Second Floor Common Room [Evening]

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

Ramona had flung herself onto a couch in the common room, in the interest of actually being social. Now, granted, while she had the television tuned to reruns of Rescued by the Alarm -- because who didn't love reliving the early nineties? Such large phones! -- she did have her nose buried in a book as she kept half an ear on the TV.

Look, the last Barry Plodder movie was coming out in a matter of like, a week, and while she wasn't a super-fan or anything, she had to try and remember exactly what happened when those kids weren't just walking around in the woods all the time. That was all they seemed to do for like, half that book. So she was refreshing herself on the events that took place in the latter half of the book, because she didn't want to be caught off-guard again like she had when she saw the last movie and that cute goblin thing had bit it.

[totally open, omg. I am totally watching SBtB right now, too.]

Comments

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"I went out to get to the second floor common room," Butters said, puffing out his chest with his arms folded importantly over it. He looked around like a man claiming some great, newfound world, "and I got there! Not the third floor, or the forth floor, or the sixth floor, but the second!"

He gave a deep sigh of satisfaction. "Finally."

And, after a moment, he quickly added, "Yesterday didn't count, 'cause Stan and Jim were with me."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

Ramona just kind of stared at him for a long moment. "Were you having trouble finding the second floor?" she asked carefully, in the sort of tone you might use with a very special second grader.

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Y-Yeah," said Butters; he was used to that tone, but the victory was too great. It easily overcame any sort of disappointment he might feel, and he just smiled happily. "Seems I always wind up in a different common room instead, but not this time! Good old second floor! Home base! I better take a moment to let this sink in, in case it starts happenin' again that I can't find it."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Sweetie," Ramona said, watching him, "all you have to do is...count. Like, up from one. Just go up one from the first floor. That's all."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"No, I do that," said Butters. "I can even do it on my hands and everything, but not matter what, I never seem to wind up in the right spot. I think it might be an inter-dimension spacial-time disconinuum thingimajig."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"It might be," Ramona agreed. "That's totally possible here. I live on this floor, so I never have much trouble finding the common room. Maybe it's harder for people on other floors."

Almost definitely not.

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"I'm on this floor, too," said Butters, "and I think that's why I have trouble."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"...maybe the school just has a special reaction to you," Ramona supplied. Or the other way around, but she was sort of unwilling to be mean to this poor kid.

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that happens sometimes," Butters admitted a little ruefully. "But, hey, at least I made it and I know there's still some more Twinkies in the cupboard, so it all worked out for the best!"

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Well hey," Ramona said amiably. "As long as there's Twinkies, you know everything's gonna be okay."