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BWI - Portalocity Lounge [Saturday Morning]

It had taken two and a half pep talks from her father to get Miley to be at least sociable today, the last half of which she was currently reading over text messages because her father couldn't figure out how to send messages that were greater than the character limit. Still, "sociable" was a far cry from her normal bubbly self. But she still had to be nice and talk to people, and she would, even if that talking to people was occasionally interrupted by texts from Lilly. (Hey, she had to read those! They could be important!)

She took a seat under the "Fandom High" banner in the airport lounge, with her three glittery pink suitcases and matching cosmetics bag all laid out on the floor in front of her. There. She could do this. If she could maintain a double life for four full years, she could survive boarding school. And maybe tonight, the president would call her back and manage to get her back into Seaview somehow!

...Hey, a girl could dream.

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Miley nodded. She had never had to have hand-me-downs, of course -- bleh, inheriting something from Jackson; could there be a worse fate than that? -- but she could sympathize.

"Uh-huh," she said. Then, curiously: "Like, where have you gone before?"

"My parents are missionaries, so they go wherever they can find the poor," explained Ryan. "We built a church in El Salvador, dug latrines in Ecuador, and built a school in Kenya. That was a pretty cool place. My parents are headed back there now."

Oh. Huh.

"Neat," Miley said, smiling. Okay, so those weren't the most interesting places ever, but whatever. "Was Kenya your favorite place you've been?"

"Kenya was interesting just because it was so different," said Ryan. "But honestly, I liked the South American rainforests a lot better. Everything was so lush and tropical, and you felt like you were the only one who knew about all the places off the beaten track."

She had serious doubts that she would like living on an island off the coast of Maryland. But she was in for a surprise there...

Miley nodded. She still wasn't, you know, interested, but she could pretend.

"I've never been anywhere like that," she offered. "Just big cities and stuff. Although I am from Tennessee originally, so I know a little bit about off the beaten track."

"Are you ready for a school in the middle of nowhere?" asked Ryan. "I think the map I had was out of date because I couldn't even find this island on the map."

Miley laughed. "I never checked," she said. "But the pres-- I mean, the, uh, the guy who reccomended this school to me apparently knows all about it, so I think we're fine."

"I hope so. I've never been to a school this large before, so this is going to be really different," said Ryan. Then again, after the news she'd just gotten in the hospital, a new school seemed like the least of her worries.

"Oh, is this supposed to be a big school?" Miley asked. "I mean, my school in Malibu was pretty big, so I'm kind of used to that. It's not so bad."

"My last school only had 30 students, so this is going to be much bigger," said Ryan with a chuckle. "And you know what? I've forgotten my manners. My name is Ryan Clarke. And yeah, my parents were expecting a boy and had the name already picked out or something."

Miley grinned and held out her hand for Ryan to shake. Hey, Southern manners. Always important. "Miley Stewart," she said. "And hey, it's not like Miley's the most popular name in the world either."

Well... in meta-world, anyway.

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