Fourth Floor Common Room; Monday Evening [ 01/19 ].

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

One would think that after having sat through two marathon sessions of the first season with two different people, Cal would have been a little more lenient about his pretensions about watching Rumor Gal. Alas, the remote control still wound up 'lost' beneath the sofa and Cal found himself too 'burdened' by a bowl of popcorn to bother getting up, and the TV was staying on the CW, dammit.


[[ open, of course. God help him. ]]

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"...Okay," Cal allowed. "Maybe we didn't use the best of our time to its fullest advantage, but still...there was....you know..."

He wasn't going to say it. In fact, if it got to it, he was changing the topic in the next turn if he could.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Yah, I know," she said.

Then she tossed a piece of popcorn at him.

"I can't believe you're so into this show."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"I'm not into this show!" Cal threw a piece of popcorn back, incredibly grateful for the shift. So, so grateful. "It's the only thing on!"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber was nice like that. She actually could have talked about kissing for another five minutes or so. Seriously.

"Yah, okay, Cal. I totally believe you," she said, rolling her eyes.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"And there's hot chicks," he added, for good measure.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"And hot guys," she rolled her tongue, purring.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal's lip curled, his nose wrinkled, and then stuck out his tongue a little. "Sure. If you're into preppy douchebags."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Never said I was into them. Said they were hot," she clarified.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal considered this for a moment.

"Even if someone," he said, "is the most physically attractive person in the world, if they're a total douche, they're not going to be hot. Because their personality will start to be more repulsive than their physical traits."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Yah, well, call me shallow while watching this show then, 'cause some of those guys are super fine," she said. "We are just talking about a tv show here. And besides, girls are totally attracted to bad boys. Or some of us anyways."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal snorted derisively at that. "Yeah, no kidding," he said, imagining far too many arguments with Ino and her taste in guys, and thinking all to clearly of one Rex Reese.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber shrugged. She'd only stated the truth.

"There's just something... there." And no need to get into that conversation.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"And the fact that nearly anyone with a vagina," Cal added, "is a masochist."

Yes, he had phrased it exactly like that because he realized he was very firmly in that category as well.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber cut her eyes over at him.

"We are not having a conversation with the word vagina in it."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal cut his eyes back toward her. "I could use a worse word," he pointed out.

"It's a perfectly fine technical term, you know."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I don't want to hear it," she said. "Vagina slang can stay in the perverted sexual dictionary. Hush your mouth, Cal."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"So hypocritical!" Cal said. "You just said you like jerks, but when I start acting like one, you're all, 'enough of that, Cal.'"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Did I say I like jerks? Uh? Did I?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

There was a pause.

"Okay, fine, you said jerks could still be hot."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"...and you were trying to act like a jerk to prove... what? Because I already think you're hot."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

That was not fair to the course of the argument!

"And," he said, after a moment of struggling to think of anything to say at all, "I'm actually here and not just some actor on a TV, either."

So...there?

He had no idea what he was trying to prove now.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"So... not just a bad boy, but a bad boy sitting next to me," she said, nodding her head. "I see."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"...Exactly."

Sounded good enough to him.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber grinned and leaned towards him a little. "And exactly what does that mean, if anything?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Good question.

"That," he said, trying to think quick, "I'm clearly better than those guys."