sixth floor ballpit | afternoon | monday | july 27

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal hadn't ventured up to the sixth floor since it'd been renovated and, now that he was here, he didn't know if he'd be leaving.

There was a ball pit.

It took Hannibal a minute to realize that the ballpit was real and not some trap to get him to do his homework or study. No, it was an actual ballpit. As soon as he got over his shock, he was kicking off his shoes and diving into that giant ballpit.

Ballpit!

[oh yeah, first post in the ballpit! getting the silly stuff now while there's no eeeevil bde yet! open, of course!]

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[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Since Chuck was headed up to the roof anyway he figured he'd check out the new stuff on the sixth floor. The ballpit was a weird addition. How old did the administration think they were?

He was totally unsurprised to see Hannibal in there but had the decency to look confused.

"What the fuck are you doing?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Quantum psychics," he quipped and chucked a ball at Chuck. "What's it look like?"

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

In a surprising show of reflexes, Chuck actually managed to slap the ball away. "Hey! Are you four?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"No but sometimes, I can act like I am," he said and stood up to wade through the balls. "What, too cool for you?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"You know a school is awesome when it has its own ballpit," Layla commented as she sat down at the edge of the pit to pull off her sneakers.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"You're telling me," Hannibal agreed, dipping down till only his head was visible. "I haven't been in one of these in freaking years."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Same here," Layla said standing up on the ledge and then doing a cannonball jump into a pit. "The last time was in one I didn't even have horns yet."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

That stopped Hannibal short.

"Horns?" he asked once she'd come back up from out of the balls.

[trigons_child]

Raven had felt a surge of almost childlike glee from her room on the fifth floor, so naturally she was drawn upstairs to seek out its source. "Hello, Chuck, Layla, Hannibal," she greeted those already there, then stared at the ballpit. "What is this?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Ballpit!" he announced happily. "Come in, it's fun!"

[trigons_child]

"Ballpit?" Raven repeated, moving closer to the edge. Well, she did want to try to start expressing her emotions, so perhaps this would be a good time to experience happiness. "You swim among the balls?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much, yeah," Hannibal said, falling backwards into the balls and kicking his legs. "It's a pretty awesome stress reliever."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"It's a pit of doom," Layla teased. "Run! Save yourself!"

She then flopped backwards in a dramatic fashion and giggled.

[trigons_child]

For Raven, emotions definitely spoke louder than words, so she could tell that Layla was truly enjoying herself. "Are the balls consuming you?" she said, trying to continue the jest. "Or controlling you?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Consuming," she said trying to keep a straight face. "They've already eaten my feet."

[wantstobehuman.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" George said, as he floundered past, balls fleeing from his exuberant flails. His emotions were pretty much, 'OMG GLEE' at this point, yes.

[trigons_child]

"Hello!" Raven called out as he passed her by. His glee was infectious.

[wantstobehuman.livejournal.com]

"I'm George," he introduced himself. "I don't think we've met?"

[And Raven is good to pick up anything else from George that she might. ;) ]

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Yo Rachel." Leda waved. "I wondered that myself."

[wantstobehuman.livejournal.com]

George had come back up to the sixth floor to take a better look at the kitchen -- he'd heard it was there, and was hoping that was better equipped than the common rooms.

Of course, on the way, he got distracted by the open door... to the ball pit. "Are you serious?" he asked, his face lighting up. Quickly, he pulled off his shoes and socks and dove right in.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I didn't believe it either," Hannibal said, turning around when he spotted someone else that was happy to see a ballpit. "It's real and better than the ones I used to play in when I was a kid."

[wantstobehuman.livejournal.com]

George was totally already flailing around happily, the balls flying up around him in some kind of ball-storm before he flopped back and laughed. "I love this school," he said. "I never thought a place like this could exist."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"What's all this Chris?" Leda asked, as she too ventured up to the sixth floor for the first time. She'd never seen, or even heard of a ball pit before.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"It's a ballpit but that's not my name," he said, peering up from underneath the balls at the new arrival.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't have to be your name." Leda grinned. "It just has to rhyme. So, it's just a pit, filled with balls?" It did look fun.