Second Floor Common Room [Thursday Evening]

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Ned decided to cook.

After realizing he hadn't cooked anything but a can of soup (take out dinners were so much easier) in the last few weeks, he decided to rectify with a new take on a pie he'd made in the past.

So, there were supplies and ingredients and a guy in a flour stained blue apron moving about the common room.

[Open, yep! He'll share!]

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Ned waved with a rolling pin and said, "Yep. Nothing big but it's more a dessert thing than anything. I have a lot though!"

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"I can make myself a sandwich and then have your dessert," Romeo decided, rummaging for bread and peanut butter. "Or I could just have two desserts ..."

This was clearly a difficult choice.

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"I'll have enough for two," he said cheerfully. Well, as cheerfully as he could. "It's a new thing I'm trying. Like mini pies in glasses."

[withoutverona]

Romeo looked distinctly interested, but he started making the sandwich anyhow. Growing boy, and all.

"That would be an amazing party dessert," he decided. "People could carry them around, and there wouldn't be the bother of needing to cut the pie into even slices and all of that."

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"If I could just figure out a way to add alcohol without diluting the actual dessert, I'd be a millionaire," he joked.

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Romeo took that seriously. Booze was important. "You could do something like Jello shots in pie crust," he suggested. "Though that probably would not be as good as what you have in the bowl."

He thought more. "Maybe some Bailey's mixed in, instead of milk or cream."

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"I don't know what either of those are," Ned admitted with a wince. "I am not a drinker unless we mean juice or water."

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"Jello shots are Jello made with everclear or vodka instead of water," Romeo explained, pushing his hair back. "Bailey's is a liquor made of cream."

He paused, and confessed, "I am a bit of a drinker."

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"Nothing wrong with that," Ned said quickly. "I was just in a boarding school before this. We were lucky if we got orange juice."

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"That doesn't sound -" much like the kind of boarding schools Romeo was used to hearing about, really. "- like a very nice place."

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"It kept me out of the rain," Ned said, leaving it at that for now. "I tried some fruity drinks the other day after Ino made me try some non alcoholic ones in a class."

[withoutverona]

It was sad, if the best that could be said was that a place was better than being homeless, but Romeo wasn't inclined to pry just then.

"Oh, you know Ino?" Romeo brightened. "She lives next door to me. She's an interesting one, isn't she?"

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"I do!" Ned smiled. "She's in one of my classes. She's interesting but she makes me smile and she's patient. With me, at least."

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"She makes me smile too," Romeo said. "And she got me a gun when we were in Paris. I trust her." Which was high praise. "Which classes are you in this term?"

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"Something called Informed Investments which is shopping smart and the other one's about doing irresponsible things responsibly," Ned said. "I'm not sure about that last one."

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"Is that the one the woman from the radio teaches?" Romeo wondered. "My girlfriend is taking it, but I've not asked her about it. I have something on destiny, and then modeling and auto mechanics."

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"Yeah, that's her," he said. "We did gambling this week. Something I really don't want to do. I'd like to keep my money."

And then, "Modeling?"

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"Aye," Romeo said, looking a little ashamed. "I wanted something easy. It's mostly Professor Deadpool trying to get us to dress in drag. We've done heels and makeup thus far."

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"Isn't that for girls?" Ned asked because he had to check. Maybe things were weird here.

Weirder.

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"Normally," Romeo said. "Professor Deadpool wears red pajamas and a mask, so perhaps his fashion sense for men is just off. He might have false eyelashes and blush behind the mask."

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"Huh." Okay, Ned had to restructure some things in his own mind. "Pajamas?"

[withoutverona]

"It's a red fitted costume .... thing with a mask to cover the face," Romeo said, terribly descriptively. "Someone in class calls it pajamas so that stuck in my mind. I don't know that he sleeps in it."

Though that wouldn't surprise him, really.

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"I guess it's...gotta be easier in the morning," Ned decided. "I mean, no need to pick out clothes or anything like that."

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"You always match," Romeo nodded. "No need to worry about the season or the weather..."

"Though I'm not sure how that fits into teaching a class on modeling, come to think of it."

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"Maybe it's so fashionable it's above us?" Ned suggested.