[ Anika's certain she and Ayla must have at least encountered each other at school before, but she's pretty sure they'd exchanged few, if any words but now she's a veritable chatterbox. It's really kind of nice – she's so enthused and so full of energy that Anika finds herself happy to be swept along in the conversation.

She wonders if all those people who tack her on as an afterthought know what they're missing out on. ]

No, no, you don't have to shut up. [ She can't keep herself from laughing, just a little though. After all that breezy talking, it's a little funny to see her get in a fluster. ] To be honest... I kind of came out today to get out of my head a little, so it's been nice. Things have been sort of weird lately, you know? So getting to talk about basically everything else is a nice change.