The lobby was nicely decked out with garlands and lights and such, and a large table with an array of food from Cafe Fina, including pumpkin empanadas and turkey and cranberry taquitos, as well as a lot of more traditional foods from all over the world ( Read more... )

A section of the common room was decorated with balloons, streamers and a Happy Birthday Lana banner. A cake sat in the middle of a table ready to slice. Confetti, noise makers and little curls of ribbon littered the two surrounding tables, a third table for presents was decorated with just as much fanfare ( Read more... )

Lana curled up on the couch and flipped through channels aimlessly, before giving up and reading instead. She was finding it hard to focus on any one thing and hoped that if she hung out in the common room people would come distract her.

Dean was in the kitchen cooking up pancakes for Dawn. Making the batter had been relatively easy, but trying to come up with funny shapes was proving a little more difficult. He tried to do a car but it came out looking more like a deformed amoeba. He had better look with the teddy bear -- one large circle with two smaller ones for ears and that ( Read more... )

Rizzo, sitting on top of one of the picnic tables by the unlit fire, leaned back and folded her legs in the tight black dress she had found in her closet this morning. Loose t-shirts and those jeans? So not her style. Why she even had them, she didn't know. She had woken up with the worst craving for a cigarette, a need she was now satisfying with ( Read more... )

Ivanova hadn't really unpacked, so moving into the cabin hadn't been much of a stretch. An early night had meant that her body had gotten the sleep it needed to kick back onto Fandom time. Now, she had found an Adirondak chair somewhere, got a little crackling fire going, and kicked back to enjoy. Fresh air, open sky ( Read more... )

In the cabins, the peaceful cabins, the future's last best hope for mankind lay in his bed.

Somehow, amidst his two cabinmates sawing sequoias like it's an event sponsered by Skil, John slept. And he dreamed...( Read more... )

During the afternoon, posters go up all over the camp, stuck to cabin walls by any means necessary.

( the poster )

( The boy just never shuts up... )

( All I want is a pair of sunglasses. )