Snuggling with Shadows (Lord) - Clara vs April 2

[SweetHeart]

“What do you mean you're outta rooms?” April had a confused look on her face, holding a fast food bag under her arm and carrying a pair of vanilla milkshakes, having shown up late to the hotel the talent were staying at and in total disbelief that she’d not only shown up late, but she’d been so late they had not a single room left.
"There's gotta be a spare room or something? Are you sure you're really out?"

“Sure as sure.” The male behind the counter nodded. “I guess a lot of people were in tonight, all the events happening y'know, and all that jazz.”

April groaned " Alright uh....is there anyone willing to make room? I can bunk with someone."

“Sure.” The man smiled. “Anyone you want, ask me, and if it’s alright with them, I’ll do so.”

April thought for a moment before then getting a name to pop into her head. "OH I KNOW!"


A few moments after the call there was a knock at Clara's door, April behind it still holding her milkshake and bags, hopping the shadow lord would open the door so she could put it down. Once she opened the door, April gave her a quick smile before stumbling over the the counter. She put down the food and sighned, kicking off her baggy pants leaving her just in her normal Pjyama's. "Thanks for this, my hands were getting really wet and cold holding those drinks for so long." April chuckled nervously, whipping them with the sweat pants she just took off

[Vc0m]

As LAW did a tour of house shows, ending with a LAW TV episode from Kyoto, Clara actually got very cozy deals from apartments. The management was very insistent that she travelled in first class, be it in a personal car and flights or, much like she did now, have a personal, massive hotel room.

Problem was obvious to her from the get go - loneliness.

With her friends not invited on the tour, she didn’t have many people to have conversations with on the tour…right up until she got a call for herself on one faithful night.

Spoiler

She was already changed into her pjs for the night when she got the call from one April Castle. She remembered the woman from their oil match that ended with both of them topless…and Clara wondered to this day if this wasn’t the Canadian cuties ulterior motive for the match…

Still, April was left without the room (”Coincidence?”), and Clara had way…way to big a room for herself to not share it with someone.

She gave a go ahead to April staying with her overnight, and the moment she opened the door, the skeleton shirt wearing cutie waltzed in with a bunch of snacks, putting them down at the large table for 4 people (why did LAW get her such big rooms?)

Clara couldn’t lie…April looked adorable in her skeleton pyjamas. She already found her quite hot during their oil match…

”…I think I have a type with Canadians…”

Clara shook her head, appearing spaced out as April awkwardly commented about her drinks:

”It’s ok, don’t worry about it! How are you doing? Steal any…bikini tops lately?”, Clara puffed out her cheeks, as she remembered their match.

[SweetHeart]

April was a bit confused by the comment, taking a moment to realize what Clara was referencing, but the moment she did she won't from confused to utterly embarrassed, her face blushing into a bright red colour as she quickly twisted around.
"WAIT WAIT, I CAN EXPLAIN THAT, IN FACT, I MENT TO EXPLAIN IT EARLY BUT YOU WERE ALWAYS BUSY AND I DIDN'T WANNA INTRUPT YOU OR ANYTHING CUZ YOU PROBABLY WERE LIKE TALKING TO FANS OR SOMETHING AND LIKE I COULD HAVE TALKED TO YOU BACKSTAGE BUT YOU WERE ALWAYS BUSY THEN TO SO LIKE, I DIDN'T MEAN TO STRIP YOU DURING THE MATCH, I SLIPPED AND I'M A BIT OF A CLUTZ LIKE I ONCE KICKED THE BACK OF MY ANKLE AND MADE MYSELF FALL OVER NOTHING, STUPID RIGHT? BUT I MEAN WE BOTH ENDED UP HALF NAKED AND YOU DID SIT ON MY FACE WHICH WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW I COULDN'T TELL IF YOU WERE INTO IT OR SOMETHING OR YOU THOUGHT I WAS WEIRD SO I WAS ALSO NERVOUS ABOUT THAT AND THEN LIKE I GOT AFRAID YOU WON'T WANNA TALK ANY MORE BUT THEN I HAD OTHER MATCHES AND I FORGOT AND JUST ASSUMED YOU DIDN'T WANNA TALK AND YOU WERE THE ONLY PERSON I COULD THINK OF THAT KNEW ME AND DIDN'T PROBABLY DISLIKE ME OR SOMETHING AND MY HANDS ARE COLD AND AND AND AND..."

