Room 327, Tuesday Morning

[twintuitionist]

Juliet didn't make a habit out of going into the boys' bathroom or anything. That would be skanky. It was just, sometimes in the morning you realized were out of the good hair gel and needed to borrow your brother's, and you couldn't find him so you decided to see if maybe he'd left it lying around.

So you snuck into the boy's room and found a)no

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[child_of_rer]

"Juliet?"

The door was cracked open but Sov knocked anyway, keeping the other hand behind their back, hiding a present.

[twintuitionist]

"Good morning, Sov!" Juliet sounded happy for the distraction. "Come in! How are you? I think I lost track of you at the picnic."

[child_of_rer]

"There were a lot of people." Sov nudged the door open, and a little nervously extended the promised gift. Best to get over with that at once.

It was a small wooden box, awkwardly crafted and with a lid not quite fitting.

"I made it for you."

[twintuitionist]

"Thank you," Juliet said, reaching out to take hold of the box. She stepped back, gesturing Sov in, before taking a seat on her bed and trying to open that ill-fitting lid.

[child_of_rer]

The box was empty inside, and just large enough to hold some pieces of jewellery.

"I worked in the carpentry workshop," Sov explained, sitting down next to Juliet. "I made that in the evenings.

[twintuitionist]

"Oh, that's ..." Juliet couldn't quite hide her confusion. She was happy Sov had thought of her and made something for her, but the box was a lot simpler than what she was used to when someone gave her a present.

"I'll keep it on my bureau," she decided. "It'll look really nice there."

[child_of_rer]

Noting Juliet's reaction, Sov wondered what they had done wrong. You didn't give presents? Or this kind of present? They decided not to ask. That would just make it more awkward.

"So," Sov said, trying to think of a way to change the subject. "What classes are you taking?"

[twintuitionist]

The problem was that Juliet was spoiled, really. In a decade she'd understand how special the box was, but right then...

She was grateful for the change of subject.

"Just two," she said. "Ethics and Friendship. I'm TA in Friendship. Have you met the pink pony professor yet?"

[child_of_rer]

"The pink pony is a professor?" Sov sounded less surprised than they would once had of course. "I'm taking Bringing Literature to Life and Fighting for Funsies. The first one is a lot about fighting and the second one I'm not sure why I ended up in." They didn't sound very pleased about this.

[twintuitionist]

"She's the best professor. Her name is Pinkie Pie," Juliet enthused. "... and yeah, I can't really imagine you in a fighting class. How bad is it?"

[child_of_rer]

"I don't think I'll learn much," Sov replied. That should equal 'very bad'. "I mean, I don't really enjoy fighting, and then we were supposed to discuss 'war' as if it was something that just had to happen.

No, Sov wasn't pleased.

"Pink pony professors sound a lot better."

[twintuitionist]

"Ugh. Maybe you could just ask to switch," Juliet suggested. "Ethics aren't really my thing, but my mom wanted me to take one serious class. It's not bad so far."

Her opinion might change once she'd been shipwrecked with a lemur.

[child_of_rer]

"I think I would have liked that class," Sov said. "But it got full. Anyway, I suppose I'll just try and make the best of it." They paused. "I wanted to ask you something, too."

[twintuitionist]

"Okay," Juliet said, a little hesitantly. "Ask away. I'm an open book."

[child_of_rer]

"I need to buy some new clothes, and I'm not really... good at deciding what to wear," Sov said, a little nervously. "I wanted to ask if you'd help me."

Because they had complete confidence in Juliet's knowledge in this matter.

[twintuitionist]

Sov was right to be confident.

"That I can do," she said. "Do you like boy clothes these days, or girl clothes? You're a Winter. You should wear more red."