Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [05/24].

[white_oleander]

Well. It was bound to happen eventually.

At some point in the night, or maybe it was early in the morning, she had no idea when these things actually happened, but the ingredients Astrid had gotten last night to make breakfast with this morning had all, somehow, been either transformed or replaced with nothing but boxes of Pop Tarts.

On the bright side, there was absolutely no lack in variety to the Pop Tarts, as it seemed every single flavor was present and accounted for, including the discontinued ones and some that clearly never made it to the market...at least not in this dimension.

Astrid might have been shocked by there being so many absurd varieties if it weren't for the fact that she actually worked in a grocery store and was already well aware of the excess of unnecessary flavor choices in certain brands.

(Looking at you, Oreo).

But...at least this made her job pretty easy today, and the clean-up would be a breeze, and there were even toaster strudels for anyone who wanted to feel a bit fancier about the whole thing, too.

[[ pop tart breakfast is open! ]]

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Goooooooooooood mooooooooooorniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It had been ages since she'd hit up a breakfast and Nina was going to be...

"Pop tarts??????????????????"

... disappointed.

[white_oleander]

It wasn't Astrid's fault, Nina!

Although, gun to her head, she definitely wasn't going to complain about how much easier this made her morning.

She gave Nina a rueful sort of smile.

"Hey," she said. "Morning. I haven't checked any of the other common rooms, but it definitely looks like this one's doing a thing..."

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was still judging the entire situation though.

And was possibly going to text Katy later complaining about what breakfast had turned into without Wayne about.

"I'm not hungry anymore," Nina said with a dismal sort of sigh as she collapsed, dramatically, upon a couch.

[white_oleander]

The last two breakfasts were just fine! Nina would know that if Nina had bothered to actually be there!

Astrid might have given Nina a little bit of a side-eye for the theatric, wondering if she was reaching into a box of blueberry frosted Pop Tarts to get one for herself somewhat out of defiance at this point.

"Well," she said, "there's plenty if you change your mind. How've you been, Nina?"

Besides apparently starving.

[bookbeltof_love]

Yeah, Nina was eyeing the way Astrid was having a pop tart, feeling that it was just to spite her in her moment of pain.

"Okay," she allowed. "Dad's teaching me to drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

With a car that he'd bought just for her! But that part was still a bit.... much.... for Nina.

[white_oleander]

Yeah, well, maybe growing up sometimes not knowing if you'd even get a meal for a whole week unless you figured something out for yourself made Astrid a little intolerant of people acting like Pop Tarts in one common room on an island filled with options was this tragic, especially when she really was trying to do her best to keep up the tradition.

She broke off a piece and popped into her mouth.

"Well," she said, "I hope he's a better teacher for you than I was."

Did Nina even remember that? Astrid did, although, admittedly, it had nothing to do with Nina or teaching her to drive that she did.

[bookbeltof_love]

She was still allowed to not eat them! She hadn't said anything bad about them to Astrid, even!

Nina laughed, pushing herself up into a seated position.

"I do remember that!!!!!!!!!!!! Under the ocean in outer space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That had been fun, if not super educational.

"Dad's doing it the old-fashioned way, in a parking lot on the mainland!!!!!!!!!!! It's slower but, like, I'm having a lot of fun with it!!!!!!!!!!!"

She liked spending time with her dad.

[white_oleander]

You didn't have to say anything, Nina. Your disparaging judgement had been permiating the entire room.

"That's probably much more effective than our way," Astrid grinned faintly. "That's pretty much how I learned, too."

Even if she definitely had not enjoyed spending time with Ron, but the times when Claire went with her, even though they weren't educational, were...nice.

[bookbeltof_love]

... Fair.

"Dad said that even when I can drive I'm not allowed to drive on the moon though," she noted. "Where's the fun in that??????????????"