Fifth Floor Common Room; Thursday Morning [ 08/20 ].

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Now, Turtle Wexler could hold her own in a kitchen if she had to, especially if it was simple stuff like mac'n'cheese or grilled cheese or generally anything with cheese involved. Thankfully, however, she didn't have to. Many of the delicious things of the world came easily prepared and packaged for her convenience.

And in a few weeks, she'd have to start a full campaign, petal to the metal, especially once the new kids came in, but, for right now, she thought she'd work a softer angle with the kids already here. That was why she had special ordered a large case of assorted Pop-Tarts, all with green and black frosting, colors hopefully guaranteed to bring to mind the Wexler/Walters teams, and was dropping them into the toaster, toasting them up to put on Westing Paper Products and hopefully pass on to her fellow students.

And if no one was really up and about this morning, well...she really hoped Maron and Apu liked Pop-Tarts, because it was the roomie and the faithful employee who was going to be stuck with them when she was done. And it would be the only time in her life that she'd actually miss Nana. That beast would take care of them all real quick, that was for sure!


[[ I've got a morning off and I'm gonna use it! Open as common rooms are! Feel free to mod your Pop-Tart flavours! ]]

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[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Hey Turtle," Layla said walking into the common room. "Need any help?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle snorted a little with a smirk. "All the help I can get," she said. "Because Pop-Tarts, you know. So difficult to make. I could probably use some assistance in eating them, though."

She held out a plate, urging it toward Layla. "Yeah?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Well as long as you're offering," Layla smirked as she took the plate. "I like the frosting colors. It's okay to take them if I'm not in your grade, right?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Of course!" Turtle said. "Not only are there plenty, but I'm hardly about to discriminate between classes. We're all Fandom High students, and therefor all entitled to free Pop-Tarts."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"I'll make sure to pass the word among the classes about your benevolence," Layla joked. "Just so you feel the love."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"That'd be awesome, Layla!" Turtle said, smiling. "And how have you been, anyway? The last few weeks feel like kind of a blur to me; I feel like I really haven't gotten to talk to anyone lately."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good, yesterday a bunch of girls and I went to the spa," Layla said wigging her pink colored fingernails at Turtle. "It was interesting to see Emma explain a bikini wax to Karla."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, God," Turtle said, eyes a little wide. "Um, so, I'd like to think the explanation would dissuade everyone, but did anyone then go and get one? Because ouch. Whoever did, I want to send them some chocolate in sympathy."

Especially if they were a voter.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"No waxing done," Layla chuckled as she took a bit of her pop-tarts. "As Emma put it: It should only be done when absolutely necessary. Trust us... none of us needed it. So are you all set for your campaign?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was not even going to begin ruminating what Layla meant by none of us needed it, and she was definitely not going to express her thought of yeah, join the club.

"I hope so," she said, instead, smiling, because campaign stuff was a better topic anyway. "I'm definitely starting to feel that antici...pation that comes with it, especially since this is the big leagues. Senior year! Up for president! Going to be pretty exciting!"

She infused as much brightness into it as she could because just thinking about it made her sick to her stomach with nervousness and it was probably going to be a whole fifteen minutes before she could even think of biting into her own Pop-Tarts.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure it is," Layla said with a smile. "Sounds like you're going to be pretty busy especially with the new students coming in and everything."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"New students," Turtle agreed, starting to tick things off on her fingers as she listed them off, "not to mention campaigning, bid for presidency, college prep work, keeping up with the store, its branches, and the law office, radio with Val, possibly a Little Sibling, YA, I've been thinking of seeing about getting ABG back up again, I'll probably try to grab a TA-ship, and who only knows what I'm forgetting. I'm definitely going to try to take it easy this week and next because then it's petal to the metal, full speed ahead."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla tilted her head at Turtle a little. "Don't you think you need to take a little time out for yourself? I don't mean all the student activities and everything. I mean something for you just to enjoy and relax."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle looked at Layla blankly for a moment, as if the other girl were speaking a foreign language, and then lifted her eyebrows.

