4th Floor Common Room [Thursday, Late morning]

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac wasn't really awake yet. She's rarely really awake before her first caffiene fix of the day. This is probably a good thing. Especially today.

She smothered a yawn with her hand as she walked into the common room, and stopped dead, just digesting the taste for a moment. The smell. Letting it all sink in.

The girl is normally so sane without the clamping of her hand to her mouth in horror and the unintelligeable disgust. Also with the not trying to wash her mouth out. Doesn't look it today. Funny how even the water she's shovelling in with her hand has that same taste she's trying to get rid of.

Now is the mad scramble to make a drink to take that revolting taste away.

Try not to worry about the girl at the counter downing coffee like her life depends on it.

[[ooc: I had to. Open. Tiny bit of SP as I flit back and forth.]]

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[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

His common room had seemed to be out of the cereal he wanted, so, taking a break from finishing his packing, Troy wandered up to the fourth floor to see if he could find any. "Problem?" he asked, absently, as he rummaged through the cupboards.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Something tastes bad," Mac told him, in between swigs from her mug. "Just... really urgh," she added with feeling.

Her week was sucking something chronic. This just topped it off.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Like... on your lips? No matter what you do?" Troy asked, his tongue involuntarily darting out to lick his lips.

Mmm, pina colada.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac pulled a face and nodded slowly. Then put the mug down, because who was she kidding? It wasn't really working. At all.

"You... don't seem to be having issues with the 'ew' factor," she stated.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Pina colada," Troy explained. "Don't ask me. I didn't pick it."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Oh, how was that fair?

Mac sighed. "Stupid fandom," she muttered. "Think if I asked it'd trade me for something that doesn't make me feel ill?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Troy shrugged."Probably not," he said. "I mean, does it ever?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"No," Mac admitted. "But, I can hope, right?"

"I actually preferred being stuck as a guinea pig, or a pony..." That was saying something.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

That was definitely saying something. "It's that bad?" Troy asked. "I wonder -- can anyone else taste it if they taste you?"

The sad part is that was actually entirely innocent on Troy's part.

[ZOMG sorry, I just got the ping. *kicks LJ*]

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac arched an amused eyebrow.

"I haven't tried," she told him. "Seems a bit weird to walk up to someone and ask the to taste you."

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Troy shrugged, and held out one hand. "Y'want to?" he asked.

[Ahaha. The intarwebs HATES us.]

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"I don't really know you," Mac pointed out carefully. It was a little weird.

You don't just go around licking pina colada flavoured strangers. Just like you don't take candy from them.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"I guess," he said.

Troy was, among other things, an actor. Going up and asking someone to lick you? Was practically normal.

"Anyway," he said, "any idea what your flavor is?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Not a clue," Mac replied. "But I'm gonna say that I could go a really long time never tasting it again."

"Reminds me of rotten fruit..." she paused. "Can you smell it?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Troy shook his head. "Nah. Can't smell the pina colada, either. Just taste it. What, you can?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"This, whatever, practically has its own aura of awful," Mac said. "Maybe it's all just in my head, but ugh."

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Well, there is some kind of link between taste and smell," Troy said. "So maybe it's just that when you taste it, you think you're smelling it, too. Or something."

Oh, look. He'd actually almost paid attention in science class.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Makes sense." Yeah, Mac still didn't like it.

"You want coffee?" she offered finally. Maybe taking her mind off it was the way forward.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, please," Troy said. "Coffee would be great right now."

Part of him wondered exactly how well coffee would go with pina colada.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac grabbed a mug off the side for him - with a frog on the side. It was kind of cute... Anyway, she is of the opinion that coffee goes with anything.

"I should probably cut back on this stuff," she remarked.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Coffee? Why?" Troy asked. "I mean, if you were about to do an audition or something, sure, but other than that, why would you want to cut back?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Not the greatest thing for your central nervous system," Mac replied as she poured a mug.

"Maybe I'll bring myself to do it when I'm older." Yeah. Maybe.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"I taste like chocolate-chip cookies!" Marco informed the common room as he came in, flailing a bit.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac would be over there, poking at her empty coffee mug and looking distinctly unimpressed.

"Want to swap?" she asked dryly.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco paused. "You taste like something too?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately," Mac said with a nod. "Nothing as nice as cookies, I can tell you."

"I am so over this already."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, bummer." Marco casually licked his upper lip. "Gum?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac held up her mug. "I think this is beyond gum," she said. "I've been trying coffee. Total failure. I'm thinking maybe hot curry. Burn all my remaining tastebuds off."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"That'll work. If you can't taste, it's not there, right?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Maybe there's someone tastes of chilli powder about," she mused.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco paused. "If someone tastes like ice cream, they're going to have a line of people after them."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Because tasting of cookie isn't good enough to have the same sort of effect?" Mac responded sarcastically.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Dude, ice cream." Marco informed her.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"... You must be really into ice cream," Mac decided.