3rd Floor Common Room [Tuesday, Late Morning]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy... was not generally a morning person, by any stretch of the imagination. Not unless she hadn't yet been to bed.

So it was mid-morning at least on a day she didn't have a workshop to think about, before she surfaced enough to pull on some clothes and bothered to find something to eat: toast. Well, toast and tea. A master chef in the making, this one.

The TV was on, for all she claimed she hated that sort of thing. She was watching for the mocking potential of their little dramas. That was all.

[[bored bored, and so open!]]

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[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Ah. Canadian TV," Layla said flopping on a couch and kicking her feet up. "Truly nothing finer. They have a marathon of the gas station show after this."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"... The what show?" No, Effy really didn't watch TV much, and they definitely didn't get any of this in England anyway.

And shows about gas stations sounded weird.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"TV sitcom," Layla said with a smirk. "Depicting wacky rural life in Canada. No teenage angst in that one though."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Better or worse than this?" she had to ask. Subjective or not, it was good to have an opinion.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"It's funnier than most sitcoms," Layla said with a shrug. "I'd say better but that's just my humble opinion."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Here I thought you'd just know," Effy remarked, quirking a bit of a smirk. Yes, again, subjective, but still.

"Might consider sticking around to watch." It wasn't like she had much better to do today than melt a few braincells watching TV.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Quality of a show is more opinion than fact," Layla smirked. "And yeah, it's not like there's anything better going on at the moment. It's kind of nice just to veg out."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Not usually my thing," she admitted. There were far more interesting things to be doing, in her opinion. "But this place isn't being a good provider today." Had to have something to fall back on.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You're up early," Alex said, having just been wandering around looking for something interesting to do. Considering he'd really just come down from the roof a few hours ago, going back up seemed silly but that's where'd he'd been headed. "Turning over a new leaf?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"I'm a closet morning-person," she told him, glancing over her shoulder with a bit of a smirk.

No, she really was not.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Well if you're lucky tomorrow all the girls will turn into guys and give you something to do," Layla stretching her arms. "Or rain cheescake."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"And you never shared that with me?" he asked, affecting mock shock. "That's hurtful."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Huh. "Don't actually know which of those I'd pick," she said after a moment. If she could pick, anyway.

On the one hand... messy, and the other, confusing and weird but possibly entertaining.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"I'll bear your delicate feelings in mind next time," she promised. "Didn't realise you liked to know my whole schedule."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Hope for both," Layla chuckled. "Then it'd be delicious as well as organically confusing."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Knowledge is power," he answered and if she was up cooking, he was going to take up space on that couch. It was familiar, after all. "Also, I could have come bothered you when I couldn't sleep. Entertainment for me."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy smirked, and held up crossed fingers for her.

"Still sad I didn't get to run into as many boys failing to be feminine as I could've." Couple of people at least she'd have enjoyed seeing like that.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy rolled her eyes and prodded at the toaster to make it spit out her damn toast.

"Now I know why I never told you before." Apart from the fact it just wasn't true.

And hey look, that toast of hers wasn't even too burnt. "You want something?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What've you got?" he wondered, peeking out from the sprawled position on the couch to see what she was doing. "Anything gourmet?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"You should've hung with me," Layla replied. "I put out a whole bunch of bras for them in the lobby. The parade of confused boys was worth the cost."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Toast, marmalade and tea," she answered. So no, not so much gourmet.

"You want gourmet before midday, you're doing it yourself." He was lucky she'd offered at all.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy snickered as she fiddled with her mug. "I bet."

"If I'd known, I would've joined you." Watching people be awkward was a whole entertainment source in itself.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

And he was surprised she'd offer. "If you've got extra toast, I can take it off off your hands. No tea, though. Ew."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Next time I'll give you a heads up," Layla said getting up from the couch. "I'm grabbing some cereal. You want any?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Uncultured American," she said, shaking her head.