The Chikamori Selfacy (A Reboot)
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Generation One
Chapter Three - "Seeing in A New Light"
Part Two
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Haruo turned to look at River who stood there arms crossed and she had a satisfied smirk on her face, acknowledging Bebe's presence with a raised eyebrow, "if my mom deigns to let me go to the prom, I'll be asking River out." Haruo informed Bebe with a wry smile.
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"I guess she's out from class now!" Bebe grinned, "Oh, of course." Bebe nodded as she acknowledged River's proprietary stance, a silent challenge between women that was a clear sign: Back off, he's mine; and that was clear that River had claimed him even if she wasn't entirely ready to admit it herself. And Bebe acknowledged it with a simple "...it wouldn't be proper to ask anyone else. You two have always been joined..." she paused as she looked back at River and winked at Haruo "...at the hip." She said suggestively as she laughed and River turned beet red with embarrassment.
Was it so goldarn obvious? River rolled her eyes. "Thanks a lot, Bebe!" She muttered.
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"No problem, River, any time, I’m waiting on Torao and I’ll see you guys later if we’re doing homework together tonight." Bebe smirked at River; turned on her heels, waggled her fingers at Haruo and said, "Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do." as she turned to see a waiting Torao.
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River waved back at her as she and Haruo made their own way down the stairs. Once they were on their way out of earshot, River muttered, "She's so annoying sometimes...". Bebe was always quick to tease her friends, though gently as she had a good heart. River knew that but having her interest towards her life-long friend , that she wasn't ready to reveal yet, exposed like that would annoy anyone if she was trying to be inconspicuous about her interest in said certain individual.
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In any case, the walk smoothed her ruffled feathers and her disposition improved by the time they'd made it past the library and swung a left onto Redwood Parkway, Haruo, narrowly missed nearly being hit by a car, starting to head up the hill. Chatting about inconsequential matters also helped. When they got home they would deal with the task of doing their homework. Hopefully their homework would be done by the time River's mom and Haruo's dad got home. Presumably, Molly would be joining them at the diner.
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They reached home and being latchkey kids, River and Haruo had no problem in determining that River's side of the triplex was the best place to study as the babysitter who would be minding Sandi would be here until Molly got home from whatever she was doing on her day off, perhaps going down to the pool and working on her tan. River pulled out a can of Pepsi and passed it to her friend who accepted it gratefully then she made a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that they could both snack on while they sat at the table and did their homework. The math homework was the most time intensive and thus they tackled it first.
"Haruo, al-Kashi's theorem relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosign of one of its angles." River explained holding her pencil against the problem.
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Haruo looked confused. " And I'm supposed to map the linear inequality of this equation; hang graphing a solution. i'm gonna be here all night." He looked at River with a pleading expression as he pondered his next move.
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River looked at him indulgently. It wasn't as difficult for her to see the solution to this question but it appeared that Haruo had a learning deficit when it came to numbers and it was exceedingly difficult to understand any complex algebraic equations.
" Rearrange the equation so "y" is on the left and everything else on the right. Honmphh." River barely managed to clamp off calling Haruo...honey by covering her mouth as if to bite off a sneeze. That endearment would definitely cause a stir if it got out.
"...OK..."River still wasn't sure if Haruo got the instruction clear in his head judging by the glazed look in his eyes. It was a frustrating hour and a half tackling all the pages that the teacher had assigned but eventually they both breathed a sigh of relief as the problems were finished.
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Homework went a lot easier from there and Haruo being a good writer fairly flew past his English 12 homework. Social Studies was a project that was due next Friday so they would have to stop by the city library and root through the index. cards to find the subject and related books; then it was a search expedition into the stacks. To find information that they would diligently copy the information to and if there was time would formulate the information in some order to be able to turn it into a viable report that they would get an A for.
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"Are you taking chemistry this year?" River asked curious.
"No, Mr Foster said that he would give me a C- in Chem 11 if I never took chemistry again. I think he was scared that one of my mistakes would cause the entire chemistry lab to blow up." That frank admission caused River to laugh hysterically.
"What...did you do?" River asked when she could finally catch her breath.
Haruo admitted with a great deal of embarrassment, "Um...I just happened...to...uh...drop a chunk of cesium..,um...uh...in water." He winced as River's eyes began to widen and her mouth fell open.
"Just how big was that chunk?" River asked barely restraining herself but lost it completely when Haruo held up a hand with index finger and thumb about three inches apart.
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Trying to catch her breath was completely futile as he added, "...they had to evacuate the lab." It took almost fifteen minutes for River to stop her cacchinating; tears of hilarity running down her cheeks.
If River remembered correctly, Mr. Nellis's Chem 12 classroom was in Mr. Foster's old room. At the beginning of the semester, Mr. Nellis had remarked dourly on a certain individual in the school, who would remain nameless for his own obscuration, who was careless around Cs. The instructor had mentioned that it was quite lucky in fact that the substance the clumsy student had been working with had not been trinitrotoluene or the school would not have a science lab to speak of. The maintenance people had not been able remove the burn mark from the lab counter."Oh my god..." she gasped wiping her eyes.
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"...so no chemistry for me any more." He intoned melodramatically. "So much for my getting into atomic science." He said with a feigned melancholic look on his face.
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River convulsed in helpless laughter.
