fandomhighdorms | 5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Night

Will's quest to find a trash can for her snack food from earlier eventually led her to a common room a floor up. She was surprised to still see someone in there.

"People never really sleep at this school, do they?" she asked, mostly to herself.

JD started, not expecting anyone else in the common room at this hour.

"Oh, uh. Usually I sleep, but tonight I... couldn't sleep. Hey! You seem to be up."

"I'm still getting used to the whole having a boy for a roommate thing, so it's hard to fall asleep at night." She threw out her dirty paper plate and took a seat on the couch. "I'm Will, by the way. And I'm new here, if that wasn't painfully obvious."

"Name's John Dorian, but you can call me JD."

This was said with a little too much bravado.

"I'm new too."

And I'm really, really scared.

Will sighed with relief. "Oh good. I still feel like I'm missing something that all the older students just know." She looked up at him. "Like, Did they explain the Jello dragons to you? Were they made of jello, or just trying to steal some Jello?"

JD stares.

"My Big Brother mentioned Jello Dragons. I thought he was kidding?"

I bet they're tasty though!

"You'd think, but if two different people have mentioned it, either it's all a big plot to confuse the new kids, or it really did happen." She shook her head. "Man, this place sounds weird."

Almost as weird as the city she came from, by the sound of it.

"Yeah, and I thought the suburbs were dangerous"

"Oh, there's worse things out there besides the suburbs. And most of them throw fireballs or cackle a lot or something."

"Yeah, but the suburbs have SUVs."

JD held out his hands like he was driving a large Suburban and made driving noises, completely with screeching tires.

Will just blinked a couple of times before laughing at JD.

"I don't think you should worry about the Jello dragons. You're already pretty weird."

"I'm weird! This guy buckled in."

JD points at Chad and grins, extending his hand.

"I'm JD."

Chad, guitar case strapped to his back and headphones on, was a little lost looking for how to get to the roof. Not that it really made much sense that he couldn't find it, so, really, it was just what he intended to possibly say if anyone asked why he was randomly wandering. He liked randomly wandering. And it was important to make sure all the hallways were at an accomidating height for his size.

The sound of voices drew him toward the common room. Removing the earpeice over one ear with one hand as he peeked his head in, he lifted the other in his usual un-waving wave.

Chad walks in just in time to see JD expounding on, and demonstrating, the dangers of SUVs. (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/776882.html?thread=57032626#t57032626)

Chad promptly took a seat in a nearby chair that he figured looked the sturdiest and pretended to fasten his seat belt.

Will waved back to the quiet stranger in a friendly way. Boy, was he ever tall.

Being a quiet stranger, Chad met the girl's returned wave with a friendly nod. As friendly as a nod could be, anyway.

Another redhead, he noted idly; her colour was a lot closer to Orihime's and she definately resembled her a lot more than any one else so far. But thankfully lacking Orihime's distinguishing...features. He figured he would probably like this girl. Though he realized that he'd yet to meet anyone he didn't really like.

Will felt a little bit awkward as the tall boy continued staring at her, wonder what exactly he was looking for ~~because Will was nowhere near as busty as Orihime~~. She felt th need to try and break the silence with something.

"Sooooo,.... you're new too?"

"Yup." Chad reached forward to offer her his hand; this was one of those moments where he appriciated the humour in how it would practically engulf hers, although his amusement remained contained behind his stone face. "Yasutora Sado, but call me Chad. Sophomore. This time period. Mexico, originally; and more recently Japan."

...By this point, he had sort of figured out the key points that would be brought up in an introduction conversation. Putting them all together in a convenient lump just seemed downright time efficient to him.

She took Chad's hand and shook it, glad to have all the basic stuff in one go. It was still hard to read his blank expression, but she guessed that he was being friendly.

"I'm Will Vandom, and I'm not even bringing up my legal name. I'm a sophomore, most recently from the sunny town of Heatherfield, in what I'm pretty sure is this time period. I'm just your run-of-the-mill, perfectly ordinary girl."

