Fourth Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Thursday | August 26

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Hannibal had been putting this off for months now. Considering he had just forty eight hours left on the island, it seemed that his time of hedging and procrastinating had come to an end. When he made bets, he filled them even if it took him time.

So, he'd move some of the furniture aside and out of the way all while wearing a thick bathrobe. Yes, he was wearing spandex pants under that bathrobe and no, he wasn't going to show that off until he absolutely had to. Kate was just lucky he hadn't tried to find a loophole.

There was a boombox nearby, queued up with the most ridiculous song known to man. In a few minutes, he'd have to click play and actually dance.

He was going to dance. In spandex. To a girly song. He hated his life and yet, he'd keep making bets. Stupid bowling game.

[Oh god, this is so open. I'ma put up some OCD just for my benefit but this is SO open. Not Hannibal's last post in Fandom, btw!]

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Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

And yes, Hannibal hadn't run away after he'd finished dancing. He was still there, still clad in that bathrobe and looking mostly relaxed since it was all over now.

There was probably some sarcasm and snark lurking though. Or maybe that was just his stomach feeling queasy from eating a burrito before dancing like a one legged blind man.

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

"Man, you are totally my mancrush after that," said the pretty pretty puppy, ambling up to Hannibal after the dance and offering him a sympathetic smile.

A statement like that could be interpreted in so many fun and fantastic ways, considering the makeup that Zack hadn't been able to scrub off this morning after chickening out on crashing the sleepover.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"...and you're wearing makeup," Hannibal said like it wasn't obvious. "Maybe you should be wearing the spandex and not me."

No one should wear the spandex but Zack's comment did make him smile and bat his eyelashes at the pretty pretty puppy.

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

"Spandex is totally not my thing," Zack laughed, running one hand through his hair flirtatiously awkwardly. "This was kind of like a dare that fell through, so you've totally managed to one-up me, here. And anyhow, best to leave the spandex to the professionals, right?"

Hannibal was totally a professional, now. The dance solidified that. Sorry, Hannibal.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal looked sour for a moment. He wasn't ever ever going to live this dance down despite the fact that he was soon to be an ex-resident for the most part.

"Do the guys just have awful luck with dares or something?" Hannibal wondered while his heart soared at the flirting. "First me and now you with makeup. You put that on yourself?"

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

"... Mostly," Zack admitted, shrugging faintly and beaming with flattered pride. "I left out most of it, though. The eyeliner was way too much crud around my eyes in the first place."

There was a pause, and then Zack leaned forward, conspiratorially.

"I was going to have to wear a dress."

Granted, he totally had the legs for it.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"A dress?" Man, poor Zack. They both had it pretty damn bad. And Hannibal couldn't help that his eyes went down to Zack's legs and he sighed again, siiiiigh.

"Who'd you make the dare with?" Maybe there was more than one evil girl in this school.

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

Oh, there was! So many of the girls were were evil! Unlike the sexy, sexy men.

"Karla," Zack laughed. "I made the mistake of pointing out that there were always these girl-only parties, and asking her what would happen if a guy were to crash it sometime, and the conversation went kind of downhill from there. But then last night I kept looking at myself in the mirror, and... Man, I just couldn't do it."

The dress had been pink, Hannibal. And possibly cobbled together out of three different dresses just to be able to fit Zack. You may proceed to fantasize, now.

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

"YOU!" Whatever consideration Hannibal had gotten clearly wasn't about to be extended to Zack. "Where were you last night?" she asked, beelining straight towards him. "You so don't get any of our cookies now and--are you wearing makeup?"

Karla: super-observant, except not.

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

"... Maybe?"

Yes, Karla. He totally was. And it even looked super cute on him, too. In a kind of sparkly sort of way. He liked the shiny lip gloss.

"I was having a... bad hair night."

Which, considering his hairstyle, wasn't much different from every other waking moment of the day. Ever.

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

"And so you decided to experiment with lip gloss?" Karla asked. "Though that's a really nice shade!"

Focus, Karla.

Re: After the Concert

[puppy_fair]

See Zack latch on to every distraction ever!

"Isn't it? And it tastes like apples, too! I have a couple more like it, if you want!"

... They'd been cheaper as a packaged set. Please, try to withhold judgment.

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

"Oh, I used to have a cherry-flavored kind but I don't wear that anymore and--hey! No changing the subject!"

Never mind that it was Karla who had brought that up. "What happened last night?"

Re: After the Concert

[vanillajello]

Hannibal was going to get tackle-hugged right about now. After Kate had hidden her camera in a safe place, of course. She wasn't dumb.

"Oh my God!" she exclaimed with a laugh, lost for other words.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I hope that's a good exclamation and not one that means I sucked and have to do it again," he said, catching her against him and hugging her back.

He would not be doing that again, oh no.

Re: After the Concert

[vanillajello]

For once, she wasn't going to start even teasing him about doing it again. She'd just snicker and cling a bit. "I can't believe you actually did that!"

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Oh, come on, I said I would," he replied with a laugh. "Don't ever doubt me. I pay my debts. This one's paid. And if you show whatever pictures you took to anyone, I will sue you for libel. Or slander. One of those."

Re: After the Concert

[vanillajello]

"Oh don't worry babe, I won't show anyone any pictures." Beat. "I took video."

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I hate you so much," he said but didn't mean it. "Don't show the video to anyone either or I will hunt you down."

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

Karla, unlike she was painted in certain conversations, could actually be nice. So after nearly laughing herself ill in the doorway, called in one of the Newcastle beers she'd picked up for Jono and offered it to Hannibal.

"Kiss kiss," she said, dimpling. "You look like you could use a drink and this is the strongest I've got on me right now."

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Where did you suddenly get alcohol?" he asked, taking it gratefully. "You're an angel."

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

"Maaagic," Karla said, wiggling her fingers. "They're Jono's favorite, so I'm going to surprise him with them later, but he won't miss one."

Yep, Karla was surprising the guy with no mouth with beer. They had a system.

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I appreciate it," he said and took a few fast sips. "Enjoy the show?"

Re: After the Concert

[glacial_queen]

"It was...definitely the kind of show that will stand out," Karla said diplomatically, trying not to start laughing again. "Is this your plan for the future? What's the saying? Gonna take it...on the road?"

Re: After the Concert

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"No, I was fulfilling a bet," he said and made a face. "Kate beat me at a bowling game and this is what I had to do because of that. She's a cheater."