Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday Morning

[stars_and_money]

Last night, something peculiar had happened for the very first time: Jeremy Darling had gone grocery shopping.

And as was the case with most things involving money and a member of the Darling family, he had maybe gone a little overboard. He'd ended up having to lug three bags of foodstuffs back to the dorms, on his own, and dearly wishing Clark could have moved to Fandom with the twins to help with this stuff.

Still, the good thing was that he had three different kinds of cereal to choose from this morning when he wandered on down to the common room, wearing his glasses and his pajama bottoms with the planet print, his red silk dressing gown hanging open. After making his daunting breakfast food choice, he flopped down onto a couch with his bowl of cereal (two kinds at the same time) and turned the television on to start channel surfing.

It wasn't long before he was considering buying the common room a nice new TV set.

[ooc: It's an open common room!]

Comments

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Wesley asked, surprised. "Boring? Even after the confusion with the phones the other day?"

Oh, Jeremy. So much to learn about Fandom. Wes felt a little bad for him.

[stars_and_money]

"Faulty wiring?" Jeremy failed to see much weirdness about that. Probably because he and Juliet hadn't been hit with that many messages. "That stuff just happens sometimes, man. I hope that's not the most interesting thing here."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley gave a little smile at that. Oh, Jeremy...

"No, no, I think you'll discover some other oddities about Fandom soon enough," he said. That sounded pretty ominous, so he hurried to clarify, "That is, there are frequently, er, events that one might attribute to 'faulty wiring' or something similar around here. But, er. Recurringly."

[stars_and_money]

Jeremy, of course, had no idea what that was supposed to mean. Things fell apart a lot? Whatever, he had access to the money to get just about anything repaired.

"Well good," he decided, glancing at the TV. "Because to level with you, I'm not sure I'm cut out for a quiet life of nothing ever happening."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Agreed," Wesley said, grinning.

He just didn't want to be the one to break all of Fandom's weirdness to Jeremy. He had a fake big sibling for that, one who would probably like that job a hell of a lot more than Wes would.

"So, ah," he said, doing a mental search to come up with a new topic. Not being a conversational genius, what he came up with was: "So. Planet-print pajamas."
He was really, really awkward sometimes.

[stars_and_money]

Maybe a little, but Jeremy didn't mind. He glanced down at his lap now, then looked back at Wesley and grinned a bit. "Yeah. I'm sorta radically into space."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Oh," said Wesley, surprised. Well, that was cool.

Where had he been reading about space lately? Oh, right.
"I work in the library on Fridays," he said casually. "We just received some new books about space, if you'd like to come in and take a look."

Yes, because everyone on the planet liked books as much as Wes.

[stars_and_money]

Well, Jeremy did when they were about space. He looked intrigued. "Oh? I usually just order mine online, but I guess I could swing by the library some time," he said. "That's... a normal person thing to do, right?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Wesley assured him, grinning. Then, reconsidering: "Well, not normal for average people, I suppose. But for people with an interest in something specific, yes."

Actually, he really wouldn't know. People who were raised as bookworms in sheltered British boarding schools tended to have skewed perceptions of what constituted normal library habits.

[stars_and_money]

But then so did people whose experience in visiting a library was almost entirely limited to wandering into the room that housed their father's collection of books. So Wesley was kind of in really good company there.

"That's normal enough," Jeremy decided. "Fridays, right?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Oh, Wesley was familiar with the whole room-full-of-books thing. His father had one too, though its focus was somewhat limited in that every single book in there had something to do with vampires and demons. As much as that interested him, learning about space would probably be a welcome change.

"Fridays," Wes agreed.

[stars_and_money]

"Great," Jeremy nodded, grinning at him again. "I think I might see you there."

You know, if he could still remember about this whole thing on Friday. Or on any Friday. He was a scatterbrain sometimes.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Excellent," Wesley replied, pleased. Because, um, visitors in the library? He'd had maybe two in the whole time he'd worked there. And one of them was the librarian.