#luxstart

“Bonjour France! I am back in you!” she declared loudly as she walked outside of the campus. It was still as beautiful as it was last time they were here. Of course, last time she had been with her boyfriend and had even told him she loved him here. But she wasn’t going to dwell on it. “I am planning to find lots of cute French boys. With accents and pretty eyes.”

“Day three of Luxor. I suspect my dorm room is haunted by an angry ghost. Also,” Ethan took a sip of orange juice, “the cafeteria is out of coffee. This college education thing is really riveting.” 

Nate had....more than a little bit of experience sneaking out of girl’s rooms through windows, something that had started in high school and occasionally still had to do, despite the fact that they were in college. But with that also came the experience of knowing the best ways to sneak into rooms, which was exactly what he was utilizing at the moment, trying to avoid being spotted around campus until the bruising on his face got at least a little better.. He got himself up to the window, sliding himself through it rather limberly considering his height, already having lifted himself through when he looked up, revealing his marked up face, his eyes widening. “Oh, fuck. Wrong room,” he said. 

location: corridor

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It felt like ever since the stupid New Years party, whispers had followed Ruby everywhere she went. She wasn’t used to being the subject of rumours or exposes. If anything, she’d done her best to avoid her name ever being in anyone’s mouth for the majority of her academic career, and it was an unfamiliar and very much unwanted feeling to see people look at her and awkwardly turn away. Even more so when the looks were so obviously hostile. She’d hidden out in her room at first, of course, but she knew if she gave in and allowed her grades to slip, she’d only be proving everyone right. What she needed right now was to prove herself, more than ever before, more than she’d already been doing. Overwork wasn’t a word that applied to her at this moment in time. It was like she was playing catch up all over again. Maybe she always would be.

But it was incredibly difficult to play catch up when you couldn’t actually access your own books. And as much as she really wanted to never speak to anyone again, there was an obvious solution, so Ruby sighed slowly before crossing her arms to address the student, avoiding eye contact. “You’re standing in front of my locker,” she muttered quietly. “Could I ... get in, please?”

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location: cafeteria

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“If you’re gonna start talking about whatever shit got said over the loudspeaker last night,” Libby said with a bored expression, “I really could not care less. Actually, it’s kind of alarming how in thrall everyone is to this faceless group telling you shit about the people around you without any proof. Very culty. No thank you.”