Fifth Floor Common Room, Early Sunday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

After ascertaining his roomie was a total freak, Reno had decided that he had to get out of his room for a bit, stretch his legs, and get himself something to eat.

So there he was in the fifth-floor common room, a bowl of nuked noodles in his hand. The only thing that could have completed the meal would have been some sort of booze, but he'd take what he could get. Maybe he'd stop by that place with the zombies that didn't card, later.

For now, he was going to just pace about anxiously. He couldn't shake the feeling that there was something up, and Turk instinct had him paranoid that he might have been followed, for whatever reason.

[[Open, as common rooms are!]]

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka stumbled into the common room with sleep in his eyes and a chinchilla on his head. He yawned dramatically and piled at plate with cold pizza out of the fridge. No, it wasn't his. No, he didn't know how old it was. But it was breakfast.

At some point -- as it happened, while he was in the middle of scratching himself in places not normally scratched in public -- he realized there was someone else there. "HI!" he said, with a beet-red smile.

[raspberryturk]

"Yo." Reno replied with a casual wave. Scratching what? Not like he gave a shit. Here, he'd scratch his ass in retaliation. See? Didn't care.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Yo," Sokka replied suavely, trying to completely ignore what he had just been doing.

He nodded at the TV -- which caused Momo Jr. to do a header into the pile of pizza -- and asked, "Nothing good on?"

[raspberryturk]

"Not payin' attention, yo." Reno gave a shrug of his shoulders as he watched the rodent-thing topple. "Eating is more important at the moment. Your rat fell down."

It seemed important to point this out. He hadn't been awake for long yet today, either.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Eating is ALWAYS important," Sokka countered. "And television makes it better."

He looked down at Momo Jr., who was trying to do the backstroke on the pile of pizza and failing miserably. "Chinchilla. Like a rat-hamster, but bigger. ...And yeah, I noticed. Kind of hard not to."

[the_merriest]

"Ponytail!" Rikku bounced. "Is there more pizza or are you hogging it all?"

Having an older brother = mostly unfazed by impolite scratchings.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Orangey! Yeah, there's plenty in the fridge. Stay away from the box with mold in it."

[the_merriest]

Rikku sighed. "Ponytail. Are you growing the mold for something? And if not, why not, you know. Throw that box away?"

Male gender: incapable of logic.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Because it's not MY pizza!" Sokka countered, while happily munching on an unmoldy slice of not-his pizza.

Male gender: MORE than capable of laziness. And food theft.

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Having followed Reno out of their dorm room, Tamaki waited a few minutes after Reno went in, hoping that his roomie would settle into something. He hoped that it would heighten his chances of not being detected, although he had no idea how good Reno was at detecting, and face it - Tamaki was actually pretty inept at stealth to begin with, so basically anyone would be able to notice him if they gave it any measure of effort.

In his mind, however, he was currently a super spy. He peered into the doorway of the common room ever so slightly, shiftily searching the room for signs of Reno.

AHA, he noted mentally, He's holding COMMONER RAMEN! We've already got something in common! He would have shouted out in excitement were he not trying so hard to hide. Unfortunately for him, the sight of his most beloved commoner ramen reminded him that he hadn't yet broken his fast. As a result, his stomach loudly protested.

[raspberryturk]

Reno continued to eat his ramen. Then proceeded to scratch his behind by way of greeting to some kid with a ponytail. He showed no signs of noticing Tamaki yet.

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Raising an eyebrow, he wondered where this roommate of his had picked up such disgusting habits. That was certainly something they did not have in common.

[raspberryturk]

After the conversation with the guy-who-scratched-his-crotch, Reno proceeded to have another conversation, this time with a rather comely girl who was wearing next to nothing.

He was looking a little more antsy than before, for whatever reason.

[the_merriest]

Ohhhhhhhhkay. Rikku blinked for a bit at the new guy.

"Are you ... feeling okay?"

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Having been completely wrapped up in his roommate observation safari, he'd been completely unaware of Rikku's presence. He leapt back with a shriek of surprise only to realize that he'd just blown his own cover. Clapping his hands over his mouth, he ducked out of the doorway and pressed his back against the wall, hoping nobody else heard him.

Glancing nervously at Rikku, he shook his head. he whispered conspiratorially, his back seemingly becoming twitchy from being so rigidly molded against a hard surface.

[the_merriest]

Whoa. Okay. He was crazy. That was good to know right away so she could plan accordingly.

She leaned over and lowered her voice. "Is the common room plotting against you?"

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

"No," he whispered back huffily, "See, fair maiden, my roommate is kind of weird..."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Dude," Sokka pointed out, to the guy hiding in the doorway. "It's just the common room. It's not scary, I swear. You must be new here!"

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Looking about ready to leap out of his skin, Tamaki whipped his head towards Sokka and lifted a finger to his lips. "Shhhhh," he hissed. "I'm on a very important covert operation... he's not supposed to know I'm here!"

He looked wildly about before inching closer to the door frame, peering in again to see what Reno was doing.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka looked over to Reno and back to Tamaki, and lowered his voice. "Why not?" he hissed.

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Tamaki moved his face out of the doorway again. He clucked his tongue and wagged a finger as if it were the most simple answer in the entire world. "Because," he whispered, "I can't study my roommate's habits and effectively learn his ways if he knows I'm here!" He nodded after this statement, intent on putting an emphasis on what seemed like a completely sound purpose.

[the_merriest]

Rikku was bouncing around to common rooms because hooray, newbie weekend! Okay, probably nobody called it newbie weekend, but that didn't mean she couldn't, right?

"Hiya!" she waved to Reno, and then gave him an odd look. "You, uh, you okay?"

[raspberryturk]

Oh, it was the moody cheerleader with the fashion issues. Good to know she had survived her little... whatever it was that had her walk away from their conversation on Friday.

"I could ask you the same, yo." He shoved a mouthful of noodles into his mouth and chewed at them thoughtfully. "Still standin', so I can't complain."

[the_merriest]

"Me?" Rikku asked. "I'm not the one stomping around being all twitchy."

[raspberryturk]

"Met my roomie last night," Reno explained. "I've met a lot of twitchy freaks in my lifetime. This one managed somehow to beat 'em all, yoto."

He kind of grit his teeth and made a face as he swallowed his ramen.

"Looks at me funny. Don't much care for that, yo."