UNY Dorm Room, Saturday Afternoon

[chasingangela]

It was Angela's 19th birthday, but she didn't have any plans to celebrate, really. She'd let herself have a caramel latte at work --- ooh, rebellion -- and was now flopped on her bed, trying to do some reading for her women's lit final.

Of course, Virginia Woolf wouldn't do her much good if she didn't make it past freshman year, but Angela wasn't letting herself think that far ahead.

[OOC: For meeeeeee, but open to anybody who remembers her birthday.]

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[swerval_zero]

"I try," Zero said. "How's it going? Happy birthday!"

[chasingangela]

"Mostly good!" Angela answered. "You know, classes, work, blah blah blah." A lot could be covered under blah blah blah, yes. "Cam Mitchell was out here last weekend and I took him up the Empire State Building."

[swerval_zero]

"Oh, yeah?" Zero asked. "Peter was here last weekend. I took him to, um, you know what never mind how's Cam?"

[chasingangela]

"What did you do with Peter?" Angela asked, curious. "And Cam's ..." there was a fraction of a pause. "He's older," she finally said. "You got his email where he said it had been a couple years for him, right? But he's still Cam. Still sort of a dork."

[swerval_zero]

"No comment," said Zero. "If he wasn't a dork, I'm not sure if he'd be Cam. Get anything good? Nineteen, I mean, that's a big year. You can...actually I'm not sure what you can do at nineteen. Buy cigarettes?"

[chasingangela]

"Figure it's only one more year until you're 20?" Angela shrugged. "I don't think it's anything. But maybe I should buy cigarettes just because I can. I never got my lotto ticket last year."

"My parents sent a big box of snacky stuff, but that's it so far," she added. "But I haven't seen the boyfriend yet."

[swerval_zero]

"Ah, well, there you go. He'd better have gotten you somethin' swerval, tell him if he didn't my birthday gift to you is a swift smack to his head."

[chasingangela]

"Oooh. Are you coming to graduation? it would be awesome for it not to be an idle threat." Angela sounded genuinely excited by this.

... look, even if Marty didn't deserve smacked just then, he would soon enough.

"How's Peter, anyhow? His birthday's soon too, right?"

[swerval_zero]

"...I forget," Zero admitted. "I will get the swoo before his actual birthday. Unless it's, you know, tomorrow, in which case I am made of fail. But I should be at graduation. I mean, it's Peter graduatin' an' all."

[chasingangela]

"I know it was the week of mine because he was in on our big party junior year?" Angela said helpfully. "Um, Anakin and Aeryn and Isabel Evans are around now, too."

"Yes. Missing your boyfriend's graduation would kind of suck."

[swerval_zero]

"Bugger. Maybe I can make it up to him if I've gone and missed it," Zero mused. "I knew about Isabel, I think she's visitin' Parker or summat."

[chasingangela]

"They're accosting rugby players and going to King Arthur's grave," Angela said. "She just called, with Parker and Anders. It sounds like England is awesome and I want to go there."

"I don't remember which side of mine his was on. But he's a guy. Maybe he doesn't care?"

[swerval_zero]

"But I care!" Zero protested.

"We went to see the crown jewels when I was there. We decided not to steal them."

[chasingangela]

"... was that seriously an option?"

[swerval_zero]

"Little bit, yeah," Zero said. "But it would've been a hassle, and, I mean, what d'you do with the crown jewels once you've got 'em?"

[chasingangela]

"Pawn them?" Angela suggested. "Except then you don't have them anymore, and, yeah, not worth going to jail for, really."

[swerval_zero]

"Yeah, and, we read about this one guy who tried and decided we didn't have any blackmail material good enough to get away with it," Zero admitted.

[chasingangela]

"You'd pretty much have to have naked pictures of the royal family," Angela theorized. "Which would be gross. And even if you got away with it? All you have is bragging rights and some cool rocks. So good thing you didn't try"

[swerval_zero]

"Maybe next time. You know, if Peter's not along. He has this thing about 'law' and 'order.'"

[chasingangela]

"That is kind of his thing," Angela agreed reluctantly. "Maybe just take one crown jewel. Like, just the scepter."

[swerval_zero]

"I always liked the globey thing, myself," Zero mused. "The crowns're all the wrong size for my head."

[chasingangela]

"And you probably can't get them resized," Angela said, and tsk-tsked. "Go for the orb."

[swerval_zero]

"Sounds like a plan. Thanks for helping me plan a jewel heist, Angela," Zero said brightly. "I'll be sure to mention your help to Peter if I get busted!"

[chasingangela]

"He'll break you out," Angela snickered. "See you soon, Zero."

[swerval_zero]

"See you soon," Zero agreed. "And happy birthday!"