you are, even in spite of yourself." Raven placed one last star then tilted her head, shrinking back down to her average height. "There, how's that look?"

[princessarcasm]

"Amazing," Amy said. "Thank you so much, you're a lifesaver. And now I'm realizing I probably should have asked you if you were cool with having them up in the first place."

Womp womp.

"You are, right? 'Cause otherwise I'm back to jumping on pillows."

[tigerundercover]

"They're fine," Raven assured her. "My last roommate had a big bulldog. Some stars on the ceiling are nothing."

Not that she hadn't liked the bulldog. Better than Chuck, even.