4th floor common room, Sunday early evening

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber was feeling restless so she put on her tap shoes and headed down the hallway to the common room, ready to make some use out of it. Seeing no one around, she put on some music and began warming up by doing a few leg and arm stretches.

After that? She started tap dancing to her hearts content, loving every single minute of it.

[the CR is open like an open thing that's public. yep.] 

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[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Link had had a wonderful day lazing around in bed after waking up with Christian. He hadn't particularly felt like getting up to do much of anything actually, until now that he decided to try and find some food.

So he came down to the common room, where he found a girl tapdancing. "Wow," he said, grinning. "You look like you could be on Corny's show!" He gave a wink.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber grinned wide and slowed down just enough to be able to speak without jarring her words. "Corny?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Corny Collins!" Link said. "Of the Corny Collins Show, in Baltimore? I'm on the Council -- we're the dancers on the show." He grinned. "Link Larkin."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"I've never heard of it," her smile was still going strong. "I'm Amber Atkins from Mount Rose, Minnesota. Just a small town with very few TV's," she added so he wouldn't take offense. Corny Collins Show? What a name.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Amber? Really!" He grinned. "It just so happens that my girl back home in Baltimore is named Amber. Well, little darling, it's a pleasure to meet you! Where'd you learn to dance like that?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Amber is a great name; ma always told me so," though Amber suspected her carnie of a father had a hand in naming her. "Very nice to meet you too, Link. You're name is very unique. I like it. Oh my gosh, I've been dancin' since I was little, nothin' special... just a bit of tap is all though I did perform not to long ago in a talent portion of a beauty pageant."

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

Amber von Tussle was still not entirely clear on how she got to this tiny island. But she was rather enjoying her stay. Other than the mishap with the disgusting Irishman, things had been simply rosy.

She leaned into the common room, raising an eyebrow and watching the other girl tap for a few minutes.

"Your form gets sloppy when you switch steps," she said derisively. It didn't, but that didn't mean Amber couldn't say it, now did it?

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber nearly tripped over her own footing when she heard that mean comment from the girl with the... beehive? "I'm not a professional," she said in the nicest tone possible.

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"You don't say," Amber said, with her most plastic smile. "I would have never guessed."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Okay, Amber stopped dancing and placed her hand on her hip. "No one is askin' you to stand there and watch me dance. I'm not performin' for anyone but myself. So..." She waved her hand. "Just turn around with your fancy self and be off." Not that Amber wanted to make enemies so soon coming to Fandom, but seriously, this girl might as well be named Becky Leeman.

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"I was only trying to help," Amber pouted. "No need to be snippy about it."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Crap. Now Amber felt bad. "Do you, uh, dance then?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Amber!" Link exclaimed, staring a bit. "What are you doing here? And there's no need to be cruel."

Would you swim in an integrated pool?

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"Link!" Amber said, smiling brightly and walking over to him with her arms extended. "It's so good to see you! What are you doing here?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Link returned the embrace almost mechanically, although his smile was just as bright. "I asked you first," he said, winking. "All I know is that I woke up here yesterday. I figured a producer brought me or something." It went without saying that it wouldn't be the first time he (and likely she) woke up without remembering the night before, all thanks to a producer.

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

Amber held the embrace for just long enough that any onlookers would have a lovely camera angle of her and her clearly devoted boyfriend before stepping away again and adjusting her hair. "The same happened with me," she said. "We must be here for an important audition."

After all, that was what the casting couch was usually pulled out for, wasn't it?

[withoutverona]

Now this was a young lady with style -- even if the beehive was a little tacky even in 1966, it'd look fine under a stewardess cap.

"Hey, sweetie," Frank greeted her.

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

Amber perked up, smiling generously at the newcomer. "Why, hello there," she said, extending a hand. "We haven't been introduced, have we? I'm Amber von Tussle."

[withoutverona]

"I don't believe we have," Frank said, taking the hand.

And, since this con was going so very badly and Beehive didn't know Romeo anyhow ... "I'm Frank," he admitted. "There seem to be a lot of people I don't know around here."

[palestshadow.livejournal.com]

"I don't seem to know anyone either," Amber said smoothly. "Except Link, he's a friend from home."

'Boyfriend' was just a constricting sort of word around new acquaintances, really.

"But I know you, now. That's something, isn't it?"

[withoutverona]

Still dealing with the idea that it was 2007, Frank more or less staggered into the first room he found at the dorms with people in it and threw himself into a chair, where he sat with his eyes closed.

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, Amber quit dancing and looked at Romeo who seemed to appear pretty down about something or awfully tired one. She approached him slowly and said almost in a whisper, "Romeo? You all right?"

[withoutverona]

"Huh?" Frank asked, opening one eye, then both. "Yeah, I'll be fine. Just gt a little confused is all. I swear I'm not crazy, but, well, what year is this?"

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Right now it's 2007 but I'm from 1999. I... I thought you knew this already?" Maybe Amber never told him what year she was from but she was pretty sure he knew what year they were currently in.

She inhaled, seeing if she could smell booze on him. Ma forgot all kinds of stuff when she'd been drinking. Which was all the time.

[withoutverona]

"I must've fallen on my head or somethin'," Frank answered. "Got my numbers all confused. Because I could swear that when I went to sleep Friday, it was 1966, for everybody." He shrugged, visibly trying to regain his composure.