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Thursday
November
Jaune woke up to his alarm playing Hip To Be Square by Huey Lewis. Why, one might ask? Because he hated that song, for reasons, and since the alarm clock was on his desk, he had to get up to disable it. At that point, he just decided to get ready for the day. Just like every school-day.
He showered and put on his clothes, blatantly ignoring his sisters' yelling at him to hurry up. Jaune dressed himself in jeans, a white v-neck t-shirt and his black hoodie with orange lining. He walked out to the beat up station wagon, one of the two vehicles the Arc family owned. The other was a van big enough to seat his father, Nicolas Arc, his sisters, and himself. "Jaune!" He turned to see his youngest sister, Amber, run out with a piece of toast. "You can't forget breakfast!" She attempted to scold him as she gave him the toast. Despite her attempts, the adorable 8 year-old was just too cute. He just smiled and ruffled her hair as he got into the car.
"Thanks, Amber. Now go get ready for school. You don't wanna be late."
"Hmph, look who's talking." She said as she went back inside. Jaune started up his car and listened as Bohemian Rhapsody came on the radio.
Jaune pulled into the student parking lot and got out of the car. As he looked at his phone, he saw that he was five minutes late. Now, for any other teacher, it wouldn't be a big deal. But Jaune had his first class with Glynda Goodwitch. The scariest woman at Beacon High School. He'd get a detention for sure.
As the teen walked to class, he tried to think of a good excuse. He came up with bupkis. He finally got to the door of his English classroom and just decided to wing it. Now, he had to face the witch.
Blake read her book as class started. She sat near the back of the room, and as Ms. Goodwitch took role, she just read and automatically said "here" when her name was called. About ten minutes into class and she looked up, along with the rest of the class, to see a blonde guy walk into the door with a bored expression. The teacher immediately glared at him.
"Ah, Mr. Arc. Would you care to explain to the class and I why you are late?"
The blonde stood there for a moment, seeming to think it over.
"Well, I was about to get out of my car and walk into school, but then Bohemian Rhapsody started playing on the radio and I couldn't walk away from that."
A few people chuckled before they saw Ms. Goodrich's face. She looked absolutely furious, but seemed to keep it together, "So...You're telling me that the reason you were ten minutes late is that you were sitting in your car, in front of school, listening to a song?"
"...That about sums it up, yeah."
"I see. Well Mr. Arc, you will be having detention tomorrow after school."
"...Okay." The boy then walked to his desk, which was one to the right and one forward from Blake's. As the blonde boy sat down, Blake went back to her book and class continued onward.
Meanwhile, Weiss Schnee, who sat next to the boy, scowled at him in disgust.
At lunch, the three occupants of Jaune's table burst out laughing, except Ren, who just wore an amused smile and shook his head with his arms crossed, but that was about as good as it got with Ren. The boy had black hair that covered one of his magenta eyes and ran down his back in a ponytail with a pink streak in it.
"And she gave you detention tomorrow?" A blonde monkey faunus asked. His name was Sun. The boy next to him, Neptune, was still recovering from the laughter.
"Yep." Jaune said with a blank face as he propped his head up on one arm and held a sandwich with the other. Neptune, finally done laughing, chimed in, "Well, at least you won't be alone."
Sun and Ren immediately froze, Ren recovering quicker and glaring at their blue-haired friend. Sun joined in and menacingly hissed out, "Nep, don't even think about it."
Jaune was getting confused here. "Wait, what happened?" Ren and Sun were getting threateningly close to Neptune while still glaring. "Neptune, I want you to think long and hard, and ask yourself if this is what you want to do." The boy in question started sweating and shrunk in his seat. When it was clear he wouldn't talk, the other boys sat back down, Ren next to Jaune and Sun across from him, next to Neptune. "So, I take it you guys have detention tomorrow?" They all nodded. Jaune sighed, "At least I won't suffer alone."
Lunch passed on rather fast in the cafeteria, the four of them eating, talking and laughing. They weren't aware of the girls gossiping about them a few tables away. Yang Xiao Long, her sister, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Blake Belladonna. The girls, minus Blake, were currently discussing The blonde boy from Blake and Weiss's AP English class who'd been late. Weiss seemed the most annoyed as she fumed about the guy's ignorance and such. "Then that ruffian has the gaul to give his excuse. He said that he was late because he was sitting in his car, listening to a song."
The two sisters shared a look before turning back to the white-haired girl, "What song was it?" Ruby asked curiously. Weiss looked honestly taken aback by the question, but after a moment she just face palmed. "I believe he said he was listening to Bohemian Rhapsody." The three girls looked at Blake, before Ruby and Yang once again looked at each other. "Well...can you really blame him, Weiss?" Once again, Weiss was taken even further back.
"Wha-Can you-are you serious? There's no excuse for being late to school! Let alone a song."
It was Yang's turn to put in her two cents, "Have you ever heard it, Weiss? It's a historic classic." The Schnee just groaned in frustration and sat back down. The bell rang, and the girls started packing up and leaving the cafeteria. As they walked out, Blake noticed the group of boys Weiss had been ridiculing not seconds ago walk just ahead of them. Blake was able to pick up on some of their conversation thanks to her (secretly) enhanced faunus hearing.
"So, we still on for today after school?" The faunus of their group asked.
"Yeah." The other blonde said.
The blue haired one then informed, "You think will have time to get food afterwards?"
"If we do, I'll have to bring Nora along." The one with the ponytail added. "Look, we'll talk later, if I don't get to Oobleck's class in time, I'll get another detention." The more scraggly blonde responded before hurrying off down the hall. He had the same history class as her? How could Blake not notice for almost three months of school? That blonde boy was definitely strange from what she'd seen.
Well, history had been rather dull as Blake observed the strange blonde boy who she only knew as 'Mr. Arc', according to Ms. Goodwitch. The guy just looked bored as hell while he and the rest of the class tried to follow along with what Dr. Oobleck was saying as he continued his coffee-fueled rant about the faunus rights revolution. As Doctor Ooblek suddenly appeared in front of Jaune, he asked him, "Mr. Arc, please name the faunus general who was executed at Fort Crimson on May 19, x1348."
Jaune knew this one easy. "General Michael Jones."
"Excellent!" He then rushed over to a black-haired girl with a bow on her head, "Miss Belladonna, what was the nickname given to the officer who ordered the execution, Colonel Haywood, and why?"
The girl looked up from her copy of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, "The Mad King. He more than once ordered his own men to fall on their own swords rather than surrender, and many often questioned his sanity."
The professor exclaimed, "Capital answer, Miss Belladonna." Before the bell rang. "It appears we've run out of time, class. Remember to read pages 237 to 280 as homework tonight."
Sweet, no homework, Jaune thought as he walked out the door. He actually liked history, and so he'd already learned most of the lesson from various books or documentaries. And now it's time for math...fucking glorious.
Hey guys! Thank you for being patient with my writing schedule. I'll try to keep better timing with posting chapters, but don't hold your breath. Nothing's set in stone.
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Fireball monkey out.