Neptune High Graduation
May. 19th, 2006 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Graduation at Neptune High is an event. Always has been. Neptune's rich and famous love to see their children all done up, and this event is no exception.
The auditorium is decked out in Pirate colours, green and yellow, and everything matches - the banners, the balloons, the gowns. There's an air of excitment, of pride, of anxiety.
Up on stage, Van Clemmons starts calling names.
The auditorium is decked out in Pirate colours, green and yellow, and everything matches - the banners, the balloons, the gowns. There's an air of excitment, of pride, of anxiety.
Up on stage, Van Clemmons starts calling names.
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Date: 2006-05-27 04:50 am (UTC)"I don't - " Logan stops, not knowing if he's going to say, "I don't think so," or "I don't want them to."
He settles on "I don't know." It seems the only thing he knows for sure.
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Date: 2006-05-28 05:34 am (UTC)"And I don't think I can continue this conversation completely sober. You want me to drive?"
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Date: 2006-05-28 05:14 pm (UTC)He can always come back and pick up the
offensively yellowXTerra later.He wants to say something nice, a compliment, because she's right and being smart and kind and he appreciates it, but he doesn't know what, exactly. Anything he says will come out wrong, either patronizing or smug or just idiotic.
So he says nothing, just gets in the car.
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Date: 2006-05-28 06:05 pm (UTC)"I think this is the first time I've driven you away from this school when you weren't drunk since . . . did I drive you home from my play junior year?"
He'd been eight, she'd been sixteen, and something (she hadn't known or cared what) had happened with Logan and Dad on their way to the play.
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Date: 2006-05-29 08:31 pm (UTC)"Yeah," he says, remembering the night. "And then you didn't make me go to dinner with them, which I thought was the best thing ever."
Logan had been whining about the play - he didn't want to go AT ALL, to watch stupid high school kids in their stupid play he wouldn't understand. He wanted to stay home and play video games.
Aaron dragged Logan to the car and physically restrained him with seatbelts. As in, using the center one to tie him to the others.
Logan really appreciated Trina's license then.
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Date: 2006-05-29 11:22 pm (UTC)Logan and Trina don't give each other a whole lot of credit, but then, they're not take it for themselves, either.
As for the play, well, Logan was probably a little too young then to properly appreciate the vision of his tone deaf older sister with the endless parade of boyfriends warbling about being a girl who "cain't say no."
"We went to McDonalds. All you wanted was chocolate milkshakes. I bought you four of them and you were so sick that night."
Trina pulls ouf of the parking lot, keeping her eyes carefully on the road ahead.
"I was good older sister occasionally, wasn't I? I mean, not all the time or most of it, or even close to half, but I got it right once or twice, right?"
It's easier to ask when she has an excuse not to look at him. Traffic is handy for that.
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Date: 2006-05-29 11:29 pm (UTC)But Lynn never told Aaron what happened to it, not really, a fact he's also grateful for.
Logan's quiet for a long moment. They stop at a red light, and when it changes, and Trina's eyes are on the road again, he says, "Yeah."
Another pause.
"More than once or twice, really."
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Date: 2006-05-30 12:04 am (UTC)And then, because this isn't something they do, she changes the subject.
"I'd forgotten about that rug. The first time I stayed with them, after they got married, before you were born, I was like, terrified of that rug. I refused to walk on it. I made Dad carry me across."
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Date: 2006-05-30 01:41 am (UTC)Which is odd, because Lynn kind of loved telling those kinds of Trina stories in just the tone of voice that told everyone how dumb her adopted step-daughter was.
"I can't blame you, really. It was terrifying. I'm impressed we didn't go blind looking at it."
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Date: 2006-05-30 01:49 am (UTC)Trina nods, and laughs. "Yeah. It was in the hall outside my room and I'd stand in the doorway and scream for Dad. After a day and a half, they moved it."
It was less about the rug than about proving to Lynn that Aaron would come get Trina if Trina wanted him to. And it worked.
"That rug looked like being really hung over feels."
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Date: 2006-05-30 04:51 am (UTC)"And I ruined it. I think I deserve a medal for that, don't you? At least a ceremony honoring my achievement."
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:15 am (UTC)Trina laughs, and turns abruptly into the parking lot of a McDonalds.
"How about if I buy you a chocolate milkshake? Or four?"
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:18 am (UTC)It's too bad the house burned down.They could go and let Logan ruin something else they hated.
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:28 am (UTC)"No bitching," she promises, stopping the car. "Fries, milkshakes, McNuggets. Possibly a Happy Meal, with some sort of crappy plastic toy."
McDonalds cannot really be called "swank" and Logan's fake ID is gonna do him no good at all. But neither of those things really seem to matter, at the moment.
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:33 am (UTC)"Awesome," he says. "I'm thinking a double quarter pounder, too, so I can get good and sick. Too bad I can't ruin the dress mom wore to the Oscar's in the '80s. That thing was worse than the rug."
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:47 am (UTC)"Oh that pink thing? God, what was she thinking? And, hey, it's not like it'll be the first time you've thrown up in my car, so no worries."
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:49 am (UTC)"Yeah, I mean, I know, it was the '80s and all, but still, someone should have known," Logan says, then laughs. "Dude, did you ever get that stain out? It was pretty skunky."
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:53 am (UTC)"Are you kidding? I sold the car."
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-30 06:03 am (UTC)It's a bright blue Audi. The Echolls kids don't go in for cheap or subdued, in their automobiles.
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Date: 2006-05-30 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-30 06:07 am (UTC)She gestures expansively at the menu on the wall above the cash registers.
"So, what'll it be? Aside from milkshakes."
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Date: 2006-05-30 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-30 06:15 am (UTC)She's studying the Happy Meal toy. "What the hell is it supposed to be? Some kind of fish?"
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Date: 2006-05-30 06:17 am (UTC)Logan plucks the toy from her fingers. "Dinosaur, maybe?" he says, examining it closely. "I don't think it's anything that's alive in this era, anyway. Wonder why they made it chartreuse?"
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