Third Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening
Well, around five on Thursday evening, Topher learned that Portalocity officially sucked harder than he had ever suspected, because they'd somehow managed to jostle his luggage on his return trip from Africa badly enough that his laptop screen was cracked.
He had other laptops, yeah, but this one was the fastest, so until he could replace it ( Read more... )
He had other laptops, yeah, but this one was the fastest, so until he could replace it ( Read more... )
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"I didn't realize this was home-vid night."
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Because in that case he'd have to get out of here stat.
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"The rumors of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated," she began. "I used to be anonymous -- invisible to the opposite sex. If Google Earth were a guy, he couldn't find me if I were dressed up like a ten-story building. Pretty cutting edge stuff, huh? A high school girl, feeling anonymous? 'Who am I, what does it all mean, why am I here, blah'?" Olive made a face. "But don't worry -- this isn't one of those tales -- though it sure started out that way. And then it changed very quickly when I started lying about some really personal things. So let the record show that I, Olive Penderghast, being of sound mind and...below average breast size, swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Starting now. And what better way to share my private thoughts than to ( ... )
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[In this segment, Olive details how people were now paying attention and it was sort of nice, even if it was because everyone thought she'd had sex with a guy at college. ("Remember how I told you Google Earth couldn't find me if I was dressed up like a ten-story building? Well, the next day, it could find me if I was dressed as a crack on the sidewalk.That's the beauty of being a girl in high school -- people hear you have sex once, and bam! You're a bimbo. I really didn't mean for the lie to put me on the map, but I gotta admit -- I kinda liked being on the map.") She also tells a brief anecdote about how this is the second time that her sex life has been the talk of the school -- the first being in ( ... )
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Kenzi's values would never get her into a Cross My Heart club.
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Yes, that was the stunning reveal as far as Jessica was concerned.
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[In this segment, THE LONGEST ONE SORRY BECAUSE MOST OF IT IS NOT TOLD VIA WEBCAST, Olive explains that Brandon proposed that they "go out" to keep the bullies off him, and maintain her reputation. Olive's response was that she doesn't do anything half-assed, so once she caved, they "hooked up" at Melody Bostick's party. ("Brandon and I showed up when it was in full swing -- I borrowed a dress from my mom, Brandon borrowed a jacket from me, and we put on a little show.") They made fake sex noises behind a door, Olive shoved her panties in the keyhole so no one could see that they were just jumping on the bed, and Brandon emerged a man. ("Maybe this is going to sound stupid, and it's not like I was expecting fireworks, or a string quartet or anything, but I always thought that pretending to lose my virginity would be more...I dunno. Special? Judy Blume should have ( ... )
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It wasn't that Victor was in a position to have some huge moral objection to this. He'd slept with Nico basically because they were sad and needed distraction, and he'd pretty much cheated on her too; if anything, Olive had the advantage, because at least her messed-up sex life was imaginary.
But the fact she'd gotten paid for lying did make him a little uncomfortable.
(He liked the way she looked in the lingerie -- he'd dated a Goth, this should not be a surprise -- but that struck him as less than completely relevant.)
"Maybe we should turn this off," he said, not sounding too sure about it. "This is all, like, ancient history."
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He was totally playing video games on his phone while this was on.
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[Olive explains in this segment WHICH IS ALSO THE LONGEST that her favorite teacher, Mr. Griffith, asked his wife -- the guidance counselor -- to speak to her. Mrs. Griffith brought Olive into her office and basically just threw a bunch of condoms at her without really listening. As she was leaving, Marianne caught her and after a brief conversation where Olive was not a total asshole to her, Marianne assumed she had 'saved' her. Their friendship, Olive explains, lasted all of a day, until...Marianne's boyfriend ended up being hospitalized with chlamydia. And under duress, who should he have said gave it to him but Olive? Marianne found Olive immediately and slapped the hell out of her, and Olive ran into Mrs. Griffith, who was freaking out...because she gave it to him. And Olive, in ( ... )
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He did grin a bit at the line about the signs. That detail was pure Olive.
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But man, Olive was a soft sell, wasn't she? That wasn't always a bad thing though Olive's past was proving that it could be bad. Jim wasn't judging, though.
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