callmeemily | For Mira! Meetenings! (Closed)

Mira jumps when the door opens, because she had been just about to reach for the doorbell. Behind it, a blonde girl looks tentatively at her. "Whoa. Hi. Good psychic reflexes." She pauses, because in this town that could be a thing. "I'm Mira," she adds, "I was just bringing a couple books back to Spencer and Joel...?"

Raleigh makes a face when Mira says she's psychic. "Not me," she said with a laugh, shaking her head. "But hi. Can I...." Help was what she'd been going to say, but Mira introduced herself, and Raleigh smiles wider. "Raleigh." She explains, and Raleigh nods, taking a step back. "They're out right now, but I'm here." She pauses, and then- "Oh, sorry. I'm their roommate." Which just seemed like a weird way to say it, even though it was, of course, true.

"I could just take them, or.... I mean, do you want to come in?" She smiles wider - just because Mira seems nice, and she's heard Joel and Spencer say her name before, now that she thinks about it.

Mira grins. "Raleigh, hi," she says, nodding. She feels like she should have known that - Spencer and Joel have mentioned her before, but they haven't actually been introduced in any kind of real way. "You run the new bakery, right? I keep meaning to drop by, but, ugh, work."

She smiles at the invitation. "Sure, yeah. I mean if you don't mind?"

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She just lights up when Mira mentions the bakery. "I do! I do. Orchard House." She exhales, like it's somehow settling in, like she's getting used to being recognized that way. "And it's okay. We'll be there, when you're not working." She steps back so Mira can come in. "And I don't mind! Come on in, I can put the kettle on for some tea, since it's so cold." It's getting frigid outside - they're going to have snow any day now.

"Where do you work? If you don't mind me asking, I know it's kind of nosy!"

"Orchard House, right!" Mira echoes, beaming. She couldn't remember off hand, it's so new relatively speaking, but she'd remembered liking the name and now she remembers why. Literary references get extra points with her. "I like that. Feels...cozy. I loved Little Women when I was younger, always liked Jo the best." She looks down at the books. "Not like that's too obvious, or anything. Anyway I'll have to stop by. I'm a sucker for," she waves her hand. "Baked goods. I like to pretend to bake? But I suspect you might not have to."

She smiles as she follows Raleigh in. "Thanks, you don't have to go out of your way, or anything..." She's instinctively embarrassed by having hospitality showered on her, the same way she instinctively forces it on the people she invites over. She's aware of the habit but it's a hard one to break.

"I don't mind at all." Mira smiles. "I work at the planetarium, I do some of the tours and star shows and I'm going to start working with the schools on field trips. And, I do their social media, but that's not technically my job. They pay me for that part by letting me help out the researchers. Which when I say it out loud, doesn't sound that great...um. I enjoy it."

"Joel got me Little Women for my birthday," she says over her shoulder, not able to help the way she's smiling. It was... special, that he got her that book; she tends to not get presents, much, and the book Joel gave her makes her feel... special. Like he really put thought into it, which she knows he did.

"We can bake! If you want, I mean, we can bake so you don't have to pretend." She smiles over her shoulder at her, and even if her steps are a little slow, when she gets into the kitchen she puts on a teakettle to boil.

"Oh, wow, that's so cool. I went to the planetarium once in Boston, that's awesome." Leaning back against the counter, Raleigh nods to the chairs at the table so Mira will have a seat. "It's good that you like what you do, that sounds awesome! I totally get it, too - my job's sort of the same."

Mira grins at that. Clearly it was a good choice. "Joel's good at picking out reading material," she says. "When was your birthday? Happy belated, or something." She smiles.

She laughs. Raleigh's so friendly with no real incentive to be, and she can't help warming to it. "That would be awesome. You mean it? You'll still have to put up with my relative incompetence, I mean, but getting out of my parents' kitchen where we're all stepping on each other has got to be an improvement."

"Are you from Boston?" Mira sits, following Raleigh's gesture. "I've been a couple times with friends. Not to the planetarium, just for concerts and stuff. It's a gorgeous city. Even if I'm biased toward our planetarium." She laughs. The one in Boston is probably better, but she loves SCOPe, as the employees tend to call it. And she's willing to bet their light shows have a sillier narrator.

"Yeah, I feel pretty lucky to like what I do," she admits.

"You don't even know, he's been funneling me books since before I moved in, and he's not given me anything I don't like, yet." Raleigh smiled widely as she shrugged. "July, so... it's been a while. But thanks!"

