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Dec 26, 2007 22:11

Two weeks ago, Mac celebrated her twentieth birthday and finished up what (she hoped would be) the last set of finals she'd ever take at Hearst.

A week after that, she got dragged along on the biannual rite of torture camping trip with her family ( Read more... )

cindy "mac" mackenzie, andrew wells

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 03:48:51 UTC
*At a table not too far distant, there's a geekboy leafing through a notebook with a similar look of unease on his face.*

*It's probably not about college.*

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 03:52:14 UTC
Okay. Okay. Like a band-aid, right? And it's way better to just get the suspense over with.

Mac rips open the envelope with one quick -- if slightly fumbly -- gesture and shakes out the letter.

A few seconds later, her face falls.

"Dammit." It's quiet, but vehement.

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 03:53:23 UTC
*Enough so to make Andrew glance up from his own stuff at her.*

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 03:56:29 UTC
Mac slaps the letter closed with a loud, displeased sigh and unceremoniously chucks it onto the table, away from the three envelopes she's yet to open. As she drops her chin into her hand, she catches sight of Andrew.

"Hey," she mumbles, mustering up a small half-smile.

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 03:59:33 UTC
Hey.

Um. Problem?

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 04:02:07 UTC
With another sigh, she waves her hands at the letters. "I'm still not cool enough for MIT," she says, her voice even flatter than usual.

And it's not like she'd really been expecting them to let her transfer, but there'd been that tiny hope. Plus, it's making her a hell of a lot more nervy about opening the other three letters.

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 04:12:24 UTC
... aw.

*He leans over.* Those others also college letters?

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 04:24:44 UTC
"Yep." Mac drags her fingers over the stack to fan them out. "Carnegie Mellon, Bryn Mawr, and Rutgers. Smith hasn't sent anything yet."

A beat.

Dryly, "Maybe if I stare at them long enough, I'll manifest X-ray vision and won't have to open them."

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 04:34:45 UTC
Yeah, but wouldn't you then kind of lose the benefit of not opening them?

*Sign #3152352146 that you might be a geek: you firmly believe that no hypothetical situation is too absurd to be analyzed.*

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 04:39:28 UTC
A small snort. "Hey, I do want to know, just without all the agonizing and the symbolic weight of tearing open a letter." Mac picks at the corner of one of the envelope flaps. "My future college life is not the Oscars."

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 04:55:10 UTC
I feel like I should be crossing my fingers for you, or something.

*He looks at the envelope she's picking at.*

Want me to hang around, or go away?

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 04:56:49 UTC
Mac glances up with a tiny smile, still crooked.

"Hang around for a sec for moral support?"

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 05:03:18 UTC
You got it.

*He waits. For moral support, and, he resolves silently, for either celebratory or consolatory drinks afterwards.*

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 05:13:01 UTC
"Thanks." Deep breath, and she picks up the envelope from Rutgers. "And behind door number two..."

Rrrrip. She unfolds the letter, scanning it.

And a second later, she's beaming.

"I got in."

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stilljustandrew December 27 2007, 05:20:14 UTC
That's great!

*Andrew beams back.*

Which one's that?

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q_in_training December 27 2007, 05:27:21 UTC
"Rutgers." Which isn't her first choice, but hey, at least it eases the minute's worth of panic over the fact that even with all she'd done, she still wouldn't get out of Neptune.

She's still grinning as she grabs the last two. With the extra burst of confidence propelling her onward, she doesn't even hesitate before tearing them open.

"And..." Skimming again. "Bryn Mawr thinks I'm cool, CMU doesn't." She makes a mild disappointed face at the Carnegie Mellon letter before she flicks it on top of the MIT letter. "Two for four. Could be worse."

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