BWI Portalocity Terminal [Saturday Morning]

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Emma had flown with Angelica from Logan Airport in Boston to Baltimore so she wouldn't have to make the entire trip alone, and Angelica was grateful for that. But after a hug goodbye when the time came for Emma's flight back to Massachusetts, Angelica was alone in the lounge, waiting for the bus to Fandom High. She buried her face in a book and tried not to be too nervous about changing schools, counting out the positives. She might make new friends. Empath and Roulette wouldn't be there. She might accidentally fry someone with her microwave powers.

Oooookay, that last one wasn't too positive.

[Up early for SP! Please wait for OCD! The Ginger Express is now in service.]

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"Uh... thanks."

Sound more enthusiastic, Jim.

He'd probably feel better once he realized that the storybook he'd been reading as a three-year-old was more technologically advanced than the computer that this guy was offering to share.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as he wasn't a douche about it...

"Just don't do any Facebook crap on it," Stan warned. "It sucks you in."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"Facebook?"

And now they were right back where they started!

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Just stay away from it." Goddamn Yatzee.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"I'll try to keep that in mind," Jim decided, trying a wary smile on for size. "Thanks for the warning, uh..."

He waved a hand a little.

"You."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Stan," he replied. "Stan Marsh. From Colorado."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

Where was Colorado? What was it with this week and totally throwing Jim off when it came to interstellar geography?

"Jim Hawkins," he replied, letting his bag hang loosely from his shoulder as he offered Stan a handshake. "From Montressor."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Is that in Europe?" Because he clearly wasn't Canadian.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"Actually, it's not too far from the Megellanic Cloud, and the Coral Galaxy," Jim offered. "Mostly, it's just sort of in the middle of nowhere."

Space. In the middle of nowhere in the middle of space.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Oh." A beat. "That's cool too. I was worried you were French."

The 'pussy' part went unsaid.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"Nope. Pretty sure I'm not French."

If he was French, he'd know. Right?

"Especially if French is anything like Facebook."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Pretty close." WHAT? IT WAS TRUE.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"I'll try to keep that in mind," Jim decided, smiling a wary little smile.

He was going to have to hunt down a fleet of atlases and look up things like Europe and Colorado and Facebook, now. All because of Stan.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

STAN WAS AWESOME LIKE THAT.

"So why are you going to camp?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

Jim shifted his weight uneasily at the question, and then shrugged a little before hiking his bag up onto his shoulder again.

"Got in a bit of trouble back home," he admitted. "It wasn't a big deal or anything. The cops back there just don't mind their own business. But Mom thought sending me off to some kind of boarding school would help me get my priorities sorted out again."

Or, more likely, it would keep him from embarrassing her in front of the customers again.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"...so, this is like juvvie for you?"

OH GOD, LIKE TRENT BOYETT?!

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"No," Jim replied quickly, "I'm on probation. This is supposed to keep me out of juvenile hall. I haven't done anything wrong, really."

He was just surfing! Surfing!

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh." Stan bought that. "Butters thought this place might be a rehab camp too..."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"I don't need rehab, you know." Jim wasn't that kind of teen rebel! "I just need to... I don't know. Stay out of my Mom's hair for a while, I guess."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that would be better than sex rehab or praying the gay away like what he was thinking." Butters. seriously.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

Praying the gay away? It didn't matter how many times Jim silently mouthed that one, it just wasn't going to leave his brain, now that it had been said.

... Praying the way away?

"Yeah... I'm pretty sure this is just about me surfing in restricted areas."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that's fine then."

MAGICAL WORLD.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

STEAMPUNK, STAN. STEAMPUNK.

"See? SO not a big deal." A pause. "Why are you coming to this place?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

MAGIC.

"I dunno. My parents decided it was a good change of pace from Colorado." LIKE HE DIDN'T TRAVEL ENOUGH.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

"Colorado can't be half as bad as Montressor," Jim offered. Because somehow, that would make it all better, right? "But who knows. Maybe this place won't be completely stupid."