The Perk | Tuesday Afternoon

[robinonadderall]

Between hanging out with Scott and full moon shenanigans and after full moon staring at naked guys, Stiles hadn't had much time to do the studying he had planned to do over the weekend. Attempting to study in his room always ended in disaster because he'd either end up watching porn or talking to Cade about stuff that might as well be porn, so he grabbed his physics textbook and his laptop to head somewhere with caffeine. He needed to take advantage of fall themed coffee while it was around anyway.

Once he was armed with a pumpkin spice latte Stiles propped his textbook and laptop up on a table by the window and did his best to focus. It wasn't going so well since he had forgotten to take his meds this morning so there was a whole lot of finger tapping against his coffee cup and the occasional bout of talking to himself going on.

[I'm bored, post is open]

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[throughaphase]

With a while to go before her shift, Kitty stopped in at the Perk with her laptop, finding a seat nearby. Because people who annoy Derek really should all know each other.

"That wouldn't happen to be decaf, would it?" she finally asked, smiling a little.

[robinonadderall]

"Bite your tongue," Stiles said absently before looking up and noticing that, hi, an attractive person was talking to him. He was so thankful this town hadn't gotten the Beacon Hills memo that Stiles was the human equivalent of the plague and should be ignored at all times.

"I don't understand the concept of decaf."

[throughaphase]

"I know. It really is like fake coffee," she agreed. "I have no idea how you're concentrating on your book, though."

[robinonadderall]

"Years and years of practice," Stiles said. "But if I'm driving you nuts, you can say so. I can make an attempt to control my spaz tendencies."

[throughaphase]

"...Oh, sorry, I was just blaming overcaffeination," she admitted.

[robinonadderall]

"Nah, it's fine, most people assume that," Stiles said with a wave of his hand. "It's my own fault, I didn't take my Adderall this morning. I was kind of rushing out of the dorm room before I could get sucked into a conversation with my roommate about the mating habits of frogs or something weird like that."

[throughaphase]

"And suddenly I'm really glad those dorm room days are over for me." Sure they were. "I'm Kitty, by the way. Once frog mating has been mentioned it's probably time to get names out there."

[robinonadderall]

"Stiles," he said. "If you want a free compliment, I actually could have mistaken you for a student."

Girls like knowing they looked young, right? Right.

[throughaphase]

Sigh.

"So you're Stiles," she said. "And yeah, I get that a lot. I actually run Caritas."

Which had been run by a student before, but she didn't know that.

[robinonadderall]

"Oh? I've been meaning to go there but I keep getting sidelined by the other bar." Because he liked to be an annoying little shit. "Wait, you sound like you've heard of me."

[throughaphase]

"Radio," she explained. "I listen for certain names and yours comes up. You're the one Derek shook down at the picnic, right?"

[robinonadderall]

"Oh yeah, that's me," he said with a nod. "The picnic, the woods, the bar, his house, he shakes me down in a lot of places. It's like his hobby."

[throughaphase]

"Why are you at his house?" The rest she could just assume they ran into each other and then shaking down happened, but they probably just didn't both happen to be at Derek's house at the same time.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive required caffeine before she headed into town today, really. And fortitude, since she still hadn't really decided on her trajectory, as well.

...plus, hi, pumpkin lattes and whatnot.

She tied Ally up outside for the moment, and approached Stiles' table once she had a ridiculously whipped-creamy, sort of orangey drink cupped in her hands. "You look arrestingly focused. I'm inspired to go apply to half a dozen colleges, looking at you, Stiles."

[robinonadderall]

"My dad will be thrilled to hear that," Stiles said. "No, actually, that's a lie, he'd assume you were being sarcastic."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Your dad sounds like a perceptive man," Olive noted. "Because I kinda was. What're you working on?"

[robinonadderall]

"Physics," Stiles said. "As much as I love this place, the classes I'm taking now aren't going to get me into college so I had to sign up for the extra, less thrilling ones."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"You're not going to major in Galaxies No One's Ever Heard Of?" Olive asked, pouting. "Sad. I'm taking Lit and Creative Writing for the same reasons, though. I'm extra-paranoid about getting into college considering the expulsion and all, but not...quite paranoid enough to take physics."

[robinonadderall]

"I know, it's weird, but I like science and math." Believe it or not, somewhere beneath the spaz and lack of focus was a person who was capable of giving Lydia "I have a 5.0 GPA" Martin a run for her money when it came to intelligence.

"Wait, you were expelled?"

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive had gotten so cavalier about mentioning the expulsion thing -- people here didn't seem to care -- that she sort of forgot she hadn't, actually, told that many people. "Um. Yeah, kinda. That's why I'm here. Otherwise I'd probably be in college right now. I'm repeating senior year."

[robinonadderall]

"Did you kill someone?" Look, Stiles had practically destroyed parts of a school when Peter trapped him in there and hadn't gotten expelled so he figured it took a lot to make that happen.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive stared at him. "Do I look like someone who killed someone?" she asked, genuinely sort of concerned.

[ugh sorry there was a boss invasion for like forever.]

[robinonadderall]

"Do people get a look after they killed someone?" he asked. "You could have had a good reason for doing it."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, no, did not kill anyone," she said, shaking her head. "Sort of alarming that that's the first thing you go to."

[robinonadderall]

"You don't come from the same town that I do." Look how many people Jackson got to kill! "So what did you do?"