[center][img] https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019b3925-4631-76cc-9072-a66ea7622bec.webp[/img][/center][center][/center][hr] [hr][center][b][color=ffcb00]Location:[/color][/b] Margaret Carter - Winter Carnival 
[b][color=ffcb00]Magic Items:[/color][/b] Thousand-Faced Rose, Rune Stones
[b][color=ffcb00]First Day Fit:[/color][/b] Letterman jacket, baggy pants, sneakers.[/center][hr]

[color=ffcb00]”Yeah, let’s find them. I wanna see the look on April’s face when she sees my sword.”[/color] Leah wheeled around and followed him. Lots of new kids here, Leah ignored the stares of some of them. There was some boy not much older than Percy who she could’ve sworn was staring at her huge arms. A lot of them probably never saw a giant before. It was easy to find April and her gaggle of gays by the sound of high speed yammering over the din of other people just going about their days.

There they were. Dorian, Danni, and… April.

April, who made Leah stop in her tracks. Her eyes widened, jaw going slack for a moment. April had gotten a haircut over the break, it seemed. Like a frizzy mohawk, only shorter. Leah did a double take, then a triple take. It looked good on her, made her look very nonconforming in gender, almost like completely different person. A very cute, very hot person who Leah already had so many messy feelings for.

[i][color=ffcb00]Oh no.

Ohhhh no.

[b]Fuck.[/b]

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It was at that moment, surrounded by her found family and her ex who she was never [i]normal[/i] about, that Leah forgot her impeccable ability to pull a pokerface.

And then April started talking to her.

[color=ffcb00]”Oh- Um. Yeah, hi April…”[/color] Fuck, why did she have to get hotter?! [color=ffcb00]”Hi Danni. Hi Dorian. Uh- That’s a lot of stuff on a cup of hot chocolate.”[/color] She distracted herself by grabbing herself one. Leah was feeling incredibly grateful that her rocky skin couldn’t betray the heat in her face. April always set her eyes and heart alight when they were within the same general vicinity of each other, she always looked up to her in some ways (despite being taller) and she was just so [i]nice.[/i]

She inhaled a whole cup of steaming hot chocolate in a single gulp, and cleared her throat.

[i][color=ffcb00]Get your shit together. Stop this shit once, Jordan![/color][/i]

[color=ffcb00]”I missed all of you.”[/color]

She didn’t know it was Percy’s birthday. But knowing him, he probably didn’t like celebrating it any more than she liked celebrating hers. So she didn’t say anything.

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[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/019b3925-0274-729f-8f88-83effadccda8.webp[/img][/center][center][/center][hr] [center][b][color=b940da]Location:[/color][/b] Margaret Carter - Winter Carnival 
[b][color=b940da]Magic Items:[/color][/b] [sub]She’s no magician but you know she’s got that magic wand.[/sub]
[b][color=b940da]First Day Fit:[/color][/b] Floral button-up, slacks, converse shoes.[/center][hr]

It was so nice to see these people enjoying themselves. April’s brothers gave Marlena the impression she had a family full of love. It made her heart swell in small ways, and made her feel slightly jealous. (Not nearly as jealous as she felt of that hair color comb though. God damn! That was dope.) Things weren’t great at home right now for her, they’d probably mend in time, but it was going to be awkward. But she didn’t let that stop the smirk on her face.

[color=b940da]”Yeah, this shirt’s my own work. Had this sweet roll of some cheap fabric pattern from a hobby store, came out nice. The rest is just store-bought, but I’d [i]love[/i] to find something sturdy enough to make a belt with some secret spaces in it.”[/color] Marlena had started collecting little trinkets more after she got her powers, beads and baubles that went on the ends of necklaces made for good fodder if some punk took offense to a transgender mutant walking down the street. [color=b940da]”Not sure exactly what I’m gonna do with that piece I showed you, just yet.”[/color]

Marlena tilted her head around and caught sight of the shortest king since Napoleon, and… God [i]damn[/i] she was tall. And stammering like crazy, no less. And that sword- Holy shit, she didn’t have that sword in the Contest. It must’ve been nasty to get cut by.

[color=b940da]”Sup. Name’s Marlena,”[/color] she said, with all the cool that Leah [i]didn’t[/i] have.

[color=ffcb00]”Leah.”[/color]

[color=b940da]”Sweet sword. Where’d you get it?”[/color]

[color=ffcb00]”Long story.”[/color]

Marlena just nodded and turned back to April and her brothers. [color=b940da]”Anyway, no. Got no idea what I’m doing today, except figure out what’s where and who’s what. Gotta check class stuff, but I’ll worry about that later. Figured I’d just enjoy the carnival. I’ll tag along.”[/color]