5th Floor Common Room: Sunday Night [5-15-11]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy had spent some time making sure her room was nice and neat so as not to bother her roommate. Back when she'd lived with the pack her room had been a mess of clutter, but when she'd moved to her mom's she'd kept everything spotless, doing her best to be a good girl and not make any trouble anywhere. She figured she'd better do the same here.

Still, everything was clean and it was the last day of the weekend, so she'd made her way to the common room and made some hot chocolate and a ton of popcorn before settling in to channel surf until she found a good movie or show to settle on.


[Open common room is open!]

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[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

The way Annie figured, she had to leave the awesomest floor ever sometime. Even if she was taking that maybe a little seriously, but it was something she had going for her and she was going to cling to it until she couldn't anymore. But clinging or not, she needed to get out and meet people and everything, which was why Annie found herself up here.

"Hey," she said cheerfully. "Anything good on?"

She was allowed to just come up here like that, right? She hadn't just made some giant faux pas?

[walkswithcoyote]

"Hey," Mercy said with a smile. "Help yourself to some popcorn, I made a ton. And I'm mostly just flipping through channels. Anything in particular you like?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I'm not much for Sunday TV. Sunday's using a studying day." She paused, suddenly thinking that maybe she shouldn't actually admit that she was a nerd yet. "I mean, I'm usually out doing things, and hanging out and stuff. So, um, no, I have no idea."

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy grinned. "I was usually finishing up the last bits of homework I'd neglected all weekend." She finally settled on something that looked to have enough action to keep her interested.

"This okay?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Sure," she said, feeling a little better with that answer. "I'm Annie, by the way. What kind of homework?"

[walkswithcoyote]

"Nice to meet you, Annie, I'm Mercy." She made a face. "I always put off math for as long as I could manage. Not my strong suit."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Ooooh!" Ariel said when she spotted the unfamiliar other girl. "You're someone I don't think I've met yet. I'm Ariel." And she danced her hand in the air in a wave.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I'm Annie," she said with a friendly smile. She was getting a lot of mileage out of that smile lately. "Are you new, too?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Oh, gosh, no," Ariel said with a laugh. "I started here last summer; are you absolutely loving it so far? I know I did."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"It's taking some getting used to," Annie said slowly. "I'm thinking there's some stuff they left out of the brochure?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"I think there's...a couple brochures," Ariel postulated, "because some people come in kind of knowing this place is different, and others are completely thrown off by it. I mean, I didn't even get one at all."

She shrugged. "I loved it since the moment I first set foot on this island, though."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Caroline might not have had a great reason to be in the fifth floor common room, but she smelled food and that was generally all it took to call out to her.

"Ooh, is it movie night?" Caroline asked, snagging a seat and a handful of popcorn. What? If it wasn't for everyone she wouldn't have made so much.

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy laughed. "Hi, Caroline. Help yourself to some popcorn," she teased.

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Caroline smirked at her as she chewed. "You're obviously settling in just fine. How's it going with the not-a-dog roommate? Any big blowouts over sharing yet?"

[walkswithcoyote]

"So far so good," Mercy admitted. "It's hard to remember to keep things neat, but we haven't had any issues yet."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"Good to hear," Caroline nodded. "And I can tell you've done well with staying fed. Not that popcorn's all that hard."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we should watch one of those movies with the psycho killers," Ariel commented with a faint grin at Caroline. "One where, I don't know, the pretty young heroine goes and takes a late night swim in the pool all by herself..."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Caroline laughed. "Hey, that was seriously good advice. You never know what sort of perverts are gonna be lurking around the pool at night. So you know, good to see you safe and sound, Ariel."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"As far as you know, anyway," said Ariel. "I could be some sort of zombie, but the script is saying I have to wait for a better dramatic moment to show off my new hunger for braaaaaaaaaaains."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Oh look at those baby blues go wide. "...what freaks me out about that is how freaking true it could be in this town."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Common Room!" Ariel called in a sing-song voice as she danced on in, excited to see if anything interesting was going on. She was pretty sure she was smelling popcorn, and so that was always a good indication of, at the very least, people.

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy smiled at her. "Come on in and have some popcorn. And there's hot chocolate mix if you want some."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Hot chocolate and popcorn?" Ariel asked with a laugh. "Okay, you are now my favorite new kid."

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy laughed. "Who knew it would be so easy? I'm Mercedes Thompson, by the way, nice to meet you."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, too, Mercedes," she smiled right back. "I'm Ariel; I live over in 509 and, yeah, I'm totally easy to win over. Food and chocolate, you really can't go wrong, and I think that goes for most people here, too, so keep it up and you'll have it in no time!"