Room 229, Thursday Morning

[arsenicmauls]

Gert wasn't big on Halloween -- hadn't been, really, since she was about nine. Now that she was sixteen, she was pretty over the whole thing, and in the interim she had all but memorized an annoying spiel about how this dumb holiday was just another sign of the appropriation and Americanization of everything anyway.

So. No trick-or-treating for her tonight, obviously. Instead, she was spending her morning at her desk, going over verb conjugations for her online Italian class (what, fall break had inspired her to pick up another language), all the while fully ready to launch into that spiel of hers if anyone asked her why she wasn't in costume.

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[arsenicmauls]

"You mean sharing the Homecoming crown doesn't automatically make love blossom?" Gert teased. "Vic, it's like you're saying movies have lied to me."

In all seriousness, she liked Victor and she liked Jess, and she could see how they might make a good couple. But she so didn't have an interest in playing matchmaker beyond some affectionate ribbing.

[ultron_junior]

Victor laughed. "So I missed my chance to have a 'you've been beautiful all along' moment?" he asked. "Damn."

He liked Jess, and could see dating her. But he was pretty sure she wasn't interested in him that way -- and anyhow, after the disasters his relationships tended to be, and given everybody was graduating in a couple months anyhow, he suspected he was better off single.

He poked at Gert's arm to change the subject. "How's your love life?"

[arsenicmauls]

"None to speak of," Gert reported, but she didn't sound too disappointed about that, really. "Unless you count my very romantic encounter with some guy in a pink Speedo at the grocery store yesterday who seemed to have gotten the date wrong."

She did not count that, no.

"And don't worry, you can still redeem yourself by singing at her window, if you're not worried about waking Atton up." Not to mention everyone else on the second through fourth floors.

[ultron_junior]

"What kind of costume involves a pink speedo?" Victor asked, a bit doubtfully. He wasn't sure he really wanted to know. "And -- yeah, I'm thinking Atton's not the type of guy you want to have pissed off at you first thing in the morning."

[arsenicmauls]

"To put it lightly," Gert agreed. "Oh well. Bummer."

Somehow she didn't think he was that broken up about it.

"When someone asked about the speedo, he said he was a sexy strawberry," she added. "'S creative, at least."

[ultron_junior]

"Definitely not one I've heard before," Victor had to agree. "Though the idea of being seduced by somebody dressed as a strawberry is sort of revolting."

[arsenicmauls]

"There are grosser skimpy costumes," Gert said, "but yeah. But I guess he does get points for picking a food that people might decide to eat in bed, at least. In movies, anyway."