Room 221, Wednesday evening

[gobrookeyourself]

Today Brooke Davis was legal.

And for now, she was hanging out in her room, going over what website orders she'd have to work on while pondering going out. She'd sort of wanted a party, but at the same time when most of the people you thought were likely to go were involved in some sort of drama (never mind that she'd drunkenly helped there, as she had no memory of this), that kind of put you in less of a party mood. Plus she'd spent a week drunk and that cut in on planning time. Details. Maybe this weekend.

The door was open, Brooke was working, and it was totally cover for listening for more birthday wishes from home which usually included demands of "Why am I not leaving messages on your voicemail right now?"


[Open door, open post.]

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton stopped in, of course, it being her BFF's birthday.

"This sucks. I can't go shoplift anything for you today."

[gobrookeyourself]

"And just why not, missy?" Brooke said, immediately putting her computer aside. Not that she'd picked anything to be shoplifted, either.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton raised an eyebrow. "In the stores here? 3 feet by 3 feet? We wouldn't get out the front door."

Not like she was going to admit the deal she had with the store owner back home.

"You'll have to find some other nefarious thing we can do."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Hmmm. See, my plan had been to maybe surprise Tony Stark with my new legalness but that doesn't work so much since I told him I was eighteen in like September. Also I don't know where he lives." She tapped her finger on her chin, pretending to think really hard. "We could steal a car but that leads to being tried as an adult..."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"And there are no actual cars on the island," Peyton pointed out.

[gobrookeyourself]

"That's what the little area past the causeway is for," Brooke pointed out. "My birthday may not be able to be contained to one town."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Okay," Peyton said with a grin, "so where do you want to go? We could always take a taxi to steal a car, I suppose. God knows we're not stealing one here. The only good ones are mine and Dean's and I'm really not quite ready for a violent death, so..."

[gobrookeyourself]

"...Does he have a nice car?"

Brooke, no.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"God, yes, and no, Brooke, we are not messing with his car," Peyton said with a laugh. "Sooooooo not."

"Here." She tossed her a package. "Obligatory tacky gift."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Okay, fine, but only because you brought me shinies," she said, wasting no time in opening the package.

And promptly started cracking up. "Oh, look, it's fun for a girl and a boy!"

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Don't say I never gave you anything," Peyton drawled with a smile. "I also made this. And I made it easy open in the back so you could switch your boys in and out easily."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Awww, thanks, Peyton," Brooke smiled, tracing a stone with her finger. "I could maybe even get a little collage in there..."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"You didn't think I was going to just let your birthday go by, did you?" Peyton asked with a smile.

[gobrookeyourself]

"No," she said. "Though if you had I would have had to go throw a pillow at you or something. But then you might've kept my pillow so I'm glad I didn't have to."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"No pillow throwing necessary," Peyton said with a smile. "I even sent stuff to other you back home. Who, for obvious reasons, doesn't know about Fandom you."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Really?" Brooke asked. "I told everyone. I think they think I'm on hard drugs now."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Somehow I didn't think other you would be really pleased to think I might replace her," Peyton said with a laugh. "And it took us long enough to mend fences before, thank you very much."

[gobrookeyourself]

All right, she couldn't exactly deny that. "And I bet telling her that this me is totally fine with it and by the way, ha ha would make things worse?" She thought about it. "Yeah, I'd even hate me for that."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Peyton said. "Better all the way around if I don't say anything at all. And can you imagine if I told her I'd been hanging out with Lucas?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"Yeah, might not've gone so well," she said. "So. Car stealing. We doing it?"

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton laughed. "You know somebody here rich enough to bail us out when we get arrested?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"...I think so, even though I'd probably owe favors," she considered. "Also, have you seen some of the kids here? I bet the school has bail money set aside for emergencies."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"Okay, then," Peyton said, throwing her hands up and laughing. "I guess we're off to steal a car."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Yay!" Brooke said, bouncing to her feet. "One more way to lose/win at I Never."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton laughed again and got to her feet. "All right, lead the way, girlfriend."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee bounded down the stairs and knocked on Brooke's open door, a few packages in her arms.

It's okay. Only two were homemade. But there was a theme involved. "Hi! Happy birthday!"

[gobrookeyourself]

"Kaylee, hey!" Brooke greeted her, waving her in. "I see stuff."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"It's your birthday. You get stuff," she told her happily, carefully depositing the packages on Brooke's bed. "Are you havin' a good birthday so far?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"So far!" she answered, looking over the packages all interestedly. "I didn't see any punches thrown. I think that's a plus."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I thought it was gonna happen there for a sec, at practice!" Kaylee told her, wide-eyed. "But, whatever, boys is dumb. Presents!"

She snagged the biggest package -- which, under the wrapping, resembled something along the lines of this -- and offered it to Brooke. "You gotta promise t'invite me over when you use this stuff, s'the only condition on these presents."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Done," Brooke said, though she did have to hope then that it wasn't something dirty.

When she opened it, she immediately said, "Yeah, this looks like an excuse to have a little party."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Especially with this," she added, handing over something that was similar to this.

[gobrookeyourself]

That reaction was something akin to awe. "This may be the best thing ever created."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee looked a little proud at that, even as she passed over the last two parcels. "Maybe I should make a bunch an' see if Mr. Stark'll wanna market it. I didn't make these, though."

[gobrookeyourself]

She refrained from asking if she knew where Mr. Stark lived, as that would be stalkerish.

"...Are those edible?" she asked, jaw dropped. "How have I not partied with you?"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"They're candy!" she said, nodding excitedly. "An' I dunno. We should, though. I ain't done nearly 'nough experimentin' with the boozes on this planet."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Yeah, we need to fix that," she said. "Thank you. Now I can have like the most tricked out party I've had to date, and that's saying something."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Glad I could help," Kaylee said cheerily. "It gave me a project for a couple weeks, anyways!"

[gobrookeyourself]

"A couple weeks? Seriously?" She didn't think anyone had spent that long making anything for her before.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Well, I been pokin' at it since you mentioned your birthday," she said, nodding. "Not while we was on the ship, though."

[gobrookeyourself]

"I'd hope not. Because then we'd have to have a talk about how to spend your vacation."

Like in a drunken stupor.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no, I spent it playin' in water an' havin' nice dates with Ned an' buildin' sandcastles an' lookin' at fishes," she assured her.

[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke paused. "I think I tried to get him drunk, maybe," she said, almost apologetically. "If so, I hope that worked out for you."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I should've wished you luck. He don't like booze too much," she said, shaking her head.

[gobrookeyourself]

"...Come to think of it, I might've ended up with his drink. Huh."