What it says about her, Olive doesn't really know, but she just doesn't get tired of all this. Granted, the corsets can make things a bit tiring, but if she remembers her exercises and posture from her lessons and doesn't try to rush overly much, it really just becomes another detail that fades into the background, part of the whole situation and ( Read more... )

( November 2011. )

Honestly, when the whole idea of heading out to see the dinosaurs came up, it was kind of a relief. I know cliché says autumn is a time of change, but this feels like more of it than I was expecting. Heading out with Wichita to explore the other side of the island is a welcome departure from the rest, neither boring nor too different from the known ( Read more... )

It's not the first time Olive's seen Chris since she talked to Claire, and she's wanted so many times to ask him about the possible break up or whatever it was that happened. Claire was clear on her reasoning and vague on everything else, and given the conversation at the time, it just made sense to Olive not to push her, and besides, she wants to ( Read more... )

The nice thing about knowing some of her classmates is how easy it makes it to get together for study sessions. And okay, back home, Olive wasn't really the kind to have those with her peers. The very few friends she had weren't exactly the studying kind, and the rare times Rhi came by with textbooks, they usually just wound up being something to ( Read more... )

Early SOTP to combine carnival/Halloween and November (Stefanie-takes-a-semi-hiatus-but-still-wants-threads month) plans. I... meant to make this brief. It didn't happen. But yeah, if you want any of mine for this month's plot or at all next month, take a look and let me know.

( OCTOBER 2011. )

The morning starts normally.

Pause, rewind, scratch that. The morning does not start normally, because Olive's in bed alone and, in her half-asleep state, thinks she hears a rattle under the bed. Then immediately forgets she heard anything, even though snakes in the tropics are a totally valid concern. She's less of a fan of sleeping alone these ( Read more... )

The many island changes aren't lost on Olive. From the moment she wakes up, it seems to her that everything is different - that the air around her home is now redolent with the sounds of amusement park rides and the smells of fried food, and she's so eager to see everything that she nearly runs out of the house in her pajamas (which are probably, ( Read more... )

( SEPTEMBER 2011. )

Olive's not sure what wakes her first, the sunlight filtering through Eduardo's windows or Eduardo himself stirring. Either way, she's reluctant to move, except to burrow against him, and, apparently, to kick off her sheets in the night, too warm to bother with them ( Read more... )