Room 528, Friday Evening

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was in a mood.

She'd skipped the undignified chaos of the newbie picnic in order to sulk get some quiet time in her room, and the raw noise this time of year left her in perpetual headache. She'd managed to make it through class today, although barely, and her temper was starting to fray again at whomever in the building had thoughts nattering away like some demented parakeet.

But the volume of the dorms, coupled with the residual crankiness she had left over from the rest of the week and situations not to be recognized, had sent her back to her room to scowl and pick over her closet, tossing last season's things in a pile to drop off at the Salvation Army or something. She had money now, dammit, she was going to spend it.

And despite promising herself that she wasn't going to do anything that sappy or petty, she was occasionally sending text messages over her phone.

bored now.

No answer.

am now trying long distance telepathy. do you have a compulsion to pet a duck yet?

She wasn't going to wait for an answer, really. Her ex...whatever...was just going to have to suffer her texting whims today.

tell me when your homework starts quacking.

be very very quiet. it's talking to you.

booooooooored.

The door was open, but Emma would be alternately bemused or pissy, depending on if that person had shut up yet. God.

[OOC: Open door, open post, fear the Fun Dip.]

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[icecoldfrost]

<<No, but that hasn't stopped the majority of the school from parading through my room,>> she answered. <<At this rate, I might as well stick a red light in my window. I'd get less traffic.>>

[glacial_queen]

*Shall I turn around then?* Karla teased. *Or would you prefer I stand guard over your door and tell anyone else who visits that you're an ermine again*

[icecoldfrost]

<<Get your butt up here, so I can use you to chase away anyone I don't feel like dealing with,>> Emma replied instantly. <<Besides, I'm cleaning out my closet. Come take some things.>>

[glacial_queen]

By that point, Karla was outside Emma's door, never having bothered to turn around. *This is more of your attempts to make me accept indecent hemlines, sin't it?* she sent, grinning from the doorway. "I'm onto you."

[icecoldfrost]

"That, and the desire to give your cousin a heart-attack before he's twenty," Emma retorted cheerfully. "I'm a simple girl with simple needs."

[glacial_queen]

"Knowing Morton, he'd just be happy you were thinking of him at all," Karla said with a sigh. "Males. They're so...male."

Karla debated asking Emma how she was holding up and then decided she didn't want to get snapped at or the like. Instead she just clambered onto Emma's bed and settled in, watching her go through her clothing. She'd find an opening sooner or later.

"We have several classes together this term," she announced instead, as if Emma didn't already know. "Poor planning on the office's behalf, you think?"

[icecoldfrost]

Terrorizing Morton would be a wonderful distraction from other people things right about now, so Emma paused with a silky silver mini-skirt in hand, looking between it and Karla.

"You'd look adorable in this," she responded, tossing it at the other girl. "Maybe they're using us as an experiment? If the teacher can survive a class with both of us, they're fit to teach here?"

[glacial_queen]

"I'm glad we rate more of a threat than most of the invasions," Karla said, giving the mini-skirt a dubious glance. "I suppose this isn't some kind of odd undergarment?" she asked, hopefully.

Karla didn't even wait for the answer. "You realize that if I show up in this, Morton will lock me in my room before I can finish saying hello, don't you?" She did sound amused at that possibility, though.

[icecoldfrost]

"Ah, but who's going to send me to my room, for being a bad influence?" Emma laughed. "You can claim I hid all your dresses."

[glacial_queen]

"And then he'd just laugh and say it served me right," Karla said, shaking her head and sighing. "For all the times I messed around with his clothing and made him wear something ridiculous in public."

She gave Emma a sidelong glance. "You wouldn't really, would you?"

The answer was so very yes.

[icecoldfrost]

"I would," Emma admitted. "Especially if I got sent to his room for my behaviour."

Kidding, Karla. Mostly.

[glacial_queen]

Karla pretended to gag a little and roll he eyes. Oh, the maturity. And then paused. "You know, if it got him to stop fretting over who might get invited back to my room, it might almost be worth it."

[icecoldfrost]

"If he's being a pest, you know we can turn the tables on him," Emma pointed out. "We can invite dozens of boys to your room, or I can show up in his uninvited. Or we can have a few choice Fandom girls start sending him cards."

[glacial_queen]

"Mother Night," Karla muttered. "I can only imagine how he'd handle any of those. Though I think if I sent you to his room, we'd be able to throw an entire party in mine without him noticing."

[icecoldfrost]

"So you'd sacrifice me as a distraction?" she tsked. "Cruel, Karla."

Emma was so proud!

[glacial_queen]

"Allocating my resources wisely," Karla corrected. "Besides, you know I'd keep you updated on anything interesting that happened in my room."

A thought occurred to her. "...You wouldn't have to worry about doing the same, mind."

[icecoldfrost]

"You make it sound like I'd be doing something sordid," Emma sighed. "Don't you want to know if I find his diary?"

[glacial_queen]

"No way," Karla said. "I'm pretty sure I'd just be aggravated by whatever he was getting up to."

Not horrified, no. Because that would suggest he was doing things. And Karla staunchly clung to the belief that he wasn't. Therefore, anything he was writing about in a diary could only be things he knew would annoy her.

Trufax.