Fourth Floor Common Room; Saturday Evening.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

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]

"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.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"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?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"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?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"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.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"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.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

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

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"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."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Wait." Cal frowned, giving Amber a look. "I can touch without looking, but I can't look at touch at the same time?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"That's correct. I offered a feel first but you said that's no good, so you'll have to take a look without a feel."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"You know," Cal said, after a good long moment of studying Amber's face, "if you weren't my girlfriend, I'd take offense to this deal. But, since you are, I'd like to kind of think that other opportunities will present themselves."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

She giggled and looked away. God, teasing him was always so much fun. Seriously.

"You know, ma always told me if I took my top off I should get paid first. Think I mentioned that before, right?" 'Course that was specifically related to a film documentary, but that detail could be left out.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal held up a finger. "Boyfriend privileges," he stated. "Boyfriends shouldn't have to pay."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Give me a moment while I ponder that."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal made an elaborate show of checking his watch.

"Moment's over."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber snorted. "What are you, some sort of moment god?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"No," Cal said, shaking his head. He dropped his voice to a whisper again, coming in closer to Amber, his forehead tilted toward hers. Part of it was just to be close and cute, but it was also to help make what he said unheard by anyone other than her. "That would be Chronos. I am just a mere muse."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Yah, I was never any good at mythology," she replied with a slight, soft grin, leaning towards him.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"You should brush up," Cal told her quietly. "That's all my culture, you know."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"To know you is to love you?" she asked. "I might just do that."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal grinned, trying to ignore the way Amber's words made his chest ache from his overactively flipping heart, and he closed his eyes. "And if you need any help..." he said, dragging off because he was leaning forward to lightly kiss her.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Her eyes dropped to his mouth and she leaned forward to meet that expectant kiss, murmuring first, "I'd like that."