Thread: Kick Back WHO: Mike Karasik and Derrick Wesley, references to Mr. Pheres WHEN: Not long after this WHERE: The Infirmary
Mike and Derrick stepped out of their rooms but didn't look at each other. Getting booted from the network for any other student was only painful in a figurative sense, but for the two boys, it was a very real physical experience. Mike ignored his bleeding nose for the most part, but the network giving him a technological boot to the face ahd literally set him flying back in his chair and nearly colliding with his bookshelf. He nose, bleeding, had sprayed some blood but nothing like a Tarantino movie. Just a few droplets that hit the ceiling and walls. Nothing like a crime scene or anything.
He knew he needed to go to the infirmary though because his ears were ringing and his head was throbbing. And he was still bleeding. The argument the two boys had was pretty intense, and the two of them had been stretching the capabilities of what they could do as they attacked and countered and deflected.
Mike picked himself up and stepped out of his room, hearing Derrick's door opening, but ignoring it as he took hurried steps toward the infirmary. His inhaler was always in his pocket, and he had a few tissues shoved onto his face. He ignored everyone along the way until he came to Mr. Pheres's office. Derrick arrived at the same time but the two said nothing, simply walking in. Mr Pheres stared at the two of them briefly but looked like he was expecting them. He told them each to take a seat, and they did. He went to go get the items he needed to help them.
It was just Mike and Derrick now, sitting in chairs. One of Mike's arms was folded across his chest, the other was holding the tissue to his nose with his head tilted back to help stop the bleed. His body was turned a bit away from Derrick, not wanting to talk to him. He was mad. Mad that Derrick had been belittling him for getting excited because a girl might be interested in him and mad that he couldn't just be happy for him. Derrick had girls chasing after him, so why couldn't Mike be happy a girl said she liked him?
He coughed a bit and then pulled the tissue down. The red stains made him squirm and he threw the tissue away in a nearby bin before grabbing another.