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... )
"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 broadcast them on the internet? "
She sighed, pulling up a handwritten sign. "So here it is -- Part One: The Shudder Inducing and Cliched, However Totally FALSE Account of How I Lost My Virginity to a Guy at Community College."
[In this segment, Olive details how she told Rhiannon she had a date with a guy who 'goes to college with her brother,' whose name is George, and that's why she can't go camping with Rhi and her nudist hippie parents. In actuality, she explains, she spent the weekend in her bedroom doing nothing productive and listening to a card that plays 'Pocket Full of Sunshine" by Natasha Bedingfield. She explains that because Rhiannon filled in her own details after the weekend, she assumes that Olive totes had sex with George. ("I don't know why I did it. I guess it was because this was the first time I'd ever felt superior to Rhi. But I kept piling on lie after lie -- it was like setting up Jenga.") Then, unfortunately, their conversation is overheard by the ultra-conservative Marianne Bryant, who went on to spread the story around the school. ("Marianne Bryant is the secretary of the student council, chairman of the Orange Blossom Dance committee, and the president of the Cross Your Heart Club -- a club dedicated to shoving their beliefs down your throat.")]
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Heavens, she was only fairly certain she was engaged.
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He even recognized Rhiannon which was surprising and -- ooh, a nice lie to her friend. He guessed the tension came from there, yeah.
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