Joined: Mar 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 13 Location: IRELAND
h o m e s i c k at SPACECAMP,, -open- « Thread Started on Mar 16, 2008, 5:00pm »
Can you take this lonely girl? & pick her up from off the ground?
This place..It just gives basic a whole new meaning. As if actually going to class wasn’t bad enough, after years of home-schooling, without the café only selling basic foods, and the dorm rooms being dull as a winter’s day in July. But she’d have to make do. Also, there was no drama. The place was lifeless. Filled with obnoxious royals and nobles, trying to get on with their daily routine, and get good grades, so when they got back to the palace they would be allowed to do all their normal activities. So there she was, Countess Delilah Felicity, sitting in the small café of a high school for royals. A place filled with other people, all her age, with similar upbringings to her own, and yet, she hated it. She supposed, back home, it was better, because she stood out from the crowd. She was the royal, so to speak, so she got treated amazingly. Here, she was just another royal. Nothing special.
She didn’t like being treated like everyone else. She was used to being spoiled. Used to waking up every day, leading her life of drama, then reporting it to the press the next day. She was used to going outside of her door, and being leaped upon by paparazzi. It wasn’t like that here.
So there she was, nibbling on her salad. Typical royal food. Salad. It didn’t taste right though. She didn’t think it was possible to get a salad that didn’t taste right. But this one didn’t. And, the worst: a plastic fork. Who does that? How was she meant to eat with a plastic fork? Ever heard of stainless steel? Obviously not.
And she was writing too. She already had homework. She’d never had to do homework before. She’d always made excuses before, about how she’d had to attend such and such an event, and couldn’t get it done. Of course, teacher’s back home (before she was home schooled, and actually went to a normal school) loved those excuses. They always wanted to know what famous people were there, and how it was, and all the gossip. So she made up excuses.
Somehow, she didn’t think that was going to work here.
Re: h o m e s i c k at SPACECAMP,, -open- « Reply #1 on Mar 17, 2008, 11:07am »
There she is again. Don't stare at her you dumb ass! Don't make direct eye contact! Why is her hair orange?! Is she staff? Is she going to hurt me. . . By this time, Charlie gave up hiding behind her Science text book. The girl probably spotted her gawking at her by now. It wasn't like Charlie had never seen someone like that before, scene kids or whatever she just never saw one here before.
At Saint Martins everything was suppose to be prim and proper. The Bermuda grass on the quad, the clean white uniforms of the kitchen staff, even the artwork in the hall which were always landscapes or potraits, never anything abstract.
Saint Martins was not a place to be unique, Charlie soon found out. It was a place to be normal, in world where you were anything but normal. But did it have to be this dull? Atleast this girl's hair seemed to brighten up her day a little. "You dropped your pencil" Charlotte said softly, but with her a look on her face which probably gave the impression that the fate of the world rested on that girl picking up that pencil.
Joined: Mar 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 13 Location: IRELAND
Re: h o m e s i c k at SPACECAMP,, -open- « Reply #2 on Mar 18, 2008, 11:02am »
"You dropped your pencil" wait, what?
She hadn’t even noticed. Then again, a pencil cost about fifty pence back home, so it wasn’t like it was a novelty thing, that she’d never be able to buy again, so even if she had noticed the pencil falling, she probably wouldn’t have cared, and would have just left it there.
“Th-thank you...”
she stuttered. She was startled that someone had spoken to her. That was the first person since she’d arrived, besides that French teacher, who had told her to stop gazing out the window. Damn her.
The girl had been the one sitting a few seats away, on the other side of the same table. She’d been pretending to be enthralled in her science textbook, but had made it quite clear that she had been staring at Delilah. Not that Delilah minded. That tiny bit of attention had made her day a bit more interesting.
“You look...Scared. To say the least.”
added Delilah, by way of conversation. It would be nice to actually talk to someone again, and have a typical teenage conversation. In the weeks leading up to her departure, she had spent most of her time packing, unpacking and packing again, and had very little time to socialise. And as always, with her father, every minor detail had to be perfect, before she was allowed to leave. Well, forced to leave.