BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge [Saturday morning]

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It had been with several bone-crushing hugs, a lucky rabbit's foot, two trashy books and an iPod that Olive had boarded the plane. If she had to guess, geographically, she had started to really miss her parents and brothers somewhere over Texas. (Texas was huge. She was probably right.) She'd pushed that away and shoved in her earbuds in an attempt to sleep, to no avail.

And...now she was supposed to meet new classmates. Okay. She found the designated loungey area thing -- and holy crap, that glittery sign was like something Marianne would make (so...not a great omen) -- and took a seat. Tempted as she was to retreat into her book and iPod again, she instead only fiddled idly with her phone, looking up every couple minutes to see if anyone relatively her age had come over. She hated being the first one anywhere. Now there was like, this onus on her.

She had maybe just won her Words With Friends game with her mom, as soon as the plane had landed, with "onus." She was pretty proud of that.

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Re: Wait for the shuttle [08/24]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure they're used to dealing with questions at the start of the year," Jessica said. "Let's get back to this castle thing. There's a castle? What kind of island school has a castle? And why didn't I get a brochure?"

"... I don't expect you to know the answer to, like, any of that."

Re: Wait for the shuttle [08/24]

[pulseof_life]

"I'm glad," Yeul said, "because I have no answers." Sadly. "May I ask how you heard of the school if not through a brochure?"

Re: Wait for the shuttle [08/24]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Long story short, my guardian decided it would be a good idea to send me here," Jessica said. "Actually, that's about all there is to the story. So short story regular size."

Re: Wait for the shuttle [08/24]

[pulseof_life]

"It's much like my story," she said lightly.

Though in her case, that was rather abbreviated.

"Have you been to a boarding school before? I haven't been."

Re: Wait for the shuttle [08/24]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"No, I'm basically a public school kid," Jessica said. Basically. "So this is as far from normal as it can get for me."

Oh, it would get farther from normal. Much, much farther.