Main Campire; Late Wednesday Morning [ 06/08 ].

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

It being a Wednesday with very little to do but plenty of exploring and treasure hunting and trying to hunt down that Jim for her overdue ride on his surfboard, Ariel slept in and then, when she woke up late that morning, got out of bed, stretched, showered, and then headed out to the main campfire. Under one arm was a bunch of marshmallows; the other held some graham crackers and chocolate bars, and she got a fire...ugh, what's the word? BURNing in the fire pit. She then went and found several sticks that looked long enough and took to the task of plopping marshmallows on them and thrusting them into the fire.

S'Mores! Breakfast of champions!

Of course she had plenty to share and, even if no one showed up to partake, well, then, that just meant more for her.

[[ open campfire is open, of course! ]]

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[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

Alice didn't have anything on Wednesdays, and she didn't have a job, so what was she doing? Wandering.

Wandering her way to the main campfire, to be precise.

"Hi!" she greeted cheerfully when she saw that somebody else was already there.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hi!" Ariel smiled happily at the other girl, just as she finished blowing some flames out on her ignited marshmallows, and she waved a hand to beckon her over. "Come have some s'mores! Best breakfast ever!"

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'm not hungry," Alice said with a smile. "But I'll join you anyway, if you don't mind."

Alice wasn't one to pass up a chance to be social.

[lockestheway]

Well, hello there, redhead-with-secrets. "Ariel," Peter said, strolling in jovially. "Making the best of our camping experience?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Not at all!" Ariel laughed a little. "The more, the merrier, right? I've seen you around before, haven't I? Or are you one of the new kids?"

There was a slight pause. "Newer, I guess, since they're not really so new anymore."

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'm not new," Alice said with a quick shake of her head. "I've been here for a year or thereabouts."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Well, hello there, cute guy good for dragging along on adventures. "Peter!" Ariel beamed to see him, wiping a bit of the s'more she'd just eaten from the corner of her mouth. "Hi! Come and have some. It's pretty much mandatory, you know."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Oh, man," Ariel snorted a little. "I guess I've missed you so far, but, I mean, that's not that difficult, really. I'm Ariel, then." She hitched a thumb over her shoulder. "I'm staying over in the New Kids on the Block cabin."

[lockestheway]

"Mandatory?" Peter asked, and did something appropriately exaggerated with his eyebrows that he thought was charming. "Why haven't I heard about this sooner?"

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

And it was; at least, Ariel seemed to think so, considering the charmed chuckle. She shook her head, making a small tsking sound. "Maybe they expect you to figure it out for yourself," she offered, "smart as you are. Good thing I'm here to help, right? Come on, I'll get one started for you."

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

"I'm over in Westlife," Alice said, gesturing in the general direction of the cabin.

[lockestheway]

"I am smart, but they could have gambled wrong," Peter said, sitting down by the fire. "Maybe I'm a rebel. Maybe I scoff at social conventions."

Or maybe he tried to fake them as well as he could. To-may-to, to-mah-to.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if I've heard of them," Ariel had to admit, tilting her head thoughtfully. "I think the cabins are named after different bands. I only recognized a couple of them, but usually they all follow the same theme."

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

"I've never heard of them, either, and I've heard of most of the cabins," Alice said. "I guess they always have to toss in those couple obscure cabin names just to confuse us."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Ariel allowed with a smirk, plopping not one but two marshmallows on a stick and passing it over to Peter. "But then you'd be scoffing at deliciousness, and that's just silly, Peter."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Please tell me that you're not eating marshmallows for breakfast," Rilla (and her italics) demanded as she sat down.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Okay, then," said Ariel with a nod, licking marshmallow goo off of her fingers before biting into the s'more in her hand. "I won't."

[lockestheway]

"But maybe the scoffing is delicious," Peter said, taking the stick. "Mmm, the taste of derision. It melts in the mouth."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"You think they're any good?" Ariel wondered. "I have a feeling, if we haven't heard of them, then probably not, but now I'm curious to find out."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmmmm," Ariel considered this with the utmost care, but then she softly shook her head. "Nope. Still can't beat the taste of chocolate and melty marshmallows in a crispy graham cracker crust."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"That's telling a falsehood," Rilla said severely before giggling. "I suppose it's summer and there's no one to stop us from eating sugar until our teeth fall out."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"It would be a falsehood if I said I wasn't," Ariel pointed out, setting her s'more on her knee as she reached for a stick to prepare for Rilla, whether she liked it or not. "If I don't say anything about it either way, I'm not saying either way, am I? And, really, Rilla, even when it's not summer, there's no one telling us not to eat sugar until our teeth fall out."

[lockestheway]

"I think you're a little bit biased there, Ariel," Peter said, considering his snack-to-be. "I think you might be working for the 'smores, that dastardly crime syndicate."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I get letters," Rilla said. "I'm quite sure Susan has some of the squirrels working for her by now."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"If supporting delicious and amazing and incredible is a crime," Ariel announced proudly, pulling herself up, "then lock me up and throw away the key! That's a crime I'll commit over and over again."