Comments | stjudehigh: goodbye to rosie, the queen of corona ...what. [booster, open]

tomorrowisblue in stjudehigh

goodbye to rosie, the queen of corona ...what. [booster, open]

Mar 26, 2008 23:50

Once upon a time, Booster Carter thought it would be an awesome idea to be trapped semi-nude in a small space with Noriko Ashida and a camera. And let's face it, it WAS an awesome idea. Men have KILLED to be in similar positions ( Read more... )

thread: [talkstothecat], thread: [ugliest_shirts], thread: [open], occurring: [on campus], thread: [deemphasize], post: [tomorrowisblue]

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deemphasize March 27 2008, 04:11:02 UTC

Caleb is currently seated outside of his car, and is actually... also in front of the school. This is pretty much a daily routine for him (the waiting bit), and seeing someone else who he's not totally familiar with... well, Caleb's normal response is to ignore.

But rationally, he knows he needs to start actually making some sort of effort to talk to people. There's a silence for a good minute or so before he finally says something. WHAT WILL IT BE?

"Hey." Then, after a brief pause, "Who're you waiting for?"

tomorrowisblue March 27 2008, 04:46:35 UTC

Ted is in National Honor Society, so presumably they've at least met at function type things. Also Ted does gymnastics, and while that is perhaps considerably more fey than anything Caleb does, they probably know some of the same people.

Meanwhile, Ted whips his head up from some intensely complicated equation he was screwing around with (because it was there), "Huh? Oh--just a friend in detention."

Caleb, surely, will be hugely surprised to find out Nori was involved in this.

deemphasize March 27 2008, 04:49:15 UTC

Saying Caleb is not totally familiar with someone is like saying water is wet, in that it is almost always true and almost never impressive. They probably do know some of the same people, but most likely he's never stopped to really... talk. That's not what he does.

"I figured that much," he said, shrugging. "I was just curious as to who else ended up in detention. I'm here to pick up Nori," and the tone he says that in makes it very obvious that there is an unspoken 'AGAIN, UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH' after that sentence.

tomorrowisblue March 28 2008, 06:29:25 UTC

In either case, Ted is apparently a little weirded out that he's choosing to speak now, but he is a friendly sort of kid, so hey, why not. "Well, I assume they're in detention for lots of reasons. I mean, St. Jude's has a lot of rules! Although," he tilts his head in ....ponderment, which is totally a word no matter what anyone says, "I think that guy on the announcements today broke just about all of them! Except the dress code ones, unless he was naked or something when he was reading."

....thanks. Apparently he doesn't really know who Nori is, or he has heard enough about her from Booster that he's properly horrified.

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talkstothecat March 27 2008, 04:12:53 UTC

Next time, hopefully, Noriko will be the one who's trapped semi-nude in a small space with Booster! But right now is not that time, unfortunately for Booster and fortunately for Ted's boredom levels. Instead, now is the time that Booster makes his escape from detention, complete with a bunch of EPAC flyers (uh oh) and Noriko's phone number scribbled on his forearm. ... Alright then!

And of course, the first thing he does upon escaping is to make a beeline for the Bug (... pun intended) and then swerve over to whichever surface Ted is chilling on. He also sits down, although that's mostly so he ceases to TOWER OVER MERE MORTALS and Ted.

"Hey, I'm all done. Thanks for waiting, Rip would probably kill me if I called him for a pick up." As if he wasn't going to die for getting detention in the first place.

tomorrowisblue March 27 2008, 04:32:21 UTC

Ted, apparently, is clairvoyant -- that's not true, it's just that maybe he's met Rip once ever or so AND HIS HORRIBLE EYES "You're gonna die anyway." He's completely cheerful about this, which is not so much grim and horrible as it is ...again, Rip. It is inevitable.

Anyway, now that Booster is here he collects his stuff and tucks it into his backpack, which of course is blue. Ted is fond of it. >_> LET US JOURNEY TO THE BUG.

talkstothecat March 27 2008, 04:44:27 UTC

Meeting Rip is entirely likely to qualify under stressful situations which bring on talents such as clairvoyance, but then he'd just argue why that was ridiculous. With SCIENCE. "No I'm - well, I might... be able to say I volunteered for clean up duty, in order to look good or something." This is a filthy lie, Rip can see through Booster's excuses like they were tissue paper THANKS TO HIS EYES.

To the Bug they go! And on the way, Booster waves EPAC pamphlets annoyingly at Ted. "Maybe I can soften the blow by telling him I signed up to help save planet Earth and lots of fuzzy endangered animals. You should too! It'll look really good on college applications and stuff." That is TOTALLY Booster's reason for joining. Really. ... Okay, that's a lie too.

tomorrowisblue March 27 2008, 05:08:30 UTC

Rip would explain, and Ted would believe him, because he does not want to die at 16 OF EYE DEATH. (Note: first draft of this sentence was 'die a 16 year old virgin' and then the typist realized sexual connotation and Ted and Rip all in the same place meant the WORST THING EVER. Anyway.)

But enough of that. (SERIOUSLY.) Ted tosses his bookbag into the back seat, which is spotless, and ducks away from Booster's flailing enthusiasm. "What is that--here, give it." Eloquence from teenaged boys. He peruses one pamphlet with some trepidation, holding it by the edges as though it might burst into flame. If he knew these had come from Vic, he would be using forceps.

"Rip will just tell you--" Ted actually does a fairly credible impression here, which is horrible, "'It is man's destiny to conquer the planet, Michael.' Or something like that." He is SKEPTICAL of these pamphlets, Booster.

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ugliest_shirts March 27 2008, 04:30:45 UTC

Ben is hanging out here too, because he totally did the flat-surface thing first he has a bit of time before he promised to be over at Dane's house. So he's sitting not far from Ted with his sketchbook, sketching whoever happens to go by-- and Ted himself, being someone Ben doesn't know that well, inevitably grabs his attention.

Being Ben and all, his first reaction is that oh hey, there's a person there he hasn't drawn yet and he should draw a picture of Ted. His second reaction is to actually scoot over on their shared flat surface (whatever it is). "Hey."

tomorrowisblue March 28 2008, 06:26:29 UTC

If Ben is in fact drawing a picture of Ted, then Ted is like ............D: what why, stop that. IF, however, he's merely considering it, either way he was not previously paying a whole lot of attention as such goes all round eyed and mouthed before sketching a sloppy little salute-wave-thing. "Oh, uh--hi! I didn't see you there."

Because he was lost in the magical land of ~*math*~.

ugliest_shirts March 28 2008, 16:46:54 UTC

Ben has in fact started drawing a picture of Ted! Because he hasn't before and this needs to be corrected immediately, and because that surprised face is far too entertaining to pass up.

"That's okay, you were working on, uh." He peers shamelessly-- did we mention Ben's nosy as all hell? "What is that? Calc 2?"

tomorrowisblue March 29 2008, 01:03:37 UTC

"Oh no, not really. I'm just messing around." Because it's not weird at all to do complicated equations for fun, Ted! "Some theoretical stuff." Please don't ask him to explain, it will just hurt everyone. Including Ted's typist, who does not understand his great big squishy brain at all.

Meanwhile, he has espied what it is Ben is doing there, and is properly enchanted, as all good publicity hounds should be once they are over their surprise. "Is that for the paper or anything?"

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