Neurodivergent Romance at Northampton Beach: [MsBloom x captain_bond]

[captain_bond]

Adrienne of course was more than happy to let Julia/n get dressed in relative privacy, and chose a T-shirt with an image on it that was a parody of the "Abbey Road" album cover, with four zombies walking through the ubiquitous crosswalk, one of whom was holding a chainsaw above its head, with a pair of bisexual Pride-themed suspenders and short denim shorts over a one-piece swimsuit, just in case their tasks or their recreational activities took them to the water again. Morrie, meanwhile, chose a plain black T-shirt with the words "I woke up like this" printed on it, and a pair of blue jeans. Adrienne didn't see what she wore underneath, and Morrie wasn't forthcoming, for obvious reasons. Both girls wore Converse sneakers, Adrienne's choice of footwear inspired by Julia/n's mismatched socks that she wore the first day (she brought two pairs of Converses, one orange, one black, so she wore the left black one and the right orange one) and Morrie's were black with white soles and laces. Adrienne complimented Julia/n on their look before they made their way to the mess hall for breakfast.

When they ate breakfast, neither girl was particularly focused on their food, instead casting glances over towards Morrie's bullies as well as the table where the senior counselors were seated, as if waiting for the proverbial hammer to fall. When one of the senior counselors caught Morrie's eye, he flashed her thumbs-up as if to reassure her that the bullies were not gonna get away with this. Indeed, it seemed that they were in deep discussion, presumably about what disciplinary action would befall the tormentors.

 

[MsBloom]

Julia/n however was for most of the breakfast more focused on their food, dry toast, bacon and scrambled eggs all on separate plates, than on the situation from the night before and its expected consequences. It was not because they did not care what had happened to Morrie but it was still emotionally overwhelming, and they also had Adrienne's question to think about. Something we can do here that you've always wanted to do, but didn't wanna do alone. Their first instinct, to introduce her to their world of music, did not really fall into that category as they had often played with others from the camp, even if they almost always found it to be a bit restricting because very few, be it among the other kids or the counsellors, that matched their own level of skill.

No it would have to be something else but what. They couldn't really think of one thing they had always wanted to do but not wanted to do alone.

After breakfast Ms Jones came up to them and asked Adrienne and Morrie to accompany her back to the administration office as witnesses while Ms Williams escorted the three girls that had bullied Morrie in the same direction. All three were girls that Julia/n knew from previous years but couldn't remember them ever having been homophobic before. In fact they had actually walked up on Colleen and Rachel kissing in the woods two years before. Was there something more to what had happened than was apparent. Was it perhaps only meant to be a prank that had gone too far? Was it perhaps an example of the classic boy hits girl because he likes her rather than telling her he likes her?

Julia/n waved by to Adrienne and Morrie as they left and then cleared away their empty plates and went to the music room again where they checked the interest lists for the ensemble activities and signed their names to most of them, the exception being for the choir as they really disliked singing.