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fandomhighdorms2019-12-21 01:54 pm
thishouseishaunted) wrote in fandomhighdorms2019-12-21 01:54 pm
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The dorm roof, Saturday night
Tonight was Longest Night, the most major holiday of the year where Mae was from. And Mae was still in Fandom instead of home in Possum Springs with her family. There were any number of reasons for this: her last class was just yesterday and she didn't have time to rush home. Her family couldn't really afford bus tickets back and forth that often, so it was cheaper for Mae to stay in town.
And it wouldn't be the same at home anyway. It wasn't last year. No one there had forgotten about the Incident, so Mae would just end up lying around feeling guilty and depressed while her parents offered meaningless platitudes about things "getting better" in the new year.
Instead she was here, where everyone celebrated Longest Night four days late and under the wrong name. She could lie around feeling lonely and depressed, and had in fact planned to do just that, until the island gave them all candles for the day. Fandom knew, even if no one else did: Longest Night was still the longest night, and that was worth celebrating. So she went on a scavenger hunt through the dorms for supplies, scribbled some signs on notebook paper and pasted them in the common rooms, and headed to the roof to throw her own little Longest Night party.
LONGEST NIGHT
It's the darkest it'll get all year tonight
and that's spooky and cool
Come to the roof for hot drinks
anda fire like snacks and stuff
Or don't. Whatever.
More snacks for me.
[open to all who might still be around the dorms!]
And it wouldn't be the same at home anyway. It wasn't last year. No one there had forgotten about the Incident, so Mae would just end up lying around feeling guilty and depressed while her parents offered meaningless platitudes about things "getting better" in the new year.
Instead she was here, where everyone celebrated Longest Night four days late and under the wrong name. She could lie around feeling lonely and depressed, and had in fact planned to do just that, until the island gave them all candles for the day. Fandom knew, even if no one else did: Longest Night was still the longest night, and that was worth celebrating. So she went on a scavenger hunt through the dorms for supplies, scribbled some signs on notebook paper and pasted them in the common rooms, and headed to the roof to throw her own little Longest Night party.
It's the darkest it'll get all year tonight
and that's spooky and cool
Come to the roof for hot drinks
and
Or don't. Whatever.
More snacks for me.
[open to all who might still be around the dorms!]
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...
"What do you think would happen," he really couldn't help himself from asking, "if it actually didn't come up, though?"
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Mae tipped her head as she thought of that. "Riots," she decided. "Mass panic. And a slow, cold, painful death."
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On the other hand, he really didn't know what else he should have expected.
His lips pressed together in a way that that suggested his face really didn't know how to respond to that.
"Well, that's...cooooool........"
Just about as much as that statement was probably super convincing, too.
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"It's the sun," Mae said. "Kinda important."
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Especially of it, you know, staying in the sky.
And 'Longest Night' was taking on a new meaning for him now, too, since he was pretty sure it was going to be the longest because it was also going to be the most sleepless.
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He could stay up all night with her and Nina if he wanted!
". . . You know it is coming back, right?"
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"I'm, like, 99.9999% sure," Mae said. ". . . Why, does it not sometimes where you're from?"