BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge [Saturday morning]

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

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: The Trip to Fandom [08/24]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"What kind of bus driver are you?" Jessica asked. "Aren't you guys supposed to torture people by making us sing along with weird songs? Or have I just never been on enough school buses in my life?"

Re: The Trip to Fandom [08/24]

[hatesmoststuff.livejournal.com]

"Pretty sure that's in like third grade."

Re: The Trip to Fandom [08/24]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes third graders have the best ideas," Jessica said, shaking her head.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [08/24]

[hatesmoststuff.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure there's an elementary school you could enroll in," April informed her.

Re: The Trip to Fandom [08/24]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"You know, I really enjoy coloring, so I tried. But they bumped me up the ladder," Jessica said, giving a little shrug. "What can you do, right?"