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

In order to give people a place to get away from the traffic jam of the buffet and information tables, most of the chairs and tables for guests were set up further out on the lawn, under a tall blue and gold tent. There was plenty of room for everyone to sit down and enjoy themselves, but it might not have all been dry. Did we mention being grateful that it was just water falling from the sky?

[OCD is up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"You don't have to name names," Miley offered. "Just be vague. I won't tell, I promise."

"Why so curious?" Kate asked, mildly amused. "I swear there's no one you should, like, avoid or anything. Plus, I might be the wrong person to ask 'cause I like playing games with the annoying ones."

Oooh.

"Gotcha," Miley said, making a little finger-gun and clicking it at her. "I'm just, you know, scoping out who I'm going to have to deal with around here. I used to live with my brother, and boy, was that a disaster."

"Well, you basically have to deal with people on your floor about as much or little as you want," Kate shared, shrugging. "It's the roommate you really need to worry about."

"Right," said Miley, nodding, and it kind of sucked that even after all that planning she'd done over the summer, she and Lilly still didn't get to be roommates. "So, uh... do you know someone named Surreal? 'Cause that's my roommate."

Her very weird-sounding roommate.

"I... think I met her at the last newbie picnic?" Kate offered, tilting her head as she tried to remember. "Seemed nice enough, though I'm pretty sure she's from one of the slightly more different worlds. I'm sure you could do worse."

Miley sighed. "I guess," she said, though she didn't sound thrilled. "It kinda sucks, you know, 'cause my best friend moved in with me this summer and we were supposed to live together and be roommates, but then I had to come here. So I'm kind of bummed I don't get to live with her."

"Oh, that sucks." If Kate didn't sound hugely sympathetic (though what little was there was sincere), it was just because her problems this week had been a little more major and, well, she just was like that. "She didn't get to come with you?"

Oh, that wasn't a problem at all, Kate, because Miley tended to assume that everyone cared about her issues.

"No, she had to move to Atlanta," she explained. "But I'm sure Surreal's really nice."

Just, you know, not Lilly.

"She's just not your friend from home," Kate concluded. "You'll get used to it. It was weird for me to be living with a dude who wasn't my brother too, at first."

"Oh, you have a brother?" See, they were bonding! "My brother's, like, the lamest older brother ever. What's yours like?"

Kate shrugged a shoulder. "Smart, polite, kind of quiet, total film buff, nothing like me." And one of her best friends, but the people she'd admit that to were rare. "He's a year younger than me."

"Got it," Miley said, nodding. "Yeah, my brother is exactly the opposite of that. Rude, loud, obnoxious, and we haven't seen the floor of his room for almost six years."

"I hear that's common," Kate replied, wryly, suddenly missing her brother kind of a lot. "But Moosh is kinda special like that."

Her entire family was a bit special.

"Aw, that's cute," Miley said with a smile. "I always wished I could have one of those special big brothers, you know? Although," she added, grinning toothily, "my Fandom big brother? Tooootally different."

"Oh?" Well, Kate could always quirk an eyebrow at that. "Who'd you get?"

"Jack McCallister," Miley reported, still grinning. "Who is SO cute, by the way."

"I guess he's kind of cute." Not really Kate's type. Plus she was kind of ridiculously taken; that might have factored into it too, not that it made her blind. "He's definitely nice, though. And his little brother Bobby's adorable, I was his fake sib when they came here."

"Right, I heard about the brother," Miley said. Holding up a hand, she asked semi-awkwardly, "Is he a puppy, by any chance?"

Because word on the street was that he was a puppy.

Kate tilted her head to the side. "I... haven't heard that?" Largely because she didn't listen to the radio. "But it's entirely possible, yeah."

"So, okay, just to be clear," Miley clarified, "I have a Fandom big brother and now a Fandom little brother, who belongs to the same family as Airbud and Lassie."

"Only temporarily?" Kate offered, shrugging. "I mean, he's usually a boy. If he's a dog right now, he'll probably turn back in a week or so at the latest."

"Oh." See, now, that made a whole bunch more sense, but it was already well-established that this place was weird. She probably would've bought it either way. "I'll... look out for that happening."

Then --

"Wait. Do people from normal worlds turn into stuff too, here?"

"You'll redefine the word normal within your first month here," Kate couldn't help remarking. "But, to answer your question, yes. No one's safe. I've been a cat for like four times over my two years here, and there's absolutely nothing supernatural about where I come from."

Well, as a matter of fact she couldn't know that for sure, but that was what she was choosing to believe.

Wait. Really? So she could be turning into something any day now? There was only one phrase for a situation like this.

"Oh, sweet niblets."

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