fandomhigh | Welcome Party for the Summer Students and Staff

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Welcome Party for the Summer Students and Staff

Despite the slightly overcast sky, the weather is still good for welcoming all of the new arrivals for the Fandom High summer session. The graduation decorations (and gremlin debris) have been cleared from the front lawn, and replaced with tables of information packets, food, and drinks. A series of signs point the students to the information table first, where they can pick up their room assignments from the office drones, and then continue on to the food tables to mingle.

And no, there are no inflatable gremlins around today. It's far too early to start scaring the new folks. ~~That's what the mingling section is for!~~

[OOC: All right folks, have at it!]

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"I'm not sure my hair will ever be un-flat again, but other than that, I'm good." Xander smiled, then tilted his head. "Anakin too, huh? Is he...staying for the summer?"

He didn't want to say anything people might make assumptions about, but it did seem polite to let Rory know he knew, and that didn't seem too suspicious; the two of them were ~~OMGJUST~~friends, after all.

"Hopefully," Rory said, her smile fading a little. "He went home this morning to appeal to the people in charge. They don't want him to stay." She shrugged.

"That's gotta suck. For him, I mean. Not you. Because Marty's on the good crack and was not sharing."

"Well, he's my friend and we're close so yeah, sucks for me too. But not as much as him, obviously." Rory shook her head. "I have no idea where Marty came up with that. Seriously."

Xander tilted his head the other way. "Yeah. Because secret relationships? Around here? You'd have to be paying attention to who heard or saw what, like... 24/7. You'd need a spreadsheet or something."

Rory frowned. "What are you getting at?" she asked, lowering her voice a little.

Xander lowered his own, though not much, because there's no better way to attract attention than to try to be all super-subtle-like, at least if you're Xander Harris. Some lessons learned from covering for a ~~Vampire Slayer~~ Class Protector die a damn hard death.

"Well, it'd kinda suck. I mean, you couldn't ever risk getting drunkenated, because you might say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person and not even remember the next day. And then, like, months later something might remind them and it'd all click into place."

Rory sighed. "I'll add you to the list. Don't say anything to anyone who's not me, him, Bridge, Angel, Cal, Parker, Angela, Zero, Peter, John, or...well, my mom, not that you talk to her a lot. It's a secret for a reason, et cetera."

Xander snickered. "Why am I not shocked that Parker knows."

Then, expression turning serious, he nodded. "Yeah, I won't. I'm actually pretty good at keeping secrets when I know it's supposed to be one."

"Ironically? Parker's one of the ones who I told, rather than one who guessed," Rory replied, rolling her eyes. "And thank you. I'll let him know you know when he gets back. He could get in really big trouble, blah blah - you probably surmised as much, since it's secret and all."

"Yeah. Been there, with that; it's kind of an open secret now, back home, but Buffy being a Vampire Slayer was the Tale You Do Not Tell for most of sophomore and junior year."

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~~Poor, poor Buffy who is not here yet...~~

"Buffy as in shy Buffy?" Rory asked. "Never would have guessed it was secret, the way everyone here knew. Huh."

Xander blinked, still sort of bzuh at the concept of Buffy as shy, though he had to admit it seemed to describe her at the point when she'd been in Fandom. "Well, there were a lot of people around back when she was here who were in on it and from after the time when it wasn't so much a big secret. And one of them was soulless boy, who didn't exactly have a lot invested in keeping his lips from flapping."

"I think that's how I found out, actually," Rory said, thinking. "He told me. You know, when he was trying to be all buddy-buddy with me and Logan. I never actually met Buffy."

"She didn't stick her head out much, really," he answered thoughtfully. "I think she came here to get away from a pretty bad time, and... it didn't so much work."

"Poor thing," Rory said sympathetically. "But anyway. Yay secrets. Yay for you keeping them. Yay for my OCD and keeping a list that I'll add you to. How'd you know about that, anyway?"

Xander blinked. "You're you?"

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~~shut up i am leaving i am gone yis shut up bye~~

"Point. And there are more than the people I listed earlier. That's just everyone I know off the top of my head."

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