Quinn, on the other hand, was completely unaware of the fact there was another student sulking in the trees within the frame of her camera. The shot she lined up was snapped as Marianne stood. A small frown at seeing unexpected addition to the photo appeared on her face before she let the camera down.
"It's close enough to night-time," Quinn called back and took a few steps forward so that she was on the edge of the walkway instead of standing in the middle of it. "What are you doing hiding in trees anyway, Parker?"
"Oh, you know. Loitering, the usual." Mari flopped back down under the tree, beckoning Quinn over to sit with her. "What the fuck are you doing taking pictures of vulnerable students?"
Deciding that it was better than calling back and forth, Quinn answered Mari's beckons to go and sit next to her. She'd been walking and standing long enough anyhow and sitting down wouldn't hurt.
"Taking photos of vulnerable students, of course." She answered with a snicker as she sat down. Her camera she gingerly placed back in its carrying case for the time being. "Frankly, I was bored and taking pictures is relaxing. Unfortunately, after being here so long, there's less and less interesting things to take pictures of while on campus."
"Shit, I think this place ran out of interesting things after the first week of being here" Mari said dramatically, rolling her eyes and leaning back against the tree trunk.
Quinn scoffed. "Mari, I live in New Orleans. This place was boring before I even got here." Which was true, really. She'd walked around the campus shortly after receiving her letter to tour it before she even began the Lower Institute.
At the question, she shrugged. "It was good. Not the most exiting summer of all time, but it was good enough. What about yours?"
"I suppose" Mari relented, smiling. "Though I don't know how you can take this heat, all year, without a goddamn break." Living in Colorado, Mari was used to a cooler climate, at least in the Winter.
"My summer was fine, we went to England and shit. The usual." She graped at a clump of grass and started tearing it in her hands. "Anything beats being at school, though."
"The heat isn't so bad once you get used to it." Quinn shifted herself a little more comfortably, keeping her legs to her side. "I go to New York for a bit during the summer and on some holidays, so I suppose that's my break."
She watched Mari abusing the grass, glancing for a moment at the girl before going back to what she was shredding. "Could be worse. You could be going to a muggle school. That's probably even more boring."
"Clean air? What's clean air?" Quinn answered in a way that showed her agreement, another smirk on her face.
She shrugged a little bit. "Latin if you choose to, maybe. But there's like... math, history, literature, science, and it's all book stuff from what I know. No chance of anything interesting happening ever."
"I'll take you on a good old fashioned Colorado hike. Then you can sample some clean air." Mari raised an eyebrow at the older girl before chucking the shredded grass back onto the ground.
"Ugh, math. Fuck that, perhaps we're better off here. Even if half the people are annoying."
"I don't know," Quinn looked at Mari suspiciously, drawing out her words in her light Louisiana accent. "Clean air might very well kill me as I'm that unaccustomed to it."
"Honey," the look of suspicion gave way to a truthful sort of look, "At least half the school is going to be annoying no matter which school you go to. There are millions of annoying people to go around."
"That's okay, I think hiking anywhere would truly kill me. All that...exercise." She grinned and looked at Quinn briefly.
"I do think that this school has a higher dick to normal person ratio. I mean, I love 'em and all, but some of your housemates are crazy motherfuckers."
"Good." Quinn smiled back at Mari. She wouldn't be the worlds best hiker anyway; she'd probably get a quarter mile into it before giving up and sitting down. "Well... okay. I can't deny that. My house is crazy, but sometimes it's the best sort of crazy. And you're right about the higher percentage. I should know," Quinn almost looked proud, "I'm one of them."
She looked at Marianne for a the span of a heartbeat before bursting into laughter. It was sarcastic, she knew, but it didn't make it any less funny. Nice and wholesome were words that shouldn't ever be used in relation to the senior Lalaurie. The thought alone was enough to send anyone that knew of her into a fit of laughter.
"Oh," Quinn managed once the the worst of it passed, "That's classic."
"Oh yea. I'd be the perfect person to bring home to the family," Quinn smirked and slowly began to get herself back onto her feet.
"Well, I don't know about you, but it's getting too dark and therefore my lighting is shot, so my reason for being out is done," she said as she brushed off dirt and leaves from her legs, "You staying out here?"
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