5th Floor Common Room | Saturday | Evening | August 13

[therewaslife]

After work, Bod had spent a few minutes in his room before the feeling to stretch his legs and go elsewhere caught him. He didn't go far though. The common room was empty which meant it was easy to spread out the Thai food Bod had picked up after he'd gotten off from the library. He'd ordered a lot for no other reason than it made good leftovers.

When he flipped on the television, he found that he couldn't find anything but a commercial about helping animals and a commercials advertising various weepy Hallmark movies. Bod had cycled through the channels three times before he realized that the television was completely insane and wasn't going to give him anything worth watching.

With a groan, he switched it off and decided he'd just eat and entertain himself by...talking to himself. It wasn't a serious conversation, at least. No, it was just Bod talking about what he had to do later and other inane things that weren't important.

It was better than watching those commercials though.

[Open CR is open]

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[vanillajello]

Those commercials were evil. They were the reason Kate's eyes were a bit red, because she'd fallen prey to them on the TV in her own common room, which was one part of why she'd been coming up here in the first place.

The other was the person whose voice she could hear as she neared the door. It didn't take long for her to figure out he didn't actually seem to be talking to anyone, though, and that made her raise an eyebrow and tilt her head quizzically.

She stopped in the doorway and tried to be inconspicuous, because eavesdropping was fun, okay?

[therewaslife]

She wasn't going to hear anything too incriminating, unfortunately. Bod was currently staring down at his container of food and mumbling about his upcoming senior year, taking a trip back to his graveyard and even buying new boxer shorts.

It was all very exciting. He hadn't seen her or sensed her yet.

[vanillajello]

Kate didn't always need it to be incriminating. He'd talked her into sleep just yesterday, and she liked listening to him just as much today as she had then. The soft smile he didn't see said as much.

She was smirking once she made her presence known, stepping into the room. "Funny or classy boxers?"

[therewaslife]

Bod jumped a bit, having been completely into the conversation with himself and hadn't even realized someone had been listening. And now? Now, he was going to feign confusion.

"What?" he asked, raising both eyebrows. "Who's getting boxers?"

[vanillajello]

"Oh, don't play dumb, Bod," Kate sighed as she padded over. "You are."

[therewaslife]

"...am not," Bod said, holding onto his lie. "I think you misheard, Kate. You're looking better, by the way."

[vanillajello]

"Except for the weepy commercial affected eyes," she replied, taking a seat on the couch. "Don't lie to me."

[therewaslife]

"The commercials made you cry?" he asked, frowning now. It wasn't an intentional subject change away from how he'd been talking to himself because he genuinely was concerned.

[vanillajello]

And Kate was just gonna be defensive. "What? Some of them are sad!"

[therewaslife]

"No, I know! I know!" Bod said hastily, shaking his head. "That's not what I meant. I mean -- "

He cut himself off and shook his head. "I mean, are you all right? I just wanted to make sure you're all right. I wasn't laughing at you."

[vanillajello]

"Aww." She quirked a lopsided little smile at him. "No, I'm fine. I'm just such a girl that I was bawling and hating Sarah McLachlan at the same time."

[therewaslife]

"I had to turn the television off to avoid them," he said, rubbing the spot underneath her eye with a thumb. "I can go a night without TV if it means avoiding incredibly sad commercials. Perhaps tomorrow, things will be back to normal."

[vanillajello]

"Well sure, you can survive an evening without TV just fine, but what about me?" Kate joked, leaning into the touch a little bit. "I mean, what am I supposed to do? Something productive?"

[therewaslife]

"Well, you've found me," he pointed out, cradling one of her cheeks with his fingers now. "Is that not a good substitute for television?"

[vanillajello]

"No," she decided, still jokingly. "Because you lied about the boxers."

[therewaslife]

"And why are you so interested in my boxers?" Bod asked, amused. "You sound like you have a stake in them."

[vanillajello]

"Hey, I've bought you pairs before," Kate pointed out. "This is nothing new, I've always thought I have a stake in your boxers. Do you still have them, by the way? You know, the ones with the smiley face, and... 'if you can read this you must be getting lucky' or something like that."

[therewaslife]

"Of course I do!" Bod exclaimed with a laugh. "I'm not wearing them currently but I wear them quite often. Why wouldn't I have them? I keep everything you give me. I love that you have a stake in my boxers."

[vanillajello]

"Well, I gave them to you a long time ago," she said, though it was obvious that she was pleased that he had them. "For your birthday, I think? I thought you might've gotten rid of them."

[therewaslife]

"I still have them," he said, reaching to offer Kate one of his containers of Thai. "I love them. They're silly and they make me blush but they make me think of you as well and that trumps blushing for me."

[vanillajello]

"As per usual," Kate replied as she took the container. "But good. It's nice that you have them. It's really nice. And I'll make sure to buy you more."

Because the search for the most embarrassing pair of boxer shorts never ended.

[therewaslife]

"Does that mean I can buy you underwear?"

That...would never happen. He'd end up running out of the lingerie section of the store just to be able to breathe.

[vanillajello]

Kate raised a brow and smirked. "Of course." She knew him, though. "I'm guessing you'd have to do that online."

[therewaslife]

"Why online?" Bod asked, trying to make himself seem cool, calm and collected about things. "I could go into a store. I'm sure the sales people would assist me with any questions I might have about the different...types of things."

[vanillajello]

"You would die," Kate told him over her food. "You would. You would choke before you managed to ask any questions."