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

If anyone had hoped for good weather for the picnic, their wish had been granted as the day turned out to be sunny and warm. Everything had been cleaned up, spiffed up and ~~bedazzled~~ ~~dazzled~~ made as perfect as possible for the new arrivals. They deserved at least a few moments of pleasantness before the weirdness started to sink in.

May whatever deity they believed in help them now.

As usual, there were long tables set up with food and drinks, a table of nametags, and two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and one listing rooms and roommates for the new students. With everything in place, the picnic was ready to begin.

[OCD is up!! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for 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.]

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"Oh, mal," Jill groaned when she saw they would have roommates. This was bad. This was really, really bad. Still, she had a couple of weeks to deal with it. Maybe she could drive Harper off or convince her she had a rare illness and was infectious four days a month or something. She just hoped Harper was a girl.

She pasted a smile on her face and called, "Is there a Harper around here?"

"That's me! Are you Jill?" asked Harper, grinning.

"Yeah," Jill said. "Hi! I didn't know we'd have roommates!"

"Hi! I'm sure we'll become the best of friends. I mean, I already have a best friend, but having extra friends is good, right?" said Harper.

"Right," Jill said. "Right, I'm sure we'll get along great." Right up until Jill turned into a freaking boy.

"Now, the important thing is to see if there's enough closet space for both of us," said Harper. "You see, I'm something of a fashion diva. I have lot of clothes and accessories."

Touching one of her plastic tomato earrings, she added, "See? I made these. I didn't make the tiara, though, but I did glue on all then little fake gems."

Raimie would love this girl--but no, Jill wasn't thinking about Raimie. "Uh-huh," she said. "Cool. Uh, I don't have a ton of clothes, I have, like, a normal amount of stuff, I guess?"

"We should be fine, then," said Harper. "I came here to visit my friend during Parents Weekend, so I've already gotten a peek at the rooms."

"Wow, you're way ahead of me, then," Jill said. "Already got a friend here, and you know what the rooms look like. Go you!"

"Well, there was only so much I could cover in one weekend, and I spent most of that telling Alex how awful everything's been at home since she left to come to Fandom," said Harper.

Well, that sounded...awkward, at best. "Oh," Jill said. "So, what, you decided to come join her?"

"Well, there was this girl named Gigi that didn't really like me, and she had this huge clique of followers. Everyone wanted to be Gigi's friend, and if she didn't like me, then no one really wanted to talk to me," said Harper. "And this was supposed to be a special school and I'm a really good student, so I decided this might be better for me."

"Oh," Jill said. "Did anyone tell you how it's special? Because I'm here because they're supposed to be able to deal with my...condition."

"No, no one said anything about how it's special," said Harper, though there were people who had been trying to tell her that all day.

"I'm sure we'll figure it out," Jill said with a confidence she didn't really feel. "Everybody seems really nice so far, anyway." Even if some of them were kind of...weird.

"Pretty much everyone I've talked to has assured me that the other students are really nice," said Harper. "I almost wonder if I should be suspicious!"

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