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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The recent cold front had been a welcome weather pattern as far as Zoe was concerned, and she was very grateful for how things had turned out today - it was sunny and breezy, and just cool enough that no one would pass out from heat exhaustion. Hopefully.

Beneath the blue and gold streamers and balloons, tables had been set up with drinks and food, including an entire table of moddable different ice cream flavors. As always, there was a stack of nametags set down next two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and one listing rooms and roommates for the new students.

[OCD is up! Have at it! 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. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell. She'd gone and freaked the poor girl out, hadn't she? Kennedy actually felt bad about it.

"Because it's not," she answered, completely serious now. "I know, I know, it sounds like the world's longest bad acid trip or something, but it's an awesome place. Also, the crazy stuff doesn't happen, like, every day or anything like that."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"But there's magic all the time?" Quinn asked, still uncertain but making more of an effort to stay together. Nobody was going to see her break down. "That's -- I mean, at home there's one girl who says she's a witch. And my boyfriend's friends threw eggs at her house on Halloween."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"All the time," Kennedy confirmed. "Not my thing, but. We have a whole group of magic types. My girlfriend's one of the leaders of that group," she added proudly. "Might not want to mention the egging thing? It won't go down too well here."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"You have a girlfriend?" Give Quinn a second; she wasn't exactly coming from a gay pride hotbed, and the way Kennedy said that so casually was at least as weird as the magic thing.

But, honestly, who Kennedy was sleeping with was not the most important thing just then. "Okay. Place is weird. Believe it, don't think about it," she said. "Check. But -- what can you tell me about the cheer squad?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah," Kennedy replied with just a moment of dorky grinning, and she didn't bristle at Quinn's reaction; she'd gotten worse, and in any case she generally worked under the assumption that someone could be a bigoted asshole about it and she probably still had more money than they did anyway, so whatever.

...also punching out her new little sibling might not go over too well. Um. Not that she was anywhere near that point.

"The cheer squad? I know we have one," Kennedy said, scrunching up her face like she actually had to devote some thought to this. "Which is still weird to me, since we don't actually have any sports teams. I don't really check it out much; it's not my thing. But, you know, if it's your thing, that's cool."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"You don't have sports teams?" Yeah, Quinn really didn't get that one -- it was weird enough to sweep away any lingering thoughts about the girlfriend thing. "So what do cool people do for fun here? Y'know, in between fighting giant tomatoes with teeth."

If you squinted, you'd realize Quinn was implying Kennedy was cool, there. Or at least knew what cool people did, which was almost as good.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Kennedy could squint to find that implication, or carry on with her usual slightly-too-obnoxious assumption that she was cool. Wait, she was going to do that anyway.

"Kinda depends on what you're into, I guess." She shrugged. "Some of us think practicing beating up on each other is a good way to pass the time. There's a karaoke bar in town, if karaoke with zombies is your thing, and nobody'll stop you if you want to head out to the mainland to party. Or, you know, throw one."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I'll pass on the beating people up and the zombies," Quinn said, sounding dispirited. "Maybe I'll throw a party once I know who's worth inviting."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

It was a little reflexive, but Kennedy rolled her eyes mildly. "Yeah, have fun figuring that out around here. Fandom'll do the wacky to social circles, too."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2010-2]

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Okay, but there have to be popular kids, right?" Quinn asked. "A high school wouldn't function without that."

The neediness in her voice? That was the sound of a girl who had spent 11 years cultivating chits in a system that she was being told didn't apply.