Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday evening

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce had no interest in dealing with the television today. It was going to just show something that some people would think he'd find embarrassing, he wouldn't be embarrassed (or even annoyed), and that would be it. But there was enough embarrassment and annoyance going around the dorms today, it seemed, so Bruce was going to try to tackle that in some small way: with cake.

Sure, he didn't usually eat much junk food, but he figured that a day when someone changed genders might not be so bad if it was changed to the day when someone changed genders and also had cake. In the meantime, he was just going to read a book about chess strategies while having a piece of cake himself.

[OOC: Open CR, open cake. Whatever that means, I don't know.]

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[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"How come you get to look normal when I'm stuck like this again?" Quinn asked, wandering in and eying the cake. "Or are you a girl who just looks like Bruce? Hi."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, I'm just normal," Bruce said. "It seems like all the boys are. I'm sure we'll pay for this eventually."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Probably, but that doesn't make today much better," Quinn groused, and cut herself a slab of cake. "This might make today better."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"That's why it's there," Bruce said, flashing a smile. "I figure it's the least I could do for the girls here as an apology for not being changed."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie had been lucky this weekend. She didn't even know yet that anything was off. She was just on the lookout for something to do since she was caught up on all her homework, and so she wandered to the fifth floor.

"Hi. There's cake now?" Which was a not-asking way of asking whether it was for sharing.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's mainly for the girls who were less fortunate for you, but I'm having some," Bruce said, holding up his own plate. "So feel free."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"There are girls less fortunate than me?" she asked, totally confused by that.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"It's a cliche, but cake does make some things better," Quinn acknowledged as she scraped off some icing with her fork. "I'm not as mad about being a boy as I was last year, just ... over it."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"At least this year it's not happening on break at a resort," Bruce said. "I'm sure that helps a little."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"How come you still get to look like yourself?" Quinn asked through her pout (and a mouthful of cake). "It's not faaaaaair."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"So you haven't noticed it yet?" Bruce asked. "A lot of them have turned into boys for the time being."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Because I can't see a penis till college! Um. I always look like myself," she said. "And you are...?"

Because guess who was not making assumptions.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie raised her eyebrows at him, waiting for the rest of the joke. "Okay, but really, what are you talking about?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"There is that," Quinn had to admit. "And, you know, the week has not totally and completely sucked. Maybe it's just time for the island to screw with me."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Exactly what I said. A number of the girls here are boys for the day. Possibly the weekend. Hopefully not more than that," Bruce said.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn's look was only mildly affronted; matching people to the wrong bodies wasn't easy the first time through.

"Quinn," she said. "Fabray, not a new student with the same name. The island likes doing this every so often. Just in case we weren't insane enough."

She shrugged. "You got lucky."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's happened to enough other people that I doubt it's because of you," Bruce said. "Unless this was something you pushed for at Student Council."

Hey, look who was choosing to be a smartass.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

He was rewarded with a glare, though not quite one at Quinn's full glare potential. Bruce had supplied cake; therefore he was to be tolerated.

"Cute," she decided. "But no. Annie and I got co-presidents, did you hear?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

For some reason, Annie had to look down to make sure her boobs were still there, like maybe they'd disappeared and she simply hadn't noticed till now.

Nope, still there.

"That happens here?" she asked, relieved.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"And you didn't." Honestly, this maybe made Annie's week even more than StuCo. "Well, at least you... get to... get the male perspective on things?"

Just a tiny bit of a reach there, but Annie was trying to see a bright side in boyparts.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I hadn't. But congratulations," Bruce said, ignoring the glare for the moment. "In that case, consider this cake to be partially celebratory too."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Last year it hit the boys and girls at the same time. it lasted two days," Bruce said. "And it started away from the island. So it could probably be worse."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn flashed a grin at that. "Thank you. She'll probably modify my reign of terror."

Joking. Mostly.

"It makes it hard to get too worked up about the boy thing. This time I know it'll wear off, I'm just annoyed."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it's really going to help me in my daily life to know beards itch and athletic supporters exist for a reason," Quinn sighed. "I just figure it's payback. Things were going a little too well, so bam, boy."

Because of course it was all about her.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Oh, hello panic. "That happens away from here? Like I could turn into a boy at any time?"