Early Sunday morning: Common room

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For some reason Lana couldn't sleep this morning. After tossing and turning for a while she finally gave up and wandered down to the common room. She curled up on the couch and turned on the TV, flipping around till she found something interesting.

She stumbled across an old episode of "The Farthest Edges" with an actor who looked frighteningly similar to Principal Bristow and settled back to watch it and maybe doze a little.

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Maia's mouth fell open for a moment shocked at her own daring. "I'm sorry." She laughed blushing, "I think my lover is a bad influence on me sometimes."

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"I guess!" Lana grins.

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Maia picks up a pillow and tosses it at Lana. "Ok ok seriously though, have you kissed him?"

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Lana blushes again. "Yes, actually we have. It was sort of... unexpected. I didn't really think we were, well... heading that way, you know? And then it just sort of happened."

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Maia smiled "Oh thats when its the best though, when you don't expect it. The best are always like that." Maia smiled again lost in a thought. She was thrilled Lana had Shep after everything that happened with Justin

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"Yeah, it was pretty amazing," Lana said with a little smile. "I wasn't sure how he'd take it, so I was really relieved when he kissed me back."

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"Wait a minute... you kissed him?" Maia's mouth fell open "Oh my God Lana that is great!"

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"Yeah," Lana said looking a little uncertain. "I was working on his hand - doing his PT, you know? And then I just... God, I don't know what came over me. I just leaned in and kissed him. And there was like this pause - probably only a second maybe - where he just sat there and I thought, 'Oh God, I have just ruined this really great friendship. He's never even going to speak to me again.' God." She shook her head.

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"But he kissed you back...." Maia smiled

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Lana smiled too, her eyes a little dreamy. "Yeah, he did. And then later, when he walked me back to my room after self-defense - and that's something he never did before either. He kissed me. So it wasn't just, you know, him feeling bad for me or whatever."

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Maia laughed "Well of course not, I didn't think that for a second. He'd be an idiot not to kiss you back." Maia smiled at her friend "Hell, I have talked to the boy he's pretty decent in the intellegence area so if he would not have kissed you back, I think I would have to discount his I.Q." Maia giggled.

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"Well, he is a *guy*, Maia. And most guys, they get a halfway decent girl kissing them, they kiss her back. But that can be just a physical kind of thing. I didn't want it to be something he felt embarrassed about afterwards or felt pushed into to kind of spare my feelings."

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Maia nodded and frowned slighty. She really didn't have a lot of experience with guys. "Yeah your right." She said feeling like an idiot herself.

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Lana bites her lip. "It's just... after everything that's happened here with... well, you know. If I ruined this... I don't know what I'd do. Her eyes look sad.

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"Hey" Maia patted Lana's hand "Hey now its ok. Don't worry about that."

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"Easy for you to say," Lana says with an effort at lightness. "You haven't already screwed up two relationships here big time. But," her face eases a little, "I think it is okay. I haven't screwed up the friendship at least. And the other..."

She blushes again thinking of Thursday afternoon. "Well, I guess I'd have to say we're more than just friends, but how much more, I don't know."

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Maia seemed rather taken back by the first part of Lana's words. She looked at the floor her insides squirming, Lana had asked her to act like it never happened and she had but...Maia frowned and shifted uneasily in her seat for a moment. She nodded and swallowed hard at the rest of Lana's sentence. "I-I'm glad your more then friends. I-its ok if you h-havent figured it all out." Maia twisted her hands together nervously for a moment and glanced back at the t.v.

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Lana gives Maia a rueful smile. "I know, I said I was done talking about it - them. But I can't help thinking about it sometimes."

She sighs. "I told Shep about them, you know."