Fourth floor common room, Saturday noonish

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude was watching cartoons and making pancakes.

On a stick.

He was considering moving on to waffles. Also on sticks.

[[Open for all your food-onna-stick needs. Sorry, no soup.]]

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"On the bright side," Setsuna suggested, "doesn't that just mean more for you?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac nodded cheerfully and wrapped her hands around her mug. "You're right about that. Still, there's such a thing as too much caffeine, however much I wish there wasn't."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna nodded, nervous oh-my-God-meeting-people smile still on her face. "Everything in moderation, they say."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"So I hear," Mac agreed taking a sip of her coffee. "So, how long have you been here, then?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Since the summer?" Setsuna wasn't sure why she made it a question, she just did. Nervousness, that's what it was. "How about you?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac smiled, apparently oblivious to Setsuna's nerves. "Since January," she replied. "I'm an experienced long term-er in comparison to a lot of people."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna's head bobbed, an impressed nod. "Do you live on this floor? It astounds me how I still go without having met people I should have for a while now."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Yup room 411," Mac told her with a nod. "But I do tend to keep myself to myself a lot of the time, it's not necessarily all that surprising."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna practically facepalmed. "You're practically right across the hall from me! I'm in 412!" She smiled. "This is completely unacceptable. We have to be better neighbours."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac laughed, and nodded in agreement. "We'll have to work on that. Next time I see your door open I'll have to drop in and visit. I really have got to work on the broader socialisation thing."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna, too, gave a firm nod of her head. "And I'll do the same with your door. I'm afraid I'm not exactly usually social, either, but I am in my room a lot."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Common rooms can get a little too busy sometimes," Mac said wrinkling her nose. "I'm not really big on crowd situations."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"I couldn't agree more," Setsuna smiled, "but this is nice," she added, giving a quick look around the room that included so few people, nice quiet people, plus the boyfriend, which always helped.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"As floors go, we're pretty calm," Mac agreed. "You might want to steer clear of fifth if you like the fewer people thing. It's almost guaranteed to be packed up there."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Another nod. "Avoid fifth. Got it. I don't think I really know many who live on the fifth floor, anyway."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac smiled and shrugged, "I know a few people up there." Like the girlfriend. "So, I do actually venture up to see them sometimes. They're a really nice bunch, it's just... busy."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Yeah....Most of my better friends are right here on this floor, like Jude," nod toward the boyfriend, "and Ranma and John now, actually, since he moved up here. I think the twins are down on three, and Alphonse is, so I'm down there every so often, too."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"See, I'm obviously totally out of it, because I don't know most of those people well, if at all." Mac had the grace to look a little sheepish. "That's it. I'm getting out and about more in order to fix that."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna looked just as sheepish. "I'll bet if you rattled off some of your friends, I'd be left just as much in the dark."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac shrugged, "That's probably true. Also, doesn't help that quite a few of my friends actually left at the end of the summer."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna frowned at that, feeling more than just slightly bad. Foot? Meet mouth. "Ohhh, I'm sorry..."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Really, I'm getting used to not having a roommate anymore. It's kinda fun to have the place to myself, now." Mac grinned and sipped at her coffee. "Plus, I have new friends to make up for the old ones who've moved on, so..."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"My roommate got mysteriously transfered to another room," Setsuna said with a small grin. "Luna's great, but, I gotta admit, so is having the room to myself." Or herself and the company of a certain someone. Her eyes shifted toward Jude cooking his pancakebobs, and she blushed suddenly and tried to act like there was no shift in gaze at all.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac grinned at Setsuna's wandering gaze, but decided considering the blush that she'd probably prefer her not to bring it up.

"She just upped and left?" she asked shifting back onto Setsuna's first statement. "Or did the admin decide to randomly move her?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure if it was the administration or not, really. She just...was in a different room one morning." Setsuna shrugged. "It's been working out well for both of us, although I do miss the random fruit everywhere."