Room 324, Early Saturday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

The first day of Parents’ Weekend had gone pretty well, and the second seemed to have had a good start too.

After escorting her mother to Mitchell’s office, Kate had met up with her brother to come hang out in her room.

”So, what were you doing when I was with Mom?” she asked, sitting down on the edge of her bed.


[ooc: For the younger Gregson kid!]

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[vanillajello]

"Um."

The truth or lies?

"Yeah. That's pretty weird." Ah, stalling.

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"But he showed me this weird hologram thingy," Marshall said. "I've never seen anything like it before."

[vanillajello]

"Oh? What was it like?"

Stalling. Kate had been so focused on Tara that she had entirely failed to prepare for Marshall finding out about anything.

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"He pushed some buttons and it was a hologram of a spaceship," Marshall said. "So, Kate, is there anything you want to tell me?"

He knew his sister well enough to know when she was stalling.

[vanillajello]

"No." Well, there wasn't. She didn't want to tell him.

But she had to. "...Okay so this place is weird. Like, really weird. Not weird like Mom but weird, like, just really freaking strange. Sometimes. Most of the time."

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"So, cute boy isn't crazy?" Marshall asked.

[vanillajello]

"No." Beat. "Probably not, anyway."

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

Marshall knew his sister wasn't crazy. Which meant she just confirmed everything Eric had told him.

"I thought you left home to get away from the crazy."

[vanillajello]

Kate sighed. "Yeah, well, so did I. Turns out it's not so easy."

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"But you stayed," Marshall said.

[vanillajello]

"It's... different here. I mean, it's weird but... I kinda like it here," Kate replied.

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I think I'm starting to understand why," Marshall admitted.

[vanillajello]

"Like, because it's so weird here, we are not really weird at all," Kate said, the corner of her mouth curving into a slight smirk.

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

Marshall smiled. "Yeah. And people here seem very open."

Okay, so one person. Who he was totally crushing on. Close enough.

[vanillajello]

"You don't know that," Kate pointed out. "But... I do."

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry. I won't tell Mom and Dad."

[vanillajello]

There were snarky things to be said in response to that. But Kate wasn't going to say any of them.

"Thanks, Moosh."

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"What are brothers for?" Marshall asked, giving her a little grin.

[vanillajello]

"I don't know, drooling over my friends maybe?" Kate grinned back.

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"Hey, you said you didn't know him," Marshall pointed out.

[vanillajello]

Kate chuckled. "No, I meant earlier drooling. A certain boy with blue eyes?"

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Marshall smirked. "Well, he's far too gorgeous to go to waste. So if you're just going to be friends with him... "

[vanillajello]

"He's not going to waste." And that was all that Kate planned to say about that subject.

[thegregsons.livejournal.com]

"Good for you, sis," he said, still smirking. "Just don't get knocked up. Alice would freak."

[vanillajello]

Kate winced at a memory. "Yeah, no thanks."