Planning a party was both easier and harder than Billy imagined it would have been. Luckily, he had the entire week to plan things out between classes, and with Alexis helping out wherever she could, things came together easily ( Read more... )

The compound bathrooms is a really bad place to do this, Hal thinks, but he can't think of anywhere else with a mirror, even if he had to hang out in a stall waiting for that lull in activity, where people are outside or busy or just don't have to pee for awhile.

Someone had shaved while he was in the stall, and he stands at the sink, putting his ( Read more... )

Do drunks have some kind of internal clock? Wallace doesn't know how else the throngs of islanders crammed in and around the Compound knew when to start counting down to the new year, yet somehow it happened. The low murmur that began at 10 seemed loud enough to shake the building by the time it got to 1, culminating in joyous whoops and copious ( Read more... )

If you had been upstairs in the Compound or in the Hub at six in the evening of December 31, you might have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, or that you'd once again been whisked off to some strange, new place. Within the blink of an eye, the rooms had changed, sparkling instantly with festive decorations, and it was all so ( Read more... )

Okay, so it was getting kind of cliche. With no school and no Mom to look after, there wasn't a whole lot for him to do but waste time in the kitchen. Besides, it was Christmas, and it had always been left up to him to do the holiday baking back home, so spending entire days in the kitchen during Christmas break was a habit he'd probably developed ( Read more... )

Just because Kate didn't have anything to do to fill her days, didn't mean that her brother felt the need to sit around on his ass all day, complaining about the loss of a life he'd never really liked in the first place. And, okay, maybe that made him sound really bitter, and it wasn't like there hadn't been things about home that he missed, but it ( Read more... )

So far, besides the fact that the island was weird, the most important thing Kate had learned about her new home was that there was a lot of people here who looked like famous people. She'd also learned they weren't really the famous people she thought they were, which meant that they were either pretending to be someone else for a fresh start or ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for Life Unexpected 2x07 - Camp Grounded )

According to the Niko Leandros school of discipline, being stranded on a Utopian island populated by free love hippies was no excuse to slack on personal preparedness. I balked at this attitude on Tabula Rasa about as much as I had back home, which meant I never let an opportunity to complain about it pass me by. Oh, I knew that Nik was right if ( Read more... )

Xander looked over the assembled sight with a sense of pride. There was a large campfire high up enough on the beach that they wouldn’t be disturbed by the tides. He’d circled it with stones to be safe and stacked up enough fire food to go into the night. He’d rescued logs from the forests and buildings sights for seats, both stumps for chairs and ( Read more... )