Gooseberry High

This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. Worse than every Quidditch injury and every flu season. I'd go through all of those a hundred more times if I didn't have to feel like this.

[Warded to Victoria - shows up as a mess of scribbles and ink blots]

I know you don't know me really but
oh my god why is this so difficult
if you could just come to the lodge window or something
you're the
DAMMIT

JUST SO YOU ALL KNOW.

There's going to be a wedding. A BEAUTIFUL wedding. With the MOST BEAUTIFUL of beautiful brides. (By that I mean Clementine because I'm not really sure if we're both brides in this case or if there's a term or what!)

Anyway, as you might have guessed, CLEM AND I ARE GETTING MARRIED.

I'm writing the owl to mom and dad as we speak. Clem, do I need to ask your parents first? For your hand?

VICKY. I'm not coming home for Christmas! I'm going home with Ras to meet his parents.

This is the best day ever.

[The outline of Magdalen's hand is traced onto the page.]

Even if they try to keep us apart, place your hand over mine and I will always be with you. Potion or not, I know that what we have is real. I love you, Mina. From now until the end of time.

Goodnight, my love. Goodnight.


((ooc: this was posted right before she went to sleep. responses will be after she wakes up, when the potion wears off.))

Oh my god

OH MY GOD

ohmygod

ohmygodNO

not him

those POEMS DEAR GOD

[Warded to Sy]

You'd do anything for me, right? Including kill me?

Sy, please kill me. I need you to do this for me.

I'll even return the favor just kill me first.

Everything feels awful.

[Warded to Asher]

Please, please don't tell anyone. I'm so sorry.

[Warded to Chris]

Want to run away?

Avery I love you so much you are the most
Shit I meant to put this in my notebook why am I still writing

I hope everyone can get some sleep tonight
Fuck it

THE SILVER LINING IS. I only drank like two sips of that tea bc I thought it was accidentally alcoholic. So I got early release! Thanks, amortentia. Sorry, everyone else.

Oh. We should also all be nice to Mr. Elmasry the teachers today. And prefects. But we've made them guide us through like. Alllll the quarantines lately. Maybe I'll make a card. After I drown myself :)

[Reece]
lol god Im sorry

[Sofia]
I owe you like. My firstborn and all its money.

Can classes just be canceled for the rest of the week?

All I want to do is hide.

[Ferris]

I apologize for my actions while under the effect of the love potion yesterday. I hope I did not embarrass you too much.

[Midsummer cast]

After this I feel compelled to point out that it's fucking messed up that Demetrius is still under the love spell in the end.

[Laurel]

So we're both still here and I still feel the same and everyone else is gone.

I think that means this is really real, but I don't want to jinx it by saying so with certainty.

Well I don't know about all y'all but I gotta say having an empty dorm is just about the greatest blessing from the good Lord Himself. Learned myself three new songs from no interruptions and slept like a damn Disney princess last night.

10/10 would highly recommend. As for all this here angst and stuff, y'all don't gotta worry about it none. We getting out of here in a little while anyways, all this gonna blow over real quick, y'all will see.

I wake up, and everyone is gone except Laurel and Iris and me. What happened? Why did you take Dahlia away

This doesn't feel so great anymore.


[Dahlia]

I'm sorry if I've done something to offend you since yesterday. You don't have to leave, though. I will still make you so happy.

[Warded to Kurt]

How are you feeling, honey? Still thinking about proposing to her, or has the cold light of morning cleared a few things up?

[Warded to Sy]

I hear you've got a thing for redheads. ♥

[Warded to Riley, Ursula, Coralee, Ari & Casey (and anyone else who you think needs to be part of the mean girls clique - just let me know ♥)]

So happy to see you all survived last night. I think it was a lot more fun being on the outside looking in, but I'm a little sad I missed out. Only for science, of course. I want to know what I'm like when I fall madly in love. It brings praying mantises to mind.

Anyway. Anon Post private party tomorrow? I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be a bad one. (AKA a great one.)

So, I know yesterday was a bad day for a lot of people. But if anybody wants to discuss how they're feeling about it, I'm here for you all.

It wasn't funny, being drugged is not a joke. But talking might help.

I think a serious discussion should probably be had about the number of quarantines this school has been implementing lately.

But I'm happy everybody's back to normal. Who wants to hear the complete history of love potions? that's a joke mostly

At least classes are canceled...?

[Finn Junior Girls]

I've got lots of snacks and extra blankets. I think we can safely manage to never leave our cabin until Christmas break.

[Kurt]

I'm really sorry

[...]

[Kurt]

Hahahahahahahahaha. That was uh funny, right?

Anyone who thinks this whole thing wasn't anything but REALLY MESSED UP needs to have a seriously long think.

BECAUSE THIS WAS MESSED UP!

Petition to skip right ahead to December; nothing good can happen in the next two days.

[Rafael]
Hey.
So full disclosure. I spent the better part of yesterday involuntarily telling Quinn how awesome she was.
I would pay you all the favors and or money I'm capable of producing to forget the day entirely but if it's not that easy, I get that.

I feel miserable. I'm so sorry Cricket. I do think you are quite pretty but not like I was trying to say. I think I'm going to stay asleep for awhile. Casper, I'm so sorry. I don't know what else to say Thanks little Gooses, I've never been drugged before.

