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Well, she wouldn't exactly call Nessa a peasant,, to her face at least. It was just, well nothing beat a PC for gaming goodness and for a proper RPG nerd like her, there was just no competition. Or shooters, a mouse was just better than a controller. Fact. She wasn't biased, not at all. Just because most of her time had gone into researching and cost analysing PC parts for the ultimate gaming rig didn't mean she had any prejudices on the matter.

"She is so enjoyable to play. Boosting into people is so much fun." Good combo for Grace as well, she could follow her in when she fly right into the enemy like a mad woman. Also helped Grace was pretty easy to play. Great way to make yourself look better than you are. "Will say if I'm running tank, I just have to go Seigfried. Being able to just slap people about with a hammer is the best." When you weren't suicide charging off a cliff that is. Alice had a bit of a tendency to go a little ham with the big man. All her RPG training just screaming charge!

The boss was one, she was more than willing to show of her lack of skills with the console version. "Hey, as long as I get a T-Shirt saying that in bold letters I'd be happy. Almost a badge of honour to be the worst console player in the building."

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Getting shouted at for being drawn into games with Nessa shouldn't bother her, but it did. She so wanted to make a good impression and now her supervisor thought she was just another lazy teenager shirking off her duties. It was maddening, mostly because she wanted to say it wasn't her fault, but she was meant to be doing a job. She should've know better.

"I....I know, I'm really sorry, I messed up big time. I promise it won't happen again." Please, she needed this internship! It was such a great opportunity and would be amazing for when she applied to uni. She couldn't lose it on the first day.

As the berating continued and her heart sank lower and lower a familiar head poked around the corner. If work appropriate behaviour hadn't been drilled into her, she'd have kissed her idol. if anyone could clear stuff up it'd be her. Maybe. Hopefully. Unless she was just humouring the fresh faced intern who in fairness, had been flirting with someone who didn't know how young she was.

"Sorry for disturbing you Vanessa, I was just reprimanding Alice for shirking her responsibilities on her first day, disappearing off for so long without working." 

Astrid was so cute, sitting there all ears for her great gay wisdom. All what, two years of it? Well,, that didn't matter, right now, with a drink in hand and a confused young girl to shepherd down the right path, she was all confidence and mentoring...ness. If it wasn't a word before, it totally was now, and she was being it. Whatever it was.

Wait, how the hell did you actually help someone learn about themselves, understand their own sexuality and all that, emotional stuff? Was she supposed to explain everything or just give her a few places she could learn about it? And was it bad form to hit on someone just coming to terms with, well everything. It probably was, annoyingly but damn it was hard to not want to.

And then she blushed. Well, Alice has hooked. This french angel had her full attention and damn, were her eyes not beautiful. What were they talking about again?

That did it, the words shocking her back to full tilt. The implication from before was actually said. Astrid. Like. Girls. Were there ever a sweet set of spoken sounds, in an adorable accent no less.

This was going to be so good.

"Thank you, for sharing that with me, I know it's not easy sometimes." Her own coming out had been, rocky, with her grandmother at least. She had just pretended like nothing had happened. Thankfully her mum was way more accepting, she didn't make a big deal out of it at all, which was so cool."

"if you've got any questions or anything, I'm always free to answer." Or if you want to try anything. Hold it in girl, let her at least get comfortable with the idea before you put kissing and other things on the table. All she had to do, was hold it together for a little bit longer. When Astrid was a bit less confused, then you could feel free to pounce as much as you want.

Well, less a codename more her power being it's usual dumb self. Why it had to use her online name from time to time was a complete mystery, but hey, that's how it worked. No point worrying about something so small.

Grinning at the older womans reaction, it was pretty weird first time round. not that she had that experience but out of everyone on the planet, she could related to it the most. "Weird huh? Took me a while to get used to it myself, but then when you wake up one day with health bars you tend to be a bit confused." Or scared, but most people in that position would assume they were going loopy as well. Not her fault she didn't speak to anyone for a week.

With the pop up accepted and Maya status in her party firmly planted in her vision, it was cool to see her on the map. Mostly because she never saw anyone on it, so something new to look at was nice.

Damn, she had a lot more health than Alice did. Shouldn't really be a surprised but she was obviously tougher than she looked.

"When you want to leave the party just say so out loud and it'll disconnect us. I can't have someone in the party if they don't want to be." Not that she'd want most people in it. Mainly girls if she was being honest.

Well, mainly Jack. Jack was a walking talking tank.

