5th floor common room | Friday Afternoon

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Since Jace had only had classes on Monday (which was quite strange for mundane schools, or so his research told him) he had spent most of the week outdoors, getting a feel for the island. The place was small but there were a lot of oddities about it. Jace guessed there was a backstory to a lot of it, but would he ask someone about it? Of course not.

Yesterday had been spent exploring the dorms, which didn't take all that long and now...well now he didn't have anything to do. Since he hadn't brought any books with him and didn't quite feel like going to the library yet, he decided to do as the mundanes did and watch some TV.

And subsequently landed on a Real Housewives of Orange County marathon. Well all right then.

[Open CR is open, yes]

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[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey. Cute new boy on the floor that usually had the diet coke. Quinn managed an actual smile before plopping herself on the couch, drink in hand.

"So are you watching this on purpose?" she wondered. "Because sometimes the TV up here hates people."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"I don't really watch TV," Jace replied. "Are you saying there's more interesting stuff on this thing?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Depends on how you define interesting," Quinn pointed out lightly. "I can say most of the guys I know aren't huge into watching middle-aged women shop and bitch."

She gestured for the remote. "What would you like?"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Something a little more masculine," Jace said, handing Quinn the remote. "The more blood, the better."

Because that's what men liked, dammit.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"More blood the better," Quinn repeated, and started thumbing slowly through channels. She paused on a cooking show -- which met the qualification in the most technical of ways -- just to see what he'd say. "I'm Quinn, by the way."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Jace," he said, glancing over at her. "I hope the chef is going to pull out a butcher knife and explain how exactly he killed that cow."

He could actually watch the cooking show for just the cooking, but he felt like being gross.

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"I think that just might be what people claim when they like bad TV," Kate decided, "and are ashamed of it." She was not ashamed, mostly because she spent her time mocking it, which made it okay. Her logic was her own.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"See, but it's mostly Bruce," Quinn said, leaning over to catch Kate's eye. "I don't think he'd lie."

[withasword.livejournal.com]

Kate snickered, "What, you can't see him as a closet Top Model fan?" Actually, that was one she'd never watched, but the name alone conjured an image of... well, not being Bruce's thing.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn's eyes widened. "Now I think he totally is," she shared. "I bet he's got Tyra's insane novel hidden under his bed."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

Britta was on her way back to her room after her Leadership class, noticed the common room, realized she hadn't scoped it out yet, and figured now would be a pretty good time. She so poked her head in, then drifted in, sizing up the TV area and the kitchenette, and looking pretty impressed.

"Boy," she said, dropping unceremoniously into a armchair and kicking her legs up to drape over the arm of it; she rested her hands on her stomach as she eyed the ceiling. "I bet if this were an apartment in New York, the rent would be ridiculous."

Her, being an expert on New York now, of course.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace had been living in a church ever since he moved to New York so he had absolutely no idea what this girl was talking about.

"Why would you pay rent for an apartment with no bathroom?" At least he didn't think the common room had a bathroom. Unless the sink counted.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

In New York, it would!

"Because it's the only thing affordable?" Britta proposed with a grin. "And maybe you'll be lucky and there's a Barnes and Noble down the street. You live on this floor?"

Hey, he was cute. Britta could at least try to not seem too terrible when a cute guy was involved.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace nodded. "Down the hallway in 527. Do you?"

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Yup. 512."

Britta kicked up her feet a little so she could sit up, lean forward, and hold out a hand in greeting. "I'm Britta."

She cocked her head toward the TV. "Did you plan on killing braincells all afternoon?"

Because if he did, she knew some much better ways to do it.

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Darcy had spent most of the past day on Facebook, and only now had stumbled into a shower and some sweats. "Wow, it is so weird to have so few classes." She announced as she stumbled into the common room.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace jerked his head over towards the person that spoke and wondering if she was talking to him or just announcing that to everyone. Isabelle used to do stuff like that. So confusing.

"So I take it that this isn't a normal thing for boarding schools?"

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Darcy hadn't even notice that there were other people. She was just commenting. "Hunh? Oh, no. I thought they had like classes right until you went to bed or something"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Well that wouldn't be any fun," Jace replied. "Are you complaining about not having classes all day?"

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Darcy gave him a sanity questioning look. "Don't even kid about that." She headed towards the pantry. "You know if there's pop-tarts?"

[withasword.livejournal.com]

It was disturbing how quickly you slipped from watching no TV at all to sliding into a common room and spending hours in front of the sort of trash that made you despair for society.

It'd happened to Kate, too.

... Only a couple of times. Shut up.

Which only half-explained why she was three floors up peering at what some guy she didn't even know was watching. "So who's sleeping with who else's husband?" She'd come to expect certain things from TV.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"I...don't think anybody is," Jace said. He hadn't been following all that closely. "They seem to be too old for that sort of thing."

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"I guess that gives it points over whatever drama I found on downstairs." What her grading scale was here, who knew. Either way, she dropped into a seat.

There was also that there were people here, which made for a slightly more interesting viewing experience.

"I didn't think these things existed without that kind of drama."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"I think these women are more content being catty over each other's parenting skills," Jace drawled. "But they all lose, because the kids are all spoiled brats."

...said the spoiled brat.

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"How long have you been watching this thing?" she wondered.