Blue Ridge Community College - Main Campus

[Catarina]

Catherine "Cat" Jenkins

As she heard another voice on the other end she nearly stopped in her tracks. Was this some kind of joke? Catherine looked at her phone, trying to figure out if she had dialed the wrong number.
"Euhm... I'm Catherine Jenkins and... I saw that you were looking for a roommate, so...", she tried to think of a rhyme on the spot. "can I come and see the place at...8?". She turned around, making sure no one had seen or heard her make a fool of herself.

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The crowd of students was moving in all senses as everyone was trying to figure out where to go. Catherine was no different, the building was huge. She managed to find the classroom in time and sat down somewhere in the middle. She couldn't stop thinking about Drew and their date later that day. She opened her laptop but was unable to focus. 4 o cllock could noot come fast enough.

@xavierrol @MsBloom

 

[BennyQ]

@MsBloom

Sabrina Perez​

Be there in five. Am Just outside.

Those five minutes seemed like a lifetime. Every waking moment for Sabrina was pangs and aches, in her head and her stomach. The muffin she thought would soak up whatever liquor was in her still. She could barely get it down. Oof. And every party was going to be like this? The energy drink though was refreshing. She drank the whole thing down and immediately wanted another. She puffed up her cheeks. She blew out air. She dipped forward to rest her head on her arms. She leaned back, neck craned, staring at the ceiling, mouth ajar, just silently aching and gawking.

And then Calliope was here. Had it been five minutes? Bit too much last night? the neon haired girl jested as she sat down. ”Holy fuck,” Sabrina just huffed, sitting properly now, facing her helper, her business partner, part time lover. Calliope asked about the list and Sabrina dug into the side pouch of her other bag. The work bag. She drew out a cheap android phone, passing it across the table. For business purposes only. It had the list and all the messages and stuff, so Callie could stay up to date on who wanted what and let them know where she was.

No names, no contacts, delete everything when she was done. Tomorrow, start over again. It was good money too. Illicit. For girls their age, it was great pocket money for all sorts of things.

”Twelve so far. I’ve bagged everything already.” She informed Calliope, Sabrina taking off her sunglasses next, showing off her glossy green eyes to the younger woman. ”Do half now, do half after your registration. You should have been on that already. See, bad influence, hanging out with me.” Sabrina joked morbidly, though she didn’t feel an ounce of regret or remorse at bringing Calliope into this illegal business of selling drugs to needy students, whether for studying or recreation.

”You just meet them and make the sale. And hey, Callie,” Sabrina leaned closer, her teasing grin at it’s widest now, ”no exchanging product for sex. You take hard cash, or nothing.” She chided the other woman lightly, knowing how flirtatious the other woman could be. Probably how Sabrina got bagged into taking her on as a business partner. Junior business partner. ”When you’re done your registration, call me, I’ll join you for whatever’s left. Right now…I’m just fuckin’ dying, Callie bear.” Sabrina groaned again. But…there would be another party tonight probably. And she was still young and vigorous. She wasn’t going to learn her lesson.

 

[MsBloom]

Calliope 'Callie' Blakely​

"Eight tonight. Indeed you might. Find the room within your sight," Calliope confirmed with a delighted giggle that this Catherine Jenkins person had played along with the silliness of her little game.
That certainly bode well.
"If you find the price right. Pay and stay the night. I promise I won't bite," she concluded in a sing song tone before ending the call half way up the stairs to the café. @Catarina

Not commenting further on the state of her "boss" and casual part time lover - like the night before which had seen them doing the bump and grindtango among tangled bed sheets at some dark hour of the night before Calliope had left the sleeping, or rather passed out, Sabrina to recuperate and headed home for a shower and an hour or two of sleep in her own bed - Calliope took the work phone and the work bag with a nod and a giggle at Sabrina's caution that hard cash was the only accepted method of payment.
"You're not getting old are you my sweet addiction?" Calliope teased with a giggle and leaned in for her second kiss that morning.
"See you after registrations then Candy Pooh."
She then skipped away, browsing the list on the phone.
"Ben and Edie," she muttered with a smile on her face.
"Shame I have to take hard cash."
She texted them with where they would find her, a small copse of trees and bushes near the path leading to parking lots 8 & 9. It gave good cover from prying eyes but was only one of the locations she used for distribution. Mobility was key for avoiding detection. She had learned this the hard way during her junior year in high school.

One by one she deleted the orders as they were picked up. New ones came in occasionally that would have to wait until after lunch and registrations.

A double cheese and bacon burger with french mustard and raw onions, fries and a blueberry shake later Calliope made her way to registrations and registered for a few art related classes as well as renting a small studio where she could work. She had always been quite good at drawing but it wasn't really until she discovered oil painting and the much less figurative options it made available that she really grew an interest in making her own art. It also had the advantage that there weren't all that many lectures or scheduled classes which left her with a lot of free time.

It was close to 2 pm when she called Brina to report that all the mornings orders had been distributed and that she had 10 new ones.
"Meet at the Humanities building?" she asked.
"I want to check out the studio I rented for my work this year." @BennyQ

 

[DarkDreamer9110]

Abigail "Abi" Grace Crawford

Abi smiled as the cute, feminine boy introduced himself and returned the compliment she had given him. "Well, Kelly Jean, maybe you and I can be cute together sometime. Hang out, do a pamper session, maybe go out and find some people to flirt with." She said.

