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Gregory hesitated for a second before knocking on Vanessa’s door, he wasn’t nervous about Vanessa as a whole but about the situation he was about to bring up to her.
“It’s open.”
Vanessa’s voice stopped his thoughts from spiraling.
Gregory pushed her door opened and a small smile appeared on his face as he saw her sitting on her bed with her laptop.
She looked up and her eyebrows pinched to together, she closed her laptop and sat it next to her.
“You okay, Greg?”
“For the most part.”
He stepped closer and put his hand up his sleeve.
“We’re out of pads.”
Vanessa blinked and nodded slowly.
“Okay. I’ll go get more in the morning.”
Gregory brought his arms into himself and avoided her gaze.
“Could- could I convince to go tonight instead?”
Nothing was said for a minute, the only sounds in the room was Vanessa’s laptop fan and her actual fan.
“Oh shit, you’re trans?”
Gregory finally looked back at Vanessa and saw her look of surprise.
“…yeah?”
“Huh.”
“…that’s all you have to say?”
He sat down beside her and moved his arms to be around his abdomen, Vanessa’s expression changed to one of sympathy.
“I noticed pads were disappearing but… honestly, I thought you were selling them to girls in your grade.”
“And you were just letting me do it?”
Vanessa gently pulled Gregory down so that his head was resting in her lap.
“Well, I was hoping I was wrong and you were just giving them out to girls.”
Gregory playfully rolled his eyes
“I was up-charging them for everything they got.”
Vanessa put her hand up to her heart, her eyes went exaggeratedly wide.
“Gregory!“
The two dissolved into giggles and Vanessa bent down to press her forehead against Gregory’s for a second.
But then Vanessa got serious.
“Have I been doing anything wrong? Or- or making you uncomfortable?”
“What? No. I would’ve told you.”
“I thought so but I just wanted to double-check.”
Gregory hummed, her expression hadn’t relaxed yet.
“Do you need anything else? Like… have I not been providing something that you need?”
Gregory’s face softened.
“No, you’ve been great.”
Vanessa nodded to herself and rested her arms on top of Gregory.
“Now that we’ve established what a good caretaker I am-“
Gregory tried to swipe at her face but she leaned back and dodged.
“-can I ask a stupid question?”
“All questions you ask are stupid, Nessie.”
Vanessa took the high road and ignored him.
“Were you trans before the mind control?”
Gregory blinked and looked at her deadpan, if he didn’t have cramps he would’ve sat up.
“I was trans before the mind control.”
“Cool. I would’ve had several follow up questions if you weren’t.”
She carefully maneuvered Gregory off of her and fully on her bed.
“You can stay here, I’ll be back shortly.”
She grabbed her flannel off of her dresser as Gregory rolled over to look at her.
“Ness?”
“Yeah?”
“Could you get some chocolate as well if it’s in the budget?”
“…I’ll see what I can do.”