Second Floor Common Room; Sunday Morning [06/12].

[outofthequiver]

Libby's grandmother had been sending her a small weekly allowance, knowing that a little spending money could make living away from home a little easier, and she was mostly saving up that money for an emergency (or, if she was honest with herself, to maybe buy a new dress for the next school dance) or using it to buy stuff to make breakfasts and other meals in the common room. That morning, though, seeing as the nice little windfall was growing, she was a little tempted to head into town, into the pastry shop, and maybe treat herself to something that she might otherwise never splurge on.

But even as soon as she thought about it, she felt guilty about it. It was kind of selfish, wasn't it? Especially on a Sunday. Not to mention just sort of careless, not a very useful use of her funds at all.

There was, thankfully, a good solution to handling her sudden sweet tooth and her worry about being waste and self-serving, and that was obviously to just head to the store to pick up what she needed and make something, which would not only be more cost effective, but that she could share with everyone else, too.

And she had no doubt that the smell of cinnamon rolls baking in the common room would get at least a few people's attention.

She just hoped she didn't end up burning them, and had to remind herself to let them cool first before adding the icing.

[[ will work eat me? Probably! Will I let that stop me? Heck no! Open common room is open! ]]

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[furrybluefreak]

"I can help with that!" Kurt said with a nod. "Doing dishes was always a family thing back home. When I was younger I wanted to help put things away but was too little to reach any of the cabinets so I was usually on washing duty with Mutti and Vati would put them away."

It might have also had something to do with the phase where he was just realizing he could teleport but had no idea how he was doing it or how to control it and ended up breaking more dishes that managed to get to the cabinets as he tried to port around the kitchen at eight years old.

[outofthequiver]

"Everything's a family thing back home for me," Libby noted, a bit wryly, almost on the edge of an eyeroll, but she'd have felt bad if she'd done that, she didn't want to sound ungrateful. "But dishes was always my favorite. A lot less hustle and bustle, all you really have to do was stay in one place..."

Which left plenty of room for your mind to wander without having to worry about it tripping over anything underfoot.

[furrybluefreak]

"As long as you enjoy it, it's always less of a chore" Kurt said with a nod. It had been mostly him and his parents for much of his life so the idea of things being a family affair was pretty engrained in him as well.

"You been doing alright though? How are your other classes going so far?"

[outofthequiver]

Libby shrugged a little, with the grin on her face a contented one. "Things have been going great," she said. "A little quiet at the clinic...." Especially since no one really seemed to drop in to visit much these last few weeks, but she certainly wasn't about to say anything about that! "...which is probably a good thing, really, I'd rather we weren't busy, and now that I'm more used to having classes, this set of them kind of feels like a breeze. They're all at the beginning of the week, too, so I've had a lot of free time, and I've really been enjoying the Wednesday games!

"How about you?" she then asked, with a curious look over and a tilt of her head. "How are yours going?"

[furrybluefreak]

"Classes are good. Really enjoying them and all. Got a letter from home a few days ago so it was nice to hear from Mutti and Vati. I'm still working on a letter back... there's a lot to write about" he admitted with a smile.

[outofthequiver]

"There always it," Libby admitted, shaking her head a little, but with sort of an awestruck grin. "When I got my phone, I told myself I was only going to use it for emergencies, but now Zo and me are texting practically every day. She's probably sick of all the picture I keep sending and wishes I would just go back to letters."

"She's a big fan, though," she added, "of the Wednesday shirts."

[furrybluefreak]

"Aye, the Wednesday games are fun, both to play and watch! I told Scott and Logan about then after the second week. Now they keep sending me ideas to pass on to Anakin for future games. Though...." Kurt said with a somewhat awkward grin, "I think they forget that some of the participants are students. Logan's suggestions usually involve beer... lots and lots of beer..." Kurt added with a sad laugh and a head shake.

[outofthequiver]

"Oh, I'd definitely have to sit out those ones, then!" said Libby, who had never had a drop of alcohol in her life (or so she thought, anyway, because she had had the punch at the school dances and just thought it tasted a little weird because they just made it different out here) and planned to keep it that way. "But are they anything that you can just switch out with something else? Like juice or soda pop? Or lemonade! Since it's summer."

