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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Behold! More tables and chairs, away from all the informational stuff! Enjoy the food!

[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 (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Oh, it'll find a way to be completely terrible," Warren replied, and yes, that was a smirk on his lips, now. "Giving you dirty looks all term is probably going to be a highlight, I'm sure."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Maybe we'll end up in some of the same classes," Helen said without much hope. "We could fend them off together. Sit back to back and you can glare at one half of the room and I'll glare at the other."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"It could happen," he mused, reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out a folded scrap of paper. "I haven't even looked at my class schedule yet. We could compare our, I suppose. Gives us a head start on properly planning out our glaring strategy."

[There's a storm just outside. I'm unplugged, so if I vanish, the battery died and I'm too chicken to plug it in again until it passes.]

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen nodded and pulled her incredibly neatly folded paper from her own pocket. "Hmmm... I have Destiny and Free Will on Monday, The Right Tools on Tuesday, Escape Artistry on Thursday, and Roving the Galaxy on Friday."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Escape artistry," Warren replied, giving a nod as he looked over his schedule. "I'm not in any of the other ones, but I am taking that."

The rest of Warren's classes seemed to be... well. They seemed kind of strange, even by Sky High standards.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen sighed again. "Well, I suppose one is better than nothing."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"If nothing else, we can look at this as a way of expanding our horizons. We can compare notes," Warren suggested. "Or something."

There was a pause while he looked at the paper again, squinting.

"Unless it's a typo," and he really hoped it was a typo, "I'm in a class for... learning how to be a bitch."

....

"That has to be a typo."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"We can totally compare notes," Helen said. "That's the sole good thing about this place. I get to take all sorts of classes instead of only learning what the priests want me to know."

"How to be a..." Helen quirked her lips. "Doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd need to take lessons in."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren grunted his agreement, there.

"Easy credits," he decided. Pending it wasn't a typo. "I've got courses on extracurriculars and ... fashion taught by a mercenary?"

Oh, maybe that was the class that Teddy had warned him not to take.

"Weird."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Very," Helen agreed. "Are all high schools so... odd?"

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"The one I went to before was. This one is getting there." He shrugged. "Last one wasn't really a normal school, though."

Well. It was normal enough to the students going to it.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I know nothing of normal or abnormal in this matter," Helen said grumpily. She hated not knowing things.

"I did learn that other than classes we are left to ourselves. No adults interfering and telling us what we can and cannot do."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"The freedom, I can live with." Warren tucked the paper back into his pocket and shrugged again. For good measure, perhaps. "It's not really new to me. But I'll keep it."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I had a great deal of it when I was Walking the Bounds," Helen said. "Not so much when I was back living at the House of Uquar."

She plopped her elbows on the table and rested her chin on her hands with a sigh. "I want to go home."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Guess we're kind of stuck for it, here," Warren said, frowning thoughtfully as he poked at whatever was closest on his plate. Carrot stick. Exciting. "Whatever it's supposed to be."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I guess we are," Helen said grudgingly. "I don't want to be stoned again. It hurts."

"At least I can come find you if people are really annoying. Where are you living?" She didn't particularly care if he'd like it if she came and found him.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Room 315," Warren replied. Sure, she could come find him. She wasn't chirpy and annoying like some of the people he'd already met. They could sit and hate people together, that worked just fine for him. "Probably going to look for a job, too. Keeps me busy."

Kept him out of trouble.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I'm in 501," she said. "With a boy."

And that would be her rolling her eyes again.

"I don't think I need a job. I made the priests agree to give me money. Lots and lots of money."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Sounds useful," Warren decided. "I should have thought of that before I left."

Though somehow, he doubted that the owners of The Paper Lantern would have given him an advance on his next paycheck, knowing that he was going to be gone at least through the summer.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"They owe me," Helen said with a grim smile. "After all I've done for them..."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

"Ah," Warren noted with a nod. "One of those, 'the least they can do,' things."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes," she said fiercely, her fists clenching without her even realizing it.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren watched her for a moment, then idly flicked a pea off of his plate, watching it bounce across the table.

"Maybe you're better off here, then." A pause. "Even if high school sucks."

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," Helen said grimly. "If I decide I like it here, doesn't that mean they win?"

And yes, she'd rather be miserable for the next however long they made her stay than admit that they'd won.

Re: General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[peace_n_war]

Warren shook his head and leaned backward in his seat slightly.

"Sounds to me like they're expecting you to be miserable out here." He smirked faintly. "So prove them wrong and enjoy it. Anyone that gets their kicks by throwing rocks probably wouldn't like to get news that you're doing well in a place they can't get to."

Warren had moment of being weirdly thoughtful. He wasn't necessarily always right. But he could be thoughtful.