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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

The weather was thankfully behaving, so it was fairly warm outside as everything was set up for the picnic. Tables and chairs had been set up, and there was plenty of food and drinks, along with nametags, and two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and another listing rooms and roommates for the new students.

[~~WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE.~~ OCD IS UP, HAVE AT IT. This is part one of the picnic, for specifically meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. *g*]

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"Of course it's only mostly safe, there's boys, right? You can't let your guard down around them! Or around girls like me, but shhh....don't tell the boys that!" Dōjima grinned evilly as she looked at the other students. "But they'll back off once they realize that no doesn't just mean no, no means that I kick really hard!"

"Besides, this is America. America is always strange, at least that's what I hear."

Naminé blushed, at that, and lowered her voice, eyes still dancing somewhat. "The boys here are rather nice," she admitted. "And this island is its own little world, as far as strangeness goes. I'm not so sure about America. My Art professor says it's the best country ever, and I suppose I'm inclined to agree, if only because I'm fond of him."

"So you're not an American? Didn't think so, you seem too sane." Dōjima watched another student walk by and whistled quietly. "Thank you, Daddy, for sending me to the land of the pretty. Seriously, is everyone here attractive?"

"So then, define 'strange'," she said, getting distracted by yet another student. Or teacher. Not sure. "Inquiring minds want to know."

"It seems that way," Naminé laughed. "Some of them are dark and mysterious, and some are tall and sun-kissed, and my, I should be sketching more of them, I think. Except then I'd have to hide my sketchbook around Valentine. As for strange ... reality seems to be a little softer around the edges here than in most places. The walls are less structured. Less real. The insane, the improbable, it happens on a weekly basis. The entire island was struck with amnesia one weekend. It went away Monday morning. No one knows why."

"Uh-huh. Next you'll be telling that the boys are really girls in drag." Dōjima rolled her eyes at her sibling. "Nice try, but you can skip the hazing, Naminé."

Naminé laughed. "Very well. I've done my sisterly duty in warning you. In two months' time, I'll expect an apology."

"You've done your big sister duty in setting a terrible example for me to follow!" she teased. "Oh no, such a role model, teasing the new students! Now I shall have to do the same!"

"I'm a terrible influence," Naminé said with a straight face. "You can't imagine the depths of depravity I can sink to. Shocking. Outrageous. Other such things."

"Joudan ja ne yo! I wouldn't have guessed!" she giggled. "People never suspect the cute ones, we can be terrible and no one would ever believe it."

"Except my parents. They always believe it, but it's hard to argue the point when some paparazzi took photos."

"It's the squirrels you need to watch for here," Naminé said, lowering her voice and glancing around. "Everything that happens ends up on the radio. So if you get terribly drunk and kiss several girls at a party, and your possibly-boyfriend is listening to the broadcast that night?"

"What's wrong with kissing girls?" Dōjima grinned and winked at Naminé. "Girls can kiss just as well as boys, sometimes better, and most boys wouldn't mind two girls kissing."

"Squirrels, huh? That's a good name for the paparazzi. They kinda are rodent-y sometimes."

Naminé laughed, lightly. "I told him later - once I was less coherent from the hangover, I think - that really, we'd never said we were dating, or that we couldn't kiss other people, so how was I to know? And then he said that I was right, and asked me to be his girlfriend. Are boys always that confusing?"

"And the squirrels ..." Naminé thought, and then shook her head. "Later, when you get very upset at me for not warning you better, I shall remind you of this, you know."

"Of course boys are always that confusing. If they weren't, they wouldn't be boys."

Dōjima sighed and covered her eyes with a hand. "Naminé! Give up! You are in the company of a champion bullshitter. You'll have to do better than this!"

Naminé laughed again. "All right. No more stories of oddities, amnesia, or squirrels, and I shall enjoy a rather thorough I-told-you-so at a later time. Have you found your roommate yet?"

"Not yet, I literally came straight here from dumping my stuff in the room." She shrugged, not too terribly concerned. "Is the roommate list serious? Are some rooms actually co-ed?"

Naminé nodded. "I'm not certain why," she admitted. "Perhaps they're not sure with all of the names, or perhaps there's an imbalance in the gender numbers. It does have its advantages, at times."

"I'll say!" Dōjima's grin was pure evil. "That's fabulous! Is there any curfew or anything like that I need to figure out how to break?"

[ooc: stuck at internet-less work 'till after midnight. SP?]

Naminé shook her head, eyes impish again. "No curfew. One of the bars in town doesn't card, for alcohol. And I believe some roommates have worked out ... systems, for indicating when the room isn't to be disturbed? Or if the boy in question doesn't have a roommate, that's far more convenient."

(Absolutely! SP is love.)

Dōjima looked at Naminé for a moment before she burst out laughing. "This is great! I get sent here for embarrassing my family, and instead they sent me to a co-ed boarding school without a curfew! They're lucky I'm in America, and this can't possibly make it into the Tokyo papers."

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