Vandom rhymed with Fandom. This amused Chad, but no one would be able to tell by looking at him.

"That's what they all say." He held up a knowing finger. There seemed a general air of teasing in the gesture, despite the matter-of-fact rumbling of his voice.

"Sure," she said, in a heavily joking tone, "I'm really a superheroine every other day, who has to save far off worlds from eViL conquerors on a regular basis because a bald guy who lives in a water fountain told her to." She did jazzhands at Chad, hoping to emphasize the point. "Nope, I tend to be pretty boring and uninteresting."

Chad gave his first impression abilities a nice mental pat on the proverbial back. He knew he'd like this girl.

"That doesn't sound boring or uninteresting at all."

Serious? Joking? Who knows?

As usual, Alec was up late, and wandering around. Common rooms were kind of inevitable places to pass through as you did that, and, hey, there were people in here. "Wow, other night owls?"

"I couldn't sleep."

For dreams of yoooou, JD sings in his head, imagining his dream girl one more time. He has a bit of a far off look on his face for a moment.

"Name's JD"

Alec smirked at the look and nodded. "Alec. You're one of the new kids?"

"Just arrived on Sunday. What about you?"

"Beginning of the summer," he said. "So far it's interesting enough I don't want to leave, so I guess that's something."

Standard un-waving hand wave from Chad. He tried not to move too much in executing the gesture; he thought that, when he sat down, he heard a quiet little groan from the chair.

Alec raised a hand in return, cocking an eyebrow slightly. "New guy?"

Chad nodded.

"Not new guy?" he asked back, picking up on a distinctive tread. So far, the only people he could think that ever asked that first were...what was the term Jaye had used? Oh, yeah. Oldbies.

"Got here for the summer camp thing," Alec said, grinning. "Not a new guy since your batch came in, pretty much. Like it here so far?"

Another nod. Chad nodded a lot. "It's a very nice place."

"Definitely," Alec agreed, moving to take a seat in one of the chairs, one leg slung over the arm of it as he made himself comfortable. "Friendly, welcoming people all over the place, your standard monster invasions, aliens and monochromatic hookers. What's not to love?"

"Monochromatic hookers?" It was a good thing that was the last thing mentioned, because then Chad wouldn't have caught any of the other things.

"Yep. Becky - she runs the Sin in town and did a Sex Ed workshop over the summer," he explained, grinning. "No idea why, but she's all in black and white, like an old movie. Blue eyes though." He shrugged. "Miho works there too, I think, but I haven't really got close enough to see if she's got color anywhere."

Second time in a short period that the Sin and Miho had been mentioned to Chad. And he just may have a source of income soon. Ay Dios mios, it must be a sign.

"Huh." Then again, maybe Chad shouldn't let himself dwell on hookers, be they monocromatic or rainbow striped, too much.

Alec didn't seem particularly put off by the tall guy's lack of verbal acumen and just nodded as though he'd made a particularly good point. "Anyway, hookers aside, I'm Alec."

"Call me Chad," he nodded his greeting. "Nice to meet you."

"Chad," he repeated, pinning the name in his memory so he wouldn't forget. "Nice to meet you too." Alec grinned. "So, do you fit into the normal human category or would you be in 'other'?"

"Normal human." Despite that a building could probably collapse on him and he'd be okay. But it was close enough. "As far as I know."

He nodded, looking at Chad curiously a moment. "Could find out otherwise - Fandom would be the place to do it." Smirking, Alec swung his feet to the ground and stood up. "I think I'm going to take myself off elsewhere for now, but it's been fun. Pleasure chatting with you, Chad. I'll see you around."

Chad's mind had already jumped elsewhere through Alec excusing himself, so his adios for him was a nod, a raised hand of a wave, and a grunted, "See ya." He was curling his right fist opened and closed a bit, as if testing how his muscles flexed. Didn't he get his power in that arm because of Ichigo? And, without Ichigo, was he going to lose it? Or was it his own power by his own right now?

Huh. Maybe thoughts for another time.

5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Night

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