3rd Floor Common Room, Friday Morning

[bitchprince]

There was a window of time between waking up, early morning training, school, more training, frat, and radio in the evenings. Sure, it was a relatively small window of time, but Arthur didn't see why he shouldn't make use of it by doing something useful.

Like reading more ancient French science fiction - something by Louis Boussenard, to be exact. Something about ice this time. It was fairly thrilling.

Uncharacteristically, though, he had grown tired enough of the silence in his room to take it outside into the common room. God forbid what disturbances that might drag up, but at least he wouldn't have to deal with the... ceiling.

Yes.

Whatever, he could do as he liked.

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[vanillajello]

Kate sauntered in, yawning, halfway dressed for the day as she often was when she wandered the dorms in search of breakfast. The jeans would've been fit for the outside world; the somewhat tattered and distinctly oversized t-shirt advertising Four Winds Landscaping, not so much.

She gave Arthur a lazy wave, heading for the kitchen area. "Morning, Arthur."

[bitchprince]

Arthur lowered his book a fraction of an inch. "Morning, Kate," he greeted, with idle amusement. "Let me guess, you're scrounging about for food."

[vanillajello]

"What tipped you off?" she asked, giving him a faint smirk before rummaging around the cupboards for a bowl. "Was it the fact that it's morning, and people generally have breakfast then?"

[bitchprince]

"I've already had it," Arthur said. Of course, that was mostly because he had people to do that sort of thing.

People. Person. Sometimes there were delivery people. Okay, look, the specifics didn't much matter. "Still, I'm sure there's an old muffin or something loitering around the cupboards."

[bigbadgunn.livejournal.com]

"What? No free food?" Gunn said in a friendly way as he entered the room. "How am I supposed to freeload off people if there's no food?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

With nothing else to fill the time, Jonas found himself wandering down the hall to the common room to see if there was anything there that could serve that purpose.

Finding people there was a good start. Jonas slipped in quietly, throwing out a wave before saying, "Good morning. It's quiet so far."

[vanillajello]

"I was thinking about having some cereal, actually."

And she found some. She peered into the box, and was happy to find that there was still some left. "Not interested in stale muffins, and too lazy to bake any new ones right now," she told him, emptying the contents of the box into her bowl.

[bitchprince]

"By dogging someone who isn't me into making some?" Arthur asked, looking up. "Morning, Charles."

[bitchprince]

"It was quiet earlier," Arthur said, sweeping a look around the premises and the people now bustling about, "I'd dare say we're heading away from it now."

[bitchprince]

"If you want to call that breakfast," he said, charitably. "And what have you been up to?" Mostly asking for politeness' sake, yeah.

[bigbadgunn.livejournal.com]

"What's up, Artie?" Gunn grinned as he flopped on the couch and reached for the remote. "Getting your study groove on?"

[vanillajello]

Aww, but weren't they the best of friends?

Kate got milk from the fridge and poured some into her bowl before taking a seat at a table. "Classes, play rehearsals, dancing. You?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"People seem to be waking up earlier and earlier," he said, contemplating getting some juice before deciding to do it later and finding an empty seat to wake up some more. "Perhaps in preparation for a busy weekend?"

[bitchprince]

"Reserves, hockey, frat, and currently, reading." The book in his hands, in fact, labelled Dix mille ans dans un bloc de glace. "In theory. In practice, I've been here five minutes, and then you came in."

[bitchprince]

"It's Arthur," he said, lightly. Mostly because Artie was an incredibly ugly nickname. "No. Unlike most of you, I still enjoy reading."

The TV was annoying, and if you were a teenage boy...

[bitchprince]

"Oh god, I hope not," Arthur said, with all due honesty. "The island always seems to come up with its own definitions of 'busy'." Squint. "Have we met?"

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"We haven't," Jonas said after a moment to try and recall. "I'm Jonas. I live down the hall. I would say we've probably missed each other but I'm still learning how to be social."

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Kate," Jonas greeted, recognizing someone else in the common room. "You look...slightly sleepy."

[bitchprince]

"As are most people in this school, don't worry about it," he replied, waving it off. Physically.

He'd forget Jonas's name in about... now.

[bitten_notshy]

It was a day off, so Jack almost managed to sleep in.

Eventually, though, he awoke enough to pad into the kitchen and peer grumpily at the coffee pot. The free-of-delicious-caffeinated-beverages coffee pot.

"Why is this thing always empty when I get here?" he asked the room as a whole as he went to get the filter and beans.

[bigbadgunn.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well the only person who called me Charles was my mom," Gunn replied as he switched on the tv and started channel surfing never staying on a channel for more than five seconds. "And there's not exactly a local library in my neighborhood, so I'm not much of a reader. Unless comic books count."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry that I interrupted your reading of--" her gaze flicked down to his book to check the title "-- a book that sounds like something you should read in the summer. Huh."

[bitchprince]

"Because you come here right after the doors have opened and sent a whole deluge of Fandomites scurrying down to feed their addictions?" Arthur volunteered, leisurely, from his seat on the couch.

What? It was what happened whenever he sat down in here. He had no reason to believe it was ever any different.

[bitchprince]

"...Why the summer?"

It was a perfectly sensible question.

[bitten_notshy]

"We meet again," Jack said from near the coffee pot. "How are you this morning, Kate?"