003 | FIXING ADRI'S BOREDOM

[thehonourable]

[ .... Oh help, Algy is so lost. He is down a random corridor somewhere in the school looking very sorry for himself and very confused. Cue terrible flashbacks to getting hopelessly lost in his own house as a five year old, and getting traumatically shut in a very old and very dusty wardrobe for three hours. ]

Comments

[notahobby]

[Cue an adorable blond boy turning the corner casually and noticing a very lost Algy. Hello.]

Hey. Are you okay?

[thehonourable]

[ Algy starts slightly, turning around sharply and feeling a RUSH OF HAPPINESS omg a face. ]

Oh, hello there! I'm quite fine, but it seems I've gotten myself into a rotten muddle and I'm completely lost.

[notahobby]

[Ah, how cute, he talks funny.]

Oh, well I can show you around if you want. I've been here a couple months now. I'm not on my way to class or anything.

[Charming smile.]

[thehonourable]

Best news I've heard all day. [ SMILES BRIGHTLY! ] Lead the way, laddie.

[notahobby]

[SMILE GET.]

Great. Where are you trying to go?

[thehonourable]

I, err. [ Thinks. ] The commom room?

[ ....... ]

By jove, I've forgotten where I wanted to go while trying to figure out this school of yours. [ 8( ]

[notahobby]

Oh. Yeah, that's just back this way.

[He tilts his head in said direction and then starts walking.] The place with the TV, yeah?

[thehonourable]

Is that the loud box with the moving pictures? [ Gives Maxxie a sort of apologetic look. ] Terribly sorry to waste your time like this, I'm still trying to get used to... this. [ waves his hand vaguely at everything :'| ]

[notahobby]

Yeah, it's no problem.


...where are you from?

[thehonourable]

Merionethshire, Wales. [ SPARKLES with his RP, Surrey-ish accent :'| ]

[notahobby]

Oh, cool. I've never heard of that before.

The common room's just down here.

[thehonourable]

What about you? You don't particularly sounds American yourself.

Thanks for this! I don't know how long I'd have been wandering around all these blasted corridors if you hadn't shown up. [ ALL SMILES AND FRIENDLINESS. ] I say, what's your name?

[notahobby]

Bristol. England, you know. [Vague hand gesture.]

And I'm Maxxie. What's yours?

[thehonourable]

Ah, right. [ nodnod good old Blighty ]

Algernon Montgomery, but you can call me Algy. [ STICKS OUT HIS HAND CHEERFULLY. ]

[notahobby]

[And he's having more and more trouble knowing how to reply. So he just shakes Algy's hand.] Cool.

Oh, you don't mind if I join you, do you? I have some homework to do, and I was gonna do it in my room but it's always nice to have company. [He shrugs, indicating his shoulder bag.]

[thehonourable]

Gosh, not at all.

[ Pulls a bit of a face, though. ] I haven't done homework in almost a year. [ ... ] I didn't do much homework when I was in school either, actually.

[notahobby]

[He walks into the common room and sets his bag down on one of the tables.] We don't get much here. Depends on what courses you take. Different teachers give different amounts, you know.

[thehonourable]

Rather a step backwards, though, if you ask me. [ FLOPS DESPAIRINGLY ONTO A SOFA. ] I finished school! I never thought I'd have to be trapped in a blinking classroom ever again.

[notahobby]

[Leans forward on the table, resting his chin in his hand.] You finished school? How old are you?

[thehonourable]

Sixteen. [ All blazé and what have you. ] Almost seventeen, come March.

[notahobby]

[Nods and kind of silently says "oh."] So how'd you finish school already?

[thehonourable]

Because now all this blasted business with schools- [ ....... hang about. ] Oh.

I, err, "arrived" here from 1918. [ He gives Maxxie a slightly goofy, apologetic glance. ] Truthfully I'll turning... [ COUNTS ] one hundred and nine in March, I should say.

[notahobby]

[His eyebrows quickly reunite with his hairline.] 1918? [And then he mellows a little.]

I guess I've heard of weirder stuff here.

[thehonourable]

Is that so? Jolly good! [ BRIGHTENS AGAIN CONSIDERABLY. ] It'd be an awful shame if a few dates stopped a friendship.

[notahobby]

[HE'S SO CHEERFUL Maxxie smiles almost bashfully and shrugs.] No. It's cool.