Let's Gather 'Round the Campfire and Sing Our Campfire Song

[employeeoftheyear]

[Well last week Spongebob decided that the Wizard was nothing but a big fucker and everything was all his fault so he is going to kick his "Boost the moral of his friends" scheme into overdrive to rub it in the Wizard's stupid face.

Around the school on Monday, there will be Spongebob's huge mass of fliers again, this time for some sort of camp out.]


Spongebob Squarepants Crazy Camping Party!!!
Come to the edge of the forest on Monday at 5 pm for a whole night of roasting marshmallows, telling Spoooooky stories, and sleeping under the stars!
Don't worry if it rains, we can always bring the camp inside!

Attendance is MANDATORY!!! I will come find you if you don't attend.

[And he absolutely means it.

Even though there are no stars, it's a comfortable evening with no real signs of rain, and Spongebob's managed to set up a cozy Spongebob set out a bunch of blankets, towels, and pillows around a cozy campfire. There are plenty of food you'd normally see at a camp out, including smores! Spongebob seems to have gone all out and brought in practically every kind of candy from the kitchen, so have fun with the sugar rush!]

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[comeandfindme]

[ The smallest of smiles crosses her lips. ]

He doesn't seem to be complaining now, does he?

[brokeforgood]

Well— No. [She matches Per’s smile.]

Which is weird, but. I’ll take it.

[comeandfindme]

He loves you.

[brokeforgood]

[Farrah doesn't know how to respond to that, outside of her vague party-girls-dont-get-hurt facade, which... seems incredibly fake (which it is) right now. It feels wrong to be anything less than genuine with Peregrine. So instead of chiming "everyone loves me" (because everyone most certainly does not love Farrah-- this place is an exception, and not the rule), she just nods.]

... What are your parents like, Peregrine?

[comeandfindme]

[ Oh. Uh. ]

...Mom's... She works a lot. It's just me and her, since... Dad left when I was a kid, and...my brother...

[ ... ]

She's protective. Drove me crazy but...I miss her.

[brokeforgood]

Whoa. Protective. [weird, tbh, but she guesses it makes sense, given what Peregrine said before.]

I get that. Annleigh drove me crazy, too, and I miss her. Though I'm glad she's not here. Both because I don't think she'd handle it well, and because the funerals would have been twenty times as long with her around, reading the entire bible.

[comeandfindme]

[ From context clues, and what she's heard Farrah talk about: ] Your sister?

[brokeforgood]

Yeah. Step-sister. My dad married her mom, a little over a year... [Ago? Before she died? Farrah doesn't know what to say, so she doesn't worry about it.]

My parents were always busy with something else, so having adults around who are-- [She doesn't know how to word it in a way that isn't offensive to her actual parents, so she shrugs.] It's weird. It's new. But... I really like it.

[comeandfindme]

...You deserve it.

[ She remembers the things Farrah had said at one of those early meetings. She'd stayed quiet, and she's glad she had since her view of her mom back then had been...less than charitable. But— ]

You deserve people who wanna take care of you.

[brokeforgood]

Thanks. [ She smiles back at her, and she jabs a finger at Peregrine.]

You do too, you know. And... Thanks. For, you know. All the stuff during the last trial.

[comeandfindme]

[ Oh, that's... Peregrine shrugs. ]

...I know how much it hurts when someone's...pressing you about that stuff. I just... I didn't want you guys to go through that.

[brokeforgood]

Yeah. Well. I thought it was shitty for you, too. … I just wish I was right both times. [They… all wish that, though.]

Okay. Back to ghost hunting?

[comeandfindme]

[ She puts a hand on Farrah's shoulder and gives it a small squeeze. ]

Yeah. Yeah, back to ghost hunting. [ Maybe at the very least... They can talk to them. ]