She bustles around the kitchen, grabbing mugs and tea. "I mean it. Why else have a giant kitchen, if I'm not going to use it? I usually close around six, so if you want to come over some night at the end of the day... I'll be there, and we can bake." She grabs the jar of mixed teabags, and moves to sit down.

"Oh! No, I'm from Tennessee, but I went to school at Boston College. I mean, there's probably a planetarium in Nashville, but I've never been there." She smiles sunnily at Mira, and nods. "I went to school to be a doctor, but I am so glad I ended up starting Orchard House instead. You know? It's pretty cool."

Mira grins. "That's awesome of you, I will definitely stop by sometime and uh, take complete advantage of your appliances?" She laughs. "I don't really have anyone I can nerd about baking with. Plus, between the two of us we can probably do some crazy stuff."

"It is cool. Sometimes things you love can come from weird places, I'm lucky that my bizarre majors kind of work for what I do, but I'm not honestly sure what I ever thought I was going to do with them. Is medicine still an interest for you, or was that something you weren't sure about?" Mira looks up.

"I mean, I don't have anyone I can really nerd with, either, so it's a match made in heaven." She smiles wider as she shrugs.

Mira asks her about medicine, and Raleigh shrugs. "I.... sort of just kind of fell into the whole med school, thing, and I think- I mean, this is a lot.... It's more my wheelhouse. More where I belong. I mean, maybe someday I'll decide that what I need to do is be a doctor, but right now? Baking."

She cleared her throat. "I didn't finish my degree, anyway. Some stuff came up, so I have like... 95% of a Bio Bachelor's, but that's it."

"We absolutely have to hang out then," Mira says. "It's decided. Everyone needs somebody to nerd with."

She nods, no judgement there. "I get that. I'm glad you found where you belong, then. As far as I can tell a lot of people get themselves in pretty deep with their first guess as to what they want to do and sometimes it's hard to dig back out. And I mean - premed can be one of those things. I was friends with a few and, I'm sure they'll be great, but there's this idea of," she waves her hands, "being a doctor."

Mira tilts her head but doesn't pry. That could mean a lot of things, especially ending up in this town. If they become better friends maybe Raleigh will let her know. Instead she pours water for herself and Raleigh. "Thankfully being a baking entrepreneur doesn't require a BS," she jokes gently. "But I mean, if you ever wanted to I'm sure you could finish that."

"But moving onto the important questions in life," she teases. "What kinds of tea are in here?"

"Awesome, it's a plan." She smiles wider, and then shrugging a shoulder, Raleigh nods. "I mean... it's like, one of those things. You have to decide what you want before you go. Even though they say you can just be undeclared, if you don't know what you're going to do, you don't even know what colleges to apply to, you know?" She went with BC because she got a scholarship, but it was contingent on her major.

"But I know, I had friends like that. Doctors. It was worse with people who went to Harvard, they were super crazy pretentious." She wrinkled her nose in distaste. "I mean, I think I'm pretty good right now - we'll just see what the future brings, right?"

She digs through the jar. "Uhhh.... looks like there's English Breakfast, Green, Black, Peppermint, Chamomile... some herbal thing that's supposed to make you sleepy?" She holds out the jar to Mira after she grabs some English Breakfast.

"Right! It's --" she waves her hands. "People expect you to know exactly what you're going to do before you've even graduated. Way before. If you don't have the grades, or the AP courses, or the right extracurriculars, you can't get into the right schools, but if you don't know what you're doing, it can be even harder. And then that presumes you even want to do the same thing five years later. My parents don't like the structures and they're both teachers. I mean. I went to school for classics, because that's what I wanted to be learning about, but I'm pretty sure that choice as a major is also completely nuts?" She shrugs and makes a face.

"Yeaah, I'm pretty sure my classmates count among the pretentious," she grins wryly, "though I think the Harvard kids might not want to be associated with Brown premeds." Brown's got a pretty wide reputation for being a chill, fallback Ivy; she has no real stock in it as an Ivy League university at all, just in its programs, though she's pretty sure her parents like having the name to throw around. "Sounds like the best plan to me. Isn't that all anyone really does?"

"Hmm, let's go with minty." She smiles. "Thanks."

"Oh! So you're from Providence? Or, I mean, you went there." Raleigh digs out a packet of mint tea, and a chamomile for herself, and passes hers over before she settles herself again once it steeps.

