Fourth Floor Common Room; Saturday Evening.

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His weekend, Cal decided, was just going to be full of new sorts of things, and he decided to stop being lazy in his room and go down to the common room to be lazy there. The common room had the added benefit of television, and he realized that he really hadn't bothered watching much modern TV.

...After a little while of flipping through the channels (after another while of trying to figure out the remote), Cal understood why he hadn't bothered. It was a weekend of new things, but he decided that watching TV wasn't one of them, and he soon turned it off, leaving for his room and coming back with a book and his script for the play to just do some good old reading.


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[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Saturday Night Live," she told him, leaning slightly towards him so she could nudge his shoulder. "Whatcha been up to today? Uh? Thinking about me?"

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"...Ohhhh," Cal nodded a little, recognizing the name as something new from his time that he was too busy adjusting to being a male to really pay attention to, and then he felt the nudge on his shoulder and gave her a slight smile as his thoughts jumped to keep up.

"A little," he admitted. "It's been a nice lazy Saturday."

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"Yep, me too. Nice and lazy with little thinking."

A beat.

"I did paint my toe nails purple and work on a painting."

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"You worked on a painting?" Cal asked, grinning with a spark of interest.

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"Acrylic," she replied like it didn't mean nothing. In fact she lifted her bare feet and wiggled her toes. "See? Cute, eh? I even painted a flower on my big toe."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal gave an idle glance toward Amber's toes, but he was far less interested in them than he was the painting she mentioned...unless she meant the painting was just her toes? He glanced at them again. "Cute," he agreed. "Bet your room reeks of nail polish now, though."

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She cave him a weird look. "No it doesn't. It smells like paint. But it doesn't reek."

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"What are you painting, then?" Cal asked, trying to ride on that, because it interested him. He was almost thinking of painting something himself, inspired by art class and that gallery thing going on, but he had only until tomorrow to do it, and maybe...

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"My usual 'cause I'm kind of good at it," she said, smiling at him. "Flowers. It's the only thing I've ever done really and I just find it easy."

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"You've never mentioned painting flowers to me before!" Cal remarked, grinning back a little and nudging her with his elbow. "You'll have to show me."

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"There's a lot I haven't mentioned to you before," she laughed. "And maaaaybe. Totally depends."

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"At least I know for sure you don't have eleven toes," Cal commented, nodding toward Amber's feet before he asked, "Depends on what?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"No. But I do have three nipples," she deadpanned.

"Totally depends on my shy factor."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

No wonder she'd be so accepting of his crazybits.

"Shut up," Cal said, almost automatically. "You do not. And you don't have a shy factor; that's BS, too."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"How do you know? Uh? I could have three retarded nipples. Will you still like me if I do?" she asked, her eyes wicked. "And I am too shy! You totally don't know." It was BS. Seriously.

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"I think I'd know if you were shy," Cal said, leaving unsaid the fact that shy girls didn't let guys kiss them in public like Amber did. He also left unsaid that he'd be a hypocrite if he didn't still like her, because he didn't think he needed to say that. Amber knew it.

"And I won't believe it until I see it."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Fine," she relented, only a little. "I can be shy about some things. Painting flowers is not one of them so I'll show you if you like some time later, okay?"

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"And what about your third nipple?"

He had to ask, because that was the real important part here.

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She grinned and leaned towards him to whisper. "Do you want to see it?"

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"Only way to confirm," Cal whispered back, meeting Amber's lean and turning toward her, "it is to see it..."

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"Well, there is another way..." she replied, still quiet.

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"Another way other than seeing it for myself?" Cal could think of something, one easily refuted, but he was intrigued to find out what Amber might mean.

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"Mhm," she said, knowing he had to know what she meant, but spelled it out for him anyway. "You could simply feel."

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"Feeling's no good," Cal said, shaking his head lightly and giving Amber a teasing grin. "Not without seeing anyway. How can I be sure it's not just a crumb down your shirt?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Seeing is believing, uh? Fine. I don't mind; I'll show you. But don't ask to touch, even though you'll want to."