Silent Hollow High

[MiscChaos]

"Well, yeah, it ain't mine. I can't be breaking things that aren't mine, can I?" she says to Gavin. With so few stuff of her own, other people's things become important enough in her hands that she would rather lose something of hers than to lose something of theirs. Unless she dislikes them. Then she has no qualms at all. With that settled, rather than pay attention to the teacher's boring welcome to school drivel, the basically the same shit they try feeding you when you get into middle school, she pays attention to Angela. That's going to be the real challenge of the day after all. If she can't get the girl to act civil, then everything becomes annoying and awkward and all that bad shit and she'd rather not have to deal with that for a whole school year. Actually, she won't. Worse come to worse, she'll cut off this whole 'Be nice to Angela' thing and just suffer Gavin's wrath for it. She doesn't have the tolerance to stand bitches for too terribly long. As a note to herself, she makes another goal to get the people who obviously recognized her and starting backing away like she was gonna steal their lunch money (she never did that. Too easy to trace, too juvenile) to cool off. No need for a scene that reintroduces her old reputation after all.

[Thaedael]

Gavin continued to jot down notes in his messy penmanship as the teacher continued to speak, talking about the general things they would be doing, and what was expected of them. It was very much the same as it was at every mile-stone, but it was a speech the teacher had to give as part of his job, so he couldn't fault her for them for it. He capped his pen, before pressing the lid all the way home with an audible click, before tossing the note-pad back into his briefcase. He looked to his side, seeing Sai staring at Angela. He looked over to Angela giving her a smile, "Well, glad we are in the same class again!" he said with a smile.

[Taria]

Angela almost gasps in suprise as Gavin turns his attention towards her without any provocation on her own part. She walks closer to the group of two as the bell rings against and everyone begins heading to whatever they have next. "Yeah... It'll be great." She glances towards Sai uncertainly as she adds, "It'll be the three of us, I guess." Angela's hand grips her shoulder strap firmly as she leans in close to Gavin, standing on the opposite side of him away from Sai. "Is this what normaly people do? Make friends with whoever they randomly run in to?" Lanx silently sneaks across the hallway floor as he dashes towards Angela. With an agile leap he pounces into an open pocked of Angela's backpack and curls up on the inside with a satisfied grin before falling asleep.

[MiscChaos]

Taking a look at the uncertainty in Angela's gaze, Sai just shrugs. "I've got no problems if you don't." She says, not quite a peace offering to her as much as a ceasefire. She doesn't even comment on how the girl leans away from her and towards Gavin, not wanting to cause unnecessary friction, again just shrugging it off. She's supposed to be trying this "friends" thing and she's heard many say it's not supposed to be easy, so she supposes that's part of the price of admission. With her arms crossed before her, accidentally slipping back into her more delinquent way of walking before she tears her arms back to her sides, she walks along side the two. "So what classes ya'll got next?" she asks, not willing to dig her schedule out of her backpack right now since that'd mean people could see the clothes she rather hurriedly shoved in there this morning.

[Thaedael]

He swung the briefcase around so that the strap hanging from the two hinged clips hung from his shoulder, the briefcase in place on his back as he walked. He put an arm around Angela, and another around Saigras, pulling them in close. "This is going to be a fun year!" he said with glee. They walked down the hallway towards the chemistry lab, walking around the final bend to the east wing. They walked into the room that he had been looking forward to since he had entered this school years ago, the chemistry lab. "Chemistry!" he said with happiness.

[Taria]

Fast forward a few mnutes... Angela, Gavin, and Saigras are all sitting together at a lab table, Angela weearing large plastic goggles with her hair tied up into ponytail and her outfit loosely covered by a starch white lab coat. "AWESOME!!!" Angela blurts out loud as the teacher begins explaining the assignment. The classroom falls silent for a moment as everyone glares at Angela as she awkwadly coughs and tries to pretend nothing occured. Fiddling with a stack of papers that have been handed out for her to pass on, she hands a sheet to Gavin and then to Saigras while the teacher resumes to speak. "Now if you'll all seperate into groups of two..." Angela's face become shadowed with a grim overcast as she gaze back and forth at Gavin and Saigras questioningly.

