Second Floor Common Room [Saturday Morning]

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Not wanting to disturb Edward by making lots of noise in their dorm room, Shawn has taken himself and his guitar along to the second floor common room.

He sorted himself some toast, surprisingly without setting fire to anything, and is now lounged out on a sofa strumming away and humming quietly to himself.

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie was restless and still had a lot on her mind. Not wanting to disturb Willow, she went wandering through the dorms. The sound of music attracted her attention and she made her way to the second floor common room.

She stood quietly in the doorway so as not to disturb the boy.



[and I'm running afk for an hour or so to do errands, but wanted to at least tag in!]

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It took Shawn a couple of minutes to actually notice that anyone was watching him, but when he did he stopped playing and smiled at the girl apologetically. "Sorry, didn't notice you there. I'm not in the way or anything am I?"

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"No," Marie smiled. "I was just wandering and decided to listen. I hope I'm not disturbing you."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn shook his head, "No, of course you're not. Come on in, you look a little uncomfortable just standing in the doorway."

"I just decided it would be kinder on my roommate to be somewhere else," he explained. "I'm Shawn."

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"I'm Marie," she said, entering the room and settling in to a chair. "Are you new? I don't think I've seen you around before."

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"I'm not really new as such, I was here for the first half of the summer," Shawn explained. "I got dragged away by my parents for the second part."

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I just got here this summer, too," Marie said. "But there are people who just got here last week, so I guess we're experts or something."

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Shawn smiled, "Personally, I wouldn't call myself an expert. Half a summer here and I'm still as utterly confused as I was when I first arrived." He thought about it for a moment, "I guess at least I'm used to the bizarre stuff that goes on here, which is more than some of the new kids."

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"Was all the bizarre stuff new to you?" Marie asked. "I came from a totally normal town. Well, I thought I did. I ended up finding out that mutants are real where I'm from. But I never knew any of that stuff before coming here."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam walked into the common room, barely noticing anyone else who was in the room since she was too busy staring in horror at the schedule in her hands and muttering, "What happened to my science classes? And interstellar relations? What the...Ethics? Music? Media and Communications? Dance? Maybe I could just get someone to shoot me..."

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Shawn shrugged non-commitally. How does he explain this without going into theories of alien abduction. "I'm from Seattle, it's pretty normal there 99% of the time. Even so the bizarreness of here could have been more surprising." Yeah, vague.

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Shawn supressed a grin at the girl's horror. "That bad, huh?" he asked.

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"I'm taking music," Marie smiled.

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"I'm from Mississippi," Marie explained. "I'd never even flown on a plane before coming here. Now I've been to another planet."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam stopped talking to herself. "It's not that music's bad...it's that I can't sing or play an instrument and never would have picked it."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"You have no idea," Sam grumbled, then looked a little sheepish. "Sorry, hi, I'm Sam Carter. Are you new?"

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"I've been playing piano since I was five," Marie said. "But I'm not sure if the class is learning to make music or music appreciation."

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Anders wandered in, sleepy, content-looking, and cradling a pound of coffee, from his room next door. "'s music," he observed as he set about making a pot of caffeinated joy. "Hi."

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"Please let it be music appreciation," Sam sent a fervent prayer upwards towards the ceiling. "But wow, you must really like playing piano, to have been playing it for so long."

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"I'd rather offer you coffee," Anders called from the counter.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"That'll help, but it's not going to solve my problem," Sam got a clean mug out of the cupboard, still staring at the piece of paper in her hand. "Ethics? And dance? Anders, you can see how bad an idea this is--there's no wrenches or grease anywhere in my curriculum."

Of course, on the bright side, there was also no cooking.

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Uh, yeah, kinda." He jerked a thumb back at himself. "I'm Shawn. I was here back at the beginning of summer. For the first half anyway."

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"None? What? Let me . . ." Anders came over to peer at the schedule. "What the frak? Dance and Music? No offense, Carter, but I never had you figured for the performing arts type. This cannot possibly be your real schedule."

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Shawn grinned, more people, always good. He's pretty perky even without caffeine. "Morning."

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie smiled. "Yeah, it's relaxing. I've studied ballet for a long time, too."