One of the many little things Cara still wasn't used to on the island was chlorinated water, so usually when she wanted to cool off she just went to the beach, but the problem there was the weather lately meant she'd just end up hot and sticky again by the time she got back to the dorms ( Read more... )

With nothing much to do with her time, Cara found herself in running through forms in the salle to burn off excess energy. Again.

Those poor, helpless practice dummies were looking even worse for wear then they usually did when she got like this.

[Open salle is open.]

Cara had only intended on making a quick foraging expedition before heading to the salle, but someone had left the television on (or it had turned itself on, you never knew), and there was this thing about a desert, and a train, and this man stealing jewels and going over the sand on a board ( Read more... )

Sure there was the welcome picnic today, but Cara was ambivalent on the subject of large social gatherings at the best of times.

Today was not the best of times. Not that she was letting herself actually think about why that was, since then she might actually have to deal with her feelings and where would we all be then. Instead she was indulging ( Read more... )

The Freedom Costumes uniforms had been given out, the teachers had been prepped, and everything was as set as could be for the school board's special guests to arrive and start their tour. Zoe wasn't one for prayer, but it seemed like that was all she could do at this point. And hope that Annie wasn't the kind of person who needed caffeine to ( Read more... )

Cara had a lot of feeling about her visitor, and since she was all but allergic to dealing with them in any kind of healthy manner, it meant it was time to punch things. Plus she wanted to make sure other her was teaching the boy the important things ( Read more... )

Bruce had kept himself busy working all week. But with prom tomorrow, he was giving himself a couple days off. Probably more if there was some kind of weirdness after Prom. That always seemed to happen. Bruce was being hopeful with his personal schedule, but hope only went so far ( Read more... )

There were pizzas in the kitchen. A few boxes of them, piled up in the kitchen, which Stacey found when she was going looking for dinner ( Read more... )

Bruce had barely walked into the common room before a pie went whizzing past his head and splattered against the wall. Following the path of travel back to the source, he saw reason to duck as another pie was winged over his head. As he dove to the side, he caught a quick look at the culprit standing on the kitchen counter ( Read more... )

So the island's sick sense of humour had been and gone, and Cara was back to normal. And in enough of a mood about it the she didn't even wonder or care why the squirrels hadn't shown up to drag her to the radio station to when she hadn't gone of her own accord ( Read more... )