Fifth Floor Common Room; Wednesday Evening [ 01/14 ].

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle needed to get out of the room.

Trust her, if you had to deal with her boyfriend at the starts of a potential clothing crisis, you'd need to get out of the room, too.

She thought that maybe it was just best to give Jeff some space right now, so, in the PJ pants and tank top that made up the few articles of clothing that she had available to her after all was said and done,she went down to the common room to make some hot chocolate, plop on the couch, and see if there was anything good on TV.

[[ uninspired, but bored! Open CR is open! ]]

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[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley wandered into the common room in shorts and a t-shirt, with a blanket sort of draped over him.

"Dude, the laundry machines are mean," he said.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle looked over at Hurley and offered a sympathetic smile. "They just want to be recognized for their hard work and efforts, is all," she, a very sympathetic type of employer, said, although part of her tone was agreeing with Hurley still. "At least the furnaces are still kicking?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Dude, if they gave up?" Hurley said. "I think I'd cry."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"I could probably make a killing on blankets at the store, though," Turtle mused.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley chuckled. "Always thinking on your feet. Awesome," he said.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle shrugged, but she looked rather pleased with herself. "Clothing has been on a pretty good up-rise this week. I really can't complain too much."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"You marking the prices up at all?" Hurley lightly teased.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely not!" Turtle's offense was mostly theatrical. Mostly. "You can always expect to find only the best prices at Turtle & Canary, Hurley, always. I would never exploit a crisis for my own financial benefit. That's just not how we do business."

Most of the time, anyway.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sorry," Hurley said. "I didn't mean to, like, offend your business' honor. My apologies." He was laughing throughout that whole statement.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle eyed Hurley and his laughing and then gave a short, firm nod. "Well, good," she said. "That wouldn't be very smart. Especially when it's so clearly false, you know..."

She trailed off a little.

"So, how've you been, Hurley?" she asked, knowing full well that going on and on about your business was a sure way to lose people. "Besides cold and somewhat clothesless?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley shrugged. "Mostly awesome," he said. "My classes are great. Even if Master Skywalker is kinda intimidating."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Pppphhhh," Turtle rolled her eyes and that was all she was going to say about Mister Skywalker. She'd liked Mister Vader as an ethics professor so much better, and was very glad she had him instead.

"What else do you have other than Ethics?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Food appreciation," Hurley said. "It's, like, the easiest class ever."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeahhhh," Turtle said. "I thought about taking that class, but then I remembered I'd rather keep my girlish figure."

Which was a figure, yes, but tended to be more eleven year old boy than anything else.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley shrugged. "Kinda... yeah, don't need to worry about that."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"...I'm also really prone to toothaches," Turtle added, feeling she should say something more in apology.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Oh, don't... I didn't think you were making fun of me. It's okay," Hurley said. Yeah, he wasn't completely his usual cheerful self.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco came into the room in his boxers (with Rat-man on them) and a rather ghastly Hawaiian print shirt. And flip-flops. "Hey Turtle."

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"You did get the memo, right?" Turtle asked, trying hard not to laugh but finding it rather difficult. "That it's winter?"

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"Oh, I know!" Turtle quickly said. "But I really am. Prone to toothaches. They're awful."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Man, that sucks," Hurley said. "You're not afraid of dentists, are you?"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco pretended to not have a clue what she was talking about. "Here in Hawaii, it's always sunny."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"...they're just about the second most evil kind of doctor there is," Turtle muttered.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"What?" Turtle asked. "A coconut hit you in the head or something, Marco?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Man, double suck," Hurley said. "Best to just be careful what you eat, then. Smart move."