The Roof [Thursday evening]

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So. She was really, obviously,stupid to think that things would be different here, right? Like...she could just have friends here, and be happy, and oh, god, last week she'd had a party and people had come and no one had made fun of her or paid her at all, and she had a homecoming date, and --

Well. Probably not, anymore. Olive was back to feeling just as ostracized as she had back in Ojai. And it wasn't even that she was embarrassed about what she'd done -- that was a little bit of it, sure. But the reason she was up here on the roof, crying, her knees tucked up to her chest -- and crap, now the cliches were following her, too -- was that she'd gotten used to things just being...normal here. And now the whole thing had followed her after all, and there was a common room of people she actually cared about laughing at her all trussed up in lingerie, who all knew about all of the lying.

So, yeah. Cliche or not, she would just sit here and feel sorry for herself, and then run back down to her room and pack her things before Karolina could notice she was gone. Or something. That didn't seem like the most intelligent course of action, but she couldn't think clearly at the moment.

[totally open, obviously.]

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[ultron_junior]

Despite his noble intentions down in the common room, it still took a few minutes for Victor to find Olive. He checked her room first, then got some crazy idea she might have left the building and wasted time going down and out and onto the sidewalk before he -- quite by chance -- glanced up and spotted the telltale flash of red hair.

"Hi," he said, almost sounding out of breath once he was finally in the same place as her. "I -- do you even want me here?"

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Olive glanced up at Victor, a bit surprised. She...hadn't expected to be followed, honestly. "Oh hey," she said, casual as she swiped a hand across her eyes, her voice even throatier than usual. "I -- sure. Free roof."

[ultron_junior]

"No toll?" Victor asked, then wished he hadn't tried for the joke. "Look, I -- obviously you didn't mean for us to see that."

And he'd watched it anyhow, and barely objected. He wasn't a very good guy to be dating, sometimes.

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Olive shrugged a little, hugging her knees. "But you did," she said miserably. "Who found it?"

Part of her was terrified it'd been Victor googling her out of curiosity -- she hadn't gotten a good look at everyone in there.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi had looked around for a bit, grabbed some chocolate and CocoPuffs from her room, then kept looking, then found some drinks, then kept looking, then grabbed a plush elephant...

So yeah, she had stuff in hand by the time she found Olive. "Hey. Um." She squirmed, then held out the elephant. "Here!"

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"...you brought me an elephant?" Olive was mostly confused, but gingerly reached out to take it.

It was better than, you know, picketing? Though honestly she hadn't expected that from Kenzi, either.

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Kenzi flopped down, and broke open the chocolate. "Yeah. I mean. I could offer a hug? But. The elephant can hang out indefinitely, you know?" She held out some of the chocolate. "Dude. That video was awesome. Why are you crying?"

Kenzi... didn't quite get it. Her own life being what it was. But she was really sorry Olive was upset.

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"It was awesome?" Olive echoed, incredulously taking a piece of chocolate. "Um, are you high? Maybe the pep rally was but you didn't see that." Oh, Olive. There's still so much you don't know. "I completely wrecked everything I had going for me at my old school. And now at this one, too."

[suitably_heroic]

"You know," Atton drawled from the stairwell, "I still have like half a bottle of... whatever this is left."

He held it up. "Unmarked. Whoever dropped this off at the fridge was good."

Maybe it had been him while he was drunk. Who knew?

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Olive shook her head, waving him off. "I don't drink, remember?" she reminded him. "But hey, maybe you guys can all go make a drinking game out of my public shame. Take a shot every time I make a horrible decision!"

It was a little more bitter than she'd usually act, but still.

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "You ran off like you could use one," he said. "Your loss."

He took a step onto the roof and squinted up at the sky. "By the way," he said, "The only genuinely horrible decision you made was thinking that was worth making a vid about. Half an hour of my life I'm never getting back."

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"That," Olive noted, "is not true. I made a lot of really, really dumb decisions."

Pause.

"And the video was necessary, when I made it. Maybe not...now."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Toby had 'heard' Olive before actually seeing her, downstairs, and that reaction meant he was up and following her to the roof. "Hey," he said quietly as he approached, sliding down to join her.

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"Hi," Olive said quietly. "So now you know the whole thing. Feel better with the blanks filled in?"

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"I... don't know if 'better' is exactly the word?" Toby admitted. "It explains some things, though, I guess?" he said with a shrug.

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"I was going to tell everyone," Olive said, fairly miserable as she rested her head on her knees. "Eventually."

[notconflicted]

The thing about having Force powers was that you tended to be able to find people when you really wanted to. And in this case, Sia really wanted to find Olive.

"You've probably had better days," Sia said, taking a seat next to her.

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"I was gonna tell you," Olive told her quietly, idly pushing a twig around on the ground. "You know, eventually."

[notconflicted]

"You wouldn't have had to," Sia told her. "It's your business."

[pursuedthestars]

"What's up, Egg?" Jim wondered when he eventually made onto the roof after the whole scene earlier. He hadn't been looking for her but hey, he'd found her anyway. "Need some air, huh?"

[So sorry for the late but ugh work and all that]

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"Well, you come across a group of your friends watching a web video you made, you tend to want to split." She'd stopped crying, at least, but she still wasn't feeling her best, no.

[i tooooooooooootally understand omg.]

[pursuedthestars]

Jim nodded and came over to lean against the edge of his roof, hands tucked into his pockets.

"That whole thing, was that what killed bad Olive?" He'd guessed so but he figured he'd ask. "Or maybe that's why you put bad Olive out of her misery or something?"

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Once Jessica was convinced that she wouldn't be personally freaking out, she made her way up to the roof. That was where emotionally traumatized people went, right?

"I could make his life a living hell," she said, plopping down. "Just say the word."

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"How?" Olive asked. She got the feeling that she probably shouldn't let physical pain come to Topher, and everyone kept saying it was some kind of accident, but...still. It was appealing. "What kind of hell? You intrigue me."

She was still a little throatier than usual, but she'd stopped crying, at least.

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I could follow him around and call him names, sneak rabid animals into Stark's before his shift, show off that I'm smarter than him," Jessica rattled off. "Anything more than that, you don't want to know about."