At Callie's comment about an LGBTQIA+ club, Abi nodded. "That's definitely worth looking into. See you around." She said, then turned her attention back to Kelly Jean as Callie flounced off.

"Lucky you, getting kissed by that hottie." She said with a grin. "That was a good idea she had, though, about getting a queer extracurricular group together for the people like us. I'm definitely gonna see about talking to people about getting it going again." She added, eyes sweeping over Kelly Jean's body. "So, Kelly — can I call you Kelly? — if you don't mind my asking, what's your preference in partners? Boys, girls, either? I mean, me personally, the answer is 'yes.'"

@Foxy DeVille

 

[MsBloom]

Takashi Ito​

Takashi had worked at Blue Ridge Community College for almost 10 years now and as such there weren't many among the staff who had been there longer than he had. Not the principal or the vice principal and among the teachers it was only Ms McIntyre who taught biology who had been there longer but she was only a year away from retirement. This of course had its advantages. For one: He had the best office in the entire building. Not even the principal had a corner office with two windows and a private bathroom. Takashi had managed to get hold of it between the former and the current Principal.

Having no classes before lunch and only an Introduction to Modernism in the afternoon Takashi spent most of the morning in the gym going through a regiment of various martial arts techniques. He usually teach two classes, one for those who wants a work out and gain both strength, agility and focus, and one for the female students who wants to learn how to defend themselves.

Afterwards he went back to his offices, hoping to meet the new assistant professor. Being as long-standing as he was among the staff it often fell to him to introduce new members of the teaching staff.

@GeekyLina (assuming Lina returns to her office after having had the pendulum installed that is.)

 

[GeekyLina]

Lina/Carolina Santos​

Pic

Even though the discussion about the pendulum, train models and her bikini pics with Jake had been interesting, Lina decided to return to her office after making sure that Jake had all of the measurements he needed, even though it seemed like the measurements he really wanted to take would be along her body rather than the interior of Physics Lab.

When she was about to enter her office, she noticed there was a man walking around the corridor as if he was waiting for someone or at least hoping to meet someone that might pass through the area. Lina had seen some photos from most of the faculty members when she was doing some research about the college after she applied for the position as an Assistant Professor, so she roughly remembered seeing the man and quickly remembered he was one of the Professors there. After thinking for a bit she suddenly remembered his name from the page with the information on the different professors and so she decided to approach and present herself:

- Hi, you are professor Takashi, right? Well I hope I said that right. My name is Carolina Santos, I am the new Assistant Professor! Everyone calls me Lina though, so feel free to refer to me as you prefer!

Lina smiled trying to seem as friendly as possible, knowing that meeting the other professors would be part of the job and it was important to cause a good impression, if she wanted to avoid getting in trouble. She already got into enough trouble by projecting some of her bikini photos during class and the Principal had sent her an email, while she was in the Physics lab with Jake, warning her to refrain from such behaviours in the future, followed by another email from the Principal's personal email address to the email she had on her CV asking her if she wouldn't mind sending him those pics to be on record due to her violation of the rules.

@MsBloom @xavierrol

 

[MsBloom]

Takashi Ito​

Takashi had got some preliminary paperwork done while he waited and then, as he often did when he had some time left but not enough to hit the gym, he had taken a walk along the corridors of the building, hands casually in his loose fitting trousers, casually humming aloud to himself the main orchestral theme from Beethoven's fifth piano concerto.

The afternoon was late and he had almost given up hope of happening upon the latest addition to the faculty staff when he turned at the end of the corridor farthest from his office to make one final lap before closing up and head back to the gym for his Self-Defense class. As it had been every year it was quite a popular class in which he did not just teach the young women around BRCC ho to physically defend themself against a potential attacker but also discussed ways to avoid such situations altogether, talking about how these young women could stay (and feel) safe without having to restrict their lives.

He recognised the assistant professor by not recognising her. He knew all the other professors by sight and name, even those who had not been there very long.
"Technically Ms Santos it is Mr Ito. Takashi is my given name. It means Prosperous Noble."
He smiled and corrected himself.
"Or Prosperous and Noble depending on how you read it."
Realising that most people in America did not necessarily explain the meaning of their name, especially not variations depending on which syllables (Kanji) it is written with but added one other variation on the meaning of his name: Filial Piety.
"My pardon Ms Santos ... Lina, if I may, I understand that this is perhaps not customary in America but it is an old habit that dies hard, I mean that is hard to abandon."
He smiled at her again, a most charming and sympathetic smile and offered his regrets regarding the mishap during her first class.
"I would not worry too much about it. Tomorrow it will be yesterday's news. Or maybe not tomorrow but once the students have finished making their jokes about it and that will happen much sooner if you simply ignore that it ever happened. And should it not or any of the students give you a hard time about it, some of them can be pretty childish still, then you just come talk to me. I am the staff representative to the board."
He refrained from mentioning the pictures themselves even though he had of course seen them and found them quite appealing. He was also too much of a gentleman to attempt to let his eyes imagine those curves underneath her current outfit. @GeekyLina