RP for ticktabby, littlepaffs, hayseed_sam, warmersummers and guthrie_jaybird

Thursday Morning


Paige woke up at five thirty because of a constant poking in her side. As much as she loved her baby sister it had taken a lot of energy not to smother the little girl who had tried to look innocent as she hopped out of bed. A quick glance showed Jubilee and Tabitha still sound asleep. They looked peaceful. Paige wanted to go back to looking that peaceful.

"Mama's cookin'!" Hannah whispered, her voice still too loud for that early in the morning. "Can ya smell it? Ain't it great?"

Paige wiped the sleep from her eyes and pulled her hair into a messy ponytail. "Uh huh." She needed coffee if she was going to be anywhere near coherent. Her little sister didn't seem to notice and tugged, pulling Paige out of the room.

"We're gonna make pie an' potatoes an' green beans an' sweet potatoes an' salads an' corn an' turkey!" Hannah's voice rose in volume with each word. "But Ma says this turkey ain't got a name an' I'm supposed ta tell ya that. It's just a turkey. Wasn't no one's pet."
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Technically it was still her room so Paige didn't know why she was bothering to knock. But some ingrained sense of manners told her that she should knock and wait for her best friend to open the door. That was if Jubilee was even in the room. She could always be over in the room she was now sharing with Lorna. Paige was trying really hard not to show her feelings about that, to mask the annoyance and jealousy she felt.

Jubilee was her best friend and Paige's schedule was jam packed so that the time she did get to spend with the girl she didn't want to be encompassed by her envy. A small part of her missed being Jubilee's roommate but Paige also knew she wouldn't go changing her current sleeping accommodations for anything. She was simply going to need to figure out a way to schedule in more time with her best friend and not worry about Lorna taking her place.

Paige hoped she could be at least semi-successful.

Paige hated making others feel bad. She hated even more when she somehow upset someone close to her. When she'd began dating Jono she'd promised herself that she would still make time for her friends and family. Somehow she'd fallen short with Jubilee. She hadn't meant to but when she went from late night talks with Jubilee to late night make out sessions with her boyfriend spending time with her best friend had definitely decreased.

She just needed to find a better balance. That was all because she wasn't losing either of them. Not to something as simple as time.

Paige grabbed her dog off the bed and after wrapping her robe securely around her, she bounded over to Jubilee's room. She tapped once and inhaled quickly. Hopefully Jubilee wasn't too hurt.

Paige was exhausted. She'd been up since nearly dawn upgrading the Mansion's server and then, as part of her punishment for the Jell-O prank, she was at the service of any student with computer trouble. The amount of fur, feathers, and other body parts somehow ending up lodged into various computer consoles was still mystifying, not to mention she still hadn't quite figured out how Karma had managed to demolish the motherboard. Who knew bringing Jubilee a few boxes (okay nearly twenty) of Jell-O would result in so much trouble? Technically, Paige should have. They were best friend's after all.

Which was the only reason Paige was even waiting in the foyer of the Mansion instead of soaking in a nice long bubble bath. Jubilee needed her so she was there. Paige was a Guthrie and they were pretty damn loyal.

She was ready, bag slung over her shoulder and carrying the notebook and research she'd done on environmentally-sound hybrid cars. She didn't really want Jubilee to see the papers. They were already color coded based on various criteria and she knew her friend would tease. Not that Paige minded too much. She simply didn't want to start the ball rolling.

Paige tried not to glance at the nearby clock and smirked. How was it that she took less time than Jubilee?