Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Morning

[vanillajello]

It felt like a good day to at least pretend to be social.

This meant that Kate was spending her morning in the common room, having donuts and vanilla pudding for breakfast. Not necessarily the healthiest of choices, but Kate cared not. She'd have like, an apple, later, okay? Jesus.

And of course, she had a big mug of coffee as she hogged a couch, leafing through an old issue of Cosmopolitan.

It was a good morning. Roommate and neighbour randomness aside, she'd actually had a good week or so.

... She'd start getting twitchy about it if things continued like this for too long. But not yet. Now it was just all good.

[ooc: Open! And my last day of Easter recess oh goodness WHY. *clings*]

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[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't cook," Mat said with a little laugh. "I'd burn something down if it requires anything more complicated than a stick and a fireplace."

[vanillajello]

"Well, I guess it sucks to be you, then," Kate remarked lightly. "Please don't burn down the dorms, though. It's where I keep all my stuff."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'll waste away instead," Mat said, giving her donut a hopeful look.

[vanillajello]

"Hey! No ogling my breakfast," she said, shaking her head. "I'm not in a sharing mood."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"But it's calling to me," Mat whined. "It says 'Mat, eaaaaaaat me. I am delicious and lonely."

Mat got a little strange when his blood sugar was low.

[vanillajello]

"It's not lonely," Kate assured him, reaching to pull the plate with the donut a little closer to herself. Just in case. "It's going to join its friends in my stomach in just a moment."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Then I shall lie here and starve and it will be all your fault and my ghost will haunt you," Mat threatened. Threateningly.

...ignore the smile.

[vanillajello]

"Pfft. As if I'm scared of ghosts."

And now she was just going to actually pick the donut up, and take a bite, and smile smugly at him.

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"You are a cruel, cruel woman," Mat said. "Luckily, I like that."

[vanillajello]

Kate took another bite and savored it before replying. "I've been told that. The cruel thing, I mean," she said idly. "Although mostly I've just been called evil."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"By people who haven't seen real evil, no doubt," Mat replied, tossing an arm over his eyes as if to pretend he hadn't been serious there for a second.

[vanillajello]

"Probably," Kate said, finishing the donut off and licking her fingers. "But everything is relative." After a pause, she added, "It's too early talk about cruelty and evil, anyway."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"Especially on an empty stomach," Mat agreed. "What shall we speak of instead? There's a dance coming up."

[vanillajello]

"That seems to be the word on the street," Kate said. "Found a date yet? Or are you going to be comforting all the lonely dateless girls hanging around?"

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"I think I prefer the second option," Mat said. "I don't like being tied down. How about you? Are you going?"

[vanillajello]

Kate nodded. "Finally got my act together long enough to actually get a dress and everything, yesterday."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"What color?" Mat asked.

Shhhh. He was interested in fashion.

[vanillajello]

Cue raised eyebrow. And slight amusement. "Fuchsia."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"That's a pink, right?" Mat checked. "We don't have as many colors to choose from at home as exist here."

[vanillajello]

"Mmhmm, a bright pink," Kate confirmed. "I'm pretty impressed you knew that."

[bloody-luck.livejournal.com]

"I make a lot of coin rolling dice," Mat said, "and like nice coats. And women always appreciate it when you notice what they are wearing."