Room 324, Saturday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

"...Dammit."

Some weeks ago, Kate had had a little accident with glitter. Namely, she'd dumped a containerful of it in one of her desk drawers. She'd tried to clean it all up, but it was like the drawer was generating more of it by itself, and so she'd given up and just avoided using anything in the drawer until she absolutely had to.

Well, now that time had come, because she was packing and wanted to take a certain sketchbook back to her mom. And it happened to be in that drawer, and so she’d taken it out and yeah. Now there seemed to be glitter all over everything, and especially her hands, which just made it spread more.

But whatever. Glitter wasn't the end of the world. She was going to get everything packed now, glitterified or not, and then maybe head into town for a massive DDR session later. It was her last day at Fandom before a week in Overland Park; she wasn't about to let that get ruined.


[ooc: Open door & post, last chance to talk to her face-to-face before she goes to Kansas. I'm around on and off all day.]

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[future_sandworm]

"Should I be worried?" Leto asked. He had stopped in the doorway and studied the glitter that seemed to have invaded the room with an amused look.

[vanillajello]

"Only about getting glitter all over yourself if you come in," Kate answered, making a futile attempt at brushing some of it off a pile of t-shirts she was about to stuff in her bag.

[future_sandworm]

"I think I'm brave enough to handle that," Leto replied with a laugh. He approached Kate and held out a hand to her.

[vanillajello]

"Yeah, I didn't exactly think that would be something that would keep you away," she smirked, putting the bag down on her bed among all the not-yet-packed things and taking his hand into her own glitter-covered one.

Just as she was stepping closer to him, something above caught her attention. "...Okay, where did that mistletoe come from?"

[future_sandworm]

Leto looked up. "Misteltoe?"

[vanillajello]

"Christmas tradition says you have to kiss anyone you meet under a mistletoe," Kate said, still peering up at the little branch that was just sort of hanging there. In the air. "This is probably another one of the island's holiday cheer things."

[future_sandworm]

He looked at Kate. "I'd kiss you anyway, but if it's a tradition..." He grinned as he leaned in to give her a kiss.

[vanillajello]

She merely chuckled in reply, happily kissing him back, leaning closer with her hand pressed against his chest.

And glitterifying him in the process, of course.

[future_sandworm]

"Look what you've done!" he teased her as he let go of her lips.

[vanillajello]

"I warned you," she reminded him, grinning a little. "You said you could handle it."

[future_sandworm]

"Why, of course I can," he replied. "But there's no need to overdo it."

[vanillajello]

"Glitter makes me evil," she smirked. "Sorry."

[future_sandworm]

"Evil is a slight exaggeration," Leto observed. "How do you celebrate Christmas at home?"

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Wow, Kate, you're kinda shiny." Jason thought it smart of him to state the obvious.

[vanillajello]

Yes, it was obvious, but it was still completely worth mentioning. Kate laughed. "Yeah, well, glitter does that."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Wanna tell me why you're playin' in it?" he asked, mildly curious as he invited his way into her room.

[vanillajello]

"I'm paying for past clumsiness. Couple of weeks ago, I knocked over a full container straightl into my desk drawer," she replied, sighing and making a vague gesture at all the still not packed stuff on her bed. All of it was sparkling, yes. "And now? It's spreading."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

There was no help for it; Jason laughed while checking out the stuff on her bed. "Clumsy turned pretty? Jest throw all this shit in the wash." It's what he'd do.

[vanillajello]

"I will. But not until I get home. I'm so not spending today doing glitter laundry," Kate said and shook her head. "It's a total bitch to get out of anything."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't know - I ain't a big fan of it," he commented, giving her a look. "Whatcha goin' home for?" He wasn't sure he liked the sound of that.

[vanillajello]

She tilted her head and flashed him an amused smile. "I don't know if you've heard of it, but there's this holiday coming up? It's called Christmas. My parents want me home for it."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

Ah, hell. Gran's been calling him but so far he's been ignoring the messages. He hadn't forgot about Christmas, just that he didn't have plans to go home.

"You're a smartass, Kate," he said, grinning at her. "How long you gonna be gone?"

[vanillajello]

"Should be back next Sunday. Well before New Year's, anyway, but I don't have a return ticket yet." You never knew how things would be back home; Kate kept her options open, in case she wanted to come back earlier.

She smirked at him. "Don't worry, I won't be gone long."

[lickyourmind.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I ain't worried," he said quickly, rather too quickly. And he didn't quite look at her, instead he reached to try and fiddle with stuff on her bed. "I don't know what I'm doin' yet. Gran and Sookie'll kick my ass if I don't go home but I don't much feel like it."

[vanillajello]

Kate was way too observant for little things like that to get past her, but she didn't say anything about it, just filed it away in her memory as a curious thing. She picked up a pile of t-shirts from the assorted mess of clothes (everything from hoodies to underwear), notebooks, volumes of manga and other random stuff she probably wouldn't need.

"Well, Christmas here is probably interesting enough," she said, shoving the shirts into her backpack. "Although you probably should go home, even for a while."