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

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

How did they keep this place so dazzling nice for these big parties? It was a question for the ages.

But you know what isn't? The fact that there were yet more tables and places to mingle!

[Please wait for 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 (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

Priestly waved back. "You can call me Priestly for short."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"That's a lot easier. I'm Claire," she said. "You're new blood, right?"

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Yep. You're not . . . actually planning to bleed us, right?"

Hey, he'd been hearing weird things all day.

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire looked at him like she thought he'd taken the brown acid. "Nooooo," she said slowly. "I might take your picture, though, if you let me."

She held up her camera. "They have the type that don't steal souls now."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

Priestly laughed. "Sorry, I'm starting to assume people are gonna be weird. Snap away."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know, at my old school I was kind of the freaky chick," Claire said, as she got into position and framed Priestly through her viewfinder. "Here I'm really dull."

She clicked the shutter. "Awesome. Thanks."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"I totally get that. It was the same for me, back home. Now I'm wondering if this wasn't some plan of my parents' to get me 'scared straight'."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"I know that's part of how I ended up here," Claire confided. "Less 'scared straight,' more 'get her away from bad influences,' but same result."

She tucked the camera away. "That was for my portfolio for art school, by the way, I don't just randomly photograph guys all the time."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Wouldn't complain if you did. I'm from Santa Cruz. There's a fair number of photographers at the art school there, so I'm actually a little used to it."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

Claire could see why people would want to photograph him, yes. (She did have eyes.) "I'm from Los Angeles," she said. "Always cool to meet another Californian. Are you from more or less this year?"

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"As opposed to the one that ended three days ago?"

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"As opposed to 2001 or 2300 or 1976, or whenever the fuck everyone else is from," Claire informed him. "Time travel's one of the smaller weird things around here, believe it or not."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Oh." Did that make sense? He wasn't sure. "Well, then, yeah. I'm from this year."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"It's 2002 at home for me as of three days ago," Claire said. "You kind of get used to it."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"I been hearing that a lot, lately."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it's about all people can say," Claire admitted. "But I've been here four months and it's not that weird most of the time, you just have to kind of believe whatever people tell you and not stress."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"And not drink the kool-aid?"

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"No. But you don't strike me as the kool-aid drinking type, anyhow," Claire said.

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Not really. Especially after hearing about gremlins."

It should be noted that he thought "gremlins" was a slang term for LSD someone was slipping into people's drinks.

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"I kind of wonder if people just randomly decide to do weird things and then blame a gremlin," Claire suggested.

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Shouldn't the school be doing something about it?"

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"What, like extreminators?"

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Or, you know, PSAs or something."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[swipedthatfoot.livejournal.com]

"One nice thing about this school?" Claire told him. "They kind of let you make your own mistakes. Like, last term I only took two classes, and I didn't get called into the principal's office and lectured about not applying myself. It's nice."

Re: More General Mingling (Spring 2009)

[lovemykilt]

"Okay, I can see that. But are they really letting you learn on your own terms, or are they actually just being lazy?"