Thread: Extracurricular Activities [Spider-Man -- Sigr & Virginia]

They were welcoming. That was good for her, but also a little bit of a bother because it meant they'd probably want to interact with her. It was how friendship worked, but still, a bother. Savannah. Nice to meet you. I already know I like Michelle. I make you uncomfortable, Michelle corrected without looking up from her sketchbook, and Savannah smiled. Well yeah, but I like that. Weird. It was weird. But it was going to be better to keep her close and figure her out than it was to just let Michelle be weirdly observant and not keep an eye on her. Adjusting a sleeve of the black jacket hiding the bright shirt underneath, she just shrugged. It was far weirder than Michelle had any way of knowing, and would ever know. Savannah's secret was going to her grave. Well no, it'd come out when she was dead, that was how it had been with her father. Couldn't hide what you were doing when you were dead. Maybe if she was giving up the life she'd had before, but she didn't think she could. It had been her everything, she wasn't sure she knew how not to put on the clothes and go out. She'd only been here for a week, and she was already about ready to crawl out of her skin. She felt cooped up, trapped like a wild animal in a zoo. She needed to hunt . Prodding her mac'n cheese, she scooped it up with her fork and took a hesitant bite. well, it's food, was her thoughtful judgment after a few seconds of deliberation. I was home-schooled for a really long time, I haven't been in a school since.... I dunno, nine? I don't really remember. So this is new. That should explain away all behavior they might deem unusual. From take smiles to food suspicious, 'home-schooled' pretty much covered it. It covered any antisocial behaviors, curious clothing, and anything where she didn't know what was being talked about in pop culture or even in class. Savannah had done her homework. She knew what her dad had said and what she remembered from elementary school, and 'home schooled' basically equaled quirky and weird as far as people were concerned. She'd never seen Star Wars. But she knew about it, it was so soaked into popular culture that it was impossible to avoid and admitting that she hadn't seen Star Wars would probably be kind of weird. So instead she went with yeah. I mean there's a whole bunch of stuff I don't know about, but it's cool. There was no way most people kept up with all of the Star Wars stuff, so it was a safe response, Savannah figured. I come from an action movie family. Alien horror was big for a few years. After The Incident the rare occasion that they got to watch anything. She liked horror, she supposed. If she really had to sit and think about what kind of movie she'd want to watch if she had to watch something. Wasn't a big movie person, though. Honestly, there were a lot of things Savannah might have to think about to decide she liked, especially when it came to pop culture and basically anything that wasn't knives or food. These were things that she'd have to figure out, or at least pick out so that she had something to say, that sort of thing was important to the identity of the average teenager. While things were probably a little bit different here, teens were teens. Interacting with her peers hadn't been something she'd been trained to do. Interacting with adults was most of what had been focused on, making herself seem normal and innocent. How to get information, how to slip away, how to get people to do what she wanted them to do. That, at least, was still an applicable talent. Probably especially with these guys. Michelle was a concerning gatekeeper to 'friends she didn't really have to be exceptionally close to' goal, but trying to hide from her would have been more suspicious. Peter was... cute, at least. If she was going to associate herself with a group it might as well be one with someone who was easy on the eyes.