Room 230 [afternoon]

[dabblinginbitch]

Ramona had spent her time quietly recently because I am still without the internets because frankly, she'd felt she'd needed it. She'd had an insane summer (by her standards), and it seemed only right that her senior year be allowed to kick off in comforting boredom

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[tripledmyself]

After spending some time in the common room, Nathan made his way down one more floor and popped up in Ramona's open door. He tilted his head and kind of enjoyed quietly watching her a second...

...which was weird. He shook that off. "Where the fuck have you been? Did you contract a contagious case of herpes? If so, stay away. No cold sores on this beautiful face."

[dabblinginbitch]

"You're so charming," Ramona said, shaking her head and exhaling out the side of her mouth as she looked up at him. And shh, maybe she was kind of happy to see him. "Miss me? I've just been doing the antisocial thing, that's all."

[tripledmyself]

"Missing you would mean I had to notice you were gone." Ignore that he'd just kind of given that away. "I miss no one and nothing. I'm a lone wolf."

[dabblinginbitch]

"Sure you are," Ramona replied, flicking away some of her ash. "Come over here, Mr. Lone Wolf."

[tripledmyself]

"You gonna ask nicely?" he wondered even if he was already stepping into her room. "I only like to be ordered around during sex. That's when it's hot."

[dabblinginbitch]

"Who says this isn't just part of foreplay?" Ramona asked. "But anyway - please come over here so I can say hi to you, Nathan."

[tripledmyself]

Nathan smiled at her and then flopped down beside her. He'd been doing a lot of flopping today.

"Why are you feeling so antisocial?" he wondered. "Some twat say something bitchy to you at the picnic?"

[dabblinginbitch]

"Didn't even go to the picnic," she replied, leaning over to kiss him. It'd been a bit since she had, and she liked greeting him that way, anyway. She was sort of ignoring how girlfriendish it was of her to do so -- a lot of things she did around him seemed to fall into that category -- but he hadn't really protested any of those tendencies even if he was still taking his sweet fucking time figuring his shit out.

Ramona was patient. Really.

[tripledmyself]

Hey, Nathan didn't mind a kiss if that's what she wanted to do. He wasn't even thinking of the signals and shit that gave off. He liked kissing so he was cool with it.

"Why didn't you go to the picnic?" he asked when he'd pulled away. "Red river running?"

[dabblinginbitch]

"Ew," she said, because what else did you say to that? "No, I just didn't feel like it. I kinda just wanted to start out senior year normal and quiet. Summer was...not either of those things."

[tripledmyself]

"Well, I didn't go either so you were supposed to go and tell me about all the tiny children," Nathan said, rolling onto his back and sighing. "I was fucking hungover."

[dabblinginbitch]

"Any particular reason for this binge?" she asked, putting out her cigarette before rolling onto her stomach and across him a little to play with his curls.

[tripledmyself]

"I wanted to?" Was that a good reason? Nathan shrugged. "I don't know, I guess I just felt like a little bender. I got drunk, pissed in some bloke's yard and had a merry ole time. It was a nice little celebration for the end of the summer."

[dabblinginbitch]

"Drinking alone is sad," Ramona replied, tugging on a curl to watch it spring back to his head. "You should've called me. I would have come out of antisocialism for you."

[tripledmyself]

"Who said I was drinking alone?"

And before she could get ideas, he quickly continued.

"There was this bloke next to me at the bar who had no fucking teeth and showed me how to slurp my drink for maximum taste! Of course, he also licked the bar and took off his pants after two drinks so maybe I shouldn't listen to him."

[dabblinginbitch]

Yeah, it was good that he clarified because that got an immediate raise of her eyebrows. She didn't lower them as she listened, though she added, "At least you're making new friends."