fandomhighdorms | The Pool; Thursday Evening [ 11/18 ] -- POOL PARTY!!!

It was finally Thursday! It was finally party time!

And Ariel, not wanting to be a disappointment in carrying the tradition of Atlantican parties onto the land, had gone all out, showing up at the pool as soon as she was finished with Glee Club to get everything set and ready for when the party was going to start. The decorations were slightly insane, and had been...an interesting challenge to put up, but Ariel had managed without falling into the pool too much. And off in an area where the splashing was unlikely to spoil anything, she'd set up a food table with all of her favorite human foods (she was going to do some Atlantican ones, but she'd have to make them herself, and no one wanted that) and a dance floor with a DJ booth for Jono.

How she got all this down here and up was just going to wind up being one of those great mysteries of life, but she knew that hard work and perseverance and obsessive planning had really paid off.

But, of course, it'd be nothing without guests.

[[ yay party! OCD is ~~on the way~~ up, huzzah! Everyone got a personal invitation, so come on in, the water's fine! ]]

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"Thanks again!" Ariel said, laughing a little. "Now we're just going to go back and forth on thanks. I never seem to run into you outside of class, so this is nice!"

"I always think about talking to you in class, but it's small enough that I think Ms Pitt would notice if we weren't listening."

"That's true," Ariel said with a nod, "and it hardly seems very professional for a TA to chit chat too much and everything."

She might have been just a little proud of that title for that class.

"So, did you take that class because you were interested in shipwrecks?"

"Actually, I needed the science credits and it qualified. The different classes have taken some getting used to. But it's been good. It's pretty cool. More interesting than I thought it'd be."

"I've always loved them," Ariel admitted easily with an excited smile. "They're so exciting! What other classes are you taking?"

"The American history one on Fridays and the class with the field trips on Wednesdays." Plus eleventy billion external classes, but that wasn't important to point out. "They're not bad as far as classes go."

"I think anything here could easily beat the music lessons I had to go through back home," Ariel said. "My other classes are about eating and solving mysteries and talking about myths and misconceptions. I thought that last one was going to be more about Canada, because that's in the title and my good friend Rilla is from Canada so I wanted to know more about her homeland, but it turns out it's only partially about Canada, and partially about other interesting things."

"You're really enthusiastic about your classes, but when you describe them that way, they sound pretty great."

Ariel chuckled a little at that. "Well, they are. I mean, a class about appreciating food! What could be better?"

Jack pretended to think about it for a moment, and then shook his head. "I can't think of anything. You're absolutely right."

"See?" Ariel said with a triumphant chuckle. "And we don't have food like you have here where I'm from, so there's lot to learn and appreciate."

"Where are you from?" He didn't hear an accent.

"A place really, really, really far from here," Ariel said, her standard vague answer with a dismissive wave of her hand. "No one's really ever heard of it."

"It doesn't seem like it. You always look comfortable."

That definitely made Ariel smile. It meant she was really fitting in!

"Well, I've always wanted to visit here," she allowed herself to admit. "It's always been my dream, and so now that I'm actually here, I'm sort of taking to it like...well, like a fish to water, I suppose!"

But, before she had a chance to go to far down that dangerous path, she asked, "And where do you come from, Jack?"

"You've probably never heard of it either. Hart, Missouri. It's only a few states away and it's not that different to here culture-wise. The biggest difference has been changing from a normal school to a boarding school."

"You're right," Ariel admitted with a grin. "I haven't ever heard of it. How do you like the boarding school over a normal school?"

"It's," he started, then paused. He smiled and shrugged. "It's hard to say. They're two different lifestyles. No going home at the end of the day here, weirder classes, not so sure that the people are more weird since high school has its mix everywhere you go, but it's very, very different."

Ariel nodded a little, considering all of that. "I had tutors back home," she said, "so it's all pretty different for me, too."

"Homeschooled?"

That was one way to look at it' Ariel smiled a little and bolstered the answer a little with a modest, "Royalty."

Jack wasn't good at hiding his surprise. "That would definitely explain tutors," he said. "You don't really flaunt it."

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