The Roof | Afternoon | Sunday | July 11

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It felt like a day to get out of his room. Really, everyday felt like that but today more than others. He was getting that restless, walls closing in feeling that he tended to get every few months. It'd put him into a bad mood (though he hadn't gotten out of that from a few days ago) and made him snappy and irritable.

That, naturally, brought him to the roof and had him sprawled out on the edge of the roof, cigarette stuck between his lips, earbuds in his ears playing some raucously loud, and hand tucked underneath his head. It was warm and he'd probably get some sun but he wasn't one to burn. Benefit of coming from the Midwest where you either got sun or you moved.

At least he'd foregone walking along the ledge of the roof and probably causing a panic in a few people that didn't know him. He was being safe by contrast. Laying on the roof's ledge meant he'd have to roll over to fall instead of missing a step and falling. Completely safer.

[Roof's open. Summer is too long.]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"The girls of Fandom are fucking weird," Alex said, shrugging since that was really how he saw it. "No one girl's gonna be the same. You've got your eye on someone?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley blushed. "Yes," he mumbled, turning very red.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yes?" Alex repeated, smirking. "Who?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Quinn Fabray," he answered in a mumble. "She's new, like me."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Haven't met her," he said but he made note of the name. "She hot?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"She - she has a certain - I mean, not to emphasize her physical - ah. Yes?" he squeaked at last, helpless.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Hot girls are my favorite," Alex said, getting some enjoyment out of Wesley's stammering. "Gonna do her?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wes bit down an instinctive impulse to say "That's not appropriate," and instead stammered for a minute before deciding on "Unlikely." Because no way would Quinn go for him.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex would have laughed if Wesley had said that. He was all about the inappropriate. "She like you?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Not to my knowledge." Wesley was turning redder and redder by the second, so he decided to steer the discussion in a new direction. "And yourself?" He asked. "What is the nature of your own romantic life?"

Then he thought that that sounded a little - well, a little gay.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I do all right for myself," Alex said, shrugging a shoulder. "My bed doesn't get cold. I don't do relationships though."

Ignore that he was kind of in one right now.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Admirable," said Wes, having no other knowledge of gossip or anything to correct Alex with. "My most recent - ah, encounter with a girl of any kind was rather disastrous. Albeit not what one would term a relationship."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Disastrous how?" Alex had to wonder. "There are many levels of disaster when it comes to girls."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Disastrous in that it attained a truly remarkable level of awkwardness," Wes explained. Which wasn't disastrous at all, but the guy had nothing to compare it to.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Like during sex?" Alex wondered. "Or can there be disasters that merit big time awkwardness outside of sex?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Not - not during sex," Wes answered tightly, sensing he was skittering around a minefield that was likely to end in mockery. "We didnt - that is to say, she and I never - though not to say that I never - it was simply in that particular relationship that I never had - ah - sex. "

He cut himself off there, hoping that was effective.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"And...that was the disaster?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "Doesn't sound too bad to me. I think you might be overreacting on this one."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"No, the disaster was - well - simply a general state of awkwardness between the two of us. Not the fact that we didn't - well - actually, you're most likely correct. I'm certain this awkwardness pales in comparison to stories of your own romantic exploits. What sort of interaction would you say qualifies as disastrous?"

Just 'cause he was sure Alex would have some excellent stories on this topic.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex might have had some stories but he wasn't always one to share his failures with girls. Especially not the humiliating ones.

"I've said the wrong girl's name in bed before," Alex admitted, wincing. "Guess that's kinda bad."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley nodded, wide-eyed. He knew next to nothing about girls but that certainly ranked as something that was likely to upset them. "And was she - was she upset?" he asked.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, she was kind of pissed," Alex said, making a face. "Whatever, the sex wasn't that great anyway. Good riddance."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wes, who was the virginiest virgin in the world, couldn't imagine such a condition as "bad sex" and simply nodded. "Understandable," he lied.