[h1][b][i][color=FF9A4F][center]Leah Jordan[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/ktEJkOK.png[/img][/center][center][/center][hr][center][color=FF9A4F][b]Location[/b][/color]: Training Room B
[color=FF9A4F][b]Gear[/b][/color]: A hot ass dress
[color=FF9A4F][b]Skills[/b][/color]: The insurmountable will to not lose her cool under any circumstances
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She suddenly really, [i]really[/i] wanted to turn everything above Danni's neck into a fine, red smear on the ground. Being called hot by him was [i]weird[,[/i] sure, but Leah was trying to play it cool and [i]NOT[/i] scare people away from their ideas of fun because of her. Did Danni [i]really[/i] have to remember the one time she damn near killed someone by accident? Madalyne went off to get some drinks, and suddenly both of her girlies were trying to... Comfort her? About her not wanting to be here? Oh no. Oh [i]hell[/i] no. This wasn't gonna work. Since the others started leaving, Leah figured she'd need to stop this before it snowballed further. So before anything further happened, and sensing that April was about to get fidgety, she wrapped one of her superhumanly muscular arms around each of them, gently bringing them in closer with a surprisingly lack of neck-shattering pain.

[color=ff9a4f]"Hey, girls, listen. I know you're nervous about me being, well, [i]me[/i] about this. But I'm here because I wanna be. And I wanna be here, because [i]both of you[/i] are here. Between the three of us, I never go to this kind of thing because I don't know how to talk to people like you guys. You two were always way better at the whole socializing thing than me. I'm not just tolerating this, and I don't feel like I'm being held hostage. I'm just out of my depth here."[/color]

And this was the truth, ultimately. For Leah, this was effectively stage fright. [color=ff9a4f]"But the reason I'm out of my depth, and not running off is because I want to spend time with both of you. Sure, this is new to me, but I am [i]not[/i] letting that stop me from having fun with you two, okay? This isn't a burden to me, I promise."[/color] Ordinarily, Leah would just chill in her room, and hope people didn't know she existed. But it was different now, and she wanted to be close to April and Sabine. Overcoming her anxiousness towards large groups of people was a part of that, since they were, ultimately, social butterflies in their own ways. 

Mads came back with the drinks, and Leah took hers without drinking from it, [i]or[/i] pulling her arm off of April, who seemed like she could use a bit more grounding. [color=ff9a4f]"Nah, we're just standing around. Let's eat something."[/color]