Wednesday Afternoon, Room 304

[chasingangela]

After a morning spent scraping gook out of the mini-fridge in the assistant's lounge, all Angela wants is a nice, hot shower. That, and possibly some time in a decontamination ward.

There isn't a decontamination ward on the floor, so she settles for the shower. Unfortunately, after she steps out of the shower, she's confronted by the pile of stuff she got at IKEA.

The bedspread is easy enough to put on the bed; so are the lamp and the new posters. But the bookshelf and the chair?

She hopes someone will help her put them together before she breaks either the furniture or herself.

[OOC: Her door is open. Come bug her.]

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

After greeting some of the new students in the Lobby, Marty makes his way to Angela's room and knocks on the open door.

"Did I hear there was some damage to somebody's thumb? I've brought band-aids."

[chasingangela]

"Yes," Angela says, sulkily, around the thumb in her mouth. "I banged it somehow, and now there's blood. Hurts."

"And hello, stranger. How you?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine and I'd hardly call myself a stranger," Marty says with a small grin.

He takes Angela's wounded hand. "Let me take a look at it."

[chasingangela]

"But I haven't seen you since Sunday," Angela says, in as drama-queenly a manner as she can muster. "I miss you."

She gives her hand to him. "It's not that bad," she admits, and it isn't; really just a bad scratch on the outside of her thumb.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Sunday? No that can't be right I..." Marty thinks about it for a second. "Yeah it was Sunday wasn't it? Sorry."

He gives Angela a quick peck on the cheek and leads her into the bathroom. "Let's get this wound cleaned up."

[chasingangela]

"Okay..." Angela says, in a small voice, feeling a little guilty as she runs cool water over the wound. It really isn't that big a deal; she just wanted to see him.

"So have you been doing anything fun?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty winces a little at the tone in her voice. "Nothing really. Watched some TV. Hung out. Then I made a bunch of inedible cupcakes this morning."

He helps clean up Angela's thumb, dries it and applies some kind of ointment and a band-aid. He finishes it off by kissing her thumb.

"There you go. All better. How was the trip to IKEA?"

[chasingangela]

Now it's Angela's turn to wince. She doesn't like the edge to their conversation, yet she isn't sure exactly where it went wrong.

"IKEA was fun. Parker and Zero got into a pillow fight and got us escorted out. I might have bought too much stuff. Want to help put it together? I mean, unless you're busy with other things."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty smiled a little. "That sounds like Parker and Zero."

Marty looks over the furniture that's around the room. "Sure. Be happy to help with the furniture. What is this? A Bookcase?"

Marty leans over and starts reading looking at the assembly instructions. "So what have you been up to other than IKEA?"

[chasingangela]

"Also nothing much," Angela says. "Watched martial arts movies last night. Scraped leftovers gone terribly wrong out of the fridge in the assistants lounge this morning."

She shoves her hands in her pockets and studies the instructions with him. "This doesn't look too hard, I guess. Thanks for the help, anyhow." Then, hesitantly: "Can I ask you something?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty blinks a little. "Uh. Yeah sure," he says as he tries to lay out some of the peices. "What's up?"

[chasingangela]

Angela takes one of the pieces from him and reverses it, snapping together a shelf. "Um." She says, a little flustered. "Is everything okay? I feel like other than New Years -- which was amazing -- we've been kind of ... not together all that much, lately. And, like, you kiss my cheek all the time, which is fine, but ... I don't know. Not boyfriendish, y'know? I guess I just want to know if we're still good."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty hesitated a little before he rolled his eyes and took on a joking tone. "Come on... You mean just because I'm not all over you like Cally on Anders that I'm not being boy friend enough?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders, who ended up sleeping in much later than usual today because oh my god, the mun got eaten by the room assignment post, comes by and knocks on Angela's door with a small bag of candy in hand after getting her voicemail.

"Hey, Chase? You in?"

After Marty

[chasingangela]

"Yep," Angela calls, from where she's putting books onto her assembled shelves. "Is that Anders? Come in."

Re: After Marty

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders opens the door, takes a cautious peek, then lets himself all the way in. "How was the trip? Not too soggy, I hope?"

He waves the bag of candy at her. "Thought you might like some -- uh, there's a couple chocolate bars, and some lollipops and stuff. I went a little crazy at Wonka's the other day. There was a huge sale."

Re: After Marty

[chasingangela]

"Nope, it didn't rain too much," Angela says, peering in the bag. "And yay, candy!" She gives Anders a quick hug.

"So what do you think of the new stuff? Um, did you ever see my room before? I can't remember."

Re: After Marty

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders grins and hugs Angela back. "Got waaaaaaaaaaaay too much candy. Thinking I might just take a bunch of it down to the common room and leave it there for the new kids. Everything was half off and I just figured, why not get twice as much as I thought I was gonna be paying for? But Cally thinks my teeth are gonna rot, so, I share it."

He looks around at the bookshelves, and the lamp. "Whoa. Funky. I like it," he says, nodding. "'cept no, I haven't seen your room before, so I can't really tell what it looked like before. Still, I like it. I'd love to get some stuff, but y'know Cally, she'd rather build it instead."

Re: After Marty

[chasingangela]

"Cally's probably right," Angela says. "But it would be a fun way to ruin them. And thanks, I like this too. And it totally counts as building it -- I put it togetehr and injured my thumb and everything.""

She unwraps a lime lolly and jams it into the corner of her mouth. Sucking on it, she reaches under her bed for a midsized shopping bag. "I wasn't sure what you would like, so I just got boring stuff," she says witha shrug, passing the bag to Anders.

It contains two pillows and a rug in the bag.

Re: After Marty

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you mean you gotta put it together yourself?" Anders looks thoughtful. "Maybe I'll mention that. She might be interested. Your thumb okay, though?" he asks, squinting at it.

Opening the bag, he nods happily. "This is perfect, yeah, thanks. Gotta keep it simple with me, y'know, 'cause I'm frak-all good at matching colors anyway. Um . . . I gave the money to Rory. She did get it to you, right?"

Re: After Marty

[chasingangela]

"The whole thing about that place is that it's cheap -- relatively -- so you have to put the stuff together. But my thumb's fine. Plus, being injured gave me an excuse to get Marty to help me," Angela says. "Rory did get me the money. There was about three bucks change, if you want it."

"And yeah, navy and that dark red will match anything."

Re: After Marty

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"That makes sense, the putting things together thing," says Anders, nodding, though he doesn't really see how it makes sense. "Good to know the thumb's okay. Keep the change, though, and I still owe you something for getting this stuff for me."

Re: After Marty

[chasingangela]

"The candy's enough," Angela says. "I was going anyhow, and I like shopping."

"But you're welcome, seriously."

Re: After Marty

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Well, I really do appreciate it," Anders tells her seriously. "Now that Cally's all officially moved in with me and everything I kinda want the room to be at least a little nice, you know? And I'm still gonna find a way to make it up to you."

Re: After Marty

[chasingangela]

"You and Cally are living together? That's so cute. I don't think Marty and I are ready for that. Plus, Min and Camilla hate each other, so..."