Third Floor Common Room: Evening

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara had a whole bunch of packets of "gourmet" and flavoured hot chocolate.

And a whole lot of almost-boiling water.

There was, perhaps, going to be a taste testing in a few minutes.

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[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. was bored and restless and therefor wandering for interesting things to do, which meant poking his head into common rooms.

"...is that chocolate?"

Some people just had a sharpened sense for these sorts of things, it seemed. And here he thought he didn't have any kind of special powers. Ppssshhh.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara looked up with a bright smile. "All different kinds of chocolate!"

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Oooooh." That was definitely enough to pull A.J. strolling into the room. "And I take it that it's all different kinds of chocolate for sharing, yes?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Of course," Katara said. "Otherwise how could we compare which is the best?"

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Is that what we're doing, then?" A.J. asked, interested definitely piqued. "Do tell."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Yep!" Katara prepared herself to explain. "Okay, so, we have all these different kinds of hot chocolate. And there's different flavours and types of chocolate. So we need to test them all to find out which one is the best!"

Obviously.

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"I...think I could do that," A.J. decided after, clearly, very careful and deep consideration, grinning. "What are we starting with?"

And, because it did register for a second that he wasn't sure if he knew this girl or not, he mentioned, "I'm A.J., by the way. One floor up."

And if it turned out he did know her and just failed to remember, he could totally pass that off as a joke, right?

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"I was thinking we should start with the ones that call themselves
rich chocolates.' Then we can move on the flavoured ones."

"Oh! I'm Katara," she said, offering him her hand. "Are you new this term?"

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Uhh, no," A.J. snorted a bit of a laugh, turning a little red, but he reached over and took the hand anyway. "I, like, started last summer..."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

And now Katara was blushing. "Oh, um, I practice a lot?" she offered. "But it's okay, we'll, um, make up for it now?"

[by137.livejournal.com]

Chuckling a little, A.J. shrugged. "Hey, I didn't know you, either, so we're even, but making up for it via hot chocolate still sounds good in my book."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

She grinned and filled two mugs with the boiling water and stirred in the hot chocolate. "Okay, this one says it's rich chocolate from some place specific. Which apparently makes it better. Should we see?"

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"What specific place?" A.J. wondered, the mug already halfway raised to his mouth and his eyebrow quirked. Not that it mattered, of course; he was just curious. "And, yes, we shall."

He wasn't sure if he should wait for Katara, which is why he was very slooooow in taking his sip.

[isourking.livejournal.com]

Ron wandered into the CR looking for food or something to mooch. "What's that? Hot chocolate? Wicked," Ron said. "Is that just for yourself?"

Cue puppy dog eyes.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara held out the packet. "Switzerland? It says it like it's important."

She picked up her mug quickly when she saw A.J. picking up his and took a sip. "Okay. Very, very chocolately. Which is good."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara snickered. "How much hot chocolate do you think I can drink, huh? Course it's for sharing."

[isourking.livejournal.com]

"Obviously you've never met my brothers," Ron grinned. "They're like bottomless pits."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but I've met my brother," Katara laughed. "Would you like some hot chocolate? I'll share if you don't act like our brothers."

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Mmmm, Switzerland," A.J. said, taking another slow sip as if needing a little more to go off of. "I find it very...neutral."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack's sniffer broughthim to the third floor. "...chocolate?"

[isourking.livejournal.com]

"I promise to take only a little bit," Ron promised. "Or at least less than your brother."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Maybe it needs more chocolate powder?" Katara asked worriedly. "Mine's really good."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Yep! Hot chocolate taste test," Katara replied happily.

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. just smirked, holding out a hand as he shook his head. "No, no, it's good. Very good, actually. That was just...a really, really lame joke, sorry."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Deal," Katara said immediately. "Do you want to try rich chocolate, raspberry hot chocolate, dark hot chocolate or the kind that is supposed to be spicy." She eyed that particular packet suspiciously. "Which I think is wrong."