Knock Knock

Caroline tried to hold on to the joke as long as Claudia did, nodding wisely at first, then laughing as well. “I’ve never been great with computers, but I guess I also haven’t really tried to be.” she shrugged. “Can you hack?” she asked, then realized how personal and nosy that question had been. “That is, if you want to tell me. You don’t have to. Oops.” she tucked some hair behind her ear, smiling sheepishly. 

"That depends... Are you from the FBI? 'cause I swear I did not take a peek at those classified files on Warehouse 13... I mean what..." She grinned widely and shrugged. "I can do just about anything you want me too... on any computer. Locked, not locked. You got it." She was proud of this fact. It wasn't something simple to do. It was something she had studied for, something she had worked for and tried to do. It was an accomplishment she had actually wanted for herself. Even if many looked down on it.

"The Holidays? Then tell me, what about the times where there aren’t holidays? If that were the case, you Americans would get nothing done with the amount of holidays you have over here.”

"You Americans." She mocked shrugging her shoulders, attempting to mock his accent. "Well, some people, not like myself have family they go see and they leave a week or so early. Also teachers have been giving a lot of homework so they probably wanted to get that done before the holidays. Do you not celebrate... anything?"

Caroline nodded, grinning. The more this girl spoke, the more she liked her. “So you like computers?” she ventured, noting the possessive expression that Claudia took on when she glanced at the laptop in question. Plus she’d said she was a Computer Science major. But Caroline wanted her to talk about what she liked, because that way they could get to know each other.

"Nah, hate them." Claudia held a straight face on that for about 2.3 seconds before she burst out laughing. "Yeah, love 'em. Started out just doing research on them. but you can do so many things, especially if you're good with them. Which I am. So it's really not too hard to entertain myself with. What about you? What do enjoy? Other than... psychology stuff..." She grinned.

"Would anyone be able to explain why the college has been so empty lately?”

"Because... it's the holidays and people with families are going home to them?  That or the school food is poisoned and they're just slowly picking us off one by one." 

Caroline laughed too, noting the warm, bubbly feeling that she got from shaking hands with the woman. She knew immediately that Claudia had a good heart, and she found herself very glad that she seemed open to friendship. “I think that weird can be pretty great.” she said. “I think that looking at the world in a different way than most… well, it’s something to be admired.” She seemed confident in her views of the world, something that Caroline was immediately drawn to.

"Well that's good. Because I'm about as weird as they come! A regular freak show. But hey, what can I do about it? It's no fun being normal. I've tried." She grinned. Turning back to her food taking a bite as she listened to the other girl talk. About her laptop. Oh that was something that Claudia could understand quite well. If you asked you were fine. But if you touched without permission...

River grinned at the approval, wiggling her eyebrows at the other girl. She would definitely remember to, if only to make a new friend. Simon had told her to be careful, but she was living with them. She didn’t want to live with not friends.

"Hey spook, wanna go see if they've got anything good in the caf? My treat!" Claudia smiled, she always liked making new friends. She was generally pretty easy to get along with. Well, if you could take her sense of humor.

"I can cook a bit." Rose admitted, shrugging. Her mom had taught her a little in preparation to go off to uni. "Simple stuff, mostly. S’a homecooked meal though." Rose chuckled. "Nah, can’t say I have. Hear it’s alright though. If all else fails, there’s al’ays the food court." Rose thought there was a food court on grounds, but who really knew?

"Yeah, I guess, but I'm always worried about the food court. School food doesn't have the best rep. Bouncing hot dogs and y'know moldy burgers or whatever." She laughed. "I'll have to try it eventually, Plus it's all the way on the other side of the school." She laughed, she was joking, she'd have to walk the school too many times to to be worried about that.