April knew more than her, and that was less comforting. She tried not to let some sort of weird jealousy ruin the night through.

"I didn't have a phone on me for whatever reason. Maybe I dropped it? I don't know. Woke up in a strange place and had a syringe jammed in my leg." She paused, "I probably should have taken that thing with me, but in the moment I was more worried about being arrested and where Olivia had gone. Didn't realize I had been dropped in a whole new time period."

She chuckled awkwardly and played with the condensation on the outside of her glass.

"Haven't figured much out on my end yet. My ID has an address and all but I'm kinda too afraid to go there and see all this stuff i'm not ready to deal with, I guess." Like who the guy was, or the baby for that matter.

She looked back to April with a lopsided smile.

"Welcome to 2019 I guess, right?"

She thought about that for a moment. Had there been a syringe in the alley? She actually didn't remember if she'd thought to check anything like that, which was stupid because her first assumption had been that she'd been roofied or something like that. It was very odd that her memories of this week were 8 years more recent than her last memory before that, she just couldn't get over the weirdness that just came with the territory.

"Maybe in the confusion you dropped it?" She blushed a little, irritated with her own idiocy. "I didn't even think to check if there was a syringe or anything like that around, I was too freaked out at being in an alley in the snow, I needed heat fast. And I guess 'cause I had my phone and Danny's number was in there I just immediately called him in my freakout." She was still embarrassed about it. She'd freaked out like a girl.

April smiled empathetic ally to Shelby. "I get that. I don't know how much it helps, if that's any help whatsoever." She thought about her life and felt a sense of distant pain. "My life is so different than when I last remember it..." She was lost in thought for a moment. "I really don't know what led me to the city, apparently I'm an EMT here?" She shook her head.

She gave Shelby back an awkward smile. "You too I guess." She stared at Shelby for a moment. "'Nother drink?" She asked, waving over the bartender.

She probably had dropped it somewhere. Sounded like something she would do.

While April spoke she got lost in her own thoughts a little. What if her dad or mom had picked up? What if she had dared to go to that address on the card? So many questions. When April referenced her again, she snapped back out of it.

"God yes. I want to drink enough that none of this bothers me anymore." Back was a little smile at last.

Her life may have been absolute trash at the moment, but that didn't mean she couldn't have some fun with it. Trash panda time it was! "Do you do shots? I'll admit... i'm not really a big boozer, but one thing I discovered is that I like shots a lot."

She downed the rest of her spicy tomato juice, grimaced a little, and set the empty cup aside. When the bartender swung by she would place her own order for a new round of something, anything really.

"My first time in a bar and the girl I liked introduced me to this drink called a Panty Dropper." She giggled immaturely behind her fingers. "I don't have enough shame to not admit it became my go to drink."

Eventually six small pink shots were plopped down in front of her, each with a little slice of lemon on top.

"Cheers!" She twisted the lemon, lifted the little glass and pounded it back like a champ.

She held the next out toward April with a twinkle in her eyes. "Want one?"

As far as April was concerned, Shelby had the right idea. After dwelling on thoughts of her missing years and the life she knew being ripped away from her was straight up depressing. Even the site of a cute woman wasn't helping all that much. Maybe getting hammered, and hanging out with a pretty girl would be a large improvement. "Mmm. I like your style sweetie." She raised her hand and placed some bills on the counter.

"Few of whatever she's having for me as well." She chirped cheerfully. "Panty dropper?" She asked, raising a sultry eyebrow at Shelby, just maintaining eyecontact for a few moments to see how she responded before turning to the bar to watch the shots being made. "Hah. Shame is for the weak, cutie. Just enjoy life and be shameless. I don't apologise for myself, or neither should you. 'Specially considering how gorgeous you are." She teased.

April had brought 3 more and smiled at the girl before taking the shot back in a pretty significantly practised motion. "I think this is enough for now, thanks darling~" Okay that was a tasty shot. It would've been a little over poweringly sweet if it wasn't for the lemon. Definitely seemed like Shelby's sort of drink.

"So what do you like to do, other than wooing sexy blondes with your art?"

Her cheeks pinked the tiniest bit, but she maintained eye contact back and waggled her brows a little. The pink darkened a bit more with the compliment, especially when it came from a knock out like April. How had she been blessed with the apparent ability to attract the attention of bombshells? This was nuts. Was it the big nerd energy?

