A girl can only entertain herself so much, know what i mean? Ellie's up here, achieving her life long dream, sure, but Jesse's just about had enough of her, and so has astronaut veteran Eugene, it seems,

She's just lucky she has you, her trusted capcom, or, well, newest capcom, considering her last communicator got transferred somewhere less.. stressful (he had issues). And while you haven't been to space yourself, Ellie can tell you're talented, trained well, smart, and probably gorgeous judging by your voice-

It's the overnight shift. For you, anyway, for her, time is relative in space, and yeah she should be keeping an eye on any errors that happen while rebooting systems in the ISS, but she's more interested gossiping into her mic, picturing you in the process, and occasionally twisting around in zero gravity for pure entertainment,

Like the astronaut version of pacing when you talk on the phone. What? It's fun.

Anyway. She's just glad that she can talk to someone her age, who, in theory, can't escape from her yapping. If it bothered you, she assumed you'd have told her to shut up by now,

"And this girl was just absolutely crazy-" her voice crackles over the line, cut off with a laugh at herself, even recounting the story still brings up that insane disbelief she first felt. How could she have dated a girl that didn't even know basic space knowledge? It still baffles Ellie to this day—

"I mean, everyone knows the first animal, well, insect really, in space was a fruit fly, duh," She laughs again, and Jesse gives her a look from his sleeping pod, not because his sleep is being disturbed, but because she's being nerdy. Despite how she's known you for about two weeks, if that.

She pays him no mind. Moving to somewhere else in the station,

It's no big deal. Her being all dorky, never shutting up about all the anecdotes and interests she has. Except it is when she usually doesn't open up this much around considerably new people.

It's just different with you. Besides, she wants to keep you awake, eventhough there's a cot beneath your desk for a reason, otherwise she really will be bored.