"Botany! I can't believe that we have to take botany this year!" Serena eyes went wide as she stared at her new college itinerary. She sighed as she folded the paper and put it in her folder. 'What did I do to be punished with such luck?'
"Hey Darien!" Rita hugged the living out of him as he walked through the door. Rita was one of Darien's co-workers and close friends.
"Rita," Darien said with a smile but didn't hug back, that was never his thing and to his day he always wondered why Rita kept insisting on hugging him. "It's nice to see you too, but can you please let me breath?"
"Darien you are such an asshole sometimes! You never show one single act of kindness." Rita complained as she let him go.
"Of course I do, did I not smile?" Darien replied with one eyebrow raised.
"That doesn't count" Rita pouted.
Darien rolled his eyes and made his way to his office. As he entered he turned on the light and began looking around for whatever was new in his office.
'New semester…..' Darien's thoughts trailed away when he saw that his official itinerary was sitting on his desk. He picked it up with a small sigh as he hoped that they hadn't tossed him around too much. As he read his eyes went wide.
"SHIT!! RITA!! There is no way in hell that this is real!" Darien walked to Rita's office, paper in hand. He opened the door making it slam against the wall.
"Good God Darien! What's the matter?" Rita asked as she jumped from her chair.
"Can you explain to me how come I'm stuck with the botany labs?" Darien asked furiously.
"Well," Rita began with a small smile and nervously "you see everyone has done it, and, well, it's only fair that you do it this time."
After explaining, Rita offered him a smile. Bad idea.
"Sure, go ahead, smile about it. I will even dare myself to think that you find this amusing. Leave the poor lamb in the hands of the wolf." With that Darien turned around and shut the door with a slam.
Mina sat beside a very upset Serena in the cafeteria reading her new social science book. She looked up to Serena as she turned the page.
"Are you still pissed about botany?" Mina asked as she marked her spot in the book, and set it down on the table. "Come on Sere, it can't be that bad. I mean we are both taking the class together." Mina gifted Serena with a smile.
"Leave it to you to look for a silver lining. I know that you are trying to cheer me up Mina, but I can't see myself in the hands of that horrible botany professor and to put the icing on the cake it's at seven thirty in the morning and the lab right after lunch time." Serena said with a pout.
As both girls just sat there in silence Mina's cell phone began to ring. Serena reached for it.
"Hey Amy!" Serena said with glee. "How are things going in your world?"
"Things are good, and you?" Amy asked with the same amount of glee, but in an instant regretted asking the question.
"Well…" Serena began "I have to take botany class with none other than professor Tomoe. You know what that means, right? I have to take a class with the lunatic that sleeps with the plants in his room."
"Oh, come on Serena, it's just a rumor." Amy said to try and clam her friend down, but it was no use.
"A RUMOR! Have you seen the guy? He looks the type that went to college in the hippie era and he is still there."
"What time is the class?" Amy asked.
"At one"
"Really? Where are you?"
"We are in the cafeteria."
"Oh, well I suggest you run if you don't want to be late."
Serena looked at her watch. "Amy we'll call you later." Serena hung up the phone and grabbed all of her belongings.
"We are late Mina." Serena said as she put away packed her itinerary in her bag.
Mina smiled "Some things will never change, will they meatball head?"
Professor Tomoe had begun his class around fifteen minutes before both, Serena and Mina walked through the door laughing.
"Hello there, ladies. Have a seat, please." Professor Tomoe gave each of the girls a smile. A very big and very scary smile. He was standing by his desk and alongside him stood a very perplexed Darien.
'How can they enter a classroom laughing like that, but above all be late on the first day of class?' He asked himself as the girls walked across the room for the only remaining seats.
Mina and Serena searched for the nearest seats but none other than the back of the room were available. They sat down quickly before the professor could change his mind about being nice to them. As they did, Serena could feel a pair of eyes watching her. She looked around searching for them, and then she found them. The most gorgeous pair of deep blue eyes she could imagine.
"Ok class, this here" Tomoe interrupted Serena's thoughts about Darien's eyes. "is Darien. He will be our lab technician for the whole semester. Anything you need that has to do with this class and lab you have to let him know. So I suggest you take down his number and be nice to him because there is a grade that depends on him and this lab." Darien nodded his head and gave the class a very forced smile.
"He is hot." Serena whispered to Mina.
"Nah, not my type." Mina whispered back.
"Ladies is there a problem?" Darien asked eyebrows raised "Anything you want to share with the class?"
'These two are going to have a hard time here.' Darien thought as Mina and Serena both shook their heads.