Shenans in the Living Space

[Lennox Marshall]

Having roommates of the opposite sex was probably more odd than she thought it would have been way back when she first came to the academy, but after years of experience with several different people, she'd like to think that she knew what to expect from them. Of course, there were still that threw her for a loop, but that was the case for most people. While she could manipulate emotions, she had a hard time knowing what others felt and thought, though she wished sometimes that she was better at reading people.

Walking into the common area, she glanced around to see the room empty. She shrugged and went to the couch, her notebook in hand. The dorm was a little chilly, especially with her only wearing a pair of shorts and a t-shirt with fuzzy slippers, but she was much too lazy to throw on a sweatshirt or blanket. Lennox was in hyperactive song writing mode and once she was focused on lyrics, there was hardly any shaking her from the thought process.

Clicking the television on to a music channel, she allowed the smooth jazz melody to overtake her and ease her mind. That was one thing she could always bank on for the channel she selected. Rarely did the music make her feel unfocused and frantic. It helped her zero in on what she was trying to accomplish. Once she had the music flowing through her, she closed her eyes and trained her pen to the paper. Her fingers were still, and her mind was completely blank. She could not shake her writer's block. The sound of someone entering the room had her eyes fluttering open and she looked up from her notebook.

[Phillip Prince]

Phillip Prince slammed his locker shut. Unbelievable. A bark of laughter came from the boy as he realize what was happening. He was out practicing on the field and took a shower only later to find that his clothes were no where to be found. Somehow someone had managed to open his locker and decided to take and hid his clothes away. Something told him that this was done by one of the guys on the football team. Probably a retaliation to the prank Phillip pulled on them last week.

Laughing to himself, the nineteen year old tightened the towel around his waist and went straight for his dorm. If he had super speed, this whole thing wold be over fairly quickly but all he had was spider physiology and crawling ceilings or wall slinging would not help his case. So Phillip calmly walked down the halls on his way back. Most of the people he passed knew him and they took their phones out. Phillip smiled for the camera. There was no reason for him to be embarrass.

However, at one point a teacher spotted him. Woops. He would probably be sent straight to detention for his shenanigan and walking around in only his towel. He didn't want that to happen so quickly he made a run for it. At the same time, it was kind of fun running away from a teacher in only a towel. Soon enough he reached his dorm, quickly opening it and pushed it shut by leaning against it. Phew. He inhaled a couple of times, trying to catch his breath.

When he heard the sounds coming from the television, he realized he was not alone in the dorm. He stared at the girl wide eyed. "That's a nice song," he blurted, not knowing what else to say as he stood there only with a towel wrapped around his waist.

[Lennox Marshall]

Lennox didn't think she could have ever prepared herself for the sight that she was met with when she looked up. To see one of her roommates, face flushed, breathing heavily and completely, utterly naked, with just a towel wrapped around his waist. To be fair, there was that towel that blocked her view of more than she needed to see from him. But still, she was not expecting what she saw. It was a first, for sure. Not just from him, but for her in general. Her eyes widened and she found herself just staring at him with a dumbfounded expression on her face.

When he commented on the song that she had playing in the background, she let out a short laugh and shook her head. She was innocent to some extent, but she was also seventeen years old. Boys were boys, and she wasn't afraid of them. Even if they were mostly naked. As long as the towel stayed put, it'd be fine right? "Oh, yeah. It's called Blues in the Night. It's one of my favorites for sure." Lennox did her best to refrain from laughing, but she was certain the tight-lipped smile would give her away. She was trying so hard not to break, but the situation was just so strange!

Lennox cleared her throat and looked back down at her notebook, "So, uhm, Phillip? What happened to your clothes?" And as soon as she let the words out, she giggled and covered her face.

[Phillip Prince]

Standing naked with only a towel covering him in the presence of a girl was not a first for Phillip. Bloody hell, he (and a couple of friends) had even walked down the halls looking just like that during their senior year in high school for the pure laughter, and to piss a couple teachers off. However, it was a first for him in front of his roommate and the fact that he was not trying to pull off a prank this time.

He could definitely tell that the laughter was just waiting to erupt from the girl. It was indeed a strange and hilarious situation. A smile was tugging at the corners of his lips and even he wanted to laugh too! But seeing how Lennox was maintaining her cool, he did the same too. At least for the time being.

Finally, the giggle came. It brought a small laugh out of the boy. Phillip leaned against the door and turned his head sideways to look at her. “Would you believe me if I told you someone, a young boy in fact who recently manifested, so out of the blew he shifted into a wolf. Since he is still new and couldn’t really control it yet, he just went batshit and started gnawing at the soccer balls. Then he spot my clothes, I just came out of the shower, and well, he went for it!”

The boy could really spun a tale. He was sure Lennox, who had known him for awhile now, could see through it, but still he went with it. “The saddest part, he even ate my Nike shoes,” Phillip said dramatically with a pout. “Lennox, what would I do now without my Nikes?”

