Room 306, Friday afternoon

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Raven didn't have much by way of clothes, but after two years living in one room, she did have plenty of other stuff that needed packing up. Unlike some other folks who were packing and cleaning out their dorm rooms this week, though, Raven was only going two floors up.

She and Kathy were very soon to be actual for real roommates! She was going to have a roommate who was unlikely to just up and leave quietly in the night in the middle of the semester!

So this packing session was anything but gloomy. She was bopping around the room, playing a new song she'd heard on the radio full blast, and occasionally pausing to rock out or punch her fist in the air.

"I love me! Gonna love myself,
no I don't need anybody else!
Hey! Gonna love myself,
no I don't need anybody else!
Any time day or night!"

She'd apologize if someone came by complaining about the noise. Then probably try to make them dance with her, too.

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"We're still going to be packing you up tomorrow when the newbies arrive to claim your room," Kathy declared, swaying her hips to the beat. "On the other hand, that means instant porters up to the fifth floor, right?"

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"Please," Raven said. "We've got all night to get this done!" And having a dance party first definitely wouldn't result in them eventually lying sacked out on the floor surrounded by half-full bags and pondering ordering pizza.

. . . Actually, that sounded like a plan, too.

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That was pretty much exactly what would happen, yes. Though Kathy would endeavor to get the bags to being at least three-quarters of the way full. Because she was responsible!

"If we stay up all night, we'll sleep through the picnic!" she pointed out. Not that she'd stopped dancing to pack yet. "We can't miss out on the first picnic of our senior year!"

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"Ugh, why do you always have to be so reasonable?" Raven sighed. "Okay, short dance party first."

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Kathy pouted at Raven. "You still love me, even at my most reasonable, right?" she asked.

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"Of course!" Raven assured her. "How could I not? I'll just do my best to be a terrible influence on you and break you of the habit sometimes."

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"Good," Kathy said, all bright smiles again. "Well I do such heinous things as make you take extra classes with the computer."

She reached for Raven's speakers and turned them up a little louder. "I think we can be responsible and enjoy a medium-length dance party."

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"Woo!" Raven reached over to take Kathy's hand and spin her around. "And I'll get my revenge for that. By making you help me study."

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"Which I absolutely never volunteered to do!" Kathy agreed amidst giggles as she spun, skirt belling out at mid-thigh. "Ugh, living together is going to be horrible! You're going to make me laugh and have fun, like, all the time!"

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"All the time. I'll be insufferable."

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"Worst," Kathy said with a sigh, taking the opportunity to spin Raven now. "I guess I should just resign myself to flunking all my classes, being held back a year, and never going to college now."

Actually, she had several friends who had all suggested variations on that very idea, so at least some people would be happy about that outcome! At least until her parents came to murder her in the night.

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And then they'd be happy with the outcome and the way they'd get to beat up Kathy's parents while protecting her from them!

"Because that's definitely an either/or," Raven laughed, shifting into a skirt just so it could twirl out when she spun. "Fun or a high school diploma."

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They could make a sign-up sheet, but Eliot would just cut to the front anyway.

"There's no possibility of a middle ground," Kathy agreed. "In fact, just being friends with you has put my GPA in serious jeopardy! I might not graduate with a 5.0 GPA!"

Out of a 4 point scale, yes. Overachiever, thy name was Katherine Hana Li.

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". . . If four is straight As, then what is five?"

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"Straight As with Honors and AP classes," Kathy explained. "They're weighted more heavily than regular classes. So an A in an AP course is worth more than an A in a regular course."

And Kathy took a lot of AP courses.

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"And those are probably all you take, aren't they."

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"I'll have you know I'm taking two non-AP courses," Kathy informed Raven. "So there. Linear Algebra and Italian I."

Granted, it was because Linear Algebra was a college course and if Kathy knew enough Italian she would have taken the AP course...but the important part was that they weren't AP courses, technicalities or not!

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"Is that because they didn't offer AP versions of those two?"

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"There's an AP course for Italian!" Kathy protested with a blush that told Raven that she was right. "...I mean, not for Italian I, but...you're such a brat!"

For, y'know, being right.

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Raven grinned. "It's a little sister thing," she said. "I can't possibly help it."

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"Fortunately, I have a ton of experience handling those. Though, oh my god, you and Sarah? You're gonna get along like a house on fire." Kathy rolled her eyes, though she was grinning at the idea. "I feel so bad for me and Charles. We'll have to stand back and be the mature ones."

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"I suspect you're overestimating my brother's maturity," Raven said. "He'd probably spend the whole time flirting with you."

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"There are worse things that could happen," Kathy pointed out, trying to hide a bashful smile. "It's been awhile since any guy's really flirted with me. So, who knows? Maybe I'll flirt back."

You never knew! It could happen!

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"What, doesn't Ezra flirt with you anymore? I thought that was how he interacted with the entire world."

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Kathy laughed; Raven was entirely correct on that. "No, no, he still does," she assured her. "Just, like you said. It's how he flirts with the world. He'd flirt with my mom."

You know, if Kathy had any intention of introducing them. And if her mom wouldn't parrot some of Kathy's dad's really embarrassing racism about the Japanese.