high school is kind of boring really

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School plods along. Bella is native-quality fluent in Spanish, professor-level at math, well and thoroughly versed in the workings of the United States government, capable of doing actual independent research projects in biology, and she's been speaking English since she was one. Alas, these skills only make classes easier for a short time. After the novelty wears off they're just tedious. Bella winds up squaring her homework done more often than not so she can work out the kinks in her design for telekinesis, or play music, or attend soccer practice, or write little computer games, or read, or just fly around. This works out fine. Magic is pretty good at homework.

She winds up not attending most of the dances, but she does want to go to the end of year one, as she will be leaving Forks High School forever and it has some good points. Alice promised her a dress...

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"I don't know that many card games," says Alice. "What the hell is that one?" He points at Apples to Apples.

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"That's also a card game, but not with normal cards," Renée says. "I suppose it could work with three, but it's really better with more... there are adjectives and nouns, and one person draws an adjective and the others play appropriate nouns and the person who played the adjective awards that card to whoever played the best noun."

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"Ooh. Sounds fun," says Alice.

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"Well, we can see if three can work," says Renée, fetching the box from the shelf and carrying it to the table. She deals out cards.

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Alice takes a seat and a pile of nouns.

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Renée draws the first adjective and gets "Lovely".

"Oh, how lovely," she remarks, tittering and closing her eyes so she won't know which noun came from where.

Bella plays "A Sunset".

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After considering the selection for a moment, Alice plays "Jodie Foster".

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Renée opens her eyes, peers at the cards, squints at "Jodie Foster", and says, "I think I'll go with A Sunset, whose was that?"

Bella waves, and wins "Lovely". It is her turn, and she plays "Patriotic".

Renée offers "The Midwest".

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Alice offers "Plane Crashes". (His other cards were worse. At least this one's sort of horrifyingly funny.)

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Bella blinks at these cards, and slowly picks up The Midwest. Renée claims her prize. Alice's turn!

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His adjective is "Heartless".

[self_composed]

Bella plays "Los Angeles", and Renée chooses "Deer Hunting".

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"Ooooh," says Alice. "Tough one."

He thinks about it for a bit, and then selects Deer Hunting as the winner.

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Renée again! Hers is "Cute". Bella plays "A Tree House" out of her limited hand.

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From the available options, Alice goes with "Boy Scouts".

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Renée picks her daughter's card again, and then it's Bella's turn and she gets "Insulting". Renée doesn't have anything good and uses the turn to throw away "Black Velvet".

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This is the perfect place to put "Cabbage".

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"Cabbage?" Bella says incredulously.

It's marginally preferable to Renée's throwaway. Alice wins!

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Alice giggles and scoops his point. "You don't know my hand," he explains.

This turn's adjective is "Sexy"!

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Renée earnestly hands over "Captain Kirk".

Bella's hand has got to be really lousy if there's nothing in it Alice will find sexy. She looks and looks... Ah.

She gives him "Taking A Bath".

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"I get all the tough choices," says Alice.

He deliberates a little, but in the end, Taking A Bath wins. Sorry, Kirk. You're hot, but you're not as hot as what Alice gets up to in the shower.

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Renée looks confused but does not ask.

Her adjective is "Masculine".

Bella gives her "Watching Football".

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How about "Al Pacino"?

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Alice wins it.

Bella gets "Dead". Renée plays "Infomercials", giggling to herself.

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"Funerals".