Second floor common room- Tuesday evening

[ihavediabetes.livejournal.com]

Stacey had learned something over the last couple days: most kids ate really unhealthy things. She'd known that before (she had babysat for a living, after all) but it was a lot more obvious to her now that she was in a boarding school setting.

So today she'd gone out shopping and bought some really healthy stuff to stock up the fridge and cabinets, since otherwise it was hard for her to eat. Besides, it couldn't hurt anyone to maybe try something that was good for them, and then maybe it wouldn't look strange if she was the only one in a setting eating a salad. With the TV on for background noise, she unpacked the grocery bags and put the food away.

See, Fandom, Stacey was being helpful.


[I so want to play. Open like an open CR!]

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[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

Juliet had come down a floor because she was starting to get that twitchy, in-my-room-too-long kind of feel under her skin.

"New kid!" she smiled. "You ... actually bought food?"

She sounded pleased but puzzled by this; she always assumed the kitchens were self-replenishing.

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"I figured it couldn't hurt to get something that wasn't completely junky in here," she explained. "My name's Stacey, by the way."

She could deal with 'new kid' once, maybe twice.

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"Stacey's a better name than 'new kid,'" Juliet decided. "I'm Juliet. And I didn't notice we were out of healthy food, really?"

She tended to eat healthy when she thought of it and survive on junk the rest of the time.

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Well, at least there hadn't been much Stacey could eat, therefore it was unhealthy to her.

"There wasn't much of it that I saw. I'm sort of a picky eater, anyway," she said vaguely. "So I'm guessing you're not new, huh?"

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"Nope, we got here a year ago," Juliet said, almost proudly. "It's not a bad place -- at least, not when it's not completely insane. Just a little small."

[cant-be-helped.livejournal.com]

Dorothy herself was still marveling at just about everything about this school. With Toto taking a nap in her room, she ventured into the common room for the very first time. Stepping over the threshold of the door, she was not exactly overcome with the same sense of awe and wonderment she'd had the first time in the Emerald City. The television, however, did strike her as particularly peculiar.

That didn't preclude the young girl from introducing herself to the room's other occupant, of course. She quickly tore herself from her wide-eyed stare at the television and waved to Stacey.

"Hello," she said. "Do you need any help with that?" It was the polite thing to do, and she was eager to be helpful after having so many days without farm chores.

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"If you want to, sure," Stacey said, offering her a smile. "There's not too much, but I'm still figuring out where everything goes."

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"Well, we can learn together," Dorothy said with a smile. "I've not been in here before, so I hardly know where they go, either. This is probably the biggest kitchen I've seen in years."

Since her time in Oz, really, but she was trying not to mention Oz in every sentence. Even though she really wanted to.

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"Really?" she asked, and guessed, "Apartment living?"

She knew all about apartment living. From her time in New York.

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"Farm living," Dorothy said. "Kansas, if you know where that is. We especially didn't have much room after half the farm was torn up by the twister a few years ago."

She reached over to try and help put things away.

"Aunt Em always made the best of it, though."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla had a baby monitor to listen for Jims if he cried and was choosing tonight to see if she could venture past her own common room and still hear him.

"Oh, hello," she said with a smile for an unfamiliar face.

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"Hi," Stacey greeted her. "Apparently tonight was the night for grocery shopping."

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"Was it?" Rilla replied. "Should I have brought something as well?"

Rilla. Calm down.

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"Oh, don't worry about it," Stacey assured her. "I just picked up some things in case people wanted a non-junk food alternative."

Oh, god, she sounded like Dawn, didn't she?

[dressedinblood]

"Oh, hello, Stacey," Anna said when she came into the common room, hoping to find more hockey investigate the TV more thoroughly. Then she saw all the food. "My, that's a lot of food." That Anna would not be eating.

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"I'm sharing with the masses," Stacey told her. "I guess it's my contribution as a new kid, or something."

[dressedinblood]

Anna was now eying the groceries even more, wondering if she would be expected to similarly contribute. It seemed kind of pointless when she didn't eat. "That's very good of you," she finally said, hoping that response would suitably not draw attention to herself. "I'm sure everyone will really appreciate it." Everyone except your roommate, Stacey.

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"It's all healthy, so probably not," she said with a little laugh. "It'll probably be what people pick up as a last resort, but I tried."

And then she'd be the only one not eating anything sugary. Except for her roommate.

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Matt decided to take a break from his online studies and see who might be hanging about the dorms. So he grabbed his cane and in an amazing coincidence, walked into a common room filled with girls.

Okay. Maybe it wasn't a coincidence.

"Hi? Anyone here?" he called out as he tapped into the CR.

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"We're in here," Stacey called.

Oh, no, a cane! Had they covered this Very Special Book yet?

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Next on a very special episode of Blossom...

Matt tilted his head slightly as he pretended to guide himself into the common room.

"Is it... Stacey?" Matt asked. "You're in Mr. Roger's class, right?"

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"Right," she said, glad he'd remembered her. "You're one of the other New York kids. Do you need any help?"

Because it was right to ask.

[dressedinblood]

"Hello," Anna said, blinking at Matt. The cane...was he blind? Huh.

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Matt tilted his head in confusion. He heard the voice but there was absolutely nothing showing up on his other senses.

"I'm sorry who said that?" he said trying to get a bead on where the voice was coming from.

[dressedinblood]

Ghosts were problematic that way. "I'm Anna," Anna said. "Anna Korlov. I'm new. And I'm over here."