fandomhigh | BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge [Saturday morning]

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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Cade winked at her. "I'll make sure you get an invite when I throw it."

Did he just wink? Jessica really hoped he didn't just wink. "Um. Thanks. Just try not to get everyone detention."

"Like in a cellblock?"

That would be a really good party!

"No, like you break the rules and then a teacher makes you sit in a classroom all day Saturday," Jessica said. "Are you sure the school of life isn't just another way of saying 'new age hippie school'?"

"What's a hippie?" Cade asked.

"You really are from space, aren't you?" Jessica checked.

"I really am," Cade replied.

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