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]

Hurley was bored, and Penelope was busy.

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

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

[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.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh man," Hurley said. "You wanna skip the soup and jump to the ice cream?"

Penelope had him trained well.

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Ice cream won't make Eric change his mind," Harper whimpered.

The soup might have been a safer choice.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"...Eric?" Hurley said. "Like... little dude Eric?"

[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."

[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."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"The Eric who only likes dudes, not the Eric who's dating a lot of other girls," said Harper with a sigh. "Of course I have to fall for the one who likes boys. And we got along beautifully when I was a boy for a day."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

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

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Oh, man," Hurley said. "That's... not healthy."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

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

[formermayqueen.livejournal.com]

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

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Tell me about it," said Harper, wibbling. There were fresh tears running down her face and it looked like she was going to start bawling at any moment.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley had found some apple juice and poured a glass. He brought it over and sat next to her. "Here's your juice."

[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]

"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.

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," said Harper, gulping down most of the juice in one shot. All that crying had left her pretty dehydrated.