Room 417, Wednesday afternoon

[fates_jaye]

Jaye gets back from photography, already struggling with her purse in an attempt to get to her cell phone.



"Hello?" Jaye asks, trying to get the phone before the person hangs up rather than check the caller ID.

"Hello, sweetheart," Karen greets her smoothly.

Ack. "Hi, Mom."

"I heard from Mahandra that you were coming back into town next weekend?"

Ack ack. "Well, you know, it's her birthday," Jaye winces, already facepalming. At herself or the conversation, maybe both.

"I'm sure I just missed your call," Karen continues. "Or there's something wrong with the answering machine. Or my voicemail."

"I was going to call," says Jaye, who totally wasn't.

"Well, you'll have to get us all of your travel information so your father can pick you up. You'll get right on that, won't you?"

There goes staying at Mahandra's. Dammit. "Yeah, right on it."

"Good. I'll see you next weekend, then."

"Yeah," Jaye sighs, and hangs up without a goodbye. Maybe she should have warned Mahandra about that not-telling-the-Tylers thing.



[Omg, I have a few hours until I have to be anywhere! Door's open, come play!]

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory was bored.

So she went up to Jaye's room and knocked on the doorframe. "Hi! Have I missed anything fun in the last like, five days?"

[fates_jaye]

"Spa," says Jaye who was totally there through the whole thing omg. "Bad shark movies. Have fun?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I like sharks," Rory said sadly. "And no, not really. I met many cute boys though. And got drunk."

[fates_jaye]

"You didn't flash anyone, did you?" asks Jaye. She doubts Rory did that. Because Jaye wasn't there to encourage her.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"No, I wore a big, fluffy dress," she replied. "I didn't miss boykissing, did I? The guys from Yale weren't all that into the idea when I explained it."

[fates_jaye]

"If you missed it, I missed it, too," she says. "Yale boys aren't into boykissy?" That pretty much counts Yale out as anywhere she might want to go.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"They wanted girlkissing in return. I was the only girl my age there, so it wasn't an option," Rory said sadly. "Or possibly they just weren't drunk enough."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec drops by, as you do, and pokes his head in to grin at Jaye. "Hey, are we good on the being not-clingy or what?"

[fates_jaye]

"I think we kinda win at that," she smiles back, waving him in. "Hey."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He's in the door at her wave, looking around with a slight frown for a moment before he smiles. "So what've you been doing lately?"

[fates_jaye]

"Hanging out. Bad movies. Making plans for next weekend. Photography. Making little wooden boys," she says, pointing Dave-the-little-wooden-boy on her desk. "It's been really exciting, lemme tell you."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec eyes the wooden boy and feels like there's something he should ask about it, but he ignores that. "What kind of plans for next weekend?"

[fates_jaye]

"My friend Mahandra's birthday. I told her I'd spent the weekend up there. If I don't start running back here Friday night, anyway."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"That doesn't sound like very highly anticipated time-spending," Alec notes, amused.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Heading back to his room and the holy grail of pain relievers after karate, Dean saw Jaye's door open.

"Hey," he said, sorta waving in her direction.

[fates_jaye]

"Hey," Jaye greets him. "What's up? Sun move indoors?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean winced. "God, I hope not. I think that might possibly kill me right now," he said earnestly. "Was out really late at Caritas last night. Getting Sammy drunk."

[fates_jaye]

"...Tell me someone got pictures. Lots of embarrassing pictures," she says. "Also, why did I not have a voicemail telling me about this?"

Just for that, she may be talking a little bit louder.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean winced again at the volume of her voice. "You want to sit around and watch Sammy and I drink? Not sure what's so entertaining about that. He's my brother so it's not like we made out or anything."

[fates_jaye]

"Drunk people are funny," Jaye tells him wisely. "I know, I've been one of them."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Dean," Alec said, raising his voice since his double was all the way across the room and in the hallway. "Still feel like a woman, or was that a one time only thing?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean was wincing so much he thought it probably was starting to look like he had a tic. "A little softer, okay? I'd like my head to not explode."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Man, how much did you have? You looked too coordinated on stage for you to have been that drunk when you got up there." Alec grinned, toning his voice down maybe a little.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I'd only had a couple before...um... fulfilling the bet," Dean said. "Most the drinking came after."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Bet?" Alec perked up. "What bet was this?"