It really wasn’t scene, but well– it was still ‘Welcome Week’, right? And to be truthful, Jackson had never been to an actual concert before, so why not go to one that was basically free?
It was still a bit of a culture shock, the ‘college experience’, and it proved especially true when he was surrounded by hundreds of students who seemed much more at home in the concert venue than he did. A nudge against his arm caused Jackson to stiffen with surprise before his head whipped towards someone on his right, drink in their hand.
“Uh— Nah, I’m good.”
Pia was still trying to get herself back into the swing of things, not being home in now, over a year, it took a strain on her. Her hu’ul had told her stories of being sent to the Santa Fe Indian School, and Pia couldn’t even imagine how horrible it must’ve been, since she was having such a hard time with just this. So a concert, with stuff to drink? Well, to put it in the most appropriate terms, she straight up said ‘don’t mind if I do’. It surely helped with getting her mind off things.
Pia wasn’t exactly one for white guys, so she wasn’t attracted to the guy, but she did notice the look of a lost soul in him, it was the same look she’d been wearing lately. Getting another drink, she went over to offer it to him with a simple nudge and a ‘hey’. When he declined the offer, she jokingly said, “Well, more for me,” Before quoting one of her favorite proverbs from the home country, “Blödes Herz buhlt keine schöne Frau,” before explaining herself in English, “Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.”
