[hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=gold][center]Heidi Williams[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1]
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[center][b][color=gold]Location:[/color][/b] Avalon.
[color=gold][b] Interacting With:[/b][/color] Uná [@Almalthia]; Khloe [@KatKook]; Aya [@c3p-0h]; Cleo [@Damo021][/center]

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Heidi didn't make a whole lot of conversation on the uber trip to the mall. She merely observed the conversation of the rest of them and tried to chip in when she could, despite her brain's rapid processing speed, she would still overthink a possible entry into the conversation for so long that the topic has changed before she knew it. Shopping was more fun, as Heidi's new powers actually helped her pick out several nice outfits, from different stores. However, she wasn't as comfortable with the suggestions of the other girls. Heidi was not a showy person, and while not a prude, would die of embarrassment if she had to appear in public showing as much skin as the other girl's pics. She admired their bravery.

Lunch was more of a success, marginally. The girls all started to ask Heidi questions about herself, having noted that she'd been quiet up until now. Answering questions about herself was easy, and Heidi could talk a lot, but after a few questions, started to overthink that maybe she was going on about herself too much, and when the overthinking started, it wasn't long before Heidi was quiet again. Before lunch was over, she did reveal to the girls that she was deaf, to their genuine surprise.

On the Uber ride back, Uná, the girl who Heidi had deduced was the leader of this trip, and had written those invitations, stopped the car, and abruptly told the girls that they were going to a club. Heidi knew they would be going somewhere with music, but she had envisioned a performance from a band. A lot went on in Heidi's mind in the second following that, but she had decided to make more of an effort to make friends, and backing out now would set her back to square one. She'd be 'the quiet deaf loner' for the next few months, if she wasn't already. No, she had to go with them to this club.

Having borrowed some makeup from the other girls, Heidi tried on several combinations of her new clothes in the girl's bathroom of this gas station. She needed to find something that a short twenty-one year old would wear to a club, regardless of how it made her feel. At the same time, she couldn't keep an act up for the whole night, and didn't really want to, so it'd need to be something she'd be comfortable wearing. Those two groups of clothes did not have much overlap. Eventually she found a cute albeit rather innocent dress. She still looked like a fourteen year old, despite being fifteen, so she started on the makeup. She applied it heavier than she usually did, and the result could pass for a rather short and introverted college girl in club lighting. The only problem now was getting in.

If the girls had no idea about that step, Heidi coul have given them plenty of suggestions, that she'd thought up on the walk back to the car, but Uná had that covered, by changing their IDs. Heidi wasn't amazed. Mutations could do many amazing things. But she was still grateful, and thanked Uná. Heidi was going to try letting her hair down, and living a little, even if she doubted she'd be doing any flirting.

Getting int the club was much easier than Heidi thought. She adopted the character of a college girl who knew she was short and was sick of getting asked for ID so thrust it at the bouncer before he could open his mouth. She accompanied this gesture with a weary look. He ushered her in without saying a word, understanding and sympathizing. Once Heidi was in the club, she sat down at the table with the others and looked around. Of course, she couldn't hear any of the music, and while she was looking out into the club, couldn't even hear the words of the girls on her table.

Uná came back from the bar having ordered a round of margaritas, so Heidi started paying attention to the girls again. Heidi had a morbid curiosity about how alcohol would affect her brain. Would it dull her mutation and allow her to act normally? You know, that didn't sound so bad...