[Sometime during AU week]

[the_ex_in_xp]

[meanwhile at the dorms, a half-pirate and some girl who managed a +3 lockpicking skill in her bag of tricks are trying to break in to "their" room]

This lock is way more sophisticated than the others. You'd think they were worried about unsavory people trying to break in...

Comments

[the_ex_in_xp]

You should be. How else am I going to learn?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Maybe I can tug on your shirt really annoyingly?

[the_ex_in_xp]

And what about the times you can't get at my shirt?

[like the billions of times she's got it covered up by a sweatshirt or coat or the few times she's wearing a not shirt outfit like a dress]

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Then whatever clothes you're wearing, I guess.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[is about to suggest that it would only encourage her to act up when naked but catching herself after a second, like, oh right that's inappropriate and we're not dating anymore...]

--right. Uh. Sounds like a good compromise.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

You okay?

[the_ex_in_xp]

[may be a little buzzed, but can still bullshit everything is awesome like a pro, nudging you with her shoulder]

Yeah. Just mentally cataloging which band shirts I should never wear around you again.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Oh, c'mon, I'm not going to ruin the shirts.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[deadpan;]

You could pull on my Unknown Pleasures shirt so hard that the radio pulses will all flatline.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

I would never, that's one of my favorites.

[the_ex_in_xp]

Good, because I don't want to look like some graphic designer dweeb with just a horizontal line box on my shirt.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Wow, what did graphic designer dweebs ever do to you, huh?

[the_ex_in_xp]

Threatened to delete my midterm paper if I didn't change it from some font to another, like, right that second.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

You don't remember the fonts?

[the_ex_in_xp]

All I remembered is one would let me get to exactly twelve pages without writing any more words and the other one would make me need another paragraph worth of padding.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

... were they a TA or something?

[the_ex_in_xp]

He was my TA's noisy boyfriend and the third reason I had for dropping the class. It was about nomadic peoples, they barely had writing to start giving a shit about fonts.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[this is one of those frustrating I Love Ramona But I Also Love the Rules moments]

Yeah, then he shouldn't have gotten involved.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[and that is precisely why you never heard all the other reasons she dropped classes and eventually got herself kicked out of college]

You're hoping it wasn't Comic Sans and trying not to judge me for it, aren't you?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Ramona, please tell me it wasn't Comic Sans.

[the_ex_in_xp]

And what if it was?

[it wasn't but she has a completely neutral expression so you can't be sure...]

[the_ex_in_excessive]

I will tug on your shirt so hard that it'll probably tear.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[aw screw it, this is too easy to pass up]

So you're basically trying to rip my clothes off my body. Did you think that might give me a mixed message? Like, is it truly heinous or too sexy you just can't contain yourself?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[yeah she's letting go and crossing her arms, shifting so while she's not breaking away from you, she's definitely looking away]

That's not funny.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[Ramona Flowers earned +1 Asshole XP /)__= ]

--it's not, I'm sorry. I should never joke about Comic Sans being anything but terrible. And I didn't use it, alright? It was one of those bold fonts that makes all the letters fatter...