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There were several things that made Audrey Collins unpopular with any female population she might find herself in the midst of. First was her general abandonment of any style of fashion, going instead for flamboyant mixes and matches all distinctly her own. Secondly was her ability to eat nearly anything that came into her view, no matter what the calorie count, and still remain as slim as a beanpole. This was readily evident in the fact that the double Whopper between her hands was loaded with everything under the sun that the burger joint could put on. The bun itself was barely more than a garnish and napkins were draped liberally around her body to catch whatever dripped out.

"Mmf." A delighted noise before the bluenette swallowed. "It's delicious, the best thing ever. You should die from like, looking at it, but you don't. That's the best part." Another bite, and two french fries were crammed in discretely as the pair relaxed in the late-afternoon sunshine. True, the park was usually dangerous, but only at night. Youma almost never came out during the day on their own, and the Makaiju had been thoroughly uprooted. Certainly they wouldn't bother the pair here. "It also takes practice though. Sometimes you gotta just admit you can't fit the whole thing, and take side bites. Like this." The sandwich was twisted and with a crunch more toppings and meat vanished. "It's an adventure." A delicious adventure.

"Do you wanna try it? I can probably find a knife in the bag somewhere to cut you off some of the back!" Secretly though, Audrey was hoping that Elke was content with what she had. It had been a few weeks since the teen had gotten over to this side of the park, and it was only gratitude that the other blue-haired girl had answered her desperate Tweet that brought on the offer.

A deep swig of sugar-laden soda helped force the large bite down and fries were again all but shoved into her mouth with a ferocity that any starved animal would appreciate. There was something about the grease that was absolutely delicious to her, and it would not be denied! "Nah! I just get double everything. So there's more lettuce, onion, pickle. Makes it really crunchy, though the tomato is usually sorta soggy from sitting all day. You can't really taste it around the extra ketchup and mayo though. I'm sure a normal burger doesn't make any extra sound. But the sound is most of the fun!" The monstrosity was almost half gone now, and disappearing fast. Obviously, she was both parts thrilled to have it, and eager to take a crack at the laptop.

"So if you can, before I finish up, what the heck is wrong with your computer anyway? I can generally handle just about everything, but if I have to take it apart we might have to go back to my place for a bit. Too many tiny things to lose in the grass." Out of her eye, she saw the duck sauce and an eyebrow raised. She didn't even know they had duck sauce! What the heck was duck sauce?

The sandwich was gone, had vanished into the mysterious second stomach of Audrey Collins. Her stomach bulged just a bit against the skirt of her uniform that she'd been too lazy to change out of for once and munching a bit slower on the french fries, fingers prodded at it. "You know, I think I have a food baby. That's amazing. Doc Wes mentioned them once in class, but I didn't think they were real, you know?" The off-white sailor shirt was lifted just a bit and then dropped again with a sigh as fingers were meticulously cleaned. The bluenette always carried wetnaps in her messenger bag, just in case something greasy came along. When Elke had mentioned food and computers, she'd packed double.

You didn't touch computers with greasy fingers! Ursula probably did, and idly, the girl wondered if the much-sought after laptop had ever lived past Valentine's Day. She doubted it. Situating the technology on her lap, Audrey booted the thing up and popped in her very favorite toy - her wireless adapter. Take the internet anywhere! said the ad, and boy did she ever! Pulling up the browser immediately showed the problem, it was indeed asking for a password to access the site. "That's so weird. Who was the last person to use your computer before this happened? Depending on how savvy they are, this might be really easy or super tricky." The teen wasn't entirely sure which one she preferred. The challenge was always nice, but then it might have to come home with her. It was hard living without a computer, and Audrey didn't know if Elke used it at all for school.

Using a napkin, fries were plucked and pushed into the girl's mouth, chewing while she contemplated. Well, it wasn't too bad, at any rate. "Fixable though."

Passing Elke one of her little wetnaps, Audrey froze mid-gesture and sighed with an almost resigned gesture. "Elzo? Elzo Xanis? I somehow think he's gotten to every girl in town before I have a chance to meet them!" Certainly he'd cut a swathe through the Crystal girls, though she knew that. She'd heard it from her source, hadn't she? Elzo Xanis hung around Crystal Academy and collected cherries and panties from the girls there. Just because she had some silly crush and they'd made out at Jada's party didn't mean anything. Really.

Gold eyes rolled dramatically and the girl laughed softly before heading straight into the Control Panel. There were parental controls built into every computer, and knowing now who put the block on the internet made things rather clear. He'd either taken advantage of them, or downloaded a third-party control program onto the slim little Mac. It was possible to go deep into the controls that meant that Google would never again see the light of day, but Audrey knew better. There wasn't that sort of technical knowledge there, not like she had. "Bingo!" Sure enough, there they were, turned on in all their selective glory. Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Bing. All the search engines. "Geez Elzo, you're a bit of a jerk." A quick restart, strong-arming her way into the admin panel, and a few taps.

Ten, maybe fifteen minutes passed, and Google sprung up in its primary color glory on the Mac's screen. "Tadaaaaaa~ Magician Audrey works her technopowers once again!" Passing it to Elke to see for herself, smugly the bluenette rewarded herself with more fries. "That was so easy. I mean, I'm not that great with the Mac OS, but at least it wasn't like, Linux. I couldn't have turned off ANYTHING on that." She hated Linux. Like the plague.

Distress flashed across Audrey's face for a moment before she was tugged into a hug, careful to not squeeze back too hard for the computer's sake. Elzo loved a girl? That was his Juliet right? Weren't they broken up? Certainly she hoped so, because he hadn't mentioned her in a long time, and Saturday. And the ball. And her cinnamon rolls! Gold eyes sparked and simmered with nerves and distress before Elke's questions about Linux and Google popped her back out of her own little mental world.

"Hm? Oh, Linux is...not important. It's just something that your computer runs, like a program. Really complicated stuff though, you have to be a programmer to really make sense of it. And lord no, you can look up anything on Google! Sometimes it's fun to put your name in and see what comes up. Gotta be careful though, sometimes you'll find porn on there if you type dirty things into it. So don't do that, kay?" A quick grin suffused the bluenette's face before it got nervous again. "So...you say Elzo's got a girl?" She tried to look like nothing more than a mischievous gossip, leaning in almost like a conspirator. "You should totally tell me about that, I don't get any good gossip at Meadowview!" Which was totally untrue, she got all she wanted.

After all, people talked, and Audrey was pretty good at making herself invisible, for all that she had bright blue hair. Girls talked over her head at each other, and she knew most of what was going on at any given time. This was, however, important. Nobody was going to make a fool out of her!