Dorm Hallways - Monday after lunch

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Annette was crawling up and down the dorm hallways, very slowly, and pouting and mumbling to herself as she went.

"Stupid magnifying glass doesn't work." She banged it on the floor a couple times and continued on.

She sniffed and pushed her hair back out of her face. "Stupid fish throwing fishman!"

Her knees were getting sore so she hurried back to her room and put on her kneepads, then resumed her search in the halls. On her hands and knees. She was also tired of holding the magnifying glass so she strapped it onto her forehead so the glass hung at a mild slant over her left eye.

"If I don't find it, I'm going to hunt down that stinky fish thing and shoot him in his internal gonads. Yes I am."

Shuffle. Shuffle.

"Dammit."

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She frowned, "No. But it does sparkle so that can sort of be a yes too, I think?" She blinked up at him. "It's a little diamond stud. Like this -" She tilted her head back and turned to show him the earring in her ear.

"I lost the matching one yesterday afternoon."

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"How'd you manage to lose it?" Shawn asked, crouching down beside her and running his hands over the carpet. That seemed a reasonable way to check for small objects.

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"When that stupid fish man hit me in the face with a fish. I ran out of my room so quickly, my hair caught on I don't know what, and the next thing I knew was that my earring had been ripped from my ear." Of course, Annette didn't find out until after she came back. But still, she thought the hallway the best place to be looking.

"You're going to help me, Shawn? That is so sweet. Want to borrow my magnifying glass?"

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Shawn looked at her and shook his head. "You seem to be working the magnifying glass angle pretty well," he said with a quick grin. "I can work well enough this way."

"My entire room smells of fish now," Shawn grumbled as he patted the carpet. "Shouldn't have opened the window. Next time the whole place floods I'm sealing up my room, possibly with Ed inside so long as it keeps the fishy smell out."

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"Your too, ugh, that's terrible. I have this fishy smell in my closet and it's so gross. I've had to take all my clothes out and everything. Stupid fish."

She continued to search the carpet and thought of something, she cast Shawn a sideways glance, "I don't, um, smell like fish do I?"

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Shawn leaned over taking a delicate sniff. Well, delicate for a guy, anyway. "You do not smell of fish," he confirmed cheerfully.

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She smiled bright. "Good, cause I was a little afraid there. Seems I can't get this fish smell out of my nose. Ick. Whoever thought of throwing fish at someone?" She shook her head. "I would have picked something else, definitely."

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"I guess considering the amount of water, fish was the most abundant ammo?" Shawn shrugged. "Wouldn't've been my first choice either, but I guess it did the job they wanted it to do."

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"Yeah, I guess you're right. I would have tried seashells. Can make lots of stuff with seashells." She grinned. "Or so I'm told. Not too crafty myself, if you know what I mean. Did you have to fight any of them? The fish people things?"

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"Decided they weren't for me," Shawn said with a shake of his head. "Never been a big fan of the water, and I figured I did my bit for the week, in Fandom vs. the aliens."

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"Ohh, you helped with the aliens? I should have, but I was, uh, otherwise busy." Annette looked back down and studied the carpet in front of her.

"This magnifying glass is broken. And it's hurting my eye I think. It was cheap, that's why. Stupid thing." But she didn't take it off, she continued to search the floor with her splayed hands.

"You ever lost something Shawn and never got it back again?"

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Shawn thought for a moment, there was those two years of his life, but he's pretty sure that isn't what she's talking about... "Uh, yeah, I guess I probably have," he replied in the end.

"You know you should really find yourself a better magnifying glass in town," he remarked, scanning the carpet.

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She looked over at him, big blue eye blinking. "I know it. I know..." She sighed a little too cause she was really starting to have doubts about finding her earring.

"So, anything new with you?" Hey, she had to talk about something else than her diamond. It was about to drive her crazy and if she went crazy she would drink the rest of the rum that was hidden under her bed. Yes, she would.

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"... I turned into a girl on Friday," Shawn said after a moment. That memory in itself was something that actually inspired him to look for rum.

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Annette snickered, "Yeah, that whole day was hilarious. Were you a pretty girl?"

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"Also humiliating," Shawn pointed out. "I think I was kinda cute, though. Nothing much like me, which I think is a good thing."

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"Do you know Dick? He embraced his womanhood. Thought he was pretty hot. I played make-up and dress-up with him." She grinned wide. "What did your girlfriend think?"

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"Gotta say, I don't know Dick," Shawn said with a chuckle. "And Summer, she doesn't know about it yet. Unless she listens to the radio, or someone else told her or something." Shawn made an uncomfortable face, "I probably should've told her about that..."

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"Dick is funny." She replied with a slight grin. "Did...something happen while you were a girl?"

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"No," Shawn said, a quick shake of his head. "Humiliation of the plain 'Hell, I'm a girl' variety and not much else. Still, think I ought to find her and mention it. I've been all water-avoidance-recluse this weekend," he admitted.

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"I would imagine Summer would just grin. Unless you had to do any girlkissy stuff. Then she might grin more or wonder who you might have girlkissy'ed with." Annette wasn't sure she should have mentioned girlkissy. It did involve her after all, and that might not make her look very decent, even though it was a class assignment.

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"I had nothing to do with girlkissy of any variety," Shawn said quickly. He really didn't, and just wanted to be sure that was known. "And, if I had, it would've been an only maybe with her kind of a deal," he added.

"It's our six month mark on Saturday," he said, grinning at Annette.

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Annette nodded, because she really believed him and she certainly wasn't about to talk about girlkissy. You know, unless someone brought it up first. "And I totally understand that, cause if I had a boyfriend who turned into a girl, I would only want him to girlkissy with me if it was agreeable and for experimentation purposes only." She might have looked just a little bit confused right then.

But it was masked instantly by his humble declaration. Annette clapped her hands and grinned. "Ohh, that is so nice, Shawn! Six months. Wow. That seems like a long time to me." Who's never had a boyfriend ever really in my whole life!

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Shawn might've also looked a little confused at that. He raised a questioning eyebrow at her, but didn't comment.

He perked up just a little more at the rest of her words. "I asked her out right near the beginning of the fall semester, and she apparently hasn't gotten bored yet." Shawn's grin suggests this really is a good thing.

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Annette laughed, "Apparently not Shawn. You must be doing something right." She teased. "And I have to say, Summer is such a sweet girl. I really like her. We are going on a field trip this weekend to New York and we're rooming together with Marie and Tori. I'm so excited."