2nd floor common room - Morning

[first_guardian]

Ichigo wasn't much of a cook. It had always been one of his sisters who seemed to take the task upon them. He knew how to make breakfast however, enough not to burn the eggs or the bacon. The eggs were sizzling and he was going to have more than one stain on his t-shirt, but the food would be worth it. He might even be convinced to share if anyone

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[death_of_hope]

The bad thing about your room being next to the common room was the noise and high traffic flow. If you weren't a people-person, sometimes it was overwhelming.

The best part was the smell of coffee on the weekends.

Anemone stuck her head around the door warily, her box of Sugar Bombs clutched tightly. "Hey, private party, or can anyone join in?"

[first_guardian]

"Just don't expect me to make eggs for you and it should be alright," Ichigo said with a grin from where he was sitting at the table by now. He motioned towards the pot of coffee which seemed to be the most popular around here. "Grab some if you'd like."

[death_of_hope]

"Who needs eggs, when I have highly processed sugar?" she joked, coming in and making a beeline for the coffee. "I was going to make pancakes, but, well, I'm out of chocolate chips."

[first_guardian]

Okay, pancakes definitely beat his eggs. "Have you checked the cupboards? Someone seems to be filling them up." He was going to assume it wasn't another student or otherwise he'd just stolen their eggs. Not that he was too worried about that.

[death_of_hope]

"I think it's invisible gnomes," she said seriously, abandoning her ceral to start digging around the cabinets. "I've stayed up once or twice to try and catch them at it, but I never see them."

[first_guardian]

Um...

"You know, that's not fair. I have no idea if you're kidding or not," Ichigo remarked, frowning a little.

[death_of_hope]

"Half the time I don't know if I'm kidding or not," Anemone answered, leaning back enough to grin at him around one of the cupboard doors. "I gave up trying to guess if people were serious or not after my first month here. I just assume everything is equally possible."

[first_guardian]

But that sort of thing was just going to drive him batshit. "As long as they're hygienic gnomes, I suppose," Ichigo commented as he watched Anemone search the cupboards.

[death_of_hope]

Victory! Anemone let out a small cheer and dangled her prize at him. "Pancakes," she announced, going for the other ingredients. "They can be tap-dancing purple gnomes for all I care, as long as they keep refilling the food."

"Hey, you're Kurosaki, right?" she asked, starting to toss things on the counter. "From my ec class? I'm Anemone."

[first_guardian]

No way did he fail to notice a pink haired girl. Yeah okay, this was embarrassing.

"I am," he replied sheepishly. "Sorry, I was distracted by the apron the teacher was wearing."

[death_of_hope]

"Well, it was an ugly apron," Anemone answered practically. "I think it seared my eyes and traumatized my young brain forever."

Hmm...wonder what dried cranberry and chocolate chip pancakes were like. Grinning, she dumped both bags fully into the mix she was whipping up. "I refuse to wear an apron."

[first_guardian]

"Even a frilly one?" Ichigo asked, because it was too easy and he couldn't not.

[death_of_hope]

That earned him a cranberry aimed at his head. "My hair is pink, not blonde. Especially not a frilly one."

[first_guardian]

Ichigo ducked, grinning as the cranberry missed. "Thanks for clarifying, I wasn't sure."

[death_of_hope]

"Yes, well, I understand things like colors and shapes are confusing to newbies," she said dryly, "but I have every confidence you'll master it eventually."

She poured the batter into her frying pan, trying to coax it into funny shapes as it cooked. "Just wait. When dinosaurs wearing frilly aprons invade next week, I'm going to laugh if one of them takes a shine to Mr. Durden."

[first_guardian]

Ichigo snorted and he was rather grateful he wasn't drinking at the time. "You won't be the only one," he commented, letting the dinosaur thing just pass him by. "And thanks, I'm inspired by how much confidence you have in someone you've only talked to once."