Second floor common room, Monday lunch time

[lovemykilt]

Priestly had had every intention of hiding in his room after his class today, but he didn't have any food in the room, and, well, Malcolm hadn't exactly eaten much while lost in the closet yesterday.

Holy crap, how was he ever going to live that down? He'd figured out quick enough that other students had had the same sort of experience over the

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[new_to_liirness]

"May I have some?"

He figured he'd get straight to the food since he'd had an embarrassing weekend, Priestly'd possibly had one, and not discussing it was the best option.

"It smells very good."

[lovemykilt]

Priestly could do not talking about it. "Definitely, man, help yourself."

[new_to_liirness]

"Thank you," he said, doing just that.

"Would you like me to bring down some of the lemonade I have in the icebox upstairs?"

[lovemykilt]

"Sure, man, that sounds great."

[new_to_liirness]

He nodded quickly before heading upstairs and returning with just that. He didn't bring cups, though, figuring this common room had them as well.

"There's another one up there if there's a rush. I just didn't want to trust myself with it.

"Tend towards clumsiness sometimes."

Like when he was out of sorts, which a weekend as a bitchy French singing widower can do to a person.

[lovemykilt]

"Hey, no problem. Could probably rustle up some soda or something, too."

[new_to_liirness]

"You could," he said, "I just don't have any."

He wanted to ask--

"How have you been with the obvious exception of this weekend which I don't think we should talk about for everyone's sake?"

[lovemykilt]

Priestly shuddered even thinking about it. "God, yeah. But, uh, other than this weekend, I've been good. Got a date with Claudia."

[new_to_liirness]

"That's good," he said before realizing how it sounded, "or rather, I'm glad for you. Sounds nice. Are you taking her to the dance?"

[lovemykilt]

"There's a dance?"

[new_to_liirness]

"There was last year," he admitted with a scratch to one ear.

[lovemykilt]

"Man, I should get on that. She's definitely gonna want me to ask her to that."

[new_to_liirness]

"It's always good to ask. Make sure that's clear and all."

He had a terrible tendency to just sort of assume on things.

[lovemykilt]

"Yeah, we've only gone out once. And she totally freaked over -- you know, the thing we're avoiding talking about."

[new_to_liirness]

"I can certainly understand being upset by the thing that we're avoiding speaking of," he said with a nod.

"This time was slightly better than last time, thankfully, but still."

He took a sip of his lemonade and took a bite of the sandwich.

"It's very good."

[lovemykilt]

"It's happened before?" Oh crap. "That means it could happen again."