Third Floor Common Room, Tuesday night

[chasingangela]

Angela has a big bowl of Doritos to nibble from, a new episode of Vanessa Saturn to watch, and a cat who is currently curled up next to her, not visibly plotting world domination.

These things make her truly content. For the moment. More or less.

[OOC: Open. Duh.]

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[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter walked down the hall and was pleased to see some action in his common room. "Hey, Angela. How goes it?"

[chasingangela]

"Hey, Peter," Angela said, nodding at the screen. "Is good. Vanessa's trying to figure out who killed her best friend and angsting about Homecoming. Want a Dorito?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Peter said, grabbing a chip from the bowl. "I'm always lost by this show. I miss important episodes and have no clue what's going on."

[chasingangela]

"That sounds like me and Misguided," Angela said. "But this episode actually seems kind of straightforward." She shrugged. "Plus, I think Vanessa and Dylan are going to hook up again. Which they so should."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I have issues with Dylan. I think he reminds me of too many people I used to know," Peter said. "I may just have issues in general, though."

[chasingangela]

Angela scratched her chin and decided to sidestep the issue of Peter's issues. "We didn't have really rich people at my old school," she said. "But I think there are arrogant guys everywhere."

"But he's really sweet when he wants to be. I think it's all his dad's fault, you know?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter refrained from laughing as Angela walked right into one of his issues. He'd spare her this time, though. "His dad's a total psycho whack-job. It's really easy to see how that could screw an otherwise good guy up a lot." He wasn't thinking of anyone named Osborn at all. Really.

"He and Vanessa are good together, though, I'll admit that."

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna came into the room, Faithful happily on her shoulder.

[chasingangela]

"Yeah, but," Angela hesitated before completely contradicting herself. "You can't just blame everything on your parents. I mean, his dad didn't make him get into fights, or whatever."

"I think she makes him think. Sometimes."

[chasingangela]

Angela waved. "Hey, Alanna. Sorry I didn't get to talk to you last night. Did you have a good time?"

Min nodded a cool greeting to Faithful.

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna paused at the question. "...Yeah. Yeah, definetly. Did you? And Marty came back for your birthday!" She sat down, Faithful still curled up on her.

Faithful purred a greeting back at Min.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Not everything. But a psycho parent can give a really good push towards craziness," Peter said. Sometimes the push went farther than you might expect.

"I find Dylan a lot more tolerable when he's thinking. He's maybe less entertaining, but I like him more. That's probably the main reason I don't mind them together."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

When he saw Alanna, Peter dug something out of his pocket. "Is this for what I think it's for?" he asked, holding up a permanent marker.

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna beamed at Peter.

[chasingangela]

"It's amazing that parents have all this influence?" Angela said thoughtfully. "But, like, anyone can have a kid. Even people who are crazy or mean or or messed up or just have no business with a baby. Like Dylan's dad."

[chasingangela]

"He did!," Angela agreed happily. "But he's pretty wiped out from ..." she waved a hand through the air. "Whatever he did. It's weird, last night was so crazy, and so happy, we still haven't seriously talked."

Min hopped up on the back of the couch and began energetically meowing at Faithful.

//It has been too long.//

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Very, very true," Peter said. "And then some people who are perfect for raising a kid never have one of their own. The world is funny like that."

"I'm sorry if I get overly introspective around you sometimes."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"It has to wait. I'm not risking having any leftover ink on my forehead tomorrow afternoon," Peter said.

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"At least he's still in one piece!" Alanna was a tad more enthusiastic then she'd usually be. "And hey, you guys have ... all of two weeks before finals, scratch that. Summer! You have summer!"
Faithful ignored Alanna's ramblings and went over to join Min.

"Tell me about it. I blame the human personally." He pointed with his tail at Alanna. "Yours has good tuna though."

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna smirked. "What's tomorrow afternoon?"

[chasingangela]

Angela blinked. "Usually I'm the one who says that to other people," she said. "Is everything okay?"

[chasingangela]

"We do have summer," Angela said, equally enthusiastic. "We might go on a long trip. Get away from the weirdness that is Fandom, you know? Unless it follows us."

//For you,// Min said, licking a paw. //She doesn't give it to me.//

//Did you really let them wear you on their heads?//

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"My issues are many and complex," Peter said with a small smile. "Let's just say that I know what I'm talking about with all of this."

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"So you won't be going to the summer camps? And hey, I'm pretty sure the weirdness is restricted to Fandom."

"I'll sneak you a few cans. Alanna is not the brightest when it comes to remembering to lock the outside door." Faithful purred and chuckled."That's a very...vague term. I danced and tried to see which one of them would fall over."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I'm interviewing Zero for Journalism class. At her home. With her family around," Peter said. "No forehead ink for me, thank you."