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Tweak says, "blondes are so under rated"

disappear_npc (disappear_npc) wrote in disappear_plot,
@ 2009-07-15 22:22:00

School Trip, Day One. (Bus Ride, Eating Somewhere and Onsen)
Who: EVERYONE (npcs welcome)
What: Bus Ride, Eating, Onsen, Night 1 at hotel.
Where: ON A BUS
When: Late May
Why: We like trips.

Aomori-sensei was clearly not in the best of moods. He hadn't been for a while. Still, there was an air of excitement about the students who were assembling to get on the buses as they chose thier seat partners and talked. It wasn't every day that they went on a school trip. Very few of them had been paying much attention in the half-day of lessons before. Even Ishino-sensei looked the happiest she'd been since the incident.

She went through the lines of pupils, checking thier permission forms, while Aomori and Banno-sensei herded them into the coaches.

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anthesphoria
2009-07-16 06:43 am UTC (link)

"I've thrown together a party or two," Kozue said, nodding, in that understating-things-because-it's-polite way. She'd been taught how to do a full and proper tea ceremony, for heaven's sake: she could throw a birthday party. "If you'd like help, I'd be delighted to pitch in wherever I can." Including the guest list - although that would be an interesting challenge.

"Although really... The dorm can be pretty strict about who goes into what rooms. But it is good to not be too far from the dorm in any case," she shrugged, only realizing a moment after speaking that that really did make her sound... about as much of a serial dater as she was, actually. Of course she knew how likely it was that she'd be able to sneak a boy into her room. (The answer: even if Ayako had allowed it, not likely at all. Kozue liked herself as a student, not an expelled student, thanks.)

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apathyisboring
2009-07-16 06:56 am UTC (link)

"Well, if they wander back to the dorms from my party across the way, then it isn't really my fault, is it?" She shrugged. Clearly, she'd already thought that one out. "You could help? That would be great, actually. A couple of my friends have been doing most of the work. It was their idea, I told them I didn't really care either way, but they insisted. Now they keep asking for my opinion on what I like."

She leaned back in her seat, glancing out the window to the gates of the school. The gesture and the way she'd spoken indicated that she saw no reason why she should be able to answer a question such as "what do you like." With a small shrug, she looked back to Kozue.

"Anyway, your help would be good - between us, they're pretty incapable. I guess I should invite our whole 'team' to come, huh?"

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anthesphoria
2009-07-16 04:22 pm UTC (link)

From where Kozue was standing, it seemed like Kiriko's position on and knowledge about how long it would take drunken couples to stumble back to the relative safety of the dorm might have also come from the friends who were doing the lion's share of the party planning. It wasn't bad - but it didn't seem like her style. After all, she was kind of famous in recent school legend: no confession to Class 1-B's Ikeda Kiriko had ever ended well, and all that.

"If you're going to have a relatively large party, you probably should. I wouldn't want to snub any of them, if I was you." Being in a bus filled with prying ears, Kozue didn't feel particularly like explaining that comment, but Kozue certainly wasn't interested in so callously snubbing people who she might have to trust with her life in a month or two. "Have your friends picked a theme or anything?"

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apathyisboring
2009-07-16 05:35 pm UTC (link)

"No, they keep asking me for one." Again, she waved her hand a bit dismissively. "Last I heard they were saying something about winter or butterflies or maybe both. Whatever's easiest, I guess. They spoke to my parents and my mom said she'd pay for it, so..."

Kiriko stopped mid-sentence, made an odd sort of face and continued on to something else.

"Yeah, I guess I'll invite everyone, then. Shirai and Sagaki probably won't show, so that just leaves Satou to create headaches for me all night," she chuckled.

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anthesphoria
2009-07-20 05:24 am UTC (link)

"And he's only one person. If it's a large party, one or two people shouldn't bug you too much," she offered. Even if the one aggravating person was Satou, who seemed to derive some kind of joy from stepping out of bounds. "But as far as themes go, winter seems a bit unusual for a summer birthday." She shrugged - yes, the theme did immediately remind her of Kiriko, but it was also nearly June. Wouldn't that be a bit odd? And she'd never seen a winter butterfly before. Was there such a thing?

"But I like the butterflies," she said - not wanting to observe the first thing that had come to her mind, either because it would have been cruel, or because there was an outside chance that there was some kind of rare winter butterfly somewhere.

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apathyisboring
2009-07-23 07:09 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I guess you're right." She tipped her head back against the seat, eyes pointed up to the roof of the bus, apparently distracted. "Well, it shouldn't matter beyond decorations, right? Anything's fine with me, I guess."

She craned her neck in time to see Gendou catch a handheld in the back of the head and slide into a seat nearby. This didn't seem to perturb her, though she settled back into her chair once it had happened and turned to look at Kozue, dropping her voice somewhat.

"Did you hear what just happened?" she asked, jerking her head in the direction of Reizo's seat.

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anthesphoria
2009-07-24 04:06 am UTC (link)

Kozue had still been staring at Gendou, in a mixed fit of sympathy and rubber-necking, trying to figure out how someone's handheld had slammed into the back of his head - the bus hadn't, like, jerked that much, had it? Snapped out of that train of thought by Kiriko's quiet question, Kozue looked back to her classmate.

"Oh, uh, no," she said, shaking her head after a moment. But she was clued in to the fact that something was, apparently, happening. At least enough to drop her voice as well.

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