5th Floor Common Room, Monday Early Evening

[flowering_mind]

Really, she ought to be asleep despite the ridiculously early hour. A weekend spent with little sleep and using loads of energy meant by all rights that she should be dead to the world at the moment. Ino had spent about an hour after her last class staring up at the ceiling before giving that idea up for a lost cause and wandered out to the common

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[flashesforinfo]

The whole 'not her floor' thing didn't really matter to Angela when she was looking for entertainment, and she was perfectly comfortable wandering in one floor up and dropping down into one of the arm chairs near Ino.

"Oh, I remember this one!" It wasn't that often people were watching movies she knew from when she was little. Time differences weren't always good for that.

A moment later she added a belated, "Hey Ino."

[elephantgadget]

Helen nodded to her. "Hello." She wasn't sure if she'd ever met her before, but since she was working on the whole getting out more thing, she thought it only right to reach out.

[flashesforinfo]

Angela raised a hand in a little wave of greeting. "It's been a while," she said, smiling easily. "Brought here by the sound of people or the smell of popcorn?"

[elephantgadget]

"The popcorn," Helen admitted, blushing a bit. "And perhaps the comfort of my old common room."

[elephantgadget]

Even though Helen's room was now on the fourth floor, she tended to gravitate back to her old common room. Tonight the smell of popcorn drew her and she nodded when she saw one of the girls from the ridiculous class on difficult women.

"Hello," she said politely. "May I watch with you?"

[flowering_mind]

"Absolutely," Ino said, shooting Helen a smile. "Come in, sit down, steal some popcorn."

Or have it offered, but stealing was more fun to say.

[elephantgadget]

"Is it stealing if one offers?" Helen asked curiously.

[flowering_mind]

She wrinkled her nose cheerfully.

"Semantics are only fun if you're using them to get your way," she said impishly. "If you like, though, I could say you're allowed one bit of popcorn and then you could steal more than that and semantics might be satisfied?"

By pre-meditated stealing of offered popcorn. That was a... special bit of logic. Oh, Ino.

[thatsamilkshake]

For once not laden with baked goods (because she hadn't had dinner yet or even decided what she wanted), Francine wandered in at the sound of the familiar movie theme.

"Hi, guys!" She glanced at the screen while heading for the smell of popcorn couch. "Ooh, good, it's not too far in. You haven't hit the scary parts yet."

[flowering_mind]

Ino shifted over so she wasn't taking up half the couch--it was just polite, yes.

"Hi! There's scary parts?" Ino echoed. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

Or maybe an interesting thing, really, but she hadn't seen this movie before.

...Ino really needed to watch more movies, yes.

[thatsamilkshake]

"They're not like...creepy gross blood and guts scary?" Francine answered, plopping down on the empty end of the couch. "But there's a monster. And their world stops being real a little bit at a time. That always freaked me out."

[flowering_mind]

Ino blinked at her, pushing the popcorn down that way in silent invitation.

"Stops being real?"

Okay, that was going to freak her out.

[not_a_parakeet]

There were worse reasons to stop in a common room filled with cute girls than 'it was on the way to the roof, right?'

It was even a believable excuse, clad in that heavy jacket like Warren was.

... Yes, he'd made a handwavey mad dash to the Perk this morning to retrieve it, once he'd realized that the snarling green things were gone.

"Oh, wow," he commented as he strode into the room and leaned over a little to see the television better, "this movie is ancient."

[elephantgadget]

"Is it?" Helen said curiously. "I thought it was the black and white movies that were the old ones."

[not_a_parakeet]

"Well," Warren reasoned, glancing at the girl and giving her a bit of a sheepish smile, "it's older than I am. That has to count for something."

It was slightly older for him, being from the not-too-distant future, and all. Supposedly.

[elephantgadget]

She looked at him assessingly and nodded. "I see. And yes, I suppose it would."

She blushed a little. "I'm sorry. I should have introduced myself. I'm Helen."

[exspeedydotcom]

Roy walked into the room, said, "Yo," to the occupants, and headed for the fridge without pausing. He came back holding a bag of frozen peas to his right shoulder with his left hand. Ahhhh. He carefully settled into a chair and asked, "Oh, hey, what are we watching?"

[flowering_mind]

"The Continuous Tale!" Ino chirped. "Which is apparently ancient history to some people but I ain't never seen it so we're watching it. Hi!"

Also, Ino had been here first and had the remote.

[exspeedydotcom]

"I haven't seen it, either," Roy admitted. "Heard of it, but I didn't exactly watch a lot of movies as a kid. Hi back!"

[flowering_mind]

"I don't normally watch many," she answered lightly. "But I'm too tired and can't focus on anything I'd normally do, so this seemed like a good idea and the cover looked interesting."

There'd been a fuzzy flying thing on the cover, okay?

"Do you have name?" Ino asked, tilting her head back to get a better look at him. "And did you want some popcorn?"