3rd Floor Common Room: Saturday early evening [6-6-09]

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Peyton had tried to report for detention today, but no one else had shown up. Which seemed to be on par with the way the rest of her week had been.

Solitary, um... activities in her room hadn't helped much, so she'd headed to the common room, sprawled out on the couch in something a little more exposed than she might ordinarily wear, ordered more pizza than she could ever eat when she couldn't decide on what she wanted, and was flipping through channels on the TV.

Funny how everything made her think of sex.


[Open with pizza!]

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"I more than like it," Peyton said with a grin. "Damn, now I really want to meet your brother."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I really wish he could come," she admitted, "but I don't know if it'd be allowed from his school. Or even how he'd get here. For all I know, his school could be on Mars."

She wasn't entirely exaggerating even if it sounded like it.

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It honestly wouldn't surprise Peyton if it was. "Maybe on a break we could road trip - take a portal and meet him halfway somewhere. God, I'd love to hear him play live. There something about live music that just..." she shook her head. "It makes even music this good more amazing."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I don't know other than with Eliot," she said with a grin, "but I'm sure. I'll see what he says."

[out for a bit back soon]

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"That would be totally awesome," Peyton said with a grin. "Hey... think he'd have any interest in doing a song for the CD I'm producing with my bio mom?"

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. Considering you might be from a totally different world?

"He might be cool with it. I'll call him tonight and ask."

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"Oh hell, I hadn't even thought about that," Peyton admitted. She thought about it for a moment. "Aw, why not. he can just be some anonymous musician I discovered that I refuse to reveal to anyone else."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure he'd be find with that. Or he could come up with a stage name. They still do that, right?"

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"Oh yeah, absolutely," Peyton said. "He could totally do that."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I promise I'll ask him," she said, settling on the couch a little more.

"Were you watching anything in particular?"

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Peyton shook her head and offered the remote. "I'm just trying to distract myself from... you know."

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She glanced at the television.

"Once I realized something was making me feel without me having to prompt it, it kind of stopped working. So I guess I'm lucky that way."

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"Yeah?" Peyton said with some surprise. "Wish I could do that."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She looked over at Peyton and shook her head.

"No, trust me. It's... really scary."

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"Really?" Peyton said quietly. "Because... I kind of think it would be really nice to turn my feelings off."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Fiona shook her head again.

"No, they're... pretty much off. I have to turn them on and even then, it's hard. And I can't ever get rid of one of them. But that doesn't have much to do with this thing."

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Peyton nodded, not really understanding, but not wanting to push too hard. She still kind of wished she could just stop the feelings though. All of them.

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"It's a side effect of some other stuff," she continued, but decided to leave it there.

"But anyway, it got me into enough trouble. One of the announcers decided I was 'skanky and bitchy' and--"

She shook her head.

"So I didn't get off too easy, if that helps."

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"Who said that?" Peyton asked, narrowing her eyes. "You're the last person who should ever get that kind of label."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

Wait. Why are you worried? It's not like you like her. She made threats against your aunt, however joking they were, and then she called you things on air when you'd never done anything to her.

"Brooke. I don't know what the note said, but apparently asking your friend for advice about your other friend when they're both boys is a bad thing."

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Petyton muttered a curse under her breath. "Ignore her," she advised. "When Brooke gets in her bitch mode..."

She shook her head. "She can get pretty nasty."

Trust her. Peyton would know.

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"It didn't go much better this morning," she said with a roll of her eyes.

"I just wish she hadn't said it so everyone could hear it. And the way she made it sound on the radio is so off from what happened."

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"That's Brooke for you. In some ways I'll always be the lying cheating whore who cheated with her boyfriend," Peyton said. "And damn is she quick to bring it up whenever it suits her. You'd think I slept with the whole school."

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She winced.

"Sorry. I guess in comparison, I got off light."

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"No, I mean, I did... I never slept with him, but we got involved and she found out before he could break things off and..." Peyton shook her head. "It was a mess. We didn't mean to. I... we thought my dad had been killed and he and I were alone in a motel room and..."

"Yeah, anyway, I broke it off with him before anything happened, even though he'd broken up with her by then. I couldn't do that to Brooke. Not that that mattered to her."