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Fifth Floor Common Room, Friday Afternoon

Jeremy was getting a fake little sibling tomorrow. He was pretty pumped about it, because his three elder siblings and a twin sister meant he'd never been a big sibling before. Even a fake one. And he was taking this new responsibility very seriously.

By lounging on a common room sofa, sipping coffee and dictating stuff into his phone about everything he thought he should remember to tell the new kid.

"-- oh, and the deer? Are apparently actually that color just by nature."

Now if he could only get someone to type his ramblings out and make a coherent list of them by tomorrow.

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Topher walked in just in time for that last bullet point and he raised his eyebrows.

"Dude," he said. "Whoever you're talking to should really get outside more often."

Jeremy looked up, a mildly confused expression on his face. "Huh? Oh, I'm not talking to anyone, dude," he explained, waving his phone at the new guy. "I'm dictating. Taking notes."

Using a pen and paper was too much of a hassle.

Uh.

"So... you're telling yourself that the deer are supposed to be that color?" Topher clarified, amused. "'Cause that might be worse."

"No," Jeremy replied, frowning and sounding amused at the idea all at the same time. "No, man, they're giving me a fake little sib tomorrow! I'm just trying to figure out what I should tell a newbie about this place and how we roll here."

OHHHH.

"Gotcha," Topher said, clicking his tongue. "So, what, you're gonna play the recording for whoever you wind up with, or what?"

As far as notes went, index cards were a standby for a reason, Jeremy. Psh.

"Well no," Jeremy said with a slight thoughtful twist to his lips. "I thought I'd at least listen to it later and just... Y'know, soak up the information again."

There was a slight chance he'd end up playing the recording to his little sib, yes.

"So... studying." Topher raised one eyebrow. "Dude, that blows. It's break week."

"I'm not studying." Oh, sound a little more defensive about that, Jerms. "I'm just figuring out what to say. I'm making observations about our surroundings and thinking about what weirded me out when I got here."

"So you're recording your thoughts and then reviewing them," Topher summarized. "In other words, studying."

"Dude, how is that studying?" Jeremy wanted to know. "I'm not learning anything new."

Though to be fair, that tended to happen even when he was studying.

Oh. Is that how studying was supposed to go? Topher didn't really do that.

"I always thought studying was supposed to be, you know, rehashing old stuff," he guessed. "Isn't it?"

And now Topher was getting a weird look. "Uhh, no?" Jeremy said. "How are you supposed to rehash stuff you haven't even learned yet?"

"No, see, you're supposed to study stuff they teach you in class," Topher said, although this was still just a guess because hey, genius. "And that way you know it better. Or some crap. I don't know."

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Ariel definitely made sure that her trip home concluded in time for her to be back for the big exciting newbie picnic, but then she found that she had too much time to wait until then. She supposed she should enjoy the quiet before the storm, but she just got restless and went to find some good distractions.

Common rooms. Always a good place to start. "Hey, everyone!" she offered a smile as she slipped on in and found her way to the couch. "What's going on?"

Jeremy threw a smile her way in greeting. "Not much," he said. "Just figuring out stuff for my new little sis or bro."

He was hoping for a girl, for the record. He liked girls.

"Other than that, just chillin'."

Ariel gave a nod. "That's probably a good idea," she agreed. "There's a ton of stuff to remember. Do you think you're going to try to ease him or her into things by starting out small and slowly building up to the weirder stuff, or do you think you'll drop the weird bomb right away and go from there?"

Jeremy considered this for a moment. "I don't know, I think I'll just go all in," he said then. "I mean, I think it's good to get that out in the open straight away? And --" He raised his coffee cup a bit for emphasis on that word. "-- there's the chance the kid comes from someplace weird and won't even be shaken by any of it."

That got a little smile out of Ariel. "It's kind of nice when that happens," she mused. "But, if you're not that lucky, I find that if you're just really earnest about it, then they can't help but believe you, because why would you make some of that stuff up? And so much of it, too."

"I didn't believe my big bro when he told me about it," Jeremy admitted with smile that was probably a little sheepish if you looked at it right. "I though I was being hazed." He shrugged, because what could you do? "So you've done the sib thing too?"

"Yeah," Ariel said with a faint grin, "but one kind of didn't count because it was a returning student, so he already knew most of the things I'd be telling them. But I found it works with any new student, really. And when I was new, everything was actually pretty strange."

Jeremy smiled and nodded. "For me too!" Well, he was a city kid from Manhattan. For him, it'd been strange to be in Maryland. "But it gets less weird, right? You get used to it, so why not hear about it right away?"

"Exactly!" Ariel said with a laugh. "I'll try to keep an eye out for your sibling, and if I run into him or her, I'll be sure to help convince them if they need it. It'll be even more convincing if two people are saying the same thing, right? So long as they don't think we're in cahoots."

"Unless they think we're pulling a really elaborate prank," he agreed. "But even if they don't believe, at least we won't have lied. They'll just save the gratitude for when they do believe it, which they will."

Like Jeremy had done, for one.

Ariel giggled a little at that. "They'll be waking up in the middle of a field somewhere after having spent the weekend as a talking can of beans and the first thing out of their mouth will be, 'Boy, I guess Jeremy and Ariel were right! I owe them cupcakes.'"

"And I love cupcakes," Jeremy grinned, leaning back against the couch. "See, honesty is totally worth it just for the rewards."