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

Sure, someone could question just how all that ice cream was staying cold and not-melty without any immediately apparent means of refrigeration?

But really, of all the should-be-impossible things Fandom makes possible on a near-daily basis, this one at least was fairly benign. And delicious. So shh, don't question it, just enjoy it.

[OCD 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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Dante rolled his eyes. "You were always a pain in the ass, but not like this," he said. "Look, I don't care, if you wanna spend every conversation stuck in your head, it's not bothering me. Clearly is bothering you, though."

She nodded jerkily.

"Yeah. It is. I just, I don't know, want to go back to how things used to be." When life was simpler.

"When'd you start tying yourself up in knots like this?" Dante said. "Maybe that's a good place to start."

Ringo shook her head. "I don't know," she admitted unhappily. "I didn't really notice. Maybe it had been when Kathy had died. Maybe it had been when she'd come back. Maybe it had been the thing with Dante's brother.

Or maybe it hadn't been any one thing. Just a slow accumulation of experiences that Ringo didn't know how to process properly.

"... A lot of stuff happened," Dante said. "It's not any of that?"

"Maybe it is? Maybe it's all of it?" Ringo let out a frustrated growl. "Or maybe it's all just in my stupid head."

Dante shrugged. "Or maybe yelling at yourself's not useful."

She rolled her eyes, but there wasn't much heat in it. "You got a better suggestion?"

Other than 'almost anything else'?

"Either sit down and think this through or get really drunk and forget about it?" Dante suggested.

"I tried the first some," Ringo sighed. "It hasn't worked yet."

Her eyes grew distant.

"Maybe I should try the drunk thing." It usually seemed to work for Dante, after all.

Dante opened his mouth.

Then he remembered the last time Ringo'd gotten drunk.

He shut it.

Then: "Maybe not," he said. "You suck at it."

Ringo rolled her eyes and flipped Dante off.

"Then do you have any actual advice?" She didn't sound like she had much hope that he did.

"Stop being aggressively weird at people and yelling at yourself in public?" Dante said. "Talk to a therapist or whatever?"

"If no one who knows me has any good advice why would I go to some total stranger?" That idea just seemed crazy to Ringo.

Even though it probably was really good advice. Clearly not something Ringo was good at taking.

"'Cause they're total strangers trained to help with shit like that?" Dante said, shrugging with his hands as well as his shoulders. "Like, fuck, Ringo, I don't know. If running away for months still makes you come back a worse pain in the ass than usual, maybe the usual's not what you should be doing."

"Okay, Mister Expert-on-this-stuff-now," Ringo shot him a half-hearted glare and planted her hands on her hips. "Got any recommendations?"

Christ, Ringo.

"Nothing I didn't just give you," Dante said. "It's not my job to sort your shit out, I'm just tryin' to give you advice like a friend. Why is it always everybody else's job to fix it when you lose it over something?"

He ran a hand through his hair. "You won't talk about whatever the hell you're struggling with, you won't go to someone who might know how to talk about it right, but snarl at me, sure, that'll help."

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