The Deck - Saturday Afternoon

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck would be the first person to admit that he preferred winter weather infinitely more to summer weather, but that didn't mean he didn't enjoy the sudden bout of sun and warmth. He was heading back to New York tomorrow for break and he knew that it was going to be effing freezing there. So he was enjoying the nice weather while he could.

He was leaning back into one of the deck chairs wearing shorts and a button-down shirt. There was a book in his hand and a Screwdriver (the drink, not the tool) on the ground beside him.

[Open, yes]

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[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff stuck his head out onto the deck. Then he stuck the rest of himself out on the deck-- dressed to the nines in heavy winter gear. "...I think I might have miscalculated the weather." Because that wasn't obvious, Jeff.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck looked up from his book and smirked. "Yes, I'd say you have."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff fiddled with his hat. It was big and woolly.

Then he flopped down in a chair, shielding his face from the sun with one large glove. "This always happens," he sighed. "Although at least this time no one's got their trousers down 'round their ankles. I hate it when that happens."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck raised an eyebrow. "End up with your pants down around your ankles often, do you?"

Chuck could relate to that.

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Twice on national television," Jeff said, a little mournfully. "My mother was quite disappointed, she thought I'd gotten a bit part."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"How..." Chuck his head. "You know what? I don't even want to know how that ends up happening."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff shrugged a bit. "Sometimes you've just got to go," he said, with wisdom and experience tainting his every word, "And then there's cameras. And a celebrity. The first one took it better than the last one."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck snickered and picked up his drink. "Some people can be so rude about accidental public nudity."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"I've found there's five categories of Public Nudity Reaction," Jeff replied, "I've counted them." He held up all five gloved fingers of his hand. "Shock, Awe, Screaming, the Blushes and, of course, the Broom." A pause. Was he forgetting something? "I'm Jeff," he offered.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I'm a little worried that this is the apocalypse," Hannibal said, having wandered over once he'd spotted Chuck outside.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"There could be worse ways to go," Chuck said, laying his book down in his lap.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Always nice to be able to get some sun before the world ends," he joked. "As I can see you're doing. Enjoying the break already, aren't you?"

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I've been enjoying it since...last Friday. I had a final on Wednesday but it was one of the more enjoyable tests I've ever been a part of," Chuck said with a smirk.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I think I heard about that," he said, smiling as he came to take a seat. "I have a roommate in that class. She was grinning when I came back to the room."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"What can I say? I have a gift when it comes to the art of Sexual Education," he said as he leaned over to pick up his drink. "And I don't think anybody could deny the fact that making out with me is way more fun than any written test Cullen could administer."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I can attest to your skills," he agreed with a nod. "Just the kissing skills, of course. That's sad."

And it was.

"I'm almost sad I didn't take this Cullen guy just to experience the crap that I only heard about."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"That is sad," Chuck agreed as he pushed up his sunglasses into his hair. Very, very sad. "You would have liked Cullen's class. He was always trying to push abstinence on us. It was hilarious."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine -- having stuck her head out the window for a breath of fresh air and discovered the fresh air was in the high 70's -- was on her way down to the beach, prepared to take advantage of this while it lasted. Towel and lotion in one hand, and a parka in the other just in case the island suddenly changed its mind.

Wouldn't you know she'd cross the deck just when the one person on the island she'd managed to avoid since Homecoming Weekend was lying out on it?

"Erf." No, no, crap, don't say that. Say um. Er. "Um. Er." Yeeeah, that worked.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Hello to you too, Francine," Chuck said. He had a big smile on his face, yes.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine's was mostly covered in blush. Not the kind that came from a compact. The fact that it was the only thing about her that was mostly covered didn't help at all.

"Um. Hi, Chuck." Stupid earth, not opening up to swallow her whole.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"How are you?" Chuck said, leaning back into his chair. "I haven't seen you in a while. Since Homecoming weekend, right?"

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine couldn't stop herself from facepalming. Well, face-parka-ing, since that was still clutched in the palm in question. "There goes the hope that everybody I met that weekend came down with a bad case of amnesia."

If she were just a tiny bit quicker witted, she'd have though to claim that herself. But she wasn't.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"You shouldn't be embarrassed," Chuck said. He actually meant it. "You're quite talented."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine peeked her face up from the furry hood of the parka -- and just now thought to clutch it to her bikini-clad body. "What? Oh God, I'm not. I mean, I don't ever. You must think I'm such a..." A couple words suggested themselves, but she really didn't like any of them.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Such a what?" he asked, looking amused.