[furrybluefreak]

"Its Logan... I doubt he knows alternatives exist thanks to his healing factor" Kurt said with a bit of dry laugh. Maybe a little judgey to say but it really wasn't far from the truth. "But I'm sure the school would switch it out for something like lemonade or punch."

[outofthequiver]

"Or," Libby giggled a little, "knowing how those things go, they'd make it something awful for summer! Like....milk! Or hot chocolate!
All that grease last week was terrible!"

She was laughing, though, so it couldn't have been all that bad.

[furrybluefreak]

"I should get out there more often to watch. Not sure I'm always up for the games themselves but it is fun to watch. Bit of schadenfreude now and then... seems to be the actual purpose of most of the games the Dean comes up with anyways" Kurt admitted.

[outofthequiver]

"Schaden...fruede?" Libby asked, head tilted, brow a little furrowed, as she struggled through the unfamiliar word. But at least her pronunciation was pretty good thanks to mostly repeating it with Kurt's accent to help it along!

[furrybluefreak]

"Aye, schadenfreude," Kurt said with a nod as Libby got it right. "Basically, it means 'getting joy or happiness form other's misfortunes'. Like, feeling glad you aren't the one stuck in the traffic jam you pass on the highway. Or that little guilty pleasure you feel when someone gets in trouble and you don't." He gave Libby a small smile, knowing that example would likely hit home a little better for her.

[outofthequiver]

Who did he think she was? Patience?

If there was ever a Hazlett to thrive on schadenfreude, it was that one!

"Oh," said Libby, though she still looked a little bit like she wasn't following. "But that...that's not very nice, though, is it? I'd feel terrible if someone got in trouble and I didn't! Um. Assuming I should have, too, but it's never fun when someone gets in trouble, either way you look at it."

Even if they deserved it, punishment was always the worse part, even when she wasn't involved. Sometimes that even made her feel worse.

[furrybluefreak]

"It's just something most people seem to experience at some point or other" Kurt said with a shrug. "Course, you are definitely not most people" he said making sure to quickly add "And I mean that in the best possible way."

[outofthequiver]

Libby felt a little heat rise to her cheeks at the words, although it had more to do with not really knowing how to respond to something like that.

So she just sort of awkwardly ducked her head for a moment, smiled with soft uncertainty, and eventually said, "I think that kind of goes for both of us."

[furrybluefreak]

"Ah well, if there's one thing I have been called most in my life, it is definitely not 'like most people' to be honest" Kurt said with a laugh.

And there he was falling back into his standard response to somewhat awkward or uncomfortable situations- making it into something to laugh about.

[outofthequiver]

"Probably a whole lot more than even I did," Libby noted. "But I meant it in the best way possible, too."

And her smile went a touch softer, almost apologetic, as if to try to make up for all the times when someone didn't.

[furrybluefreak]

And it was time for Kurt to feel the flush on his face a bit as he tried to figure a response to that.

"I guess that's one reason we get along so well" he offered with a shy grin. "We both know what it is like to be different."

[outofthequiver]

"Too bad only one of us managed to get cool teleportation powers out of the deal, though," Libby teased.

With a reminder to herself that envy was a sin.

[furrybluefreak]

"Well," Kurt said after a moment pause. "Until I came here, I would have given just about anything to be normal and not have their abilities and not look so... different. It was my dependency on the imagine inhibitor that got me into trouble, partly, at my last school, after all."

[outofthequiver]

"...I guess you do have me there," Libby admitted, with that smile softening again into something a bit more sad as she looked over at Kurt. Seemed to think for a moment before adding, "But I'm glad you're here now, where people can actually appreciate you for who you really are, Kurt."

[furrybluefreak]

"Yeah the place is cool, and the people aren't too bad either" Kurt said, giving Libby a wink. "I really think you would get along well with the team back home, though. Especially Storm and Jean!"

[outofthequiver]

The wink managed to pull Libby's grin back with a small shake of her head. And then, more to the point: "I would like to meet them someday. Especially after you've told me so much about them already."