Gooseberry High

Who: The Borgin family, annotated version (Sybilla, Larkin and Serena Borgin, and Bedwyr)
When: Saturday, January 21st, before Parent/Teacher Conferences (backdated)
Where: The grounds, beside the lake
What: Family time.

( A true Borgin  )

( Reid finds a birthday present sitting on his desk... )

( PIXIES VS. GRIFFINS, GAME 2 )

Gooseberry seems especially quiet this morning.

If anyone who plays Quidditch got their ear talked off about the upcoming Gooseberry v Ilvermorny game by a tall African American guy, you met my dad. Sorry.

If anyone overheard a woman with a Colorado accent yelling about how much she would have killed to go to a school like this... you just about escaped my mom. Sorry about any eardrum damage, though.

Still, it's been great for them to see what my school looks like. I feel like they understand this experience a lot better now.

( Owl from Irene Lovelace to her father. )

It felt real good to be loud and Italian again, even if only for a short time. My nonna is completely without shame and interrogated every member of staff she met about the rigorousness of classes, which would have been mortifying were it not for a certain Professor twisting the conversation on its head and getting her to teach him the proper way to yell at people in Italian. I'll leave that one to the imagination.

I'm going to miss my family now they've gone, but it was great while it lasted!

If you hear crying heading back to camp or doing rounds tonight, don't fucking follow it. It's the thing in the woods again.

[Warded to Asher]

I made it back. I'm fine. I told you I'd it'd be fine.

[...]

I don't know what to say. I feel like a idiot. I don't know what what happened. I don't know why I was so afraid or what I was running from. I don't know why the fuck I was crying. I don't c Except. I guess this is like last time, isn't it? Just with fear instead of sadness. So why does it feel so much wor

I'm sorry.

This thing needs to leave me the hell alone.

( A small package wrapped in brown paper is left outside of the Coppertale junior boys' dorm sometime after lunch with Reid's name scrawled on it and a small note in messy handwriting taped to it. )

( Passed off to Reid after the hockey game. In the least obtrusive or embarrassing manner possible. )