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

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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She looked over at Peyton and shook her head.

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

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

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."

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.

"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."

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

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."

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.

"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."

"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."

She winced.

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

"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."

Ugh. That sounded a lot like what happened with her and Leto and Griff.

"That's the thing. Leto and I kissed, yeah, and we've had a thing, but it was only because I didn't think Griff was interested. I mean, not only, but--"

She looked at Peyton.

"Do you understand?"

Peyton nodded. "Yeah. I get it. You'd liked a guy, but he wasn't interested, so... what's wrong with kissing someone else?"

"Only," she sighed, "it hurt my friend, who'd almost had a relationship with him that I didn't even know about, and it hurt Griff because apparently he-- I don't even know. I just know it hurt him and it bothers him."

She put her chin in her hands.

"But he still hasn't actually told me that he's interested. He's just gotten upset. And I don't know what to do."

She turned to Peyton.

"I mean, Leto has other people. Griff... not so much. And everything with Leto is easy. He's charming and kind and he's made it clear he thinks I'm attractive."

Griff still hadn't said anything to HER, not that she supposed she'd made it easy.

"Okay, wait," Peyton said. "This friend you hurt. You said you didn't know about her relationship with him and they weren't together, right? So, yeah, you apologize, but hey, it's not like a guy's not going to ever see another girl again after he breaks up with someone."

She thought about the rest. "And this Griff... If you're not together and he won't say if he wants to be... seems to me you're a free agent."

"Now if your friend was still involved with Leto and you were involved with Griff and the whole thing was exclusive and you still fooled around with Leto? Okay, that sucks, but otherwise... You're not doing anything wrong. You're just a good person so you worry about other people's feelings."

"I'm not?"

She'd let radio affect her pretty badly, mostly because she was just so new to all this.

"But is it right to keep spending time with Leto if I really like Griff and it upsets him?"

"You're not." Peyton said firmly.

"But... if you're really into Griff and you're making out with some other guy all the time... You can't expect him to think you're serious about liking him."

She nodded.

"That's kind of what I thought. I mean, now that I know, or, you know, suspect, I was thinking about talking to Leto. I don't think he'll mind going back to just friends, especially if I explain about Griff. Whatever else he seems to be, he's always been pretty understanding about things to me."

"Sounds like a good plan. And like Leto's a good friend to have."

"He is. He really is."

She just hoped she didn't hurt his feelings.

Peyton shrugged. "You just do the best you can and be as honest as you can. If he's a good guy he'll understand even if he's not thrilled about it."

Yeah, take your own advice, why don't you, Peyton?

She nodded again, though her smile was a little sad.

"It was nice, though. He was the first person who ever called me 'beautiful'."

Peyton smiled. "It won't be the last time."

"And I've got bigger things to worry about," she admitted with a quick grin.

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