Room 227, Friday Late Morning

[whenshewasnice]

The nightmares had mostly stopped, and so had Natalie's super early mornings. That didn't mean she didn't still get a lot done before a lot of folks were even up, though. Like this morning, she'd already looked up all kinds of info she might need this summer for various things. And she'd talked to her mom on the phone about graduation and interdimensional travel. Her parents weren't scheduled to show up before tomorrow, both for work stuff and because Portalocity was being a pain. But her mother had said they'd come, and that was what mattered.

And after that, she'd hung Helen's collage on her wall. She actually kind of liked it, for all that it was unsophisticated, with crudely cut out figures from fashion magazines plastered all over each other, with red paint in places making them looking bloodied, and the words 'NOT THE EXPECTED' in big bold glittery letters on top of everything. It looked angry, almost. Natalie wasn't surprised by that. Helen had had a lot of anger in her.

Natalie had hung the collage on the wall next to extra bed. And now she stood with her arms folded, looking at it and judging whether it could stay. Maybe she'd let it be until she could see if the administration threw a new roommate at her.

[ooc: Open door, open post.]

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[lockestheway]

"Do we really have to talk about that?" Peter whined. "You looked like you'd been living in a weed-whacker."

[whenshewasnice]

"Yes, so I've been told," Natalie replied. Almost cheerfully. Because he was whining. "But at least I wasn't gazing soulfully at people."

[lockestheway]

"I had to take five showers on Monday just to get the cologne smell to go down," Peter complained. "Oh, and then Loki turned back and took his phone-- and my pants--"

[whenshewasnice]

"I would've thought you'd be more upset about the phone than your pants, to be honest."

Because he'd kind of been clinging to that like a lifeline.

"... Wait, was Loki the snake?"

[lockestheway]

"Yes," Peter said, eyeballing her. "Who else?"

Duh.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie shrugged a shoulder. "Last time he got turned, he was a fox. Like you."

She knew because Tara had been the one to care for Loki that time.

"I'm a little saddened I'm not the only snake around."

She wasn't that sad.

[lockestheway]

Peter rolled his eyes expressively and flopped back on the bed. "Either way," he said, "Talk about not important."

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie made a quiet judgmental sound that was only half sincere. Maybe even less than that. "I also put in an application for valedictorian," she said. "But that's likely to fall on the side of unimportant as well, I'm sure."

He still got the honour of being the first to hear about it.

[lockestheway]

Peter gave that another shrug. "You'll get it," he said. "It'll look nice on your resumé."

[whenshewasnice]

"Probably." That wasn't why she'd applied, but it was a definite plus. She wouldn't deny that. "And my parents would like it."

That wasn't why she'd applied, either.