Ibis returned to filing her nails and didn't bother to look up at him.
"Si, chico. I see you, like, got sucked into the whole public school gig. I always hated public school. SOOO laaaame and stuff. But hey, we all have to make a living somehow. With this job, I'll be able to afford new totally gorgeous Jumblehoppers."
She looked up at him. "Pshaw, as if! I still have my old, trusty green hang glider. I just want the new totally awesome forest green Jumblehoppers that just came out. Dark green is SO out of style now."
She stopped filing her nails for a second. Lark in school. The disaster must be mondo gigantic.
Nester only stared as if she was nuts. Why did fashion even matter? Sure, he liked looking good because he was the most ~handsome~ guy around lol, but still!
"Uhhhh yeah. My grades? They're the best!" Confident as ever, of course. "I'm getting straight A's and it's rad!"
She sneered at him and chuckled. Heh. "Like I buy that. Are you, like, barely scraping by with C's, or are you so far into F-ville that... er.... you're failing and stuff?"
"Of course I-... heeeeeeey!" Nester whined, frowning and folding his arms over his chest like a toddler that didn't get his candy. "I BET I'm not failing! Straight A's, no C's, no F's, not even B's! I can prove it!"
Ibis raised her eyebrows, feigning an impressed look she was used to using in Lark's presence.
"You can, can you?" she nodded. "And you're so sure, you don't, like, actually need to prove it by showing me, like, your last report card or anything, right? Cuz you don't need to prove it, right? Just like how you didn't need to prove you knew how to drive a Model 6 Gyrocopter without reading the instructions?"
"Yeah, like-... heeeeeey but that was years ago! Or something!" Nester's frowned only dug deeper. "I CAN fly a gyrocopter without instructions now! I don't even need to remember the instructions because it comes naturally."
Then he spawned a look of slightly nervousness. As in, it was that look he held every time he was blatantly lying and doing a bad job of it, or just being a screw-up. "But, uhhh, yeah, uh. I don't have my last report card! It, uh... got stolen. Yeah. That stuff happens here a lot, yeah! But it had straight A's everywhere!"
Ibis scoffed. "It totally didn't come naturally to you that time, but I'll lay off for the sake of your ego."
"You know, since I'm a teacher now, all I'd have to do is, like, go into the records office and sift through your file and stuff. If I did that, I wouldn't happen to, like, come across any surprises now, would I?"
Ohhh yeah. Now Nester was in a tight spot. Ouch, his ego.
"Nuh... no! Duhhh, of course not! All you're gonna see is the best from me, I betcha. Yeaaaaah..." He laughed nervously and attempted to strike an overly-confident pose. Considering he was Nester, he didn't really look all that 'badass' doing so.
That was, until he saw who the teacher was. Then he just stared bewilderedly until her lecture was completed.
"... YOU'RE MY TEACHER?!"
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"Si, chico. I see you, like, got sucked into the whole public school gig. I always hated public school. SOOO laaaame and stuff. But hey, we all have to make a living somehow. With this job, I'll be able to afford new totally gorgeous Jumblehoppers."
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"It's pretty BORING, but I came here for my freshman year, so who cares! I like the school for some freako reason."
Then he looked at her oddly. "You're just here to get Jumble Hoppers? BOOORING. Hang gliders are way cooler!"
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She stopped filing her nails for a second. Lark in school. The disaster must be mondo gigantic.
"So, like, how are your grades, kid?"
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"Uhhhh yeah. My grades? They're the best!" Confident as ever, of course. "I'm getting straight A's and it's rad!"
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With the big fat F on 60% of his work?
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"You can, can you?" she nodded. "And you're so sure, you don't, like, actually need to prove it by showing me, like, your last report card or anything, right? Cuz you don't need to prove it, right? Just like how you didn't need to prove you knew how to drive a Model 6 Gyrocopter without reading the instructions?"
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Then he spawned a look of slightly nervousness. As in, it was that look he held every time he was blatantly lying and doing a bad job of it, or just being a screw-up. "But, uhhh, yeah, uh. I don't have my last report card! It, uh... got stolen. Yeah. That stuff happens here a lot, yeah! But it had straight A's everywhere!"
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"You know, since I'm a teacher now, all I'd have to do is, like, go into the records office and sift through your file and stuff. If I did that, I wouldn't happen to, like, come across any surprises now, would I?"
Ibis loved teasing him. It was just too easy.
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"Nuh... no! Duhhh, of course not! All you're gonna see is the best from me, I betcha. Yeaaaaah..." He laughed nervously and attempted to strike an overly-confident pose. Considering he was Nester, he didn't really look all that 'badass' doing so.
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