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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Some extra tables had been set up in the shade of the trees on the lawn, away from the buffet in spots where it might be less crowded and much quieter. Well, aside from the mariachi band, but at least their music was entertaining? They might even take requests!

[OCD is up, have at it! 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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Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

No so much to Karolina, though.

"... I just thought people liked their privacy."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Sure, which is why they always throw those big parties, invitation only but they invite people they don't even know, couldn't care less about, doesn't matter because there's plenty in their wallets and that's real important, you know? You see it all the time. Nice neighbourhood, people brag they don't have to lock the doors or anything because it's so nice and safe, and then a bunch of teenagers move into this house down the road and they're just cockroaches, and nobody wants to risk getting cockroaches in their home so the next thing you know they're locking the doors and complaining about property values, and it's not enough that they keep you out of their home, they're trying to chase you out of yours too. Because you might track your mud all over their nice clean sidewalks."

Sparkle shoved the end of a churro into his mouth and talked while he chewed. He could multi-task that way.

"It's never about privacy. A closed door will give you privacy. A locked door is about us and them."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

Karolina chewed on her lip and frowned lightly as she listened to him. A bunch of teenagers moving in somewhere rang a few bells, but for her it had been an abandanoned, caved in mansion, and no one had known they were there, so they'd been left alone.

You know, except for the LAPD.

"So," she said, slowly, once it seemed he'd finished. "Who tried to chase you out of your home?"

Come on, now. You didn't say all that if it didn't concern you personally.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Different people," Sparkle replied with a shrug. "Doctors, lawyers, anyone with more money than middle-class. It's a government-funded home, even. All done up properly, paperwork and licences and guarantees that we get the best educations and clothes on our back and enough food that we don't need to steal anymore and that doesn't matter at all, because we're troubled."

Neighbourhood after neighbourhood. The faces always changed, but the story never did.

"Those are the people that nobody wants around, you know. The ones who wouldn't have anywhere else to go if the people who lock their doors get their way. These are good churros, you should try one."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"I already had a few," Karolina replied, still watching him, a little subdued and worrying her lip between her teeth. She picked at the other things on her plate, though. "Sorry about... all of that."

Not even remotely her fault, but, you know. They'd had money, and they'd lived more than comfortably in a big house in a good neighborhood. Even if that was all gone now, she could still manage to feel guilty by association.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Why? You ever kick someone out who had nothing else left?"

Sparkle was withholding judgement for a moment. Possibly because this was a really good churro and he couldn't be bothered with holding a grudge. Possibly because he was more level-headed than he wanted to let on, and was actually sort of interested in seeing what Lucy in the Sky here had to say.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"No, but... My parents might've."

It was a very short while ago that she'd thought her parents were good, socially conscious people. Now she wasn't even entirely sure there had ever been any real charity involved in the Pride's pretend charity at all.

Plus, she was eventually going to wind up in another solar system just to atone for her parents' wrongdoings. She took these things a little hard.

"We weren't really middle class. I used to think I knew how they'd react to something like that 'cause they were supposed to be good people, but now I'm not so sure."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"A little hint about figuring people out," Sparkle shared. "All you really have to do is imagine the worst you could possibly ever see them doing. And then remind yourself that you're wrong, and it's probably way uglier than that."

Sparkle was an optimist, truly.

"But you're not your parents. So don't you ever, ever apologize for any shit that they might have done. It isn't on your head, not until you turn around and do the same damn thing."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

"I know," Karolina said, but with some rather shaky conviction. She couldn't really help it. She was more like her parents than she was like anyone else in the world, and that was a heavy thing that made her worry.

Still, she tried for a little smile, not wanting to get morbid on such a nice day, with a near-stranger. "I'll try to keep that in mind."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Good," Sparkle replied, and he seemed to be satisfied enough at that. Hell, he'd slipped back into a wide, pleasant smile, and was making a reach for more of those churros, there. "You don't seem too bad, yourself."

It probably had something to do with her codename. He had a soft spot for people who were unashamed to be total geeks about stuff like good old music.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

And really, Karolina was unashamed to be a total geek about a lot of stuff. Give her a few days to settle in, and she was going to be in a 'ball of glee' mode at quite a few things on the island.

She chuckled a bit, and looked down. "Thanks," she said. "Neither do you."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[myownface]

"Oh yeah? Just wait until you get to know me, Lucy in the Sky," Sparkle replied, still grinning. "There won't ever be a dull moment."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[solarhippie]

Karolina just nodded at that. And maybe grinned back at him a little, too.

"Well. Good!"

Beautiful friendship forming right there, for sure.