fandomhigh | BWI Airport Lounge, Saturday Morning

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!event: newbie shuttle

BWI Airport Lounge, Saturday Morning

Kathy should have been tired as she made her way to the lounge with the bright and glittery Fandom High banner. Even for someone who considered herself a morning person, the time she'd had to get up to catch her flight out of LAX had been obscene. Excitement had kept her awake on the plane. Excitement and energy drinks were keeping her jittering around while she waited for the shuttle.

Lots of excitement. Lots of energy drinks. Lots of jittering.

She hoped that other people would show up soon. Otherwise, she'd probably end up doing an impromptu gymnastics routine, just to burn off some of that extra energy.

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Emma wasn't so much waiting for the shuttle as waiting for the security guard who'd started following her to lose interest now that she was standing by a group of other teenagers.

Maybe having another teenager bound over and say hello would help?

Because that was what Kathy was doing. "Hey," she said, managing to tone down the enthusiasm enough so that she wasn't yelling in the other girl's face, at least. "Here for the Fandom Shuttle?"

Well it could hardly hurt, what with the guard still watching her. "Uh, yeah. This is the right place, right?" What kind of name was Fandom anyway?

"Yup!" Kathy pointed to the glittery banner above them. "I double-checked just to be safe and the guy at the smoothie stand said that the shuttle always came right here."

He also muttered something about a weirdo in pajamas, but Kathy wasn't sure what that had been about.

Well, that was a lot of glitter right there. "That's convenient then." If only because they'd be unlikely to notice any one particular teen passing through.

Even Kathy thought it was a lot of glitter, and she'd be running around in a rainbow gi in a few weeks. Fandom went all out for these kinds of things.

"I take it you're new, too?" she asked. "Hi, I'm Kathy Li. Nice to meet you."

"Emma, same," she said, purposefully avoiding the first question. Emma didn't really know how to deal with perky and bouncy, but there were worse things Kathy could've been.

Like pretending to be a space alien like the other crazy chick with them?

At least she wasn't pouncing on Emma with suggestions of being best friends or whatever, either. "So, are you from the Baltimore area? My first time on this coast, so I'm trying to figure out if it's always so sticky hot around here."

Yeah, that would have had Emma fleeing for the hills, suspicious security guard or no. "I've lived here a while." Just long enough to know she didn't care for it one bit. "It's better further up north."

She'd liked that last place in Boston, so naturally she'd been moved as soon as she really started settling in.

"It gets hot in LA, too, but the air isn't as chewy as it is here." In the the three minutes Kathy had stood outside. That had been a bad plan. "Hopefully it will cool down at night or something."

Or their dorms would have AC.

"It's more manageable, but it won't really get cold." Which suited Emma, since she didn't have nearly enough clothes to get proper layers going on.

"That's good," Kathy said, relieved. "I mean, it's not perpetually summer back home or anything, but I know the East Coast can get slammed by snowstorms and stuff. I am not prepared for that, you know?"

A little snow might be cool for her to see, but she didn't think she'd like relentless winter storms or whatever the Weather Channel reported.

"Winters can be a bear, but that's still nearly six months off." Emma planned to be in a much warmer state by then.

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"Hi. Don't mind that girl. Not all of us are super excited to go to summer school," Mira said. "And by 'not all of us,' I specifically mean me, and probably most other people. But I'm making assumptions."

Emma shrugged. "Well, you know, camp, supposed to be fun." Or so she'd heard from people who'd actually been.

"Maybe it's just because I'm less familiar with summer camp and more familiar with boot camp, but I'm wary," Mira said. "But more accurately, I'm Mira."

"Emma." She'd just leave last names out of it as long as possible. Lots of Emmas in the world. "I wouldn't know the difference." Since boot camp cost just as much as the regular kind.

That was fine by Mira, who didn't use a last name at all anyway. "Well, the way I understand it, one involves climbing ropes for fun and the other involves climbing ropes for work. That's the main difference."

"So no difference at all, basically."

"There are fewer people yelling at you when you do it for fun," Mira said. "And they're nicer about the yelling."

"There's a nice way to yell at people now?" Emma'd believe that when she heard it.

"It can be encouraging," Mira noted. "Like 'Yay team!' and 'You can do it!'"

"Like cheerleaders?" Emma hadn't encountered much encouragement in its native habitat, do and don't do lists required much less effort.

"Probably less formal than that," Mira considered.

"No pom-poms?"