Room 324, Thursday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

It was the day before the start of Parents' Weekend, and Kate was cleaning her side of the room.

Of course, she wasn't planning on letting Zach visit her room, not after what had happened the first time she'd let him in her room at home. And she didn't exactly give a damn about what condition her room would be in if Moosh and Lionel happened to come by there. So, if anyone asked, she'd say she was in fact doing a nice thing for Bobby and his visitors by cleaning up some of her mess. Yes.

She didn't even know whether Bobby had anyone coming to visit, or if he cared at all about what their room looked like, so maybe that excuse was not entirely true. Whatever, at least her side of the room would be kind of spotless for a while.

[ooc: Door and post are open! Even for people that aren't me.]

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[stars_and_money]

Jeremy was actually on his way to see if Juliet was in her room, but when he saw an open door on the way, and then a familiar person in the room, he figured a little detour wouldn't hurt.

He leaned a shoulder against the doorframe and grinned. "Hey, cinema girl."

[vanillajello]

Kate totally did not get startled hearing Jeremy's voice. Nuh uh, not even a little. That would be ridiculous.

Anyway, there was none of that visible as she stuffed a shirt into her dresser and turned to face him with an amused little smirk. "I do have an actual name, y'know," she said, and then her voice just sort of trailed off as actually seeing his face made her realize something she really should have thought about sooner. "Oh. It's really good that you dropped by, actually."

[stars_and_money]

"Well, you haven't told me your name," Jeremy pointed out in turn, but then that thought gave way to curiosity about what she'd said next. "It is? Why, were you expecting me?"

[vanillajello]

"Not exactly." Oh, how to say this? She wrinkled her nose and pouted a bit as she tried to figure it out. "Uh, remember when I said you look like the guy I'm seeing?"

[stars_and_money]

"That obviously handsome devil," Jeremy grinned, pushing away from the door now to actually wander into the room, idly looking around with his hand in his pockets. "Of course. What about it?"

[vanillajello]

Kate was already reaching for her phone. "Well, I don't know if you really understood it last time..." And she couldn't blame him if he hadn't. "But when I say you look like him, I mean you look exactly like him. Plus a decade or so. Look."

And so she showed him a picture of her and Zach on her phone. Better drive the point home right now.

[stars_and_money]

Jeremy hadn't really had time to process what she'd said before there was a cellphone being shoved at him, so he didn't really know what he should expect to see.

"... Holy crap." His eyebrows went way up, and he looked at Kate, then back at the phone again. "Holy crap, that's me! But-- but all old!"

[vanillajello]

"It's not you, it's Zach," Kate replied, unable to resist an eyeroll even when she knew she should have. She pulled her phone away, glanced idly down at the photo there. "So, anyway. He's coming to visit this weekend."

[stars_and_money]

Jeremy just kind of stared at her for a moment, still trying to come to terms with what he'd just seen and hoping to God he never decided to cut his hair like that.

And what was the conclusion he came to, trying to figure out what Kate was trying to imply now? "I don't want to meet him."

[vanillajello]

Kate was probably being judgmental and too harsh in deciding that having the same mind di not imply having the same kind of smarts, but she cared not.

"That's my point," she said, calmly enough. "I don't want him to meet you. Actually, I was hoping you'd be so kind as to kinda keep yourself out of his view."

[stars_and_money]

Jeremy nodded, eyes still darting towards the phone in her hand, once or twice. "I... I can do that, sure." Like he wouldn't be keeping an eye out for an older him anyway. "He doesn't know about me?"

[vanillajello]

"No, and I'm intending to keep it that way," Kate sighed, crossing her arms. "Things back home are normal, so I don't want to freak him out."

Whereas poor Jeremy was already living on the island, and therefore just needed to be toughened up instead of being protected.

[stars_and_money]

And Jeremy probably would've complained about that, if not for a thought that made his eyebrows go up again. "Wait, what about my sister? And my dad?" Oh, that was kind of a horrible thought. "Dude, my dad is gonna flip out if he sees ancient me running around the place!"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan didn't have a fucking thing to do today so what better way to kill some time than by bothering one of his favorite blonde girls?

He stopped in the door and leaned a hand against the frame before saying, "Wanna come up and do mine next? Caroline keeps her side of the room impeccable and I think she's disappointed that I'm messy."

[vanillajello]

Now, there was a voice that didn't make Kate jumpy at all. She glanced at him over her shoulder from where she was rearranging stuff on her desk.

"And what makes you think I'd ever do anything that wouldn't disappoint your roommate?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What, are you two not friends yet?" Nathan wondered, inviting himself into the room. "How is that even possible? You're so alike!"

[vanillajello]

"We are not." They were both bitchy, but that was as much of a likeness as Kate was willing to acknowledge. She rolled her eyes and put a notebook away into one of the drawers. "And that would be a lame thing to base friendship on anyway."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"So, are you saying there's no hope?" Nathan asked, clutching a hand to his chest. "There's no hope of a friendship between you and Caroline? You can't bury the hatchet or hit each other with the hatchet or something? Not even for little ole me?"

[vanillajello]

"There is no hatchet, Nathan," Kate claimed, absently leaning in to fix a few photographs stuck to the wall over the desk. "I only want her to leave me alone so we can go on with our lives."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"It's not like gonna piss you off if I talk about her, is it?" Nathan checked, raising an eyebrow. He thought asking was rather courteous of him, actually. "Because, you know, I'm not gonna censor myself. And I probably won't ever stop having aspirations of a threesome."

[vanillajello]

"I think that would depend on the kinds of things you'd say about her," Kate mused, shrugging. "Don't you? Some stuff is probably more likely to put more of strain on our precious little friendship than others."

She was not even going to comment on that threesome thing, because she knew it was useless.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan just smirked and let the topic go, not wanting to raise Kate's ire with talk of Caroline and not wanting it to get back to Caroline that he'd been talking personally about their relationship. Instead, he just flopped down on her head.

"Whatcha doing, Katie from the Midwest?" he asked curiously.

[vanillajello]

Kate paused in her important task of desk organizing to send a glare his way, half serious and half not. "Disliking you for calling me that."

Well, it was true! And very, very current, even.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan leaned back on his elbow and didn't look a bit apologetic. "You don't dislike me. You love me. Looooove me. Don't deny your true feelings. Alas, we cannot be together."

She was dating a tool and he was with a vampire.

[vanillajello]

"I wasn't aware we wanted to be together," Kate retorted, rolling her eyes. She surveyed the desk. "I think that's a requirement for it being a tragedy that we can't."