Cringing a little at how shocked Nessa clearly was, she had never even thought the woman might not know how old she was. Sure she knew the hair and general punk look made her look a little older, but this was not what she'd expected. Please don't say she'd messed this up, Nessa was awesome and cool and pretty......not helping brain. Keep those thoughts under lock and key for now, the boss didn't need any more issues to deal with right now.

Only a hair away from a mild panic attack, she let out an explosive sigh when she got the OK. Her heart was still hammering in her chest, but all was not lost, she hadn't ruined everything on the first day. She just had to make sure not to screw it up anymore, or do anything too stupid and she'd b e fine. "Thanks ma....boss. I'll make sure I don't." Really girl, they'd just gone over this. DON'T MESS IT UP. Was it so hard, to not say just one word. Her and her brain were going to have a very long talk when all this was said and done.

Just talking to her online idol was amazing, but did she just ask if she, Alice Rivers, wanted to play a game with her? Oh. My. God. That would be epic and a great way to sweep the current awkwardness under the rug. "Are you kidding me? Of course I want to! Never had a chance to play it on PS4 so should be a good laugh." Pretty much all her gaming nowadays was on PC, simply because she was a massive RPG nerd and frankly, PC had the best of those.

OK, all she had to do while playing was not swear as much as she normally did. Her new favourite person ever might have heard her abilities in that regard, but she knew how competitive she got.

Locating a controller and determined to just have some fun, she wondered with character she should go with. Maybe that brainless healer. Didn't need as much mechanical skill, thank god for that she was awful with a controller for shooters, but game knowledge was rewarded. "Who are you thinking of playing?"

Good, stick to innocent questions. Just, don't flail from now on and maybe, they could just pretend none of the other stuff happened.

Remind her to never go to Latin American countries. People being all touchy feely would creep her out so much. France was bad enough, but at least they didn't hug you. "Good to know there's a chunk of the world I can just cross off the travel map. No amount of sexy ladies is worth that." Well, almost no amount.

Giving him a grin, "No problem Iggy, I'd do the same for anyone looking to do that kind of stuff. What else are friends for?" He was a good laugh, the overwhelming good cheer aside he was fun to talk too. If his gaming skills could match his attitude, he'd be a great co-op partner. She really needed one right now, too many people at the mansion were just so, normal.

"When the teacher finally comes back and lets us go, fancy some games? I'm bored stiff after all these lessons." She was going to play regardless but playing with someone from time to time was pretty fun.

Weird, why would that be weird? Wait, did Astrid have no idea about this kind of stuff, like at all? Oh my god, could she be any cuter right now. Okay Alice, got to be careful here, can't be scaring off potential recruits to great gay agenda. Which may or may not be entirely focused on seeing if the pretty french 'bird' would object to the idea of kissing women.

"No, it's not weird to not like boys. Theres plenty of women who prefer other women. Or plenty of men who prefer other men. It's pretty normal." If Alice was guessing right, Astrid didn't just have a small amount of experience when it came to sexuality, she had absolutely no clue. Had she not learned this in school? From what she knew, the french teaching system was pretty good when it came to teaching sex ed.

This might be a little awkward at first, but even if her new friend wasn't into her like that, Alice would happily teach her about this. After all, what were friends for? Well, maybe they weren't the usual person someone learnt this from but she would certainly take that responsibility seriously.

"There's a lot of variety in who people like and none of it make you feel ashamed about yourself. Tell you what, I'll tell you who I like, make it less weird for you." Deep breath girl, and be careful, don't go oversharing with the poor dear. "I like girls, instead of boys. All it means is I want to have relationships with other women. I just don't like guys, in that way at least. They can be good friends, kind of." Some of them struggled with the idea that she was, in fact, a lesbian. They seemed to be under the impression that she just said that to keep boys away. For some reason.

Giving the girl a warm smile, "Just don't worry too much about it. You are who you are, who you like doesn't change that." Best not to push too much right now. She had a feeling they were going to be friends anyway, plenty of time to figure other stuff out later.

Chuckling a little, he was like a wounded puppy at her chiding. He was cool, but could do with toning it down a little bit. "Don't worry about it, I'm just used to people a little less, on the skin with emotions. Britain doesn't exactly have a reputation for having an emotive people." Well, England didn't, the other countries certainly had blunt spoken people.

Two years and he hadn't found a site to put them on? Well he was in luck, she knew of plenty that people could use. "I know a fair few, I've got some friends online who sell commissions so I have a decent idea of what goes into it." Yay for online communities.

"Want me to get a few details from them and give you a list of reputable sites to use? Also some tips on how to get started?" You'd think artists would try and discourage other people getting online in a bid to increase the amount they could make, but they were generally pretty supportive. Most of them anyway, you got d---s everywhere.