[Thaedael]

The day had continued to pass in a pace that seemed like a blur to Gavin. They had entered into the chemistry lab, the one class he had looked forward to since the first day he entered this school at the lower grades. Many times had walked past the room, glancing at the students smiling and conducting experiments that seem both genuinely fun as well as as interesting. The students sat in two rows, the seats arranged in a semi circle around a lecture on the far side of the class-room, the side that was dedicated to the lecture component of the class. The teacher was an elderly woman wearing a lab-coat, it's color being a plethora of smears and drips that composed nearly every color of the rainbow, but favoring the rusty red colors that dirtied the length of the edges where contact must have been frequently.

Behind the lectern was a drop down screen, a simple motorized screen that had slid down into place. The teacher was to the point, eloquent, and relatively passionate about what it was she taught. Gavin sat in one of the chairs, the fold out portion of the bucket seat digging into the back of his pant leg as the fold out arm wrest where he took notes continued to creak and groan, many more seats in the classroom making the same noise as the students continued to shift awkwardly in the seats. He took down the dates of assignments, exams, and the breakdown of the grading scheme, making sure that he made no errors, despite the fact that the teacher gave out a handheld. With the quick introduction done, Gavin, Angela, Saigras, and a few others were on the other side of the room, the lab section. There were rows of lab tables, each with built in gas outlets, built in sinks. Along the walls were fume hoods, scientific equipment. The wall behind where Gavin sat was the location of the chemical locker, as well as the two chemical shows and eye washers that were part of safety protocol.

The first experiment was nothing too complicated, a simple experiment to show what they would be doing long down the road, a simple example of mixing two liquid chemicals to form a precipitate. The teacher continued to lecture them as she went up and down the parallel arranged rows, distributing papers. The assignment was to be done in groups of two, and right away Gavin's eyes shot to Angela. She looked to him, before looking to Saigras, what he assumed to be the same look of disdain she had with her when they first met in the park. What had gotten into her Gavin wondered to himself. In the time it took for summer to come and go, she had grown so distant to him, clingy, accusing, and insecure. Already she was trying to assert herself against that of Saigras, already Lanx words coming back to haunt him. She did value his every word, didn't she?

He looked over to Siagras, his mind and heart teling him that he wanted to work with her, to experience a new friendship, but already his loyalty to her twisted his own wants into the background. He let out a sigh. Quickly he turned on the swivel stool he sat upon, counting the people in the class. It was an even number, and once again she looked at him to make a decision. "Angela, you can take Sagrias, I will look for a partner" he said with a simple smile. He wanted Angela to give the delinquent a chance, it was the least he could do for the girl that shared a meal with him and gave him advice on his future. Perhaps that could ease up a bit of the tension he begun to pick up through out the day already.

He looked back between the two women, not sure how either would react.

[MiscChaos]

When Sai sees that the first day of class is the stereotypical "Get to know you and go over the syllabus" type deal, she almost immediately starts zoning out. There's nothing the teacher is saying that she can't pick up from the actual syllabus that the woman is passing out. That changes when they're assigned an experiment right off the bat. She doesn't have a problem with work so long as it's actually challenging. She only got mediocre grades before her last year of middle school because she didn't bother after all. When she tried, she actually surprised the teachers by how high she scored, though she doesn't see why. She acted stupidly, not dumbly. Big difference. When she hears this experiment will be done in duos, she has to restrain a groan. Either she'll try to pick Gavin and have Angela's ire to deal with, she'll be stuck with Angela and that will be it's own awkwardness/hostility, or she'll be stuck with someone she doesn't know and have to deal with that awkwardness. The choice is kind of made for her when Gavin, as she expected, tries to pair her off with Angela to defuse some of the tension between them. Since this is something she wanted to do anyway, she doesn't object.

"If she's cool with it, I've got no problem with it." she says, almost a repeat of what she said earlier. Then she looks to Angela. "So we cool as a group?"

[Taria]

Angela scoot her chair eagerly towards Sai, practically bowling Gavin out of the way as she makes a big goofy grin. "Let's do it." She states, happy that she didn't just get left out to fend for herself. She glances at Gavin momentarily wondering if he'll have trouble finding a partner. "Pfft, considering it's Gavin he'll probably have ladies fighting each other to be his partner." She considers internally before looking back down at her sheet. "I'll go get the stuff we need." She tells Saigras as she stands out of her stool and heads to the section of the classroom that has been filled with scieney junk for the students to grab.

[Thaedael]

"Well as long as you two are happy, I will be taking my leave" he said simply. He hoped the two would manage to get on without him, specifically with one killing the other over how dysfunctional their friendship was. He sat next to one of the other girls in the class, getting the supplies ready to perform the experiment.