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

The good weather continued throughout the day, making it very comfortable to be out on the lawn. Who would want to miss such a nice picnic?

[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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"And you came prepared," Liam said, with a nod towards that bag she was carrying.

"Wasn't entirely on purpose," she admitted, idle and mild. "But it works in my favor. Should've done this before, too."

Instead of just taking what fit in her pockets.

“So if it wasn’t for snacks, what was the bag for?” Liam couldn’t help but ask.

"Just something I had to do before I came here," Octavia replied, very casualy for something she was actually excited about. But with her habit of stoicism, that wasn't actually very hard to do. "I might tell you later."

But until Duke found out, she wasn't spoiling it for anyone.

"Well, I look forward to hearing about it," Liam told her.

Too bad he probably wouldn't end up hearing about it, all things considered. Unless Duke was the kind of guy who hit up his school office on weekends.

Hey now, he might still hear about it! Just, not from her.

Or in any kind of a fun context.

"Anyway." She shrugged a little. "Are you teaching anything this summer?"

Liam shook his head. "Didn't want to be committed to too much," he explained, and now it was his turn to be kind of cagey.

"Although," he added sheepishly. "I did sign up to take classes." Which was different, because there wasn't any actual responsibility on his part there besides showing up. Also it was the first time he was doing something like that.

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"That was an option?" Octavia asked, a little surprised. "Thought they were just for the... kids."

She was not that much older than the oldest students. It felt weird to refer to them like that.

(Also, don't think she'd missed the cageyness, even if she didn't go right in to poke at it.)

She was older than Liam by more than a decade and he referred to the students as ‘kids’!

“For the summer, yeah,” Liam nodded. “And I figured, well, this is probably the closest thing to school I’ll ever manage to attend, so why not give it a try?”

Octavia hadn't basically skipped being a teenager, like some people. It was different!

"Huh," she said.

And then didn't say anything else, although she was clearly thinking about something, with a very faint frown.

“What?”

"Nothing."

That was the kneejerk response, after which she reconsidered with a tiny shrug. "Just... wondering, I guess."

"If you would have signed up for anything, had you known?" Liam guessed.

"Something like that."

She didn't really know how classes worked. She hadn't had to sign up for the only one she'd ever taken. It'd been mandatory for all the juvenile prisoners.

"Do you... think it's too late to even think about, now?"

"There's still two days before they even start," Liam pointed out. "You could always swing by the office up at the school and see if the paperwork's still there." Blissfully unaware, of course, that it would be moot even if she was able to sign up. "Or if not... there's another round of workshops in two months," he said encouragingly. "You should give this not-really-school thing a try with me."

Octavia shrugged one shoulder. "I'm mostly just curious about how Duke's yoga class will go," she admitted.

Though yes, now she was wondering what else they had on offer, and whether any of it would be useful.

"Somehow I doubt he'd object even if you just decided to crash without officially signing up," Liam pointed out, slightly amused.

"No," Octavia agreed. "But, still."

It was not the same thing as signing up for something.

"It's not quite the same as deciding to sign up," Liam said, echoing her narrative.

Signing up implied a premeditated decision to participate after all, which up until recently hadn't been Octavia's style.

That was one side of it. But Octavia was also thinking about it through her only existing class experience, which was being forced to take one.

Her nod was vague. "I guess I'll think about it," she said. "Maybe ask Duke what he thinks."

So a choice to do so was new and different, and worth trying out, in Liam's opinion.

(That was, of course, part of why he'd gone ahead and done so, after all.)

"I think if it's something you want to do, you should go for it."

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