Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Night

[the_merriest]

Rikku was chilling out in the third floor common room, in her PJs and with some of her birthday gifts in tow.

Hey, Hamlet had gotten her a candy basket, that meant he wanted her to have it, right? And some Lucas guy had brought her a whole case of some neat-tasting stuff to wash it down with

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[lilpunkinbelly]

"Rikku! You're back!" Dawn ran over to give her a squeezy tackle-glomp hug.

[the_merriest]

"Dawn!!!" The hug back was every bit and squeezy and glompy. With some bouncing in. "Yeah! I'm all ... I'm okay, I mean not okay but better, yeah? Oh! And Jude's a guy again! And ..." Her eyes widened and she blushed some. "And nothing just you know, that's good, right? Yeah! Okay! Hey! You should change into your PJs, too! I have candy! And some of this stuff! It tastes neat! Yeah? You should try it!"

That was weird. Rikku almost felt like she was talking even faster than usual.

[lilpunkinbelly]

Dawn noted the bouncing with relief. It meant that Rikku was healing, which was good. "Yay for you being better and Jude being a guy and what was the blush about?"

She looked down at her shorts and tank top. "What kind of candy and oh my god, is that Jolt? I love that, but I was only allowed to have a couple of sips once because Buffy said it would stunt my growth, although, hi, irony, table for Buffy there, because she's all wee and I'm not, y'know?"

"Do I really need my jammies?"

[the_merriest]

"Nothing! A little nothing! Something! Okay, uh, Jude was kinda a guy and we were in Denmark without roomies and so he was all, you know, uh, but nothing bad happened, I mean, nothing happened but maybe a little something happened but that sounds so bad but Dawn, oh man, and you probably don't want to hear about that oh my gosh never mind I'm sorry!" Rikku was blushing harder now and bouncing and her usual rambling was through the stratosphere.

"ALL KINDS of candy, there's just a huge bouquet and it was from H-" she almost stuttered and then closed her eyes and forced the word out "Hamlet and I can't think of anything he'd want me to do with it more than get high on sugar and watch movies and be an idiot and I don't know what it is but it tastes nifty and kinda makes me feel all head-rush-y but in a good way, you know?" Deeeeeep breath. "And you don't need jammies but you can get them if you want them because jammies are soooooo great, yeah?"

[multiplez]

At about the same time as a Z wandered into the fourth floor common room upstairs, another one entered the third floor common room. "Hey, Rikku," said Z. "Whatcha got there?"

[the_merriest]

"Candy!" Rikku bounced. A lot. "Lots of it! Have some! And some of this stuff! I have a lot! Wanna share? Do you have PJs? We should totally watch movies! How are you?!"

She stopped for breath and giggled.

[multiplez]

Z was guessing Rikku had already had quite a bit of candy. "Sure!" she said. "I could get PJs! Hang on a second." She left then, and returned a few minutes later wearing the Truly Unfortunate Pajamas of the Future. "Ta-da!"

[the_merriest]

"Ooooooooooh!" Rikku applauded. Because being an Al Bhed meant she had Truly Unfortunate fashion sense anyway. "They're nifty! Mine have machina! Have some candy! And some of this stuff! It's supergreat!!!"

She'd had a lot of candy, yes.

[girlzippo]

"Hey, Rikku," Charlie said, coming in after wandering down from 4th. "Oooo, candy?"

[the_merriest]

"You betcha!" Rikku announced, bouncing and waving to Charlie. "Courtesy of an old friend of mine. Grab some PJs, we're gonna get high on sugar and watch movies and be stupid!"

[girlzippo]

"Awesome! I'll be right back!"

Charlie got back in her pj's, and grabbed a Jolt before lying down on a cushion. "What movies, and what's the occasion? Just the free candy?" She took some and unwrapped it, popping it in her mouth.

[the_merriest]

"Any movies, so long as they're fun ones! Or bad ones that are so bad they're good like zombie ones! This is an anti-emo event! That's the occasion! We're kicking bad moods to the curb!" Rikku delivered this line with as much bounce as possible. And a few swigs of Jolt.

[saltandammo]

Dean sometimes seemed to have a sixth sense to free food, especially junk food. this would be one of those times.

"Hey, candy," he observed with a hopeful grin .

[the_merriest]

"Totally!" Rikku bounced. "Come in, have some! There's some of this stuff too and I don't know what it is but it's soooooooo good." She gestured vaguely to the case of Jolt, which already had a couple of cans missing. "Come party with us!"

[saltandammo]

Dean grabbed some candy and glanced over at the Jolt cola. "That's pretty much just a caffiene delivery system," he advised around a mouthful of sugar.

[the_merriest]

"Oh!" Rikku stared at the can. "That's good, right?! Caffeine like in the mochaccinos!? Whoa. I'm gonna start talking fast, huh? Wait, I think I am already. Hey, I kinda feel better, though. Is there, like, a downside to caffeine? Do you know?!"

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke poked his head into the common room. "You're not going to call me Luuuuuuuuuuuuke again, are you?" he teased.

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled and reached over to Luuuuuuuuuke for a hug. "Not unless you ask nicely! Hey, how come they had magic weapons of peace and mellowness? That's so cool!"

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke frowned and snagged a can of soda. "The weapons looked like mine. It was weird."

He chugged back the whole can in a few huge gulps.

That would end well.

[the_merriest]

"You have weapons like that too!?!" Rikku gasped. "How do they put cosmic enlightenment in a weapon?!? Isn't it kinda paradaroxical, like, to have something that you can hit people with and it's gonna show you how people are all the same and beautiful and you shouldn't kill 'em?!"

Another chug of Jolt, woo!