shirk

[thebeastwithout]

[voice]
Whoa. Hold on. Time out, dudes. So school was pretty OK at first, and I guess there was a buncha stuff that was good to know. I had no idea Napoleon crossed the Saraha on an elephant; I thought he was just the guy who invented that triple ice cream flavor. And the difference between geometry and geography is pretty obvious now, looking back.  But this is just gettin' lame!  Why the heck is there homework every day? Who invented midterms? And how do any of you guys have time for video games after going through all of this junk?!

You're all with me on this, right? I did fine teaching myself before; is there like someone I can talk to to get outta class?  I'm pretty much set for life schoolwise already.  I before t except after g, triangles have 360 angles, blahblah, see?

[action, high school]
[Beast Boy is so over this school thing.  The next day, instead of a skinny green boy sitting in his desk, there is a small, green cat curled up on top, taking a nap.  This persists in every class apart from lunch and gym.]  

[action, makeout point]
[Sometime after Valentine's Day, Beast Boy flutters up to the top of the mountain and transforms back into his usual self, sitting with his legs dangling off the side of the cliff.  There is a dreamy expression in his eyes and he sighs deeply as he flops backwards.  ...He changes his mind half a second later and sits back up, leaning over to scream down into the town far below.]

I've got a girlfrieeeeeend!!!!

[Oh, yeah.  Felt good.]

Comments

[thebeastwithout]

Oh!

Sorry about that, dude.

...You really like school here?

[priceofmagic]

Of course I do! I could never go to school or anything back home. This is really fun! Don't you find it fun to go see your friends and read a lot of books everyday?

[thebeastwithout]

I'd rather meet my friends in the malt shop or somewhere there aren't any teachers goin' on about Python theories.

[priceofmagic]

But Pythin theories can be so exciting! What about English class? And art? Don't you love those?

[thebeastwithout]

((Sorry for being so late! I went on hiatus for a few days that I should have expected I'd needed to take. Feel free to continue or not at your convenience!))

OK, art is kinda cool, even if the teacher yells at me for drawing comics, but English is boring and I don't even know what theory you just said.

[priceofmagic]

( It's fine! Feel free to drop if you're too busy! I understand! ]

I have no idea what it is either! But I'd like to learn! [ She giggles. ] But you can draw comics? That's really cool! I bet that they're really wonderful. The art teacher is just silly!

[thebeastwithout]

Yeah, he just doesn't appreciate fine art when he sees it. Maybe he didn't like how he was the supervillain.

[priceofmagic]

But that sort of plot twist makes it a masterpiece storyline! He should be honored to be included at all. I think you should keep drawing it!

[thebeastwithout]

You know what? You're totally right. I'm not going back to school anyway, so I'll just keep on doing what I'm doing.

[Hurrah resolve intensified!]

[priceofmagic]

Yeah!

[ Wait. ]

A-auuauauuauuu w-waaait! Not going back to school? But I thought we were getting super excited about school!

[thebeastwithout]

Well, c'mon. I can do art anytime I want. It's not really a school thing.

[priceofmagic]

But we were getting all excited...! Um, maybe..! What if we get excited about, uh... science class next? Isn't science really fun? Experiments can get pretty explosive, right? That's fun!

[thebeastwithout]

Hm.....

I dunno. The last time I wanted to talk about science, no one was interested in the kinds of things I wanted to do.

[The last time he talked about science was when he was proposing man-eating flying laser sharks.]

[priceofmagic]

What did you want to do? I bet I'm interested in those kinds of things!

[ Everything but the man-eating works for her. Can they eat candy instead? ]

[thebeastwithout]

Yeah? You can help me out, then! We'll need hamsters.

...Lots of 'em.

[priceofmagic]

Lots of hamsters...? Um, okay... They won't get hurt, will they?

[thebeastwithout]

Not if they don't shoot each other.

[priceofmagic]

Sh... shoot each other? Hamsters can't shoot each other...?

[thebeastwithout]

They might after we attach the rocket launchers.

[priceofmagic]

... Um, what do you consider "science"?

[thebeastwithout]

...Hey! Name one thing more science-y than rocket launchers.

[priceofmagic]

But... but the hamsters... Are you sure that's okay? For the hamster-san?

[thebeastwithout]

It's OK! I'll angle all of 'em up so it'll be harder to hit each other.

[priceofmagic]

I-If... If I support you then will you keep coming to school?

[thebeastwithout]

Huhhh...

I dunno. It's not worth that much if they don't let me do my science, ya know?