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Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Night

It's a very quiet Saturday night in the dorms, and with half the students off on some spring break trip or other Anders figures that now's as good a time as any to ~~hijack~~ ~~commandeer~~ use his own floor's common room for a second attempt at cupcake-baking.

He's got his mixer and all his baking gear, plus the fire extinguisher Sam Carter gave him for Christmas, and is currently standing on his head in the middle of the kitchen area, an upside-down box of cupcake mix in front of him so he can read the directions. The TV is on in the background, tuned to the Stanford-Arizona NCAA women's basketball game.

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Molly finally discovered that, aside from herself, Furball and Old Man, the 5th floor is completely empty. Now, this isn't that hard considering how few people live there, but it makes the floor feel very empty.

So, it is even easier for her to decide to head down a few floors to see who else is around.

"Hey, guys. What are you playing?"

"Hat-Girl!" Bridge bounces. "Lightball!"

Molly gave him a quizzical look. "Lightball?"

"Yep!" Bridge grins. "Um, grab one of those gloves over there..." he points to the couch. "I think Anders wants the game to start soon," he says. "It's really not that complicated. The ball is an energy-ball, and the object is to catch it. The hard part is that the ball kinda moves on its own, though."

Molly picked up a glove and grinned. "Sounds like fun. I'll try to keep up." She pulled the glove on.

Bridge hits the on switch, and a ball of light appears in mid-air, hovering for a second before zooming off towards the wall.

Anders bounces on the balls of his feet, reads the ball as it caroms off the wall, and does a snazzy little dive-roll to catch it.

"Catch, dude!" he yells, ricocheting it off a chair arm at Bridge.

Bridge, unfortunately, does not react in time, and the ball bounces off his forearm and heads towards Molly.

Molly 'eeped' as it came toward her. She missed with the glove and the ball bounced off her shoulder. It hit the ceiling and bounced straight down to the floor before heading back toward Anders.

Anders gets a hand up just in time to deflect the ball but not catch it. By some sheer dumb luck the light fixtures have escaped unscathed so far, and that luck continues as the ball narrowly misses a lamp, takes a funny hop off the edge of the end table, and pings off the ceiling again before coming down about halfway between Bridge and Molly.

Bridge makes a dive for the ball and actually manages to catch it this time, and then sends it flying back towards Anders.

And Anders actually catches it this time! "Sweet, dude!" he yells, just as the oven timer goes off.

"Aw, frak!" Flipping the ball so it ricochets off a wall toward Molly, he takes off for the oven to rescue the cupcakes from certain fiery doom. Of course, they still have to cool before they can be iced, so he leaves them on top of the stove to do just that.

Yes, he remembered to turn off the oven.

Molly watched the ball carefully as it hit the wall and caught it off the ricochet. "Yay!" she said before tossing it in Bridge's direction. "Head's up, Bridge!"

The ball bounces off Bridge's head.

And heads for the cupcakes.

Ooops.

Anders stares.

"Not the cupcakes. Not the cupcakes!" he yells, and hurdles the couch in a mad, desperate dash to save the cupcakes from Death By Lightball.

He knocks over two chairs in the process, but manages to get to the cupcakes just in time to catch the ball and bounce it off the refrigerator and back toward Bridge.

Bridge squeaks as the ball heads towards him, throwing his hands in front of his face defensively... somehow managing to catch the ball, which he then hurls towards Molly.

Molly, who had been watching Anders recover from his great save, ducked and covered her head when she realized it was coming her way. The lightball hit the wall behind her and headed back to Anders.

Figuring it's a good idea to keep the ball as far away from the cupcakes as possible, Anders charges back across the room and snags the lightball on its way toward him, then tosses it Bridge's way with a quick wrist-snap.

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Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Night

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