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Planning on college? [Seemed like a viable question.]

Definitely. My English teacher would kill me if I didn't.

Which ones are you looking at? I'm in UPenn. [Not that he was pushing. Just sharing some info.]

Nice. Ivy League. Cute and has brains. I'm not really sure. I've got the grades, excellent student. Parents would like Stanford or UC Berkeley, but I'd like to get out of California. Princeton, NYU, Georgetown, BU. What's UPenn like?

A lot of snobs. [He laughed aloud.] The education's great, don't get me wrong - I'm almost finished with my Pre-Law already, but I really hate the dorm life. I think I'm the lowest class person around there. Wouldn't have got in if it weren't for scholarships.

My parents are decently well off. Not rich, but typical middle class. They were hippies back in the day.

Mine are... Well, Dad's close to dirt poor and Mom gets by, but I managed to score a full ride as long as I keep my grades up - which is easy. [He didn't really have the air of someone who was bragging - just somebody who was telling the truth.]

Good for you... er... I don't even know your name. I'm Olive, Olive Penderghast. [She extended her hand.]

[So he shook her hand firmly - but carefully not firmly enough to hurt.] Andrew Martin. Like in Asimov, but a little more organic.

Well I'm glad you're not a robot. [She grins.]

[It took so much effort to keep from laughing aloud.] My family's big into the whole scifi thing.

It's okay. My name is Olive. I think I got you beat. Hippie parents and all. I have an adoptive brother and my dad used to be gay.

Hey, at least you're not named River or Rainbow or something. And I've got two adoptive sisters and my dad is gay. [He grinned.]

My mother had hoards of lovers. Most of them were men. She's gotten into this habit of trying to relate to me by telling me her own sexual endeavours. [She makes a face.] They're good parents though. Strange, but good.

I think most parents fall into that "strange" category. But the important part is if they manage to be good, too.

I think you're right. I also think right now they're the closest thing I have to friends.

My dad's best friend is my older sister, so that's still fine with me.

Well I'm glad you approve, but that doesn't satiate my teenage need to split away from my parents. [Olive crossed her arms and smirked.]

If you go to college, you'll get the chance. Breaking away and all that comes naturally - if you dorm, anyway.

Probably will. If I go away that is.

I recommend it. [He shrugged with an intentional slowness.] As much as I love my parents, getting away from them for a few years has been a great idea.

I can understand that. Are you much of a partier?

Honestly, not really. I've got classes all the damn time. Criminology's taking longer than Law because I've got more labs to do in Criminology and you can't just test through those. Then I've got my Krav Maga classes of the evenings, and I'm looking into going into military training or the police academy after I've got all my degrees. [Yes. Yes he did have a lot on his plate.]

It's okay. I'm not either.

...whoa. Bit of an over achiever there?

Well, I did say I was only a little more biological than Asimov's Andrew Martin...

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