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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Were you a veteran Fandom resident? Did you finish getting your brain broken by your sibling and/or buddy? Did you just want to sit down to recover from the shuttle ride? If so, then there were plenty of tables and chairs set up across the lawn just waiting to be filled!

[This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

Sparkle actually gave her a weird look for that one. Yeah, it was kind of difficult to not follow the context of a statement like that around in a circle to its logical conclusion.

"Preeetty sure it's the faculty that's on the good drugs, for the most part. I've heard stories about Pam and Cheryl's class, I mean." He shrugged. "It's just a fucked-up boarding school. I'm pretty sure I'd be doing way less self-medicating if they gave out little doses of pills with our cafeteria slop."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

"Pam and Cheryl?" Evie looked at her schedule. "I'm in their class on Friday. What do you know about them?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"They're like a pair of escapees off the crazy train," Sparkle replied with a roll of his eyes toward the sky. "Heard at one point about one of them like eating cocaine from a bag, during class, like it was a freaking feed trough. The other one has a pet ocelot that likes mauling people."

The awesome thing was, Sparkle didn't even have to exaggerate or make shift up when talking about those two.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

Because it was completely unbelievable and the look that Evie was giving him said as much.

"Right. Because that wouldn't have led to arrests or heart attacks or anything," she snorted. "Just...cocaine out of a bag. During class."

Because a school for troubled teens would just hire anyone off the street who sent in an application.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"Around here? Anarchy is more the name of the game, I think. The town has a mayor, but I don't think he actually gives a shit. I've never once seen one of the troopers doing their job. Hell, one of the bars here doesn't card, and I'm pretty sure the other only does so that the adults don't have to deal with the high school kids."

Sparkle was helping!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

"You know I don't believe a word you're saying, right?" Evie asked, laughing. "Look, back at my last school, I shut down the sale of 'elevator passes' to the freshmen at our one-story school. I know when I'm getting messed with, okay?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"Oh yeah?" Sparkle just grinned. "You got a free night sometime soon? I can take you to the bar myself, let you see first-hand just how screwed up some of this island is."

He was too kind, really.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Evie said, figuring it was a juice bar or something where 'Sparkle' would be able to win on a technicality. "You name an evening and we'll go out and hit the bars. Maybe score some coke or whatever on the way and eat it in front of teachers."

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"Ugh, no, you don't eat it unless you're an insane bitch like one of those two," Sparkle replied. "But if you're into that sort of thing, I can get some pot for that evening, easy."

And sure, he'd smoke it in front of the teachers. What were they going to do? Suspend him?

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

"Isn't this the wrong kind of place to go around pointing fingers at the crazy people?" Evie challenged. "And, wait--they don't do drug tests here?"

The CLC had, every week like clockwork. Evie had no idea what they expected to find, considering the drug cocktails swimming in everyone's system and the strict rules about contact with the outside world.

Also, she didn't smoke anything, but that could be her excuse later.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"Nope," Sparkle replied with a shrug of his shoulders. "Not since I showed up, anyway. Should they be?"

Yeah, she was definitely here thinking this was the kind of institution that only let people out on a day pass. Poor girl. Fandom probably wasn't going to help with that.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

No. No it was not. Fandom was going to mess with her but good.

Sparkles' question caught her off-guard. "With as much freedom as they give us, I would think so?" she said. "I wouldn't be surprised if that was why a bunch of people were sent here, you know?"

Kids with drug problems being sent to a 'boarding school' was a time-honored tradition among the well-off!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"I was sent here for fighting with my peers," Sparkle noted, shrugging his shoulders dismissively, "sure. But some people came here because they thought it looked like a good school. Some just have nowhere else to go."

He drummed his finger against his hip, and then stooped down to pick up the little black cat who was prowling the grass around his feet. Velcro clung fast to his shoulder.

"Most people are surprised by what they find here. It's not gonna be what you're expecting at all."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[poison-princess.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it already isn't," Evie assured him.

Not enough rules, enough nurses, enough walls.

"But I'm only going to be here for a few months," she assured him. "Then I'll be back home in Sterling for good."

Suuuuure.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2014]

[myownface]

"They all say that," Sparkle noted, grinning at her almost sharply. "Hope for your sake that you're right, Evie. In the meantime, if you need someone to scream at when you realize just how fucked up this place is, I'm pretty easy to find."