Pulling her pink hair over a shoulder, she tossed back another shot to cover her blush and licked her lips clean of the sugar stuck to the glass. What did she like to do?

"Other than beautiful women?" She flashed a smile and a wink.

"The wooing is definitely a bonus no one told me about when I chose my degree." She chuckled, "Other than art, I dunno... I like hiking and stuff, and arcade games."

She thought of the Arcade downtown in Seattle, but shook it off before it could settle and ruin the mood.

"What are sexy blondes such as yourself into, might I ask?" Her heart fluttered a little as sh angled at smile at April. She was sill new at this and all!

April matched the little eyebrow waggle with her own sultry glance, it was fun watching a girl that she could actually be embarrassed flounder a little, she wasn't shutting down or anything she was just blushing, but it was still fun to have a cute girl blush and know that you were the cause. She definitely got some satisfaction out of it.

She cackled as the other girl broke eye contact to take another shot and followed suit. April grinned when she responded, leaning in a little closer, a hand resting gently on Shelby's knee. "That. Is the right answer." She purred.

"I'm sure it's only boosted by the art, your allure is more personality and" She paused, doing an obvious check over Shelby. "Aesthetic."

She was definitely having a lot of fun with this, she'd not expected such a find wandering into the wrong bar on accident, but Shelby was all kinds of interesting and she both looked like she would be a lot of fun, and like she could use a little fun. April was happy to be the source. More than happy. "Mmm other than you, you mean?" She quirked an eyebrow.

"I'm not really sure~ Still kinda working that out. I know pretty people are my favourite thing, other than that..." She shrugged.

Her pretty blush darkened slightly at the hand on her knee. She took a chance and dropped her own hand down to rest softly over April's.

"Suppose it's a good thing you ended up here, then right? What brought you in this place anyway?"

The Artists was focused on how mesmerizing April's eyes were; A beautiful splash of brown and green melting together. Her gaze dropped to her lips for just a second, but it was enough. She glanced away while licking her own and reached for another pink shot.

"What are your plans for the rest of the night...?" She was fishing, just to be sure. She was still new to the game and a little uncertain after all.

She turned her back to April, trailing them around a little bit along the way as ideas bloomed in her head. "I've got a few ideas if you don't."

April's eyes twinkled when Shelby blushed, and her smile deepened when she placed her hand on April's leg also. This was going swimmingly. She chuckled. "Well. I thought I'd wandered into the wrong bar, but I'm beginning to think It was definitely the right bar I've wandered into~" She purred. The shots were making her a little tipsy now. Okay, fairly tipsy. But that was totally fine.

April giggled at the question. "Well I wasn't sure about my plans, but you know, I met this cute artist today and now I'm thinking I maybe have plans~" She chimed, grinning at Shelby's admission of ideas.

"Funny, I was having ideas too. Mostly distracting a beautiful artist, you know, giving her some muse and all that." She glanced at Shelby again, doing another obvious sultry size up of the pink haired artist. "Among other things~"

Shelby was hooked, but OK seeing as those feelings seemingly were being reciprocated. So, unless April ended up being a crazy sex murderer, she was feeling pretty alright with things. "I wouldn't mind being distrac--"

"Oh my god," The bartender, who had been eavesdropping on almost everything, slammed a her cleaning rag down on the counter, "Just go get a @#$ing room already, we don't all need to see you two @#$%ing each other with your eyes!"

Shelby jumped, and a startled laugh burst out of her. "Sorry, sorry!" She hurried to either finish her few leftover shots or slip them off to the side. Her whole face had gone red from embarrassment, but she was grinning.

After settling a generous tip on the counter, she turned back to April and laughed.

"Well... you're place or mine I guess?"

April actually burst out into hearty laughter at the bartender. It wasn't the first time something like that had happened to her, it was amusing, when you were in a bar with daytime drinkers people tended to be a lot shyer about flirtations, maybe there was a little more discomfort because they were both women. April didn't know, she didn't really care either, the situation was amusing as hell, and hey she was probably going to get laid so even if it was a problem she'd probably not sweat it.

