Bored In Class (Chiyo)

[Nippori Keiji]

Nippori frowned to himself as he made his way to his classroom after the bell rang to signal the end of lunch break. Personally, he would much rather have stayed with his friends, or that lunch break had lasted a little longer. Today had been dragging on for what almost felt like forever, and he didn't want to go back to class. However, at the same time, he wanted school to be over so he could just get to rhythmic gymnastics practice. He still felt like he was further behind than everyone else, and it was frustrating. He wished that he had more time to practice, but he had his job to worry about as well, to earn the money to keep his family going.
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Letting out a small sigh, he grabbed onto the doorframe of his classroom and swung slightly as he turned into the room. Naturally, he was a little late, and everyone else was already seated, and the teacher was just about to start the lesson. Without saying anything, Nippori just went over to his seat by the window and sat down.
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Already he could tell that the rest of the day would probably drag out too...
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All too soon, Nippori was proved correct in his assumptions as the next ten minutes of class felt like they lasted an hour. Or perhaps even more than that, but then he was possibly just being dramatic. He had been noting down some of the things that were being written on the board, but he wasn't paying complete attention. He turned his gaze out of the window for a moment, a common habit of his in the classroom, but instead found himself getting a bit fed up and shifting slightly in his seat, slumping forward onto his desk, resting his chin on his now folded arms.
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Shifting his hand slightly, Nippori felt the paper of his open notebook crinkle under his fingers. Glancing sideways, his eyes rested on Maeda Chiyo, who sat in the seat beside him. They had been in the same class the previous year also, and had kinda stuck together a little. In school, anyway. Being the only two yankees in the class for the past two years tended to do that. Looking down at this notebook, he picked up his pencil again, quietly tore out a page from the notebook and scribbled down a message at the top of the page, reading: Is it just me or is this class so boring that you want to cut off your ears so you can't listen to it anymore?
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"Psst," he muttered softly, trying to get Chiyo's attention. As much as he was a Yankee, he didn't want to get yelled at by the teacher and possibly given detention; not when he had practice after school as well as work. That would be the last thing he needed. So, this was his last resort before he lost his mind out of boredom. Quickly, he slipped her the note when the teacher's back was turned towards the chalkboard, placing it on the edge of her desk and immediately moving his hand to rest back on his own desk before the teacher turned around.
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He was thankful that they both sat in the back row of the class, in the two seats nearest the window, so it would be hard for the teacher and their other classmates to notice what they were doing.
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Nippori, for one, wasn't about to sit through all of this without anything to do. Sure, he could actually listen if he was that bored, but that wasn't exactly going to be fun, was it? Besides, he would pay attention enough to note some things down like he had been doing already so far. But talking to Chiyo to help alleviate some of that boredom was hardly going to be a bad thing.


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((ooc - finally got this started! It feels good to write with Nippori again <3 I'm looking forward to this! XD))

[Maeda Chiyo]

"Ah~" Chiyo let out a deep sigh when she heard the bell ring. "How come lunch break's always way so short ?! Especially compared to... well, everything!", she complained before saying goodbye to some members of the female tumbling team. Unfotunately none of the girls was in the same class as Chiyo and she didn't really like her female classmates. Well, she did get along with them, but she thought they were more than boring – talking about boys and shoes all day defenitely was boring! And most of the male students in her class weren't that fun to hang out with either.

The blonde entered the classroom where most of the students were still happily chatting with their friends about whatever was on their mind, but once the teacher entered everyone sat down on their seats, silently waiting for the teacher to start the lesson.

Chiyo sat down on her seat, getting mentally prepared for one hour of deadly boredom. Maybe she should just throw herself on the floor in the middle of the lesson, pretending to have the worst belly aches ever.
Everytime Chiyo walked into the classroom she thought about some good excuses about leaving the room – well, most of them weren't good at all – but she always decided to stay and ended staring out of the window or drawing random pictures in her notebook.

