[Oct. 8/11] Common Room, the Dorms, Afternoon

[tomorrowrain]

It wasn't often that Raine showed his face openly in the common area. At least, not in the middle of the day. Especially not on a Saturday afternoon, when nobody was likely to be in classes, and the room was more than likely to have quite a few people in it.

But the fact was, he was hungry. And even if he didn't see anything resembling a warm welcome in the common area in his near future, being able to pinpoint when he'd have an opportunity to eat again in the future didn't change the fact that he was hungry now.

Maybe if he just... kind of kept his head down, he could slip in, grab some cereal or something, and slip out again before anyone started whispering too loudly.

The trick, he was learning all too quickly, was to just avoid eye contact and to not listen too closely to the people around him.

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[ground_me]

"Ihop's fancy enough," Allison said, since it wasn't like she'd got to many fancy places either, except for maybe birthdays and for Christmas and those were never places for breakfast-y foods.

"Chocolate ice cream," she decided, and moved it so it was close to the front of the freezer. "But taking it out now would melt it all." So it could stay there until they were ready. "Maybe you could crush some cereal while I start the waffles? Unless you want big cereal pieces in yours."

Which... okay. Fair.

[tomorrowrain]

"In... my... waffles?" Raine turned a puzzled look toward Allison at that. Something was sort of chewing at his senses, a kind of weird cold-sweat feeling in the pit of his stomach, like he'd been swallowing rocks. But he couldn't quite put a finger on why that was. "That sounds pretty adventurous for you, you know..."

He squinted a little.

"Just how steamrollered did you get...?"

[ground_me]

Huh? What was wrong with what she'd said?

Allison reviewed her own words and looked at him, confused. "What does that have to do with anything?" She laughed. "Come off it, I'm just a little tired. It's no big deal."

[tomorrowrain]

"If you say so..." Raine sounded a little dubious, but he was going to let it slide, reaching for his cereal box again and opening it up. He wasn't going to... to crunch up any bits, though. He was going to just... maybe eat a handful while he still could. Some part of him was just flat-out convinced that he wasn't going to get a proper meal for a while, and that it would be best to maybe stuff his face when he could.

His senses didn't always make coherent sense, but he wasn't going to question something that seemed so innocuous.

"You probably want to consider getting some more proper rest tonight, though."

Now that was a laugh, coming from a guy who was practically a career insomniac, these days.