Third Floor Common Room, Sunday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

After a somewhat stressful week, Kate had actually managed to have a pretty pleasant weekend. (A handwavy one-month anniversary could do that to a girl.) She was relaxed and something approaching happy, so today was the perfect day to devote to third floor party planning. Which was good since, you know, she hadn't actually done a lot of it yet. She'd decided the date would be next Friday, sure, but other than that... She had ideas. They just hadn't quite come together yet.

So she was in the common room, absently eating candy while sitting on a couch with her feet propped up on the edge of a coffee table and her MacBook in her lap. In no way waiting to pounce on innocent passers-by to pester them for ideas. No sir.

[ooc: You guessed it, it's an open post!]

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[therewaslife]

Perhaps Bod wasn't the definitive innocent passerby considering he knew about her idea but he was passing by anyway and couldn't help stopping when he spotted Kate lazily sitting in the common room.

"Hullo," he greeted, leaning in the doorway. "You look hard at work."

[vanillajello]

"That's because I am," Kate replied, nodding solemnly at the screen. "This is totally hard work." She looked his way, quirked a little smile. "Hullo."

[therewaslife]

"Hullo," he said again, making himself sound solemn as well. "Should I leave you to it then? I wouldn't want to interrupt."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, no," she replied, beckoning him closer with a lazy gesture of her hand. "You should come in and share my workload. Team effort."

[therewaslife]

"What are you working on anyway?" Bod asked, slipping into the common room and taking a seat beside her. "Have you been given homework already?"

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "I'm not even taking any classes," she pointed out. "Well, except for the evening one at the community center, but I don't think it counts. I'm party planning, come on."

[therewaslife]

"That's what I meant, the evening class," Bod pointed out, shrugging. "I heard that you'd attended on the radio. I wasn't sure if they differed from regular classes or not."

He looked over at her and then added, "You're old."

[vanillajello]

Kate laughed as she raised an eyebrow at him. "What? That seems like an awfully random thing to say."

[therewaslife]

He'd mostly been teasing her and now couldn't help laughing at her reaction. "Well, you're no longer in high school and I am. You're old. You're the older woman."

[vanillajello]

"I think we established that back when we noted your possibly fake birthday is exactly a month after mine," she replied, reaching over to flick him on the nose for laughing. Gently. "I am."

[therewaslife]

"And I just thought I'd remind you of that," he said and rubbed his nose, "since it delighted you when you discovered it to be true."

[vanillajello]

"I do think it's kind of an amusing idea," she admitted. "If I actually was old, it'd be lame but now it's just... I don't know."

[therewaslife]

"It's just something you can tease me with," he decided, snickering. "How is your party planning progressing?"

[vanillajello]

"Well, I'm pretty sure the party's gonna be next Friday?" Kate offered, then wrinkled her nose. "Other than that... I haven't really gotten far."

[therewaslife]

"No theme yet?" Bod asked, peering over at her computer screen. "Perhaps...freaky fun Friday?"

No one should ever let him plan a party.

[vanillajello]

Yeah, Kate didn't really think so, either. "Oh, Bod." She shook her head. "I love you, but no."

[therewaslife]

"That's not a good theme?" Bod asked, honestly curious. "It would seem to say that the party would be quite a good time, wouldn't it?"

[vanillajello]

Kate hesitated a bit. "Yeah but... Freaky fun, really?" She wrinkled her nose again. "I mean, for one thing, I don't think the word 'fun' should ever be in the theme of a party."

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

Dave was just innocently passing by the common room on his way back from the Perk when he glanced inside and spotted a couple people. After an initial thought of 'I hope nobody's offended that this is non-third floor coffee I'm drinking,' he decided to go in.

"Hi," he said. "Working on something?"

[therewaslife]

"I just thought an alliteration made it sound more...creative," Bod admitted, shrugging. "What about something having to do with Iceland?"

[vanillajello]

This time, Kate was twisting her lips. "Well, I figured I should get mead, at least."

[therewaslife]

"The party could be...based around snow somehow? A snow party?" Bod tried, shrugging. "Fu -- Um, enjoyment in the snow?"

[vanillajello]

"Party plans for next Friday," Kate replied before looking up and shooting him a brief smile. "Hi, Dave, right?"

[vanillajello]

"I don't know, I think I'd prefer the opposite," Kate mused. "Like, the whole 'winter in July' thing. Except this would probably be more like... 'May in May if we weren't in frucking Iceland'."

[therewaslife]

"Perhaps I'll just sit here and encourage you," he said and clapped his hands in what he hoped was an encouraging fashion. "Go Kate. Plan that party."