Room 324, Late Friday Morning

[vanillajello]

It was Kate's birthday.

Not that that was much evident from anything, except maybe the slightly stilted happy birthday phonecall she'd gotten from her dad earlier, and the far more animated one from Lynda a little later. But it was still her birthday. Seventeen. Hmmh.

She was grabbing a portal to KC in the evening to join Lynda in the Crossroads district's First Friday art thing. And afterwards she was going to take another portal back, and tomorrow morning Lynda was going to fly over to be her weekend guest.

But for now? She was lazing about in a skimpy top and shorts (it was her birthday, she thought she was allowed) with some candy and a random bad movie on her laptop. And wearing her Princess Valhalla boots for no real reason, other than having just checked the insane number of hits on her video.

So far it was an okay birthday.

[ooc: Half-open door, completely open post! Handwavey knowledge of birthday completely fine.

A some bits of AFKness coming up, first as I go to class, and then way later when I go see Scott Pilgrim, but other than that I'm around!]

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[vanillajello]

"That's just code for them confusing you," she teased, looking at the flowers. "Don't worry, I'm actually pretty good at walking in them."

[therewaslife]

"I'm not confused," he argued, making a face at her. "I'm just...not used to such extravagant footwear."

[vanillajello]

"Confuuused," she chanted at him, stepping past him to take the flowers to her desk. "That's all there is to it."

[therewaslife]

"Why would a pair of boots confuse me?" Bod asked, shaking his head. "I'm not that unintelligent."

[vanillajello]

"They're shiny and hot and come up past my knees," Kate described helpfully as she crouched some to dig a slightly glittery vase up from one of her desk drawers.

"Boys get confused by things like that."

[therewaslife]

"I don't know about other boys but I'm not confused just because the boots are rather tall and loud," he insisted, shaking his head. "There's no reason to be confused."

[vanillajello]

"Yes there is," she replied, moving closer to him again once the flowers were safely displayed on her desk. "Because I say so."

[therewaslife]

"Unfortunately for you, I'm not confused," he said, smiling at her. "So, you might say so but you're wrong."

[vanillajello]

"No, you're not getting it," she complained, but lightly. "I get to be right because it's my birthday."

Whether she was going to let him use that excuse when it was his birthday remained to be seen.

[therewaslife]

"But you're wrong." Obviously, Bod had never learned birthday rules.

[vanillajello]

Kate reached to poke him on the nose for that.

"No.."

[therewaslife]

Bod wrinkled his nose at that and said, "But -- you are."

[vanillajello]

"No." She poked the top of his chest next. "My birthday, my rules."

[therewaslife]

"That doesn't make sense," Bod insisted, laughing. "If you're obviously wrong, why should I go on as if you're not?"

[vanillajello]

"Because it'd make me happy!" Kate laughed. "Don't be so dumb."

[therewaslife]

"I'm not dumb!" Bod said, giving her a frown for that. "And you're not already happy? I brought you flowers for your birthday."

[vanillajello]

"Flowers don't make up for arguing," she informed him, stepping back towards her bed so she could flop down on it dramatically.

It was extra dramatic thanks to those boots. "So don't argue."

[therewaslife]

"But, you like arguing with me."

Bod enjoyed using her words on arguing against her.

"What's the matter?"

[vanillajello]

"I like being right," she said, stretching a little. "I like that better than arguing. Can't I get that for a birthday present?"

[therewaslife]

"You're acting like I don't have anything else for you." In actuality, he had a few things to give her for her birthday. "I didn't just bring flowers."

[vanillajello]

"What else is there? Scathing remarks about my appearance? Making sure I never win another argument ever?"

Oh, she knew there was probably something else, she'd seen the bag after all. But she was having her own kind of fun.

[therewaslife]

"Um." Bod frowned and looked down at his bag. "No."

[vanillajello]

"How disappointing," Kate teased, eyes flicking from the ceiling to him.

"Well, what is there?"

[therewaslife]

"I mean, would you rather I not give you anything else?" Bod asked, trying to gauge her reactions as best he could. "I didn't mean to argue with you earlier, if that's what this is about."

[vanillajello]

Well, now he was confused, so maybe she'd actually won?

Kate shook her head, and pushed herself up to a sitting position again. "Come on, Bod, it's me," she said. "When have I ever not wanted to get things? Gimme presents."