Grow a Pair (Reece)

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

The one thing Lucy had learned so far was that these chicks never bothered to lock the door to the common room of their dorm. Actually, it was a really good thing. She'd walked the distance from her dorm to this one with the obvious intention of visiting her British counterpart. She hadn't bothered to ask if she was around, because really, when wasn't she?

She was about to find out that now was one of those times. But as she walked into the common area, she was distracted. There was a guy sitting on one of the couches.

Her roommates had friends?

Come to think of it, she'd never even seen her roommates.

"Don't you have a little too much dick to be living on this floor?" Lucy asked, raising her eyebrows. She knew she recognised him, so she knew he had a bit of a sense of humour. After all, how else would he be friends with Sawyer.

[Reece Morgan]

Reece had been trying to find Olivia for the past week but she hadn't been around. Calling her was a bust, dropping by unannounced at all hours of the day didn't help either. He finally decided maybe she was avoiding him. So naturally, he decided to sit in her living room and wait until she appeared.

When the door opened, he was ready to pounce on her but found that it was someone vaguely familiar but not familiar enough for him to actually call her by name.

Her announcement made him smirk and shrug, adjusting himself on the couch so it was quite prominent what he was packing. Maybe not too much. Who knows.

"I dunno. Wanna sit here and find out?" He beckoned her with his head and patted his lap a few times.

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

Lucy raised her eyebrows as the guy started adjusting the way he was sitting. Preliminary actions showed that he did not, in fact, know Penny. If she did, she probably hated him. It was one of those moment were Lucy was aware that Penny only liked her because she was a girl.

"Sorry, babe. I literally just finished breakfast." Lucy waved her hand in his direction, looking as apologetic as her face would allow. "Give it half an hour?"

It was a moment where she kind of wished she cared enough to know who Penny's roommates were. She wandered in and knocked on the British invader's door with the toe of her boot. No answer.

"How'd you get up here, anyway?" Lucy asked, running her hand across her jaw idly as she turned to look at him again. "Aren't there no boys allowed in the girl's dorm?" She laughed at the idea of that being enforced. Things were so much more chilled out on the co-ed floor.

[Reece Morgan]

Reece's face slacked a little as the raven-haired cutie spoke before he laughed and pointed at her. "Good one." He wheezed out as his chuckles died down. He watched as she crossed the room over to one of the four doors to the dorm and kicked it.

"I don't think anyone's here. I'm just waiting for-" Reece stopped in his explaining to chuckle at Lucy's question, and then the laughter that accompanied it. "Yeah, nah I don't think anybody cares anymore." He shrugged before kicking his feet up over the back of the couch.

"And I think that's like...after curfew or something because I haven't been caught just yet. But then, maybe it's because I'm ninja." He wriggled his eyebrows at the tattooed meta.

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

Lucy instinctively raised her eyebrows once at him when he complimented her joke. She was grinning harder already.

She waited to hear who he was waiting for, just about as long as she waited to hear a sound behind the door she stood in front of. Okay, that was weird. Where else would she be?

"Ah, true. I don't really know the rules anyway." The ink manipulator replied with a shrug. She offered the door a final kick, scuff marks appearing on the wood. At least when she saw that - and she would - she'd know she dropped by.

For now, she made her way over to the guy. She pressed her hands to the back of the couch he was sitting at; "Oh yeah? You sneak in late at night like a pro?" Lucy asked. That was what he meant, right? "Which one you fucking?"

[Reece Morgan]

"Who does in this dump?" Reece asked, tenting his fingers and placing them on his chest. He turned to see where the thud had come from before smirking at the mark. "Good thing we don't have to pay for anything here. I'm just assuming here, the other marks on the door were from you?" He chuckled as she came into view.

"You know it." He gave her a confident pout and nodded before snorting at her next question. "All of them. Naturally." He responded before chuckling.

Pulling his leg down and lying on the couch properly, he looked up at the tatted up meta curiously. "I guess except for the one you're looking for."

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

"What can I say? I'd rather knock boots than bump fists." Lucy replied, a smirk evident on her features. Kicking doors just always seemed easier.

Now she was close enough to get a decent look at him and notice how - to put it bluntly - hot he was. She'd have to ask Penny later which one he was really visiting. She doubted it was all of them.

"Nah," Lucy replied with a wave of her hand as she leaned against the back of the couch. "I'd want my friends to get decent sex. If you're as good as the rest of them think you are, you should throw down for her."

He didn't seem like the type to discriminate. But damn, he was funny. "You banging Sawyer too?"

[Reece Morgan]

"Hey, don't knock the fist bumps. Fist bumps are cool." He responded, probably showing too much of his geek-hood with that tiny reference. Hopefully the tatted up biker chick-like chick didn't catch that. That could be very embarrassing.

If she had voiced her doubts, Reece would have laughed it off and told her the truth anyway. As it were, she could continue thinking he was a successful lothario.

"Ah, that would require me actually knowing which one I need to throw down for." He chuckled, revealing what he had tried to hide earlier. If she caught it anyway.

The mention of Sawyer perked Reece up. "Wait, how do you - Oh! Right! You're the chick Sawyer's banging." Reece finally made the connection as to why she was vaguely familiar. Sawyer talked about her a lot. He was pretty sure the voice mimic was in love with this one by the way she spoke about her.

"And no. That's gross. Sawyer's my breh. I mean she's got some knockers on her I'd just love to - " he paused in his speech to squeeze the air in front of him with both hands before making a gesture that seemed even more inappropriate than the squeezing. "But nah, she's my brah." Reece shook his head.

