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Clive was back, presumably he'd gone home since being in the night before, but sometimes it was difficult to tell with that boy.

At the moment he was at one of the smaller tables with a workbook, sketching out a new design and just grinning. For the moment he could forget that he'd been dumped.

(if you haven't yet, read the summary of his year in his journal. He's dun growed up while he was gone.)

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He looked rather like a deer in the headlights for a moment, but then he smiled, shuffling the sketches together to clear off some space, "Been a year for me, how long's it been here? And yes, sit, please."

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He grinned, "First batch of sketches to be put into production. I'm an actual, honest-to-god fashion designer now. These are all going to be for general consumption, but the idea is that if people like them enough they'll start asking for me by name, and then I'll be one of the ones with my own models and things."

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He smiled again, almost blushing, almost. He shrugged, "I like to think so, doesn't mean other people will."

His smile went almost entirely crooked, "Doesn't mean they don't either though." After all, he'd gotten a scholarship on his knack alone, and had passed the program with top marks.

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He nodded then, "Well... maybe next fall, it's almost fall now." He shrugged, "But that's not too long to wait, I mean, I've got two years before my contract is up."

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He actually had to think about that one, weighing everything against being dumped. On Valentine's Day no less. Finally he nodded, "Yeah. Guess I have."

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He smiled, just a little, then, nodding, "It does. Barely." He tilted his head back then, "Most days anyway." He shrugged, "I'll get over it eventually, just still stings."

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He wasn't sure what to make of the first bit of advice, but the second was easy enough. He nodded, "Yeah." He shrugged then, another almost smile catching at the corner of his mouth, "Not as easy to come by as people think though."

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Another slow smile then, still almost shy. Reaching out to brush his fingers through Ghost's hair, tucking it back behind his ear, "Glad to be back." He shook his head, "I tried to get back earlier, just never found the right door I guess."

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Clive's own smile returned, not quite as shy as before, "Yeah. It was fun, all in all, and Gypsy either kicked me out or dragged me out once a week so I wouldn't overwork myself."

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He smiled further, nodding, "Everything except space. Any space they've got there is filled up with everything else."

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He smiled again, just a little, "Maybe it's because I have sky. Gypsy and me painted it on the ceiling because that's the one thing we both miss about Sandusky."

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He grinned, "That's next, after we get the right paint and some star maps. Decide on constellations, make up our own."

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Some how his smile spread even further, nodding, "We did different skies in every room, the main room's got these fluffy clouds in it, and my room's got more of a storm thing going on, and hers is just little wispy clouds and the bathroom's got no clouds at all, but it's fading into sunset, or dawn, either one, and then the kitchenette's got some of everything because it was a nice long narrow strip of ceiling."

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He laughed, nodding, "Sometimes. Sometimes it even is." He shrugged then, "Now that it's turning fall of course. It'll snow before too long."

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He just tilted his head, listening, his own eyes having drifted half closed somewhere near the middle. He nodded, "S'what it's like in New York, at least, that's what they say. Can't see as how a city with that much smog can have clean white snow."

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He laughed again, nodding, "I think I might. And anyway, snow here's bound to be better than New York snow."