She chuckled a little maniacly and tossed back the last shot, winking at the bartender. "Have a good evening hun~ I will~" Before slipping on her coat and gently taking Shelby by the hand, and leading her out of the bar. "You seemed to have some minor issues with going back to yours? Unless you mean a hotel room? My apartment probably works~" She purred.

Danny would be busy with a show at the moment, and even if he wasn't April doubted this was totally out of the ordinary for her to do.

She still resembled a cooked lobster as they stepped out into the chilly air. She gripped April's hand tight, stepping in until her shoulder bumped hers. "I'm in a hotel at the moment and it's... uh... as you would expect for this city in this part of town."

She really didn't wanna get down to business on a lumpy mattress. "So your place is probably preferable." She winked, cheeks now rosy only from the cold as she settled back into things.

"Before that though..." Now that they were outside and away from most prying eyes, she stepped a little closer and reached up to brush some of those lovely curls back from April's left ear. The distance between then was easy to close, and she pressed her lips gently to Aprils in an exploratory kiss.

She was glad she had invested in flavored chapstick after-all, cherries were her thing.

It was a gentle, smooth kiss, and then she stepped back slightly.

".... Been waiting to do that for a while now."

April did actually have some pretty warm gloves in addition to the coat, scarf and hat. But Shelby seemed cold, and April also loved skin contact very much. So she gripped Shelby's hand eagerly with her own, it was like a little icicle in her palm. But she'd deal, at some point it would start feeling warmer. She had a little knowing smile on her face, it was probably like holding hands with one of those hand warmer things you stuck in your gloves.

"Well my apartment has food, and a very comfy bed." She definitely put emphasis on those last few words in the sentence.

She saw this coming a mile away, she'd wandered if Shelby was just working up courage, or just looking for a quiet spot to plant a smooch. Given the little bit of confidence she'd suggested shameless sex she did suspect it was the later.

April melted into the kiss eagerly, enjoying it and chuckling as soon as it was over. "Well that was nice, I like the taste of your lips!" She exclaimed before realising what she'd said and chuckling. "That actually wasn't meant to be dirty, but it works." She led them to a nearby street and hailed a taxi.

Shelby liked kissing. Like... a lot. Her very first experiences were peppered with heated kisses that had left an impression her.

"Glad I chose well!" She laughed, letting herself be led by the hand by the beauty ahead of her. It struck her again just how lucky she was.

She focused on the tingle still on her lips, and the warmth wrapped around her hand, contrasting it with the little puffs of breath escaping her into the night air.

"If you're offering food after, i'm offering the cooking! I make a pretty mean Mac n' cheese if you are up for it."

Cabs in the city were like cockroaches, so it wasn't long before one rolled to a stop for them. Shelby allowed April to take the leave both because they were going to her place, and because she seemed more familiar with the city.

Once they had both climbed inside, she found her thoughts drifting to movies where lusty couples got frisky in the back of city cabs.

Was that really a thing?

She blushed and cast a look at her sultry companion.

April sorted out the address, checked price and then paid the cabby upfront for the ride and then began leaning against Shelby, trying to warm up again, wrapping her arm around the other girl and closing her eyes for a minute. "My apartment will probably be a little warm, I swear it's not just a ploy to get your clothes off, I genuinely like it that warm." She murmured while trying to leech some body heat.

She opened them again and smiled down at Shelby. "Mac and cheese sounds good. Refueling is always fun after~" she purred.

April had been trying to exercise self control, she really had but. Shelby was just there, and so cute. And the Cabby didn't seem to care one way or another, he probably preferred customers that kept themselves busy or were not rowdy in general.

So April leaned in to start another, much deeper kiss with Shelby. It would keep them busy until they got there, at least.

Operation Post coitus Mac was on! Awesome.

April leaned on in. There was an arm snugly around her and then the blond was gazing down at her in just the perfect way, street light flashing across her pretty features as they drove.

April leaned in for a kiss; Shelby met her half way.

It was deeper, hungrier. The Artist leaned in more and snaked her own arms up to touch the woman, curling the fingers of one hand gently behind the nap of her neck.

The kisses kept coming and Shelby ramped up the intensity a little bit more, nibbling at the other girls lips gently between kisses. She paused for a quick breath and pulled slightly back with a giggle. "Let me know if I do anything awful..., i'm still a little new to... this."

She waited but a moment before diving headlong back in to lose herself some more in those wonderful lips.