Fifth Floor Common Room, Early Afternoon Monday

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley worked on his baking, this time with an attempt to make some double-chocolate fudge brownies with M&Ms baked in.

He was nothing if not ambitious.

Hurley had the radio on and did a little dance as he mixed batter to the tunes of Stillwater.

[ooc: Open like a good common room!]

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[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope followed her nose, so to speak, and wound up two floors above her room, peeking her head into the common room. "Hi, Hurley!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Hey Penelope," Hurley said, dutifully mixing his batter with a wooden spoon. "What's up?"

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"I smelled something good and came to check it out," she smiled and wandered further in. "What are you making?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Brownies," he said. "With, like, extra chocolate and stuff. Should turn out okay, I hope."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"Mmm, chocolate," she grinned. "Do you need any help?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"I'm mostly, like, at the 'pour it and bake it' point," Hurley said. "But when I do that, if you wanna, like, lick the spoon, that's cool."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope giggled. "I've never licked the spoon before, so yes, I think I'd like that."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Never?" Hurley said. "Oh man, I'm guessing your mom never really baked, huh?"

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

She shook her head, on both counts. "No, never. We had a cook."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"My mom didn't bake much, either," Hurley said. "I mean, she didn't really wanting me eating a lot of sweet stuff. But she kinda... gave up on that, after I was ten."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"I had a cabinet full of Ho-Ho's and soda," she smiled. "But I seemed to quit growing when I was ten."

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Hurley chuckled. He began pouring the brownie batter into a pan. "I kinda grew a lot since I was ten."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope wasn't sure what to say to that, so asked instead since she was studying him already, "Your hair is so curly; is it naturally so?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, not exactly the kind of guy who gets perms," Hurley said. He set down the batter bowl and grabbed an oven mitt. "Time to put this sucker in the oven."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"I didn't think so," she commented as she watched him.

"How was your weekend?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good," Hurley said. "I went to that sleepover thing, and that was fun. Last night I ended up helping Claire with a pot roast."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Penelope saw the posters for the slumber party. That was something she didn't think she could have done.

"Claire cooked? Was it any good?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"I didn't actually have any," Hurley said. "But it smelled okay."

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"Mm, it sounds good. Then again, I'm just hungry."

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela didn't have to deal with class until tomorrow, so she was still making the most of her bulk free time and hoping to find people to spend that time with.

She had to smile when she saw the dancing, and paused near the common room doorway to watch a moment.

"What're you making?" she asked.

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela raised a hand in a little wave, and offered the other girl in the room a bright smile. "Hi."

Greetings were only polite, after all, and she was nothing if not sociable.

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Penelope greeted the girl, a shy smile flittering about her mouth. "I'm Penelope."

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Angela," she told Penelope in return. "I think Peyton mentioned you when we were doing all our match ups before homecoming."

"Nice to actually meet you," she added.

[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Her smile grew. "Angela! It's very nice to meet you. I'm very thankful for the choice you and Peyton made for me. I had a very nice evening."

[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

"Aw, I'm so glad!" Angela beamed at her, it was always so nice to find out it had all worked out. "That's really all we hoped for with everyone."