Problem Solving

Characterisation

"Any secret. Up to you." She hands me the soap

"Thanks.. umm.. I don't have many secrets, I'm pretty open." I lie. I have secrets but I wouldn't tell anybody.

"You must have one thing you haven't told anyone"

"Yeah I have, I kissed a girl last Friday" I make fun of myself, soaping up my hands. The flowers made them sticky.

"I mean something I don't know" she smirks, I roll my eyes and wash my hands clean of the soap. "Come on was it really that bad?" She asks, handing me a towel.

"It changed my entire identity" I dry my hands "it was a good kiss.. really good. I just.. I don't know what to think."

"Don't overthink it" She acts as if it's something simple. I look at her to see if she's joking. She's doing this sexy smirk so I feel at ease that she is joking. "If nobody but me knows, is it that big of a deal?"

"When you put it like that no but.." I give the towel back, she raises her eyebrows for me to continue. "I can't explain.. it's different in my head." It's uncomfortable. I want to move on. I think she can tell because she kinda nods.

"I get that.. but come on, tell me a secret" she leads me to sit down. I follow her. We sit on her pretty white couches. She has these fluffy pink cushions, unsurprisingly. But they make the room very pretty.

"Any?" I ask

"Any." .. I think of something that wouldn't hurt me to tell her. Something kind of dull so she'll maybe give up trying to get into my head or whatever it is she's doing.

"One time I broke my sisters phone but didn't tell her it was my fault.. that kinda haunts me I guess"

"It's sweet that you feel guilty" she smiles, I make a confused face

"I'm a human you know, I have human emotions even if I don't show them."

"Oh I know. I just like when you do show them."

"Well I don't." I put an end to it, she smirks "I don't understand why you're always so pleased with yourself when you.... I don't know, bother me."

"I like a reaction." ... "when's your birthday Lana?"

"June 21st." I say, still a little bitter from the fact that I delivered the exact reaction she wanted.

"Making you a half Gemini half Cancer goddess"

"Was the goddess part necessary?" I pull her up

"Entirely.. you know, your Gemini placement does account for your double-sidedness, but your Cancer placement makes you very much a realist. Telling things as they are."

"Why do you know this?" I ask. I think I maybe hurt her with that, which I don't like at all. "Do you research this stuff?" I try to soften it

"I think it's interesting. Our relationship may be as strange as it is because Gemini and Libra are extremely compatible whereas Cancer and Libra are generally not. But, don't worry, you're more Gemini than Cancer if you ask me"

"Libra.. so.. fall and winter time right?"

"My birthday is the 10th of October. I like to think who I am right now makes me quite true to my sign.. social, idealistic, a lover of music."

"Who you are right now?" I repeat, she nods a little

"I've been different." She seems like she doesn't want to talk about it but I desperately want her to.