fandomhighdorms | Fourth Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Sunday

Earlier today, Nathan had shoved all of his things into bags and piled them up near his bed. He'd left just a few things out for tomorrow (clothes, cigarettes, small bottle of alcohol, and wallet) but other than that, he was ready to go.

But, he wasn't leaving right yet. He still had a whole day to do nothing but kick his feet up in the common room and relax. He'd dug out a bag of chips that clearly wasn't his (or was it?) and was flipping quickly through various channels in the hopes of finding something halfway decent to watch. He didn't want to be preached to or bitched at or lectured. He just wanted something mindless but Sunday mornings were proving harder for that than he'd originally thought.

Eventually, he settled on some news program. The broadcaster was some older, distinguished lady wearing a see through top and Nathan was counting the number of times her chest pressed hard enough against that top and made it able for him (and everyone) to see things. He was up to four so far. Who knew news was so entertaining?

[It's an open CR and this might be the last time Nathan's out and about before he leaves. He's probably going to sneak out and not tell anyone and then go die. Oops. Anyway, yes, wide open.]

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"Hi!" Angelica said, returning that smile, glad for another friendly face. Redhead solidarity! "I'm Angelica. I just transferred here for the summer."

Redhead solidarity was truly universal.

Having an A name as well just added bonus points!

"Well, welcome! I started here last summer, and I love it! How are you liking it so far? Too early to tell?"

"This is only my second day," Angelica said, "but everyone's been really nice so far."

Except maybe Nathan. But he hadn't been exactly mean, just rude.

Ariel's head bobbed a little bit. "They really are," she assured Angelica. "Well, almost everyone. Actually, I can't think of too many mean people at all. So that'll definitely stay the same. Do you know much about that school yet? Oh! Who's your roommate? And your Big Sibling?"

"I'm in room 407 with Elphaba," Angelica said, pointing back down the hall. "And my big sister is Stephanie Brown. Do you know either of them?"

"Oh." Ariel's eyes widened just slightly, because, really, in her experience, Elphaba was actually one of the few people she would have classified as the aforementioned mean ones. Most of the time, anyway, but she still felt the girl had a good heart, so she didn't say anything.

"Yeah, both of them! Stephanie not as much, though, since she's a little newer. My roommate's Raven. Have you met her?"

"No, not yet," Angelica said, shaking her head. "Are you on this floor, too?" She was hoping for more girls than boys on the floor.

"Nope," said Ariel, pointing at the ceiling. "One more up. But I like to wander. You never know which common room is going to be busiest, so you definitely have to try to see all of them."

"Where did you go to school before here?" Angelica asked, taking a sip of the soda she'd found. "I was in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Academy."

"Well, I didn't really go to school before here," Ariel admitted. "Not like this, anyway. I had a governess and private tutors...I like this school much better."

"You must be rich," Angelica said, awed. "I always went to public schools before I went to the Massachusetts Academy, and then here."

"Not too rich," Ariel said, smiling and trying to be modest, but it was a pretty good feeling. "I am a princess, though, so that's most of it. What was the Massachusetts Academy like? Do you think you'll miss it?"

"You're a real princess?" That wasn't helping the awe any.

"Um, Massachusetts Academy was nice," Angelica said. "I mean, the teachers were nice, especially the headmistress. But I didn't have a lot of friends there."

Ariel bit her lip, knowing not to talk about the princess thing too much less Angelica ask what she was a princess of, but she couldn't help a small, proud nod. "Yup, a real princess, but, really, I'm just a normal girl like anyone else."

Well, not exactly, but being a princess had nothing to do with that.

"You'll have lots of friends here," Ariel added. "Everyone's really great! What made you decide to switch to Fandom High?"

"My old school is being renovated over the summer," Angelica lied, falling back on that story. "So I had to come here. But once it's done I'll go back."

"Awww," Ariel had to frown a little bit at that. "That's too bad! I think you should stay. I bet you'll want to stay, it's great here!"

"I have to do what my headmistress wants me to do, though," Angelica said, fiddling with her bracelet. "She knows what's best for me."

And that definitely made Ariel's frown stick around. "You don't have to do anything you don't want to," she said, with the firmness of someone who was quite particular on that fact. "When I started here last summer, my father would have killed me if he knew! I guess you could say that I ran away, but after he saw how important it was to me and how much I loved it here, he let me stay. So they don't always know what's best for you; they just think they do."

"Ms. Frost has helped me a whole lot, though!" Angelica said. "I was really struggling in my school in New Jersey, but she brought me to the Academy, and I was doing a lot better there." She was worried she'd said too much now; she wasn't sure how to explain she'd had to leave her public school because she was a mutant without saying she was a mutant.

"Well..." Ariel reasoned after a moment, "maybe you'll do even better here, then, and there won't be a problem. She'll be all, 'sure, Angelica, you stay at Fandom High; it is pretty much the best.' That's how Daddy saw it, and that's why I'm still here today!"

"Maybe," Angelica said, though she doubted that. She was too dangerous to stay in a school without someone like Emma there to protect the other students. Or so she thought.

"I guess I'll just have to wait and see," she said. "But it's been nice here so far in the meantime at least."

"Well, I know I hope you get to stay," Ariel said with a smile. "And not just for redhead solidarity, I promise."

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Angelica had to smile at that; she sometimes got picked on because of her hair at schools she'd gone to in the past, so it was refreshing to find ginger tolerance here. As well as potentially mutant tolerance.

"Thank you," she murmured, glad to have another friend.

Fourth Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Sunday | May 8

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