5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Night

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After a terrible day in class, Kathy just wanted to do nothing more than forget that today had ever happened. That, combined with the fiercest hunger pangs she'd ever had, had her limping down the hall to the common room on her floor, ordering more pizzas than she ever had in her life. And then some Chinese food. And a bit of Mexican to go along

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"Jesus fuck," Sparkle whistled as he stepped into the common room, ever vigilant in his quest for free snacks. "Did I miss the party, or what?"

It kind of looked as though the ravenous hordes had already been through, plundered and pillaged what they could find, and then left, was the thing.

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"Ummm," Kathy looked down at her lap, where significant inroads had already been made in her fourth pizza. "Uhh...there's plenty to share?"

Way to dodge that question, Kathy! No one would ever guess what you were up to!

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"No kidding?" Well, then Sparkle was going to help himself to a quesadilla, thank you much. And a container of kung pao chicken. "Don't mind if I do, then."

And with that in hand and contemplating stealing a slice of her pizza, he took a seat.

"So, looks like I might've jumped the gun a little when I nicknamed you Mouse, huh?"

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"Why?" Kathy asked, shifting a little so he could get to the food without jostling her ankle, which was still resting on the table with ice on it. "I mean, I'm okay with that, but why?"

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"Mice nibble. What's up with the whole..." Sparkle set his Chinese food down on the coffee table, and waved a hand at the assortment of food set out before them. "This is enough for the population of the dorms, like, twice over."

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Kathy didn't meet his eyes. "I was just hungry and couldn't figure out what I wanted to eat? Haven't you ever been that way before? So hungry everything sounds good?"

And then so hungry you ate four pizzas and everything else and were now reaching for a container of egg rolls and beef teriyaki?

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"Mouse, I grew up that hungry."

He reached for the chicken again, shrugged, and started to dig in.

"Pretty sure I would've exploded or something by now, though."

Juuust saying.

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So long as he didn't directly address it, Kathy could keep pretending that she had no idea what he was talking about. Exploding? Okay, kind of a non-sequitur after his comment about being hungry, but she kinda figured Sparkle was like that.

Because those two statements obviously went together, rather than him addressing something else.

"Well, that's what happened to me tonight. I kinda figured I needed all the comfort food, you know?"

Seriously. All of it.

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Sparkle's bitchface was an epic one, here.

"Okay... comfort from what, then?"

Seriously, Kathy. You were trying to dance around the topic at the master of dancing around the topic. You were going to have to try harder than that.

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"I made an ass of myself in class," Kathy said stubbornly. "Fell down and started to cry. It was embarrassing."

Take that, Mr. Bitchface. Nothing weird about ordering a bit of comfort food when you were feeling down!

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"Okay, fair enough. So, who helped you with the first three pizzas?"

Yeah, try dancing around that one, Kathy.

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"..."

Well there was Kathy without a suitable reply.

"...Friends? That I...totally...have?"

Gold star, Kathy.

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Sparkle was super-convinced!

"Your good buddy the garbage disposal?"

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"No!" Kathy sounded horrified. "I'm not gonna waste perfectly good food like that!"

She hadn't had anything like the childhood that Sparkle had, but her mother was death on two legs if she thought her daughters were being 'wasteful.'

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"So you're telling me you ate it yourself."

Sparks was so on to you, Kathy.

Or else he was just being an ass because your reactions were hilarious.

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"And if I did?" Kathy grumbled. "So what? You gonna tell me I can't be super hungry sometimes?"

Though she was setting down the mostly-empty box of egg rolls to take stock of everything she'd eaten. And going a little pale.

"Jesus," she whispered.