The Roof, Monday night

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After talking to Hoshi, Annette was feeling pretty low. Snubbing Jack like she has; her date with Billy that didn't go so very well because of the movie choice and her lack of enthusiasm, plus Dick hasn't talked to her at all. Not even tried. Even a teeny tiny bit. And then A.J. and her big fat mouth... well, it was time for a visit to the roof for much pondering. So she was there, just standing, not at all herself as she gazed out across the school grounds and beyond.

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[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Emo requires altitude, after all.

He was green.

He was green and, to Andrew, that was all right. Michael had tried to help. Teddy had... offered to be green too. But that wasn't what was bothering him now. In the room, he hadn't been able to stop looking at himself, at his hands and his nose and a dozen other things. How he moved, green and black.

Was it wishful thinking again?

Or...

"Oh."

He hadn't been expecting anyone up here.

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Annette turned her head at the 'Oh'. And of course she stared. There was however, no expression on her face at all, really. This was Fandom; everything and anything was possible here.

"I have vodka," she offered for lack anything better to say.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I have cookies," he offered in reply. He never left the room without some. "And candy. What's vodka?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Cookies sound good," she said and pulled the vodka bottle out of the deep pocket of her coat. "It's raspberry flavored. My friend Cecile mails me care packages -- it amuses her to send me alcohol." She offered him the bottle, which hasn't been opened yet.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He waved her off on the alcohol, but he took out a bag of the chocolate hazelnut cookies and another of the summer ice, which was rather like turkish delight, and settled next to her.

"Thank you, but no. I'm even less tolerable when I've had some of that."

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Annette nodded. She was certainly not going to force drinking on anyone. "I'm not tolerable at all lately; I can't imagine drinking or not drinking would affect me much." But she slipped the bottle back into her pocket, not yet ready to drink.

"Why are you green?"

[withoutverona]

Romeo glanced over at the green person and frowned. It couldn';t be, but it looked like ...

"Liir?"

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[ooc: so sorry; notifs are evil]

He stopped on his way off the roof.

"Hi, Romeo," he said with a small wave.

[by137.livejournal.com]

Class today had reminded A.J. of a metal piece he'd been working on that he'd totally forgotten about and left up in the spot of the roof where he usually worked on that sort of thing and not at all for posty purposes, really. It'd probably been up there for a while, too. He was kind of hoping that maybe it had picked itself up a nice artistic type of rust to it...

With the weird sort of weather that had been going on today, he sort of thought that it wouldn't be surprising to see some people up there. One of the people he didn't expect, however...

"Oh."

That seemed to be a popular response.

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Again, Annette looked over, but instead of feeling basically numb, her heart leapt to her throat.

"Oh."

She had no idea how to label the emotion she was feeling in this exact moment at seeing him.

[by137.livejournal.com]

Yup. She said it. Oh. That just about covered it. A.J. swallowed a bit and attempted a small smile, lifting his hand weakly in a wave. "Hey."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette didn't wave back, nor did she smile, but she did say, "Hey," back because she was not so much of a bitch that she couldn't recognize effort when she saw it. Besides, it was her who was totally at fault for things being the way they were now, between them.

[by137.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. A.J. rubbed the back of his neck. The awkwardness was thick enough to practically chew. He considered the distance from the door to the project. Definitely not a distance that could be covered smoothly. "So...." he said, hands ducking into his pockets. "Enjoying the view, huh?"

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Turning her head, Annette glanced at his project, then back to him. Her lips quirked and she said in a dry, morose tone, "What do you think I'm going to do? Try to talk you to death before you can grab it in a hurry and leave?" She chuckled humorlessly. "Don't pacify me with small, meaningless talk, A.J." There was too much here, between them, for him to attempt it.

[withoutverona]

Romeo glanced over at A.J. and nodded a greeting.

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. gave a nervous sort of nod back, and threw a lifted hand of a wave into the mix. "Hey."

[withoutverona]

"Hey," Romeo agreed, and even managed a smile. "There are usually not so many people up here this late."

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. shrugged. "This is late?" he offered, with a light grin, and ran his hand through his hair. "I actually just came up here to get something I left up here..."

[withoutverona]

"It felt it to me," Romeo shrugged. "My sense of time might be off. What did you leave here?"

[withoutverona]

Romeo liked to vary the places in which he was emo, so he might have been on the roof even if he hadn't been scouting it out for his date with Yurika tomorrow.

But the reason for his scouting kinda stopped him from being emo, so he flashed a smile and wave to the group as he started pacing out the roof. If he put a table there, and a rug for a dance floor here...

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette noticed him and gave a slight wave of her hand in return, though she fixed her gaze back out upon the night, over the grounds of the school.

[withoutverona]

Romeo thought he recognized the desire for solitude in her night-directed gaze, and who was he to deny it to her?

"Good e'en, Annette," he muttered, softly enough that she could ignore it if she wished, and went back to his planning.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Evening, Romeo," she said just as quietly, though her face never turned. "I won't bother you... if you're here for a specific reason."

[withoutverona]

"I'm finished," Romeo said, going to sit near the girl. "Tomorrow,I was going to have dinner with Yurika up here, and I was trying to make plans. But I think I have done as much as I must."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"That sounds romantic," Annette mused, looking back over her shoulder at the roof floor. "I'm sure she will appreciate your effort."