2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday Afternoon

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Logan was in the kitchen. Cooking. Because when you were in a kitchen, working with a blender, you could call it cooking. Even if the result was more beverage-y than food-y. It was practically summer, anyway. Perfect time for a cold iced drink. With tequila.

The television was playing "Annie".

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"It's going...okay, so far," Rory said, nodding. "What about you?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly gave her a small grin a kind of guilty shrug. "Confusing? Mostly really good though," she said.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I heard about the confusing part already," Rory said sympathetically. "How do you feel about that whole...thing?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly blushed and gave Rory a surprised look. "Was it on the radio again?" she asked, slightly panicked.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but I talked to Cameron in the gym yesterday before I heard the broadcast," Rory sighed.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly sighed. "I really need to listen to the radio more." She was curious though. "What did they say on the radio. And what did Cam say yesterday?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Radio was Jaye, who's made Monopoly a new euphemism, and she just said you guys were cute really early yesterday morning. And Cam said he got cold feet and it's all confusing," Rory replied.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly sighed deeply. "We didn't do so well on the staying just friends thing, did we?" Yeah, she was still avoiding Rory's question.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Well, no, but he said you're still going to try." She raised a brow.

"It's just going to keep getting harder until you guys address what's happening," she said quietly. "Figure out where you stand with each other, I mean."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly gave her a half shrug and looked down at her fingers which were playing with a seam on the chair she was sitting in. "We kind of already have figured it out. We're friends first and neither of us want to lose that."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Okay, I get that?" Rory said. "Believe me, I get not wanting to ruin the friendship. But if there's more there...don't you think it might be worth it? Why write it off as destroying the friendship before you even know what's going to happen?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly was quiet for a moment and she continued to pick at the seam. "Did you see Cam after he broke up with Vala or Jaye?" she finally asked quietly.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Yes. But you don't know that you guys will break up, do you?" Rory answered just as quietly.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"No, I don't," Molly said and then looked up at Rory. "But as long as Cam is worried about it, I'm not going to do anything else but be his friend." She looked down again. "I just seem to have a problem with the whole not kissing him thing," she said even more quietly than before.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory frowned. "Okay, here's where I'm coming from on this issue," she said, leaning her elbows on her knees. "So, I had this friend. Male friend," she clarified. "And we were really close friends. And, okay, for awhile, I had had kind of a, um, crush on him. So one night, out of nowhere, really, he kissed me. And neither one of us wanted to screw up the friendship, but you know what? We ended up being even closer and better friends. I can't explain it. It's a different level of closeness when you go from best friends to...whatever."

She sighed. "The point is - you guys don't know what's going to happen until you try, right?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly sighed again. "You weren't there the day Cam broke up with Jaye," she said firmly, still not looking at Rory. "If he still need time to get over that and Vala, then I'm fine with how things are right now. I can deal."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Okay," Rory said biting her lip. She paused, and added, "If he's not over them and he's still kissing you, then you need to stop him from doing that. I'm not saying he's consciously taking advantage of you or whatever, because that's not him. But if you're feeling, you know...feelings, and this keeps happening, it's going to hurt worse in the long run."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly finally looked up. "I don't think he's still hung up on them. Either of them. He'll probably always care about them, but he's not waiting for Vala to come back or for Jaye either. I have no doubt of that. It's the breaking up part he still needs to get over. Until he does that," she looked away again, "I will try not to kiss him anymore."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"...okay, I suppose I get that. And good for you. But it's still really unfair to you. In, um, my opinion," Rory said.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly shrugged. "I can't force him to do something he doesn't want to. That would really ruin our friendship."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"No, I know. I mean that he's being unfair," Rory elaborated. "Which, again isn't my call to make. So just ignore me."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"He doesn't mean to be though," Molly said.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I'm not blaming him. I'm just saying it's not a position you should be put in," Rory said.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly shrugged. "It's the position I'm in and I can deal with it for now. I'm not desperate to have a boyfriend and Cam and I are friends."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Then you're a better person than I am," Rory said with a small smile. "I'm selfish like that."