Fourth Floor Common Room | Evening | Monday | June 27

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

It was nice to be back in the dorms where there were walls and doors and bed that he didn't nearly roll off of every single goddamn morning. It was nice to be able to go down the hall and flop down on a comfortable sofa instead of sitting his ass down on a log and risking splinters in that unpadded area. Yes, he had a flat ass, what of it? It came with the skinniness.

In Nathan's opinion, dorms were much better than cabins and, to him, his opinion was gospel. The telly was on but Nathan wasn't really paying attention to the dill, boring drone of the news. He'd gotten an interesting text from Kelly telling him about their new probation worker (called Shaun, apparently) and how he hadn't tried to kill anyone yet. Sally was still missing in action, apparently. Nathan texted Kelly to ask Simon about that because he had the sneaking suspicion that the little pervert was keeping her in his closet but Kelly just told him to shut the fuck up and be nice.

Nathan scoffed at that text and was now trying to get Kelly to admit she missed him. It wasn't going well. And eventually, he got bored and start channel surfing while he waited for Kelly to stop being such a fucking stick in the mud.

"God, I should just read a book if this shit is all the choice I have to watch," he muttered and made a face as he kept flipping channels.

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[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

She let him take her wrists, though she pushed against his grip to test it. "Well. Learn to live with disappointment."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Man, it must have been something really fucking bad," he said and put all the strength he had behind holding her wrists away from him. "That or really fucking embarrassing. Did you used to be a dude? Did you used to have a dick hanging down low between your legs?"

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm all woman, baby, and always have been," Ramona said, laughing a little. "No, it's nothing huge. I just... don't like myself back then."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Nose job?" Nathan guessed, squinting at the nose in front of him. "Boob job! It was a boob and nose job! Or were you maimed in some horrific accident which caused scarring and burns over half of your body and you bought body parts on the black market?"

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Real nose, real boobs, real everything," she said, shaking her head. "No. No maiming."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"But you're not gonna tell me what your big secret?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow. "I mean, if you're not buying and selling body parts on the black market, obviously you're boring and nothing else would measure up."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"It's not even that good. I just don't want to tell you," she argued. "Why do you wanna know so bad?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"If I'd teased you with shit like that, wouldn't you wanna know?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow. "People fucking love knowledge. It's a fact of life."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Fine. Todd and I used to break people's shit," she shared, because that stuff she didn't mind talking about. "We'd beat up kids, break into things -- I spent the night in the back of a cop car once. Stupid stuff like that."

That was so not all of it or why she didn't like the Ramona of that time, but that was neither here nor there.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And that's it?" Nathan asked. He suspected it wasn't because she knew he wouldn't mind shit like. In fact, he'd probably be pleased as punch and prod her for more details of her troublemaking shenanigans. "That's the big secret?"

Nathan also realized she hadn't denied his previous observation. Hmm.

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "Not impressive enough for you?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I just don't think that's what it is," Nathan said honestly. "You wouldn't keep that a secret, not from me. You know I've been arrested before so what do you think I'd do? Pin you with a proverbial scarlet letter?"

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

She shrugged, pushing against his hands some. "It's what you're getting. I was a bad kid. Still kind of am. I'm trying to reform, though, at least a little. It's the truth."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's not your secret," Nathan decided, shaking his head. "One, that's no kind of fucking secret unless you'd changed into some Bible thumping, Catholic girl who'd managed to stay away from the penetrating fingers of the priests when she was a kid. So yeah, that's not your secret. I know it."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Well." She couldn't really argue there. "I'm not telling you the rest of it. I have my reasons."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"It's because you used to be a dude with a dick," Nathan decided, nodding. "And now, you're just a chick who misses her dick. I get it. I don't judge."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"If you really believe that, then you've had tons of sex with a girl who used to be a dude," she pointed out. "I dunno, you're pretty familar with what I look like downstairs, given how often you put your face there and all. Remarkable lack of scarring, if that's the case, wouldn't you agree?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Medical technology has come a long way," Nathan said, smirking. "Perhaps you've just have extensive, extensive plastic surgery. I mean, the drapes don't match the curtains so whose to say that you didn't once have shag instead of oriental?"

What the fuck was he even saying?

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"You're an idiot," she told him, wrinkling her nose a little.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I know you are but what am I?" Nathan retorted very maturely.

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"The girl with the secret you'll never crack," she taunted.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Not losing sleep over that, Ramona," he replied, rolling his eyes. "You're not the only one with a secret and I bet mine are better."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"You'll never know for sure," she replied. "Unless you're proposing a trade."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, something tells me you'd try to get my secrets out of me and then toss me some shitty secret that fails to live up to this hype you're giving it," Nathan decided, shaking his head. "I don't know if I trust you to play fair."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm hurt," she said, pouting and twisting her wrists in his grip. "I'd tell you something good if you did. I mean, if you think about it, who of the two of us has been sharing deep dark secrets or whatever lately? Totally me."