Gym, Friday night

[chasingangela]

Angela has avoided the gym all semester, but something about the day has her feeling unusually pent-up, muscles needing to be stretched.

To fight this, she puts on workout clothes and finds her way to the gym. She begins doing a circuit on the Nautilus machines, but it's a few bases arranged in a diamond on the gym floor and a big red ball that had been left out that catch her eye. If just a few more people came to the gym, they could play kickball.

Angela likes kickball.

She roams back into the dorms and tapes a sheet of notepaper to the bulletin board on each floor, reading "LET'S PLAY KICKBALL. MEET IN THE GYM."

Then she returns to the weight machines, feeling silly as she waits to see if anyone will show.

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally, having spotted one of the notes, wanders down to the gym. She's curious as to who posted the notes, as well as wondering what the heck kickball is.

"Hellooooo? Anybody in here?"

[chasingangela]

"Just me," Angela says, freeing herself from the stomach crunch machine. "Hi, Cally. I don't know, I had a bunch of energy so I decided to just see if anybody felt like playing kickball, or anything."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it's you! And you're not old!" Cally smiles. "Hi. I'm here. But I have no idea how to play kickball."

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto came into the gym looking fairly bouncy. "Hey, Angela, saw your note in the dorms and figured I'd come down."

[chasingangela]

"Hey, Cal!," Angela says, noting but not commenting on the bounciness. "We're trying to figure out how many more people we need. I think if we just get one more, we're good to start. Have you played kickball before?"

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"Well, I've played something called kickball, but it might be different from what you're planning on playing."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders shows up in the gym, dragging Rory along with him after finally managing to talk her out of hiding under her covers (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rory__gilmore/36926.html).

"Chase! Saw your note. Looked like fun. Rory here needs some fun and distraction, stat! Let's play!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally hops over and hugs Anders from behind. "Hiya champ. You know the rules to the game already?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Oof! Hey, coach." Anders turns around and gives Cally a quick kiss on the nose. "Well, no, I don't. But I saw, you know, 'gym,' and 'ball,' and thought, 'Hey, fun! Let's go!' I kinda figured there would be kicking of balls involved."

He pauses. "Rubber ones. The kind you inflate and play with. Please."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory gingerly lifted a hand in a wave. "Hi. I'm not three. In case you were curious."

[chasingangela]

"Awesome, we have enough people now. I think. And hi, Rory." Angela is rubbing her temples, trying to figur out how to divide five people into two teams, and figures she can tease Rory later. "Um, I guess we could do three people to kick, a pitcher, and one baseman? Does that almost make sense?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

Wanting to get out of his room, John notices the note and decides that kickball sounds really darn good.

He heads down into the gym. "Kickball's here, right?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Crichton! Our even number!" yells Anders, waving. And also grateful that he's no longer the only guy in the room. As well as stopping to count in his head and make sure he wasn't wrong about that even number thing. "Get your ass over here and play, dude!"

[chasingangela]

"Yep," Angela says with a grin. "We're just setting up the teams. Right now it's me and Cally on one side, Callisto and Rory on the other, and Anders pitching, but if you play we can put you and Anders onto teams and then the sides are even."

"DO you know how to play?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I'm not three!" Rory called. She figured clearing that up immediately with anyone she might meet would probably be a good idea.

Coin Toss - Then the game begins!

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Okay," says Anders, holding the quarter out in his hand. Everybody goes by last name from here on out (except, well, Callisto and Cally), since he's now in jock mode. "Coin toss. Crichton, since I'm doing the toss, you call heads or tails for your team. Whoever gets the call gets to kick first. That cool?"

[OOC: *gets out dice, woo*]

Re: Coin Toss - Then the game begins!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

After consulting with his team, John calls tails.

More Game!

[chasingangela]

Angela lunges after the ball, catching it -- barely -- and frantically runs toward home, trying to tag it before Rory gets there.

Re: More Game!

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory flailed and tripped over her own feet, landing face-down.

Her fingers could have been touching the base. It's really not her call.

And here's Angela, Cally and Anders!

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John grabs the balls and bounces it a few times.

"Score's 1-0, we're winning."

Re: And here's Angela, Cally and Anders!

[chasingangela]

Angela glances at Cally and Anders, then takes the plate. "I guess I should go first?"

[can_be_more]

Aeryn didn't even see the notices in the dorms. Face it, no one is surprised to see her in the gym. She's just surprised to see other people there, playing something.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory noticed Aeryn. "I'm not three," she helpfully called out before flipping her hood back up and obscuring her bright red face.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John waves goofily before grimacing and rubbing his shoulders. Damn Anders.

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

A ball might be head straight for Aeryn. Fast. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/345632.html?thread=13052960#t13052960)