Later that night, Kay lay sprawled out along the red couch that she and Hannah had split for their room, her eyes glued to the television. Tuesday night television (Next to Monday's and Thursdays), meant awesome shows. Tuesday meant NCSI at 8, Veronica Mars at 9 and Law & Order: SVU at 10. Hannah, who had class till 8:30, never got to catch NCSI, but was always present for the later two. It was nearing 9pm, meaning that Veronica Mars was about to start when the door to their shared room burst open, revealing Hannah.

"I'm not late am I?" She asked. Kay shook her head.

"No, you've got about 5 or so minutes until V.Mars starts." She replied, eyes never leaving the TV. Hannah grinned and kicked off her shoes before sliding down at the front of the couch. There was silence for a few minutes until the ending credits of NCIS began to roll and Kayleigh vaulted herself off the couch, just barely missing Hannah's head.

"Bathroom break!" Kay called as she sprinted out of the room and into the hallway. Hannah just shook her head and quickly flipped the channel to the CW. She aimlessly watched the commercials for a few moments before there was a knock at the door. Hannah pushed herself up and headed over to the door. She opened it and saw that Riley was standing in front of her.

"Hi Riley." She smiled, letting him into the dorm room. Riley grinned.

"Hey Hannah, Kayleigh around?" he questioned. Hannah nodded as the person in question came sprinting back into the room.

"It's starting!" She yelled as she flew onto the couch and resumed her position that Hannah had found her in. Hannah took a quick look at Riley before sprinting into the same room that Kay was in. Riley's eyebrows rose slightly before approaching the girls with caution.

"Uh, Kay I was wondering…" Kay held up her hand and pointed to the television.

"Talk during Veronica Mars and we'll be forced to kill you." She replied, eyes never leaving the screen. Riley blinked and looked at her. Hannah shot a glance at him.

"You're more than welcome to stay." She commented. "Just don't talk." She chuckled. Riley nodded, a forced laugh coming out of his mouth before he sat on the floor next to Hannah. Kayleigh's eyes were peeled from the tv screen as she watched Riley take a seat next to Hannah. She observed the two with wary eyes. Why's he sitting next to her? Her mind grumbled. She turned her eyes back to the screen, yet she couldn't seem to focus on the plot of the episode. About 15 minutes into the episode, Kay gave up trying to figure out what was happening. She pushed herself off the couch and headed towards the door.

"Uh, Kay? Where are you going?" Hannah asked. Kay shrugged as she opened the door.

"Out." She replied, slamming the door loudly as she left.

"Uh...okay...then..." Hannah said, completely bewildered. Riley looked at her.

"What was that about?" He asked. Hannah simply shrugged.

"PMS?" She offered. Riley blinked and looked at her, before raising his eyebrow again and nodding. "Riiiight." He replied as he focused back on the television. Meanwhile, Kayleigh pounded down the stairs and out the front doors of her residence hall, heading towards the gym. Kay quickly entered the building and headed towrads the change rooms to put her leo on. After she finished changing, Kay headed out into the main room and hit the lights. She turned the radio on while she was at it and began warming up. After she spent ten minutes stretching and warming up, Kay took off her ankle socks and walked over to the part of the floor where the hardwood ended and the blue matt streneched out the rest of the way, dropping her socks at the edge of the matt. Kay rolled her shoulders a bit as she made her way to the balence beam. She hopped up onto the beam and waited a moment for the radio to switch to a new song before she started into her routine.

Kay held her arms up, stretched as her fingertips pointing towards the walls at her side as she gracefully walked across the beam. Once she reached the end of the beam, she went up on the tips of her toes and did a slight about face. She moved her arms up, holding them high above her head before leaning forward and going into a handstand on the beam, her pointed toes pointing to the ceiling before she slowly seperated them, doing a split in the air and joining her legs together once again. She held this pose for a long while, which was part of her work out to strengthen her arms. After a short while, she spread her legs sideways before bringing herself back down to the beam as she sat on it in a straddle position.

From her sitting position on the beam, Kay laid her hands flat on the beam in front of her, swinging her legs back and forth a bit before swinging them back and lifting up her feet to plant them on the beam and standing back up.

Kay held her arms up above her head again as she arched backwards and did a back flip off the end of the beam, landing perfectly on the matt. Kay stood up straight with her arms up, holding the pose until the song on the radio ended. The clapping broke her concentration as she looked over to the entrance and saw Lydia standing by the bleachers.

"That was cool," Lydia said, giving Kay a smile. Kay smiled back and stood in a relax stance.

"Thanks," Kay said. She noticed that Lydia was holding a medium sized workout bag. "I didn't know you did gymnastics too," Kay said, figuring Lydia had had the same thought as she had. Lydia gave her a blank look before blinking, getting what she meant and looking at her bag.

"Oh no, I'm not," she said. "There's dance rooms upstairs," she said.

"Oh right, I forgot about that," Kay said. Lydia grinned.

"So what are you doing here so late?" Lydia questioned. Kay shrugged.

"Just getting in a work out before bed," Kay said. "You?" She asked.

