Third floor common room- Saturday morning

[solo_sword]

So yesterday had been interesting for Jaina, between her brother being in town, and meeting another Luke from a time when Jaina wasn't really around, and hanging out with her alternate universe step-grandmother who she was going to pass in age soon and her three-month-old aunt, and kind of sort of flirting with another version of her boyfriend (was that wrong? She honestly had no idea), and then she'd listened to the radio and oh hey, more surprises there!

Jaina had a couple hours till she was supposed to meet Jacen and find out what fresh trauma had occurred, so she'd decided to start out with breakfast. Unfortunately her attempt at an omelet had turned into scrambled eggs that had still been runny and gross somehow, and adding things to it hadn't helped. She'd blame her culinary failure on stress, but the truth was that she just was a really bad cook.

As she surveyed the mess, she decided that know what, she was just going to have cereal and this would get cleaned up later.


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[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne walked into the common room and gave Jaina a smile. "Morning. How are you, Jaina?"

[solo_sword]

"How hard is it to make eggs?" she asked.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"I don't think they're that hard, but I've never really tried to cook them," Zayne said. "So I could be completely wrong."

[solo_sword]

Jaina surveyed the mess again. "They're hard. Just so you know."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"At least you didn't set it on fire?" Zayne offered.

[solo_sword]

"Maybe tomoorrow. So. How are you?"

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Really good," Zayne said with a big grin. "My dad is here. I didn't know he was coming."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Hey! Day two of Parents Weekend and, according to radio, you haven't killed anybody yet!" Lois said after she spotted Jaina. "I'm so proud."

[solo_sword]

"Like I'd let murder and body-hiding make radio," Jaina said. "I thought you knew me."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Oh, come on, the squirrels are pretty good," Lois said. "I would think there at least would be a mention of missing persons."

[solo_sword]

"On a day like yesterday it'd be easy to miss stuff, especially when there were bribes or threats of roasted squirrel involved," she pointed out. "And now I feel like I've missed my opportunity."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"You may get another chance. There's that mixer thing tonight to distract people and squirrels," Lois said. "Though I think you can manage making it through the whole weekend without homicide."

[solo_sword]

"You seem to have more faith in me there than I do," she said. "Maybe I'll get optimistic if there are no punches thrown at the mixer."

[longislandiceme]

"It's good to know I'm not alone in sucking at cooking," Bobby remarked as he wandered in to the common room. In search of cereal, of course, because he knew better than to try using the stove.

[solo_sword]

"I don't suck!" Jaina protested. "I just... should stick to throwing pasta in boiling water. Yeah, okay, I suck."

[longislandiceme]

"If it makes you feel better I'm not even allowed to make pasta," Bobby offered, rummaging through the cupboards until he found the most sugary cereal possible.

[solo_sword]

"Thank you for being worse than me," Jaina said sincerely. "It makes me feel a lot better."

[longislandiceme]

"Glad to help," Bobby said solemnly. "At least there's cereal," he said as he flopped down on the couch, saluting her with a spoon. "May not be the fanciest breakfast ever, but it's fortifications for the coming day, and that's what counts."

[solo_sword]

"Got a busy, parent-filled day ahead?" she asked, going to toss out the ruined food.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

So far, this weekend was actually looking up for Effy. Without her parents, and with Tony and Panda was about the best scenario she could've asked for. About time she got that kind of luck.

Even on a weekend like this, food was still needed, even if Effy was in no way going to be cooking anything. More of a 'scavenge from the cupboards' sort. Her poor guests were probably going to have to fend for themselves.

"Jaina," she offered up in greeting, as she wandered in. "Alright?"

[solo_sword]

"Mostly, so far," she replied. Despite the mess. "How about you?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy nodded, glancing sideways at Jaina's 'mess', as she went to find something simple like bread for toast for herself.

"Pretty sweet," she said. "Parents had better things to do." Thank god. "Got my brother instead."

[solo_sword]

"Not a bad deal. You guys get along?" she checked.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Usually." Well, it couldn't be said it was always perfect, but wasn't that true of all sibling relationships? The smile that came out, was about as much proof as you got out of Effy that she was thrilled to have Tony here.

"Only mostly alright?" she asked, finally catching back onto Jaina's earlier comment.

[solo_sword]

"My family's one of the more complicated ones here," Jaina said, understating it quite a bit. "So these weekends tend to be interesting. My brother's here too, and that part's pretty fantastic."