Second Floor Common Room - Tuesday Night

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg was bored. Bored, bored, bored. She was far too used to having class five days a week. She had on her pj's (a green tank top and Neptune High cheerleader shorts) and was lounging on the couch. One leg was laid out in front of her and the other was hanging off the side of the couch. Not the most lady-like of poses, but she was feeling lazy. She was flipping through the channels, hoping there was something decent on.

"Oooh! Blue Planet!"

[Tis open...yo]

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[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny wandered in to get some popcorn and ohh! Blonde, long legs -- wasn't looking! He covered his eyes with his hand and made his way to the kitchen, calling out. "Hey Meg!"

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Hey Johnny!" she called back. "Why are you covering your eyes?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He waved his hand around in a handwavey fashion indicating, well, he wasn't looking but he was sure it was her long legs. "Those. I can't look. Girlfriend will kick my ass. She's feisty you know."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god!" Meg blushed and quickly sat up and crossed her legs. "I'm sorry, I didn't even realize..." She didn't even know why she was apologizing. Force of habit, she guessed.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"What?" He peeked through his fingers and saw that her legs were together and crossed and yeah, not much better. "No, Meg, god, it's fine. I'm just a guy. Raging hormones and all that. Popcorn?" My girlfriend is sexy omg!

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, sorry. You'd think I'd be used to that sort of thing with Dick as a friend." she said. She took a deep breath to make herself stop blushing. "Yes, I'd like some popcorn."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Pfft, don't be sorry," he said, getting a Jiffy Pop from the pantry. "You look good. I bet the boys are crawling all over themselves to get to you," he teased and sat down near her. The Jiffy Pop was in his palm and he heated it up fast, popping the popcorn while seeing what she was watching on TV.

"What't this?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel was killing time till it was evening on the West Coast. Which was why she was searching for a common room with people.

"What's on?" she asked, taking a seat on the couch.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"The boys in Neptune know better than that." The boys here, however, didn't.

Meg was sort of fascinated by the popcorn in Johnny's hand and it took her a few seconds to answer. "It's Blue Planet. Documentaries about the oceans and stuff...I like animals."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Blue Planet. Hope you like documentaries." Meg said. So far it looked like they were covering coral reefs tonight. "How have you been, Isabel?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I do actually. Did you ever see the IMAX movie? Deep Sea 3D?" Isabel asked. "It's really cool. Like this, but it feels like you have jellyfish trying to swim in your lap."

Settling back into the couch cushions, she got comfortable. "I'm doing okay. Keeping busy mostly."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"You're not in Neptune anymore, Meg," Johnny said, looking over at her with a wry grin.

He handed her the popcorn, sure that it wasn't hot to the touch so she wouldn't burn herself.

"I like animals too." Sure he did.

"No ESPN, huh?"

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"I love seeing things on IMAX. The best one I've seen was on Mt. Everest." she said. "It's worth the drive to L.A."

"Keeping busy? How?" she asked. "I've been bored out of my mind all week! I'm not used to these lack of classes."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg was becoming all too well aware that Fandom definitely wasn't Neptune.

"No ESPN." she said, taking a handful of popcorn. "I might have cheered for football but that doesn't mean I liked it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That one was neat," she nodded. "Did you know they were filming that when that horrible storm came up and all those people died? The crew shared their oxygen and helped save a few people."

"Well I had two classes yesterday, I handwavily hit the gym today, then I spent some time visiting people in town. I work on Thursdays. Plus I do a lot of reading."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He laughed. "Fine. I guess I'll have to watch animals. But if they start doing it, man I'm outta here. Or you'll have to turn it to ESPN. Deal?"

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"That's so cool!" Meg made a face and shook her head. "I mean, not cool but still...interesting. Yes, that's a much better word."

"Ah, that's what I need to do. Meet more people so I can visit them in town." she said. "Expand my social network."

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah didn't know what she as thinking as she limped down to that accursed common room. Actually, she knew exactly what she was thinking. She was thinking of food. Food that should rhyme with good, but does not, but it did rhyme with mood, brood, aptitude of latitude. Food era, aye. Ye, A, are doof.

There were people, there, too; after being successfully antisocial the entire day, locked in her room studying her Japanese packet, despite knowing she didn't plan on going to class tomorrow with the library work, she even chanced to give a choppy, broken sort of nod toward the occupants of the room as she steadfastly limped toward the menacing hum of the refrigerator.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"If they start doing it nothing can stop me from changing the channel!" Meg said, giggling. Sure it was fish sex but still, gross. "We'll see about ESPN."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny took a piece of popcorn and tossed it at Isabel. Cause he was a stinker.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Unless it's monkey sex? Wonder how loud they can screech?" He actually seemed to be pondering that with a totally serious face.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg smiled and gave Adah a friendly wave. "We're watching a documentary on ocean life, if you want to join us!"

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Ugh, that's so gross!" Meg said, throwing popcorn at him. "There aren't monkeys in the ocean anyways. Except sea monkeys, maybe."

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah's head tilted a she stopped just before opening the refrigerator, blinking a little in response to Meg's invitation. On the surface, it might seem that she failed to understand what was said, or that she was too incapable of thinking to comprehend it, but the problem was that she'd just thought too much about it, as she did everything. She gave a short, jerking nod before disappearing for a moment into the refrigerator. She emerged again with an apple, brushing it on her skirt a little and inspecting it. The color seemed unnatural, as did the lack of spots, although there was a matched comfort in that as well as sharp distress, because at least she knew she wouldn't be biting into something that would allow millions of little parasites into her body to slowly erode the inside. It was already half eroded in there; she didn't need it to be more so.

She took a bite, the crush of the apple's flesh between her teeth almost too loud for her, and then limped over to the closest seat.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I thought it was. They had to make the choice and put themselves at risk to help, and they did," Isabel replied. "The book was called Into Thin Air. It's a good read."

"Meeting people is easy. The party was a good start. Sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you then."