"Wanted to work on my routine for the recital a bit, work in some changes I came up with earlier today," she said. Kay nodded.

"When's you're recital?" She questioned. Lydia was silent for a moment.

"Two weeks from Saturday." She replied.

"Wow, it's coming up," Kay said. Lydia nodded. "Getting nervous?" She asked. Lydia shrugged.

"Nah, not really," she said before pausing. "Okay, maybe a little," she admitted, laughing a bit, Kay smiled. Lydia sighed. "Mat's been telling me there's no need to be nervous, you know, since I've been doing this for so long...but I guess old habits die hard," Lydia said. Kay nodded, then paused, the mention of Mat sticking out in her mind. She walked over to Lydia and sat at the edge of the matt.

"So...what's going on between you two? I mean...are you guys, you know..."

"Together?" Lydia asked, she laughed. "Oh no..no no," she said, shaking her head as if the mere idea of dating Mat was ludacris. "No, we've just been friends since like, forever. He's like a brother to me."

"Oh," Kay said. Lydia fixed her with a amused look.

"Why? Do you like him?" She asked. Kay laughed a bit and shook her head.

"No," she said. Kay looked down at the matt.

"No, there's another guy I'm interested in… Yet he seems to have a thing for my roommate who doesn't like him like that… It's… Complicated… I think." Kay rambled. Lydia looked at her.

"You we're one of those girls in high school that always had the boy drama weren't you?" She chuckled.

Kay laughed. "Uh no, not really," she said. She put her socks back on. "I was more the girl who girls hated because I was friends with all the guys they wanted." Lydia nodded.

"Uh huh, and they spread rumors about you being 'more then friends' with them because they were a bunch of jealous bitches, right?" Lydia asked.

"Bingo," Kay said, chuckling. "It was even worse when the rumor's surrounded the fact that all the guys I was friends with, we're only friends with me because I was a gymnist and I can supposedly do all sorts of weird and sexual things with my body." Kay shrugged as Lydia laughed.

"Apparently being able to put your legs over your head is a good sex move." Lydia giggled.

"So what about you, what girl where you in high school?" She asked. Lydia smirked.

"I was the other type of girl the jealous bitches hated--The one the guys they wanted wanted," she said. Kay lifted an eyebrow.

"Ah," Kay said.

"Not to say I'm some huge headed conceided person or anything," Lydia said, shrugging a bit.

"So, this guy," Lydia said, indicating she was switching back to Kay's man trouble. "You really like him?" Kay shrugged, trying to be nonchalant.

"I just met him less then a week ago...I thought he liked me, I mean he asked me out...kind of..."

"Kind of?"

"I mean, he asked if I wanted to do something sometime..."

"Ah," Lydia said, nodding. "Hmm," she said, looking like she was doing some deep thinking.

"What?" Kay asked.

"Well," Lydia began, "if he asked if you wanted to do something sometime, technically the ball's in your court now,"

"It is?" Kay asked.

"Yeah, I mean he indicated that he'd like to go out with you sometime...so, you could either wait until he gives a definate plan, but you could also just do it yourself."

"I see..." Kay said. Though she wasn't as knowledageble about dating as Lydia seemed to be, Kay had done her fair share of dating in her life. Sure, being the girl all the guys were friends with gave her the repuation of being a tomboy, but every so often a guy came along who liked the fact that this was a girl who didn't see watching monday night football with him as torture, and they'd ask her out. But Riley wasn't like those guys. Those guys had been her friends who she had slowly moved into a relationship with. She knew them, she knew what they thought and where they were coming from. She didn't know anything about Riley.

"I have much to teach you, young Padawan learner," Lydia joked, tearing Kay from her thoughs. Kay laughed.

"Although," Lydia said "something tells me I should save my Jedi teachings for Gabby, she looks like she desperately needs it."

"Aw come on, she's not that bad," Kay said. Granted, she barely new the girl in question, but she still felt a need to defend her.

"Oh come on, the girl is so clueless," Lydia replied, shaking her head. "You've seen how she clams up and turns beet red when Mat's around."

"Wait, Gabby likes Mat?" Kay asked, confused. Lydia laughed a bit.

"Don't tell me you haven't noticed," she said, causing Kay to shrug.

"She's shy, I just figured that was just her...being her." She shook her head. "Besides, I don't know, I'm kind of feeling uncomfortable talking about her behind her back like this, it doesn't seem fair." Lydia nodded.

"Wow, you're playing into the whole wise and just leader role, aren't ya?" Lydia asked, smiling a bit to show she was only joking. Kay laughed

"I wear the responsibility with pride and a smug sense of superiority," she said, making Lydia chuckle.

"Which Josh just loves," Lydia snicked. Kay wrinkled her nose a bit.

"Oh, so you're the gossip of the group, eh?" She asked. Lydia shrugged.

"Gossip's such a harsh term. I prefer scandalous informer," Lydia joked. "Anyway, I better go upstairs and work on my dance, I'll catch ya later," she said as she gave a small wave to Kay before making her way to the stairs. She paused briefly and turned back to Kay. "May I suggest you go get your man before he falls into your roommate's clutches?" She said.

