KATHERINE ( ofkatherinebishop )
She nodded her head in agreement. Kat had a funny feeling that she and Theodore would have little to nothing in common with one another but she could agree with him on that at the very least. “It’s true, yeah,” she confirmed, no longer thinking about bumps in the night but more about silly crushes and schoolyard drama, “Sometimes I let my head float into the clouds,” she confessed, it had given her trouble on more than one occasion when she’d allowed her imagination to get the better of her but none of those occasions had involved ghosts or the supernatural, admittedly.
“Yeah,” she chuckled at her own expense, “I’ll need it, so thanks,” she mused dryly, a shrug of her shoulder trailing her words closely. ”I get it,” she assured him. She wasn’t hiding so much as avoiding but she could understand the desire to disappear for a couple of hours or so, just to catch her breath. The words that followed had Katherine quirking an eyebrow, an expression on her face somewhere between confused and amused. Was he for real? “Uh, no,” Katherine answered before she’d really processed all of what Theodore had said. He’d taken on an extra assignment, just in case? In a religion class no less? It was a foreign concept to the blonde but perhaps it was something that other students did often. Certainly not Kat, however, she was perfectly content with her B average. “I don’t think anybody would care, not really,” she hoped that didn’t sound harsh or blunt but she was simply stating fact. As far as she was concerned, morality was a very vague concept on the Broadripple campus and most people had their very own definition of it.
There was always too much thinking and pointless deliberation involved in socializing, or rather, in Theo’s understanding of those face-to-face encounters. A completely new environment wasn’t much of an extenuating factor; weren’t first impressions even more important around here? From the get-go he was ready to deduce everybody would be judgmental towards him, but thankfully Katherine didn’t seem to fit this presupposed pattern. “That makes two of us,” he claimed, giving a subdued laugh. In his case, indulging in reverie was too often to deem it only sporadic.
He cracked a yet another mild smile, starting to acknowledge their chatter must’ve already taken the awkward route. Not like he saw anything wrong in that, in his experience a great deal of small talks fell into the basket labelled ‘not excessively stirring’. Asking questions he himself could answer if he spared a few seconds to think couldn’t make the matters significantly better. The girl’s expression — which at a glance screamed bemused to him — was telling enough. “Good to know, thanks.” He twiddled with his thumbs, cheeks gradually getting sore from the stiff grin he hadn’t put to rest. “I’m not sure why I asked that,” Theo tittered. Dragging this topic on wasn’t the best idea and Katherine certainly wasn’t anticipating the tedious screed sprouting at the back of his mind. A brief look at the other’s books hit him with a reminder that she probably didn’t come to the library for some idle chat. “So,” he cleared his throat, “I guess I shouldn’t be stopping you.” Personally he had nothing against letting the conversation flow, his assignment could wait.
