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[filmstarbeauty]

The clothes have a way of making the girl. Having picked up a pair of cute yellow heels from the clothes box she was partially attempting to break them in. These shoes were definitely worth the effort, even if she probably had a few gray hairs from the whole thing but that wasn't the point

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[justsookie]

There was a part of Sookie that couldn't help wondering if the weather was trying to give her a sign; ever since arriving, the young woman hadn't really been able to stay inside for any amount of time other than when sleeping became absolutely necessary. The sun, the warmth, the gentle breezes that kept the area from growing too humid, it was all so tantalizing-- and the fact that the clothes box seemed quite willing to provide Sookie with decent springwear only made things worse. She'd spent the whole of the afternoon by the docks again, sporting a bright yellow sundress with white sandals, nothing too elaborate, but fitting for the kind of weather that Sookie enjoyed best. Endless sunshine

[filmstarbeauty]

Her hair was sticking to her face and neck. The drowned rat look was attractive on no one, not even the rats and yet she was about thirty seconds from sporting it in the worst way. Lowering her gaze and her arm, she stared for a moment at the stranger.

It was an uncharacteristically nice thing to do for someone you didn't know. It reminded her vaguely of Serena, but that could have just been the blonde hair working for her. The fact that this girl looked like one of the girls from Almost Famous after a questionable dye job stopped her from saying anything.

"I get that it is a tropical island and sunshowers happen, but I would like just a little bit of rolling thunder before it happens," Blair sighed with a matching eye roll.

[justsookie]

"Ohhh, be careful what you wish for, lest this place start rollin' in the clouds and decides to give us a full-blown monsoon," Sookie chided lightly, before turning to the sky again. "And that wasn't me tryin' to give you ideas!" The concept of an island that had a will of its own was still one that didn't quite sit well with Sookie, but the possibility was one that she was more than willing to entertain. After all, if the island was capable of picking and choosing who to bring to its sandy shores, and additionally set up items like the bookshelf and clothes box to further play with its inhabitants, expecting the place to have eyes and ears everywhere didn't seem to be much of a stretch

[filmstarbeauty]

The accent almost threw Blair for a loop. She hadn't met anyone so obviously from south of the Mason-Dixon line since her mother's mixer for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. It did explain the hair, but so would New Jersey.

Arching eyebrow in a practiced motion, she worked to keep from looking too judgemental. She had been the one having a one-sided conversation with a cloud not thirty seconds ago.

Taking the hand, she gave it a squeeze and mild shake. Shaking hands was so pedestrian. "Blair Waldorf."

[justsookie]

While Sookie no longer had her telepathy to use as a crutch, there was something about Blair's smile and her mannerisms-- too smooth, too practiced-- that still had the waitress not feeling entirely welcome. She was accustomed to that behavior to a large degree, given the sorts of rumors which had passed around town about her, and in fact about the whole Stackhouse family in general. Nevertheless, Sookie had to grant that offering an umbrella was probably a bit forward, and perhaps even more so to girls who very obviously felt that the world had a certain obligation to revolve around or cater to them

[filmstarbeauty]

That sort of friendless has never gone over quite as smoothly as it probably should with Blair. It wasn't the poor girl's fault and she was trying hard to reserve her judgment on dear, tragically blonde Sookie. People were never nice unless they wanted something or wished to keep something else hidden. Sales people were friendly because they wanted a big tip or commission. Friends and family were friendly because they had something to hide or share.

Everyone had motives and they were almost never of the altruistic variety.

"Thank you." She nodded her head, her smile relaxing slightly. It was easier to think of this woman as a Serena type figure. Elusive, strangely and so blinding bubbly it was like staring into the sun. Fighting the rising irrational jealous she instead focused on something a bit more fun: clothes. "Your dress is darling as well. I see the box has decided to be nice in shades of yellow." Figures. "But yes, New York. Manhattan actually."

[justsookie]

"You have got to be the fifth person I've met from New York," Sookie immediately marveled, any reservations quickly thrown to the side as she thought of all the people that she'd managed to meet on the island, people who she never would have crossed paths with back home. The fact that she'd forged friendships with a number of them only put Sookie further at ease; heck, she'd met one of the most beautiful people she'd ever come across in that Serena van der Woodsen, and somehow they were becoming fast friends. Maybe New York just had a more eclectic range of personalities. "I'm obviously from the South-- Louisiana, actually-- so it's just so strange to be meetin' a bunch of New Yorkers all at once. We had a ton of New Englanders come over after Katrina, but since then it's... understandably been scarce. I've never been to New York, though, or anywhere further than Texas, which is kind of unfortunate."

