Room 406, afternoon.

[izzyalienqueen]

After meeting Max at the Meet & Greet, Isabel led him up to her room.

"Xander's gone," she said as she led him into the room. "And I've been lucky enough that I haven't gotten another roommate. Well unless you count Annie." Hearing her name the small kitten poked her head up out of her basket.

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[emo_alien_king]

"Is that her?" Max stuck his hands in his pockets, and slowly approached the kitten, looking around Isabel's room as he did so. "She's really cute."

[izzyalienqueen]

"Isn't she? I had no intention of getting a pet when we went," Isabel said, shutting the door and taking a seat on the bed. "But she was so cute I couldn't resist. You can pick her up, she's very friendly."

[emo_alien_king]

Carefully, Max scooped her up, and she immediately wriggled and started to purr against his hand. "Who's we? And, uh. How are things going?" He winced. No, not awkward at all.

[izzyalienqueen]

"Jack, Parker, Sam," she said. "Jack wanted to get a fish for Cedric, Parker had the car and Sam and I went along for the ride." Isabel shrugged, "It's good. I'm happy. I like it here." Of course she couldn't explain exactly why she liked it here.

[anextimeagent]

After class, Jack has just wandered around, watching the assembled parental hordes, and trying not to think about anything. When it got too much, he headed up to the dorms, feet leading him unerringly to Izzy's door.

It was closed, but he figured knocking couldn't hurt. So he did. Probably louder and longer than he really needed to.

[izzyalienqueen]

"And that sounds like a crisis. We have a lot of them around here," Isabel told Max. "Here. Cuddle Annie, she likes." Without waiting for him to respond, she dropped the kitten in his lap and went to open the door.

"Jack? What's wrong?"

[anextimeagent]

Jack registered that there was someone else in the room, and figured it was probably her brother, since he didn't recognise him, but he didn't hesitate to reach out and pull Isabel into a huge hug, just about lifting her off her feet.

"Sam kind of disappeared," he told her, trying to keep his voice light.

[emo_alien_king]

Max raised his eyebrows, then narrowed his eyes, watching the new guy, and remembering 'Jack' from Isabel's letters. Sam he wasn't so sure about -- his girlfriend, maybe? He waited for Isabel to introduce them, not wanting to interrupt anything he might overhear.