Room 324, Monday After Classes

[vanillajello]

Apparently, going to high school classes was hard work.

Or Kate and her kids shared a gene for being lazy.

Either way, after Japanese Etiquette and Tradition, they'd headed back to Kate's room. Now, Dani was sprawled on the floor with a stack of his mother's kid-friendliest manga, and Vivienne had claimed the laptop for important research. Or so she said.

And Kate was keeping up a conversation, being all sneaky about finding out more about the way things worked were the kids were from. Not really asking questions, but kind of nudging the kids towards the subjects she was curious about.

She was pretty sure that Vivienne was on to her, and that Dani was barely listening. But, whatever. They had a big bag of candy. All was good.

[ooc: Open door, open post! Can't we keep the kids forever?]

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[vanillajello]

Our director's all MIA at the moment," she scribbled idly, pondering the options.

In the end she decided on, Friday. Works out better.

[therewaslife]

Friday, he wrote, drawing another happy face next to it. Come by sometime that morning and I'll leave the door open. Jacob's still out of town. I'll know it's you.

[vanillajello]

Guess we have a deal, then, Kate wrote before glancing over at him and smirking.

The glance and the smirk got Vivienne to pipe up: "What are you writing?"

[therewaslife]

Bod managed to sneak in another smiley face before looking up at the question. "Words," Bod responded without thinking though it was actually a halfway decent vague answer to give to a child.

[vanillajello]

"Of course words," Vivienne said. "Otherwise it wouldn't be writing."

Kate couldn't help snickering a bit. "It's just boring grown-up stuff," she told the girl.

"What, like taxes and stuff?" Dani asked, dubiously.

[therewaslife]

"Yes," Bod said, taking that and going with it. "It's just taxes and things such as that. Nothing really interesting at all."

[vanillajello]

Dani shrugged and continued reading. He was convinced it was boring. Vivienne, not so much. "Is it like what Daddy does?" she asked.

Kate shook her head. "No. Not anywhere near as interesting as what your dad does. This is just... small-scale stuff."

[therewaslife]

"Yes, I'm rather boring in comparison to most people," Bod agreed with a nod. "So, it's fairly uninteresting and dull. Unfortunately."

[vanillajello]

Kate nodded as well. "Yeah, he really is that boring," she said, suppressing a laugh. "When I can't sleep he comes over to bore me to sleep with taxes and other dull things."

"It's okay," Vivienne said, tilting her head, smiling a little bit. "You don't have to tell me what you were writing."

[therewaslife]

"I should probably take my leave anyway," Bod said, smiling a bit. "If I don't, I'm afraid I'll bore your mother to sleep and she won't be able to entertain you all. And then I'd feel badly."

[vanillajello]

"I think Mommy was joking," Vivienne said.

Dani shook his head. "I don't think she was."

Kate just rolled her eyes, and said, "Yeah, we should probably be heading out to Fast Eddie's in a bit, anyway, if we're gonna go bowling."

[therewaslife]

Bod laughed and stood up, giving each child a nod before wandering towards the door. "I hope you all have a good night. I'll see you later, Kate. Enjoy your night of bowling."

[vanillajello]

"Oh, I'm sure we'll all get into an argument," Kate snorted. "But it'll be awesomely fun until then. See you later."

The kids were predictable. One said, politely, "It was nice to meet you, Bod. Goodbye."

The other grumbled something unintelligible.

[therewaslife]

Bod nodded in return before slipping out the door and heading downstairs.