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Gym; Monday Morning.

Last week was an awful week, for many things, but, most importantly, for Cal's workout. He barely managed to get anything in that respect done so, that morning, despite the urge to just crawl right back into the bed because he could have sworn he saw glaciers in the distance when he looked out his window, he headed down to the gym to break the small sway of laziness that had overtaken him. A good deal of stretching and a small run on the treadmill before he went to his precious weight routines, intending to stay at them for a good long while, especially since, this week, he wouldn't have to stop to get to his workshop.

[[ open gym is of course open ]]

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Hoshi had already gone for her daily walk with Porthos, but after listening to last night's radio, she still had plenty of energy to burn. She nodded at Cal as she started out with some stretching.

Cal nodded back, a foot propped up on the bench as he worked on some curls with the hand weights. "Morning."

"Morning," said Hoshi with a weak smile. "Did you get a chance to enjoy Madagascar?"

Cal returned the smile lightly; it wasn't as easy to do that when you could tell that the initial one was a little lacking in enthusiasm, and he'd wondered if maybe she'd had a bad turn in something. "Nope," he said. "Not beyond the lemurs. I have a bad habit of laziness that prevents me from really doing much in these places."

The mention of the lemurs got a little bit of a smirk from Hoshi. "I did go out there to practice with the language a bit. They had this native language that was kind of interesting," she said.

"I'm not sure about this new place, though. It doesn't look like there are many natives to talk to," Hoshi added. She was going to need something to take her mind off her disappointment over Michael and Ino.

"And it's cold," Cal admitted with a bit of an exaggerated frown. "I mean, I'm used to the cold; I'm from Michigan, but all those other places I think caused a bit of spoiling. Still, though, if the lemurs had a language, the penguins probably will too."

Or was it the north pole that had penguins? Cal had no idea.

"Summer vacation isn't supposed to be cold," said Hoshi. "I've never seen a real live penguin before, though, so that could be interesting."

Cal grinned a little at that. "Maybe it'll make it up to us and we'll have beach weather for Christmas," he commented. "And I've only seen them once in the zoo. I didn't think to really go out and explore Antarctica much, but maybe now I'll have to..."

"Beach weather at Christmas? That would beat the snowball fights," said Hoshi.

"Safe to assume," Cal asked, tilting his head with a small smile, "that you're not much of a fan of the snow, Hoshi?"

"There's no problem with snow as long as you don't have to go out in it," said Hoshi.

"You don't have to go out in it now," Cal pointed out.

"Well, yeah, that's right, I guess," said Hoshi sheepishly.

She sighed. "I'm not thinking straight today," she admitted. "It turns out that my date from Valentine's Day is dating one of my friends, and while I knew it was coming, I'm kind of disappointed."

Wasn't Valentine's Day, like, four months ago? Still, Cal supposed he knew the feeling pretty well. That feeling he got when he found out Rex Reese had been invited to the cabin in Petosky, too, or, to a lesser degree but more recently, finding out John was dating Jaina. Not that anything could have ever happened there, but, hey, it still sucked to have even just entertaining the idea spoiled.

He wrinkled his nose sympathetically. "Ouch. Sorry about that, Hoshi..."

"I guess it's just best for all involved if I stay out of that mess," said Hoshi. "Besides, it's not like there aren't other guys on this island, right?"

"I...can't say I've honestly noticed," Cal commented, truthfully enough. Now if it was girls that Hoshi was interested in....

...well, that just opened up a whole can of worms that Cal really didn't need to be thinking about right now. "But one can assume that to be true, yes."

"It just seems so tough," groaned Hoshi. "I mean, every time I find someone who I like, they're already involved with someone else. Or they're occupied with other... stuff. Or they live in a foreign country and the island moved away."

Cal tried to keep his snort at the irony down to little more than a smirk. That's right, Hoshi; tell it to the guy who might as well become a monk for the elaborate love life he had waiting in front of him. Get relationship advice from the guy who lost his virginity to his best friend/lover's brother and then got hit by a tractor, entered into gender psychology therapy, ran away to hitch-hike across the country to be a part of a sex show with transvestites.

You couldn't even make up irony this rich. He wondered what he should say, if he should attempt to pump up her self-esteem or just admit that, yup, the world sucks, might as well become a hermit.

"Aw, I'm sure you'll find someone," he said, going with option A. "You're a cute girl, you seem pretty smart, it's just a matter of time, I'm sure."

"Thanks," said Hoshi, blushing slightly. "And listen to me, going on and on about girl stuff. You probably don't want to hear about this, do you?"

Cal shrugged. "I don't mind. I'm kind of used to it."

"Still, you probably don't want to hear me go on and on about boys," said Hoshi with a smirk.

"Oh, no," Cal responded back, a deadpan tone and a sarcastic glance Hoshi's way. "Please, go on. I can't think of anything else I'd like to hear about more."

Hoshi giggled. "Well, if you'd rather talk about girls, I can do that too," she said. "Actually, my first kiss was with a girl."

That was hardly fair. Now Cal had to pretend that he hadn't seemed to have practically dropped his weight at all, covering up the slight slip by focusing on making the next curls exceptionally steady.

"No kidding?" he asked. "Mine, too."

Which he knew from Hoshi's perspective probably just sounded like a cute joke. It was true, of course; it's just that he thought he was a girl at the time.

He was also about seven, but it still counted.

And Hoshi definitely took it as a cute little joke. "Oh, we have so much in common, then!" she said. "I'll bet yours had nothing to do with Fandom weirdness and a boy doing a weird dance in the common room, though."

"That'd be a well-placed bet, then," Cal said, after a moment for giving Hoshi a bit of an odd look as he worked his way through that one. "Mine was well before I started going here. And, I'm sorry, but...I think that requires a little more elaboration. You kissed a girl because someone was dancing?"

"Well, it was the only sort of trigger I could think of!" said Hoshi, laughing. "There was this senior who was dancing in the third floor common room, and he wouldn't stop, even as a crowd gathered to watch. Afterwards, I started hearing this buzzing noise that wouldn't got away. It kept getting louder until I finally just kissed someone."

As his head tilted, Cal's curls slowed until his wrist hung limply with the weight in it. "What, like some sort of dancing hypnotism, or something?"

Or, perhaps, very clever excuse? Cal's mind settled on just how easy it might be to get away with some things around here. I don't know what got into me; it must have been Fandom Weirdness...

"Maybe. At first, I thought he had just gotten bitten by a gremlin," said Hoshi. "People tend to do really weird stuff after they've been bitten."

Which, if she thought about it further, was also a great excuse for a lot of things.

"Yeah, I've heard about those," Cal said with a nod. "If I see anything even remotely gremlin-like, I'm heading the other way. I pride myself in having a good strong control on my mental faculties, so..."

There was a slight pause.

"And if that happened here...she anyone I'd know?"

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