Second Floor Common Room [Evening]

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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.]

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Fortunately, Miley was in her bubbly moods, and bubbly moods meant that she noticed basically nothing unless it was almost painfully obvious.

"Yeah, like, who thinks those are good names?" she exclaimed, waving her hands to illustrate that her point had been proven.

A beat.

"Unless you like them."

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"Well, when he called me Ramram, he said it was 'like a baby elephant,' so no, I'm not the biggest fan," she said, but she was sort of smiling, anyway. "Boys are bad at this crap, I think. And someone told them we like it."

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"Whoever it was failed hard at upholding the girl code," Miley groused. She shook her head disapprovingly. "Thanks a lot, Lillypop."

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"Probably the same chick who told them that all girls like being fought over," Ramona said solemnly, shaking her head. "Unless I'm the only girl in the world who doesn't like a solid fistfight in my name."

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"A totally respectable dislike," Miley agreed seriously. Though she had been fortunate enough not to have experienced that. Yet. "Guys are so lame. Always pulling crazy stunts."

Like Jake Ryan with the helicoptor. Or Jake Ryan with the parachute. Or Jake Ryan with that completely unnecessary display on the red carpet.

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"My last boyfriend punched a hole in the moon for me," Ramona shared. Always a good talking point.

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Miley laughed. Then remembered that this place was full of crazy stuff, and Ramona probably wasn't kidding.

"That... is intense," she said, her eyes wide. "My last boyfriend... told an interviewer on the red carpet that he loved me."

Arguably equally intense. In her world, anyway.

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"That might be worse," Ramona conceded. "I mean, Todd did cause like...a ton of natural disasters with his. But I hate guys being all demonstrative like that."

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"Yeah, seriously," Miley groaned. "Also, the same guy faked a marriage to my friend Traci, like, just to get my attention. In Vegas and everything."

Did Disney drama beat comic book drama? Only time could tell.

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Ramona sort of stared at that one. "Oh, please tell me you didn't date him after this. Please say no."

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Miley hesitated.

"Weeeell..."

Yeah... Jake was really cute. And they had a history together! Granted, a cracky, largely hostile one, but still!

"Only for a few months," she finally admitted. "Maybe not my best idea."

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"He better have been really cute," Ramona decided. It wasn't like she picked winners, either. But at least her latest few had been cute, despite their faults.

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Miley grinned. "He totally was."

"So... do you have any stories?" she asked hopefully, leaning forward a little. "Like the thing with the moon, maybe?"

Yes, she'd completely destroyed any chance of Ramona reading her book. Sorry about that. But that was what happened when bubbly moods came around!

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Ramona smiled slightly, actually closing her book (with her thumb in place to keep her spot!) and thought for a moment. "Well. I mean, Todd's psychic and has powers. He can fly. That's how he punched the moon. That kind of stuff is totally normal where I'm from."

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Miley nodded, riveted. "People keep telling me about how all that stuff can be normal," she confided. "It's so weird to me, you know? But I'm trying to process. Why'd he do that, anyway? Was he just, like, really frustrated?"

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"He was, like, proving he loved me or some shit," Ramona said, waving a hand. "Pulled me out of class, punched a crater in the moon, and we broke up like a day later because he had to go to Vegan Academy." She made a face, and added, "Todd's kind of a dickwad. I don't have the greatest luck with guys."

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"Aw," Miley sympathized. "Sorry. That's no fun. But, hey, at least he was really passionate about you for that one moment, right? That's gotta count for something."

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"Just like your boy and his undying devotion as professed on the red carpet?" Ramona asked, smiling slightly.

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"Yeah, I guess." Miley sighed dramatically. "Guys are crazy, right?" She shrugged one of those What can you do? little shrugs. "Hopefully the ones here will be a little more sane..."

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Ramona was already shaking her head before the end of Miley's sentence. "Not really. Not from what I can tell. I've only been here since January but not really."

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That didn't sound like good news...

"Girl-whose-hair-would-match-a-peasant-dress-I've-had-in-my-closet-since-last-March say what?"

She... did that a lot, Ramona, yeah.

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She kind of just stared, but okay, she would roll with it. "I just mean guys here are just as stupid as guys anywhere else," she said wisely. "...if my experience is anything to go by, anyway."

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Miley stared. Then groaned. "Oh, no, was moon-punching kid a student here?"

That would suck.

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"No, no," Ramona said, holding up a hand placatingly. "No, Todd and I broke up right before I came here. But...I've been around in my time here. Guys here aren't any less crazy than anywhere else."

Or else she just had insane taste in boys and had picked a challenge for herself. That was more likely.

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"So there's someone just as crazy as a moon-puncher," Miley clarified. "Oh, great. What'd he do -- wrestle a raincloud?"

Yes, she thought that was hilarious.