Fifth Floor Common Room [evening]

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Sookie was, naturally, perched in front of the television tonight, in anticipation of Squee. This time, she had popcorn -- she didn't dare let herself get distracted due to hunger or anything during the middle of it, and was already humming songs from the spoiler clips that she'd managed to track down.

(She was learning to love, love, love getting to use the internet anytime she wanted, yes. She hadn't discovered the porn yet, though. Or trolls. That day would come and her perspective would surely change.)

[bored! come watch singing teenagers omg.]

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[longislandiceme]

"Is this that one with the singing again?" Bobby asked as he made his way into the common room.

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Sookie nodded eagerly. "They make me happy," she sighed blissfully. And not just because the boys were cute, though that helped.

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"Then it must be good," Bobby decided, finding a spot on the couch to sit down on.

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"Course it is! Would I lie?" she drawled, grinning at him.

[longislandiceme]

"Well," Bobby tapped his chin thoughtfully. "Maybe? Possibly? If the situation called for it. But I don't think a TV show would, so I'll accept your word at face value."

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"Only sometimes," she agreed, "and never to you. Unless I had to. But TV shows don't fall under that umbrella, don't worry."

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Bobby blushed, touched by the 'never to you'. "So, uh. Is there anything I should know about this show? Other than they're in high school and they sing. That's kinda all I gathered from last time." There had been cookies! They were distracting!

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"The teacher's wife is pretending to be pregnant, and the blonde cheerleader girl actually is," Sookie said in tones that indicated that this was Very Scandalous to her. "And the brunette is a really good singer, but kind of a prima donna."

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"Why would you pretend to be pregnant?" Bobby asked, clearly baffled.

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"Because you're insane. Or at least she is. She's having something called a hysterical pregnancy," Sookie helpfully explained, "so she shows most of the signs, but there's no baby. And she's crazy so she just let her husband keep thinking she's havin' a baby."

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"That is totally a new and exciting level of crazy," Bobby had to agree, wide-eyed. "I mean, it seems like a lot of work and won't the truth come out when nine months pass and there's, uh, no baby?"

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"She's gonna get it from the pregnant cheerleader," Sookie said, nodding wisely.

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"That... is such a convenient solution that you just know something's gonna go wrong there," Bobby said cynically.

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"I know," Sookie said, wide-eyed. "'Specially since the pregnant girl knows the non-daddy."

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"I totally feel sorry for him," Bobby said, clearly starting to get engrossed by the show. "I mean, he just looks so excited."

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"I know! Look at his excited, curly little head," Sookie sighed. "Poor guy."

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"But the musical numbers are awesome!" Bobby said brightly, as one such finished up. Even when the rest of the show was being all drama-y it was hard not to get swept up by the energy in the songs.

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"They make me wish I could carry a tune at all," she sighed just a little wistfully.

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"You'll only ever catch me singing in the shower- uh, that sounds weird. I mean I'm not a singing in public kinda guy."

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"Hey Bobby," Hurley said with a little wave. "What's up?"

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"Hey Hurley," Bobby replied. "Not too much. Just, you know, looking forward to Thanksgiving holidays." Yes, three days after they'd come back from break.

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"Already?" Hurley said. "Dude, we have, like, a month."

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"I miss everyone back home!" Bobby tried to defend himself. And he liked holidays off school.

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"Yeah, I get that," Hurley said. "I miss my mom a lot, lately."

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"I don't think I've actually talked to my mom in um... a while," Bobby admitted, feeling the tiniest bit guilty about that. "My friends in my other school are like family, though."

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"Ohhhh," Hurley said. "Didn't get enough of them during the visiting weekend thing?"

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Bobby nodded. "Only two of them could make it. I haven't seen Hank or Jean since I left, though. Well, I've seen the Jean here. But she doesn't count- or, I mean, no, she does count, because she's awesome too, but I still miss the one I've known for years."

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"...I think I just got really confused, dude," Hurley said.

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"Alternate realities," Bobby said with a nod. "Apparently my world has a lot of them."

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"Got it," Hurley said.

He didn't ,really.

"I miss friends back home, too. Hell, I've not heard from Johnny in forever."

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"Squee again?" Hurley said, walking into the common room. "Cool. I actually kinda really like this show."

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"You better," Sookie said lightly, "'cause you'd have to find another common room if you didn't. I ain't changing this."

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"Oh, I wouldn't ever ask you to," Hurley said, putting up his hands. "I mean, that'd be... like, mean and stuff."

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"I know you wouldn't, I was teasing," Sookie assured him.

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"Heh, sorry," Hurley said. "Guess I'm a little... sensitive, lately."

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Sookie raised her eyebrows. "Any reason why?"

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"Eh, I'm just not over Penelope goin' home yet, I guess," Hurley said, shrugging.

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"Awww. Want some popcorn?" she offered. "Singin' kids'll make you feel better, I bet."

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"I was gonna rifle around, see if there was anything sweet," Hurley said. "Thanks for the offer, though."

He gave her a thumbs up. "And yeah, TV is awesome for distraction."

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"There's ice cream," she offered. "Saw it in there earlier! Ice cream is the best for stuff like this. Or so I'd guess from, y'know, movies and stuff."

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"Dude, ice cream cures everything," Hurley said. "At least, I think so. Which is exactly why I'm not a doctor."

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Yakko ran into the common room and suddenly stopped.

"It's that time again!" After a brief pause, he continued, as if addressing someone who wasn't there. "No, it's time to learn the day's lesson! And to find out what it is, we turn to... The Wheel of Morality!" Yakko motioned towards the door, where a large wheel with 'The Wheel of Morality' written on it in huge letters drifted in.

"Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn," Yakko recited as he spun the wheel. "Tell us the lesson that we should learn." As the spinning wheel slowed down and landed on the number 4, a sheet of paper was printed from a slot on the side. Yakko went to his next line as he grabbed the sheet of paper. "Moral Number Four. And the moral of today's story is... Faith will move mountains, and so will dynamite, only faster and with more entertainment value."

Yakko shrugged, darted out of the room, and the wheel disappeared out into the hallway a moment later.