Fourth Floor Common Room - Saturday Morning

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Thursday he'd started getting a cold. Yesterday it had gotten worse. Today, Friday wanted to curl up into a ball and die. He settled for the curling up in a ball thing. Said ball was on one of the couches in the fourth floor common room, swaddled in blankets, staring blearily at the cartoon cat and mouse on the TV and feeling very sorry for himself. The occasional cough or sneeze was the only sign that he was actually still alive.

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Angela winced sympathetically. "I hate when they do that," she said. "You take something for it?"

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Friday shook his head. "I made it to the sofa and decided not to push my luck. I was going to try to get up and make some tea, but I give it about another hour before I work up the energy to get up. I'm a bit lazy, see."

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"Laziness when you're sick is practically a right," Angela informed him. "I was about to get breafast anyway, so if you want something?"

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"A cup of tea would be the best thing ever, if it's not too much trouble." That look on his face? was his best attempt at puppy dog eyes.

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Angela laughed, and nodded briefly. "Think I can handle tea," she said, before turning to go do that. "Long as you dont have any weird rituals I'm supposed to follow, anyway," she added over her shoulder.

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"As long as it's hot and doesn't taste like mud or butter," Friday replied. He blew his nose. "Although I don't think I'd be able to tell if it did, to be honest."

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"No mud, no butter," Angela repeated as she flicked the kettle on. "Both options sound kind of gross. I don't think I could mess it up that badly."

She pulled a packet of poptarts from one of the cupboards, and dropped a couple in the toaster. So healthy.

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"I think it'd take someone special to really mess up tea. It's like toast. I think you learn how to do it before you're born."

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"I'll take your word for that," she decided with a laugh as she set mugs and plates out. "I'm more a coffee drinker, really."

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"I never really got coffee. It doesn't taste very good."

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"The key is a lot of sugar," Angela said grinning at him across the room. "That and and caffeine and you really can't go too far wrong."

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"I see your point. Sugar and caffeine have never steered me wrong before. Except that one time I tried to drink three litres of Jolt on the train and passed out. My friends said my lips turned blue."

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Angela raised her eyebrows. "Okay, now I know never to try that one," she decided. "...Why?"

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"There was money involved," he admitted sheepishly.

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"Well that does make more sense," Angela said with a laugh.

"Did you at least win that bet?"

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Friday managed a grin. "Yeah, I did. Fifty quid off that one. Not the most I've won, but it was the only one where unconsciousness was involved. Not the only hospital trip though."

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Angela shook her head in amusement. Oh, boys.

"Anyone ever suggested you might be crazy?" she said, putting out teabags.

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"Lots of times. Crazy, insane, foolish, of poor judgment, lacking in faculties, not all there. Only when I do something stupid, though. Don't you do stupid things sometimes?"

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"I like to think of them as quirky and in the interest of making life that little bit more exciting," Angela told him, smirking broadly.

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"That's a good way to get around them being a bit stupid too. I'll have to try to remember that."

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"I like to be able to put a good spin on the slightly strange things I do," Angela said, looking back to actually pour the hot water. Looking at him while she did that could go so badly wrong.

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"It's a good way of doing things. Makes for good stories, I bet."

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"Oh yeah." Angela smirked to herself a little at that.

"Way more interesting when it comes to making small talk at parties."

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"I'll have to try to remember that if I live long enough to go to any parties." Yeah, he was getting dramatic now.

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Angela snorted lightly. "In which case, you should use your near death experience," she advised.

"Melodrama goes down great with the right crowd." Not that she'd tried it, of course. She just knows these things. Or if nothing else, sounds like she knows.