I'm glad everyone's feeling better. And being kind and understanding with each other. And I'm glad the day-to-day level of public tongue kissing is back to average. And that that average is pretty low all things considered.

[Warded to Victoria, Zoey, Ty, Tabs, Clem, Olivia, Cameron, Diego, Trixie, Sylla, Cricket, and (basically anyone who is good friends with Vee that isn't Ras)]

So if you were into the person you shared your roofie experience with before the potion took effect, how would you go about handling the crushing disappointment you feel today finding out it wasn't real. Not to mention the complete mortification at how you behaved.

Aside from drowning. That is already on the table. As is finishing school on my own and never leaving my room or moving to Guam.


[Warded to Ras]
**OOC: Basically he's getting a bunch of scribbles from her right now LOL**

Hi

I'm sorry

I can't believe how stupid I was

Do you still

Can we talk

[warded to Cecil]

hey so

Remember how I

So this is weird but

I'm fucking wasting ink and

So remember how I told you

Last time I got drunk. Or the time before last. That if you ever wanna talk about anything etc etc I kinda meant it.

[warded to diego]

so I kind of remember everything you said while I was

I remember saying that my tea smelled like

I remember you saying that your

Because I remember what Levi said about his

I think you should know that what I said was

Fuck

[warded to Levi]

So. How You feeling?

[warded to Rosy]

Rosy.

I didn't think yesterday was so bad. It was very sweet, I thought. Everybody loving each other. We should all feel like that always!

Maybe with less of kissing everywhere. But only maybe. That wasn't so bad either. It's nice when people are in love.

I'm sorry guys but that was some pretty amazing chaos.

I hope no one is embarrassed, first of all it was no one's fault but the froshes, and second you were all adorable.

[Warded to Calvin]
How are you feeling, baby?

[Warded to Micah]
Sooo how much of that did you film?

[Warded to Azurbabes]
So really, how different was all that from just being us on a normal basis? Just like...up to eleven, or?

[Warded to Calvin]

you okay?? [...] if you're at the cabin, i'll be back later. i need some air.

[Warded to Micah]

sorry. if i made things worse with calvin. i really thought [...] sorry.

[Warded to Coralee]

i'm sorry. i know everyone's upset. i hope you're not upset.
i still like what we worked on yesterday. i want to charm the flowers, make them bloom on your dress under different li
i miss

is it weird for me to keep this drawing? you can have it if you want it. or i can get rid of it.

[Zoey]

Sorry about yesterday. We can totally cancel those plans if you w

I didn't lie, though, just so you know.

You are totally hot.



I just wouldn't have said it, under normal circumstances.

Alright. I was going to leave a piece about bullying to the newsletter, but after this debacle I think there are some time-sensitive, relevant things I want to say. First, I want to say thank you to all the teachers and students who helped keep the damage at a minimum. It could have been a lot worse. As for the real message, here we go.

Be compassionate to your fellow students. Yesterday, while on the surface may seem funny, was not. We're talking about losing control of one's self thanks to the actions of another person. And while I'm sure this happened not due to malicious intent and was instead brought about by, to put it bluntly, raging stupidity, that doesn't mean what happened wasn't traumatic for certain people. Some of you, some of your friends, might be able to laugh it off. But just remember that some of your classmates might not be able to, so do your best to remember to treat them with sensitivity and understanding. Don't minimize someone else's experiences just because you yourself feel fine. A lot of things, both true and false, were said last night that no one wanted to say or hear.

If you mock someone for what they said or did last night, you're a bully. If you dismiss someone's distress over the events, you're a bully. Don't be a bully. Don't let others around you bully. Even if it's someone you don't like, or someone who has been an ass to you in the past, just be a better person.

TL;DR
Don't be an asshole about this. A lot of people are upset.

Smoking causes cancer, kids.

[Diego]

I know why you've been acting distant and it's okay. You don't have to respond. Just when you're ready.

And you're not getting out of our birthday bash or Mexico. I'm not eighteen until I'm binge drinking next to you.

[Cecil]

Happy one month? I had shit planned and it was going to be really romantic or whatever our version of romantic is but anyway, consider this a raincheck for when things don't feel dreadful. Rip it out and save it for later.

But we need to talk about Diego. Is there anything you want to talk about?

I haven't intentionally broken anyone's nose since the summer after freshman year (soph year during quid doesn't count, it wasn't on purpose), but if I ever run into those freshmen, I'd be hard pressed not to.

But, I've had enough of fighting, so INSTEAD I am putting that energy into something productive. I'm writing a letter to my home representative about amortentia, suggesting it be regulated if not outright illegal. I'll also be making floo calls about it. If you'd like to join me, I'd be happy to help you draft your letters (or just copy mine, this isn't homework after all) and find out where to send them.

I will ALSO be hosting a helpful info session on consent. Levi? Cricket? Care to help?

[Robin]

I'm sorry I threatened to put your eye out and castrate you. And everything else, too.

[Trixie]

I'm sorry, that was all... really weird.

Also, I am rescinding my vow of fealty.

[Maggie]

Uuuh Shit, shit, shit. Okay, but, Robin hit me in the head really hard and

We will not underestimate freshmen in a hurry, I think.


[Senior Ebonladies]

Is this something we should talk about, or are we to pretend it never happened?