Thread: Extracurricular Activities [Spider-Man -- Sigr & Virginia]

You guys have jackets? She asked without really thinking about it. Is this what happens here instead of sports? Savannah couldn't really imagine much in the way of sports happening with this lot. Football was the favorite right? And that involved concussions. Those probably didn't go over super well for this type of folk. They weren't that bad though, you could walk 'em off. Push through the fog and the dizziness, through the ringing of the ears and the nausea. Probably wouldn't be great for her in sixty or seventy years, but hey, that wasn't the 'right now Savannah's problem. 'Right now' Savannah was good at what she did and could handle all sorts of things. She knew how her body worked, and how to work it through all sorts of issues. Because when she was out fighting, there were no breaks. There was nobody who was going to come to save her, she had to save herself. She was the only person she could count on in the world. Why had he said that he didn't like math if he did? Didn't make sense to her. Was he lying for a reason? It had to be a reason related to her because his friends knew him better. Give her and Peter something to talk about. Of course, that made sense. Teens and social interaction, he was trying to make her feel at ease perhaps. It would have worked better if he was a decent liar or hadn't been immediately busted by his friends, but a bad liar was a good person to pull in as a friend. Meant they were less likely to pick up on her own lies. Math's pretty low on the list of things it's bad to like. Could be worse. Could be-- she was going to say 'throwing babies off of roofs', but that would probably not go over well with this group, so she adjusted mid sentence to -the Star Wars... prequels...? People hated those, right? She was pretty sure. Her dad hadn't liked them. It had come up in passing once. If you had a really negative experience with math it could probably change your opinion on math. That sort of thing happens. Like if the math books all exploded or something. Or if someone died there, but that was another thing not to say out loud. Aw shit. Fine. Math. Room 208. There had to be more than one math class, and hopefully he wouldn't be in the same one. And her science class after that at least had to be void of... friendly nerds. She just wanted to be left alone for a while so she could get it together and then go be friendly for the Academic Decathlon, whatever that was. And yeah, it is a little big. But I'm pretty good at navigation. That was rude. So she followed it up with if you show me today, I'll probably remember next time. And then she could show up later to have excuses not to sit next to him. Think of things she needed to do between the end of lunch and the beginning of math. She thought something rude at Ned's word about art, but didn't say anything out loud. I had art with Michelle. Maybe we'll have a science or something together. Then I'll be three for three! Christ, she hoped not. The pretty blonde still smiled at the teen as sweetly as she could manage, because that was what this version of her would do. This friendly, nonthreatening, slightly quirky version of her. Be friendly, encourage everyone spending time together as long as it was class hours. She'd think of something after class hours. Maybe she'd say she had therapy. Spill the dead dad story. Or maybe piano lessons. Then she might have to take that back up again in case they got weird about it. Savannah immediately assumed that if she mentioned a skill it would get questioned at some point. That's what she'd do. Her food went mostly untouched. A few bites of mac'n cheese, a couple sips of chocolate milk, but all of the steamed broccoli at least. She didn't like to eat around people. Just enough it wasn't weird and she wouldn't feel hungry until she got home, Savannah figured. Eating food around strangers without someone she trusted made her feel uncomfortable, and she just... wasn't in the mood to deal with that. your Peter and Ned are super cute