Room 322, Thursday Night

[living_endless]

Didi wasn't always much of a reader -- she tended to be more interested in living life than in reading about it -- but it was too hot to live life today.

Too hot, in fact, to do much of anything, returned ankh or no returned ankh. (Though she was still grateful enough for her necklace that her fingers kept skittering to it at odd moments.)

Sprawled out on her bed, she had a bowl of frozen grapes and a thick paperback novel with a girl popping out of her dress on the front. She kept making scoffing noises at various implausibilities in the text. The author had an interesting view of human flexibility.

Her door was open and she was facing it, the better to see anyone pass through the halls.

[OOC: It has been forever since I made a room post, man. Open!]

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[weldedtomyspine]

"Can I read that after you're done?" Jaime asked with a smiiiirk (not just a smirk) as he walked into the room with a pair of milkshakes.

One of them might be for his roommate. Or maybe he just really wanted milkshakes.

[living_endless]

"If you know anything about pirates it's going to make you insane," Didi warned, with a slight smile as she looked up. "But that's not no. Welcome home, honey."

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime chuckled. "I hope dinner's on the table," he teased.

He held up a milkshake in each hand. "Chocolate, or vanilla?"

[living_endless]

Didi nudged the bowl of grapes with her foot. "Are grapes and a milkshake dinner?" she asked rhetorically. "And thanks for the milkshake -- chocolate please?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"Who said it was for you?" Jaime teased. "I just wanted your advice on which one to start with."

Despite his words, he held the drink out for her. "And sounds like dinner of champions to me."

[living_endless]

"Well, I am an ice cream expert," Didi offered modestly as she took the cup. "Wise of you to come to me for assistance."

She added, "What were you doing out, anyhow? It's about a billion degrees outside."

[weldedtomyspine]

"It's not that bad," Jaime countered, sounding amused. "Though maybe I only say that because I'm from Texas."

El Paso was hot. This was... well, kind of hot, too. But whatever.

[living_endless]

"Then you have an unfair advantage," Didi groused and took a long slurp of milkshake. "But an appreciated one. What have you been up to, anyhow? I never saw anybody in the cabins."

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"I know. I thought I'd run into people all the time, but..." He shrugged.

"But I've been taking some correspondence courses this summer. Trying to fill in my transcript so that my college apps don't just say I took Interstellar Starship Repair." Hey... that'd be an awesome class. Jaime'd totally take that.

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"It might be a little hard to convince colleges that was a real class," Didi said thoughtfully. "Even if you'd get an easy A."

The whole topic had her wondering what she'd do if she was still human when she graduated. An Endless in college? That was just a weird idea.

"I had my Dogma final yesterday. Loki told us we could leave and then watched what we actually did." Weird class. "All that's left is art."

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime blinked. "What?" That sounded very weird.

"And I'm done after my logic final today." He grinned. He'd really enjoyed that class.

And the teacher was hot. Not that he cared. Really!

[living_endless]

Didi groaned. "Loki, the guy who teaches Dogma? His whole thing is making us challenge authority. So basically he was trying to make us either leave --- which you normally can't do during class, or stay -- which he didn't make us do."

"I stayed," she added. "An hour isn't that long."

And she liked being mildly unnerving.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Did you just sit there and smile creepily at him?" Jaime asked. Because that'd be awesome, and since his roommate was awesome, it wouldn't surprise him.

[living_endless]

"My smile is not creepy," Didi said indignantly.

Which meant yes.

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime laughed. "You're right, sorry."

"Still awesome."

"I've got to say that I'm glad we're back in the dorms. Not that the cabins are super-sucky or anything, but... I miss my awesome roomie."

[living_endless]

"And she misses you," Didi told him, propping herself up on her elbows to slurp at the milkshake. "I feel like I have to pretend to be a neat person in the cabins. It's weird. Oh -- did you meet my sister?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"I think I met her at the picnic," Jaime answered with a frown of concentration. "She was very..." Um... how did you describe her without sounding critical?

[living_endless]

"Unusual?" Didi tried. She probably wouldn't be offended by whatever euphemism Jaime picked. "She is delirium."

[weldedtomyspine]

"Unusual works," Jaime decided with a smile. "She seemed nice, though. I mean, you know, even if she was confusing."

[living_endless]

"She's both those things," Didi said. "Nice. And confusing. It's good having her here."

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime thought about that, then nodded. "Family's pretty cool, huh?" He missed his, so... he understood that.

[living_endless]

"Definitely," Didi agreed. "Thinking about heading back to El Paso to see yours anytime soon?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"Yeah," Jaime nodded. "Some weekend sometime soon."

He cocked his head. "You interested in coming with?"

[living_endless]

"... sure," Didi said, surprised and pleased. "I'll behave myself and everything. Is Dinah coming?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"If I don't want to be in the doghouse, yeah. And maybe Momoko. I've sort of been promising her a visit." He grinned. "My parents want to know what school's really like, anyway, so that'd be fun..."