fandomhighdorms | Sorority Meeting [1st floor rec room]

Annie had been nice and helpful today, sending out an email to the sorority members telling them to wear clothes they could relax in. So it probably shouldn't be too much of a surprise to see that there were pillows strewn about the room and yoga mats on the floor. Annie didn't actually know anything about yoga, but they sort of said "relaxing."

"Hi, everyone! So with school back in session and graduation coming up and college letters coming in any day now, I thought maybe we could work a little on relaxation techniques to get you through those tough times," Annie said. Mind you, none of these would work on Annie. Ever.

“We’re going through a bit of stress at home, too,” Rilla said, “and people react in different ways. My mother knits, and our housekeeper bakes constantly.”

Which would explain the mounds of cakes they had to choose from. The news from the front this week hadn’t been positive. “I think I prefer the music to the sugar.”

This was not true at all.

"It's healthier, anyway," Annie said. She preferred the sugar, too. "But pick a yoga mat, and we can try some breathing exercises, or something, or get some cake, and we'll just relax for a while." And then she went to the stereo and hit play on the CD, thus filling the room with the sounds of things like waves crashing and birds chirping. Yes, she totally owned one of those Sounds of Nature CD's. Don't judge.

“We can each share a happy thought to help calm us!” Rilla added. “For instance, Jims has slept through the night every day this week!”

"And I should be getting word on my colleges maybe even today!" Annie said. No, Annie, that was your stressy thought, not your happy thought.

“Now someone else can go,” Rilla said, nodding. “Everyone breathe!”

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Or eat lots of cake. You have stretchy pants on, right?

Rebecca just rolled her eyes, leaned against a wall and continued to think she was too cool for this.

Which begged the question of why she kept coming, really. But here she was.

"Would you like to share a cheerful thought, Miss Logan?" Rilla asked.

Preferably not one about Bruce?

"I don't really think I need to cheer myself up, thank you," Rebecca answered primly.

Never mind that she was dealing with a bit of stress herself lately, from her... condition to not having heard from her father in a few days. STILL. SHE WAS WAY TOO COOL FOR THERAPY.

"Think of it as cheering someone else up instead!" Rilla said, mistaking Rebecca for an altruistic person.

Aww. Rilla, you were so cute.

"And how will me talking about my life make anyone else happy?" Rebecca was skeptical.

"Maybe your life would sound wonderful and exotic to someone else," Rilla replied.

Maybe leave out the STI part.

"Oh!" Rebecca said, catching on. "You mean you!"

Rilla blushed. "I might not!"

She totally meant her.

"You totally mean you!" Rebecca crowed. "You look up to me!"

Hanna had kind of a lot to be stressful about lately, so she grabbed a yoga mat. That's as far as she got. Yoga wasn't really her thing, and it probably wouldn't help anyway.

Rilla waved at her. "Would you like some cake, too?"

Hanna considered for a moment. "Maybe just a small piece."

That couldn't hurt.

Rilla wandered to the table and sliced off a not-small piece. "Like this?"

Hanna raised an eyebrow. "Uh. How about, like, half of that one?"

Quinn ignored the cake, but she could do the yoga mat, deep breathing thing.

"My happy thought," she shared, "is that it's two months to graduation and nothing horrible is happening."

"How can it be two months to graduation?" Rilla wailed. "You and Annie simply aren't allowed to leave yet."

"We'll leave the school in good hands," Quinn said, with a brief smile toward Annie. "But wait until you're a senior. You just ... start getting itchy feet. Anyhow, it's not like I'll drop off the face of the planet."

Om.

Amazing how short a time it took Annie to be her normal, stressy self after a week's vacation. She was trying really hard to become one with nature, or at least one with the Sounds of Nature CD.

It was soooo not gonna help.

"Is this turning into a therapy group?" Rebecca asked, hands on her hips.

Yes, hello, Rebecca. How were you today?

Rebecca was not a good person for making things less stressful, Annie decided.

"If you don't like it, you don't have to participate," she said helpfully.

"I don't intend to," Rebecca assured her. "When do we get to the parties?"

"When we get to them. It's not like we're going to have a party during the day," Annie pointed out. Unless of course that was a theme of some kind.

"No, but we could have them instead of these..." Rebecca waved her hand. "Play-dates."

Yep, Annie. She just called your meeting a play-date.

"If you hate this so much, why do you even show up?" she wondered.

Rebecca shrugged. "I don't know," she said breezily. "Boredom?"

Nah. She liked pretending to be a part of a community. But sure, go with that other thing.

"So you come here and get bored in a new location?" Forgive her, Annie didn't get why Rebecca just kept coming back.

"Well, I keep hoping that you guys will do something cool for once," Rebecca pointed out. She thought this was an appropriate thing to say. It was not.

Sorry, Annie?

"Well apparently we can't," Annie shot back.

"But if you keep up a positive attitude, maybe one day you will!" Rebecca suggested brightly.

Maybe she's eating cake!

Running awaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Sorority Meeting [1st floor rec room]

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Talk to the Advisor!

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