Room 505, Friday Evening

[notacokeperson]

Karina hadn't had any idea what the hell to feed Sparkle so she'd gone with pizza and salad. She was picking at some of the salad while waiting for him to show up, and checking the HeroTV forums to see what people were talking about since the season finale was coming up soon

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[myownface]

Earlier in the day, Sparkle had been promised free food. Well, 'free,' if 'free' meant 'in exchange for a CD of opera music Sparkle had picked up weeks ago,' anyhow. Either way, who was he to turn down food?

He'd even decided to behave himself tonight, leaving his backpack in his room. It was a sign for just how much he respected Karina.

He wasn't planning on making off with any of her stuff, see? And he even had the CD in hand when he knocked on her door.

"Someone ask for a fabulous dinner guest tonight?"

[notacokeperson]

"I do like fabulousness," she said, closing out of the forums and sitting up to grin at him. "And you seem the fit the bill, good sir. Are you free tonight, or did you have other plans?"

[myownface]

"Oh, you know. Same old. Sit around with this awesome CD, wishing I could do something to make it qualify as dinner music... Maybe while wearing this new hat I got today? It's real classy."

What with the mouse ears and the polka-dot bow.

[notacokeperson]

"It's very fancy," she said with a straight face. "And it suits you! Please, come in, but don't wake Ethan."

Did you want to deal with a robot baby with a cold, Sparkle? Did you?

"Would this awesome CD happen to be, oh, operatic?" Karina asked. "I hear that goes well with pizza."

[myownface]

"Aids with digestion," Sparkle agreed, holding the CD out to her as he made his way into the room. "Good for, like, tomato sauce, especially. True story. It's science."

Calling it science made it that much more official.

[notacokeperson]

It was very official, if dubious, science.

Karina made grabby hands at the CD and, once it was hers, beamed at him before turning it over to check out the back of the case.

"Tomato sauce is a terrible foe indeed," she said cheerfully. "So are croutons and bacon bits. From the salad."

Because croutons on pizza sounded kinda gross.

[myownface]

Hey, Sparkle would totally sample that.

"Hey, bacon might be a terrible foe, but it's one that I'm totally up for facing off against alone."

Clearly he was already forgetting about his earlier decision to go vegan.

[notacokeperson]

It had been an ill-thought decision anyway.

"Excuse you," she said, "I'm not letting you have all the bacon. I like bacon."

[myownface]

"I guess you should have thought of that before telling me there was bacon involved," Sparkle decided. "I mean, bacon. How can you possibly expect me to restrain myself, Karina?"

How?

[notacokeperson]

"Because you're awesome," she said promptly, "and because you're so awesome, I can share. See? Works out."

Was he really going to argue that point with her?

[myownface]

Sparkle opened his mouth, because, so help him, for a moment he was going to try.

And then be blinked and kind of deflated a little. Wait, what?

"Oh. Well... Okay then. Communal bacon. I can live with that."

[notacokeperson]

"Good," she said smugly, passing him the container with the salad in it. "That way I can also share my footage of the ancient Olympics with you."

Karina grinned at him.

"They did the events naked back then."

[myownface]

There was a long silence at that, before Sparkle reached for the salad and picked a piece of bacon out, popping it into his mouth.

"Holy shit how did you get that?"

WHY WAS HE NOT TAKING THAT CLASS?

[notacokeperson]

"It's from class," she said, grinning at him. "Wonderful, wonderful class. Very educational!"

She lifted her shoulders in a shrug. "Don't think he meant to take us there, given that he gave us all permission to go if we had problems with the nudity."

[myownface]

"... I need to pick classes with more teachers who seriously don't give a fuck," Sparkle decided, before breaking into a grin and bouncing on his toes. "So, come on, let's see your footage, huh?"

Athletes! Naked male athletes! BRING IT.

[notacokeperson]

"Grab the pizza and come sit," she ordered, shaking her hair out and moving over on the bed. "I uploaded it to my laptop already."

For... better viewing. Shut up.