2nd Floor Common Room | Tuesday Evening

[pursuedthestars]

Jim had brushed today's class off about ten minutes after he'd left the classroom. It was ten questions, pointless in the grand scheme of things, and Jim wasn't going to let ten questions put him inside some kind of box.

Tomorrow, he'd planned on finally getting out and seeing what this little island had to offer. Maybe he'd hit up that bar Cade had mentioned to see what was the what there. Tonight, he was staying in and spending some time in the common room.

Feet up and head pillowed by the cushions, he'd already fallen into a habit of flipping through channels to find something interesting. Television during this time period was all kinda...lacking.

Eventually, Jim stopped on some movie when an explosion caught his eye and switched his attention to the apple he'd taken from the fridge. After taking his first bite, Jim decided the apple was much more entertaining than the movie.

[Open place, open common room]

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[pursuedthestars]

"Jim," he said, making sure to look at her now that he knew where she was. "How'd you get up here anyway? Don't tell me you can fly or something."

[notalender]

"I wish!" Maybe she could borrow a sling shot. She'd need someone to shoot her at soft landings, though. She held up her picture hanger tiger claws. "I climbed. I'm a very good climber."

[pursuedthestars]

"Yeah, I guess so," Jim said, sounding mildly impressed. "And now that we both know you have eyes, can you see why this movie's pretty bad?"

[notalender]

Arietty looked back at the movie. "There's not enough kissing," she said, decisively this time. "I think . . ." She pointed to two of the male characters. ". . . those two should kiss."

[pursuedthestars]

"You think they should kiss?" Jim laughed, glancing at the television and then back at Arietty. "Would that make the movie that much better? It'd have to be a really great kiss."

[notalender]

"Almost all the movies I've watched have people kissing," Arietty said. Someone was a bit of a rom-com fan. "Would you rather there were spiders causing earthquakes?"

[pursuedthestars]

"Nothing could have saved that movie," Jim remarked with a sad shake of his head. "Tell me you don't think kissing could have even made that movie better."

[notalender]

Arietty laughed. "Well, maybe if the spiders kissed."

Spider romance. It could be the next vampires and werewolves.

[pursuedthestars]

Jim tilted his head. Thought about that for a second. Opened his mouth to say something and then closed it again.

"Can spiders even kiss?"

[notalender]

"They don't really have lips," Arietty admitted. "But those spiders were hardly representational."

[pursuedthestars]

"And I think the movie would have been a lot different if the spiders were kissing instead of...causing death and destruction and mayhem and chaos."

For one, he didn't think the teacher would have shown it. She didn't seem like the romantic type.

But, maybe romantic spiders would be different...

[notalender]

"Spiders aren't really like that, you know," Arietty said. "Now the gremlins, those seem to like death and destruction and mayhem and chaos."

[pursuedthestars]

"Gremlin?"

The only gremlin Jim knew about was a car that had been manufactured a lifetime ago.

"What're those?"

New kid.

[notalender]

Arietty gasped. "No one told you about the gremlins, yet?! They're these huge --" well, when you were four inches tall, anyway, "-- green scaly creatures that live in the walls and the vents and bite people and make them act all crazy."

[pursuedthestars]

"I'm new." And Juliet hadn't mentioned those to him just yet. "They bite people and make them act crazy."

Yes, Jim, that's what she'd said.

"Like...it's venom is a drug or something?"

[notalender]

"Yup. A weird venom that makes you think you're something super embarrassing for a couple hours. You should ask around, I'm sure someone knows way more about them than me."

Though maybe not about what they got up to in the walls.