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]

[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.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He shrugged lightly, giving her a crooked smile, and it wasn't like George Cooper of all people could talk against others concealing their true feelings, but it still seemed odd. "P'raps it's jus' puttin' on the' good face for th' new arrivals?"

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She shook her head then before opening her mouth, closing it, and finally sighing out.

"Other than me earlier, probably not. Everyone here is pretty nice. Nicer than I'm used to, anyway."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"So next time I meet ye, you'll be a cruel an' heartless lass?" George asked. He nodded, processing the information. That probably meant they'd be nicer than he was used to too given the whole Rogue situation. "I suppose I couldn't be complainin' about that. Be stupid to bibble about people bein' nice."

Even if it was weird.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"No, I've... I'm a bit odd," she said after a minute, "and it takes me a while to warm up to people. I'd never be cruel, though."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Besides the cuttin' anything wi' a piece of string?" George checked, his curiosity out of control.

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She leaned forward, almost teasingly.

"If I told you, you'd probably think I was mad. But that wasn't what I meant."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"An' what did ye mean, Fiona?" he asked, grinning at her. "But now ye have me all wonderin' about why I'd think ye mad."

Re: More General Mingling [Summer 2009-2]

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Just meant I'm not used to people," she said, smiling just a little.

"Though you'll just have to wonder for the moment."