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Prompt: Person A is left handed Person B is right handed they sit side by side in class and they are forever knocking into each other.
High School AU
Amberle Elessedil sighs in relief when she realizes that the next lesson she has is her last of the day and after she can finally go home!
The day has dragged by slowly and had been completely uneventful.
Amberle finds that most school days are! Her best friend Wil Omsford had attempted to try and make the day eventful, which had only resulted in him severely pissing off their other friend Bandon off!
Wil means well but he can be crazy at times! Something Amberle has gotten used to for years of him being her best friend, he's almost like a brother really, considering the fact he actually lives with her, her Uncle Ander and Allanon after his mother died and left him under Allanon's care.
Yet no matter how hard Wil had tried to make the day better it didn't change a thing.
No, on days like these all Amberle wants to do is get through them and go home!
The moment Amberle enters the classroom she makes a beeline for the window seat at the very back of the classroom so she doesn't have to sit next to anyone, yet to her horror the teacher points towards a seating plan on the board.
A seating plan! Of all the evil things in the world, Amberle is certain that seating plans are classed somewhere high up of evil things in this world!
Yet she doesn't complain, just keeps her head down and moves to her allocated seat which just so happens to be a couple of rows from the front! Amberle hates being near the front as one of the most quiet girls in her class she hates when ever she is asked a question and she certainly hates it whenever she has to work with a partner, never knowing what to say.
Yet today, from the board she sees that they have a test meaning no talking allowed.
There is at least one sliver lining!
Taking her seat, Amberle watches as the rest of the class file in, each of them groaning as they see the sign for the seating plan and the fact they have a test but never the less they enter and sit at their seats and wait for the teacher to hand out the dreaded tests.
The sound of a chair moving scarily close to Amberle causes her to almost fall out of her seat as someone takes a seat next to her.
Instantly she looks away, not wanting to make eye contact with whoever she's sitting beside, yet taking a small look she knows that it's a girl with dark hair done in a peculiar, yet fascinating style.
Upon noticing that the girl is looking at her, Amberle hastily looks away.
She's never seen this girl before, yet then again she doesn't really know who's in her class as she spends then normally sat at the back far away from any classmate.
The girl shrugs off a light brown leather jacket before settling her arms down on the desk, looking almost as bored as Amberle feels!
She gives Amberle a wry smile before pulling out her pens, an action that Amberle mirrors.
It isn't long before all the test papers are being handed out and the teacher has set the timer for one hour, which is the time allowed to complete the paper.
Looking at it distastefully for a moment, Amberle opens it to begin, scribbling answers vigorously onto the paper with the brand new fountain pen Allanon had gifted her with.
However, as she writes she suddenly finds her elbow knocking into something repeatedly and as the minutes go by it doesn't cease.
Sighing in frustration, Amberle looks up from her paper to see what is getting in her way only to see the girl beside her looking up as well.
It takes only a mer second for Amberle to realize what she had been knocking into as she sees that the girl beside her has her pen clutched tightly in her right hand.
Amberle is left handed, they had been knocking into one another in the mad dash to write down answers!
The girl gives her a smirk, which can only be described as a playful one before continuing to write down answers.
Rolling her eyes, Amberle tries to do the same only for them to end up knocking one another again! This time some of the ink in Amberle's pen breaks free and blotches her writing as her arm is knocked.
She tries again, to no avail as this time her pen skids out of her hand and across the table, which the girl suddenly grabs quickly before it can fall off! Placing it back in Amberle's hand.
The girl is still smirking at her when Amberle looks at her again, an annoyed look in Amberle's eyes, which is also due to the fact that she would swap to her right hand if her writing didn't look that of a five year old when she has used her right hand in the past!
The girl stops writing for a moment, looking at Amberle with an expectant look.
Amberle returns it with a confused look of her own as the girl all but sighs and makes a writing gesture with her pen.
Amberle frowns, yet writes the rest of her answer to the question before looking up at the girl, who nods and starts to write her own answer to one of the questions before stopping and looking at Amberle again, who automatically starts writing.
From what she's beginning to realize, the girl has a rather ingenious plan in mind…
And so it continues throughout the hour, Amberle would write an answer then the girl would write one and that cycle continues until the end of the test.
