bigdamnprincipal: (i am a little tempted)
Zoe Winchester ([personal profile] bigdamnprincipal) wrote2014-05-06 09:08 am
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Office Hours, May 6

Considering the school somehow knew students were coming before they'd even arrived, Zoe was always surprised by how much physical paperwork the beginning of a new term brought. She currently had piles of folders scattered around her desk in organized chaos form; eventually, everything would be back in the filing cabinets, but until then there was a bit of a maze going on to get through the room.

This wasn't quite how she'd imagined her adult life to be, but it could have been a lot worse.

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justbeingbay: ([neg] say what now?)

[personal profile] justbeingbay 2014-05-06 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the ways Bay was still a kid was that she'd had some secret hope Zoe would be able to say some magic words and make it all better -- bring Gert back to life, or, if not, make Bay's heart stop hurting like this. She hadn't realized how much she wanted that until she saw it wasn't going to happen.

She was disappointed even as she knew how silly it had been.

She shook her head. "No, I mean, someone should clean out her room and all of that, but that's --" She waved a hand vaguely. It wasn't what she was thinking of yet. "I just wanted someone from the school to know. Officially. She deserved that."
Edited 2014-05-06 21:18 (UTC)
justbeingbay: ([neu] uh-huh sure)

[personal profile] justbeingbay 2014-05-06 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"So I get to join a club of 'this sucks,'" Bay said, with a weak smile. "Thanks. I'll go see the guy in town. And I'll clean out her room, but maybe not right away."

She wasn't ready to handle Gert's stuff, but she didn't want some janitor to do it either.
justbeingbay: ([pos] we are getting away with this!)

[personal profile] justbeingbay 2014-05-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh-huh," Bay nodded. "I will. And ... thanks for listening and everything."
justbeingbay: ([neu] very suspicious)

[personal profile] justbeingbay 2014-05-07 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Bay nodded. "I'll try," she said. "I haven't been sleeping great, but that's to be expected, right?"