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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Yes, there were even more tents on the other side of the lawn.

Yes, the tables and chairs that had been set up there were still close to the ice cream.

Priorities are very important here at Fandom High.

[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 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"My description won't be nearly as interesting," she warned, "but would you like to hear about this place, or where I'm from? Del Sombre wasn't exactly an interesting place."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He settled back on his elbows in the grass to listen. "P'haps not interestin' to you," George replied. "But 'm certain t'will be over here." He raised an eyebrow, catching what sounded like past tense. "T'was goin' t'say your home, but I shouldn't like t'bring up any bad times?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"It was destroyed just a couple months ago," she admitted quietly, "but I lived there without much happening for fifteen years. It was a small place; we mostly lived off of the tourists who came between the city and the Napa Valley. My mother ran the apartment building and we worked at the restaurant in town. We didn't go to school so most of my memories involve books upon books upon books."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"'M sorry it was destroyed," he said, frowning. "Tis an awful thing to lose a home."

"We?" George repeated curiously. "D'you have brothers and sisters?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"It was a place to be," she told him with a little smile, "and yeah, we. I have a twin brother named Eliot. He got sent to school somewhere else."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"...I don' look like 'im, do I?" George asked warily.

It was totally a valid question.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She laughed and shook her head before reaching for her phone in her bag. There, she showed off a picture of a young man (http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/85859683/18777440) in a uniform.

"That's Eliot. You don't look like him at all, really."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Good," he said, surprised at the phone and the picture, and his fingers itched to play with it. But Fiona was a nice lass, and he wasn't going to start filching anything now.

"Never thought I'd need ask that before today," he admitted, giving her an amused smile.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She noticed the interest and held the phone out to him.

"You can look at it for a few minutes if you like."

All there was on there was Eliot's picture, some of Eliot's music, a couple of songs from Dinah, and the text messages from her brother that mostly consisted of bizarre and extensive insults to one another that most people wouldn't understand because they referenced things that the majority of the population had better things to do than look up.

"Did someone say you looked like their twin, then?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"I thank you, lass," George said, checking again before taking it from her to poke at. He was completely unfamiliar with the technology or really anything on it, but his fingers were deft and his brain quick so managed to start flipping through it more quickly than one might expect.

That consumed him enough that it took a while for the question to sink. "Oh, aye, pretty lass - Jaina."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I've met her. She's nice though we tend to run out of things to talk about," she admitted with a brief blush.

And she didn't have to mention the girl who looked like her but was a total bitch since ha! Brooke was gone.

...yes, Fiona was entirely unreasonable about her. That probably wasn't going to change.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Happens to everyone," he pointed out, and the blush was entirely cute enough that it distracted him from the phone for a moment. "I'd think especially when people have all this different worlds...stuff."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"In some ways. Other ways, there's a lot of similarities. I'm sure you'll be all right."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

George laughed. "'M not worried about that, lass. 'Tis a kind thought that's appreciated, but 'm sure of that."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Oh?" she asked, one eyebrow raised. She was smiling a little.

"So sure?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

George had grown up in the Cesspool, the worst part of the slums in the Lower City. He was rising quickly in the Court of the Rogue where men and women lived by their wits and cunning. He was absolutely certain he could handle a school that looked so very soft.

He gave him a shrug and self-deprecating smile. "Y'can't go in expectin' failure now, can ye?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

He had a point. It sounded like something her mother would have said, which meant that she sort of agreed even if she didn't like hearing it.

"I sort of did," she admitted after a moment, "but then I decided that I should just go for it."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Has 'goin' for it' worked?" he asked.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She shrugged.

"I managed to meet people without turning into a blubbering ball of nerves," she said.

He got a crooked smile from her.

"Met you, didn't I?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"An' yer not regrettin' it yet," George teased, mostly because he liked the smile.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She shook her head with a quick laugh.

"Not yet, no."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He handed the phone back to her, not having forgotten it was in his hands but reminding himself that it oughtn't stay there.

"Then I count this meetin' as a success," he teased. "An' I don' think yer so much wi' th' nerves. "Or it doesn' show at least."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She took it back, slipping it into her bag.

"That's because I'm not in that mess."

She pointed at the crowd.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the number of people that bothered George, but...

"They're all so bloody happy."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"...that too," she said, not startled by what he'd said, but as if she was just realizing another part of why the assembly sort of bothered her.