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1st Floor Lobby- All Day (save for second period)

Annie had the very first shift in selling tickets this week, and she was manning the table today like nothing had happened over the last week or that radio had painted her as a vacation-ruiner. This was StuCo. Her personal life did not get to mess with that, thank you. She had tickets, and appropriate change, and of course there was the voting box for people to nominate their choices for homecoming court.

HOMECOMING 2011
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE!!

Of course the sign was glittery. Expect no less.

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Where she is more than happy to help.

Luke felt kind of stupid buying Homecoming tickets considering the crap he dealt with back home but he wanted to do something teenagery, dammit. Ignore the fact he was past 21 at this point.

"Hey, Annie," Luke said, giving her a smile. "How's it going?"

"Great!" she said, just a tad too cheerfully. "How about you? Are you going to the dance?"

He might just be here to say hi, you don't know.

"Yeah. Or I'm buying a ticket anyway," Luke said, fishing his wallet out of his pocket. "Me actually going might depend on if I can remember how a tie works or not."

Annie smiled more genuinely at that. "Don't let that stop you," she said, getting the change thingie. "I hear tieless is a thing now. Just one ticket?"

"Yep," he said, trying not to think too much about that. "Just let me find currency in here that's from this century."

She got one ticket and waited patiently. "Please tell me that just means you have a lot of coins made in 1990."

Luke held up one very large gold coin. "Ancient Greek drachma. Use it to make phone calls."

That made sense. Of course it did.

"Oh, wow," she said, peering at it. "Wait, are you from Ancient Greece?" Because she would not have figured.

"No, I was born in the 1980's in Connecticut," he said, putting the coin back and fishing out a couple dollars. "But my family is really, really connected with Ancient Greece."

"Looks like," she said, handing him a ticket. "Mine... doesn't."

"Count yourself lucky," Luke said as he handed her a few dollars. "But I'm sure your family is connected with someplace else. Everybody's is."

He didn't know where they made tiny enthusiastic girls with doe eyes. Perhaps the place the Sound of Music was set.

"Hey roomie," Jack said in greeting as he came back from his run, wiping some sweat from his forehead. "Quick question: How do you feel about dogs?"

The reason for that question soon became obvious as a grey furry dog (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y244/iamgumboy/Irish_Wolfhound.jpg) trotted in behind Jack and then sat on his hind legs in a begging position while he wagged his tail at Annie.

Jack rolled his eyes. "Show off."

Annie was about to answer, till she actually saw the dog. Then the answer became, "Awwwww he's so cute!"

So apparently she thought they were cute.

"Which brings me to another question: How would you feel about Lojack, here living with us until I can find a way to get him back home?" Jack asked.

Lojack dropped to a sitting position with a whine and scratched at Jack's leg.

"Oh, stop it," Jack said looking down the dog. "If I don't call them, Taggart will start tracking you down here. And if he shows up he'll never leave."

Lojack sighed and flopped down to the floor with a huff.

"How could I say no to that face?" Annie said, and looked at Jack again. "What's he doing here?"

"No idea," Jack replied shaking his head. "He just showed up here randomly. Which actually isn't much of a shock with him. He has a mind of his own. And I mean that, literally."

"It scares me when people say that here," Annie said.

"Sorry," Jack apologized. "He's not scary he's just... smarter than your average dog."

...

"Or person."

"Uh huh," she said slowly. "So you have a genius dog?"

Lojack barked happily in agreement.

Jack sighed. "Pretty sure Lojack owns himself.and he's tolerating me for free food."

Lojack barked happily in agreement again.

"That is a smart dog," Annie agreed, totally underestimating the intelligence thing.

And during Jack and Annie's conversation, Lojack moved forward to the table and picked up two tickets and walked over to Jack offering him the tickets in his mouth.

"No, Lojack. I'm not taking you to homecoming."

And then to Annie. "Maybe a bit too smart."