"Are you from there? Or from here?" She laughs when Mira talks about Harvard kids. "Dude, I went to Boston College, if you even squint at somebody from Harvard, they'll tell you eighteen times how smart they are, while bashing BU and Yale in the same breath. Don't get me wrong, they're not bad people, but... jeeze Louise, you'd think they'd maybe learn a little humility." She shakes her head, reaching for the honey. "I'm from Tennessee, I think they'd just lose their minds if they knew."

"Yup! --Thanks -" Mira sets about steeping her tea and smiles at the almost immediate mint smell. "I miss it kinda. I'm from here, though. Just took a little break for fivish years. A really, uh, writing heavy break. I feel like everyone somehow ends up back here sooner or later, though."

She laughs. "I figure, you apply to Harvard because you already have a sizable ego or you're really hoping to develop one. We were too busy having parties for that. Or in my case sometimes geeking out over the observatory." Mira takes a drink.

"My god, Tennessee, you mean there are real people who go to college there?" she jokes. "Yeah, being from nowhere Maine is weird enough, I can only imagine. To be fair the only thing I know about Tennessee is...um, there's got a good women's basketball team? My roommate a couple years was from Connecticut and we always ended up watching."

Raleigh nods when Mira talks about actually being from Maine. "I mean, real people don't go to college there. Only fake ones. The real people have to leave, that's why I went to Boston. Got kicked out." She smiles and she wrinkles her nose when Mira talks about Women's basketball. Not that there was anything wrong with it, but... eugh.

Not what she wants to be known for.

"Nashville? Nashville's in Tennessee. And the Appalachian mountains?" She's trying to sort of jog Mira's memory, but it's alright if she doesn't remember - or know, honestly. "I mean, living here's just got to be like, owning stock in LL Bean and having moose buddies, right? Not quite Canadian, but close?" She's teasing her just as much.

Mira laughs. "Yeah, Nashville I knew," she nods. "I'm not exactly a country music fan but I could tell you where the city is. And I probably could have told you the Appalachians, though I think I think more of like....Kentucky, West Virginia? But when I think of what Tennessee is like I think like...woodsy, mostly? I have no idea if that's right at all."

She laughs and takes a drink. "We all do own stock in LL Bean," she jokes. "If you don't get duck boots within a calendar year you get kicked out. But you're forgetting that we're all lobster fisherman," she reminds Raleigh with a grin.

"All of Tennessee is.... woodsy," she says with a laugh. "But East Tennessee, that's mountains. Woodsy mountains, but still mountains." She rolls her shoulder in a shrug. "It's sort of the stereotypical- I mean..." Her accent gets thicker on purpose, and she's smiling over the edge of her mug. "Starts at the Cumberland Mountains, and ends at Smokey Mountains."

She pauses. "I sort of miss it," she confesses before she takes another sip, and her lips quirk up. "I don't own duck boots, yet. That mean I'm going to get kicked out? Or just that we have to go down to Freeport." She laughs though, when Mira says that they're all lobster fisherman. "All with the yellow coats, right? And the weird hats?"

Mira grins. "I'd like to see more of the country. It's great to know the physics of how space and planets are put together, but the farthest south I've been in the US is...New Jersey?" She laughs. "Pretty pathetic."

"I get that," she says. "Oh yeah, you have like - a 90 day probationary period to get to L.L. Bean before things get dire, we're gonna have to take a road trip." She takes a drink of her tea, grinning. "And exactly. The Gorton's fisherman just stole it from Maine." She laughs.

"Hey, I've never been to New Jersey," she says with a laugh. "I've got here, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, that's it. As long as you don't count when got here - we took a truck from Boston, so I guess technically I've been to New Hampshire." For like, half an hour.

"We should definitely take a road trip," she says with a wide smile. "I mean, I don't have a car, but I am totally for it. Anything that's warmer, I'm pretty much always there." She's so freaking cold, almost all the time. "I mean, even if I wasn't in the market for boots so I don't get kicked out, I think I'd still love to do the road trip thing. I've never really done it."

"You're not missing a whole lot, there." Mira laughs. "It's a lot of suburbs. And Italian restaurants. And a concert venue. Well, probably more than one, but I only went to one."

"Yes," she enthuses. "I do have a car! I've done mini-road trips, when I was at school we'd go to concerts, we went to New Jersey once and Boston a couple times. But I'd love to do a real one, or even a not-quite-so-real one. Plus I love making mix tapes and road trips seem like the ultimate opportunity."

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