Roof; Friday Afternoon

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck was bored and tired of hanging around his room so when he finally got out of bed on Friday he decided to get out for a bit. Not to a common room since his post-Thanksgiving hangover wasn't allowing for him to be quite that social at the moment, but he knew he could handle being out on the roof for a bit. It was cold, but nothing Chuck couldn't handle. The scarf did more than make him look fantastic, you know.

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Chuck Bass," Alex said by way of greeting after stepping onto the roof and noticing someone else was around. "Good to see someone else avoided the dreaded food coma."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I'm not much into the whole Thanksgiving thing," Chuck said. "Something about passing out into a plate full of mashed potatoes doesn't appeal to me. No idea why."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"There are other fun things you can do on Thanksgiving," he said, smirking. "Doesn't have to be about food. Just gotta find the fun stuff."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah? What qualifies as 'fun stuff' on Thanksgiving?" Chuck asked.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Watching the parade," Alex said, sarcasm tinting his voice. "What, that doesn't sound fun to you?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy, on this rare occasion, was not rocking a hangover. Not unless turkey was responsible for anything like that. Didn't much feel like it. Actually pretty cheerful, for her, as she wandered out onto the roof.

"Chuck." Her greetings were so lengthly and creative.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Effy." Look at that, he could be just as creative. "How's it going?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Time to break out that trademark, nice, non-committal shrug. "Not bad," she replied. "Free food and excessively perky people." Holidays were all good, but there really was an excess of good feelings getting passed around.

"What's not to like?" It was actually quite nice, not that Effy would admit to thinking that.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I didn't take you as the type who enjoyed perky people," Chuck said with a smirk. "Is there a soft side underneath all that badass?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Long as they keep it to themselves." No one had tried to make her be thankful about anything so far. That was a win in her book. "I don't really mind." Which was completely different to enjoying them.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Survived an American holiday, I see," Alex said, using that as his greeting. "See, ours have so much more food."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Can't quite wait for Christmas to come around on its own?" Because there were definitely some strong similarities there.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I didn't make the calendar," he said, shrugging. "Not my fault the pilgrims did their thing so close to Jesus doing...whatever he did."

He wasn't religious, he had no idea.

"Means more time out of school and doing nothing," he added. "Why would I complain?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Didn't suggest you would," Effy said, little smile twitching at her lips. "Enjoy your holiday, then?"

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Oh look, someone shorter than Chuck had wandered up to the roof looking for, well, nothing really. Just time not spent indoors.

Tugging his coat close, he looked longingly at Chuck's scarf. "Your grandma make that scarf for you?" He'd read about that sort of thing in books, shuttup.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"I don't have a grandmother." Unless you count Lily's mother and the thought of her knitting would be laughable. "I bought it in a store a few years ago."

No, he wasn't going to say what store because this was his trademark scarf.

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

"Guess it doesn't matter where these things come from when you're battling the elements," he said, keeping the small talk going despite the strong desire to just sit and wait until his hands were finished freezing in his pockets before fleeing to warmth. "Wish the weather here was better. You'd think if they could bring in a whole island of furniture, that there'd be sun and surf year round."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Screw that, I like the cold." You couldn't wear your scarf in the summer, duh. "And it's not even that bad out here right now."

This kid was just a wuss.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What's up, roomie?" Alex greeted, giving Griff a wave. "Emerging from your fort of books or something?"

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

"Thought I'd see what the draw was up here," Griff replied.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"It's better than me smoking in the room, right?" he said, shrugging. "Just sucks when it gets cold. I'm gonna freeze my ass off because I'm so polite to you."

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda was drunk. Off of what, she would not admit. But she wouldn't deny her state.

"Happy Thanksgiving to the white people and my condolences to the Indians!"

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Chuck rolled his eyes. How very edgy of her.

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Fortunately for Leda's self esteem she either didn't see the eye roll, or didn't care.

"Hiya Chuck, happy Thanksgiving."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"You know it was yesterday, right?"