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]

Chuck rolled his eyes. "Yeah, it's tons of fun. I love my hometown being clogged with traffic and filled with more tourists than usual."

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

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

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You ever go to that thing?" Alex wondered. "I could see you as a float guy."

[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.

[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 used to go as a kid," he admitted. "The novelty of the floats wore off after a few years."

[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.

[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?"

[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."

[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.

[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.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Ah, I see. That's completely different then," Chuck said. "I personally do mind it. Which is why I had to skip out on the festivities last night."

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Giant wuss who liked it better warm. "You like the cold?" This earned a raised eyebrow from someone who'd teleport to Thailand rather than suffer through a rainstorm in London.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Hide in your room all day from the scary cheerful people?" she asked, smirking.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. You get to wear better clothes when it's cold," Chuck said with a clear 'duh' tone.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Well not all day. I had to cook something for a class assignment. Then I went to church," he said. "But after that I hid in my bar for the majority of the evening. Way better than hiding in my room."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Depends who's there," Effy reasoned. Empty bars were never as interesting as your room could be when there were people there, in her opinion.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Unless they popped and injured people, right?" Well, he thought that was funny, at least.

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

"Fair enough," he said, snickering. "But I didn't mind the company I had last night. Tino's become much easier to deal with ever since I started signing his pay checks."