[Second Life] High School General Interaction Post

[meat_mooks]

Just another day at Fairplay High School...

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Somewhere outside.

[astridhofferson]

[astridhofferson]

Cafeteria

[thunder_ace]

Fate, being the forced loner that she was, was sitting at one of the corner tables of the cafeteria. The remains of her lunch (homemade; her mother never gave her money to buy it) were set out in front of her, and her nose was currently buried in a book. Every once in a while she'd look up, eyes nervously darting around the room. She was keeping an eye out for a certain trio of girls, already planning a quick escape if they spotted her.

Other than that, she seemed like your average Fairplay teenager relaxing during her lunch break. Feel free to approach!

[alterniantaurus]

Tavros is far too shy to actually approach, but on one of her sweeps around the room she might notice him, a table away, giving her a somewhat strange look.

He just can't shake this disjointed feeling, a sense of deja vu only opposite. He barely knows her, except from seeing her around the school and town, but something about it doesn't seem right all of a sudden.

[thunder_ace]

Indeed she noticed him, and Fate's first instinct was to turn away. But... there was something about him. It wasn't just the fact that he didn't have that certain glint in his eyes that all the school bullies had...

"Um... is something wrong?" She said, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the lunchroom, after a few moments of pondering.

[alterniantaurus]

Oh crap, she'd seen him staring. What was he thinking? He averts his eyes, looking embarrassed, and shakes his head. No, nothing's really wrong, just...

"...Sorry..."

...probably just having an off day.

Kang's Office

[puny_parker]

Peter, like he had many times before, entered Kang's office and slumped into a chair across from him.

"Tired of seeing me in here yet?"

Re: Kang's Office

[governorkang]

Kang frowned, looking up from the paperwork he'd been doing, "Of course not, Peter. You know I don't mind talking with you. What's up?"

Re: Kang's Office

[puny_parker]

"Unless a cheerleader doesn't blab, I may have to cross going to the Takamachi bakery off of the list of things I can do like a normal person. And if the dreams I've been having lately are any indication, I might be going as crazy as everyone else already thinks I am."

Re: Kang's Office

[governorkang]

"Why? Only the Takamachi family can refuse you - oh. I see. You don't want them to lose business because of your patronage," Kang's frown deepened, and he set the paperwork aside, shifting in his seat with a slight wince. His knee was acting up again.

"What kind of dreams have you been having?"

[icanhashat]

Another day another long slow and pathetic day at work.

Disrespect pouring down on all sides from employers, co-workers and worse of all the students. Jayne absolutely HATED the students. They didn't care about how long it took him to clean the floors. No one cared so long as everything was clean when they came back each day.

So here is our beleaguered maintenance man, feel free to make a mess or torment him in some way or another.

[riseupnchargem]

Making his way out of the cafeteria, Jamie was suddenly jostled by one of the other students - not quite with enough force to bowl him over, but certainly hard enough to knock his lunch tray out of his hands, sending its contents scattering across the floor. Peas rolled everywhere, a half-empty can of soda sluggishly emptied onto the linoleum, and the barely-touched mystery meat...

...had wound up right on the janitor's shoe. Jamie grimaced, embarrassment washing over him as the other students roared their amusement. Swearing under his breath, he glanced up at the janitor, looking thoroughly abashed. "I'm, uh, I'm sorry. Lemme just - "

Dropping to a crouch he snatched up some scattered napkins and set to cleaning the remnants of his lunch off the man's shoe.

[icanhashat]

Jayne cocked an eyebrow and as Jamie bent to clean up the mess he lifted his boot shaking the meat from it, "Get up kid I'll take care of it." He grumbled suddenly feeling embarrassed for the kid. The laughter of the students was harsh and he felt it washing over him. Familiar but horribly uncomfortable even when it wasn't aimed at him directly.

[riseupnchargem]

Jamie shook his head doggedly, not looking up from his clean-up job, the other kids' laughter grating on his already tattered dignity. "Nah, 'sokay, I got it. Besides - " He trailed off, not really sure what else he'd been going to say. He pitied the janitor, inasmuch as he could muster such feelings for anyone beyond his own shell of depression. Guy always seemed defeated, resigned to his fate, something with which Jamie identified keenly.

He frowned to himself as he wiped up the last of the mystery meat and flicked the napkins onto his tray, reaching to upright the soda can next. "...not like anyone else is gonna help clean this up, right?" he ventured, finally darting a glance upward.

Practice Field

[boundlesslight]

"Gooooooooooo Team!"

Corinne knew she could pull these stunts off. It was just a flip here, twist there, and plenty of smiling---if it's wide enough and you move quickly enough, they'll definitely believe you have spirit. And that was the key.

Just as she'd practiced, the girl positioned herself in her teammates' waiting arms and arced upward. She closed her eyes to block out the glaring winter sun, only to see a flash of green light behind her eyelids. In that instant, her body felt not quite her own, as if it was on fire---but not in a painful way. It was difficult to explain.

Unfortunately, it was just enough of a distraction to keep her from twisting the way she was supposed to, causing her to collide painfully with the mat when she didn't land where the others expected her to.

((NPCing a brief thread here))

[meat_mooks]

"Excuse me, what was that?"

Ah, that was the team captain. Hands on hips, eyes ice cold, demanding an explanation. Corinne appeared fine, and she'd better be fine---or the consequences would be much worse.

[boundlesslight]

Corinne gaped at her captain. Of course it must look like her fault, it wasn't every day that such an odd feeling distracted her at the height of a jump, but it was to be expected. This is the elite squad, as she'd often said, not the little league.

"I'm sorry!" Corinne rolled up to a sitting position, checking on her limbs. "The...sun's glare distracted me."

Tell them she'd seen a green light? Are you kidding? She's be off the team and in a hospital before the day ended.

[meat_mooks]

"Then you should've closed your eyes!" chimed Linda, as if this was the most obvious thing in the world. And to her it was. "You're really lucky this was just practice."

"Not lucky enough," added the captain. "They saw!"

Who saw? Why, a few players of the football team, of course, boggling at the girl's graceless fall. The next cheer event was soon, and one of their key team members was fouling it up? What was wrong with that girl?