Room 313, Monday after 4th period

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After class, Jaina went back to her room to move in. She was an extremely light packer, so it took about two minutes to unpack, especially when she knew most of it would just end up going back upstairs. And she'd wonder about that for a second, because somehow she never really realized she did that.

And for as much as she'd never really had a permanent home in recent memory, she had to take a second to flop down on her bed, just because it was her bed, and she was used to it, and there were full walls and a door she could close and there was one roommate, not seven... Yes, she really had gotten spoiled here somehow.


[Open door, open post. Apparently I am just posting posting posting today.]

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"That's a little presumptuous, don't you think?" John said, nudging her.

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"It's us, and I'm allowed a little bit of paranoia for a while," she explained.

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"My reputation's not so bad, you know."

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"It's not. I think ours, however, was sort of put through the ringer," Jaina pointed out. "Do you have a suggestion?"

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"We could go for a bike ride," he offered. No way that could end dirty.

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"We could," she said pretty quickly, not seeing anything wrong with that idea.

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"Or we could go golfing." He was just going to throw ideas at her.

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"Or we could take the bike to go golfing. Is there even anywhere to play here?" She was so out of it.

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"The mini golf floated away," John informed her. "And there's always hitting the boardwalk for a funnel cake. I wish they had a Ferris wheel."

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Given what happened last time they tried for a date at the boardwalk, she wasn't sure about that, but she wasn't exactly one for shying away from stuff due to trauma. "We could always take the bike to the boardwalk," she said, feeling there was a theme here.

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"Maybe I should just leave you with the bike," he suggested.

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"I just think we need to take the bike somewhere, that's all," she grinned. "I'm easy like that."

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"Two years and you're still into the bike," he teased. "Good thing it didn't end up with someone else."

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"Maybe I just like what you do with the bike," she teased back. "Anyone else might have crashed it by now, and then where would I be?"

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"Unpacking in your room," he replied, sticking out his tongue.

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Jaina smiled, but she found herself checking, "You don't mind if I do that, do you?"

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He shrugged, "I think we've had that talk."

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"About me unpacking?" she asked, thinking back.

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"Yes," he poked her, drawing out the word.

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"When was this?" she asked. Considering she hadn't realized she did that, she was wondering how dense she really was.

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"I'm gonna count either of the two times when I stupidly asked you to move up there." Stupid because it was okay to ask once and be told no, but not twice.

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Oh. "It was never stupid," she told him, meaning that.

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"Eh, live and learn," he said, not holding a grudge there.

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She was a little afraid of what he thought he'd learned there. "For what it's worth," she said slowly, "I should have done it."

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That was not what he'd expected. "You think?"