3rd Floor Common Room, Wednesday Morning

[rebelseekspizza]

"Nothing left to break, my life is in a thousand pieces, million reasons, why should I keep myself away? Hard to define; it always is. It's hard to scream with your throat full of glass."

Dante was humming, bobbing his head along and maybe even shifting his movements some in tune with the music in his head as he wandered around the common room with a bowl full of cereal. If there was anything funny going on with the island, he didn't know; it wouldn't be the first time he'd gotten a song stuck in his head, and it wouldn't be the last. Considering he'd been listening to this CD just last night, it wasn't weird.

He kept on humming, too, as he nudged the fridge open with his foot and dipped his head in to see if there was anything good he could poach. "T-t-t-tthuh..."

[[ open, with a minor patch of SP in an hour or two. ]]

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[boneyard_girl]

Ada just laughed. "They say little girls are all sugar and sunshine; well, I was made of ticket stubs and carnival glass. Play to win, follow the lady -- A dollar and a quarter for an all-night pass."

Ada did not believe in shame, or pity. She was a Miller and a mermaid's daughter; there wasn't room for either in her life.

"A ticket to the freakshow if you please,
I've gone and caught my heritage just like a disease.
There's no vaccination for what's bred in the bone.
The angels take the good, the devil takes his own.

They say little girls should be seen and be silent;
Well, I'm screaming loud enough to turn back the wind.
Miles to go, no rest for the wicked --
I guess I'm just my mama's daughter in the end."

[rebelseekspizza]

"And everything is shallow
I know there is no use to pray
I am a demon today
We're all demons today
We drown in soil, we're flooded
As it happens
I still try to be human
I never tried to fit in
And now I'm falling through again."

Yeah, uh. What.

Dante shoved a spoonful of cereal into his mouth and tried not to think about that very much. Besides that he knew what fucking song it was.

Probably just got stuck in his head. Yep.

[boneyard_girl]

Ada did spare a sympathetic glance towards Dante as she pulled her feet up under her and balanced on the counter to keep looking for food. Involuntary singing sucked, and it was empathy, not pity.

Not that it kept her vocal chords silent.
"I am dancing in the moonlight, I am beauty with no heart;
I am stories told by twilight, I am torture as an art.
I am happy ever after left to sour and turn to dust;
I am madness, I am laughter, I am nothing you should trust.
I’m a pretty poison apple hiding something dark within,
I’m the thorn that blinds the princess, I am hiding in your skin, I am...
I am...

I am the hidden, secret garden;
I am the lock that steals the key.
I am the crime that has no pardon;
I am sum and whole of me,
I am...

Absinthe in an open wound,
I am ashes on the wind,
I am Snow White stained and fallen,
Drop your guard and let me in."

"UGH!" Ada threw her hands up in the air, grabbed a fruit roll-up out of a box, tore it open, and stuffed it in her mouth to shut herself up.

[rebelseekspizza]

"You think duct tape might help?" Dante wondered.

After a pause to process her singing bits. Seriously, this shit was weird.

[boneyard_girl]

What else was a mermaid with identity issues suppose to sing about? Dinglehoppers?

"Nah, duct tape hurts too much when it comes off," she said after she swallowed her emergency silencer-food. "Maybe start drinking, set up a sleepover with more truth or dare and kissing games to keep our mouths occupied?"

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante snapped his fingers.

"Making out?" he said. "That is a fantastic idea."

[boneyard_girl]

"We can put up a sign: Can't stop singing? Join our party - free kissing if you start singing."

"Or we could make a fortune at just a dollar a kiss..." Ada mused. "Especially if it was all pretty people. This place does seem to specialize in pretty people."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Not enough students in the dorms," Dante said, shaking his head. "Good idea in theory. In practice, you're singing Top 40 at least half the day."

He took a step closer to her. Might as well be worth a shot.

[boneyard_girl]

"I think you underestimate how many times people are willing to kiss," Ada said dryly. "But if mine is good in theory, how do you suppose we put it into practice?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"We could test if it works at all," Dante suggested. He shrugged.

[boneyard_girl]

Ada hummed thoughtfully, tilting her head to the side and considering. "I can't say I'm opposed to the idea on principal," she offered cheerfully, "--but I don't kiss people that I don't know their names."

"M' Ada, by the way."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Dante," Dante said easily. "Sorry you're not in any of my classes."

Though on the upside, that meant he wasn't out of pretty people he hadn't met yet.

[boneyard_girl]

"'S pretty easy to not know everyone, when you only have a few classes a week, I guess," Ada said easily. "So if I start singing again, Dante, can I count on you to help me stop?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Cross my heart," Dante said. "Or should that be cross the note? I don't know music."

Sad. That was a lot of punning material he could be running with today.

[boneyard_girl]

"Cross the key, maybe?" Ada offered. "Though I apologize in advance; I haven't kissed a boy before, so if I'm doing poorly on stopping the singing, you'll have to help me out."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Huh." It'd been a long time since Dante had gone anywhere near a first kiss scenario; usually there was way too much baggage involved.

But she had confidence, which was good enough for him.

"I think I can handle that," he said. He took another few steps closer. "You ready for our experiment?"

[boneyard_girl]

Fist kiss with a boy, Dante. Alana had already broken that first kiss curse well and good during spin-the-bottle, thank you very much.

Ada didn't have to answer, the singing curse did it for her. "Kisses like whiskey, it gets me drunk--."

Uncle Chester would be pissed. Ada didn't particularly care.

[rebelseekspizza]

Hey, good. Alana was awesome.

Dante reached out to cup her face, then crossed the last of the distance and pressed his mouth to hers.

See if that stopped it, right?

[boneyard_girl]

Oh, the song tried to put up a decent fight -- it got maybe another bar or two out -- before Ada was far too busy doing things like 'enthusiastic kissing' and 'remembering to breathe sometimes' for her vocal chords to do anything Not Approved By Management.

Gold star, team. You've found the best way EVER to combat the singing.