Room 324, Late Thursday Morning

[vanillajello]

"-- So then what? ...Oh, oh, like in that movie? You know. ...What do you mean, you don't? We watched it like three times in a row last spring when I had the-- Yes. That one. With the guy with the hair and the--"

Back in Overland Park, T was out, for some reason or other.

It meant that here in Fandom, Kate was sprawled on her bed with her phone clamped to her ear, getting updated on the stupid things morning television had to offer, and the things T would've liked to do later in the day if she wouldn't have been likely to be too lazy and too high to leave the house.

Kate was snickering a lot. "... Eww, T, that's disgusting."

There were worse ways to spend a morning.

[ooc: Door half-open, post completely so, do feel free to interrupt. No one's doing anything even remotely useful. Myself included.]

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[vanillajello]

"Even if she did think she could fly, she'd never try it," Kate replied with a slight shake of her head. "T's pretty lazy. I'm sure she'd just make a video diary where she'd rant about how she could've flown to the Sugar Shack and back if she hadn't been too busy eating Doritos, or something."

[therewaslife]

"She sounds interesting," he remarked, nodding before finally pushing away from the door and padding closer. "And entertaining. But, I think you and she have laziness in common, at least."

Yeah, that was a joke. He could make them sometimes!

[vanillajello]

And that joke earned him an eyeroll. A rather good-natured one, though.

"Well I guess we have to have something in common," she replied, shifting so that she was only taking up one side of her bed. No particular reason. "She's pretty fun to hang out with, though."

[therewaslife]

Bod could understand that movement even if it was made for no particular reason. He settled on the vacated side of the bed for no particular reason as well.

"Do you think you have superpowers when you hang out?" Bod wondered, glancing over at her.

[vanillajello]

"I tend to have a few credit cards at my disposal when we do," she smirked at him. "That's like... a minor superpower, where I'm from."

[therewaslife]

"Oh? What sorts of things do you buy with this disposal of credit cards that you have?" he wondered.

[vanillajello]

"Clothes, accessories, cds, cigarettes... Just, you know, stuff."

She pursed her lips and glanced away before adding, "Usually end up returning most of it, though. But it's fun while it lasts."

[therewaslife]

That...was a little unusual. "You returned things you bought? Why would you purchase them in the first place if you weren't going to keep them?"

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged a shoulder and glanced back at him, then looked at the ceiling. "Because there's always a chance I might get to keep some of it."

[therewaslife]

"Were the credit cards not yours?" he asked since that was the only way he could see her not getting to keep things she'd purchased in the first place.

[vanillajello]

"No," she said, simply. "Mom's."

[therewaslife]

"Ah. So, when she found out, she wasn't happy?" Again, it was another guess but the context was telling.

[vanillajello]

"Not very happy, no. But T got most the blame. She usually does."

... Not at all because Kate pushed the blame on her, no.

[therewaslife]

"Well, I suppose that's better than you getting all the blame," he reasoned, nodding. "I don't think I have any superpowers. It's saddening."

[vanillajello]

"I don't think it's saddening," Kate said. "Superpowers are overrated."

[therewaslife]

"For someone who's never had them, they're not that overrated," said Bod, shrugging. "Depending on the superpower, I think it'd be interesting."

[vanillajello]

"Interesting, yeah. Fun? Not necessarily," she replied. "And I'm all about the fun."

[therewaslife]

"Well, you'd have to make an effort to make it fun," he decided. "I don't think having a superpower would automatically makes things fun. You'd have to help it along."

[vanillajello]

"It's just that from what I've seen, superpowers seem to come with a lot of bad stuff attached," she shrugged. "I can make things fun without having any."

[therewaslife]

"You don't have to have superpowers to be dealing with bad things though," Bod pointed out, shrugging one shoulder. "I think the bad will find you no matter what."

[vanillajello]

"I know that." She did. "But they're different kinds of bad things."

[therewaslife]

"Different doesn't make them any easier," he replied lightly. "It just makes them different. Still bad."

[vanillajello]

"Didn't say they were easier. But, whatever. Can we talk about something good instead?"

This topic wasn't making her particularly uncomfortable, but to actually explain her point would have meant talking about other people's secrets and yeah. That wasn't going to happen.

[therewaslife]

"...all right," Bod said after a thoughtful pause. "What would you like to talk about?"

[vanillajello]

"Puppies and rainbows and cupcakes." Beat. "I have no idea."