Fifth Floor Common Room, Wednesday evening

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

After work, Jessica was still trying to deal with the fact that she tasted like SPAM. It displeased her so much that she felt the strong need to grab some food from the common room that would allow her poor tastebuds to focus on something else.

The fact that there was a cake with seven candles in it for some reason seemed like karma. Or justice. Or dumb luck. Or like an opportunity to make a seven year old cry. But since the odds of that last one being true seemed small, Jessica took a piece of cake. And it tasted pretty great. Like karmic justice. And definitely not SPAM.

[OOC: Common room is open and cake is wonderful!]

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[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Why is there cake?" Tony had dragged himself out of his room after spending the day aggressively hunting for his new buddy The Ghost. For caffeine and... well, cake now.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I've decided 'karma' and I'm sticking with it," Jessica said. "It was there when I got here."

And then she took another bite of her piece of cake.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...if you turn green, we'll know."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Hey, the universe owes me today. I taste like SPAM. It's horrible," Jessica said. "I'm pretty sure the cake is a reward for living through that."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Spam?" Tony yawned, stealing a piece for himself. "So, it's other people, huh?"

He took a bite of the cake with a pleased hum.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Cake!" Olive said happily, pointing as she walked in. Because she had like, cake-dar. Okay? It was a thing. "There's cake here!"

She still tasted like oranges. At least that tended to go okay with cake?

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"And it's good cake!" Jessica said. "I'm thankful for whoever is responsible."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Not yours?" she asked, pausing and counting the candles. "You're not...seven?"

Well, okay, fine. "Are we ruining a child's day?" Not a deterrent, for the record.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"If any child were here, their day would be ruined already," Jessica said. "The way I see it, any cake that's left completely unguarded in a public area is fair game."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Could be poisoned."

As she helped herself to some, yes.

[dollpocalypse]

"...are the little kids here again and it's one of their birthdays?" Topher demanded, immediately edging toward a wall he could flatten himself against for safety. "It's not even a weekend."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty sure I don't understand half of what you're talking about, but I'm still saying no," Jessica said. "It's just regular cake for people who want some. I think."

It wasn't stopping her from eating it.

[dollpocalypse]

"Regular cake doesn't have candles," Topher pointed out. "They would just complicate the non-celebratory eating process."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Regular cake with candles," Jessica amended. "Regardless, no kids that I've seen or heard today."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Toby had woken this morning with the vague taste of maple syrup in his mouth. No amount of teeth-brushing could quite get rid of it (and oh god, the combination of toothpaste and syrup was actually kind of horrifying), so eventually he'd just given up on the assumption that it was one of those things.

And now, hey. Here was Jessica who I'm going to assume exchanged names with Toby in a handwavy fashion in the Cactibear CR since I don't remember that actually happening and cake.

"Oh, sweet," he declared eyeing said cake hopefully. "Literally, I suppose."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"It is indeed, my friend," Jessica said, lifting her cake-filled fork in kind of a toast. "It's also a great way to end the day."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Is it special occassion cake? Or just, like. Tuesday cake?"

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"It's surprise cake for you," Jessica said. "As in, 'Surprise! It's Wednesday, not Tuesday, have some cake.'"

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Cake!" Olive greeted him, pointing with her fork.

In case Toby had missed it.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Fork!" Toby replied, pointing... at her fork.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Cake is better than fork," she said, tsking. "You're bad at this."

At...noting things in the room, apparently.

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

"Is it somebody's birthday?" Juliet wondered, as she helped herself to a small piece of cake with tons of frosting. "This looks so good."

She tasted the way lip gloss smelled. It wasn't too annoying, once she got used to it.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"No birthdays as far as I know, but that hasn't stopped anyone from enjoying the cake," Jessica said. "I like to think that someone was just very kind."

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

"Yay them," Juliet said, around a forkful of cake. "I should hang out up here more, if it's the cake floor."

She licked her fork and smiled. "By the way, I'm Juliet. Hi."

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I'm Jessica. And I'm probably too new to know if this cake thing is a common occurrence, but I'm going to be hopeful that it is," Jessica. "Hope can't hurt."