2nd Floor Common Room; Thursday Afternoon

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Why Travis was venturing out when he was vomiting words over everyone and everything, he didn't know. Maybe talking to someone would make him feel less like some loner slacker than if he spent time in his room, talking to his phone or possibly slipping and trying to talk to Cate. That just did not need to happen.

So, the late afternoon hours found him in the common room, silently flipping through television. Well, he was silent until his phone dinged and a message from Kyle flashed at him.

going on a date. with a guy. advice?

"Yeah, don't get too attached because he's definitely going to find someone else and dump you if you turn your back for a day or die for five years."

Travis closed his mouth and looked a little sick at having let that slip. He was just going to wait on texting Kyle back.

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[stacyexperiment]

Gwen knew something was up, of course. It hadn't really stopped her from doing anything, though. Sure, when she'd gotten her shiny new eyebrow piercing this morning before class she'd told the guy exactly how much it hurt instead of pretending otherwise, but surely she could keep the big stuff under wraps, right?

"So today's weird," she said, plopping into a chair.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"You noticed that too?" Travis asked, glancing over at her once said plopping had been completed. "I should expect this kind of thing from this place but I didn't. Stupid of me."

[stacyexperiment]

"Everyone's so freaked out about this, but I don't think it's a big deal," Gwen said. "I mean, I'm wrong, but..."

She frowned.

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Haven't said anything too bad, huh?" Travis guessed. "I just let loose on a plant in my room so I'm kind of on the fence about this day."

[stacyexperiment]

"...What did the plant do to you?" Gwen wondered.

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"I hate today," Rapunzel said, branching right off of that.

That was both very honest and included pretty strong language for this one, yeah.

[stacyexperiment]

"Ugh, tell me about it," Gwen said. Which... she didn't realize was probably incentive to actually tell her about it.

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"I told my lizard that he wasn't hiding well when he was playing hide-and-seek with our kitten," Rapunzel told her, looking deeply upset by this. "And Pascal's a chameleon, so that's like, a big deal to him, and now he won't talk to me anymore."

So yeah. Serious stuff.

[stacyexperiment]

"I'm sure he'll get over it," Gwen said. "But I don't know how chameleons think."

[bearmaidenfair]

"I'm hoping we'll all wake up tomorrow and not remember it," Vider admitted, "even though I know that's probably not going to happen."

[stacyexperiment]

"I'm going to have to lock myself somewhere for the rest of the day," Gwen said. "And maybe hunt down the squirrels who heard anything oh god squirrels."

[bearmaidenfair]

"I'm okay on that front," Vider said. "That sucks if you're not. I haven't said anything too disastrous yet, just made a fool out of myself in front of a boy." She considered. "Maybe you could bribe them?"

[stacyexperiment]

"I don't have any rum for them," Gwen said. "My tough girl thing is mostly an act."

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"Why is today like this?" Rapunzel asked, wandering in and looking faintly-horrorstruck as she collapsed in a chair. "What did we do to deserve this?"

So. You know. In case your day was lacking at all in melodrama, Rapunzel was here to help.

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"What do you mean?" Travis asked, raising an eyebrow. "You mean all the word vomit or is something else terrible happening?"

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"I mean the word vomit and wow is that a great term for that," Rapunzel said, wide-eyed. "I mean, I kind of always tell the truth? But today I'm telling a lot more truth than I'd like and I really, really am not a fan of it."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Revealing a lot of secrets that don't need to be out there for the world to hear?" Travis guessed. "Join the club."

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"More like being honest and hurting people's feelings," Rapunzel corrected. "Like how I'm really curious about your scar but didn't ask, because that's rude and oh my gosh, I'm still talking."

She was just going to bury her face in her hands over that one, yeah. "Sorry."

[bearmaidenfair]

"I don't know, but it's terrible," Vider told her. "I told a boy in my class he's hot. Which, to be fair, is true, but I didn't mean to say it."

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"Which boy?"

Priorities, here.

"'Cause like, that's most of the boys here. Everyone at this school is beautiful."

...siiiigh.

[bearmaidenfair]

"Four," Vider told her. "Which doesn't sound like a real name but neither do half of the names here, so I can't judge." Also, her name was Vider, but that was perfectly normal at home, thank you very much.

[bearmaidenfair]

"Hi, this isn't my common room, I'm just here to steal your food," Vider announced as she entered the room. Then she closed her mouth with a snap before opening it again to say, "So that's awkward."

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

"Points for honesty," Travis said, almost snickering. "You can steal food. It's not like I haven't done that before. I have."

[bearmaidenfair]

"So have I," Vider said, "I just don't usually announce it. Is it even stealing if you say you're gonna do it? Or is that just taking?" The philosophical questions of our time.

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"We can call it borrowing?" he suggested. "Sounds nicer and everyone around here tries to be nice so it fits pretty well, doesn't it?"