Event Private Finished A Bug in the Disciplinary System

It was a nice day out, if you didn't really like the sun. It was warmer than the last few days, but cloudy and late enough that some of the nocturnal students had already started milling around outside, hanging out before class started.

It was a perfect time for Andrasta to spread her message to the nocturnal students. So she was out there with some fliers that she made, telling people about how detention was just making everything worse and that they should vote for her as student council president to make things better.

"Hey. Did you know detention makes us act worse?" She asked a vampire-looking teen and handed him a flier. He took it and walked off, skimming it.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Aedes, but she tried to play it off like she didn't. She was honestly a little scared of talking to her right now. They hadn't been on good terms before Aedes went to Juvie Island, and now Dalia and Orsick wanted to help Aedes become better. She didn't want to screw that up.

Oh, wonderful. Aedes was coming straight for her, not even trying to be subtle. Was she going to try to pick a fight with her?

She took a deep breath and put on a neutral expression. "Hey Aedes. It's... been a while. What's up?"

She was blanking on the things she was going to say to Aedes to be nice. She didn't know if she was ready for this. She had been expecting Aedes to still be afraid of her, and she clearly wasn't, so it wasn't like she imagined at all.

Andrasta just watched Aedes, stone-faced, as the mosquito-girl started talking. She could feel it coming on now, the usual shit Aedes loved to give her, just to make her or her friends feel a little less comfortable, a little less happy. Just like she always did before going to Juvie. She was already groaning internally.

And then Aedes said she agreed.

Andrasta was surprised at first. Then, when Aedes finished, she started beaming. "Alright, you convinced me. Consider yourself in." She held out a hand for Aedes to shake.

"I'm not even sure where to start. What's the first thing you did when you got out of gay baby jail?" That's what they called it, when Andrasta was there. Gay baby jail.

It wasn't really just like that. Dalia and Orsick had a lot to do with it. Andrasta would be a lot less trusting, and a lot less willing to put up with Aedes' presence if it weren't for them.

She let the conversation move on. Aedes talked about what it was like coming out of gay baby jail, and Andrasta related to a lot of that. Just like her ghost friend said she would when they talked about this. The words that ghost used meant something like 'shared trauma.'

"Yeah. It was kinda like that for me too, but without the whole internet part. Everyone either thought I was scary or stupid, but they didn't get it." She wouldn't go as far as calling them all idiots, but she sure did resent it.

She noticed Aedes wiping her hand on her own clothes after their handshake. "...I don't have Coronavirus or nothing."

That was a little bit rude, but Andrasta wasn't going to fight about it now that Aedes was, apparently, offering to help. Besides, Andrasta lived out in the woods with werewolves and played outside and got her hands dirty. Maybe that was fair. "I've never had a manicure before."

The conversation moved on. Aedes mentioned putting it on the internet.

"Well, I have a couple of friends who are going to help me hand these out after friday and saturday detention, to make sure they see it. And I have a demon friend from juvie who said he's gonna hand them out to some of the nocturnal kids. It'd be really cool if I could put it on the internet too, but... I mean, I don't really know how to do that," she admitted. She hadn't really used the internet until after she got here, so she wasn't the most tech-savvy person on the island.

She knew how to watch stuff get blown up on youtube, though. Those videos were cool.