Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

[bigdamndean]

With all the rain the island had seen during the week, everyone had been hoping for a sudden turn to nice weather for the welcome picnic. But as the crew from the school started to set up for the picnic, the sky got darker and darker, and by the time everything was ready, it had started to steadily rain. As tempting as it was to move everything

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Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[serial_quitter]

There was no guy named Ryan this time around. But there was a girl named Ryan who was looking around for her new roommate. She wasn't about to make any promises to stick around, either.

"Are you Kate?" she asked, spotting the nametag. "I'm Ryan. I guess we'll be rooming together?"

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[withasword]

Okay, not a guy. The name was misleading. It was really her own fault for jumping to conclusions based on a name alone.

"Assuming no other other Ryan Clark's... Looks like it." Kate offered a small smile, and spread her hands, "Don't you feel welcomed?" Mm, rain.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[serial_quitter]

"At least it's not snow?" said Ryan. "It is sort of nice. I grew up in the rain forest of South America while my parents were helping the poor, so this is almost like being back there."

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[withasword]

Kate shrugged, filing away that little piece of information. "Give it a week, maybe there'll be a blizzard." It would not shock her at all. Weather was all whacked out in her world anyway.

"I've been here a few weeks, so... Picked my bed already. Sorry about that."

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[serial_quitter]

"Ooh, we actually get beds?" asked Ryan with a chuckle. "No problem. A few weeks ago I was sleeping on the floor of a mud hut in Kenya so having any bed will feel like paradise. Do we actually get pillows, too?"

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[withasword]

"And sheets and desks and all sorts." It was more space and furniture than Kate'd had in her entire life. Growing up on the move did get you used to sleeping anywhere you could. "I still find it easier sleeping on the floor." It was more familiar than anything else around here.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[serial_quitter]

"Now it's starting to sound like a five-star hotel," said Ryan, nodding in approval. She certainly didn't get a desk when she was staying in a hospital room.

"Are there any problems with bugs on this island?" she asked. "Because I really do not like bugs at all. There were some horrible ones in the rain forest."

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[withasword]

"We had giant metal spiders the other week." Well she'd asked! "But they were more contraption than insect."

"And they were here less than twenty-four hours."

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[serial_quitter]

"Metal spiders? Seriously?" asked Ryan. She'd heard of pranks pulled on new kids and assumed that this was one of them.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[withasword]

"You could almost imagine them as clockwork toys that might run out of wind..." Except they didn't. "But that's not an everyday thing. At least, it hasn't been."

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[serial_quitter]

"Thank goodness for that," said Ryan. She had brought her mosquito net just in case. It might not offer much protection against clockwork spiders if they really existed. But Ryan was more concerned with anything that could spread infection.

"You know, there was this guy on the bus who was wearing pajamas" -- she was never going to get over that -- "and he mentioned that it's no problem getting beer if you're underage. Is that true?"

Re: Meet Your Roommate [SS2 2011]

[withasword]

"So I've heard." Kate shrugged, "But I haven't tried. My ID says I haven't even been born yet." In fact, she was minus three. "People aren't inclined to give you drinks with one of those back home."