The Deck [Friday Evening]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan had an inexplicable craving for s'mores. After a handwavy trip to Turtle and Canary to pick up supplies, she returned to the dorms and built a fire in the pit by the deck.

She was totally impressed with herself that she managed to get it going on her own. And now she was going to sit back and enjoy the fruits of her labor. Which were more of the chocolate, marshmellow and graham cracker variety than actual fruit.



[open deck/fire!]

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[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, we have really great amenities here," Joan agreed.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"My brother got sent to another school. You have no idea how jealous he gets when we talk on the phone."

Then again, that might have as much to do with hearing about Peyton and Dinah as anything.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"What's his school like?" Joan asked.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"More traditional. There's uniforms and eight hours of classes a day; there's not really any 'common' rooms. There's a curfew and certainly no drinking."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Ugh, uniforms would suck," Joan said. "And common rooms are fun."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm going to try and convince my family to send him here instead. I think he'd have a great time."

She leaned back a little.

"And I miss him."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry," Joan said. "That's got to be rough."

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

She waved it off, but it was pretty obvious that it was something pretty important to her.

"It was, but we talk on the phone and we text each other all the time."

Fiona was a much less grumpy girl when she could play vocabulary insult a few times a day with someone who got it.

"We've been through worse. And everyone has things."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like you guys are close though," Joan said.

It made her miss Kevin. And even Luke a little.

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"We were raised together," she explained, "pretty much alone, otherwise. And we're twins, of course."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan nodded. "You're making friends though, right?"

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

In a worse mood, she might have resented the implicatiopn, but as she was feeling good, she took it as it was meant.

"Yeah. Plenty of friends. Talking to more people than I ever thought I'd meet."

That made her think.

"You?"

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Definitely," Joan said with a nod.