"I'm Reece by the way. You're uh...Serr...uh...no?"

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

Lucy purposely unfurled her arms, raising them on either side to make herself a little more grand; "That's me." She replied, chuckling at the idea of actually hooking up with Sawyer. It was a popular opinion, but their behaviour didn't exactly combat the fact.

Lucy nodded along with a laugh when he, rather delicately, expressed the standard desire for her bro's chesticles. "Don't you hate it when you get friendzoned by hotties?" She asked with a grin.

"Serrano," Lucy corrected, though she shrugged her shoulders. He almost got it right as it was, "Or Lucy, if you really wanna be on first name basis." Most people preferred to go the last name route. And why wouldn't they? Hers was awesome.

[Reece Morgan]

Reece appreciated Lucy's overall personality, the part where's seeing right then anyway. He clearly didn't know Lucy as well as at least one person in this dorm did, but he knew she had a sense of humour and sometimes, that's all it takes for a camaraderie to bloom.

"God damn, aye." He shook his head, his eyes briefly wandering over to Olivia's dorm door. He didn't know if it was subtle enough to go under Lucy's radar but at this point, he was sure the whole school knew where his dong (and his heart) was. "Especially by Sawyer fucking Lynn though. That girl needs to make herself a little more available to people other than you. Jealous much."

The correction made Reece shrug and choose Lucy instead. "It's sexy but I think Lucy is better. Like...you expect a Lucy to be all sweet and demure and then bam here you are basically saying fuck you to your own birth name." Reece laughed.

"So what's going on between you and door number two? Something I should tell Sawyer about?" He smirked lightly.

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

"Ah, next time I'm with her I'll put in a good word for you. Maybe you can even join in." Lucy replied deftly. If it wasn't already obvious, she greatly appreciated the way he could joke like a legitimate person.

His eyes travelled briefly. So did hers. She followed the line of his sight - how could she not? There wasn't anything else interesting to look at in here.

She chuckled at his response about her name, lowering her head in a nod; "Yeah well, not everyone loves this Lucy." She added lightly. Reece. She'd have to remember that.

"Who the hell's got any space left in their heart when Sawyer's involved?" Lucy replied, going so far as to press her hands to her chest, to the left side. "You wanna tell me what's up with you and whichever one's catching your attention?" She raised her chin slightly, expecting a stale mate. She could shrug off her relationship with the OCD Queen, and she knew that.

But they both had reasons for being here, and he'd clearly been hanging out for longer.

[Reece Morgan]

"Will you?" He feigned gratitude, holding up his entwined hands in a pleading gesture before chuckling. "That would be perfect. Two hotties and you. I mean...me. Of course I meant me." He teased and leaned back on the couch.

He didn't realise she had noticed so he kept to himself, opting to concentrate on what she was saying. "But the most important person does, eh? Wait, so does this mean Sawyer's Ricky? Man, that is hilarious to think of." He chuckled.

Reece patted his chest twice and snorted. What a ridiculous pair they were being. The question made Reece laugh. "Touche. I suggest we get out of this dump. The girls ain't coming back."

[Lucy Serrano-Blaise]

"Yeah!" Lucy replied, waving a hand in his direction. "Don't be modest, I'm sure it's a real fucking privilege to get in bed with you."

The ink manipulator nodded along with another laugh. "Something like that, yeah." She'd have to tell Sawyer she'd received a new nickname the next time she saw her.

When he mentioned that they should leave, Lucy feigned a frown.

"Don't leave cause I got you all flustered," Lucy replied, her tone as light as it was amused. He'd clearly been waiting longer than she had. "I like the present company. But if you don't..." Lucy unfurled her arms, indicating with a hand towards the door.

[Reece Morgan]

"Ah well, you know. I don't mean to brag or anything." He shrugged, even though he hardly thought he was. It wasn't a self-confidence thing either. It was hard for him to actually land girls in bed. And the few that had, he never heard from again. Okay so maybe it was a little of a self-confidence thing. But it wasn't his fault!

He chuckled at her agreement, glad he found someone who shared his humour other than Sawyer, who was, by now, pretty much obligated to accept it anyway.

"Hey, I said we. That means me and you should blow this joint. Unless you'd rather blow me. Either way, it has to happen with the two of us." Reece explained before shrugging. "I'm kinda starving and it doesn't look like the girls are coming back any time soon. Or...you could call them maybe?"

[Penelope Serrano-Blaise]

There were very few places that Penny spent her time at that wasn’t her dorm, and the library was essentially a second home to the Brit. She ended up spending far more time there than expected, as she had originally gone to drop off a book she checked out. It was impossible for the physchometrist to not have a book checked out of the library, so when she did return this particular book, she figured she’d just browse for a little bit in order to find what to read next.

It ended up taking over an hour.

Penelope didn’t particularly mind, seeing as her personal schedule for the day was pretty open, so there was no harm in the lost time.

She headed back to her dorm, a handful of books in her arms on various subjects; cooking, green living, philosophy, and even one the history of tattoos carefully hidden between several other titles.

The Brit had left the door unlocked, because it seemed impossible for some of her dormmates to remember the key at this point. She’d been staying at Hammel for several years now, and she had only encountered one break in by a certain tattooed student, so she found little concern in keeping it locked now. She wasn’t even sure if her dormmates even had their keys at all anymore.

Penny balanced the books against her chest as she opened the door, only to find that the Australian once again got into the dorm.

…But this time she brought a friend.

The Redcoat’s lips pulled into a frown as she looked at Lucy, then at the boy, then back to Lucy.

“Why are you here?”