BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday morning

[intotheout]

"You are sure you do not wants me to wait with you?" J.Lo asked, pressing his squooshy frog face against Slushious's passenger window.

Tip's mom leaned past him to wave. "Text when you get there safe, Turtlebear."

Tip rolled her shoulders back, putting on her absolute bravest face. "I will." They'd already done the tearful goodbye part, J.Lo just hadn't read the memo. Tip resolutely turned away, heading toward the lounge where the school instructions said to wait for the shuttle bus.

"I am changing my minds!" J.Lo called after her. She heard her mom start Slushious's engine up, then start to putter away. "I am not too many olds for high schooooooooooooool!"

Tip made it all the way onto one of the lounge's benches, her suitcases tucked underneath, before her shoulders sagged again. Which was good, because if she hadn't, it'd be one of those legs-gone-away, dropped-on-her-ass moments. Pardon her language.

"C'mon, Tip," she told herself, swiping quickly at her cheeks. "Chin up. You drove across the US with an alien when you were 11. High school should be easy."

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Re: Wait for the shuttle

[thewrathofkaan]

...So not the normal kind of billboard, then.

"Well, I can't blame him," Roscoe said, deciding to just roll with the weirdness already and ask questions later. "Kind of like when I find some shoes in a thrift store that just need some love. Except in my case they don't really have feelings."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

Tip smiled a little ruefully. "Yeah, like that. I'm not 100% sure Bill actually does have feelings? J.Lo's theory is that he developed semi-sentience because of his frustration, but that doesn't entirely work in human logic, so." She shrugged. "When I was younger, I refused to have a favorite outfit because I didn't want my other clothes to get jealous."

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[thewrathofkaan]

"Me too!" Seriously, pre-teen Roscoe didn't play around when it came to clothes. "When I was in elementary school, I convinced my parents to each buy me little purses for all the days of the week and then I could switch between them evenly. I made up all these rules about not repeating the same one two days in a row."

Okay, kind of showing his hand there as far as the whole 'spoiled brat' thing.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[intotheout]

Tip's mom definitely never made enough money to buy Tip a purse for every day of the week. Even if she had, their apartment back then wouldn't have been anywhere near large enough. "I totally would have done that," she said. "But Mom worked in a grocery store. And I was never that into purses." She smiled. "But I would have done it with shoes or -- cameras or something."