3rd Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

He had a mid-term tomorrow. In cooking.

Thus, it made perfect sense to him, to wind up in the common room and attempting to cook.

Well.

Attempted to decide what he'd attempt to cook. Miss Lulu had said they couldn't use the recipes from class. This... would probably end badly.

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[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He'd had the same thought, but upon seeing another student in the kitchen, he smiled.

"Working out your recipes for tomorrow or just making dinner?" he asked curiously.

He wanted a distraction. This would be good. Cooking was always a good distraction.

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

"Both?" Makoto offered, somewhat pathetically, without turning around and making sure to sound like a girl, "At the moment hiding in my room and forgetting about the mid-term sounds like the best idea."

He could barely manage what they'd covered in class. This mid-term was going to be unfairly difficult in his opinion.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"That sounds good."

He settled at the counter, figuring that it would be out on the radio about his greeness by tonight, so it would be silly for him to avoid everyone.

"The dinner. The cooking. Why do you want to hide in your room, incidentally? I was doing that most of the day myself, but that's because the island is playing games with me."

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

Makoto blinked, glancing at the... oh. "The green?" he said. "I'm guessing that's the game. You're in Maths with me, and cooking."

He shrugged a bit. "I'm... cooking's hard. I'm not very good at it, so hiding sounds like a good idea." In fact 'not very good' was a complete understatement.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Cooking's not that hard," he said, standing. "But if you'd like help, I'd be happy to help you with things. I am the teaching assistant for the class, after all."

He smiled crookedly.

"I promise the green isn't contagious."

Well, Andrew hadn't turned green anyway.

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

"I probably should've asked for help before this," he admitted, "but I think I'm getting the hang of what we cover in class. I try to make that at least once or twice handwavily outside of class just for practice. It's just that she's asked for things we haven't covered..."

Makoto had to smile at that. "That's good to hear," he said, "because otherwise I'd start to wonder if our entire class from this morning would turn green."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka waved at Liir. "Hiya! Feeling any better?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shrugged.

"Life could be worse," he said. "And yourself?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"'Could be worse'??!?!" Sokka asked. "That doesn't sound very good at ALL. You're going to make ConfuZord sad again, and when ConfuZord gets sad, it spits clock-birds at me!"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I guess you'll have to watch your head," he said with a faint smile. "Not that I see him about. Or hear him."

[the_merriest]

Rikku poked her head in the door. "Ooooh. Something smells interesting."

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

Makoto, in his girl-guise, looked up from hovering over a pot and smiled at the girl. "It's an attempt at... um..." he glanced at his paper printouts, "red lentil soup. I haven't blown anything up yet, so it seems to be going alright."

[the_merriest]

"See? Totally an accomplishment," she grinned. "I'd ask if I could help, but, uh, you don't want me helping. I get bored and start mixing weird stuff together just to see what happens. Usually it's ... you know. Big inedible mess."

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

"You can help by eating it when it's done," Makoto said, smiling, "I think I made way too much for one person. And your method of cooking, well, seems a lot easier than following a recipe even if it does result in inedible messes."

[the_merriest]

"It's more fun," she laughed. "That's my problem, boredom. The recipe just seems like, well, you COULD do it that way, but where's the fun in that? And then later I think, I bet the fun is that you can actually eat the result instead of tossing it."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Orangey! Look! Food!"

Sokka pointed at the food with big, overexaggerated gestures, and beamed at her with a look of accomplishment.

[the_merriest]

"You found it all by yourself," she grinned. "How's life, anyway? I am having a fabulous Monday."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka grinned. "You bet I did. I have, like food-dar or something. Monday's good? That's good. Something particularly Monday-y, or is your good mood because of your secret admirer?"

[the_merriest]

That earned him an eyeroll. "It's hardly a secret admirer deal if you know who it is," she said loftily.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka poked his head into the room. "Food... Senses... Tingling!!!" he exclaimed, in his best bad-sixties-superhero-tv-show voice.

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

In his girl-guise Makoto looked up and had to grin. "I'm not sure how edible the food is," he said with a laugh, "but yes, there is food."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka grinned. "Awesome! So what are we eating? ...I'm Sokka, by the way. But you can call me 'The Man', or 'Mr. Awesome'."

[notreallyagirl.livejournal.com]

He was not going to laugh in Sokka's face. He was not. Makoto shook his head and said lightly, "Sokka's good enough for me, I think. I'm Makoto. Nice to meet you." Pause. "And feed you, I guess. I've got... red lentil soup. And..." he glanced at the clock, "if you wait a few minutes you can try a type of cucumber salad and tell me what you think."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Well, aside from sounding suspiciously free of meat, they sound good." Sokka grinned and winked at her.

"...You're not COOKING the salad, are you?!?!?!?!?!"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was in a snit, doing a bit of walking. Maybe stairs would exhaust him out so he could sleep.

Or...wander into the common room here and see if there's anything to eat.