Kay rolled her eyes. "Bye Lydia," she said. Lydia laughed and left, her footsteps scampering up the stairs. Kay sighed and got up from the matt, deciding that she needed to get to the bottom of her problems. She walked back to the locker room and changed out of her workout gear and into her clothes. She stuffed her red leotard and black shorts into her workout bag before zipping it shut and slinging it over her shoulder as she walked out of the door and left the gym, making her way back to her dorm. She got back and saw Hannah sitting on the couch, watching the begininng of NCIS.

"Hey," Hannah greeted as Kay shut the door and set her bag down on the floor. "You missed the rest of Veronica, but I taped it for you," she said. Kay bit her lip.

"Where's Riley?" She asked. Hannah made a puzzled face at Kay's somewhat harsh tone but decided to disregard it.

"He left about a minute after you stormed out," Hannah replied.

"I didn't storm," Kay replied defensively. Hannah sighed and pressed a button on the remote control.

"I guess I'll be taping NCIS too," she said before shutting off the tv and focusing her attention on Kay. "All right, what's crawled up your butt and died?" She asked. Kay crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at her roommate.

"So, what happened when I left?" Kay asked.

"What are you talking about?" Hannah asked.

"Well, you and Riley were all alone, so what happened?" She asked. Hannah's eyebrows rose at what was being implied.

"Oh my g...Are you serious?" Hannah asked. Kay shrugged. Hannah sighed and stood up, walking over to her. "Okay first of all, I'm not into Riley. Second of all, even if I was, I so would not go there. We're friends, and friends don't go after friend's love interests."

"Yeah, sure," Kay said, not believing her. Hannah's eyes widened as they filled with a mixture of hurt and disbelief.

"I cannot believe this," Hannah stated. "You really think I'd backstab you like that?"

"Well, he obviously likes you," Kay replied. Hannah made a face at that.

"...Right, he obviously likes me. And showing up late the other night and asking you out was what...a ploy to get to me?" Hannah asked. "Do you actually hear yourself saying this or has stupidity deafened you in both ears?" Hannah asked.

"Oh, so now I'm stupid?" Kay asked.

"You are if you actually think this crap," Hannah retorted. Kay's jaw tightened as she glared at her roommate.

"Fine, then why did he sit next to you earlier?" Kay asked. Hannah stared at her for a long moment before laughing and shaking her head. "What's so funny?" Kay asked.

"That's what this is about?" Hannah asked between chuckles. "...You're upset that he sat down next to me...as supposed to sitting where? The couch you were laying spread out on, thereby taking up all the room so there was no where for anyone else to sit?" She asked. Kay blinked, realizing she had a point, but her stubbornness refused to let her back down.

"Yeah...well...he...I...I mean..." Kay sputtered, not sure where to go from there. "...Shut up!" Kay exclaimed, which only encouraged Hannah's laughter. Hannah continued laughing as the two friends wrestled on the couch. After a short while, Hannah was able to knock Kay off of her and onto the floor. Kay's behind hit the floor with a soft thud, throwing the both of them into a joint laughing fit. Kay laid on the floor as the two rode out the attack of the giggles..

After a while, both of them were able to calm down and stayed in their positions on the floor and couch as they caught their breath. Hannah smacked Kay's shoulder.

"Now then, apologize to the roommate," she said. Kay rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry," she said.

"For?"

"For jumping to the wrong conclusions," Kay said.

"I was actually going for 'for being an insane psycho' but that works too," Hannah said.

"How nice of you to accept my apology," Kay replied sarcastically. Hannah grinned.

"Oh yeah, I'm such a saint," she replied. The two remained in their positions silently for a moment before Hannah spoke again. "Oh, by the way, expect a call from Riley," she said. Kay looked up at her. "Before he left, he told me to tell you he'd call you later," she said. Kay's eyes widened as she jumped up to her feet.

"And you're just telling me this now?!" She excalimed. Hannah laughed.

"Well, you didn't exactly give me a chance to tell you between accusing me and pummeling me on the couch, now did you?" Hannah replied. Kay thought about it for a moment.

"No, I guess I didn't." She replied.

"He said he'd call tomorrow afternoon after class," she said. Kay's face lit up with a bright grin before curling her legs beneath herself and making herself comfortable on the other end of the couch. Hannah fixed her with a steely glare.

"I will forever regret telling you how ticklish I am," she said as she sat up. "Little did I know you'd use that admission for your own advantage," she said. Kay laughed and held her hands up in front of her own face, blowing at her finger tips as if they were loaded guns. Hannah rolled her eyes.

"What can I say, these babies are lethal weapons," Kay smirked. Hannah groaned and grabbed one of the throw pillows on the couch before throwing it directly at Kay's head. Kay made a "oomph," noise as the pillow collided with her face.

"Hey, lets not start this again." Kay laughed as she tossed the pillow across the room.

Yeah, I guess you're right," Hannah said. Kay stood up from the couch and stretched a bit.

"I think I'm going to go head off to bed, I'm tired," she informed. Hannah gave a dismissive nod as her friend/roommate went to her bedroom.