Third Floor Common Room - Sunday Afternoon

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

Cordelia had taken over the center of one of the common room couches, her manicure set spread out before her on the coffee table. On the television was a cycle four marathon of one of the Top Model shows, and Tyra had just finished her meltdown during judging.

She wasn't giving up the remote to anyone.

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[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

Harper was probably looking as miserable as she felt. Her eyes were all red and puffy from crying and her hair was a mess from having spent her entire Saturday in bed. If she was a contestant on Top Model, Tyra would have had another meltdown.

She had debated spending all of Sunday in bed, too, but her stomach overrode that decision. There wasn't any apple juice in the fridge in the fourth floor common room, so Harper went down one floor.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"...you don't look so good," Hurley said, worried for his little sib.

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"I don't feel so good," said Harper. "I've been feeling awful since Thursday morning."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"What's wrong?" Hurley said. "You need to lie down and stuff?"

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"I didn't get out of bed all day yesterday," said Harper. "I thought it would help if I got something to eat."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"...dude," Hurley said. "Yeah, you should be lying down. I'll make you some soup or something."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"And some apple juice?" asked Harper, flopping the couch.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Apple juice is good," Hurley said. "So are, like, nauseous or anything?" Hurley said, heading to go search the cabinets.

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"No, it's more like a broken heart," said Harper.

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

Cordelia winced when she saw Harper and shook her head. She had no idea what was wrong with the girl, but it looked like the wrong end of a bad breakup.

"I could have sworn I saw a cucumber in the fridge. It should help with your eyes."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"I'll give it a try. Thanks," said Harper, with a sniff. She wiped away a year.

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

"Boy issues?" Please let it be boy issues. That she could handle.

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"They're so stupid! They tell you that they want one thing and when you give it to them, it's not enough!" ranted Harper. "I have no idea anymore what it will take to make him happy."

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

Cordelia waved to an empty spot on the couch and nodded. "Oh, so very true. Tell me all about it."

Hey, she had to get her gossip some how. There weren't any minions here to bring it to her.

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"He bought me a drink at the bar and invited me to come back to his room Wednesday night," said Harper, "and the next morning, he freaked out and yelled at me to get out!"

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

Cordelia looked affronted for a moment and then frowned. "Wasn't Wednesday the day that most of the girls turned into boys?"

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but it worked out to my advantage since Eric only dates boys," said Harper. "How was I supposed to know that it wouldn't last?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley was bored, and Penelope was busy.

This meant he was wandering around looking for something to do.

"...Whoa, model show?" Hurley said. "Awesome."

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

Cordelia would have waved, but her nails were wet, so she just smiled at Hurley.

"Yeah. Last episode, they made this girl whose friend had just died do a graveyard shoot. Now they're in Africa."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"...They did what?" Hurley said. "That sounds mean."

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

"That's the modeling world for you. They'll eat you alive if you can't deal with it."

She'd read so many stories about that.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Which is ironic, because most models don't look like they don't eat anything," Hurley said.

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

"I think they eat tic tacs and peanuts."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"That would suck," Hurley said. "Tic tacs aren't that fillings."

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh, the tic tacs are dessert. The peanuts are the dinner."