Pressing her lips together and still mentally crossing her fingers tightly, hoping she wasn't being judged too much, Sookie's gaze then

[filmstarbeauty]

Blair sort of wanted to point out that five people on a random desert island was not that high of a number. Especially when compared with the fact that New York City had eight million people. It was barely even a blip.

But this Sookie probably only had twelve people back home that she wasn't related to and she didn't particularly feel like bursting that bubble. The rain had put a damper on her mood to do evil. Or at least it had sent it scattering for shelter.

"Are you now? I've been New Orleans, but that was..." Blair shrugged as if it had been a blip on her memory. It had been before Katrina, thank god and only barely, for Mardi Gras when she was fourteen and feeling in the mood to be boozy amongst others. Times had been simpler then.

Absently running a hand over her damp dress, she nodded and changed the subject. "Sometimes it likes to give me leather and lace. But forturnately I was given a lovely wardrobe a few years ago. The nicest thing this place has done for me in a while."

[justsookie]

"New Orleans is great," Sookie nodded knowingly, accustomed to most tourists or visitors choosing to allude to the admittedly far more popular destination. In truth, New Orleans and Bon Temps didn't seem to have much in common from Sookie's point of view, accents and general political orientation aside. But as far fewer people generally traveled to the area, it was understandable for all of them to come under a single umbrella; to many, Sookie's own inability to distinguish too much between the cultures of New York and D.C. was probably a lot worse, as far as assumptions went. "They're a lot more exciting than we are in Bon Temps, for sure. Lots of music, great food, and a strong community that's really held on through everything

[filmstarbeauty]

Blair had known a few kids whose families had lost mid-winter getaways there. The sorts of houses that had been passed on through the generations without much besides names and money holding them together.

"Always impressive." And sort of charming, like going to a festival in some remote town but not wanting to live there. That's exactly how she viewed them. Frowning for a moment at the name Jason she quickly let out a laugh as things slid into place. "Oh my god, you're the sister of that guy Jenny used to date."

[justsookie]

Blinking for a moment in confusion, Sookie then recalled the conversation she'd had with Serena not so long ago in the laundry room, eyes widening in realization. It seemed like all of the people she'd met from New York fell into one of two categories - there were the Leandros brothers, who came from a world as rife with supernatural creatures as her own, and then there were Serena and her friends, who seemed completely unaware of the more tangible dangers in life. The latter was harder to deal with, though they left Sookie a little starstruck on the whole. Tentatively, her lips pulled into a smile as she nodded

[filmstarbeauty]

"Serena's my best friend." Two halves of the same coin, night and day. That was her and Serena. People might appreciate bright sunny Serena more, but Blair knew how to keep the other girl running when she fell into bad times. Then again the same could be said about S for her.

Placing a hand to her chest in a gesture that was almost ripped from Gone With the Wind, she laughed and nodded resisting the compulsion to shake her head. "Oh yeah. It was just a shock since she was barely sixteen and he was so obviously not. Definitely something else."

[justsookie]

Sookie couldn't help but break into a wider smile when Blair mentioned being best friends with Serena - one's taste in friends often said a great deal about their values and judgment, which only raised Blair a fair amount in Sookie's regard. It wasn't altogether surprising, either, the fact that the beautiful tended to partner up with the beautiful, and the sophisticated always flocked as well. She was about to remark on it - something simple, perhaps obvious, but well meant all the same - but the description of Jenny threw Sookie's mind to a screeching halt.

"She was what?" Sookie exclaimed, eyes immediately widening before her lips pressed firmly in a tight line. "Oh, when I see him next, he is going to regret having done that."

[filmstarbeauty]

It was honestly not the strangest of relationship choices she had born witness to in her life. Sure it had skeezy written all over in some tacky brightly colored marker, but Blair was very proud of herself to have moved past that.

Mostly. "Oh, it's over now. Doesn't that make everything fine?"

It didn't but Blair was trying be diplomatic about the whole thing. Whether or not she was successful at that was negotiable.

[justsookie]

"N-no, it really doesn't!" Sookie exclaimed, running a hand through her hair as she tried to keep her voice low so as not to scare Blair off completely or have the other girl think her a complete prude. There were many things that Sookie was fine with, choices that she felt people were free to make, but there was a reason why minors weren't allowed to do everything by themselves. They just couldn't fully comprehend the consequences of their choices.

"I mean, I'm glad that she's... okay now, but there's really no sixteen-year-old who should be datin' my brother ever," she added with widened eyes. "And even if other people have bitched him out for it, doesn't mean that I can't give him a bit of a reminder. She's... she is okay, right?"