(End Part Two)
Generation One
Chapter Three - "Seeing in A New Light"
Part Two
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Haruo turned to look at River who stood there arms crossed and she had a satisfied smirk on her face, acknowledging Bebe's presence with a raised eyebrow, "if my mom deigns to let me go to the prom, I'll be asking River out." Haruo informed Bebe with a wry smile.
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"I guess she's out from class now!" Bebe grinned, "Oh, of course." Bebe nodded as she acknowledged River's proprietary stance, a silent challenge between women that was a clear sign: Back off, he's mine; and that was clear that River had claimed him even if she wasn't entirely ready to admit it herself. And Bebe acknowledged it with a simple "...it wouldn't be proper to ask anyone else. You two have always been joined..." she paused as she looked back at River and winked at Haruo "...at the hip." She said suggestively as she laughed and River turned beet red with embarrassment.
Was it so goldarn obvious? River rolled her eyes. "Thanks a lot, Bebe!" She muttered.
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"No problem, River, any time, I’m waiting on Torao and I’ll see you guys later if we’re doing homework together tonight." Bebe smirked at River; turned on her heels, waggled her fingers at Haruo and said, "Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do." as she turned to see a waiting Torao.
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River waved back at her as she and Haruo made their own way down the stairs. Once they were on their way out of earshot, River muttered, "She's so annoying sometimes...". Bebe was always quick to tease her friends, though gently as she had a good heart. River knew that but having her interest towards her life-long friend , that she wasn't ready to reveal yet, exposed like that would annoy anyone if she was trying to be inconspicuous about her interest in said certain individual.
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In any case, the walk smoothed her ruffled feathers and her disposition improved by the time they'd made it past the library and swung a left onto Redwood Parkway, Haruo, narrowly missed nearly being hit by a car, starting to head up the hill. Chatting about inconsequential matters also helped. When they got home they would deal with the task of doing their homework. Hopefully their homework would be done by the time River's mom and Haruo's dad got home. Presumably, Molly would be joining them at the diner.
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They reached home and being latchkey kids, River and Haruo had no problem in determining that River's side of the triplex was the best place to study as the babysitter who would be minding Sandi would be here until Molly got home from whatever she was doing on her day off, perhaps going down to the pool and working on her tan. River pulled out a can of Pepsi and passed it to her friend who accepted it gratefully then she made a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that they could both snack on while they sat at the table and did their homework. The math homework was the most time intensive and thus they tackled it first.
"Haruo, al-Kashi's theorem relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosign of one of its angles." River explained holding her pencil against the problem.
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Haruo looked confused. " And I'm supposed to map the linear inequality of this equation; hang graphing a solution. i'm gonna be here all night." He looked at River with a pleading expression as he pondered his next move.
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River looked at him indulgently. It wasn't as difficult for her to see the solution to this question but it appeared that Haruo had a learning deficit when it came to numbers and it was exceedingly difficult to understand any complex algebraic equations.
" Rearrange the equation so "y" is on the left and everything else on the right. Honmphh." River barely managed to clamp off calling Haruo...honey by covering her mouth as if to bite off a sneeze. That endearment would definitely cause a stir if it got out.
"...OK..."River still wasn't sure if Haruo got the instruction clear in his head judging by the glazed look in his eyes. It was a frustrating hour and a half tackling all the pages that the teacher had assigned but eventually they both breathed a sigh of relief as the problems were finished.
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Homework went a lot easier from there and Haruo being a good writer fairly flew past his English 12 homework. Social Studies was a project that was due next Friday so they would have to stop by the city library and root through the index. cards to find the subject and related books; then it was a search expedition into the stacks. To find information that they would diligently copy the information to and if there was time would formulate the information in some order to be able to turn it into a viable report that they would get an A for.
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"Are you taking chemistry this year?" River asked curious.
"No, Mr Foster said that he would give me a C- in Chem 11 if I never took chemistry again. I think he was scared that one of my mistakes would cause the entire chemistry lab to blow up." That frank admission caused River to laugh hysterically.
"What...did you do?" River asked when she could finally catch her breath.
Haruo admitted with a great deal of embarrassment, "Um...I just happened...to...uh...drop a chunk of cesium..,um...uh...in water." He winced as River's eyes began to widen and her mouth fell open.
"Just how big was that chunk?" River asked barely restraining herself but lost it completely when Haruo held up a hand with index finger and thumb about three inches apart.
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Trying to catch her breath was completely futile as he added, "...they had to evacuate the lab." It took almost fifteen minutes for River to stop her cacchinating; tears of hilarity running down her cheeks.
If River remembered correctly, Mr. Nellis's Chem 12 classroom was in Mr. Foster's old room. At the beginning of the semester, Mr. Nellis had remarked dourly on a certain individual in the school, who would remain nameless for his own obscuration, who was careless around Cs. The instructor had mentioned that it was quite lucky in fact that the substance the clumsy student had been working with had not been trinitrotoluene or the school would not have a science lab to speak of. The maintenance people had not been able remove the burn mark from the lab counter."Oh my god..." she gasped wiping her eyes.
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"...so no chemistry for me any more." He intoned melodramatically. "So much for my getting into atomic science." He said with a feigned melancholic look on his face.
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River convulsed in helpless laughter.
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