The Deck - Saturday Afternoon

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

It was sunny out, and the cold felt more like nearly spring to Rose than the middle of winter.  And it was sunny out which is what she was really looking for.  Sure, it'd be sunny all next week in the Bahamas and maybe she should spend her time packing instead, but the sun now was the point. 

She stretched out on one of deck chairs, feeling the sun on her face.  She was trying not to think about anything.  Definitely not the past few weeks, definitely not wondering how it'd be to go back to living completely nocturnally again once she returned to Lissa, and definitely not what was going to happen with whatever understanding she and Dimitri had reached over the past few days.

Except as happened so often, between not actually doing anything and trying not to think about things, Rose found herself pondering all of them and paying less attention to the warm sun.  She so needed to get up and find a distraction. 

[OOC:  Deck, open, no roof, all that, yes]

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Fine, be logical," she decided. "So much less fun. I can teach you how to cook mac and cheese?"

[therewaslife]

"How gourmet," he teased before taking a seat. "If you wouldn't mind, it'd be welcome. I didn't cook back home. Either my guardian brought me food or one of my tutors made it. There was never a need to learn."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey, it's that and ramen," Rose told him. "Grew up at boarding school, same sorta thing." But she nodded. "Totally will, whenever you want. Even can show you the gourmet version and add hot dogs."

[therewaslife]

Bod nodded before asking, "Boarding school? How did you end up here if you were already enrolled somewhere?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"They kicked me out and sent me here," she replied with a shrug. "Last ditch effort and all that."

And then sent her a mentor so the answer wasn't quite as bitter as it'd been during the summer.

[therewaslife]

"What'd you get kicked out for?" Bod figured he couldn't be faulted for the question when she'd dangled it like that.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Flashing the school board," Rose replied jokingly then shook her head. "Ran away with my best friend. They weren't too plesed by the time they caught up with us."

[therewaslife]

"Why'd you run away?" asked Bod. "I assume there was a reason and not just because you were and she were bored one day."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"She was in danger, and it's my job to protect her," she said with a shrug. Fact of life. She gave him a bit of a grin. "Don't worry. I won't try to run away with you or anything."

[therewaslife]

"Who says I'd go anywhere with you?" asked Bod, raising an eyebrow.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes I can be convincing," she said, glancing over at him.

[therewaslife]

"I'm not easily convinced and promises of macaroni and cheese wouldn't change that," he quipped.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose chuckled. "Pretty sure I don't have any reason to try to steal you away anyhow."

[therewaslife]

"I'd wonder if you tried," he agreed, nodding. "Unless baked goods were just that important to your and your well being."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"They truly are," she decided. "But since you're not a provider yet, you're safe."

[therewaslife]

"Is anyone a provider?" he wondered. She did seem to crave baked goods a lot and yet, he'd seen her around enough to know she hadn't run very far, if she had run.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"The bakery," Rose pointed out, eyes amused. "You see why I gotta stick around here then."

[therewaslife]

"Does that mean you want to leave?" asked Bod. "You sound like you're being forced to be here."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "Gotta stay here through graduation. I do that and my old school lets me graduate too. Works out pretty well."

[therewaslife]

"Do you want to leave though?" he asked because she'd skipped around that portion of his statement.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"I'd like to be closer to my best friend," Rose admitted. "What about you? You enjoy being here?"

[therewaslife]

"Yes," he said, nodding. "I don't have any best friends and I can't return home so I don't have as many options as you do."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

The comment that she had options surprised Rose a little, but from Bod's perspective, it made sense.

"Well, you know, learn how to make cupcakes and the first one will probably change," she said, trying to make a joke out of it.

[therewaslife]

"You make it sound so easy," he said lightly. "I thought making friends was far harder than that."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hell, no, people are easy," Rose said. She shrugged. "And Fandom people are good ones usually."