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

[bigdamnprincipal]

There were tables and chairs set up all around the lawn. Some were in the sun, where folks could work on their tan while they ate, and some were in the shade where folks could stay cool and non-crispy.

All of the tables had some blue and gold glitter scattered across them, because there was always enough to go around. This school certainly was blesesed in all the right ways.

[OCD is up! 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 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

PERFECTLY FINE.

"Come over from London." Which meant everyone else had the accent, so. Especially this kid. "Where you from?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

"Oh, gosh, how exciting! I've always wanted to visit," Eric admitted. "Madison. You wouldn't have heard of it. Tiny little town in the middle of nowhere, Georgia."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Explains the accent." Which was adorable.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

Well, your own accent was hardly anything to sneeze at, Mr. Unwin. "Suppose so, yes," he admitted. "So what brought you all the way out here, uh-" he squinted at the name tag. "Eggsy?"

... Eric, in a few years you will be playing on a hockey team with a guy who goes by 'Shitty'. Don't judge.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Eggsy was infinitely better than Shitty.

"Real name's Gary, but ain't been called that in years."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

Eric thought Gary was a perfectly fine name, really, but who was he to argue with what the other boy wanted to be called?

"Eric," he replied, starting to reach over for a handshake and then smiling somewhat sheepishly and drawing back when he realised he still had a slice of pizza in hand.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Eggsy supressed a laugh at that. "Nice to meet ya, Eric. Bitty thing."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

"It's Bittle, actually," Eric said, thinking perhaps Eggsy had just... misread his name tag. Or something.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Nah, Bitty works for yah." Eggsy, no.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

Oh, god, he was going to be stuck with that now, wasn't he? He made an exasperated face at Eggsy. "What, exactly, are you implying?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeep.

"That you're itty-bitty. No implying at all."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

And Eggsy, naturally, just towered over Eric, of course. "I am not that short!"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Short enough, Bitty."

The more he protested, the more he was being called that.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

"Shorter than you, you mean."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"That too." Which meant something.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

"So, why the States?" Bitty Eric was just going to change topics rapidly and hope Eggsy went with it, because there was really only so much ribbing about his height he could take, here.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Oh, you.

"Dunno. Said we got a scholarship." Which seemed like a lie at the time.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

Eric snorted. "And you just... packed up and moved yourself halfway across the globe on a scholarship you sound terribly certain about?" Okay, that took guts, he'd admit that much. Well, guts and a little crazy, in Eric's opinion.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Nah, me mom did the packing and sending." And he took it as a chance to get the hell away from Dean.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

"Oh," Eric said, coloring slightly as he realized he might have put his foot in it just a little. His own trip to Fandom had been of his own making, although Coach had agreed readily enough that getting out of Madison was a good 'character building' exercise. "But you're okay with everything so far?" Sure, Eggsy looked like he might be a couple years older, but Eric was a mother-hen by nature.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Better than it coulda been, yeah?" Eggsy replied. "Coulda been on of those juvie institutes.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

"No!" Eric's hands (now pizza-free, thank you) flew to his mouth in surprise. "Wait, really?"

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, really." HOW NAIVE WERE YOU, KID?

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[omgnochecksyet]

He was approximately 85% sunshine and rainbows, thank you, but on the other hand...

"As someone who has spent a significant amount of time being beat up and stuffed in to lockers, I consider myself a pretty decent judge of character," Eric declared. "And potential stay in a 'juvie institute' or not, I'd still take my chances with you than, say, any member of Madison's football team." And he'd known Eggsy for a grand total of like, twenty minutes.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2015]

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Eggsy had seen enough television to assume Eric probably meant that boring as hell American football there.

"They actually do that sorta thing here?" Again, he assumed it was TV only that did that. He was used to a good ol' fashioned beat down instead.