Third Floor Common Room - Thursday Evening

[imissmydolphin]

Lucas had a giant bowl of popcorn and was sitting in front of the TV. There was a documentary on, but the remote control was out of reach, so if anyone grabbed it they could probably flick over to something else.

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[stocksgrrl]

Turtle was feeling restless and running up and down the halls (not her own, of course, because, hey, she had to live with those people), and whizzed by the common room, stopped, and then backtracked, with exaggerated backwards walking gestures. She stopped, breathless, at the door. "People!" And then moved in and flopped on the couch with a deep exhale. "Whooo..." She fanned herself a little. Running up and down the halls could be exhausing.

[imissmydolphin]

"Been running a marathon?"

[stocksgrrl]

"Not quite," Turtle said with a huff of air, lifting a finger, but only getting it half-raised before dropping it back down lazily, "but close. These halls? A lot longer than they look."

[imissmydolphin]

"They seem like an obstacle course. Squirrel here, floormate gone crazy there."

[stocksgrrl]

Turtle giggled. "Random moving piece of furniture," she shrugged. "Y'know. Good for keeping on your toes."

Once her breath had caught up with her and she was relaxing a little into the ooh-comfy of the couch, Turtle sort of paid a little more attention to who she was talking to, saw it was a relatively cute boy that she didn't know, and let a smile slide onto her face. "I'm Turtle, by the way."

[imissmydolphin]

He offered the bowl of popcorn. "I'm Lucas. Is your name really Turtle or is it a nickname?"

[stocksgrrl]

Turtle's hand dug into the bowl and appriciately grabbed a handful, beginning to munch before answering. "If I say nickname," she said, "are you going to pester me about what it really is?"

[imissmydolphin]

"No," Lucas admitted with a lopsided grin. "I was just wondering. I've heard some pretty weird names since I got here and I'm making a mental list."

[stocksgrrl]

"In that case," she nodded, "it's a nickname. Had it since I was little, because my older sister thought I looked like a turtle."

[imissmydolphin]

Lucas stifled a laugh. "I don't see it, but I hear siblings have overactive imaginations when it comes to their own family. You don't look at all turtle-like to me."

[stocksgrrl]

"Really?" Turtle's head titled a little, and then she stretched out her neck, because she knew that was the most turtle like feature. "My neck is kinda, like when a turtle pokes its head out of the shell, and, I dunno, Angela always mentions my nose, too." And she gave it a little poke. She shrugged. "I dunno, I guess it's a good thing you don't see it? Turtles are cute an' all, but not that cute."

[imissmydolphin]

"Turtles are cool," Lucas said quickly. "I guess I'm not all that great at seeing human-animal similarities. That might change if Professor Frizzle ever does a weird class and turns us into animals."

[stocksgrrl]

"That's why you're familiar-ish! Science!" Turtle grinned; she was usually too busy picking on Nova or Hikaru to notice much else in that class, sometimes.

"That would be an awesome class. But, y'know, I've already turned into an animal."

She seemed very proud of that.

[imissmydolphin]

"You have?" Lucas asked, surprised. "What animal?"

[stocksgrrl]

Turtle's grin was wry as she looked at him. "Three guesses."

[imissmydolphin]

He realized how stupid the question was. "Marmoset? Puffer fish?" he grinned.