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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Yes, there were more tables and chairs here. No, they were not allowed to be used for making a bonfire. Eat something hot if you're still weirdly cold.

[OCD is up! This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Same here," Cal nodded a little. "So...Ireland. That where you're from?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan chuckled. "The accent didn't give it away, then?" he asked. "Yeah, I'm from Ireland, Republic of. Not all that far from Dublin, really."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"The accent," Cal nodded. "And the fact that you mentioned it. Not that I'm from San Fransisco\. I just lived there those years. I grew up in Michigan."

He trailed off, realizing that he was babbling a little. It wasn't much, no, but Cal didn't talk often, so that was a lot for him. He realized that something about Ronan made him a little nervous, though he couldn't tell exactly why. Perhaps it was nothing more than the way most other males made him nervous, as if he felt like some of them would just know. Like some of them would just be able to sniff him out, and know, and call him out for pretending to be something he shouldn't.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not_in_the_book]

Please. One of Ronan's best friends is an ambulatory Christmas tree. He's not going to blink at, "Oh, so I was born with both sets of genitals and only learned recently that I'm chromosomally male."

Still, Ronan just smiled a bit, shrugged, and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. "What's Michigan like?" he asked. "I've never been. Really, I've not explored much of the US at all."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal shrugged a little. "It's nice. I lived in Detroit; when I left for the first time and saw what sky was really supposed to look like, it blew me away."

This deadpanned comment was, of course, an exaggeration. He'd seen the sky plenty of time in northern Michigan, but nothing stuck with you like a pink Detroit evening.

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan raised one eyebrow. "The sky looks that different in Detroit? Why's that?"

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"All the smoke and smog from the factories," Cal said with a small grin, an odd sort of loyalty. "Sometimes you get it in other places in Michigan, too, so maybe it's not just that, but it's kind of cool."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not_in_the_book]

"Huh. I may have to check that out at some point. See if my friends on Long Island have ever gone out that way."

Re: More General Mingling (Summer 2008 - 2.0)

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"I've been to New York before, too," Cal said with a small smile. "And, oh, yeah, if you've been away...the island's been moving and stuff? So I've done more traveling in the past two months than I have my entire life, even with all that going to New York and San Francisco and everything. Another reason to like this place."