Third floor common room, Sunday afternoon

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Andy was sprawled on the sofa with a cold drink and the book Sam had reccomended to him on Thursday. It was a pleasant enough way to spend an afternoon, but he couldn't help but wonder if he could get away with lighting up in here or if he'd actually have to motivate himself to go somewhere else if he wanted to smoke some weed.

So far he hadn't decided to put it to an actual test.

Yet.

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[longislandiceme]

Bobby wandered in and headed almost immediately to the kitchenette to see what he could scramble up food wise.

"Reading? On a weekend?" he asked by way of greeting, making his way over to the couch with a bag of chips and a soda of his own.

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"I like reading," Andy said. "And it's not like there's a lot of riveting entertainment on tv on Sunday afternoons."

[longislandiceme]

"You may have a point there, about the TV," Bobby admitted. The reading, on the other hand... "I'm Bobby, by the way. You new?"

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"Yeah. Andy. Take it you're not new?"

[longislandiceme]

"Been here a whopping two months," Bobby said with a nod, tearing open the bag of chips. "Which means all the 'hey, you new?' conversations just haven't lost their appeal to me yet. Especially since this is my first time on the other end of them," he added with a bit of an eyeroll.

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"Well it does seem to be the most obvious first question," Andy allowed. "Gives you an idea of how much you can BS someone."

[longislandiceme]

"Of course, with this school the phrase 'Oh yeah, nothing exciting ever happens here' is what passes for BS around here," Bobby had to point out.

[likethegun]

Peeking into the common room as he passed it was a natural habit for Sam now, and he stopped and went in when he saw Andy and what he was doing. "Hey," he said. "How's it going?"

[longislandiceme]

"Hey," Bobby looked up (and up) as someone else came into the room. "Sam, right?"

[likethegun]

"Yeah," he said, running through a little list of names in his head before picking, "Bobby, yeah?"

[longislandiceme]

"The one and only. Well, the one and only here. There's other mes around, but they're all off in alternate realities or whatever."

[likethegun]

"Is that something you learned here, or did you already know about alternate realities when you got here?" Sam asked.

[longislandiceme]

"Lil bit of both?" Bobby said with a thoughtful frown. "There was a thing, back home, but I'd sort of figured it was a one-time deal."

[likethegun]

"Aaah," Sam said, nodding. "Yeah, it's kind of an ongoing thing here. Sometimes, you luck out and people show up from your own reality. That makes things a lot less weird. For here, at least."

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"Sam, hi," Andy said, smiling at the (much) taller boy. "Things are good. I'm really liking the book."

[likethegun]

"Really? Good, I'm glad," he said. "You'll have to come and get another one when you're done with that one. You know, if you want to."

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"I'm sure I will. One of the best things about being somewhere new is a whole new library full of books."

[likethegun]

"You know, I don't think you ever would have struck me as a book nerd," Sam said. "I mean, not that that's a bad thing."

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"Yeah? What would I strike you as?" Andy asked curiously.

[wannabehunter]

Bored, Jo wandered into the common room. "Hey," said, tossing off a wave at the new kid.

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"Hey," Andy said back, sitting up a little when he saw it was a cute girl.

[wannabehunter]

"Latest batch of newbies?" Jo asked, as she flopped down in an unoccupied chair. "I'm Jo, by the way."

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"Andy. Yeah, been here a week now."

[wannabehunter]

"Come across any of the weird stuff yet? Apart from the syrup." The syrup was practically normal by now.

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"Well there was the girl who could shoot lightning bolts," Andy said. "And talk of mutant alligators who shoot goldfish, but nothing really out there yet."