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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Oh look, there are tables and chairs over here too. Enjoy the food!

[WAIT FOR THE OCD PLEASE. OCD IS UP. This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here and there is more room for mingling here.]

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Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Leaning against the tree she'd sought support from the last time one of these large events happen, Adah just quietly watched, clutching a notebook to her chest as she started to take in a whole new plethora of faces to memories and watch and privately make fun of in her own little world of palindromes and reversals and superiority.

Re: General Mingling

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"So, hey," Lee said, ambling up and trying to look confused. "Are you new? I'm new. I've got no idea what's going on around here. Think you could help a guy out?"

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Try as Adah might to narrow her eye and give the Eel a look that said he was an incredible square for even pretending to do that, she found it failing due to an irrepressible urge to smile. Damn body. Never doing what she wanted it to. She tilted her head forward at him, still attempting to control that piercing, no-nonsense look, before she realized that the efforts would be futile. She laughed, lightly, quietly, a short burst if anything else, and shook her head. "I might be able to," she said. "Depends on what you'll need help with."

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[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Everything," he said with a nod. "And anything. I'm hopeless, I think."

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

"Oh, well," Adah said thoughtfully with a bit of a laugh and an apologetic look his way, "I could tell that just by looking at you. Unless you're saying that's your name, in which case you might want to have a bit of a talk with your parents."

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[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"No, my name's...Harold," he said randomly and then frowned. "That's even worse than Hopeless, I think. Harold...just Harold. No last name. See, hopeless."

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah grinned broadly. "Harold Hopeless has hardly heard of help, harboring hindrance and heaps of hesitation," she pronounced, emphasizing every h and then rolled her eyes with a light chuckle. "Luckily, my name has an 'h' in in, when I want it to, so I think that means I can help."

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[withoutverona]

Romeo noticed the girl with the notebook and stopped in his path. "You write?" he greeted. "I scribble, a bit. My name is Romeo."

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah hadn't actually expected anyone...anyone new anyway...to notice her among the whole menagerie of other things to notice, so there was a slight shimmer of surprise in her round eyes as they slid toward the boy addressing her. Beyond that slight surprise, which dissipated into intrigue that someone would notice her notebook (not so much her, but her notebook) amid the circus, she tried to keep her expression mostly blank. Acknowledging, but blank. Not cold, but certainly not warm, either, and she nodded her head in response to his greeting. Romeo, Romeo; she had the feeling she'd heard the name somewhere. She liked it. Poetic. O Emor!

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[withoutverona]

"I apologize if my talk is a bother," Romeo said hastily, mistaking her quiet for possible offense, and oh, her eyes were stunning! "Too few people pause to notice things, so I notice those who do."

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

With the ghostly hints of a smirk pulling her expression, Adah wondered if that was possibly the quickest someone had moved to an apology for her behavior to date. The quirk of her eyebrow in response to his comment about noticing things was significantly clearer than the barely-there grin, and she watched him quietly for another moment before offering, quietly, two syllables, that got a little caught in her throat, made her clear it a bit. "Adah."

If she wasn't holding her notebook, she might have even offered her hand. Which made this possibly the quickest someone had moved her to a vocalization to date, even if she didn't intend on saying much more than that. Then again, she had become much more sociable these days.

Re: General Mingling

[withoutverona]

"Adah?" Romeo repeated, assuming it was a name. "That is beautiful." There was something fragile about this girl, something he would like to explore, see if he could tease out. "Have you been at this school long?"

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah drew in a small, but deeply tentative breath. Her eyes shifted away again for a moment before turning back to this Romeo character. She'd never understand it, the odd human drive to engage in conversation with a person you didn't know, to ask questions. She couldn't imagine anyone actually being interested. Why couldn't he just go back to being like all the other gophers of the crowd, too concerned with themselves and their own immediacy to notice her? Why did he have to go against her theory of people as a whole and actually notice?

Still, there was the fact that he did, and that warranted an answer. Albeit brief, and accompanied with a tense sort of look. "Half a year."

Re: General Mingling

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

There were new people to introduce to dancing, but dancing always made River think of Adah, so the inaudible music led her towards the girl who was reluctant to dance. Cassandra followed River closely behind, both of them grinning. With a movement that might be too sudden, River leaned close to Adah. "We're making the new people dance," she informed her.

[Cassandra is replying too!]

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[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Seeing Adah, Cassandra's grin flattened for a moment. Then she shrugged and it came back. She waved: hi girl who doesn't talk!

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Why was Adah not in the least bit surprised? She gave River a wry grin, lifted a hand, slightly, keeping the heel of her wrist against the notebook to keep in in place, to return the wave as best she could to the Prophetess of Tragedy. Her attention shifted to River with an arch of her eyebrow. Better them than her, she figured.

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"You dance too, but in different ways," River reminded her, then leaned forward to give her a quick kiss on the cheek. Then she stretched tall, spinning around in one place, arms oustretched.

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[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra tilted her head, "Join us?"

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

And Adah was just certain that River would get a hoot out of the connections Adah's mind made between River talking about 'their' kind of dancing followed up by the Prophetess' invitation. Grinning crookedly, Adah shook it out of her head, which also worked as a good response to Cassandra's real question. She didn't exact, either, for either of the girls to think that she actually would take them up on the offer.

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"It's nice not to be the new kid anymore isn't it." Billy smiled at her.

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Dragging her eyes his way, Adah tried to give Billy her usual cold, dead stare of nonchalant disillusionment, but her attention, as always, went immediately to the eyepatch again. She couldn't help it; it was like a magnet for her eyes and for her over actively macabre imagination, imagining all sorts of sick and disgusting things underneath it. Today, it involved maggots.

As for the comment, she just shrugged a shoulder. Was she supposed to feel any different? She didn't.

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy noticed the attention going to his eyepatch. "Would it make you feel better if I wore sunglasses?"

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah's eyes widened and she sucked in a breath, as if the whole idea of it just sounded terrible to her. Because it does. Sunglasses would take away the whole thrill of guessing, despite the fact that all of her imaginings were basically unlikely, anyway.

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I'll take that as a no." he said, with a slightly bewildered smile.

Re: General Mingling

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah gave her head a few short, slightly ticking nods to confirm his assumption.