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Third Floor Common Room; Saturday Afternoon [ 11/06 ].

Yesterday had been so strange that Alexander felt the need to just sort of relax a little and find himself some nice distractions. He didn't typically watch a lot of television, but decided it was the sort of entertainment that might be called for after a day like the one before.

Of course, that was before he turned it on and started changing the channels to a horrible discovery. He didn't know if it was the television or what, but it seemed that every channel was playing nothing but musicals.

"That is not amusing, television," Alexander informed it with a frown, clicking the machine off.

He was just going to read a book instead.

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Zack frowned for a moment more, and then she had directed their mutual attention to the ice cream, and, well, he could kind of sympathize with people who were hell-bent on avoiding certain conversations, and so he smiled (he was very good at smiling at the drop of a pin) and waved a hand toward the tub.

"Not all of it, nah. Would you like some? It's just vanilla, but there's probably chocolate syrup or sprinkles or something in the cupboards, if you'd like."

"I'll have some," Elphaba said. "I suppose I'll need to fetch a bowl."

She stood up and went to the kitchen. "Do you need anything while I'm in here?"

"Nope! I'm good!" He had his spoon! He was all set for ice-cream eating! "Unless you want to try a float or something, instead? Vanilla is awesome for floats. Maybe there's some root beer!"

And then, naturally, he was bouncing to his feet and making his merry way over to the kitchen, too. Zacks were not made to sit still for very long.

"Antsy today?" Elphaba remarked, a little smile on her face. As she got herself a spoon, she finally said something that was, well, not entirely out of left field.

"Why did you say I'm beautiful?"

"I'm always antsy," Zack laughed, shaking his head and then reaching up to rummage for some cups. He'd get as far as scooping the ice cream before it would even occur to him to actually check for soda. "And you are pretty."

So there!

"Are you just... fond of green?" Elphaba asked. "I'm not trying to say you're wrong, it just... in Munchkinland, I'm the girl that parents will point at. 'That's what happens when you chew grass' or worse. I don't think anyone truly looks at me and thinks I'm pretty, where I'm from. My sister loves me, but that's... that's despite of how I look."

"Well, my girlfriend before Ino was green sometimes," Zack noted, "but I don't think that's got anything to do with it."

He shrugged a little bit.

"How you look shouldn't have anything to do with anything. People are just dumb." Yeah, that was about the meanest thing that Zack could say, right now. "Everybody's different, you know? I just don't think that looking different should be such a deciding factor in things..."

"You're right," Elphaba said. "I always think that everyone's so focused on my... vedrigis to an absurd degree. And it's easy to start thinking that way, myself."

She pointed at the cups. "Don't you need something to float the ice cream in?"

Zack's smile went a bit wan for all of a heartbeat while his mind drifted dangerously close to memories of a lost friend who had started thinking that way, as well.

And then it was all lopsided grinning and peering into the cups like he hadn't missed a beat at all.

"You can get more ice cream in this way!"

"But it'll hardly float if you add too much, surely," Elphaba said.

"Floats," Zack said, with the air about him of a guy who totally knew these things, "are mostly meant to be eaten with spoons anyhow."

Sure, Zack.

"I would think the point of a float is for something to float," Elphaba said. "But I suppose I'll have to try it your way to find out."

Zack laughed a little, plopping some ice cream into the cups before finally ambling over to the fridge and opening it up to check out the soda situation.

"Root beer or orange?"

Mmm, variety!

"Root beer," Elphaba said. "I think the orange might be too sweet. And thank you, for sharing. It's very generous."

Considering the fact that Zack had just kind of scavenged the ice cream out of the freezer, it probably wasn't all that generous.

"No problem," he said, regardless, as he made a grab for the root beer. "It's good stuff, right? And I'd feel kinda bad about just sitting there and having it all to myself while you watched."

Well Elphaba didn't know that part.

"I'm... used to others enjoying things, while I am only able to observe," Elphaba said. "So there's no reason to feel bad about that."

"... Actually, I kinda feel worse," Zack admitted, frowning a little. "That doesn't sound like any fun at all."

And then he was pouring the root beer, taking pains to not let the cups foam over.

Elphaba gingerly reached over to place a hand on Zack's shoulder. "I mean it honestly. It's what I'm used to. Even if it is awful. So it is no mark on you."

"Yeah, but..." Zack shrugged a tiny bit, and then he was trying to smile all over again as he held Elphaba's float out toward her. "It's not something that anybody should be used to. And around here, it shouldn't be an issue at all."

"Well I've yet to see much of things otherwise," Elphaba said. "But now it's probably not because of how I look."

But how she didn't know how to act.

Zack tilted his head a little, and then reached for a spoon and started poking idly at the ice cream in his own float.

"But you're not used to people not judging you at a glance, right? And you don't have much experience with people just being nice and you've probably had to watch your back a lot growing up, huh? That sort of thing is difficult to let go of, isn't it?"

Elphaba sipped at her float, and nodded slowly.

"It's wonderful, and yet at the same time I have no idea how I'm supposed to act. My only friend before here was my sister, and even with her I had to take care of her. It was a very particular friendship."

Zack took a moment to consider that.

"So, what we have to do is hang out together more," he decided, all smiles all over again. "So you have have plenty of practise!"

And also because she was a friend of Zack's, and his little sibling, and so he felt kind of obligated, here.

"I definitely wouldn't object," Elphaba said. "Especially since you're so... forgiving."

And had an infectious enthusiasm that she liked quite a lot.

"Holding a grudge over silly little things never did me any good," Zack pointed out. "So, what should we do? Maybe take in a movie sometime? Go shopping? I'm totally open for suggestions!"

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