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Two Thousand Club
Never asked her to do what? Sherri's common sense didn't enable a realization that nobody had ever asked a daughter of Aphrodite to stop hugging them. She rubbed her arm, sitting down on her bed still quite uncomfortable with what just happened and the new question. "Um..." Sherri's eyebrows scrunched up, showing how hard she was thinking. "... I'm not really sure." She pulled on her thumb, focusing on the sensation of the joints being stretched out of nervous habit. "I guess I'm into girls? I'm not really as adamant as other hormonal teenagers about chasing those fleeting physical feelings, though." Now she curled up into a ball on her bed, firmly hugging her knees to her chest. "I just don't act on those impulses, and I rarely get them. A relationship is supposed to be emotional." Sherri only realized she answered a bit more than was asked after the words had already spilled from her mouth. "Why was a hug interesting? And what about you?" Sherri didn't feel like talking about herself any longer, felling herself get more tense if that was even possible.
Harmonia listened with intrigue. She felt like she needed to write down notes for once in her life. She felt her mouth open slightly when Sherri said she was into girls but quickly closed it. A girl that's into girls that hugged me and didn't want to jump my bones?! This is... SOO COOOOOL!!! She kept her cool herself and nodded. When Sherri turned the tides back at her she got rid of what felt like a ball in her throat and spoke up. "Well, to be completely honest... All my life I was the most beautiful girl in school. You would think that would be a gift right? But sometimes... Just sometimes it feels like a curse. When you get sneaked up on and someone grabs my butt? Or those times that I give someone a hug but suddenly they want more? You were the first person to want to... I guess NOT hug me or want something else from me that may be sexual, you know? I don't know if my parents knew that when they chose you as my dorm partner but I am really happy you are my dorm partner." She tried really hard not to cry but she felt her eyes getting watery. "I guess what I really wanted to say was... Thank you. I hope that hug didn't make you feel awkward. I apologize if it did! I would love to get to know you more as a person." She felt tempted to give the girl another hug but knew that probably was not the answer. She smiled sweetly at her feeling very vulnerable herself.