Seth worked hard to supress a small laugh as he heard the flirty nature of the beginning of Alisia's sentence, and rolled his eyes. He couldn't help but smile and relax a little when she chose to joke around with him, and he knew that was probably just why she did it in the first place.
"No, no..." He replied, eventually letting the laugh out at the comment about her not being dead. I wasn't...I mean, I didn't...I didn't mean that, as such...I just wanted to know if everything was okay writing-wise...but writer's block can be a bitch...that's one thing I'm fully aware of..."
Seth had once aspired to be a writer, back in his high-school days, but the writer's block eventually got the better of him and he'd given up not long after.
"But...just as long as you're fine and that's all that's wrong..."
Natalie's smile broadened when she heard the elevator doors open down the hall, and then again as she laid eyes on Ashton as he came into view by the door.
"Aww...I missed you too..." She felt a slight blush rise in her cheeks as he kissed her cheek, and then flipped over onto her stomach to look up at him, swinging her legs slightly in the air. "And...not so good, really...some of the girls picked for this year's squad are nowhere near as good as we thought they were, which means it's my job to teach them how to, well...not suck...plus, it's always better when you and the guys are there to watch us..."
She wasn't so sure if said girls were actually really bad at cheerleading, or were just saying that so they'd get a bigger reputation boost through spending time with her. She didn't quite know why they'd do that in the first place, but she was popular and it had happened before, so she didn't completely rule the option out. One thing she did know was true was the last thing she'd said, however. Cheerleading practice was better with Ashton there. As Natalie had quite a high self-esteem, she wasn't embarrassed about flaunting herself around in a short skirt all day at school... to do it in front of her boyfriend just made her feel even more confident. Plus, there was the fact that with Ashton, she was completely smitten anyway.