Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

[bitchprince]

After spending the past few days in a place that made his bones - if he was going to be sentimental - thrum with a distinct sense of belonging, where the trees were just the right shade of green (again in this hypothetical state of sentimentality) and people seemed to genuinely get any number of things that were rarely gotten around here (even if he had been told, several times, that he was 'a bit posh, aren't you', to the point of annoyance, including one or two spots of combining that word with some rather unflattering language) Fandom seemed a little... stark.

Too restless to hole up in his room, Arthur eventually gave in to the idea that maybe the common room would be slightly less depressing. It was an idea he was swiftly abandoning as he poked at a can of orange juice and eyed the Teevee remote.

Nope. Still not tempted. There was that.

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[vanillajello]

"Afternoon, Arthur," Kate replied, taking a seat by a table with her pudding cups and her spoon.

Yes, cups. She'd ended up taking two instead of just one.

[bitchprince]

Arthur raised an eyebrow at the cups, but said nothing much about them. "Did you enjoy Homecoming?"

[vanillajello]

All comments were best saved for if she decided to get the remaining four cups, too. "It was fun, until it wasn't," she said, opening the first cup. "Did you?"

[bitchprince]

"The first two days were--" Confusing, complicated, weird? "--All right, I suppose," he said, "I'm not sure what to think of some of the alumni."

Wyatt, anyone?

[vanillajello]

"Oh? Was there something wrong with them?" she asked. "I only talked to this guy Gavin who looks almost exactly like Leto. He was alright."

[bitchprince]

"Some of them had a few funny ideas," he said, shaking his head. "But they're gone now, I suppose." Beat. "I think I've seen Gavin once."

[vanillajello]

"I think I must've given him the best first impression of me I've ever given anyone," she said with a half-smile. "I stared at him like an idiot."

[bitchprince]

"It's Fandom," Arthur pointed out, "If he is not used to duplicates and their effects by now, he hasn't been paying attention."

[vanillajello]

"That's true," she had to agree. "It was still embarrassing, but could've been worse. At least I knew that could happen."

[bitchprince]

"Exactly. Besides, it could be worse," he added, with a quirk of a smirk, "He could have actually been a second Leto."

[vanillajello]

Kate laughed. "Well, that's your point of view."

[bitchprince]

"Try living with the man for six months," he snorted.

[vanillajello]

"I don't know, I think it could work out." If she completely ignored the complicated mess that was Leto's relationships. And she couldn't. "So, I guess you've liked having a room all to yourself?"

[bitchprince]

Yeah, Arthur had been in that mess. He had no inclination or intention towards ever heading there before, even if he'd probably been the least emotionally involved out of the lot.

Whatever.

"Leto's not," entirely, "a bad sort," he said, "But God, yes."

[vanillajello]

"It seems to be for the best," Kate said, chuckling a little. "For everyone. You're vaguely across the hall from me and Bobby now, right?"

[bitchprince]

"325," he said. "You're at...?"

[vanillajello]

"324. It's not exactly opposite yours, but to the left. Or right." Beat. "Down the hall."

[bitchprince]

"Well, you've been a quiet and unobtrusive neighbour so far," he allowed, "Since I wasn't aware of that."

[vanillajello]

"I spend a lot of time sleeping," she smirked. "But the music can get a little loud sometimes. Feel free to come bitch at me if it gets annoying."

She knew which neighbors she didn't want to piss off.

[bitchprince]

Ah, a girl with a greater survival instinct than Chuck Bass.

"I may take you up on that, if the need strikes," he said, lightly, "But I can otherwise only encourage the sleeping over the rest of it."

[vanillajello]

"Then I don't think we'll have any major problems. Not that I've had any so far, either," Kate said, finally finished with her first pudding cup and moving on to the second.