Second Floor Common Room [Thursday, Afternoon]

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Well, school was essentially over for Shawn, and wow was that a scary thought. No more finals, no more nothing. Except his Senior prom, which he had no date for. That was a bit depressing, really. He'd gotten so used to not needing to worry about that sort of thing.

Still, in honour of never having another class here, Shawn was lazing. Why the heck not?

There was plenty of bad TV to watch, and lots of junk food to eat. The caffeine deprivation issue was barely affecting him, and he was going to enjoy his last little while here.

[[Open, of course. I'll be out for dinner for a short while later, but around again after that.]]

Comments

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"There is at that." Shawn nodded with a chuckle. "Hadn't even got to thinking that far ahead yet."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"And I have no idea why I did think that far ahead," Anders said. "That's so not like me. Damn . . . growing-up-ninja. Sneaking up on me."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn laughed. "Pesky little sucker," he said. "I'm sure he'll pounce me soon enough."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders snorted lightly. "Enjoy it while you can, dude. I spent all of Sunday night freaking out about having to buy a car."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"I'm gonna be doing the same. My mom went and sold mine the moment I came away to school." Shawn may still be a little bitter about that. "That car was awesome."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Dude." Anders, with an amusing amount of arm-flailing, sat up and gaped. "That sucks. What kind of car?"

He asked like he knew about Earth cars. He might have learned a lot about Earth in three years, but in a town with streets too narrow for cars, well . . .

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn rattled off a list some car jargon that his mun knows nothing about and shook his head.

"Okay, so kind of a rust bucket, and had to keep pulling bits out and replacing them, but she was mine."

The reason his mom had sold it probably had more to do with the fact someone had painted 'freak!' across the side, but Shawn was sure he could've got rid of that in time.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders nodded like any of that made sense to him. "Was yours, that's the important part." He thought about his Glider, and wondered what he was going to do with it when he left; it wasn't like he could ride it around in Neptune, but he didn't think he could get rid of it. Kind of a shame, that -- it would've been a fun way to get to school and back. "Good luck with getting something new. For both of us, I guess."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Shouldn't be too hard," Shawn decided. "Anyway, the horrors of public transport will probably inspire you pretty nicely."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Horrors?" Anders's face went a tiny bit pale. "Okay, you don't mean like the 'if you get off this line after midnight the odds are good you'll get sucked into an evil mirror dimension' kind of horrors, right?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"More the 'hour and a half jammed between sweaty commuter' horrors," Shawn assured him. "Less the dimension issues in most places."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders cringed. "So getting my license as soon as I frakkin' hit the West Coast. So, so, so doing that. I'd rather have the dimension issues."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn laughed. "Honestly, so would I. At least I'm prepared and know how to deal with that stuff. I am unused to being forced to stand near hygienically challenged strangers."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Dude, you're scaring me," Anders said a little plaintively. He was exaggerating a little. Blame the lack of caffeine.

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"You'll be fine," Shawn said, still laughing a little leaned over to offer him chips again. "It's not all bad. Cheaper, if nothing else."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I guess it'd be worth it," mused Anders. "Least until I get my license, and oh frak, I'm gonna need paperwork and stuff and I knew I was forgetting something and -- I need caffeine to figure this stuff out!"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Aw, yeah, damn. You're from way away, right. No normal papers."

Shawn smirked. "Give it a few days and the caffeine crisis will work itself out. Man, am I glad I'm not stuck on the stuff."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, yeah, rub it in," Anders said mildly. And twitched. "Aw, I got time. I'll figure out the papers thing after I get my caffeine, if I gotta go to the mainland for it . . ."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn over there, not finding the caffeine deprivation thing kinda funny. Not at all. That smirk is just his normal expression.

"Good luck with that," Shawn said. "Lets hope it's not a worldwide thing," he added.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders was not sticking his tongue out at Shawn. That was just a look of extreme concentration that got a little mixed up with a frown.

"Oh my gods, I hope not."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Coke just wouldn't taste quite the same without it," Shawn said thoughtfully. Not that he thought it made a huge difference, but still.

"I'm sure it isn't. These dumb strikes seem to be Fandom territory only."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I tried to get through to the Coffee Bean website this morning," Anders said, "and got the weirdest 404 error ever. Lords, this would happen on finals week, too. Only in Fandom, I swear."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Least the books aren't attacking," Shawn said with a shrug. To him, that was infinitely worse than a little bit less coffee.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Papercuts on top of the buzzlessness," Anders said, mildly horrified. "Lords of Kobol, no."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"I should probably keep my mouth shut on this subject," Shawn decided. "Y'know, just in case."