The Roof, Thursday Evening

[intraspective]

It was too hot to stay cooped up in her room and, much like a plant, Ino needed more fresh air.

Four walls got seriously confining after awhile. Even if they were sort of soothing at the same time. The roof was decided on as a fairly easy place to lounge and the old cigarette butts got a faint smile out of her.

Perching precariously on the edge of the roof, she went back to her notes and scribbling, looking utterly comfortable.

And maybe a wee bit tired. Whatever. Dreams were stupid.

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[awalkingfelony.livejournal.com]

There was a soft clicking of heels as Elle stepped over to the edge of the roof, blinking, mouth turned down.

Break was next week and she wasn't going home. This seriously disturbed her.

She needed air. She needed to hit something. Unfortunately she had no more boxes of chocolate to throw against the wall.

"Oh. Hi, Ino," she said, just now noticing the other girl. "I won't bother you. I totally promise."

[intraspective]

Well now.

Ino blinked up from her notebook, shaking away the equations, and gave Elle a quizzical look.

"Oh?" she inquired archly. "I think it's more you that doesn't want to be bothered than me."

[awalkingfelony.livejournal.com]

"Because I totally look like I've overindulged in a box of chocolates?" she asked, tucking a few strands of messy hair behind her ear.

[intraspective]

"If you want to feel bad 'bout yourself, sure, that's why," Ino answered mildly. That response was... interesting. And it totally wasn't why she'd asked. "But, really, people don't go 'oh' and then say they won't bother someone 'less they wanted to be alone."

[awalkingfelony.livejournal.com]

Elle shrugged a little. "It's not that so much as I didn't expect anyone to be up here." Because everyone had so much funner things to do with their time, then come up to the roof and bemoan their current state of boredom that was obviously supposed to continue into next week omigod.

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"It's a free roof," Ino drawled languidly, eyes flashing with amusement. Pink Elle was sort of grumpy.

...it probably said interesting things about Ino that she was going to enjoy that fact.

"And you're not the only one who wasn't expecting company."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda smiled at Elle. At least she didn't hurt her eyes this time. Then she saw that Elle wasn't smiling. Oops. "Water?" she offered lamely.

[awalkingfelony.livejournal.com]

"Water?" she asked. "Why? Because I totally look dehydrated or something?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Are you? I just thought, I have a lot of water here, and it'd be rude not to share." Actually she'd just been embarrassed about being in a good mood while others weren't.

[awalkingfelony.livejournal.com]

"No. I think I would be much more tired and pale." Or something. "But no thank you." She had no idea where that water had been and if it was tap in just an empty bottle, then totally no way.

People were strange, weren't they? Filling up empty bottles with unfiltered water...

Pfft.

"How've you been, Leda?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Better than last time you saw me." Leda smiled. After getting monumentally worse, but she wasn't about to unload that on the poor girl. "Not too bad actually. You?"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda needed fresh air as well. She had a large bottle of water with her that was frosting over from just coming out of the fridge.

She was wiping it across her forehead as much as she was drinking it.

Noticing Ino, she frowned. "Hey Amy. Everything copacetic?"

[intraspective]

Copa-what?

"Is that code or something?" Ino asked, bemused. She was a clever enough girl but that word wasn't hitting any bells.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"It means okay. I think. I've never looked it up, it just always seemed to mean that when I'd heard it used."

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"Huuuh," she said, considering that. "Bit silly, yeah? When there's already a word for that."

Oh, Ino.

"I'm--fine, I guess."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Might be in some language other than English. People love borrowing from other languages. You guess?"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee had been working on making things that could fly. This, while interesting (and somewhat terrifying), was not something that could really be tested in her room.

Which was why Thursday night, she made her way up to the roof with something vaguely resembling a remote-controlled model airplane. "Hi!" she chirped, waving Ino's way, before setting up her little winged craft on a bit of the edge of the roof.

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"Hiii," Ino answered back, cheerfully enough to the girl she sort of recognized and looked up.

"What is that, please?"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I don't got a proper name for it yet," she admitted, "but it's kinda like a ship, 'cept really small! I wanna see if it'll fly."

[intraspective]

"Like an airplane?" Ino checked interested. "'Cause aren't ships for, like, water? Why's it a ship if it's going to fly?"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Like a airplane!" Kaylee said agreeably. "But ships can go in the sky, too! Not like a boat-ship. Like a spaceship!"

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda looked at the contraption with interest. "What's that?" she asked.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Kinna like a lil' ship," she said easily, gingerly setting up the little winged thingie.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

"Like, not a sailing ship I'm guessing." Aside from a bit of air walking with Karla, Leda had never flown.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Spaceship," Kaylee said, nodding. "Not like a boat, nope!"