The end of the test finally allowing Amberle and the girl to speak to one another.
"Well that was interesting." Amberle says with a nervous laugh as she addresses the girl.
"Nothing that couldn't be resolved Amberle Elessedil." The girl says her name with a confident smirk, Amberle raises her eyebrow.
"How do you know my name? I can't remember us ever having a class together before." She questions in confusion.
"Oh we haven't, I only just transferred here. I saw your name on the paper." The girl replies, a moment of silence passing between them before Amberle speaks up.
"Would you like to swap places with me next time we have this class?" She offers courteously with a small smile.
"Where would be the fun in that?" The girl grins just as the school bell rings and like a flash the girl has leaped over her desk and out of the door.
Amberle sighs as she too heads for the door.
"I didn't get your name." She mutters to herself, almost in disappointment.
However, that all vanishes quite abruptly as the realization hits her. The school day is done!
It is almost the rest of the week before she has that class again.
This time upon entry, she reads the seating plan to see the name that is next to hers.
Eretria.
The girls name is Eretria, she thinks as she takes her seat, wondering when 'Eretria' will arrive!
The class has already begun before Eretria arrives, late, not even bothering to give an explanation to the teacher as she takes her seat beside Amberle, giving the girl a crafty smile as they are informed by the teacher that they will be taking notes for the first half of the double period.
Amberle sighs before glancing at Eretria, whom leans over to Amberle.
"How about I take some notes, then you take some. We trade at the end, deal?" She whispers in Amberle's ear.
Amberle nods as Eretria gives her an expectant look.
"Ohh you're going first!"
The first part of the double period goes by quickly, both Amberle and Eretria keeping to their deal and writing half notes each.
"See that was easy." Eretria smirks as she swaps notes with Amberle.
"I suppose it was, Eretria." Amberle replies with a smile of her own.
She gives her a puzzled glance at first, wondering where Amberle had gotten her name from, nothing this, Amberle nods toward the seating plan hung up on the wall.
"We're even now."
Amberle smiles when she sees that she has the same lesson the next day, having spent the last lesson the other day having brief conversations with the mysterious Eretria, whilst also working around their issue with them both knocking into one another whilst writing and she enters the class with a slight smile on her face when she waits for Eretria to show up, who is once again late, wondering what installments are awaiting her in this lesson!
The lesson had honestly almost gone the same way as yesterday's had, small chit chat between them both whilst trying to work around the writing problem.
The only real development was at the end when a project was announced, which had to be done in pairs and because they sit side by side, Amberle and Eretria are partners.
Eretria doesn't say a word until the end of the lesson when she puts one of the books required for the project in front of Amberle.
The bell rings and Amberle waits for Eretria to hastily leave like she has done the last two lessons, this time she doesn't.
Instead she leans over the desk, patting the book with her fingertips as she gives Amberle a mischievous smile.
"I look forward to seeing what you come up with for our project." She says with a grin.
"Hey!" Amberle cries in outrage as Eretria all but skips to the door.
"That book's got one hell of a bookmark!" She adds before varnishing from Amberle's line of sight, who frowns at Eretria's comment before her eyes fall on a fluorescent orange post stick note, stuck to the first page of the book, almost like a bookmark.
Noticing the writing Amberle rips it out to read the scruffy handwriting, which reads.
'Or if you call this number maybe both of us can see what we come up with!'
The note reads, underneath is a mobile number, which Amberle smiles at.
Maybe the mystery which is Eretria can be solved after all! She wonders to herself as she folds the note up, slipping it into her purse so that it will be very hard to lose!
Authors Note: Thank you all so much for reading. This is my first attempt at writing for The Shannara Chronicles as it is probably my favorite show in the world besides Arrow and my favorite character is Allanon, which is why he will appear in these one shots as the voice of wisdom and to provide humor from time to time! I chose to write one shots on Amberle and Eretria as they have so much chemistry in the show, seriously they would be perfect for one another! I accept requests for future one shots if any of you want to send me a prompt. Thank you all again for reading, hope you enjoyed xxxxxxx