Main Campfire [Sunday Evening]

[longislandiceme]

Bobby had spent most of the afternoon moving his stuff back to the dorms, but with that taken care of, he was just gonna relax and enjoy the last night of campfire-junk-food goodness... at least until the next session started up, anyway.

There were hotdogs (he'd even gone and found a package of vegetarian ones), s'mores fixings, sodas, chips, and yes, of course, Twinkies. The roasting experiment had worked so well last time that he was going to repeat it.

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[therewaslife]

"You're having a feast, aren't you?" Bod asked, wandering over after clearing out the last of his belongings from his cabin. "That's a lot of food."

[longislandiceme]

"Well," Bobby tapped his chin, pretending to think about it. "I could probably be persuaded to share."

[therewaslife]

"I'll warn you, my skills of persuasion are not extraordinary," he said, laughing a bit. "It might be easier to just share without trying to get me to persuade you."

[longislandiceme]

"Easier for you, maybe," Bobby observed. "But then, where's the fun in that for me?"

[therewaslife]

"There's no fun in being a kind person who shares with his fellow students?" Bod tried, eyes widening a bit. "Surely there's some sort of fun in that? The fun of being...polite?"

Well, Bod had warned Bobby that his skills of persuasion were not good.

[longislandiceme]

"...The fun of being polite," Bobby repeated, a little incredulously as he tried to keep a straight face.

It didn't really last, because after a few moments a snicker managed to escape, and he grinned at Bod. "Well, when you put it that way, how could I resist, really?"

[therewaslife]

"You can't which is exactly what I'm amazing at persuading people to give me things," he said, aiming his sarcasm at himself. "Perhaps I was hoping I'd appeal to your nice guy side."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Are you throwing a 'yay we're moving back to real rooms' feast?" Sookie asked, having finally moved the last of her things (including Tina!) back to her room.

[longislandiceme]

"Pretty much," Bobby affirmed. "Since they don't exactly let us start fires in the common rooms and all."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"There's a fireplace on the sixth floor," she replied, smiling as she took a seat beside him. "So, not true."

[longislandiceme]

"Yeah, well," Bobby stuck his tongue out at her. "I meant in like, the regular common rooms." Or he just hadn't remembered that detail about the sixth floor. One of those.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

She stuck her tongue out at him in turn, and retorted, "Not for lack of trying in other common rooms, too. Lord help us all if you and Karla ever team up to make something, too. You'll blow up the whole building."

[longislandiceme]

"Such faith in me," Bobby said, placing a hand over his heart and batting his eyes dramatically.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Peanut butter. On. The ceiling," she replied slowly, skewering a hot dog.

[life_inshadow]

After talking to Bobby, Tara wandered over to Sookie carrying a stick with toasted marshmallows on it. "Hey," she said. "Want one?"

She didn't need to know exactly what had happened when Sookie went home, but it felt like a good time to be a friend.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Sookie said, giving Tara a small smile before gingerly taking a marshmallow. "How're you? I saw Kennedy's back."

Deflect, deflect, deflect.

[life_inshadow]

"She is, and she's pretty good," Tara said. "Apparently, um, nothing came up they couldn't handle? Not that I love the fighting thing, but ... I like it when she wins. Especially 'cause Friday she was all crazy and saying she didn't want to go."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I heard about the insane bowl thingie?" she said, shaking her head. "And how there was fighting, and -- yeah. I'm glad she won. It's been kind of a week for that. But I didn't know about Friday -- Karla and Rilla were acting weird then, too."

[life_inshadow]

"It was an awful day," Tara said solemnly. "I got really drunk at Caritas and sang dirty songs in my bra. It didn't get to you at all?"

[life_inshadow]

Tara hovered near the edge of the campfire for a moment before going for it and taking a vegetarian hot dog. "Hi," she said. "I guess this is the last time for this for a while, huh?"

[longislandiceme]

"Well, Sookie did point out that the sixth floor has a fireplace," Bobby mused. "But it's not quite the same."

[life_inshadow]

"Indoor camping can be fun too," Tara said, trying to sound perky about it. "But I'd take campfires. They smell better."

She twisted her hot dog over the fire for a moment, and: "So ... how is everything?"

Vague, possibly awkward questions were vague and possibly awkward.

[longislandiceme]

"Things are- going?" Bobby admitted, not sure if she knew why Sookie had disappeared last week. "I mean, I'm fine," so long as he didn't think about what he'd done- what he'd nearly done- on Thursday.

[life_inshadow]

Tara nodded briefly, giving Bobby a sidelong look. "That's -- good. Really good. 'Cause, uh, Kennedy told me things were a little ... iffy, for Sookie. And I know Karla went to help her."

Which was as much as she knew, really. She wasn't pushing for details, just checking in.

[longislandiceme]

"Yeah, me too. She had some stuff go down at home," Bobby said, glancing over to where Sookie was sitting.