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I’ve been looking for a new emotion
I’ve been taken with a new emotion...
They were watching Orange Is the New Black for the third time. It was their favourite; Alex loved the wittiness of the writing and Kara couldn't get enough of how real the sappy moments felt. This wasn't one of them, though; this was the iconic scene where Piper had dragged Alex to the chapel.
Kara could recall the first time they had watched it together, a few years back; Alex had only came out to her. There had been a considerable amount of awkwardness in the air, which Kara had tried to compensate for with over-the-top jokes, unsuccessfully. That felt like such a long time ago. Things had changed considerably.
On Krypton, the mentality regarding relationships was basically equivalent to pansexuality in Earth's terms. She had crushes on a fair amount of girls and boys when growing up, but the subject didn't come up with Jeremiah or Eliza, so she didn't have the opportunity to go through the whole questioning herself thing. That is, until a few years back, when she started heavily crushing on two women named Alex; one portrayed by Laura Prepon in a TV show, and the other, very real, who was currently cuddled up extremely close to her.
Kara shifted a bit, and Alex did the same; now an auburn head was on her shoulder. The blonde's hair was up in a high bun, thus this change resulted in a fair amount of ticklish sensations on her neck. Oh, but that was never the end of it; these casual touches somehow felt new and couldn't help but spread down her body as shivers and sudden eruptions of warmth.
Piper and Alex, on the other hand, had no shame in portraying their eruptions of warmth, on screen, in Full HD. Clothes were being discarded.
"I am still up for starting a petition to have season four be an uninterrupted extension of this, for the whole of twelve episodes."
Comments like this really, really did not help Kara. She knows she can get easily distracted, so she learnt how to focus herself when she starts getting particular thoughts. What can she do when someone actually points out the fact that they are...thirsty? Even if it's just for a character from a show. Imagining Alex's pupils, dilated, fixated on-
Kara's breath hitched, as a hand had landed on hers.
"Kara, your hand has been frozen in the popcorn bowl for about a minute now. If I didn't know better, I would assume that you are transfixed by what is happening on screen. Or have you suddenly become extremely territorial?"
Kara grabbed the biggest handful of popcorn she could possibly grab and stuffed her mouth, just to confirm Alex's theory. The second one, obviously. Talking about hunches— there was no way in the world that she was imagining the subtle/not-so-subtle shift in Alex's recent behaviour. She was more...playful? It was hard to pin down the exact meaning behind the glint in her eyes, but it was there. In her beautiful eyes, that reminded Kara of hot chocolate and lazy mornings...
She swallowed and dived right back into the popcorn. Anything to temporarily distract her from the homosexual content in front of her eyes and on her shoulder.