Bored Half to Death

[musical_night]

Who: Mere and Open
When: Friday, Lunch Time
Where: Pleasantdale High School, Lunch Room

It didn't take much to get Meredith Delany bored, and school did it easier than most things. All she really wanted to do was get away from the place and maybe work on some music with her dad, but instead she was stuck in school and hoped that the day would somehow speed up and end a lot faster than what it was doing now.

At least right now was lunch. She got her food from the cafeteria lady (god she hoped that she never got that big or greasy looking), heading out into the lunch room, skirt swishing across her hips. She was looking around for a place to sit, hopefully with friends. She was already dreadfully bored with the day, and something that would make it a heck of a lot worse was to be sitting alone.

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[nica_hepcat]

"Don't go to Makeout Point," Nica said to Meredith as she walked past, going in the opposite direction. Nica had her books and her sketchbook clutched to her chest. "Rabies. Not kidding," she added, over her shoulder.

[allstarpitcher]

Being a star athlete had its perks, even in the off-season. Leaving class early wasn't something Rex could get away with every day, so he tried to save it for Fridays or other days where the mood of the school was generally relaxed.

Today he was making sure to stake out one of the bigger tables -- it was only fair, since he usually attracted quite a crowd and had to make sure there was room for them all. He spotted Nica as she made her way through the room and gave a casual half-wave. Very casual.

[georgio]

Georgio sat a table poking through today's school lunch offering. He considered writing an ode to meatloaf, and its mysterious contents. He glanced up when he heard Nica's voice though, thankfully distracting him from such pursuits. In doing so, he spotted her and Mere, giving them both a wave.

"Hey, ladies-- over here!"

[aint_got_time]

Lynn held her lunch tray, and sighed at the meatloaf. There was no way she could eat something that looked so terrible. Was it even meatloaf, or had the cafeteria people cooked up the possum that Nica told her about.

She was sure it was ground up possum, and decided that she needed to put it in Susie's seat. Then, she would have to walk around all day with possum meatloaf all over her skirt. Lynn laughed to herself, then saw her friend Georgio. With mischief out of her mind for a moment, she walked over to see her friend.

She had been grounded for the past week, and only got to see her friends at school.

"Georgio! Hi!!!"

[musical_night]

Mere honestly snorted when she heard what Nica said as she passed, turning and following the girl. She couldn't help it. She had to. "No going to Makeout Point? You do realize that place is half my LIFE, right?" she asked. "What's wrong with the place? Cops watching it worse than usual?"

She waved at Georgio, heading over to his table as well. "Nica says stay away from Makeout Point. You know anything about that?" she asked him.

[georgio]

"I didn't hear anything about it--- maybe someone got a disease! You know... that kind of disease."

Georigo said that with a bit more enthusiasm than most people would say that with. But they'd just had a film on it in health class not that long ago, and the thought of the jocks and cheerleaders winding up with drippy nether regions just filled him with a certain sort of glee.

[aint_got_time]

"Pneumonia can kill you." Lynn said, solemnly. She was sure that's what he was talking about. It was the worst thing she thought anyone could get, other than rabies. She wasn't thinking about health class, mostly because it kind of grossed her out "Mom says not to go there because girls get in trouble at places like that and I'm already grounded all the time."

[nica_hepcat]

"Not that kind of disease. Actual rabies. It's grotty and it turns your tongue black and makes you want to bite people. It's bad."

[musical_night]

"So like...I can catch rabies out in the woods now?" Mere asked with a slight groan. "Are you kidding me? This is just going to make the cops patrol the place even more now." She pouted a little bit when she said that. Mere had fun out there, after all. "And you only get in trouble out there if you get caught, which now sounds a heck of a lot more likely."

[nica_hepcat]

Nica smirked. "You can get in trouble there without getting caught, too, it's just a different kind of trouble."

[georgio]

"Ewww. I don't want to get rabies," Georgio said, wrinkling his nose. Not that he ever got invited to makeout point, or had anyone to invite there. But he sometimes took a shortcut through the woods on his way somewhere - and that was certainly going to stop if there were rabid animals running about.

"Did you see a real live rabid animal, Nica? It didn't try to bite you, did it?"

[nica_hepcat]

"More like a ... kind of ... dead ... rabid human," Nica said with a shudder. "It was creepsville. And he kept trying to get up and fight but the doctors with us said he should have been dead ages ago."

[aint_got_time]

"Did he get killed?" Lynn asked, rather shocked by what was being said "I wish I'd been there."

[nica_hepcat]

"Well, they said he was already dead, but he ... stopped moving, anyway."

[georgio]

"....wait, what?"

Georgio wasn't always the quickest study, so he was sure he missed something there. How could something be dead, and moving around? Unless....

"Oh oh... like Zombies of Mora Tau, or Plan 9 from Outer Space?"

He couldn't decide whether this was super creepy and wrong, or really cool. "Maybe it is aliens! That's what this week's Captain Mystery is going to be about-- so maybe it really is!"

[nica_hepcat]

"Yeah, yeah, like a zombie!" Nica said. "Very spooky."

[musical_night]

"I really wasn't exactly aware that rabies turned people into zombies," Mere said, sounding like she didn't quite believe this. "Since when did Pleasantdale get interesting enough that we get our own little real life horror movie in the form of Ed Wood craziness."

Mere actually did love going to the movies, and not just to use it for naughtiness. She had an odd love of anything horror related. She'd even go watch reshowings of old silent horror movies when they were shown.