The Roof, Wednesday Afternoon

[myownface]

It wasn't a bad day. Not really. The weather didn't completely suck, Sparkle didn't have work or classes or anything. Hell, his detention for camel-stealing wasn't even until the end of the week. Nope, it wasn't a bad day at all, really.

It it was still a Wednesday. One of those 'halfway over' Wednesdays that had Sparkle making faces at the prospect of slogging through the rest of the week. And, to top all of that off, he was bored. Nightfall wasn't even for a few hours yet, so he couldn't amuse himself by running around the island, trying to break into places he wasn't supposed to be.

If he was going to pass all of that time between then and now just sitting around, he was going to take advantage of the above-freezing weather in order to sit up on the roof and have a smoke, then. Because why spend a boring Wednesday afternoon doing something productive? Hah.

[Open roof is open and I'm around! I'M TAKING A DAY OFF DAMMIT.]

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[nottrivial]

After being glitterbombed in his last class of the day, it was up to the roof for Alec, mainly to recover from the trauma. He hadn't expected there to be someone else up here, which led to him doing a sort of half-surprised half-smile.

"Oh, hi," he said, very aware of the glitter in his hair for a moment. "I didn't know you smoked."

His tone was kind of impressively non-judgmental, for Alec.

[myownface]

"I didn't know you sparkled," Sparkle countered, shooting Alec a little grin. "I don't smoke as much around here as I do back in Toronto. Harder to get my hands on 'em here."

There was really only a finite number of places he could go that sold them, and they caught on quickly enough to the fact that he was too young to be buying them.

But drinking was okay!

[nottrivial]

"I usually don't," Alec promised, running a hand through his hair. "It was a... class thing."

Only at Fandom, yo.

"Um. Good to see you," he added with an awkward swing of his arms.

[myownface]

"Yeah?" So help him, Sparkle was going to have to preen a little at that. "Good to see you too, then. Been keeping out of trouble?"

Sparkle hadn't! But what else was new?

[justbeingbay]

Bay waved vaguely toward the dark-haired guy, who she was almost certain she'd seen around somewhere. Or something. It was a small school.

"Hey," she said. "So is the roof usually the hip place to hang out?"

[nottrivial]

"I've seen it pretty crowded a few times," Alec offered. "But I've seen it completely empty, too. It's pretty hit-or-miss."

[justbeingbay]

"I've never been up here before," Bay offered, with a shrug. "It's pretty. Probably better now that it's not freezing. I'm Bay, by the way."

[justbeingbay]

Bay was working on some billboard sketches for her dad's campaign, and she figured a new perspective would help her get out of the subpar Andy Warhol wannabe rut she'd gotten into. She took her sketchbook and climbed to the roof.

"Oh, hey," she greeted Sparkle. "There's a people up here."

[myownface]

"There is, indeed, a people," Sparkle replied with a bow and a smirk. "And now, coming up to join the people, there am person!"

Hello, person!

"How you doing? Bay, right?"

[justbeingbay]

"You got it, though now I'm all confused about our grammar here," Bay said, with a little laugh. "And ... Sparkle. Of buying me a Canadian beer. Hi. What brought you up here?"

[myownface]

"And it was a damn fine beer too," Sparkle informed her, smirking. "Anyhow, grammar's for people who care about grammar. And authors. And I guess scholars or something like that, and I'm never going to be any of those things so whatever."

[suitably_heroic]

"Every time I come up here," Atton announced, "I'm surprised people actually come up here."

Hell, Atton didn't even know why he was up here.

[myownface]

"I'm up here because I wanted a place that wasn't my room while I smoked," Sparkle reported. "Better view. There's like a garden up here. Not that it's warm enough for that yet."

Not that Sparkle knew the first thing about gardening, either.

[suitably_heroic]

"You planning to start planting some flowers?" Atton asked skeptically. "Or are we talking Earth narcotics here?"

Hey, it was entirely possible.

He sauntered along the roof, tossing a glance in the direction of said garden.

[myownface]

"If I were to plant weed in there, I'm pretty sure people would think it was for sharing," Sparkle decided, after a moment spent looking entirely too thoughtful. "But then it might actually land me a second detention. I'm thinking of making it a goal to set some kind of record on those things before I graduate or they kick me out."

... There were probably worse goals to have, right?

[justbeingbay]

"This is my first time up here," Bay told him. "Maybe there were mind beams compelling us all up here or something."

She didn't believe that, but it also didn't seem outside the realm of possibility.

[suitably_heroic]

"It'd be right up the local Jedi's alley, too," Atton said, because why not run with a good conspiracy theory if you spotted one? "Mind trick us all up here. Like herding."

[justbeingbay]

"See, now I really want to know what they want to do once we're here," Bay mused. (She didn't actually know what a Jedi was exactly, but she wasn't about to ruin the conspiracy theory with questions.) "Killing us is too obvious."

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Anakin came up to the roof to brood every now and then, as he tended to do (because it came with the name), but usually it was when no one else was around.

He'd sensed that there were other beings up here while he was climbing the stairs, but decided to keep going anyway; when he emerged through the doorway with his datapad in hand he was scowling about it, and with a sigh he started toward a spot away from everyone else.

Anakin was such a social butterfly.

[myownface]

Poor Anakin.

"HEY. Heeeeey! HEY OVER THERE."

Sparkle just had this thing about personal space, and the people who wanted it while they were anywhere near him.

"What you doin'? The party's on this side of the roof!"

There was no party, Sparkle.

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Should've had a bad feeling about this, Anakin.

He paused and turned, running a hand through his hair and looking rather put-upon. "Sorry, I'm not feeling very festive."

He never was. It was a shortcoming of his.

[myownface]

"Aw, that's fine. We can take the party to you, instead."

'We' being 'Sparkle,' and 'party' being 'pestering,' of course. He was already sauntering his way across the roof in order to do some more of that partying thing, see?

"It's a really hoppin' party, as I'm sure you can tell."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Wow," Cade commented dryly. "Kegger on the roof?"

Without beer, Sparkle? HOW COULD YOU.

[myownface]

"Well, that would require a keg," Sparkle mused, looking around. "I was just having a smoke, and then like half the student body came up here."

A beat.

"We should totally get a keg."

And see how many more detentions they could queue up together!

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Well, I don't have one under my bed," Cade said.

Beat.

"I should fix that."