"That's what the summer was for."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"I guess," Layla said with a raised eyebrow. "Though I seem to remember a story about an eccentric-yet-driven millionaire who developed an elaborate scheme just to hand off his fortune. Just seems to be a bit of a shame if you spend your life trying to accomplish things only to forget to have people around you at the end."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle kind of had to eye Layla a little over a comment like that, frowning. "...Where'd you hear a story like that?" she asked.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"I know things," Layla said wiping a crumb from the corner of her mouth. "I'd just hate for someone to devote their entire life to their future only not to have anyone to share it with. I mean if all else fails, I'll know I have Jamie Madrox and the time we'll have together. Know what I mean?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Turtle said, and she shook her head, "well, the road to success being a lonely one is just par for the course, Layla, but I've still got my family and friends back home who would be there for me, so it's not that I don't have anyone to fall back on, either."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla shrugged and bit into her pop tart. "Suit yourself. You're still young and have your entire life ahead of you. Are you going to be using any particular slogans for your campaign?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Nothing's jumped out so far," Turtle shrugged again. "I'm thinking of leaning on my experience, considering I'm one of the rare ones who've been in this thing from their impressionable freshman years. I'm also working with Jennifer; she's a junior, and we'll be campaigning together, Walters and Wexler, which has a nice ring to it, almost as good as the Wexler and Wiggin I've got going for radio. And we're working green as our color, if you couldn't tell by the Pop-Tarts."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Freshman year," Layla said with a chuckle. "Clearly the slogan 'I'm a senior and still alive' might not be a winning phrase."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, actually," Turtle said, "add 'and sane' and it might not be bad! Although, with Jennifer as my so called running mate, I've put some thought into 'mean green W team!'"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla chuckled a bit at that. "Considering that some people might be familiar with Jen's history in some their universes you might want to consider dropping the 'mean' part. Perhaps 'lean'?"

After all having the "Hulk" moniker and "Mean" might bring things about. So to speak.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

And lean was pretty complimentary.

"Lean might be good. Do you think Lean Green W Dream Team might be overdoing it?"

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Not at all," Layla replied. "I think it sounds very catchy."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"You mean it?" Turtle asked. "You're not just saying it to see if I go and put a silly slogan on posters and stuff?"

What? The girl knew Jamie Madrox. Turtle knew Jamie Madrox. So this seemed like a valid concern.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"No, I'm being quite honest," Layla replied. "Besides I don't think people will vote for a slogan. They're just going to vote for you."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle sighed a little, with a small, nervous smile.

"I hope so," she said. "I really do..."

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

Elle was grumpy and a little confused that Rose was nowhere to be found, but she'd called and left a message so really, what else could she do?

Plus she was distracted by the smell of toasting Pop-Tarts.

"Ooh, can I have some?"

She was all for having/experiencing as many things as she possibly could, just in case she went home sometime and never came back.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely!" Turtle said happily, handing over a plate with two Pop-Tarts on them. "That's what they're there for! How's it going, Elle?"

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

"Pretty well," Elle said, breaking off a piece of Pop-Tart and popping it into her mouth. "Oh, yum, s'mores!"

Someone had developed a fondness for s'mores, apparently. Yay, cabin life!

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Ohmygod," Turtle said, grinning at Elle with a look of playful envy, "those ones are the beeeeeeeest. Well chosen, my friend. Well chosen."

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

Elle offered the unbroken one to Turtle. "You want?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no," Turtle said, shaking her hand, and nodding toward the box with plenty more where that came from. "I'm good. There's so many, you should probably have a few, and I should probably have a few, and there'll still be a gazillion left over."

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

"On the bright side, if the apocalypse comes, you'll be well-fortified," was Elle's opinion.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle looked at the box for a moment and found she could only nod in agreement, because, really, that was a lot of Pop-Tarts.

"Or maybe," she offered thoughtfully, "we'll be attacked by something and it's one weakness would be Pop-Tarts. Then we'd show them."

The fact that this seemed entirely possible was proof that Turtle had been going to school here for way too long.

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

"Or some giant Pop-Tart creature will come looking for its children."

Elle had officially gotten used to Fandom, to come up with something like that.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, don't say that!" Turtle said, wide eyed, but laughing a little. "Then I'm not going to want to eat any more of them!"

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

"Oh, good point," Elle said. "I hadn't thought of that!"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Thoughts like that," Turtle said, "are enough to make someone almost want to go vegetarian because you never know when some giant...pig or something might show up and want to seek revenge on your eating bacon."

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

"... but even if you go vegetarian, there's still a risk," Elle said. "I mean, there could be giant man-eating plants out there."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"I'm...actually pretty sure we've had that at one point," Turtle said. "I can't quite remember. After three years, everything starts to blur a little."