Characters: Holly J, Laura, Kurt, Joshua, Ty Lee, Mr. H, ANYONE AND EVERYONE ELSE EVER.
Location: The nearest mall. It has the best selection of all times.
Time: Sunday Afternoon to Evening
Content: DOOMED SHOPPING
Warnings: Students have been warned they are not to use their powers while in public. No stealing, killing, massive property damage,
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Shoes in hand and soon to be on feet, her attention was free to take in more of the store. And it was drawn to Laura. "You look kinda familiar! You're from the Institute too, right?" she inquired. Of course, it was entirely possible it was Laura's outfit that Ty Lee was remembering, rather than Laura herself, but that was alright just for now. It wasn't like she'd had a chance to get to know most people yet. "I'm Ty Lee!"
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Still, she'd been spoken to, and not replying would've been rude.
“Hi,” she said, “I'm Laura.”
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She wandered along, peering fascinatedly into shops and trying on practically everything that caught her eye. Staring in the windows and not looking where she was going, she nearly tripped over Laura. Stopping herself just in time, she gasped and covered her mouth with her hands.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" She looked the other girl over, tilting her head. "You're from the Institute too, aren't you? Um, do you want to look in here with me?" She glanced a little shyly into the shoe shop, still overwhelmed by her first shopping trip.
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Of course, he was in absolute awe when they stepped into the food court. So much fast food in one place! It was amazing. And even more amazing was Holly J's offer, "Really? You mean it? Wow, thanks!"
Had he had his own money with him, Kurt probably would have proceeded to get a little bit of everything, but since someone else was buying he figured he should probably be at least somewhat reasonable. Wanting to try something knew, he decided on a little taco stand. He headed back over to Holly J with a couple of burritos in hand.
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She sat down across from Kurt, "So Kurt, what was your life like, um... before here." She knew Kurt's life was... not standard, before here, but no details yet as to why. He seemed nice enough, a bit of a goofball, but even the dorks in her school had friends. It would do her some good to learn about her classmates a little.
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But as Holly J asked her question. Not exactly his happiest topic of conversation, and he'd been asked about it a lot in the past couple of days. And he supposed the asking would continue for a while until he started to get to know everyone. "Not very interesting. I couldn't leave my house, because of my mutation. Ever. Coming to the school was the first time I did." Not that Holly J was going to understand that, since she hadn't seen him all blue and fuzzy yet, but he couldn't very well show her in the middle of the crowded food court. He smiled, "But now I'm here so that doesn't really matter anymore, right?"
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So now he was in the frickin' rock store, looking for a good sample of agate and some geodes or whatever, like fifty different types of quartz.
Fuck this. He could be in bed. He could be outside. He could be doing pretty much anything but turning to the rock salesguy and asking, awkwardly, "Um. You know where I can find the pyrite?"
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She'd followed the boy from the Institute in because she was curious. "Either rock-collecting's your hobby, or you're catching up on homework even before it's assigned," she said, coming up by his side to look at the display case before realising that was probably rude.
"Sorry, hi, I'm Hisako. I'm also from the Institute!"
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"Oh, it's been assigned, all right," he grumbled, fishing his list out of his pocket to show it to her. "I guess I got some kinda private lesson thing going on. Frickin' Toph--that's my teacher--she's makin' me get her some rocks."
He gave her a slightly weary smile. "I'm Rictor," he said. "Well, Julio, but no one really calls me that here."
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She bent over, scanning through the extensive list and had to hide a smile at it. That was one enthusiastic teacher. "Is it for geography class? I know a bit about tectonic plates," she said. Of course she would- she'd lived in Japan for most of her life, where children in preschool were taught what to do in case of an earthquake.
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When they arrived at the mall he headed straight for the video game store. He found himself a time card, and then began idly looking through the other computer games.
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Thankfully, most malls seemed to be made up in roughly the same fashion so it wasn't hard at all for Virgil to find one of the stores he was looking for. He was mostly looking for a headset since his had broken somehow on the move over here. If he was going to be playing any online games with Richie back home, he was going to need a new headset. You couldn't exactly trash talk without one.
"Hey, you're from the Institute, right," Virgil asked upon spying the other kid in the computer game section.
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He removed his headphones and quickly stuffed them into his pocket with his ipod; he could've easily continued to have the conversation with them on, but he figured the other kid would probably think that was rude. Then he began fiddling with the time card in his hands. Small talk really wasn't his forte.
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"Yeah, I think I saw you around when everyone was moving their stuff. I'm Virgil." Virgil didn't really care for small talk, but usually he could get by all right, as long as he found something to talk about. "You shopping for some games too? I think most of the good game releases come out later this month."
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He walked in, and came across a dilemma almost immediately. Which one to hunt down, Shakespeare or Dante? Oh decisions, decisions...
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Which he wasn't sure they wouldn't.
Still, he'd escaped and was now hiding in one of the aisles of the bookstore, leafing through Good Omens for his favorite parts. He'd already read it in Japanese, but was interested in reading it in its native tongue--which was always the best way to read any book.
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