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!]

Comments

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

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

[fates_jaye]

"It would have been, if I was still staying with Mahandra. But she was a dumbass and told my mom," says Jaye, who doesn't mention that she never told Mahandra not to tell anyone, and had a whole conversation with her mother on Saturday without mentioning it.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"So your mom wants you to do the family thing too?" He winces. "Sounds like fun."

[fates_jaye]

"Yeah, except really really not," she says. "I'd rather be here."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"So invite your friend here, tell your mom you can't come, and voila," Alec says, reasonably.

[fates_jaye]

"Not that simple," she says. "Because then I have to put up with them reminding me about how I canceled until I actually do show. Easier to get it over with and not have to deal with it for another three months."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"This is where I thank god I don't have any family," he says.

[fates_jaye]

"Yeah, I think you luck out a little on that one," she agrees. "So what've you been up to?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Spa trip!" He grins. "But you were there for that. Though you did miss last night at Caritas with Karaoke, Winchester-style."

[fates_jaye]

And now Jaye is giggling. "...There was karaoke?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Dean apparently feels like a woman and Sammy is a very macho man," Alec assures her solemnly.

[fates_jaye]

If she's quiet, it's because she's laughing so hard she's stopped breathing a little.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that was exactly my reaction," he says, grinning widely.

[fates_jaye]

When Jaye finally stops laughing, she has to take a couple deep breaths. "Oh, god, I think I broke a rib."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec snickers. "Dean was really getting into it, too. I didn't know he could sing like that."

[fates_jaye]

She has to ask the question: "Does that mean you can sing like that?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I could learn to sing better a lot more quickly," he says after a moment, though not quite sure if he wants to go there at all, much less learn to do it better.

[fates_jaye]

"You realize one of these days, I will test you on that."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Like the tickling?" Alec asks, still not sure, but willing to buy it as at least mildly entertaining to someone.

[fates_jaye]

"Maybe at the same time," she says, nodding. "Well, not simultaneously, but around the same time."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"It'll be like a lab day, only with less needles," he says thoughtfully.

[fates_jaye]

"Yeah," says Jaye, "I think you can count on me not to go the needle route."