High School AU - Part Two
Story : knights & necromancers ( High School AU)
Timeframe : Monday
So, these two aren't anything exciting, but they kind of had to be there. They're part of what took me so long to get day 1 done.
The quote in the first is from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Soft Serve 20/50 - Rocky Road #12. Classroom with Chopped Nuts
Word Count : 421 Rating : G
Five minutes into English and Kairn’s mind wasn’t on math tests at all. Nor was it on the passage currently being read aloud, though there was the nagging thought at the back of his head that he ought to be paying attention so he would have something worthwhile to put in his paper. For the moment, all the focus he could muster was directed toward the girl who was doing the reading.
Lyssa Burnoire. There wasn’t a boy around that didn’t have some fantasy involving her. Except for Sethan. But that’s because he was, well, Sethan. Whoever it was Sethan had dreams about, he kept a tight lid on it, if he had such thoughts at all.
And Lyssa was well aware of all the eyes and hearts set on her. She went strutting about the school as if she owned it, in her skimpy tops and skirts so short they were just barely in line with the dress code. Every move she made, every swish of her hips, every tilt of her shoulders, every toss of her hair, seemed a carefully orchestrated ploy to invite one’s gaze to linger.
Kairn was well aware he wasn’t the only one looking. And he knew he didn’t stand a chance. But he’d be damned if he could pull himself away. Today she had on a red shirt that was far too little coverage for the crisp March air, with stringy little straps that drooped down off her shoulders as she slouched in her seat, and her coppery red hair was pulled into a loose braid that hung down the center of her back, where Kairn found himself tempted to count the freckles that dotted her pale skin.
“’It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice,” Lyssa read from the book propped open on her desk, “when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet-and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”
What they were supposed to be deriving from reading a pile of children’s stories, Kairn wasn’t sure, but as long as Lyssa kept volunteering to read passages, he wasn’t about to waste time questioning it. Even if he were the one who had to read, squirming as he always did under the weight of the whole class’s eyes, he would have been quite glad for the bell not to ring, as it inevitably did, sending him on to Trig.
Strawberry Banana #11. A Test with Chopped Nuts
Word Count : 214 Rating : G
Kairn had read the first question on the trig test at least three times before it resembled anything less than random words, and he still didn’t know what to do with it. Fifteen minutes later he had three problems done and suspected his answers made little more sense than his first two readings of the first problem had.
He spun his pencil around on the desk a few times, played with the eraser, and tried to find some meaning in the fourth question. He punched a few things into his calculator, cleared them back out and tried again, gave his pencil another spin, and sank a little lower in his chair.
A quick glance around the room found Sethan yawning as he tapped at his calculator, Reida frantically scribbling away at her page, and Lyssa looking just as lost as he was. He sighed, turned back to his own paper and put down a guess for the fourth problem and another for the fifth.
When the bell rang, Reida and Sethan had been twiddling their thumbs for at least ten minutes and Kairn still had three questions left. He stuffed his pencil and calculator back into the pouch in his binder and shuffled to the front of the room with his test in hand.
Timeframe : Monday
So, these two aren't anything exciting, but they kind of had to be there. They're part of what took me so long to get day 1 done.
The quote in the first is from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Soft Serve 20/50 - Rocky Road #12. Classroom with Chopped Nuts
Word Count : 421 Rating : G
Five minutes into English and Kairn’s mind wasn’t on math tests at all. Nor was it on the passage currently being read aloud, though there was the nagging thought at the back of his head that he ought to be paying attention so he would have something worthwhile to put in his paper. For the moment, all the focus he could muster was directed toward the girl who was doing the reading.
Lyssa Burnoire. There wasn’t a boy around that didn’t have some fantasy involving her. Except for Sethan. But that’s because he was, well, Sethan. Whoever it was Sethan had dreams about, he kept a tight lid on it, if he had such thoughts at all.
And Lyssa was well aware of all the eyes and hearts set on her. She went strutting about the school as if she owned it, in her skimpy tops and skirts so short they were just barely in line with the dress code. Every move she made, every swish of her hips, every tilt of her shoulders, every toss of her hair, seemed a carefully orchestrated ploy to invite one’s gaze to linger.
Kairn was well aware he wasn’t the only one looking. And he knew he didn’t stand a chance. But he’d be damned if he could pull himself away. Today she had on a red shirt that was far too little coverage for the crisp March air, with stringy little straps that drooped down off her shoulders as she slouched in her seat, and her coppery red hair was pulled into a loose braid that hung down the center of her back, where Kairn found himself tempted to count the freckles that dotted her pale skin.
“’It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice,” Lyssa read from the book propped open on her desk, “when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet-and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”
What they were supposed to be deriving from reading a pile of children’s stories, Kairn wasn’t sure, but as long as Lyssa kept volunteering to read passages, he wasn’t about to waste time questioning it. Even if he were the one who had to read, squirming as he always did under the weight of the whole class’s eyes, he would have been quite glad for the bell not to ring, as it inevitably did, sending him on to Trig.
Strawberry Banana #11. A Test with Chopped Nuts
Word Count : 214 Rating : G
Kairn had read the first question on the trig test at least three times before it resembled anything less than random words, and he still didn’t know what to do with it. Fifteen minutes later he had three problems done and suspected his answers made little more sense than his first two readings of the first problem had.
He spun his pencil around on the desk a few times, played with the eraser, and tried to find some meaning in the fourth question. He punched a few things into his calculator, cleared them back out and tried again, gave his pencil another spin, and sank a little lower in his chair.
A quick glance around the room found Sethan yawning as he tapped at his calculator, Reida frantically scribbling away at her page, and Lyssa looking just as lost as he was. He sighed, turned back to his own paper and put down a guess for the fourth problem and another for the fifth.
When the bell rang, Reida and Sethan had been twiddling their thumbs for at least ten minutes and Kairn still had three questions left. He stuffed his pencil and calculator back into the pouch in his binder and shuffled to the front of the room with his test in hand.