BWI Portalocity Terminal [Saturday Morning]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

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]

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"For camp," Butters explained. "What'd you do to have...have your parents send you away for it?"

He might be digging for clues on what it was he might have done himself.

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Nothing," she said, just a little too quickly. And then she added in the true part. "I wanted to come here. It sounded like fun, you know? Camp where you can also go to school, get to meet new people.... Why, what are you in for?"

Maybe she should have asked that first.

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

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"I...don't know," Butters admitted, his shoulders sagging down as he took a moment to just feel a little sad about that. "But I'm sure I did something. I'm always misbehavin', so it's probably something I deserve."

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Awww.

"Awww, don't look at it like that!" Annie said. "I mean, it could be cool. Maybe it's really a reward for doing something good."

Annie was maybe trying really hard to focus on the positives. Did it show?

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

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"O-oh, boy!" That sort of effort was really infectious. Or, at least it was to someone like Butters. "D-do you really think so?"

But sometimes even reality could catch up with Butters, and, just as quickly as he got excited, he got depressed again. "Aw, shucks, Annie. That can't be it, because I never do anything good."

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Then maybe," she said, with all the experience of someone who was totally trying this right now and therefore she could be all lofty about it, "this is a chance to turn over a new leaf."

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

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Y-yeah!" Butters said, clenching a fist with conviction. "Turnin' over...turning over a new leaf! W-why, I'll get back home and my parents won't even recognize me, I'll be so...new leafy. L-like a beautiful butterfly, come out of its coccoon after...after being an ugly ol' little caterpillar!"

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Just like a butterfly," Annie said proudly. "Keep that up and you'll do just fine, I know it."

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

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Gee whiz," Butters positively beamed. "Thanks, Annie! I'll do it! I'll be...a beautiful butterfly!"

But there was a slight pause.

"I should make sure my parents don't have any rules against comin' home as a beautiful butterfly, first, though."

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you'll be fine," Annie assured him. "I'm sure you won't turn into an actual butterfly."

If it ever happened now, she was going to feel so bad about jinxing him.

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

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Awww, it'd be nice if I kinda did," Butters mused a little wistfully. "They're so pretty, and you'd be so free and, why, I bet a little butterfly doesn't have anything to worry about. It just flies around and makes people all happy inside."

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie couldn't help but think about it now. "When you put it that way, it does sound kind of nice," she admitted.

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

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

""Yeah, see?" said Butters, pleased that Annie would see things his way instead of calling him a fruity little girl. "And you could just float around and kiss all the...the mornin' dew off the flowers."

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

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I'm not much for dew-kissing, but that's really sweet." Look at her, developing a new appreciation for butterflies. How did that happen again?