'Somehow' (Kathy was blaming Dante), dinner at El Burrito Loco had involved not one but several alcoholic flights for them to share: it had started with a cerveza flight with appetizers, turned into a sangria flight before their entrees had come out, and finished up with a tequila flight right before they'd finished eating. It was the tequila ( Read more... )

During her shift in the library yesterday, Lucille had found some sheet music that she recognized. Taking up her piano practice would be a good thing. During the past year she had not been allowed to play, which meant it would take time for her to return the level she had been at before, and ss she played, she was torn between enjoying the music ( Read more... )

So, there was a piano here. Lucille had found one in the rec room while exploring the room, and while it probably wasn't used much judging from the layer of dust on the keys, it turned out to sound better than she was used to. The damp air in Allerdale Hall wasn't the best environment for a musical instrument, after all ( Read more... )

Lottie had considered going into the library today to do more hacking, since she was new to it and might need more instruction and all, but she was also pretty sure the scowling librarian man wouldn't appreciate having a bunch of dogs and cats in there, and the menagerie she'd managed to collect so far of left-behind pets had looked so glum when ( Read more... )

Alana had woken up without her wings, leading her to panic about whether there might be some bizarre wing-stealing virus on the loose ( Read more... )

When the clock struck seven sharp, something happened to the rec room. DVD players vanished, consoles disappeared. The television was no more. Anything that contained even the slightest trace of modernity became nothing; replaced, instead, with ancient furniture and ancient toysYou might not be able to play Great Thieving Cars 5 tonight, but the ( Read more... )

Some days, you just couldn't be bothered to get out of bed ( Read more... )

Atton was Atton. So of course he'd spent most of the past couple of days on the mainland getting laid. He still hadn't found any saner solution to deal with the island ( Read more... )

There'd been an email to the club to meet in the rec room today. No actual sports. Because sometimes Jackson could be easy on people who'd recently been through a lot of trauma. Or maybe he'd just not felt like training with them today. One of those. Probably the latter ( Read more... )

So, Gert, being Gert, had had no interest in going to prom. As it happened, Gert, being a sophomore, had no permission to go to prom either, so that worked out well, but she maintained that it was the lack of interest that was the reason she wasn't there right now ( Read more... )