Arms Hotel Lobby, Saturday [1/2]

[awesomebigsis]

Since the Welcome Picnic was today, Ellie wasn't expecting things to be very busy. The students would be needing dorm rooms, after all, not hotel rooms. She was still there, though, if anyone needed anything from the hotel.

[no ocd today]

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[montecito_east]

Mary was just getting back to the island today from a trip to Las Vegas. She entered the lobby, pulling her wheeled suitcase and carrying a newspaper.

"Hello Ellie. Wouldn't you rather be at the picnic today instead of watching the desk?" asked Mary, setting her newspaper down. On the front page was a large picture of Mary kissing A.J. Cooper with a headline asking "Who is Cooper's new mystery woman?"

[awesomebigsis]

"Oh, I don't mind being here. I can meet the newbies anytime," Ellie replied. She was kind of more interested in the newspaper Mary was carrying, eying it curiously. But she did not say anything about it.

[montecito_east]

"Are you sure? I could cover for you. I need to catch up on my reading anyway," said Mary, pointing at the newspaper. "Can you believe I'm a Las Vegas native and my hometown paper labels me a 'mystery woman' just because I've been gone for two years?"

[awesomebigsis]

"Nothing the media does surprises me much anymore," Ellie admitted. "So it's not a big mystery then, huh?"