3rd Floor Common Room | Friday Evening

[robinonadderall]

Stiles didn't have any plans for the evening which was on par for a Stilinski Friday night. He was still trying to avoid going into town so his entertainment options were relegated to watching porn in his room or watching something that wasn't porn in the common room. Well actually he could do both, since watching porn didn't take all night. But he did eventually end up in the common room, watching a horror movie about frat boys who piss off an irradiated grizzly bear.

It was about as horrible as it sounded. Which would explain why Stiles was more focused on the (surprisingly unburnt!) popcorn he had made and answering the barrage of texts he kept getting.

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[arsenicmauls]

"I guess, but how often does that happen? Most people just get married so their friends will give them gifts and they don't have to worry about breaking up anytime soon."

Gert, enough with the jadedness.

[justbeingbay]

"My parents are like perfect together," Bay said, sounding a tiny bit defensive about it. "Okay, so they're like the one happy couple I know, but ..."

[arsenicmauls]

"My parents were pretty happy too," Gert said. "Turns out their relationship was built on bonding over murdering people."

She hadn't shared that with, well, anyone in town just yet, but in this instance it was in the service of a point, so.

[justbeingbay]

"That is a really sick joke."

Bay sounded morbidly impressed. It didn't entirely occur to her Gert might be telling the truth.

[arsenicmauls]

Gert crossed her arms over her chest. "Yeah, I wish."

[justbeingbay]

"Seriously?" Bay asked. "Your folks were like serial killers?"

She sounded uneasy, not sure how to react to this revelation. It made getting switched seem a lot less exotic.

[arsenicmauls]

"In a supervillain way," Gert affirmed. Then, either noticing something in Bay's face or imagining that she did, she added, "But I'm not. I'm here 'cause my friends and I ran away from them."

Once again, all in the service of... wait, what point had she been making again?

[justbeingbay]

"That's ... not the kind of thing that happens at home," Bay said. "Sorry. Sucks that you have to go to school even after you ran away."

Which had nothing much to do with anything, but she was still having a hard time figuring out what to say.

[arsenicmauls]

And Gert was starting to wonder if maybe she'd been a little more abrasive than necessary on this one, so she softened a little.

"Thanks," she said. "And if your 'rents are happy, I guess being married at least works for some people."

Conceding a point was sort of a huge thing from her, Bay.

[justbeingbay]

"Yeah, but it's not like I'm from some perfect family," Bay volunteered, trying to make it more equal. "And I don't even know if I want to get married. It'd have to be the absolute right person, you know? I might just live with somebody a long time instead."

[arsenicmauls]

"I'd just be weirded out signing a contract that a few centuries ago basically amounted to slavery," Gert said. "And speaking as someone who spent a few months living with guys, I should warn you that they're not the most hygeinic."

Gert, Bay lived with Topher. There were wires all over the floor. She was probably aware of this.

[justbeingbay]

"The whole thing where your dad gives you away is bizarre," Bay said. "Like he owns you to start with. And yeah, I have a brother and a guy roomie. I know alllll about boy grossness."

[arsenicmauls]

"Well, imagine how much worse it gets once you're legally obligated to stick around unless you spend a bunch of money on courth proceedings," Gert reasoned. "If I was gonna get with a guy, I'd go separate bedrooms for the first five or ten years."

...Really?