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

[bigdamnprincipal]

There were plenty of chairs and tables by the bonfire, and some further out on the lawn for anyone who might want to enjoy their food alone, or just gaze at the new folks and try to figure them out. All of these potential activities were valid!

[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 [Spring 2021]

[bookbeltof_love]

"For me, yeah," she said, watching curiously. "But, like, there's a lot of people here who are glad their family isn't around.........."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"I'm one of them," Lydia admitted, as though it wasn't already abundantly obvious. "This is a nice break from being - you know." She just sort of vaguely gestured. "Around them."

Though she did miss the Maitlands already. Hopefully Delia wouldn't figure out a way to drive them out while Lydia was gone, but everyone had seemed to be on okay terms when she'd left.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina's smile was sympathetic even if she didn't really get it herself.

"That definitely happens a lot here," she said, nodding. "Like, people who come here are usually either getting away from something or looking for something........."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"My dad sent me to boarding school so I'd stop annoying my stepmother," Lydia offered so Nina would know what camp she belonged in. Not that Lydia had done anything annoying beyond existing. "But it's a lot better than I thought it'd be, so far."

Though, really, if it had been miserable, that might have even been better in Lydia's book. All the better to lie in bed and be hopelessly sad.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[bookbeltof_love]

"I'm an orphan and found a family here," she shared back since it only seemed fair. "It's a fun place, though it can get really dangerous here too..........."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[utterly_alone]

"How dangerous?" Lydia asked, somewhere between interested and wary. "I mean, it's been - a lot different from what I thought I was getting into with boarding school, already."

Like a lot different.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2021]

[bookbeltof_love]

"It's really hard to quantify," she said. "Like, sometimes it's just weird, like we'll have candy corn falling from the sky or wake up and find that everything in a common room, but only one common room, is made of couch cushions????????? But other times it's molten rivers of hot chocolate and murderous ice angels??????????"

Like, Nina thought that was fun, but she knew other people didn't.