The young girl looked over to the seat next to her which was still empty. Nippori seemed to be a little late again but he would probably show up sooner or later.

Trying to find something to keep herself busy with she looked inside her schoolbag, hoping to find something really interesting and funny. Unfortunately there was nothing much to find inside her bag, so she ended piling up her pens until she had some kind of pen tower.
The teacher had already started his lesson but the blonde was still intently putting one pen upon the other, she hadn't even noticed Nippori entering the classroom and sitting down next to her.

Satisfied with her work she looked at her pen tower when she heard Nippori's voice. "Psst," The blonde turned her head towards the other, who slipped her a small piece of paper. She read the note which said: Is it just me or is this class so boring that you want to cut off your ears so you can't listen to it anymore? The young girl nodded her head before reaching out for a pen to write a short reply which ended in her pen tower collapsing and her pens being spread all over the place.
Immediately the teacher and many students turned their heads towards Chiyo and Nippori. "Ah, sorry, sorry~!", she said and a moment later the students as well as the teacher, who seemed to be a little annoyed, turned their heads towards the blackboard again.

Instead of bothering about her pens Chiyo wrote a short reply on the back of Nippori's note, reading: No way! There couldn't be anything more interesting than this-- oh, wait! Was this a leaf falling off a tree ?!
She started collecting her pens, slipping the note in between to Nippori.
After she finished collecting her pens Chiyo sat down on her seat again, looking at Nipproi full of expectations. Hopefully he would have a nice idea to make the lesson more interesting!


ooc: duh, i'm so sorry this took so long, but i have so much to do for school!!
oh, & sorry it's kinda short ... but it was fun to write! xD

[Nippori Keiji]

Nippori tapped his fingers on top of his notebook lightly, glancing up at the teacher, around at his classmates and then out of the window again. There really wasn't anything about this class that could hold his attention for very long. Hell, the note he had passed Chiyo was the best thing about this lesson so far. Which...didn't really say much for their teacher's teaching skills at all now, did it? Rolling his eyes, Nippori waited a few moments after passing the note to Chiyo, before he glanced away from the window again to look back around at her...

....In time to see her reach for a pen and manage to successfully knock over her pen tower, sending the pens across her desk and onto the floor.

As the teacher and the other students turned around at the clatter the pens scattering caused, Nippori couldn't help it. He started laughing to himself, bringing a hand up to rest over his mouth to stifle it slightly. He probably wasn't helping the situation at all, but it was just typical Chiyo for something like this to happen. He managed to stem his laughter enough and lowered his hand, although that amused smile still played across his lips and there was a rather amused sparkle in his dark brown eyes. Way to draw attention to us, Chiyo, he thought to himself, but it didn't matter. The class would return their attentions elsewhere soon enough again.

When Chiyo had finished writing a note back, and passed it to him, Nippori opened the folded paper and read the message, still smiling, as Chiyo collected up her pens. He picked up one that had rolled off of her desk and landed near his feet, to use in a moment as a pretense to pass the note over with it. Quickly, he wrote a reply, that read: Oh my god! You know what, I think you're right, it was! But...nice going there and getting some attention on yourself.

He passed the note over along with the pen to make it appear that the pen was all he was handing back to her to eliminate suspicion. However, a moment after he had done so, the teacher had said something that Nippori missed, and had left the room. The students in the class started chattering, and he heard things like "Thank god, we get a break for a minute" and "I hope he doesn't come back for a bit, because this lesson is so dull."

Tilting his head to the side, Nippori had an idea. He tore off another small piece of paper from a page of his notebook, and scrawled another quick message to Chiyo before she could even reply to the last one. The note said: why don't we get out of here? The teacher's out the room...so why bother staying when it's so dull anyway? He passed the note to her, awaiting an affirmative response before they could just grab their things and make a run for it, because he couldn't see Chiyo turning this opportunity down, either.



((ooc - yay for plotting on msn! lol I love this thread already <3))