The Roof, Thursday night

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

After work Thursday night, Walter wasn't in the mood to be indoors. The rain from earlier in the day had stopped, so he sat up on the edge of the roof with a cigarette and his CD player, listening to the Stray Cats.

He was not brooding, introspecting, or emoing. He was just enjoying the night air and some fairly upbeat music.

[OOC: open as these things are, of course.]

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Walter." Anders headed over and laid out the cupcake trays, then took a seat where he could guard them. "How's it going?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You have come bearing chocolate," Walter said, taking a cupcake. "It's going quite well now."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate makes everything better," Anders said with a definitive nod. "Why, was it not going too well before?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"No, it was fine. I am here to break the streak of roof emo, in fact. But things are almost always better with chocolate."

He had a bite of cupcake and nodded appreciatively. "It's good."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Glad you approve. If you're here to break the emo streak, the cupcakes are my contribution. Can't have the new kids thinking emo's required to be up here." Anders chewed thoughtfully and grinned. "Or can we?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"There has been some talk of a roof guide for the new kids," Walter said slowly.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Really," drawled Anders. "Complete with checklist?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter smirked. "Possibly. To help the new kids, of course. Blair thought the Man was going to get him if she came up here and wasn't emo and playing a guitar. We have to let people know that there are other requirements to be met."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders pulled out his Palm Pilot, shook out a handful of Jujubes, and opened up a new memo list. "Emo," he muttered as he punched the letters into the onscreen keyboard, since he still hadn't gotten the hang of the stupid Graffiti text recognition program. "Guitar-playing. Roof-jumping, brownies . . . I'm missing some. So not all of them, but at least . . . what, three?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Don't forget smoking," Walter said, waving his cigarette. "And three of those sounds good. Oh, and dancing. Or sitting in the rain without an umbrella."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders scribbled all of those down. "Or having a breakup ritual, but the dancing is kind of required for that. In the rain, if possible."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Definitely." He hummed thoughtfully and looked up. "Depressing Bel's plants?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders scribbled that one down too, and made a mental note to go over and do just that, sometime. Out of spite, maybe. "Photography?" he suggested. "I think that happens sometimes."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I've missed out on the photography, but add it to the list anyway. I can't have done everything up here."

He looked over to get a look at the list and nodded. "You can add making out, but put a note with that one to watch out for the mountie."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders munched on another jujube and put photography and making out on the list. "Speaking from experience?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter snickered and nodded. "Yes. Which led to a lecture from him about proper precautions and rocks in the back."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"You're serious?" Anders nearly choked on the jujube. "Of all the frakking things, rocks in the back?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm serious. We weren't even doing anything but kissing." Thankfully. How embarrassing would that have been? "Then he was there. Definitely something to be forewarned about."