[Lennox Marshall]

Lennox did everything she could not to look at him. He was beautiful, no doubt, but it was Phillip! She'd known him for quite some time, being his roommate and all, she knew his trickery and the pranks he liked to play. She also knew how confident he was and it was intimidating if she were to look at him that way. With a quick glance up at her roommate when he spoke, she flicked her eyes up to his as quick as she could before she could linger on his fairly impressive physique. So it was a shapeshifter who decided to nom all of Phillip's clothes...hm, it didn't seem likely, but she let him go on.

Biting her lip to hold back her laughter, she looked down and shook her head, "Oh no! Not the Nikes!" She covered her mouth, a smirk tugging at the corners and she looked at him again, eyes only of course. "Look at it this way, you can go shopping for a whole new pair of Nikes. Better ones!" Of course she didn't believe him, and she figured he'd probably get his clothes back soon enough. That, or he didn't honestly care that he was without them. She wouldn't put it past Phillip to just go around naked all over campus. He had the body for it, clearly.

"So...what actually happened to your clothes?" Lennox chewed on her lower lip and twirled her pen in her fingers as a distraction.

[Phillip Prince]

A pleased smile made its way onto Phillip’s face. He very much liked it when others went along with his stories and humour him even for just a little. See, if only teachers responded the same way to his pranks or mischief like Lennox did, things might have turn out a bit more differently. For one, he might not even try to pull anything on them.

When she did ask for the real story, he placed a hand over his chest and feigned a pained expression. “Lennox...I just told you about how in shreds my Nikes are probably now and you just think I’m kidding around? Wow, I’m hurt, love.” Almost immediately after he said that, a smirk replace the pained look. Phillip was not that shallow to get hurt over a pair of shoes. Even if it was Nikes.

He pushed himself up from leaning against the door and went over to the couch and sat beside his roommate. “Football players,” he said, rolling his eyes. Since he was a soccer player, there had been back and forth pranking between him and some of the football players. “Payback for a prank last week. Sort of vandalized two of their cars and wrote ‘SOCCER RULEZ’ using whip cream,” he explain with a mischievous grin which grew a little bigger as he remembered the memory. That was one hell of a night.

“So Len, got any ideas in that bright brain of yours on how I can get back at them?” Phillip asked, but just then his eyes fell to the notebook she had with her. “Oooor you can tell me what you’ve been writing.” He then leaned closer, trying to sneak a peek at her work.

[Lennox Marshall]

Lennox giggled at how hurt he pretended to be. He was a jokester, it was hard to take anything he said very seriously. Of course that was half of the fun when it came to Phillip, he always had her laughing. He'd always been her favorite roommate. Lennox tapped her finger to her chin while she listened to his explanation of what really happened. Of course, football players and soccer players. She should have guessed, they were always going at each other trying to show who was better. In her opinion they weren't all that different. After all, soccer was called futbol in other countries, didn't that practically make them the same?

"Mhm, well that's not entirely shocking then. And not as good of a story as the first," She smiled and tilted her head to the side for a moment while she thought about what he could do to get back at them. Here he was naked after just writing on their cars in whipped topping. She worried about what would happen if he did anything worse than that. Was there much worse than having your clothes taken from you? Lennox certainly didn't think so. She'd have been horrified if she'd been running naked through the school grounds. "I mean, are you sure you really want to get them back, I think they won this prank war already."

But as she was responding, he caught sight of her notebook and she clutched it to her chest, "Wouldn't you like to know." Lennox narrowed her eyes at him and scrunched her nose up. She wasn't nearly finished, in fact she'd barely gotten an idea down before her roommate barged in. Plus, she wasn't sure about the chorus or the bridge or, well, any of it. It was still a huge work in progress and she didn't like sharing until she was confident that it was worth sharing. And it wasn't, not yet. "How about you guys break into their lockers and swap out their clothes with lingerie? I mean, naked is embarrassing, but with a choice of lingerie? Who knows, maybe some of them would pick lace over a birthday suit."

[Phillip Prince]

Phillip did not push it when she declined to show her notebook to him. Partly, his mind had already shifted focus, jumping back to their previous topic of conversation. The nineteen year old placed a hand over his roommate's shoulder and looked straight at her in the eyes. "Lennox," he said slowly, making sure he had her undivided attention before continuing on.

"There is no way they've won the war. This," he said, gesturing to his half naked body, "Sweetheart, this is hardly the worst thing to have happen. I mean have you seen this?" Again, he gestured to his bare chest and abs. "Hardly anything to be embarrassed about." A little vain but Phillip was not going to deny he was in good shape. Truth be told, he was offended she said what she did. Just look at him asdfghjkl.

He flashed her smirk and took his hand off her shoulder. "But I do like that lingerie idea of yours." He definitely did. His mind was putting forth hilarious images of the guys in colorful laces. Now that was a picture worth framing and hung in the locker room. Oh yeah. Phillip was sold with the idea and he did not want a a second to spare for him to doubt it.

"Come on, Len," he said, standing up. "Get dressed. We're going to go shop for lingerie." Definitely not the words he thought he would say that day.