Second Floor Common Room, Sunday Night

[glacial_queen]

Karla didn't know there was anything important going on today with the teevee. Considering their school didn't have sports, the idea of football was foreign to her. Instead, she was puttering in the kitchen, wishing someone who could cook would magically arrive, preferably with dinner, and pretty much bored.

Also frowning at the remote and wishing it didn't have quite so many buttons.

[Open like a common room and happy to be home from a convention meeting in another state. Come play!!!]

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[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley wandered into the common room, mainly out of boredom.

"Oh, hi Karla," she said, grinning. "You're not watching the big game either, huh?"

[glacial_queen]

"Big game?" Karla asked, confused. "You mean like hunting?"

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"The football game," Hayley said. "I mean, it started after my time and all, but the TV kept telling me it was coming up. But I never really liked the sport anyway, so I didn't really care."

She tilted her head. "Whatcha doing?"

[glacial_queen]

"Football?" Karla asked. "Is that anything like hockey?"

Which she'd been introduced to all of two days ago.

"And I'm hoping that if I wish hard enough, dinner will appear before me." She closed her eyes, scrunched up her face, and waited a moment before opening them again. To an empty countertop. "Hell's fire."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"I could make you a sandwich," Hayley said, a little too eagerly. "Do you like grilled cheese?"

She was hoping to show off. As much as 'making grilled cheese' was really showing off.

[glacial_queen]

To Karla, it would so totally count as being awesome. "Grilled cheese? What's that? It sounds good."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's cheese, in a sandwich, and you heat it up so the bread is nice and toasty and the cheese gets all warm and gooey," Hayley said. "It's not exactly a twelve-course meal, but it's what I can offer!"

She grinned. "I made 'em last night, for me. It only took two tries."

[wantstodirect]

"Hey! Are you cooking dinner?" Tony asked warily. Free food was good, but he wasn't sure about Karla's cooking. He'd tried the cookies.

[glacial_queen]

Karla sulked a little and shook her head. "No," she said. "I'm not supposed to use the stoves without supervision."

Which Merlin and Raven obviously counted as.

She perked up a bit. "Hey, we could try!"

[wantstodirect]

"I'm not really a good cook," Tony said. "We could nuke something," he suggested, opening the freezer to see if there were any TV dinners.

[glacial_queen]

"Nuke?" Karla asked, looking aghast. "I thought that was...there was this bomb and...food?"

The problem with slang.

[wantstodirect]

"Oh, no!" Tony exclaimed. "I mean, yeah, that's right, but 'nuke' is also slang for 'microwave'." He pointed to the one in the kitchen. "'Cause the microwave rays are kinda like..." That didn't sound very healthy, did it? "I dunno. It's just what people say."

[glacial_queen]

"Oh," Karla said, still frowning and now eying the microwave with distrust. "The last time I tried using it, I burned up all the popcorn."

Making three bags. At once. With the plastic still on.

[wantstodirect]

"Sometimes the microwaves are stronger or weaker than average so the times on the back are wrong," said a guy who'd burned popcorn a few times himself. "They're kinda tricky."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey Tony," Rose said with a quick smile. "What are you up to?"

[wantstodirect]

"Hey, Rose," Tony said. "Anything exciting going on?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Define exciting," she shot back, making a face.

[wantstodirect]

"Making life more interesting, not necessarily in a fun way?" Tony suggested.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"God, yes," Rose said instantly. "First I was a freaking bobcat and then I spent the week actually doing my job. Whiiich I didn't really expect to do here. You?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose really should have been asleep. It'd been a looong week with a few fights and a lot of real work, but she couldn't quite fall asleep. Damn bruises and stiffness from those fights.

"Anyone cooking anything?" Rose asked as she wandered into the Common Room, moving a bit stiffly.

Oh, the blonde noble girl. Probably not.

[glacial_queen]

Karla had moved to inventorying the cupboards and fridge, seeing if there was anything she could make with minimal fuss. She glanced over to Rose, rolled her eyes a bit, and went back to looking through the cupboards.

"I'm willing to try if someone helps," she said. And if by 'helps,' she meant, 'makes sure I don't light a fire in the stove again,' well, Rose didn't need to know that.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose looked around the common room. "Yeah, I don't think you're going to find much help here," she said.

She found her way into the kitchen too, not bothering to squeeze past Karla. "There's a bag of cookies."

[glacial_queen]

"I think Hayley's planning on making grilled cheese," Karla said, ostentatiously moving so Rose could have more room. "Though she's not sure how many tries it'll take."

And depending how much cheese there was, some people might have to go hungry, Rose. Karla wasn't sharing.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose eyed Hayley warily. "Yeah, I think it's probably safer not to go for that," she said, making a face.

But that, that's what she thought about Karla too, soooo...

She pulled the cookies out and leaned against the counter, consciously not getting out of Karla's way.

[glacial_queen]

"Gee, it's a good thing I don't need to be right there or anything," Karla said sarcastically, pointing behind Rose to the spot on the counter where she'd been standing before. "Could you maybe shift those hips of yours a bit? Don't worry, I can squeeze by."