321, Monday Evening

[robinthefrog]

Robins side of the room was decorated with a number of posters, mostly for bands with female singers. Pink, the Corrs, Blondie, No Doubt, Evanescense. No Doubt was the latest edition. They looked down at the small frog as he sat on his bed going through his scrap book.

The summer was winding down, and Robin had had a decision to make. To go back home for to start High School, or stay here. It hadn't been a hard decision. He missed his family and friends back home, but this place was just too wonderful to leave just yet.

He'd met more people here his own age than anywhere else. Despite the assumption back home that Muppets were to be afforded the same rights and privileges as any human, most of them were home schooled. Robin would have been sent to an actual high school if he'd gone home, but here he already had a head start on the whole living amongst humans full time thing.

Besides he had a number of crushes and he just didn't want to leave.

And there were so many performance opportunities here! He was still feeling bouncy from the play (He played the villain! Hee!), and sure most of his singing lately had been protest songs, but that had still been fun. And if he didn't feel like going to Caritas, he could always just plunk himself down in the park and sing there.

The final factor in helping him decide to stay, was that Ms. Umbrage was gone. The woman had scared him, mostly because he'd never encountered anyone like her before. With such a blatantly racist attitude, he was amazed he was still here actually, after her declaration that he didn't belong there. Though she had inadvertently made him feel very loved. He wondered how she'd feel about that.

[door and post are open]

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[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Haku came into the room and smiled brightly at Robin. "Hey Robin, what are you working on?" He asked curiously.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi Haku!" Robin looked up from his mini-project. "I'm updating my scrapbook." Currently he was using scotch tape to attatch the back page of The Dream Oath program to an empty page. And getting a bit of it stuck to him as well.

Flailing only seemed to make it worse.

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, let me help you," he smiled with a small chuckle and moved to get Robin unstuck. "I don't think I've ever actually seen a scrap book before."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Thanks. I'm fuzzy so tape likes me. They're sort of like photo albums only instead of photos you put little mementos in it. Though I cheat and put photos in too."

Robin's scrap book had articles about The Muppets, cast photos stuff like that. He had a separate book for his celebrity photos.

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

"That's pretty neat!" He smiled brightly and looked thoughtful. "You know, I don't think I've ever had my picture taken.."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin gaped at him. "Never?" Where was his camera?

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Haku laughed and shook his head. "No, when I was still with my parents we were really poor and after I became a ninja.." he trailed off and shrugged. "It didn't seem smart to have my picture around."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

There was Muppet-like rummaging through Robin's closet and he found his camera. "You're a ninja? Cool!"

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Haku blushed faintly. "Well technically I'm an ex-ninja, my partner went rogue and I well followed him." Haku watched the small muppet rummage around franticly. "What were you looking for?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Would you like to get your picture taken?" Robin asked, holding up his camera.

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

"Uhhh... sure?" He smiled not looking as sure as he said. "What should I do?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"You don't have to." Robin said. Haku didn't sound so sure. "I just had the impulse to take your picture cause you said you'd never had it taken. But now that I say it, I think I'd like a picture of my room mate."

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

"No, no! It's fine! I'm just not sure what to do," Haku said and gave Robin a reassuring smile and waved his hands. "I mean, do you want me to smile? I think a lot of the pitures I've seen people were just standing there without much expression at all..."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I think it'd look better with you smiling, cause you usually seem to be." Robin nodded. "Or you could make a funny face if you wanted."

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

The mention of funny faces and Haku could only think of certian people back home and smiled brightly, shaking his head. "How's this then?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Perfect!" Robin bounced, then had to stop so he could hold the camera steady.

*Fwash!* "And that's it."

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Haku was momentarily blinded and and blinked rapidly to try and see again. "Oh," he said and rubbed his eyes with a small laugh. "I thought it would be a lot more complicated."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Sorry I forgot to warn you about the flash. And it can be more complicated, if you get a photographer that wants to take lots and lots of pictures."