Lola stiffened at the sound of her lab door opening.
"Yes?" She asked a little annoyed at the disturbance. The figure that had entered began to step forward but Lola held up a hand to stop him.
"There are lasers all around this lab you almost just walked into. I would highly advise against stepping forward. I'd also advise shutting that door. Light is quite damaging to my work." She said awkwardly. She'd never been much for communication. Her best friends were c4 and deflagration.
"Um, ok then. Look I was just told to come see whatever-the-hell your up to. Make sure your not making weapons of mass destruction." The figure answered. Lola turned around to see a male figure in the corner of the lab.
"Not unless you count small scale deflagration as mass destruction, heh." Lola rubbed the back of her head and laughed awkwardly at the end of her sentence. Science jokes... heehee….
"I'm not going to pretend I know what deflagration is. Seriously can you turn a light on in here I don't even know where to look to?" The male said in an annoyed tone.
"U-um y-yeah sure. Just let me disarm everything." She quickly went to work shutting down all her experiments and lasers and ran over to flick on a light switch. As her eyes adjusted to the sudden light she turned to see who she was talking to. In the corner was a man in a crisp white suit with green eyes and dark brown hair.
Lola adjusted her lab coat and removed her safety goggles, tucking several stray platinum blonde strands of hair away. She was awkward. That much was painfully obvious. In her red tank top, black skinny jeans and Converse she looked normal. But a lab coat and large geek glasses were quite off-putting.
"So um this, Is, my uh lab here. No weapons of mass destruction I promise you. Well I do have a small device I use for atomizing gasoline into a clou-"
"Yeah. That's all very interesting but I have places to be and people to scam." The male interrupted.
"Oh, um. Okay then. I'll just get back to working then I guess." Lola said quietly adjusting her glasses as she spoke. People never seemed to relate with her much so the man's sharp comment didn't hurt too much. But it still did. Just a little bit. She turned around quickly and began to put her safety goggles back on.
"I'm sorry, it's just the way I am. I'm Nick by the way." the male-er, Nick- said.
"Oh. Well, I'm Lola. Heh its okay. Lots of people are rude to me; I'm just the science geek." Lola laughed awkwardly again and rubbed the back of her neck. Dear Lord the atmosphere was laughably horrible.
"Well then Lola the science geek. Mind telling me what exactly deflagration is?" Nick asked stepping forward. Lola swallowed nervously. Then smiled dorkily and launched into a long lecture about all things related to deflagration. Nick was nice though, he sat through it all. Even though it was pretty obvious he had no clue what the hell she was talking about.