Emo Roof of Emo, Thursday Night

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Francine had a blanket, a book, and a bottle of... Coke Zero. Come on, it was Francine. Still, she managed to look like she ought to be swigging from a flask of something, as she sat on the far edge of the roof, dutifully far away from any emo-sensitive plants,and stared blankly up at the night sky. Book? What book?

[OOC: The roof is a happy garden of joy and delight! ...or perhaps not. But it is open.]

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[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Hey, if she wanted to take a swig out a flask of something, Chuck could help her out. He never left home without one.

Oh yeah, he was on the roof too. But not to emo. To smoke.

"Hello, Francine," Chuck said, pulling a joint out of his coat pocket.

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Startled, Francine looked... well, not up, because she'd been doing that anyway, but over. "Oh. Hi, Chuck." She started to gather up her things, then decided it required too much give-a-damn, and hers seemed to be busted. "Am I in your way? I can go."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"In my way? No, not at all," Chuck said. He actually preferred people around when he smoked. He got chatty when he was high. "Am I in your way?"

He wasn't going to leave if he was. This was pretty much his roof, after all.

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Francine shook her head. "No, I'm not really doing anything. Just felt like being outside." Ironically, in the one place the cause of her current mood usually came to be in her current mood, not that Francine was ever up here to know that.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Chuck pulled a lighter out of his pocket and lit the joint, taking a drag of it before looking up at Francine again. "You're not brooding or something, are you?"

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Duh. "I think only guys in puffy pirate shirts do that," Francine said, uncapping her mmm, delicious Coke Zero and taking a swig.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck snickered. "Know many guys like that?"

And Coke Zero was disgusting. Just drink Diet Coke. It tasted way better.

This was Chuck's opinion on the matter, of course.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Just the ones on the cover of every Angelica Demesnes novel ever," Francine said, holding up the book she hadn't been reading, which did indeed feature a brooding, puffy-shirted hero on its jacket.

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"...wow," Chuck said. He didn't realize people actually read those kinds of books. "Definitely not my type of literature."

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack needed a bit of fresh air and perspective...because every problem looked small when looking down six floors.

He didn't expect anyone to be there.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine colored. "They're not exactly Battle and Ceasefire," she allowed. "I guess they're about my speed, though." Mmm, aspartame with a chaser of bitters!

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I could see how enthralled you were with it when I first came up here," Chuck said lightly.

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That was probably Francine's mistake - she was looking up at the stars, which mostly just made her feel small. She gave him a tiny smile when she realized she wasn't alone anymore. "Hey."

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Francine gave a small snort. "I know how it ends. I was just re-reading it to see if I missed something; I seem to be doing that a lot lately." If by lately you mean the last seventeen years.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Like just with books or--" Chuck made a dramatic gesture with his hands. "--life?"

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Asks he who named their child 'Oregano' because Francine sure as hell didn't come up with that. "All of the above?" Francine shrugged. "I'm sure you've noticed I'm not the sharpest crayon in the box."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

There was a bit of a pause before Chuck answered.

"...I have never thought that."

LIAR.

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Francine laughed. "You're a nice guy, Chuck--" SEE? "But somehow I don't believe you."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Okay, fine. I may have thought you were...ditzy at times," he allowed. "But there's nothing wrong with that. It's cute."

[thatsamilkshake]

"That's what Katchoo says." Francine used to sort of believe her, but now it was a little hard to swallow. "But I'm pretty sure I dumbed out in the stupid way this time, not the cute way."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"What'd you do?" he asked.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Missed the fact that my best friend is gay?" Except for where she said she wasn't. "...Or something."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck blinked. Okay, really, it had taken Nate walking in on Chuck receiving a b.j. from a dude in the bathroom at St. Jude's in the 9th grade before he realized that his best friend banged guys but...weren't girls supposed to be more attuned to this kind of stuff?

"Was she really good at hiding it?" Chuck hadn't connected Francine's BFF to the angry chick on radio that hated him yet.

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Francine rolled her eyes. At herself. "No, I was just really good at hearing 'I don't like men' and not getting 'I don't like men' from it."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was pretty dumb.

"Ah. Well...you know now," Chuck said. "So...yes. That's good."