Reality rarely matched up with Caroline's dreamed up ideas of how things ought to be. Yet somehow, that never stopped Caroline from expecting everything to be exactly the way she wanted it - especially when it came to her extracurricular awesomeness ( Read more... )

Some things just weren't worth asking about in Fandom. Like the crazy little aliens Caroline had spotted in the hall. Or why people were dragging their belongings around like it was newbie day ( Read more... )

Waking up in the middle of the night to whispered needs of water and nightmares had ended with Caroline sound asleep in the middle of the bed with a kid on each side. It wasn't what she would've preferred, but it had seemed to be what they needed at the time and by the time they'd fallen asleep she didn't know how to get out from under them or how ( Read more... )

The mail was usually a super-happy joyful thing. Who didn't enjoy receiving a special box of their favorite things from home, or a copy of a new magazine? But when Caroline had brought back hers and Jake's on Wednesday and he'd tossed one letter onto the desk without opening it, she'd decided the mail had become much more curious and intriguing ( Read more... )

Caroline was really sucking at her fourth Italian course this semester. Even with headphones on, blaring the scary recorded conversations right into her ears, she just couldn't follow along. Her mind was wandering through the ins and outs of what would be happening in two months. And how she really needed to call her mom ( Read more... )

Since someone had rejected her idea of lounging by the pool, Caroline had taken up residence on a towel at the beach, soaking up absolutely no sun, but enjoying the heat of it at the very least.

After staring off into the surf for a few minutes, she realized her book was totally failing to hold her interest. Even a fan of The Notebook wasn't ( Read more... )

While Caroline wasn't all that big with the door decorating (hi, she got distracted kind of a lot this past weekend and it was so on the bottom of her list after studying for her Italian test, which she totally was going to pass, shh), she liked any excuse to dress up and Halloween took the concept to a whole new level of creativity. You know, if ( Read more... )

A week and a few days away and Caroline was honestly surprised to feel so excited to be back in her dorm room. She'd loved being home in the land of comfort and familiarity, but somewhere in the last ten months, Fandom had taken up a little space in her affections that left her shoving her bags (yes bags, they had grown with the shopping ( Read more... )

Caroline had tried to keep busy like her mun over the weekend, checking out the mainland in her less-than-attractive, somewhat stolen, period costume and feeling rather glad she didn't end up with a swishy mane to cope with. Sometimes the island was a total tool with those transformation things ( Read more... )

Caroline had ignored the annoying buzz of her phone desperately wanting her to check her voicemail for most of the morning. It was only when she was waiting in line for her iced latte (seriously, what was with the island going from cold to hot so fast?) that she heard just what had been waiting for her.

( So typical. )