Enough time had passed. It was time to face the world again ( Read more... )

The events of the previous evening, post-everything, had been kind of a blur ( Read more... )

It had been an unbelievably good week and a half or so. Envy had barely left Todd's side at all. It'd been almost like when they'd been kids. Except with much more kissing. But it wasn't a reunion that would last, yet. Todd still had a semester left at Vegan Academy (yes, he was a vegan and yes, that was why he could fly to the moon and punch it). ( Read more... )

There'd been a lot of portaling back and forth between Toronto and Brazil, lately. Kid Chameleon was getting pretty large. Physically. Stephanie Nordegraf had joined up some time ago to play bass, but now Envy had recruited a guy called Cole to take over the drums because he was actually good (and, shut up Stephen, he was actually an okay guy, too ( Read more... )

Toronto, two weeks ago (or, Thursday):

She was in her dorm room. Scott came to visit.

"Whoa, what happened to all your crap, I mean stuff"I'm trying to pare down a little ( Read more... )

There were a couple of mostly empty food service carts in the room. Crumbs in the bed. Several messages on Natalie's phone now that it wasn't dead to the world outside Fandom again ( Read more... )

Waking up in hotel rooms she couldn't immediately place was no uncommon occurrence for Envy ( Read more... )

Natalie had returned from another stay in Toronto yesterday, via a short layover - the length of a cup of coffee - in Fandom. Things in Toronto were... well. They were okay. Good, even. The school part was going great, as might have been predicted, and the social was interesting, for lack of a better word. She was integrating into some circles, as ( Read more... )

Natalie had portaled out to Toronto to spend a week doing orientation at the university. Dorms (ugh), professors (okay), classes (fascinating), roommate (the less said, the better, probably). The works. And now the week was over, and she was back.

Of course, she thought it had been a week. Because it had. In Toronto. Not so much over here. She had ( Read more... )

It said some probably positive things about Natalie's character that it took her a while to notice anything was off, simply because... nothing was. Maybe it was because she didn't use very many words to begin with. Easier to stay truthful that way ( Read more... )