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"I think I'm going to get dragged along, date or not."

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"You know me so well."

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"But in point of fact it's a not, no bug aliens will accompany you?"

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"Yeah, I don't have a date for it," she shrugs. It doesn't seem to matter hugely to her.

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"Is this 'actually do not care, am actually not envisioning self as cat lady' nonchalance or 'pretending not to care because reasons' nonchalance?"

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"First thing."

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"Spanish," Bella reminds them all. "Ostensibly."

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"Spanish!"

And then, there is Spanish.
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Bella and Alli are both in their pretty dresses and at the dance when it opens. The portal taxi is not required, since Bella got the best bonus. They stopped to pick up Alli's boy on the way.
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Savannah and Adana are in their pretty dresses and arrive similarly. They go by portals, Savannah would like to keep her hair relatively untangled.

"Hey!" says the sister who is also Bella's date, zipping up to the Bella in question.
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"Hi! Shall we?"

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"Yes! We shall!"

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In they go!

"I'm excited about finally getting to dance but I don't actually know how."
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Savannah giggles. "It's pretty easy, but I can show you! Just follow my lead."

And then, she starts dancing.
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Bella does her best to imitate Savannah without outright mirroring!

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That works out reasonably well, and now Bella is dancing! Hurray, dancing.

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Whee!

Dancing is fun, but Savannah - as Bella had honestly begun to suspect as soon as five minutes after making her acquaintance - is not really the girl for her. There will not be a second date or a goodnight kiss.

There will be dancing, though! Lots of that.
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Yeah, that's fine with Savannah. There are other fish in the sea, and other girls at this school. Loooots of other girls. But it's really kind of rude to go hit on them while at a dance with the girl she asked out, so she'll show some self control.

Dancing's fun, anyway. Wheee, dancing!
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Alli, meanwhile, dances with her boy, duplicates so someone will dance with her boy's brother, drinks a lot of punch, and has a marvelous time.

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And when the time at which Renée expects her daughters home rolls around, Bella bids Savannah a polite but non-kissing goodbye and collects her sister(s) and teleports home, though not before waving at Adana where she's holding up the wall.

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Adana is kind of wishing she brought a book, because public dances with people she doesn't know really isn't her thing. The wall gets a lot of support, from her, but she does dance a bit.

She waves back, amused.

Soon enough, she and her sister leave the dance, too, and all is well.
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When school has been in session for six weeks, it is canceled.

Indefinitely.

There are other things on everyone's mind.

The scientists' reports are less dramatic than the way the news gets passed around by word of mouth -

"YELLOWSTONE'S GOING TO BLOW," is the word on the street.

"THE WHOLE FUCKING MIDWEST IS GONNA BE POMPEII," is the elaboration.

The Junebugs call the Swan household.

Everyone with transport powers is supposed to relocate their essential possessions and family members - especially including nonperishable food and bottled water - to a safe zone, outside the borders of approximately the entire Lava Creek Tuff. So that they won't be distracted by worrying about their families. And then they are to report for evacuation assignments.

Bella goes and talks to Charlie.

And then she puts Renée and Alli and all of the canned goods and things in jars in the entire house, and half the contents of an already-looted supermarket, in Charlie's house, and then she calls the Sanderses.
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Adana is the one to answer. Savannah and her dad are rather busy packing things at super speed and trying to find a place for them to relocate to, respectively.

"Hello?" she asks, edge in her voice.
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"You and Savannah and your dad can crash with my dad. He's in Washington - state - outside the projected uninhabitable zone. There'll be ashfall but it'll be livable. It's a small house but we can squish."

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