2nd Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

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Needing lots of room in order to work, Jean had commandeered a common room for great high school politics justice.

One needed space in order to make a bunch of posters telling people to vote for her. Ooo! Glitter! They needed to have glitter on them too.

But only a classy amount. Nothing gaudy.

[[Open common room is so very open]]

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Bobby had been on the way back to his room after Luke's when he spotted an occupied common room. Occupied by Jean, even. And posters. And glitter.

"Jean? Whatcha doing?" he poked his head in. Swiftly followed by the rest of him.

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"There's student council elections," Jean gushed like the overachieving student that she was.

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"Ooooh, watcha makin'?"

That was Hayley's way of greeting Jean, apparently. She bounced over in her long skirt and white blouse. Elle really needed to take her on that shopping trip.

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Exploration was still a new thing for Jonas. Before the Village, he'd been confined to the Community, allowed only to certain points before he was considered out of bounds essentially and told to come back. If you went past that, you were sought out, brought back and punished then.

It wasn't like that here so, when Jonas passed by the larger room, he had to stop, eyes catching on something that sparkled in the light. The word wasn't there, not yet, but he kept studying them in hopes that it would come.

In all that examination, he forgot his manners, forgot to say hello to the owner of the sparkling things.

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"There's a student council?" look, his last other school had five students. It hadn't been an issue there.

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"There is! And it would look great on my transcripts for college," Jean added cheerfully.

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"Posters for Student Council." Remember your manners, Jean. "Hello!"

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"Hello," Jean called, waving at the omgcute boy in a way she was certain was cheerful and not overly caffeinated as it may appear.

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"Oh, hello," he said, startled out of the examination and blushing sheepishly at having forgotten to greet the room's occupant. "I apologize, I was just looking at your sparkling things there. They caught the light when I walked by."

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"You're thinking about college *already*?" said with the air of a classic underachiever who.. Actually already knew where he'd be going. And what he would major in.

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"The glitter?" Jean prompted oh so kindly. "That's what I hope it'll do with everyone else if they see the posters."

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"Well, I do graduate this year, Bobby." Duh. Even though she wasn't his Jean, he should totally just know that.

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"The glitter, yes," he said, finally remembering that word from his conversation with Ender on Saturday. "Ender told me about glitter and how it sparkles and looks like stars almost."

He took a few hesitant steps into the room, eyes still on the poster and the glitter.

"Are you making art?" he asked. Before he'd gained the ability to see in color, art had been an unknown. After, when he knew how beautiful things could be, he'd wanted to know more and had hated when those memories had faded into a blurry mess in his mind.

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If anybody were to ask Tybalt, all glitter was gaudy.

This was possibly at least in part inspired by a certain boxer raid back when they were living in the cabins.

He still hadn't gone to collect his underpants. They'd touched other underpants.

"Eye-catching," he said, by way of greeting as he ambled into the common room in search of either company, or to steal food from a different common room's fridge. Either or. "Good evening, Lady Jean."

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Well...

"Kinda. It's just a couple posters."

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"Tybalt!" Act cool, Jean. Act cool. "How are you?"

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"Hello," Jonas said, attempting to be friendly even in the midst of unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar surroundings. He missed Asher. "Are you going to make art using glitter too?"

The glitter was kind of fascinating him.

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"Hi," Hayley said, looking at them. "You really are putting it all into this, ain't ya?"

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"... Oh, right," Bobby nodded. "I forgot. You're only a year older than me back home," he explained.

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"They're very nice," he said honestly, kneeling slowly to get a better look at them. The words made little sense but he liked the colors, like the way it all melded together under the light. "Is this for one of the classes here?"

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"Really?" That would make her secret love friendship with Scott so weird.

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Awww. She was acting cool for him? Tybalt was flattered. And possibly a little amused, though he only let that show in the form of a cocky little smirk.

"I've been given no cause for complaint, as of late. This island seems to have been on surprisingly acceptable behavior for long enough, one might suspect it's attempting to lull us into a false sense of security."

Hey. Turning the guys into girls absolutely counted as its best behavior, so long as Tybalt was concerned.

"And thee? How has thou been?"

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"Well, why not? It couldn't hurt, right?"

Good two shooooes.

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"It's for Student Council." Give her a moment to remember he may not know what that means. "Would you like to help?"

Or not. Not worked too.

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"Good." Totally not going to tell him she had another date. That would be weird and it wasn't like they were boyfriend and girlfriend so it was totally fine, right?

Right!

"I'm going to be running for student council."