Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [09/21].

[howareyanow]

Probably not surprising anyone fer this week, considering the weekend, Wayne came into the common room that morning fer Monday Morning Breakfast to find the fridge was particularly well-stocked with sauerkraut and bratwurst, and, not one to let things like that just go to waste, added a frittata and some hash to the usual offerings and expected pancakes.

And he weren't going to even say nothing about it, either, because, as far as weird things to happen on a Monday morning, that barely even registered as one, so it seemed a bit...silly to go and make a fuss.

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[bookbeltof_love]

"I don't think, like, that there's really any bean juice in there," Nina said, having watched him make that disaster in sort of a horrified silence. "I'm, like, Nina???????? But aren't you worried about that much sugar in the morning?????????"

[x_discospider_x]

Troy was giving Nina a very dubious sort of look, skeptical as to her claim of how much sugar was apparently that much sugar, maintaining it a little over the rim of his mug as he took another swig from it.

"No?" he finally concluded, after giving it that deep, sugar-fueled thought process. "I didn't even use chocolate milk, just the regular stuff."

He did sort of regret not using the chocolate milk, though.

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina gave a dramatic shudder.

"First thing in the morning!!!!!!!!!" she protested. "Your poor teeth!!!!!!!"

[x_discospider_x]

"I mean," Troy was regarding this girl with a little more suspicion now, especially since she was starting to look...or maybe sound?...a little more familiar, but he couldn't quite place it, "I have a toothbrush?"

[bookbeltof_love]

She squinted at him.

"And are you going to brush your teeth after breakfast???????????"

[x_discospider_x]

WELL HE WAS NOW.

Troy scoffed a laugh, with the clear indication of what a ridiculous notion it would be that he wouldn't. "Tsh," he said, "uh, yeah, obviously. Why wouldn't I?"

Besides, you know, the whole No Parents To Make Him aspect, but, apparently, there were Classmates to Make Him.

And that's when it clicked in his brain.

"Oh, wait! You're the girl who left Econ early because of all the fire!"

He didn't feel too bad about not recognizing her earlier, though, since he'd been a little distracted during that class, you know, because of all the fire and the Eleanor of it all.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Yes, I was," she said rather stiffly. Rude. "And, like, you'd better brush your teeth after!!!!!!!!!!"

Or what, Nina? Or what?

[x_discospider_x]

"I will, I will!" Troy assured her, lifting up his hands in defense and about two seconds away from offering to bring her the damp toothbrush in case she needed proof.

But now that he recognized her, he was eying her a little curiously, and, after a little bit of debate as to whether or not it was rude to ask this sort of thing and realizing that he was probably going to blurt it out eventually anyway, so he might as well get it over with, asked, "Were you really on fire, though?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Yes," she said crossly. "And you're a rude little boy!!!!!!"

[x_discospider_x]

"It's just a question!" said Troy, hands lifted defensively again, even though he'd just put them down. And he was going to be sympathetic about the whole thing, because it had to suck to be set on fire, but now he wasn't so sure he should be. "I was just wondering! I don't think I've ever met anyone who'd been set on fire before!"

[bookbeltof_love]

"Well it's not exactly a good time, now is it?" she snapped, thoroughly riled up. "It's not something people are going to be like 'oh, cool, that's so awesome!' about! It was scary and it was awful and people who I knew died when that building exploded so you can, like, just back off."

[x_discospider_x]

"I never said it was awesome!" Not only was Troy now feeling every ounce of defensiveness up, he was now also extremely confused. Well, not that confused, because obviously it was a sore subject, and it did make sense that it would be, but also, he'd just met her and she went from zero to sixty on that real quick, which seemed a bit unfair for someone who started the conversation being overly concerned about someone else's teeth. "It does sound scary and awful and all of that stuff, and how was I supposed to know any of that? Forget I asked, it's dropped, geez!"

So much for a simple I don't really want to talk about it...

[bookbeltof_love]

Welcome to a conversation with Nina, Troy.

"Good," she said loftily, after eyeing him a moment. "And, like, for future reference, there's a lot of things people don't want to talk about around here!!!!!!!!!!!"

[x_discospider_x]

Look, Troy had had people straight up drop bombs like 'I'm a ghost!' on him so far, much less being giants or talking cats or rats just like it was nothing, so it was really hard to get a guage on this sort of thing, especially when he'd been here for nearly a month now and it had yet to be an issue.

"Ohhhkaaaaaay," he ventured slowly, "but, also, like, maybe there's also people that really might not know what those things are, because everyone here seems really different and it's sometimes maybe super hard to navigate??"

Like, he was sure just about every other person here probably could read minds, but he was definitely not one of them.

No matter how hard he tried.