Battle of the Bands Campfire, Early Sunday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Clockwork spiders were awful.

This was what Kate had learned yesterday, when she'd spent seemingly half the night trying to barricade her alcove so that they wouldn't get in. That, in turn, meant she hadn't gotten to bed until way late, which then explained why she now looked like she had just barely woken up even though it was already the afternoon.

Technically she still felt like she should've been laying low and avoiding some people, but right now she couldn't bring herself to give a fuck about that. Sitting by her cabin's campfire, she was having a Pop Tart for breakfast, texting her brother, and enjoying the campgrounds being spider-free again.

[ooc: Open!]

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[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Dirty, dirty lies," Nathan sighed, shaking his head. "Does it make you feel better about yourself to spread such awful lies about me?"

[vanillajello]

Cue a raised eyebrow. "I'm saying these things about you, to you. Are you accusing me of spreading lies about you to you?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Well, who cares if that didn't make sense? Nathan didn't want to be wrong.

[vanillajello]

"Then you pretty much just called yourself gullible." There was no way he'd win this. "Congrats."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well..."

Nathan trailed off and made a face at her.

"Your face is ugly."

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted. "Wow."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What?" Nathan demanded, frowning. "I only think the truth about you."

[vanillajello]

"You don't think my face is ugly." That was just a fact. "And if you start lying about that too, I'm gonna go inside and leave you here by yourself."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Your face isn't ugly," he relented, smiling at her. "Is my face ugly?"

[vanillajello]

"No," she said easily. "See, I don't have to lie about shit like that."

That she occasionally did for fun was irrelevant.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"But you lie about other things, yeah?" Nathan asked though he didn't think it needed to be a question. "What's the last big ole fat lie you told?"

[vanillajello]

"As if I'm gonna tell you," Kate scoffed, raising an eyebrow.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And why won't you tell me?" Nathan asked, frowning. "Aren't we friends? Mates? One time bed partners? You can share anything with me. It's not like I'm gonna go tell everyone."

[vanillajello]

"Just because you're my friend doesn't mean I tell you everything." Though she came pretty damn close sometimes. "Besides, I don't think I've even told any huge lies lately."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What's the most outrageous lie you've ever told?" Nathan asked curiously. "Just, you know, ever. The biggest steaming pile of shit lie you have ever told."

[vanillajello]

Kate paused to think for a moment, then shrugged. "One time, I told a random dude at a motel that my name was like, Nordic Helmuth and that I was from Quebec and used to date Lance Armstrong?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Nordic Helmuth?" Nathan repeated, laughing. "Nordic fucking Helmuth? Were you from....Sweden or some shit? Oh, if you did the accent, you have to do it for me now."

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted and rolled her eyes. "No, I didn't do an accent," she said. "I just told you, I was from Quebec. I think we were just supposed to have Scandinavian roots or something."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Why'd you go for the weird fucking story?" Nathan wondered curiously. "Was the guy a potential stalker you didn't want following you back here and peeping outside your window?"

[vanillajello]

"That didn't happen while I was here," Kate corrected. Oh no, she'd had a completely different story when she'd bailed the island in favor of a skeezy motel. "This was back in Kansas, when I was fifteen. I don't know, I guess I just... wanted to see how outrageous a story the dude would buy."

Or she'd been desperately wishing she was someone else because nothing was going right for her.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Did the guy buy it?" Nathan asked, flicking some ash from his cigarette. "You don't strike me as a Nordic but hey, maybe I'm just discerning."

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged a shoulder. "Eh, either he bought it or he was just too busy ogling my boobs to care."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"...were your tits out for some reason?" Nathan wondered, raising an eyebrow. "Does Kansas have some all nude flats that I don't know about?"

[vanillajello]

"It was around the pool area at the motel, I was in a bikini," she explained, raising both her eyebrows. "Jesus, Nathan."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What?" Nathan responded, spreading his arms wide. "When did you become all pure and angelical? The fact that you are acting surprised right now tells me you have lost your edge."