Room 323 [Monday, Afternoon]

[comeoutwrong]

Funny how what felt like hours of throwing the girl around yesterday had barely put a dent in her energy, and yet an early morning and an hour or so of class today had completely exhausted her. Maybe it was getting her into to plenty of leapfrog and hopscotch... Or maybe it was learning not to go along with endless requests for tea parties and sugar.

Well, whatever, Adele was currently crashed out asleep with her mouth open, and using Effy as a cushion. Tempted as she was to sneak off for a smoke, for now, she was basically stuck, cause moving was only going to wake her up again. It was actually quiet. Hadn't got that for the best part of a weekend. It was something to make the most of for however long it actually lasted.

Meantime, her phone was going to have to do for entertainment. People to text, games to play... few pictures to take (yeah yeah, of her kid). That sort of thing.

[[Open door, open post, etc etc. I'm around tonight and bored.]]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"That is because she's a kid," Alex enunciated, making another face. "That doesn't make her more honest. Everyone was cute as a kid. That doesn't mean they maintained that when they got older."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"I've heard kids are more truthful. Less filters." Not every kid was an Effy sort who clammed up and gave people nothing. Most of them said everything that entered their little heads.

"Less embarrassment. Less likely to think about what other people might do with what they say."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Do you want this kid out there, telling all my secrets and then watching people laugh at me?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "I'd have to tell them that you were involved in the tea party too, you know."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy shrugged, with an air of complete nonchalance. "So what if people know?" she wondered. "I was indulging a tiny child. How horrible of me."

"And got to see you play tea parties. Totally worth it."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I was not playing tea party," he argued, shaking his head. "I was the server. I was like a male barista. There were no tea parties or tea cups or doilies or anything like that touching me."

What a liar.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

The smug look on Effy's face portrayed approximately how much she agreed with that statement.

"It's too late. Been corrupted now. Never again can you say you're a tea party virgin." She was sure he'd used that phrase so often up to now.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm gonna take a picture of this scene right here and see about sending it to your friend back home," Alex told her, already reaching for her phone. "What's her name? Pandora? I bet she'd loved it."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Fuck off. You can't retaliate for something I haven't done," she told him, and reached to try and smack his hand away in the least disturbing way possible (for the sake of the napping child on her lap, not him).

Making the mere suggestion did not count as action or guilt.

"Be nice."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"This is plenty nice!" Alex decided, managing to take a few shots with his phone before she'd smacked at his hand. "I think everyone deserves to see this softer side of you."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"This is the side of me wants to preserve my peace and quiet," she countered. "What's wrong with that?" Yes, it was also the softer side, but she preferred to play up other aspects.

"I'm just a little more... circumspect, with my definition of 'everyone'." Basically limiting it to him. Possibly her roommate should he appear.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Did I say there was anything wrong with it?" Alex wondered, amused at her slight defensiveness. "No, I did not. I'm just pointing it out since you're pointing out my tea parties."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"I never threatened to tattle on your new love of girly games," she pointed out. Just... reminded him that she'd seen it. Because that was fun. "Promised I'd keep your kid-friendly tendencies to myself, didn't I?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but who knows if you'll work your evil ways through the kid?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "You could be that evil."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Like you said. Probably not going to be around that much longer," Effy pointed out, running a finger lightly over the girl's hair. "Sure I'll manage to repress my evil ways for however long that is."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like you might even miss her," Alex observed, smiling. "Be a little smitten with the kid that might never happen."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy shot him a glance, shrugging as her gaze darted away again. "Not so bad," she allowed. "Kind of cute. Specially when she's sleeping." Cute and quiet. Bonus.

"Just don't think 'miss' is the right word." Because she in no way wanted to keep the kid. But it was kind of uplifting to be around that kind of enthusiasm.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What's the word, then?" Alex asked curiously. "Won't forget?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Fairly sure I won't." But no, still not really the description she'd have picked. Instead she hitched another small shrug.

"Is kind of nice. Knowing there's some not completely fucked future out there."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex snickered and leaned back, not sure what he thought of that. "It's kind of fucking bizarre to me. I can't ever see myself without the fucked up shit that surrounds me. It's just impossible to picture. I'd freak out if it wasn't there, I think."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"I can't imagine it for me either," she admitted. "Always figured I wouldn't ever do all this--" she vaguely indicated small-child-wards. "In any reality. Never been the 'happy families' sort." Even aside from thinking she'd probably completely fuck any kids she had up (which was a pretty strong reason to avoid them), she never really thought she'd fall for anyone enough to stick around that long.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm apparently just irresistible in three separate places to you," he said, trying to lighten the mood a bit. "Two kids and here. I'm just like your magnet or something."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy shot him a little smirk. "Thought you were well aware of that already." She had a certain weakness when it came to him. "Took you until now to figure that out?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Nope," he said, shaking his head, "but it's always nice to reiterate the fact every so often, isn't it? I wouldn't want you to forget."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Long as you remember it's not all me." Because she was not getting implicated in all this by herself. His kids too. Took more than just her to end up with those.

"All these yous can't stay away from me either."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, yeah," Alex said, not willing to admit that out loud or very obviously. "I mean, you are pretty hot. I'd be stupid not to come around, right?"