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October Catch-All

who: Lola Pacini and You.
what: Catch-All for Lola Threads
when: All through October
where: All Around.
warnings: Individual Items will be marked.

Open things will be marked as open, memory share things will have it's own section. Other things as the month progresses.

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Beverly follows Lola, looking more closely at her friends. Frankie and Shay. Not for the first time, she wonders what becomes of the people in their home worlds if they choose to stay here.

She takes a seat near the table Lola is sitting on. "Do you think they'd like it here too?"

"I don't know," Lola really wanted them here, and she'd totally make it easy for them. But she could only do so much. There was also that thing, where it wasn't just a matter of who they are, but who they were. Lola's heard about people not always being... at the same time. "Shay's bad at change all around so I can't think of a single when she'd be okay coming here. Frankie... last I saw her, sorta started dating a couple. But there are a lot of times she was really out of her element and might like to be here with me."

Lola's friends have just as complicated lives as Lola, sometimes. "So long as Frankie isn't here when she did that horrible skunk stripe in her hair. She was so moody and wouldn't talk to me. And her hair was awful."

Lola priorities!

Beverly has to duck her head to hide her amused smile, remembering all too well her own terrible hair dying adventures as a teenager. "Hair can always be easily fixed. You're supposed to experiment with it - and sometimes make really bad decisions."

"The first time I tried to style my own hair was a disaster. I was ten," Lola closed her eyes, frowned, "I guess my hair doesn't work in a dream. I'm just the me sleeping out there. Anyway, Frankie's look was not her. It took my stylist all afternoon to fix what she'd done."

Of course Lola had her own stylist as a teenager. She had to look gorgeous and trying to handle it herself was... a lot of work. She'd learned to cut hair at least! In the past seven years, so she had that.

"Yeah? What did yours look like?" She wrinkles her nose. "I tried to go brunette once. Never again." She shakes her head in disappointment at her past self.

"The color wasn't too bad, it was a shade of lavender that I really liked. But I cut my hair all wrong and ended up with a pixie cut to fix it." Lola did intend to make her hair shorter but she went a little... far, or rather she didn't know how to do it straight so it had to go a lot shorter than she meant it. "Also I kinda ruined two towels and the upstairs sink was never white again."

See, that was the disaster, hair can be fixed, she accidentally left permanent markings on some bathroom fixtures that could not be undone. That was where she had really overdone it. "Why go for brown? I did all of this to get away from brown hair. It's so... dull."

"My hair stands out well enough on its own! So I suppose I wanted to blend in more. Sometimes it felt like the only thing people ever paid attention to was my hair." She shrugs. "And I just wanted to see what I would look like with something different."

Lola looks kinda confused at the idea. She tries to put 'blend in more' into her own life. Nope. Not a thing Lola can understand. Of course, the snow white hair of present Lola, and the bubblegum pink of past Lola, suggested she never wanted to blend in ever. "It's not wrong to want something different. Then again, my hair can be whatever color I want now. So maybe that's just me."

Beverly's confidence was not so solid then as it is now. That was something she had to learn. Back then, she just wanted to fit in. "Well, it suits you!"

"Thank you, I kinda miss how I wore my hair when it was pink." Lola doesn't lack confidence when it comes to appearance. "And your hair is lovely, I still can't get why you'd change it."

"I wasn't as confident back then - I didn't want people to notice me. Except onstage, I suppose. I always did like theater, where I could be someone else."

That again doesn't make any sense to Lola, but she doesn't know what Beverly might have had to deal with as a teen. Maybe she had braces, or a really bad haircut. Maybe it was just she wasn't who she is now, "Theater is fun, although the only time I was cast in a play I was sorta playing me."

"What do you mean? What play was it?"

"A short play that Mi- a classmate, wrote. About how he dealt with a trauma in his life. His boyfriend being in a coma," Lola wasn't trying to hide her role, she already said who she was in the play. But how best to phrase it, "And the person he met to help him get through it."

Her gaze softens. "Your friends are Lucy to have you it seems."

"They don't really have me right now though," She was here, they were there. It was... something she couldn't quite come to terms with exactly.

"I'm sure they'd miss you, if you decide to stay here."

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sorry about that autocorrect smh