April's massive rant left nearly breathless before she quickly toss the pants down onto the ground, as she went to bow her head. "SORRY- AH!" April forward momentum lead her to slip, stumbling before then slipping on the semi wet pants, flopping comically forward, ending up face planting in front of Clara, who likely, was very confused. April would lay there for a momentum before slowly getting back up, reaching onto the table and grabbing the untouched milkshake, holding it up to Clara on her knees.

"I-I'm sorry, please don't be mad." April had a nervous and semi embarrassed look on her face, along with a small bruise on her forehead from smacking the ground. Nothing was broken or damaged, but it did likely hurt.

[Vc0m]

Clara listened to April...but got little coherent thought out of her words. She spoke too fast for the Brit to keep up, and by the time she was done, she would slip and fall onto the ground, hitting her head, and Clara growing concerned...right up until April held a shake as a form of atonement towards her.

Clara looked at her with both worry and judgement for a moment...before grabbing the milkshake, and pressing it against her new friend's forehead to help with the forming bruise: "I'm not mad...be careful around here...", Clara explained, before trying to help April up

[SweetHeart]

April would rub her head, wincing at the cold drink on her bruise. "Sorry, I didn't wanna upset you." April got back up to her feet, blushing a bit. She would rub the bruise, sighing before taking a sip from her milkshake. "You wanna watch a movie or something?" She asked, trying to move on from her comical flop onto the ground, adjusting her shirt and walking around the apartment to look around, scratching her head, drinking more of the milkshake

[Vc0m]

Clara giggled: "It's fine...if you turn out to be some evil mastermind who intends to embarrass me in front of the world, I think I'll be paranoid of everyone I meet from here on out..."

With the matter settled, both women were up for a night of fun, and once April offered to watch a movie, Clara quickly hopped into the sofa opposite the tv!

"Sure! What do you want to watch?"

[SweetHeart]

April would shrug "Depends. I know basically all the best horror movies, and also the best WORST horror movies. In other words I would rather watch a horror movie that is just so bad you can mock it the entire time rather then a medium rare scare flix. Also I coined that term so don't steal it, I need to put it on a t-shirt at some point." April would bounce up onto the sofa, placing her drink down on the table. "If you're not a horror kinda gal we could also do some monster movies. I skip the side plots cuz I just wanna see some cool monster fight each other, instead of ANOTHER story about ANOTHER dude falling in love with some bland girl he met like TWO DAYS before." April would lean back on the bed, stopping herself from going into a rant about the stupid shoehorning of romance into monster movies. "Sorry for yelling, hehe."

[Vc0m]

"It's ok, hahahaha...", Clara would giggle at April's monster movie rant. "Buuut if you are up for a monster movie, probably without romance but with political allegory...how about Shin Godzilla?", the Brit would say, moving the cursor to the movie...

[SweetHeart]

"Oh yeah! Shin was really good! I like the other goofy godzilla movies but it was a lot like a return to form, kinda like return of godzilla was originally, if the US version didn't butcher the message so much." April pouted a bit at the thought of her own personal Godzilla movie beef, but regardless would go and grab a few snacks, coming back with a proper tray that she thankfully didn't drop. After which she would plop herself next to Clara and got ready to watch some monster movie destruction

[Vc0m]

Clara half-wanted to joke that she has all the goofiness she needs with April, but decided against being too mean to her guest tonight. With snacks and drinks around the small table near the sofa facing the tv, the movie night was ready to go!

For the most part the two were silent seeing the plot develop, but after the monster starts attacking the city, and with snacks half-way depleted, Clara decided to get the conversation going a little bit:

"So April...how did you end up in Japan? Were you here on a tour and decided to stay?"