The roof, Sunday night

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Dude, I did something really stupid today," he said, talking into his cell phone.

"I kissed her. Just like that. Maaan!" Pause. "What?" Pause. "Well, yeah, she's hot." Johnny grinned. "Petite, blonde, perfect sized..." Johnny conversed with Reed for ten more minutes before he clicked his cell closed and shoved it in his pocket.

Walking over to the edge he looked down over the lawn and shoved his hands in his back pockets. Dick was going to kill him.

Or he could try.

"Maaan!"

(open like a roof!)

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Roof, roof, roof. Turtle realized she hadn't been to the roof in a while. Plus, she was kind of hoping it would rain. But if it started storming, she was so going back inside.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny heard someone behind him and looked over his shoulder, "Hey, Turtle. How's it goin'?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Heyyyy, Johnny, not too bad." Turtle drifted over to where he was as if to check out whatever view he'd chosen to look out on, peering over the edge and trying not to flail over the height. Man, it would suck to fall off of this building. "How're you?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He watched her approach him and made sure she was pretty much steady before he returned his gaze to stare out over the lawn. He was close to the edge. "Am pretty good I guess, for being pretty stupid that is.."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that's okay." If they weren't so close to the edge, Turtle would have patted his shoulder reassuringly. "You can't help that. You're a boy."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He chuckled at that and turned slightly towards her, "That so?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Yup," Turtle gave a confident nod. "Boys are marginally more stupid than girls are. There are studies and statistics and everything to prove it. I won't hold it against you, though. Unless this is beyond general stupidity and ranges into the more specific kind?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Turtle was amusing. "I would say it ranged greatly into the more specific kind, yes. Normally, I would not say I was stupid, even marginally speaking. Nope. I am a smart kind of guy, Turtle."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle smirked. "For a guy, perhaps," she was willing to allow. Her smirk grew a little bigger and she waggled her eyebrows at him a little. "So, what'd you do that was so stupid? Mix colors with your whites? Use baking soda instead of flour? Put money in bad stock?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"None of the above, Turtle, though I wish it were the mixing colors with whites whatever that means. Nope, not me. Today I kissed a girl." He smirked and shook his head. "Stupid of me, right?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle gave a snort. "Totally. That's, like, mammoth, megolithic, hardcore stupid right there."

Well, maybe if Johnny took her out on a date, kissed, and then never asked her out again for, like, five months. That'd be real stupid, but that was already someone else's schtick.

"Who?" She did always have a knack for the good gossip. Maybe something to dish to Charlie about later. Oooh! Maybe it was Charlie!

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny listened to the radio. He was pretty sure he shouldn't just hand over Annette's name to Turtle. He did feel bad for what he did.

"Annette Hargrove." Maybe not bad enough though.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle stared. A lot. That was definitely not Charlie.

Slowly, she shook her head and then a long whistle was let out. "Maaaan, you are stupid, aren't you?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He ran his hand back through his hair, "I know. I know. Shit. I didn't mean to. She was just standing there. And these images were in my head...images that needed to go away. I thought kissing might do the trick."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

There was more staring, this time backed by a disturbed sort of frown. And she was torn between two things to say.

Turtle wound up saying both of them.

"Ew. Ewewew, and, ugh, so not fair!"

The first part was distinguishably disgusted; the second, genuinely pissed, accented by her arms crossing tightly over her chest and a pout that could ruin Christmas.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny raised his brows, then his finger, then lowered his finger and his brows and settled on folding his arms across his chest and cocking a leg. "Um. I don't get the ew or the so not fair? Are we still talking about my kissing Annette cause I might be a little confused now?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel wasn't emo. But she was bored. So she headed to the roof with a bottle of bubbles to wait for the rain to come in.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Yes, we are very much so still talking about Annette," Turtle responded back with a desperate tone and a stomp of her foot. "Ew because it's Annette and so not fair because, ugh, you boys are awful! Terrible and stupid and just...just....UGH! Go around kissing girls like Annette all the time just because they're pretty, while perfectly good, smart, intelligent, better girls like me and Charlie are left here with nothing, and we don't even already have boyfriends!" If it weren't for that six-story drop, Turtle would push Johnny. Or kick him, which would in turn probably lead to kicking him off the roof.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He heard the footsteps behind him, and looking over and spotting Isabel, he smiled, "Hey," he said softly so he didn't startle her.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hey yourself," Isabel said with a smile, wandering over to take a seat not too near the edge. "How was your trip?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny, perhaps cause he was a guy, latched on to one specific thing, no two specific things, "I've kissed Charlie. It was more than great. I'd kiss you too, if you let me."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Definitely not the thing to say to Turtle in all of her boys-suck rage.

"WHAT?!"

Oh, he was so lucky he was at the edge of that roof.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"It was great. It was so sweet! Come by my room sometime and I'll show you the pictures I've got." Vain? But of course.

"How was your week and damn, did Anakin say anything about me not being in class?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"What what?" Dense? Probably.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to do that," she said as she opened the bubbles and blew some at him. "He didn't say anything to me. But that doesn't mean anything. You missed a fun class though. We were flying out past Jupiter and Saturn."